HazMat Log 008 ♔ Patootles and Discount Coupons

[anelegantmyth]

Who: Hazardous Materials
Where: Tartle Island then Deesuko Ballia
When: 8/7 onwards
What: gathering a patootle and then party over at pirate heaven
Warnings: alcohol and little whales that fart bubbles are dangerous to your health
Style: Any!
Status: Zoo entrance fee is still 50 doubloons

Hazardous Materials' August log of doom part! Date your stuff, you all know the drill.

8/7-8/11 : Sailing to Tartle Island
8/12-8/14 : Tartle Fun!
8/15-8/21 : Sailing to Deesuko Ballia
8/22-?: Party hard!!

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Tartle time

[youhearthebells]

[For someone who comes from a time and place where the southern god is a giant black tortoise (like the ones emblazoned in gold thread on his loose trousers), an island on a turtle's back is more than worth a visit! Gan Ning's long grump seems to finally be easing a little as they put in at one of the mooring spots and go "ashore," and aside from the ridiculous whales, he finds a lot to like here. Totally worth the detour from heading for Deesuko.

Well, now that Roxas has been located and picked up, it's much easier to relax on the Tartle! Gan Ning is occupied on the ship, coordinating the rescue flight and waiting to see Roxas alive and well and back on the ship, on the 11th itself. Once that's over, though...

It's a good time to catch him, to discuss plans with him and see how his injuries are healing. He's prone to lounging around or strolling the length and breadth of the island, exploring.]

[heartismyown]

[Just as he promised, he finds Gan Ning on the twelfth. It looks to him like the man is just lounging somewhere so he moves to take a seat nearby. He's nice and clean now.]

Hey. You said you wanted to talk to me...right?

[youhearthebells]

[he glances over at the company, and then sits up a bit]

Oh, hey, kiddo. Nah, not talk...just wanted to see how ya are, see if you wanna have some fun.

[he gives Roxas a quick once-over. Hm, yep, cleaned up all right] Looks like you're feelin' better. Sleep good, get some good food in ya and all?

[heartismyown]

Oh, I'm okay I guess. Lea put some bandages on me.

[Maybe, maybe not. Roxas hasn't decided. He's ignoring some rather confusing emotions that make no sense whatsoever.]

Sleep was weird and I haven't eaten yet.

[anelegantmyth]

[ Well someone looked happy today. Cynthia had been out all day gathering supplies, and buying poots, that she didn't actually find the time to go up and say hi to the guy. But even from a far, she could see he was in a good mood.

Thank arceus.

Currently, she was standing a good distance away, looking at one of the book stalls. They were also selling flowers and that gave her one wicked idea. Picking up and paying for a single white lotus flower, she hands it over to one of her new baby poots and points to her captain.

Go give it to that guy.

She prayed that the poot understood her command as she watched it float over to his direction, holding the lotus in its mouth. The moment she saw the little whale lightly headbutt Ning's side. She turns to face the stall, hiding her VERY amused smile. ]

[youhearthebells]

[hang on, what's this? Why is this dumb thing bopping him?]

Oi, get off. What do you want? I don't got any food.

[the whale wiggles at him, showing off the flower. Gan Ning, though, is thick as a brick and just stares at it.]

What? Whaddaya want?

[anelegantmyth]

[ Oh but the little poot seemed determined! His new mommy sent him to do a thing and he WILL do it...somehow. It butts at his side again, making a little poot noise and holds up the flower.

Cynthia had to cover her face with a book so he wouldn't see her laughing in one corner. But the people at the stall were definitely staring. Crazy woman. ]

8/13 ALL THE POOTS

[anelegantmyth]

[ In the morning, she could be found in the petting zoo playing with all the poots. Her pokemon are all out as well because, really, everyone needs to experience playing with a poot. EVERYONE.

In the afternoon, one would find the blonde looking around the stalls for things that would interest her. Shopping for books, supplies, bullets for her pistols, clothes. Maybe even weird ingredients to help out Lea and Gaius' chocolate business. So, by this time, she should be dragging around a huge sack filled with...stuff. Also, she would have two baby poots following her around. Why? Guess.

and in the evening, Cynthia will be having a drink in one of the taverns. This is a "pirate's paradise" after all, so this is where her information gather skills would be put to good use. Also, she's trying to gather information about that half map they won in the ghost race. ]

[heartismyown]

[The second day after his return, Roxas has gone out for a walk and he's found himself wandering the streets in the evening by the taverns. It might be strange, but probably one can find the nosy kid peering in the window of one.]

