high_seas | [Log || 004] Empieza and Aeolipile

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[Log || 004] Empieza and Aeolipile

Who: Hazardous Materials
Where: Isla Empieza first, then sailing to Aeolipile Isle!
When: 4/1 - 4/28
What: Picking up new crew members and recovering from the Navy battle! Plus shenanigans.
Warnings: DRAGON!!! But no, nothing really. Probably.
Style: Any!
Status: Open if you're on Isla Empieza and want to hang out!

This is our April log of awesomeness! Date your threads accordingly and probably include a location. This is the plan for now:

4/1-4/10: Hanging around IE, grabbing Cynthia, STUFF.
4/11-4/15: Sailing to Aeolipile!
4/16-4/28: Aeolipile craziness.

HAVE AT!

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[...go figure when he decides to do his laundry, his cloak up and vanishes. He'd come up from the galley after making a quick check for anything he might have forgotten so that he could grab what was needed before they headed out. Either way, he would've gone to town to do some final sweet rounds, and then some.

It just feels really awkward having to do it without his usual cloak. His customized cloak where he sewed in all sorts of pockets. He's only thankful that he'd cleaned said pockets out before washing it, otherwise missing candy would just make him sadder.

Oh well, a brown mantle is a little more nondescript than a black one, although the spare is shorter than he cares for. At least this doesn't need to be a long trip. A stop by the bakery, a stop by the usual stalls at the marketplace, maybe a stop by the Backwater Brig...

Wait.

Backtrack a few steps.

Isn't that...

His cloak!]

[Her bag was already starting to get heavy with the food and books that she picked up. She wasn't quite sure how long this trip would take her so she might as well stock up right? This probably would have been the best time to bring out her pokemon to help her. But she didn't want to risk that. So she'll have to deal with the weight a little longer.

Now for her next stop: clothes.]

[-and Cynthia. He confirms that once he catches a good glimpse of her profile. Hefting his own sack over his shoulder, Gaius quickens his pace so he can catch up with her.]

Heya Sweets. Fancy running into you around here.

[She flinches and drops her bag. Clearly keeping a low profile wasn't as easy as she had hoped it would be, and she had nearly called out one of her pokemon too. Good thing she stopped herself.

Slowly she turns to the direction of the voice. Only to let out a sigh of relief when she saw that it wasn't one of the local bounty hunters, just Gaius.]

Gaius...oh arceus you scared me.

[Whoops. He raises his hands, er, hand in a placating manner.]

Sorry about that.

[He steps over to pick up her bag, giving it an experimental heft.]

You've been pretty busy.

I needed supplies for me and my pokemon. Not sure how long we'll be gone and I don't think my pokemon would want to live off fish again.

My bag?

[She reached her hand out, expecting it to be returned to her.]

Not a bad plan. That's what we've been doing- I'm just making sure I didn't forget anything. Was a little surprised to see that my cloak went ahead of me for a walk, though.

[Yeah, not getting that back. He slings it over a shoulder.]

So where to next?

[She was about to protest when her words got caught in her throat. So this WAS his cloak huh? No wonder it smelled of sugar.]

...do you want it back?

-does it really? I just washed it...

[He waves a hand.]

Eh, it's fine. You may as well keep it until we get back to the ship.

Uh...thanks. You're far too nice to me, you know that?

[He was though. They've only known each other a few days and yet he's been the nicest one to her by far.]

Well the last thing on my list is clothes. But do you need to pick up anything? We could get those first.

[He shrugs. Thief he may be, but who says you had to be surly about things? ...maybe Maribelle's right about the whole manners thing. Not something he thinks about for too long as he nods over in the direction of the market area.]

Wanted to take a look at the spice booth. Shouldn't take too long, unless they have more of a selection than they did the last time I stopped by.

[Lucky for him, she doesn't know he's a thief. Coupled with that glowing first impression he made with her. He's pretty much a saint in her eyes.]

Let's go then, I don't think I've ever been spice shopping before.

No? Well, guess it's settled then.

Down this way.

[She follows him without question. But once in a while she will stop to eye stalls selling books, clothes, jewellery or even weapons. She's a girl after all, and shopping is shopping no matter what dimension.]

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[He doesn't mind the extra browsing. Besides, who knows when you might find something that catches your eye, or something you need that you hadn't thought about until you see it?

A few times he'll stop by other stalls along the way, but he won't hurry Cynthia if she sees anything interesting.]

Did you want to get anything?

Well there was that but...

[She eyes a black dagger a few stalls away from them. After the whole mishap with the cave and her scar. She knew she'd need to learn how to fight eventually. Can't always depend on her pokemon of even the boys to protect her, right? But her pride...oh how much it hurt her to admit she needed help. So she'll go ahead and pretend she was looking at a pretty ring or something.]

Much too expensive for me. I'm saving what's left of my money for clothes. I'm pretty sure I'd die of a heat stroke with all the black that I wear.

[He arches a brow, but then shrugs.]

Well, at least more often than not, there's a decent breeze when we're out at sea.

[He'll drift towards another booth as a jar of candy drops catches his eye.]

Well that's good to know. We barely got a breeze in the cave so I'm sure my pokemon would appreciate having one no--Gaius?

[Ok so maybe she didn't notice him float towards a booth selling candies. But at least he wasn't so far off that she'd lose sight of him. Silly man.
On the way to said booth, she may have spotted a small shop selling clothes.

You take your time with the candies, Gaius. She'll just be here buying clothes.]

[Oh, he will. He picks up the jar to inspect the contents before he looks over the rest of the items there to see if anything else catches his eye. You can bet he'll be asking for a sample before he commits to any purchase but they already get bonus points for looking tasty!]

[Gaius, she could have been recognized by the locals, taken away to be hanged and you probably wouldn't notice. Not like she was or anything, but it could have happened!

But Cynthia was just glad that the shop keeper was nice enough to let her have some of the old clothes that weren't selling. Not exactly runway ready, but free clothes was free clothes.]

[Hey, did he hear any screams or anything? He's not going to look for trouble if there's no trouble to be had!

...besides, if you act all anxious and stuff then people are bound to be suspicious of something. Better to go with the flow-

Which is why Gaius ends up with that jar of drops and a few pieces of caramel, and a nice big chunk of fudge. No telling how long they'll be at sea, okay?]

[You're lucky she wasn't anywhere near him, because she probably would have judged him for that. But she was too busy looking at a wench dress. Yes because clearly she needed a dress while on a boat, clearly.]

[At least he pays for his sweets. It doesn't take long for him to find Cynthia, and he wanders over once his purchases are secured.]

Found some clothes, huh?

Oh there you are, I was beginning to worry I'd lost you.

[That was a lie. She was more worried being in this town alone. Disguised or not, the man who gave her that scar was still out there, and she'd rather not have a run in with him without Gaius around.]

Yeah, the shopkeeper was nice enough to give me some of his surplus clothes and shoes. Isn't that great? Though I'm probably going to have to get some altered...not sure how to do that, but I will.

Sweet. Free goods are always nice.

If it's just a little adjustments, I might be able to help with that.

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