March Mingle

[maskedtyrant]

Who: The Sinewave and Triton's Mistress (Sinewave's Mistress? Triton's Sinewave?...)
Where: Gun Frontier, the ocean (headed south).
When: From 3/7 to 3/13-ish, possibly longer.
What: All-purpose mingle for the Mistress/Sinewave alliance at the start of March! Records the formal meeting of their crews and subsequent journey to the southern oceans, in pursuit of one of the Eight Captains (who they find in another log, stay tuned for that).
Warnings: Probably language and mild amounts of crazy, will update if needed.
Style: Whatever strikes your fancy!
Status: Open to crews of the Sinewave, Mistress, and any recruits they happen to get between 3/9 and 3/13.

It's a mingle! Please specify where you are (Gun Frontier, either of the ships involved on the open ocean) and when it happens in the header. Feel free to make subthreads for parties or other large gatherings if you'd like.

Enjoy!

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[maskedtyrant]

"Make sure we don't tip over or spring a leak," calls Codi from behind the helm, biting her lip in concentration. She doesn't have much experience at the wheel of a ship, though she hasn't found the ordeal too terribly difficult the few times she's tried it. It's only now that she has to keep up with another ship that Codi finds herself doubting her abilities.

Judging from how close they're getting to the back of the Mistress, her tendency to tailgate is unaffected by her nerves. "If we aren't about to crash, you can relax," Codi continues while she eyes the foamy wake on either side. How much air would they get if they tried to pass over the waves, she wonders...

[elissacousland]

Elissa paused in tying off a line to watch Haytham's unhesitant drop to the deck with an admiring look and shake of her head. She hid a smile at the man's words as she looked back to the thick rope and finished wrapping it around the belaying pin in the proper form.

"You always ask the most interesting questions," she teased while passing near to him to adjust another line. "I could think of several interesting answers for what needs to be done... but would you take the 'hint'?"

Elissa shot a glance to Captain Codi before offering Haytham an irrepressible grin. Good weather, good wind, good speed, and good company. So long as their novice captain didn't inadvertantly ram the Mistress, this was going to be a good trip.

[orderispeace]

Haytham squared his shoulders and brought his hands round to hold them behind him in the almost regal way he liked to stand, even taking a stern tone with her as he might have any lowly crewman.

"Keep your mind on your work."

But, being so well acquainted with him now she might have noticed the faint smile and she certainly could not have missed the words whispered to her as he stepped for a moment behind her. Since she enjoyed his questions so much...

"Later, maybe you will tend to more than ropes?"

Then his attention turned back to the fledgling Captain. He was not looking to sink the ship before they even saw the Navy.

"Why not bring us along side the Mistress instead of running us into her stern?"

This was dryly stated as Haytham made his way up to stand beside the Captain's wheel.

"We shouldn't have any need to worry about leaks if we can avoid a collision."

[maskedtyrant]

Elissa and Haytham's transaction does not go unnoticed. Something is definitely going on there, Codi thinks with a smirk (not trying to hide it even as Haytham takes his post next to her). She'll keep an ear turned in the direction of their rooms during her evening walks.

Distracted as she is with her mischievous pondering, Haytham's criticism goes over her head like an annoying bug past her ear. "Yeah, I've got it," Codi shrugs, brushing him off with a swipe of her hand--the other turns the wheel sharply to the side, giving into her impulse to take the Sinewave over one of the larger crests of the Mistress's wake. The ship bucks then skips with a heavy splash, sending a few looser crates tumbling and foam spraying over the main deck.

Codi has just enough time to call a belated "Brace!" between shrieks of laughter, but is thankfully able to contain herself well enough to keep the wheel steady.

[alwaysgrumpy]

"Well, I dropped all the shit I was carrying," Akira said, stomping up from below deck, "And now cannonballs are rolling around down there. So thanks for that."

[maskedtyrant]

Codi is all smiles and giggles, although her voice does carry a bit of an uncanny edge.

"Then what on earth are you doing up here? Go back and secure those cannonballs before they run someone over!"

[orderispeace]

Haytham gaped at the Captain... no mad women at the wheel of the ship. Forget the crewman, he was beginning to wonder what he was doing here! Why had he agreed to help out again?

Oh right...

Elissa was shot a rueful look across the deck. If it hadn't been for her and her tempting offer of time alone with him he might not have agreed to this. That rouge, hopefully she could dodge the loose canon balls now rolling across the deck and hadn't been tossed over the side as he nearly had been.

"You've never sailed a ship before have you?"

[maskedtyrant]

"Of course I have!" Codi raises a skeptical eyebrow. Not a lot, and in very controlled environments (the Empieza harbor, mainly), but close enough! "...Why?"

That is a completely innocent question. Definitely not loaded at all.

[elissacousland]

Elissa, now swinging from a loose line she'd managed to grab in order to stay aboard, was torn between glaring at Codi and laughing. The woman was dampened from the spray of foam, but amusement won out after seeing Haytham's reaction. She avoided a small crate that slid a few more feet on the sea foam before dropping to the deck once again to tend to the loose line that had kept her from being knocked overboard.

"Have you sailed a ship before, Haytham Kenway?" Elissa teasingly called in defense of the captain.

[orderispeace]

That, bouncing on his toes while looking between Elissa and Codi, perhaps gave away the answer before he spoke it.

"I haven't."

Wait for it, you don't get off that easily!

"But, I believe I could manage to keep us on a straight heading regardless."

[maskedtyrant]

Codi passes a knowing smirk in Elissa's direction. Very good.

"Your effort is admirable, Haytham," the Captain says slowly, reaching out to pat her borrowed quartermaster on the shoulder. "Now, why don't you go help Akira get everything on-deck back in order? It's an absolute sty out there!"

[elissacousland]

Elissa knew better than to grin, she really did, but it was so hard not to do so. She would simply have to make it up to Haytham, later. Maybe. Codi was the recipient of an absolutely delighted grin from the Warden when the captain told Haytham to help clean up.

Ducking her head, she went back to tending the lines, but she was hard-pressed not to laugh.

[orderispeace]

Both of you, BOTH, are getting that look that like the putrid stench of rotten eggs had drifted up from the bowels of the ship. The deck was a sty and whose fault is that?

He does step down with out further protest but, how much cleaning he actually does... well, Haytham's always been a bit more managerial than the type to do manual labor. At least he does secure a few of the loose canon balls, those being dangerous enough rolling around on deck to gain his attention.