high_seas | To go with your crew...

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To go with your crew...

Who: Everyone who is fighting in the battle to kill the witch.
Where: The Black Fortress in the East
When: Jan 24th-25th
What: The grand battle to get back what you have lost, get revenge for what was taken, and avert disaster.
Warnings: Language. Death. Victory. Defeat. True love. Miracles.
Style: Text or prose
Status: Open to all

The black fortress ripples with shimmering iridescent energy, the piles of black coral heaped on roped together barges around it, bobbing in the waves. On the largest barge stands a slender man with a copper belt, wearing a face mask, orange red hair flecked with black from ash or dust. As the dawn slowly folds over the ocean, he'll look up, as if hearing some hidden voice.

At the top of the fortress, a figure climbs into vision, a woman, dressed in gray, features obscured by a hood with impenetrable darkness behind it. She staggers a moment as if she is weary, then straightens to her full height. As she speaks, her voice comes out of the journals, echoing over the water, low but clear.

"This is no small task ye do. She that rots within'll do anythin' ta stop ye. Don't hesitate to kill what ye find. If they were human once, they hain't no more. Watch out for her golems, too, or they'll drain ye dry quicker'n a wink. But if ye can get rid of 'em, it'll weaken her." She hesitates, cants her head to the side. "And if ye lot aren't as much of a bunch'a idiots as usual, ye might come out alive through this."

That said, she raises her hands. After a moment so does the man on the barge. For a moment, nothing seems to happen and then iridescent light shimmers over the coral, seeming to match that which surrounds the fortress. It crackles and dances like a fire, and then without warning bursts into a furious life, slamming against the energy of the fortress. There is the sound like thunder and light snaps and crackles, zipping with energy. Then with a woosh the light flies upward, taking the figure with it. The man on the barge lets out a cry like a seagull and dives into the water as if intending to swim after her.

For the boats that remain, a part of the fortress will crumble away into the sea, revealing a small harbor and an open doorway. Enter all ye who dare.

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Under the circumstances, it might have been a bit foolhardy to enter the fortress alone but Scrooge was never one to let ominous circumstances dissuade him from accomplishing what he set out to do and he wasn't about to start now. This witch, had taken this nonsense of hers too far and innocent people were being harmed in the process. He'd done his part in gathering black coral, and ideally he'd at least be able to discover what had become of the missing outsiders, maybe even help rescue them if they were indeed here and in their right minds.

Someone needed to put an end to this whole curse nonsense.

Although he'd been focused up to this point something caught his eye that threatened to throw him horribly off course. The way the light was being reflected was intriguing, drawing him ever nearer. "Wait... what's that now?" He sniffed the air and was met with a pleasant and inviting scent. "Why- it's gold! Lots and lots of gold!"

"Ha ha!" He exclaimed in elation, rushing as fast as he could to get down the staircase. Catching sight of the chamber in front of him, he paused admiring it all in a state of awe. "Not just gold either! It's a motherload!" Unable to contain himself any longer, he dove off the staircase in a perfect diver's stance. He wasn't concerned with the height or the material he was about to come in contact with. When he reached the bottom he sliced through the treasure as if it were water. Burrowing through it like a gopher, he sporadically leaped out of it only to dive right back in. Finally he settled on the backstroke after he was already covered in jewels.

"What the hell?" Dave exclaimed, not at all phased by the gigantic mounds of gold. More so--he was staring at the duck person who was totally rolling around and swimming in the immense wealth. Had he not met a talking pony weeks ago, this would have had him completely speechless rather than mildly vulgar. Dave, carefully drawing a captcha card out from his sylladex interface--visibly appearing over his shoulder.

He was about to start pocketing immense quantities of the gold when he found himself sitting down to watch the guy tumble around.

"So, uh, s'up," He raised his voice to see if he could catch the dude's attention. A duck swimming in a treasure room full of gold was a lot rarer than a treasure room full of gold, after all.

So enamored with the piles of gold coins and the sea of treasure, Scrooge didn't immediately notice the other person in the room. Heaving a satisfied sigh, he paused and started to load his own pockets. Why hadn't he brought a bag or something similar? Or.. better yet a a few dozen crates and a few low paid employees to load it all on board for him! Taking off his hat, he started filling it up as well.

