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!
hollywood_bro: (talking)

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-07-28 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Bird watching is for the birds.

[It's sad that he thinks this remark is incredibly clever. Seriously, though. Who has time for that?]

Alright.

[Dave will follow after her. Maybe bird hunting will be easier with company. Or at least less boring.]
hoodwinking: (Default)

[personal profile] hoodwinking 2014-07-31 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[The hunter damn near groans. Was that supposed to be funny?

Still, she clutches onto her rifle, seeking out any kind of bird or nest that the token might be lurking in. Ah, this is actually a good time to ask--]


So what exactly would you be able to do if we find this bird? Are you like the other Strider that was here a while back?
hollywood_bro: (bloodysword)

my tagging speed is atrocious and i'm sorry

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-08-04 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
I have this.

[Dave swings his sword as he talks. It's just your ordinary run of the mill katana. Nothing special about it.]

It's sharp, it's awesome, and it's a sword. I can move lightning fast, like a ninja.

[He obviously wasn't doing that a second ago, but he can. He was just being lazy. Bird hunting is lame.]
hoodwinking: (Default)

it's alright, mine's not much better

[personal profile] hoodwinking 2014-08-04 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's it? That's hardly--

[hey, wait!]

Then why didn't you do that before the bird took off?!
hollywood_bro: (chill)

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-08-07 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't have been fair. My moves are so sick it wouldn't have had a chance.

[That's his excuse, but he doesn't have a good reason.]

I need a handicap or something.
hoodwinking: (Default)

[personal profile] hoodwinking 2014-08-10 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
--Really? We're in the middle of a race! Screw handicaps!

[She wouldn't be happy to let them get in the first strike because of some handicap!!]
hollywood_bro: (uncertain)

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-08-12 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, you have a point. It's just that I didn't sign up to be an avian exterminator. Who let the birds eat that token anyway?

[As much as he hates this, Dave doesn't want the other teams to win either.]
hoodwinking: (Default)

[personal profile] hoodwinking 2014-08-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Someone who just wants to make our job harder. [She grumbled.]

It's either that or make it throw up, and I'd rather not have to clean that up.
hollywood_bro: (well)

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-08-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no. Bird puke is probably almost as bad as when they decide to take a dump on your windshield. Then you're like god fucking damn it why can't I park my car under a tree without getting shit on.

[He doesn't expect her to have any idea what he's saying, but... yeah.]
hoodwinking: (Default)

[personal profile] hoodwinking 2014-08-17 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Not much of a clue. She's more used to carriages than fancy cars, but the sentiment isn't completely lost.]

I don't even want to think about having to claw through it's dung. So, we'll just bank on it being stuck in it's throat.

[Easier to cut!]
hollywood_bro: (still2.2meh)

[personal profile] hollywood_bro 2014-08-20 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Sweet. That means I don't have to like, tear out it's gizzard, right?

[Dave doesn't even know what a gizzard is, but it sounds like something a token could end up in.]

I mean, I will if I have to, but I don't want to.