Our very own abandoned island!

[collagehero]

Who: The crew of the Mahi Mahi Iwatobi-chan
Where: Breakneck Cay
When: September 28, afternoon
What: After finally making landfall after way too much time at sea, opinions on the current situation are mixed.
Warnings: None
Style: [Brackets]
Status: Open to crew. If you're separated from your own crew and you need a convenient island to be shipwrecked on, feel free to jump in too!

[The Mahi Mahi Iwatobi-chan sits halfway into the sand on the shore of Breakneck Cay, a small hole ripped in the hull the only other testament to its rough landing. All in all, Hajime is quite satisfied by how well they weathered the storm together, managing to keep afloat even in the worst of the weather. They'd gotten totally lost, though, and sighting land had made them, well, a little overenthusiastic. They might have figured out sailing but not...well...not the part where you stop sailing.

So now they have to make repairs and get their bearings before they can head out on the open seas again and hopefully find an island with a little more population. Well, that would be the sensible, boring thing to do. Hajime is more interested in the huge, rotting hulk of a wrecked ship further down the shoreline.]

Everybody, LOOK! A real shipwreck! Let's go treasure hunting! Treasure hunting! Treasure hunnntiiinnnnnnnnnnng!! Treasure treasure treasure hunting!

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[onlyswimfree]

[Haru had had every intention to take off his clothes and jump into the water the moment his feet hit the sand, since he was totally making good of his promise to Makoto that he wouldn't swim until they were on solid ground but it had been A LONG TIME.

But he had barely taken two steps (and his shirt off) when he noticed all the rocks in the shore. He made a disgruntled face: even he wasn't crazy enough to try to swim there.

So instead, he turned back to pay attention to whatever Hajime was saying]

Is there still treasure there?

[collagehero]

Of course there is! We just gotta find it! You coming? [All of this is said over her shoulder as she cheerfully marches towards the wrecked ship, which is looking more and more ominous the closer it gets. There are bits and pieces of it lying all over the beach, mixed in with the driftwood and seaweed.]

It'll be an adventure adventure adventure adventure! [She starts singing again as she hops on top of what used to be a rowboat and jumps off just before it crumples into a pile of wet wood.]

[onlyswimfree]

[slowly puts his shirt back on, throwing a dejected look at the ocean. soon, water. soon.

so decides to catch up to hajime, lest she ends up crashing stomach-down into some wood or something. except she seems to be doing OK, whereas Haru slips down and gets his pants dirty.

He's not pleased, but keeps going]

[collagehero]

Oops! You okay? [Hajime pauses where she's perched on top of a big snarl of driftwood and watches Haru get up. Satisfied that nothing is permanently damaged, she hops down and bounces further down the beach until--]

Hey now, hey now, what's this! [There's something strange sticking out of the sand! She gives it a good tug and unearths a long, weathered white piece of...] Ooooh, it's a bone. Ha! Rest in peace!

[She puts it down and bows to it, then for some reason chooses that of all spots to wait for Haru to catch up.]

[onlyswimfree]

Yes. [his pants are all muddy tho, which is gross. so of course he does the obvious thing and just takes off his pants and shirt, until he's down to his swimsuit again. well, he can pick those back on the way back.

when he catches up to her, though, there's a bone on the sand. why... is there a bone on the sand.]

Is that...? [what do you even ask in this situation? ultimately decides to bow lightly to it, as well. just in case. and gives a look at the pirate ship that's nearby] Are we going in there?

[notsokillerwhale]

[ Haru was being such a good boy about not jumping in the ocean. ]

You're not thinking of actually going there, are you??

[onlyswimfree]

We're not in the boat anymore.

[though he is putting his shirt back on as he says this, so]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ All right all right. You win this round. SWIM AWAY.

Also, he sees that you're putting your shirt on so he's not going to push it. ]

No. We're not.

[ THANK GOD!!!!! ]

[onlyswimfree]

[buttoning it up, he gives the sea a gaze full of longing and frustration]

The rocks will get in the way.

