allendsmeat: (fightin grin)
allendsmeat ([personal profile] allendsmeat) wrote in [community profile] high_seas2014-07-13 03:15 pm

Rose Picking: Bloody Roses v. Straw Hats

Who: The Straw Hat Pirates v. The Bloody Roses
Where: Isla d Quarzo Rosa
When: 12th-13th
What: Finding that token! hopefully not in bird poo
Warnings: The usual
Status: Closed



The officiant here says a bird ate our token. Good luck getting it. B|

Also info on the island:

♦ ISLA DE QUARZO ROSA

[Direction from Isla Empieza]: Somewhere in the South.

[Terrain]: Clouds and rose quartz gemstones. Wild twisted thorn jungles and cities built out of crystal pillars.

[Weather]: Crystal clear. It’s always warm and bright, thanks to the sunlight reflecting off the stones. It’s best to wear a pair of tinted sunglasses the entire time you are here. Light storms hover over the jungles once in a while but otherwise the island floats high enough that it’s almost always perfect weather.

[Is the island inhabited?]: Yes!

[If so, what is the culture like here?]: The people of the island are very short, the tallest standing around four foot tall, rounded faces, feet flat and duck like, body rounded but human. They are all slightly pink tinted in hair, like everything else around this place. The people here have learned to carve out huge villages in the centers of rose courts crystal pillars. They hunt for food, mostly birds, in the twisting thorn forest.

[Island peculiarities]: The jungles are light brown, pink to green and roll round and round in thick loops, twisting around each other. When tapped the sap inside the twisted tree like roots and thorny vines are sweet and almost intoxicating if you’re not raised on the stuff. Traders will sometimes come and collect sap for sale on the seas.

The island is made up purely of crystal stone, rose colored, jutting out here and there. There is a large deep patch of earth in the far northern side of the island that grows a forest, but nothing else will actually grow there. No crops are made here. This jungle however is FULL of birds. The larger crystal pillars can be hollowed out to build homes in.

The clouds under the city keep it hidden from the seas below, but the vines in the north have gotten so large and so wild that through the clouds thick spiny arms seem to grow and twist under the island as well.

The only food here is some form of bird or another, or strips of baked vines from the forest.

Full jars of sap tapped from the trees of this place fetch a nice price on the "below seas".


Have at, guys!

[personal profile] alwaysgrumpy 2014-07-22 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Please, you'd make a fine mother. I'm sure you'd be very loving.

*He turns to take some straight from the tree, his tongue still long enough in this form to get a good taste.*

You're a better person than you give yourself credit for. Especially in comparison to some of your crew.
myfayevalentine: (Lazy/Don't Care)

[personal profile] myfayevalentine 2014-07-22 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Akira, you're adorable. I need to remember to hang around you more when I need an ego boost...

*She patted his knee again, giving a warm smile*

My crew? Pah! There's hardly anyone there anymore... On a daily basis, I see about...three of them. I barely know how the ship still runs anymore...

[personal profile] alwaysgrumpy 2014-07-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
A little hard, what with navs needing to be charged and our crews in separate areas a lot of the time. It'll have to be long-distance support.
myfayevalentine: (Amused)

nuu don't put Gene next to drunk Faye!~

[personal profile] myfayevalentine 2014-07-22 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We still have those journal things. You can tell me how great I am over those. Don't think you're getting out of being my confidence stoker. So long as the arrangement is that you still do this when I'm 40. Though, we might even be married with kids by then, so who knows?

[personal profile] alwaysgrumpy 2014-07-22 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I'll ever understand romantic relationships here. People come and go without a word from this place. Seems an unstable place to build a life.
myfayevalentine: (Hmm)

[personal profile] myfayevalentine 2014-07-23 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and it's pretty depressing. I've still got more friends and allies here than I do back in my home world. So I wouldn't mind staying. But you're right - no sense in making plans.

[personal profile] alwaysgrumpy 2014-07-23 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyway.

*He stands up, grabbing the bucket.*

It's about full. You want to take this and bottle it up?
myfayevalentine: (Default)

[personal profile] myfayevalentine 2014-07-23 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
*Faye slowly pulled herself to her feet too with a nod*

Sure. Besides, I need a smoke.

*Because that was better than focusing on her worries about a lack of romance possibilities*