New friends, new catastrophes

[seadevil]

Who: The crew of the Katabami
Where: At sea, Manila Island
When: After departing Isla Empieza after the battle and covering events until the end of the month
What: Catch-all log
Warnings: Foul language, excessive dumb
Style: Any
Status: Closed to crew

Itinerary
- Meet and greet for new crew
- MANLY STORIES
- Visiting Manila so our more studious crew can get their research on and your esteemed captain can piss the moths off
- THIS COLD CURSE THING

EDIT: The turkey is now officially named Lord Buffalo Toritaro Stuffington, "Twitchy" for short. Feel free to make use of this.

Comments

[wavemotiongunner]

[He notes she's dressed in rather old fashioned clothing]
It's harmonica. I think they count as reed wind instrument.

[harbouredheart]

[A... small reed wind instrument, made entirely of metal? How strange. It only piques her interest further.]

Harmonica... [She echoes, clearly for her own benefit, before she directly addresses him.] How very curious. Do you play often?

[wavemotiongunner]

[the Harmonica seems old fashioned to him. The one he has perversely belonged to his brother and his father before that. He feels closer to them when he plays.]
Lately when i need to clear my head a bit. I sort of only know the one song. Ending up in this place is a lot to take in. I didn't expect to see a real ocean so soon.

[harbouredheart]

[Xun Yu raises her eyebrows at that.]

Pardon?

[Did he just say...? She sounds as puzzled as she looks.]

Surely all oceans are real.

[wavemotiongunner]

[He'd been thinking of Pluto when he said that. He realizes how strange what he just said must sound.]

Well the last ocean I saw was all frozen over with ice. It didn't really resemble the ocean from when I was young. The oceans on my world were all dried up and the whole planet is facing extinction. We're on a mission to acquire the means to restore the planet.
[He's not sure that makes anymore sense. It's the best he can do.]

[harbouredheart]

[Her puzzlement shifts into concern. She understands to a degree and empathises, though her homeland's situation was not quite as dire as extinction.]

My sympathies. I cannot imagine how difficult your burden is... it must be beyond frustrating to be trapped here when you carry such a vital task on your shoulders.

[wavemotiongunner]

[It was a burden. The way she was looking at him made him uncomfortable. He didn't want people feeling sorry for him. So he changed the subject.]

What's it like where you're from?

[harbouredheart]

Ah, well... civil war wages, and a series of natural disasters have beset the country. Without an undisputed Emperor backed by the Mandate of Heaven on the throne chaos afflicts the land. We... on the morning that I was taken from, His Majesty -- Cao Cao's -- forces were to fight the last battle in the war to secure the throne and put an end to all the disasters, ushering in a new reign peace.

[Just talking about it makes her feel homesick. It distresses her not to have been there; she sounds and looks as unhappy as she feels about it.]

I do not doubt that His Majesty was victorious and took his rightful place as decreed by Heaven's Will... but I...

[She drops her head and swallows thickly, her mouth curving downwards in misery. She's clearly heartbroken; the notion of having abandoned Cao Cao makes her feel sick to her stomach.]

...I should have been there. I should be there, now.