Finally he heard the question posed by the stranger and looked his direction.

"S'up?" Kids with their slang. It's like they didn't even know what English was. Ah- but he was too happy to correct the butchered grammar. "Well, I am." He gave a hearty laugh. "I'm right up on cloud nine!" Setting his hat down on the treasure in front of him, Scrooge gathered some loose coins in his hand and threw them up into the air like confetti.

"There's nothing like swimming through money, it's even better when it's someone else's money~!"

Edited 2014-01-24 07:49 (UTC)

Ever the generous young man, Dave uttered the word 'Bag' to drain out a sylladex card with a few sturdy looking canvas bags within. He tossed them to McDuck, swiping his card and collecting coins into it en masse, much in his own convenient sort of way. Cheating was fine and dandy, but it didn't make friends. Sharing tupperware for gold coins could go a ways longer, though. Dave contemplated taking jewels and the various other golden treasures lying about, but he wanted to keep his captcha card's trigger simple. The moment he drew in the first coins, Dave tipped his head aside to avoid a flying sword that came out of his sylladex. It flew through the air and stabbed into a wall, shaking audibly.

"Well, you're free to haul as much of the shit as you want. I'm only grabbin' coins, since that shit fits my inventory perfectly."

"Ah, you came prepared!" Color him impressed. He reached out to catch one of the bags, as the others hit the pile of coins with a pleasant jingling sound. Normally, Scrooge would have staked his claim on this whole treasure trove but with the harbor filled with vessels, it would be impossible to enforce. As difficult as it was, he was going to have to keep his greed in check. Some gold, was better than no gold.. and no gold is what he'd shown up with. Pushing himself out of the treasure, he began loading anything he could get his mitts on into the bag, until the first one looked like it could burst at the seams.

Hearing the thwack of the sword embedding itself into the wall, Scrooge instinctively ducked, and looked pensively up at it. Whatever that gizmo was it could do some very strange things. "If you don't mind my askin' what exactly is that do hickey you've got with you". And where can I get one.

"Oh I intend to, laddie, I intend to."

Dave didn't want to admit that he usually kept the bags around in the event that he might have a chance to stuff them full of cans of soda from Margie's shop. No, that wouldn't be cool. He'd let the duck guy handle making him sound cool instead of admitting the disgusting truth. So, he shrugged and managed to look cool about it either way.

He showed McDuck the captcha card, which had been completely blank before, but now had a picture of a gigantic heap of gold coins on the surface of it.

"Sylladex," though admittedly, he was just dumb enough to tell anybody his secrets--that or he didn't mind. Dave was rarely the type to rely on subterfuge. "It's an inventory system."

Scrooge didn't even question why the boy would need bags when he had this miraculous portable inventory system. Clearly, the bags were there to be used when the sylladex was full so you could load up on even more valuables and precious artifacts! It made total sense.

A strong proponent of the saying "Work smarter, not harder", Scrooge was always interested in any gadget or gizmo that could save him time and money. So when the guy decided held up the card Scrooge leaned in to examine it with marked interest.

"You mean to say that all those coins, are actually inside this card?" Even though he'd seen the treasure disappear with his own eyes, it was still unfathomable. "How does it work?" Think of how much you could save on shipping alone! "And.. it still looks just as light as before you'd loaded it up with coins.." What happens to the weight of the item? Does this thing actually rearrange their molecules in such a fashion that it takes out all the hassle.

"Yup," Dave replied easily enough, shaking the card to show it off. He didn't want to trigger the release of the coins, though, because then he'd bum out all the time he spent putting them all into one card. If he went with something more specific than just 'gold', he'd probably get the whole heap of treasure and his hash modus would send out something equally deadly as the sword in a random direction.

"'Cause, it's digital information. My sylladex would take that data and apply it to the world to recreate it as it was before I picked it up."

"Remarkable! Can I hold it?" He questioned wanting to know just what it felt like to hold a thousand or so coins in one hand. He fully expected the answer to be no since it seemed like not all the kinks had been worked out of the system just yet. Anything that could accidentally fling around that kind of hardware with little warning could do a lot of damage in the wrong hands.

"So some how it can take an objects physical form and digitize it?" Oh where was Gyro when he needed him! "I don't mean to harp on it laddie, but something like this has to be endlessly useful."

