high_seas | Manly Drinking Times

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.

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She looked on as the tea is poured out. Even something as ordinary as that had managed to catch her interest. As Nami grabbed the cup, she lifted it up and brought it... rather close to her face.

She looked at it, while also taking in the smell. As she glanced at Mako, the mermaid nodded and carefully had a taste.

The verdict?

"I like it."

He had almost expected her to spit it out. Green tea had a strong flavor and wasn’t nearly as sweet as some of the drinks this world had to offer.

“Yeah?” Keeping the surprise out of his voice was difficult, and he didn’t try that hard in the first place. “If we make port soon I’ll see about picking up a few other leaves for brewing.”

Yep, made from leaves.

“Did you go to the ball back at Corsair?”

"Thanks."

It was unusual, and did taste rather... bitter? Yeah, that was the word she had been looking. Though even so, she didn't necessarily hate it. She would just continue to take small sips at a time, letting herself get more used to the taste.

"Not really. I can't really disguise myself as a human all that well."

Fins and a tail would've been that pretty difficult.

"I didn't mind staying with the ship, though."

Mako made only the slightest shake of his head at her thanks. It gave him something to do, and he was always on the lookout for that.

A little self chiding for not thinking of that, of course she wouldn’t have been able to be a part of Ace’s surprise attack. "I didn’t either." Staying with the ship meant Mako was able to mostly keep to himself, and that was his cup of tea. So to speak.

Until they needed to escape anyway.

"I’m ready to get back to looking for those shards. The ball was a waste of time." Focused as usual.

"Me too." She stopped drinking her tea to look at all the festivities that were still going on.

"Seeing the rest of the crew enjoying themselves like this isn't bad." That's how Nami felt about it, at least.

"But parties aren't going to help us get home any faster."

Mako gave a passive look at the rest of the party, looking at it as a whole instead of taking each person in individually.

"No, they’re not. It feels like I haven’t seen the city in years, but it’s only been a few months."

"Are there a lot of cities in your world?" Nami asked. Having been exposed to the surface world back in Runeterra, she already had an idea of what to expect. What she'd seen here... Comparatively speaking, it was a little underwhelming.

"I can't really tell too many buildings apart, especially when they're all together like that."

"Yeah, there's quite a few. Republic City's one of the biggest ones. Some of the poorer districts can be cramped and noisy, but it's really great when you can see it from the bay. Live there long enough, and you'll know where everything is."

He took a sip from his tea and shook his head. "It's not without it's problems though. The crime rate's pretty high, the gang wars almost never stop and that's without the whole equalist revolution or what the spirit of darkness did to the place."

Nami listened closely. Strange as it all was, she enjoyed hearing what the surface dwellers had to say about their world and homes. "The spirit of darkness?" She asked, her attention caught by that in particular.

"What did it do?"

"Aside from trying to bring ten thousand years of darkness and destroying the world?" Mako's sarcasm was light with the rhetorical question.. "There are two great spirits. Raava: spirit of light and peace and Vaatu: spirit of darkness and chaos. Vaatu tried to destroy Republic City, he did a lot of damage before he was stopped by Korra. Don't know if it ever got cleaned up, I woke up at Isla Empieza not too long after that."

Well, she wanted to know, and boy did she get an answer. "At least he was defeated, I think that's the more important part." It would've been hard to rebuild that a city that wasn't even standing anymore. "Humans are pretty determined, so I think your city is going to be alright."

"Yeah, but we can be pretty stupid too." He shrugged his shoulders before finishing off the last of his tea. "Maybe I’ll get to find out about Republic City some day. I’ve heard that some of the pirates have gone home for a few days, so who knows." He’d like to hope for a glimpse of home, but in reality Mako wasn’t about to hold his breath.

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