Manly Drinking Times

[fierybluebird]

Who: Marco, Thatch, Logan, Namur, Roxas, Vyse, Chandra, Natsuno, and anyone else who wants in on this drinking game
Where: The Sun! And the Moon! And all the ships in between
When: Sunday May 4th, pursuant to this hilarity
What: MANLY DRINKING TIMES
Warnings: Ehhhhh ARRRRR For Rum. And drinking. And war. And fuck who knows what else, remind me to update if needed.
Status: OPEN!!!



Marco quickly set up a couple of kegs at the ready for the drinking party. Because it was just plain necessary, and a lot like old times. The last two weeks were still weighing on Marco's mind. War, Peace, phoenixes. Was it a good idea to really enjoy war so much? Was it a bad one? Maybe it was inevitable, so he might as well enjoy it. Like life, right? Or should he not encourage it just because it was amusing?

It was too much of a headache, that's why he was just going to drink.

He also set up some non-alcoholic drinks for Leanne and everyone else. Green tea, fruit juices, but they were all clearly marked.

Marco gave a quick piercing whistle. "OI SPADES! Roll call and drinking games!"

And maybe drunk board games, he would blame that on Ace though.

Comments

[fierybluebird]

Marco just shrugs, "That just means it's sporting now."

And you thought he was weird before.

[theartofboom]

"Right..." She gulps down some of her drink. "And what's this got to do with Namur, exactly?"

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie pulled a face at that cause didn't Marco know that drugs were gross?

She blinked at Marco's suggestion and shook her head, "Nu uh. Me neither. Try another one!" That might not have been the rule but it was boring if no one drank.

[fierybluebird]

Oh right.

That requires... quite a bit of rewind, hang on.

"The idiot rookie 'captain' -- and I use that term loosely here -- of the Sinewave crew got it into her head that Scurvy Dog loves Namur or something. Actually she might at that, since she is acting a bit jealous and peeved. But in that case, that's what she gets for toying with Ace and Namur at the same time."

Let us now take note of Marco's complete and total hypocrisy here. Chandra flirting with both Thatch and Ace? All well and good. One girl flirting with both Namur and Ace? Nope. Not allowed. He has his reasons, but they aren't necessarily good reasons.

"So apparently she asked Nam-chan on a date, but he turned her down because I asked him to handle the ships at the ball. The rookie lied anyway and claimed she was living it up with Namur all night, to make Scurvy Dog jealous. That's why Dog banned their crew and unbanned ours, just to get more revenge on the girl. But the added stipulation was that anyone who helped her out would get in trouble, so the idiot rookie tried to take Grell down with her out of jealousy, figuring that if Dog was going to get jealous over the rookie, then she'd definitely get jealous about Grell."

His eyes sparkled deviously, "And that is why rookies rarely make it to the big leagues."

Terrible? Yes. Just a bit.

[fierybluebird]

Quick Selphie, drag Aya in.

Hm. Something Selphie's done that Marco hasn't...

"I've never been on a train," he stuck his tongue out.

[theartofboom]

That helps put a lot of things into place, and there's a look of dawning comprehension on Chandra's face like it was some great mystery to begin with. She'd lacked that context and didn't pay enough attention to Codi to care...since the feeling she got was that Codi really just wanted Chandra to make her a drake like Edric. As to the total hypocrisy, she won't speak at all because she never tries to make one jealous of the other. And with Thatch it's just flirting because he's flirting. Ace is the one she actually sorta likes. Sorta.

"So she's a liar," comes the flat reply. "As well as new at the whole adventurous lifestyle thing. That's just stupid. Why even try and make Dog jealous? She's a dog that talks."

Pirate rookies, she decides, are probably like what she thinks of amateur pyromancers. The kind that explode their pets. And pineapples

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie looked up at Aya and smiled, then patted the chair beside her, "Aya! Come and play! You gotta take a drink when someone says they haven't done something that you have!"

She quickly took a gulp at Marco's example, "See? Like that! But you're not serious Marco? You gotta have been on a train before!" She did look quite outraged.

Then she turned to Aya and Marco and grinned, "I've never kissed a girl!"

[fierybluebird]

Very true. If Chandra did try to make one or the jealous, one of the brothers would put their foot down at that. And Thatch is a flirt period. And Marco ships Chandra and Ace because they would have the most explodey everything ever and it'd be awesome.