"It's actually digital, too," Dave shrugged and held the card out for McDuck to try and take. Though, the guy would need a sylladex of his own or a variant sort of organization program and hardware mix-up to make use of it. If the guy had a manly wallet with a link connection--then, he'd have a better chance of handling it. "You can grab for it, but it'll Swayze out of your hands like a goddamn ghost."

"You'd need a sylladex or somethin' like it to be able to hold it like I do."

"Rrrrreally?" Despite his words, Scrooge reached for the card. Just as the boy said it was impossible to grasp onto. Normally, something like this would be frustrating but. "Ha ha! With something like this, the Beagle Boys would never be able to swipe my money again!" There was a real theft problem back in Duckburg and the police were fairly incompetent considering how many times the Beagle Boys were able to break out of prison all the time. A man had to look out for his own interest.

"Where can a person get one of these sylladex contraptions?" Please don't say from Glomgold's company.. or the deal is off.

"I got mine at a corner store," He replied easily, shrugging. Sylladexes were apparently common in Dave's edition of Earth, but really--it almost seemed as if sales didn't result in people taking over the world with them. It seemed so boringly commercialized that no one even put real value into the whole system.

"I got it for like, 20 bucks with a coupon."

"SANJIIII!" Crash! Luffy jumps down the hole and lands in a pile of coins, slipping, pinwheeling his arms a bit before landing on his butt.

"Heeh! So much treasure!" But that's not important right now. He'll come back for it. He sees a duck leaping out of the treasure like water which is even cooler than the treasure itself and asks the most important question that comes to his mind.

"Oi! Duck guy! Can I eat you?"

"Gaaaaah!" Scrooge exclaimed when the sudden interruption tore through the chamber. "Who or what was that!" The figure had gone skidding past him at an alarming rate with it's limbs flailing in all directions.

The dramatic entrance had brought a temporary end to his revelry but not before the boy had witnessed Scrooge's unique ability.

"Eat me?" He narrowed his eyes. This person couldn't possibly be serious. "Absolutely not!"

"Oh okay. I'm pretty hungry." He pats his stomach and looks around. There's just a treasure but no food and a bronze statue with creepy eyes. It's still a cool statue though. "Have you seen a Sanji on a bone?" No wait. "A cook of meat?"

Hmm this wasn't working too well. He was too hungry to think straight.

"He's got blond hair and a curly eyebrow and he likes women." He picks up what could be a hard boiled egg and tries to chew it but it's just a pearly type thing and he throws it away.

"I don't care if you've been starving for weeks, Scrooge McDuck is nobody's afternoon snack." What a mental case. Who goes up to a perfect stranger and asks them that? Still, he was going to try not to let this bizarre fellow ruin this stupendous find. The statue was haunting in it's own way, it's almost as if it's purpose was to ward others away from the treasure or at least cause them to take pause. "Get on with it lad, I haven't got all day..." It was going to take several trips to load up his ship. " I haven't seen anyone since I came inside save for those slack-jawed hooligans". Read as: Zombies.

"That ought to narrow it down." He rolled his eyes. The description he was provided with wasn't much to go on.

"Ahh-!? What do you think you're doing?" That pearl looked massive and this boy was threatening to put teeth marks in it. Rushing over to rescue it, he skidded to a stop when the pearl went flying. "No food. Nothing here.. is food!" Geeze he was as bad as Tootsie!

Edited 2014-01-25 04:27 (UTC)

"Mmm You're don't have to be so stingy." He'd rather have food than treasure but there wasn't anything in here it didn't look like. And if the guy hadn't seen Sanji then there wasn't much of a point to stay.

"Okay good luu..ehh?" he trails off as the room starts to shake, sending coins sliding every which way. A small stream of coins and jewels begin to part in a long tunnel like a digging mole. A treasure chest is knocked to the side, spilling its contents as a long tentacle rises into the air. Luffy watches it go up.

"Heeeeeeeeeh?!"

This wasn't the first time he'd been called stingy, and it was likely not to be the last. ".. And you don't have to be such a glutton you walking trash compactor." Honestly, why had this guy come so unprepared for an adventure or a battle? Even without the ship's cook he should have been able to sate his hunger with something. Scrooge might others to prepare food for him at his mansion but he could still whip something up for himself if he had to.