[sigh. soon, water. soon. the bathtub has helped, but he has been really itching to go swimming - actual head-in-the-water, legs-and-arms-moving swimming]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ All the skeletons, all the murderous clowns and all the ghostly ghouls merging with horrific vampires and werewolves could have gotten together and had a jamboree on Makoto's bed for the entire night and that would have been soothing to him compared to what the entire crew had just been through.

All of his biggest fears had gotten together and conspired against him in what had to have been the worst day of his life. The only light at the end of this tunnel was the fact that miraculously everyone had survived and seemed, for the most part, all right. Really, they were the only things holding him together. He knew that he could do anything when he was with his friends. Even completely ludicrous and horrifying things like this. Fun? Right?

As he stumbled pathetically off of their poor excuse for a ship, he had a hard time gathering his thoughts and words. How did they survive??? It became even more abundantly clear that it was not in Makoto's cards to be a pirate or even, as he liked to put it, A TREASURE HUNTER. ]

Can I veto going there? As captain?

[ Cue his pathetic collapse. ]

[collagehero]

[Hajime calls from down the beach.] You all right back there, Cap'n? We're gonna go in the big spooky pirate ship and find treasure! Wanna come?
[She's waving cheerfully, like she's not surrounded by piles of debris and what might possibly be bones.]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ He musters up the strength to lift his head up to look in her direction. ]

No I don't want to go! You shouldn't go either!

[ Though as he's saying this, he's standing up and picking up a light jog toward her. ]

[collagehero]

You don't hafta go, but I'm gonna! Treasure treasure treasure! [She's obviously got her heart set on this whole treasure hunter thing.]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ Though he loves you all, he secretly also hates you all. ]

Shouldn't we---

at least have a plan first?

[onlyswimfree]

[for a while now he had been concerned about Makoto. This whole pirate lifestyle is clearly not his thing, and it seemed like lately they had been going from bad to worse.

BUT WELL, OCTOBER WAS HERE surely things could not get more scary.

Anyway, for now and after that mess of a landing, he's really worried about him]

You could stay here.

[he says it in the most caring tone Haru can muster, which is actually pretty good. a pirate boat with skeletons, maybe, would probably not be the best place for his friend]

[notsokillerwhale]

[ It's a good thing Makoto likes his friendship with you that much and it's also a good thing he's not particularly homicidal because if either of those things were absent, there might be trouble.

He sits up and looks toward Haru with a defeated sigh. He can tell he's concerning his friend and that is the absolute LAST thing he wants despite absolutely everything that is happening. He appreciates the concern, however. ]

Wait. Are you going?

[ Is he the only one concerned about the human life here? ]

[onlyswimfree]

[he gives the boat a look - THEIR boat. it has a hole, but it's not a big deal, so it should probably be easy to fix. having said that, they needed to get wood to fix it, and an abandoned ship might be the best place to find it.

plus, easy money is always good, right?]

There might be something useful.

[notsokillerwhale]

[ Or...if Makoto had his way, they would just use the wood to build a house on this island and never sail again. ]

This is the same tactic I use on you...

[ Except it usually involves a convenient mention of a pool. ]

[worksintheory]

[Flops onto the beach face first because OMG DRY LAND THAT ISN'T MOVING]

[collagehero]

[Of all the voices in the world that one might want to hear at a time like this...this one probably ranks pretty low.]

Hi, Rei! Are you alive?

[The voice gets closer, and thus louder. She's leaning over him now.]

Reeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~

[worksintheory]

[Groans]

Just a few more minutes... [until he'll be ready to stand up without spilling his guts on the beach]

[collagehero]

Ah! Rei's alive! [The sun's being blocked out now, so wherever it is, she's depriving him of it.]

Yay! Rei's alive!

[notsokillerwhale]

[ Flopped right next to you. ]

[worksintheory]

[groans, turning his head to look at Makoto-senpai]

Is this real land? Why is the ground still moving?

[notsokillerwhale]

[ They are both so pathetic. ]

What's that under--

I think you're lying on a fish...!