Marco shrugged, "I don't even remember my rookie days, much less know what goes on in their odd little heads."

Mainly because he's too fucking old for this bullshit. That, and even starting off as a son of Whitebeard tends to make you less of a rookie, and more a son of Whitebeard. Throw in the phoenix thing, and he's just plain cheating all the damn time.

"If she has a better reason than that, I'm unaware of it." He scratched his chin idly, "She tried to claim title as the best tactician in the world. I'm not sure if that's recklessly bold, or just unbelievably stupid, yoi." Even his Pops and Sengoku would never do that. It was worse than earning the title of Strongest Man in the World, or even Strongest Swordsman. Rookies, yo.

[heartismyown]

"I don't know. I don't think we have had very much." He looked around and lowered his voice in a secretive manner. "Don't tell the Chef but I don't remember a lot of what we make for food. I know I'm supposed to. He said I'm supposed to remember what everyone likes but I don't."

Food didn't rate terribly high on the scale of things Roxas had to remember.

[reluctantjinrou]

"My family..." He looked down a bit and took another drink. Yep, that was what he thought about that.

"It's pretty common to separate from your family where I'm from. Kids go off to university or work, they move out they start their own families. Friends get brushed aside once school is over, there's obligations to be had instead."

Natsuno tapped his fingers idly on the railing. "I didn't get along with them. I never understood them. I was nothing like them. At least, I didn't used to think so. I know that's not entirely true now. I miss them, but at the same time I don't. It's really hard to explain. I feel guilty for that too because my mother is dead and my father is..." He sighed. "Getting better without me. I was literally driving him insane. I should care more about that, but part of me is irrationally angry because they actively, naively had a big hand in getting me killed."

[donthithimintheballs]

“Not all of it. We’re a big crew with a handful of drinkers. We keep well stocked.” A pause, then he snorted “Though I think tonight we’re running through it like water. Good war to ya Roses.” He said with a tip of his cigar hand to her, only to look at the cigar, then her offering, letting out a laugh. Opening it up he grinned. They smelled fantastic, and he wasn’t even a huge topshelf guy. He smoked what ever but he did like the good stuff. He pulled one out of his upper pocket of the brown flannel he was wearing over his white tank top. A brow raised. “Well, I did bring you one as well. Looks like I didn’t need ta.”

[donthithimintheballs]

“See, this is a problem with people like you and me. Takes way too much to get drunk on.” he said, finger pointing at Marco like this was his fault or something. Or at least like he knew what he meant. At least Logan can speed drink to feel the buzz for a bit. "We'll end up drinking all the kids under a table, and half the rest of em there too."

[ex_automobiles598]

Water you doing Marco. There was the slightest hesitation from her, but she decided to go with it in the end. She was on a pirate ship with a bunch of pirates and she probably wasn't going anywhere any time soon, might as well. "I...don't see why not? I could use the relaxing."

It was relaxing enough, okay.

[myfayevalentine]

"Any special occasion, or are you drinking because we're at war?" Faye grinned and paused, pretty sure that she could here the makings of a party going on somehere nearby. She chuckled slightly when he revealed the extra cigar, and she shook her head, "How adorable. And here was me thinking you were gonna make me work for it. But that's fine, you can keep that one, and I'll just have my super expensive ones back." And she held out a hand to him, as though really she wanted to box back.

[donthithimintheballs]

“You need an excuse to drink?” he said with a chuckle, then added. “The later, I think. seemed like a good idea at the time.” He shrugged, still grinning. A few of the uppers on his crew Marco had war on the mind apparently. Not that he cared, really.

“I was going to be nice.” And not make her ask for it. He wagged the spade cigar at her though, and slipped it back in his pocket as she said he could keep that. When she made for hers back however, he smirked, drawing them back behind him, slipping the two cigar case into his back pocket he backed up a bit, leaning back into a wall, hands out, palms exposed. “You want them back? You’ll have to get em yourself.”

[myfayevalentine]

"No, but I've heard that some people do." Faye raised a brow, and put a hand on her hip, "Oh, yeah? Next I hear you'll be putting on bets on who will win. But, by the way, it will be us."

