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[thethundersaid]

Who: Uchiha Buttface Sasuke and the kindly crew of the Charming Murderess
Where: Deck of the Charming Murderess
When: November 19th
What: A really grumpy ninja getting dumped via Nav onto the unsuspecting deck of completely innocent pirates.
Warnings: Rudeness. Definitely rudeness.
Style: Any!
Status: Open to all crew members!

As if it weren't humiliating enough to have been forced to make a run from the unexpected number of whatever the armed forces had been (not shinobi by their movements, but trained enough), he'd been roundly lambasted for a fool by the woman whose shop he'd ended up ducking into to avoid the searchers -- but if what the girl who had called herself a 'Precure' was right, then not everyone in this world was a construction of genjutsu. It was perhaps less that Sasuke was inclined to spare lives, though it was certainly a waste of a chakra reserve that continued to deplete more rapidly than was normal, and more that there was a possibility of useful information from a real person than a piece of the illusion.

If it weren't an illusion, as the shopkeeper had insisted ... that was an idea he had no time to contemplate before he'd found himself unceremoniously shoved into something she called a 'Nav' and, in the next moment, stumbling into a completely different place altogether.

There had been no reverse-summons seal that he'd seen, no exchange of blood for a kuchiyose, just a moment of being in the dim light of the shop and then sunlight full in his eyes, forcing him to roll into a defensive crouch before he'd even fully processed his location on ... the deck of a ship?

Depleted as it was, his chakra flared in alarm at the realisation that not only was he at sea, but he wasn't alone.

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[thethundersaid]

[That didn't make any kind of sense -- where would the ink come from, for one -- but when Sasuke pulls out his own journal, there are new entries in it as well, including an exact duplicate of the one that this pale boy just pointed out. When he looks more closely he can see replies to it as well, entire conversations.

He can also see that the woman at the store has not thrown his name to the wolves, as it were, which is as convenient as it is an irritating debt to owe.

He'll have to look through it more carefully later. For now, he snaps it shut and tucks it back into a pocket, glance returning to the boy with a frown.]

In all that time, you haven't found a way out?

[dragonbadfaith]

[Draco smirks now, raising an eyebrow.]

Oh, there's a way out. Supposedly. You really didn't figure out much in town, did you?

[It's okay, Sasuke. Draco will hold your hand through this. 8D]

There's a ruby, or gem of some sort, that evidently has the power to get us home if you wish on it. Or some such rubbish. Only it's been smashed into a million pieces and we're to find them all, it's powerless unless it's whole.

[Gives an absent wave of his hand.]

It was all in some poem back in that town. On the fountain. Rebuild the gem and whatever you wish will be. Whether wealth, good fortune, or even the chance to flee. Something like that.

[Looks thoughtful.]

Then...some other line, words, words, words, strangers take care or be lost forever to Davy Jones' lair. I believe that's how it ended.

[thethundersaid]

[No, he hadn't particularly managed to get much information in between burning down most of the town, but that doesn't seem to be something worth pointing out at this point. What the boy says tallies with what he'd heard from the blue-haired girl, though, and is more detailed beside -- though he has to hope a million is an exaggeration if anyone is expecting to successfully put it together.]

A poem ... [He blinks, then remembers the writing on the fountain before Susano'o had smashed it.] Ah. That poem.

Who is Davy Jones?

[dragonbadfaith]

He was a pirate, I believe. I've heard the name before in my world, though only in stories. Evidently he was real here.

[Frowns a little.]

I don't know much about him, to be honest. I think he's dead? Though he still has some kind of control over this world. I heard he appeared as a green ghost to the first people who were brought here. Which is also his fault, by the way. That we're here at all.

[thethundersaid]

[That makes the first real and willing pirate Sasuke's heard about here, though it's no more familiar. Still, he files the name away for reference.

The rest of what this boy says makes Sasuke file him away for reference in turn.]

You sound like you've been successful at getting information here. How long have you been in this world?

[dragonbadfaith]

Two months, like I said. And I like to know things.

[Shrugs.]

It's really not too difficult to uncover most of this stuff, honestly.

[thethundersaid]

[It's seemed so far that most choose to board a ship not long after arriving -- matching perhaps what the girl in the town had said about being unwelcome even without burning things down.]

It's surprising that this much information is readily available, but nobody knows anything about who is actually behind this.