"I won't need lu-" As the room started to quake beneath their feet Scrooge's retort was cut off abruptly. " An earthquake?! Now?!" He watched in horror as the coins slid further away. Sure there was still a great pile of them, and they hadn't moved far but the thought that the ground may crack open and devour them was a real threat. Then his eyes settle on that odd formation.

"Why- it's not a natural disaster at all.... "Then the tentacle emerged before them. "It's an unnatural one!" He reached down to retrieve his cane before hooking it around Luffy's arm and trying to drag the odd stranger away from the giant tentacle. "Don't just stand there gaping at it!" He made a run for the stairs.

He can't help but stare, he's pulled along by the duck guy only because he can't help but stare at the big tentacle thrashing around.

That's...

That's...

The biggest piece of potential takoyaki he's ever seen!

"WAHOO! DINNER!" He shoots out an arm which stretches the long distance to wrap twice around the tentacle before shooting up along with it. The octopus thing doesn't seem to like this because it smashes him hard against the scattering treasure and wall and ceiling a few times. In between being squished against the wall, ceiling, and various pokey gem stones, Luffy will attempt to speak.

"Hey! Duck! Guy! Cut it! Off!"

"Twist my tartan, he's completely frozen!" The escape would move along so much faster if he wasn't lugging around this lead weight. He was perfectly willing to fall back and come up with a better plan of action but at this rate the tentacle would have plenty of time to cut them off at the pass. That being said, he wouldn't abandon the fool.

"Dinner? You're still singing that cockamamie tune?!" Drawing back his cane, he looked pensively over at the flailing beastie. Nothing about it looked the slightest bit appetizing to him. "I don't think you understand what's going on here.." But before he could try to talk some reason into the lad, he was latching on to the creature.

It was like nothing he'd ever seen before. Just like that the boy became some cross between a rubber band and a slinky. His arms were able to grow much longer than their original size. Scrooge cringed and closed his eyes, each time the boy made contact with the hard surfaces. It just looked incredibly painful.

In spite of that sort of punishment, the boy still managed to talk and seemed no worse for wear. "Cut it... off? With what?!" Scanning the room for a sharp object, he seemed to recall a certain sword having buried itself into a wall earlier. With a nod of his head and a look of determination, he set off to retrieve it, using the loose coins to slide over to the object all the faster. "Just hang in there lad! It won't be much longer ... ng- now!" If he could get the sword to budge anyway.

Edited 2014-01-26 08:40 (UTC)

This.

tentacle.

is.

pretty.

annoying.

He watches the duck try to get the sword out and struggle with it. But he won't get it in time because it already feels like the tentacle is bunching up to retract. No way!

"Gum Gum no BAKU BAKU"

And he stretches his mouth wide to take a big chomp at it, getting around the width of the tentacle and feeling a sucker stick to his tongue. The end of the tentacle curls a bit at the tip, going still and Luffy feels a shiver go through it.

And then it goes crazy, slamming all over the place and he can barely hang on. His eyes widen as he sees it's coming right for the duck.

"MFFF! FAFF FOUFF!"

At the sound of the boy's call, Scrooge looked over his shoulder, his hands still on the hilt. "Blow me bagpipes! Why he just- wrapped his mouth around that entire segment!" Then more to the boy,"You've got him now!"

At least, that's how it appeared. The creature stilled momentarily, but then it took up where it left off and more violently this time. With an exasperated sigh, Scrooge went back to trying to work the sword free, relieved that it had only flown over his head before. Working it up and down, he nearly felt it give when the distressing noise hit his ears.

"Aaahhh!" Refusing to let go of the sword, made him an easy target for the beastie. It's suckered tip wrapped easily around him, yanking him up into the air... and by some luck, it managed to bring the sword with it. That was just the additional strength Scrooge needed to free the blasted thing.

"I told him once, and I'll tell you the same thing. Scrooge Mcduck in no one's dinner!" Raising the sword up, he stabbed it into the creature... but with as big as the creature was, and with it's thick skin it probably felt like more like stepping on a thumbtack.

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2/2 - That Luffy icon is lolarious XD. Best Reaction.

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