Faye smirked, but narrowed her eyes like she was menaced by him, and followed him over to the wall. The bottles of rum were in one hand, but she still had the other free to try and get the cigars back. "So you changed your mind about being nice?" Standing directly in front of him, Faye reached a hand round to his back pocket, to see if she could grab it from there.

[donthithimintheballs]

“Oh no. No bets. Sinewave is in for hell. I’ve met Grell. Talked to her. You have fun over there and try not to get that pretty little head of yours knocked off.”

He was grinning though, as she tried to make a go for the cigars. “I’m a creature of indecision. What can I say?” he said as he felt her hand move back, his hand reaching to catch it, fingers curled around her wrist lightly, pulling her hand up to hold between them. “Ya know, I was surprised you came...” he shouldn't have been, but he was.

[myfayevalentine]

"Don't worry - the only heads that will be rolling will ugly, stupid ones." She smirked at his comment all the same, enjoying the little compliment that came with it too.

Faye could have fought when he held her wrist, but she chose not to. Mostly, it wouldn't be great if she moved too quickly and dropped the bottles of rum. So she stopped, and let him hold up her hand. "Why? Did you think I'd be out there shooting idiots already?" But there was an amused sparkle in her eye as she wondered if that was really why he as surprised.

[donthithimintheballs]

That was the point. She had to deal with holding bottles of rum, which he hadn’t taken from her, like a good gent should have. Nope. Instead he held her hand captive, pulling her in a bit closer and grinning at her. “Maybe.” She might have been busy with their little war over there. Or… “You might have remembered who you were dealing with and decided to cut your losses.”

Look, his beard was even growing back, so he wasn’t all soft faced anymore. The grin was boyish still though.

[myfayevalentine]

Faye offered no resistance when he pulled her closer, close enough that the bottles of rum she held at her side were touching both their knees. "Interesting. Other than some rum and a cigar, I didn't think there was much else for me to lose here. Or maybe... Maybe I'm just a big risk taker." She matched that grin with one of her own, and she might even have touched where his beard was growing back, but right then she didn't have either of her hands free.

[donthithimintheballs]

"I like risk takers." He said, as if confessing some big secret. It was stupid. He had someone back home that there might have been something with. More then the one night they shared. She was back there left standing at a battle and he has no idea if he'll save her or not. And here he was pulling Faye in closer.

If he wasn't already a bit drunk he might not be so impulsive just because of that. He didn't WANT to get attached to someone out here. You have no idea when that person would leave, or he might. Shit. "Where'd we leave off, before we were so rudely interrupted." At the Ball. He meant at the ball.

Letting her wrist go he reached up to pull her into a kiss.

[myfayevalentine]

"Then let's say that I was taking a risk." As for Faye, she had no one. No one was waiting for her, not in any world. Whatever might happen tomorrow or ten weeks down the line, Faye was, in fact, a risk taker, and a gambler who enjoyed living in the moment, just as she was doing then.

At his question, Faye glanced left and right, as though she was having a difficult time remembering what had happened, where they'd been. Of course, she remembered precisely. She smirked, and might have said something just to tease him, but she was caught already in the kiss, her free hand now holding his waist.

[theartofboom]

Not that Chandra's the type. She'd be happy to take one or both of them as rewards but not at the expense of causing problems for any one of the three of them.

"World's greatest tactician? Sounds like she seriously...doesn't know the meaning of the word." Chandra laughed coldly, looking down at her mug. "Trying to play two people off the other over something so trivial is a bad plan."

Evening

[hiken]

Ace woke up for his late shift, noting numerous bottles scattered around and a tapped keg rocking back and forth behind some of the supplies. Frowning irritably, Ace kicked a bottle off of the ship and huffed. He slept through an entire party?

What a jerk he was!

[bolincredible]

"Consider me rolled, sir!"

Okay, Bolin distinctly heard somebody say "games". Drinking games, true, and those were generally not usually his style, but the fact still remained that the ship seemed all set for something lighthearted. Some regular old pirate fun! And after opting to skip out on the big revenge bash (because... it was a big revenge bash), fun and lighthearted were pretty high up on his to-find list.

So he made his way on up to the deck, wound up with a mug of something he hadn't completely identified yet, and pretty much did the same sort of thing he'd normally have a lot of fun doing: namely, walking around being friendly. People having fun is fun. Simple truths like that would always remain. His feelings on rum, of course, were yet to be determined.