[anelegantmyth]

[ Well the blonde could definitely be seen, drink in hand, mingling with the other sailors. Oddly enough, the people here were more open to talk about things as long as you open up them as well. A sort of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" kind of deal.

But outside was a different story. Cynthia had tasked some of her pokemon to patrol the perimeter of the tavern. Garchomp taking to the skies while Lucario and Spiritomb stayed by the entrance. If anyone who even resembled the navy came close to the place, it would be the spirit pokemon's job to alert her. Of course, the pokemon weren't really briefed on what to do in case she was spotted by a crew mate. So Lucario took it upon himself to ask, poking at Roxas' shoulder and turning on the telepathy. ]

Human, Are you lost?

Roxas' Return

[heartismyown]

[On the back of the mighty and majestic dragon Toothless, Roxas is flown back to their ship. His appearance is a bit shocking because he's splattered in blood in more than one place, however he gets off the back of the dragon himself, standing on his own two feet.

He's a little tired looking and worse for wear with a distinct smell of smoke to his clothes and himself, but he's alive and alert. He looks a little sheepish for having to be rescued.]

[youhearthebells]

[captain's had his eye on the sky this whole time. And while he does need to also give the rescuers a big pat on the back for coming through for them all, Gan Ning also needs to see to Roxas for his own sanity.

You know, after others have had their turn.]

Hey. You okay, kiddo?

[heartismyown]

[He nods a little bit.]

Yeah, I'm okay.

[By his definition, anyway.]

[by_heart]

[Lea, true to form, is hanging back and leaning on a rail, trying to look nonchalant. He hasn't let anyone see how worried and lost he's been so far and he's not about to start now.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas goes over to him and offers a little smile.]

Hey Lea. I'm back.

Businessman at Work

[by_heart]

[Tartle Island is known for its chocolates, so Lea is pretty sure he's not going to be too successful with sales here. Instead, he's scoping out the competition in his usual nosy way. He can thus be found in various cute little shops across the island either successfully chatting with the proprietors or being chased out and threatened with bodily harm by them.

Back on the ship, most of Lea's time is taking up with pretending that he's not fretting over Roxas' recovery. He's just within sight of him most of the day out of pure coincidence, that's all. Nothing to see there. Move on.]

[heartismyown]

[Purely coincidental no doubt. After having gone for a little walk with Gan Ning, Roxas mostly sat around, not moving around too much. It's not too hard to sit on the railing of the ship. He gets up after a little while and decides to make his way back to the dorm without notifying his shadow.]

[by_heart]

[Lea gives him a few minutes, then stops by the galley to prepare a second attempt at browbeating Roxas into eating a plate of sandwiches. When he (nonchalantly) sticks his head into the room to see what Roxas is up to, at least he has some food as a pretense for just showing up.]

Sandwich delivery!

Pooting Zoo

[notacostume]

[Oh gosh, she couldn't resist. Mona had spotted the zoo and the whales and she just had to pet them. They're just so cute and adorable! She's really enjoying herself and...

Did it just fart?

And there went another one.

Okay, this had gotten much less adorable.]

[willwork4sugar]

[Part of him's still not sure why they're at this island since nothing really caught his attention in the brochure. Then again, it seemed Cynthia had been interested in something here.]

....

[Those things, right? They look right up the Pokemon master's alley.]

...that where they get the name, you think?

[notacostume]

[Oh god, it finally clicked in Mona's head.]

You know, something tells me that's exactly where it came from.

[More fart bubbles.]

Come on! Will you guys stop that already?!

[At least it doesn't smell awful? Actually, quite the opposite.]

Sailing!

[misteriletainn]

{Rather than checking out the island covered in those strange animals, patootles or perquackys or whatever they were called-Owain had mostly still been trying to get acclimated to his new home.}

{He would have thought, considering the fact that they *had* sailed before in Chrom's army, that he wouldn't get sea sick.}

{But no, the crashing of the waves had, at least for the first couple of weeks aboard, and the tail-end of the race, made him sick to the stomach, leaving him largely abed. Thankfully, though, now that they were leaving Tartle island, he seemed to have mastered his body once again, and could be found leaning over the edge of the boat as they were sailing away, a grin on his face as he watched the island sail fade into the distance.}

{It was hard to be certain how much he'd enjoy less savory acts, but so far, being a pirate seemed to mostly be about fun, something he could get behind.}

[heartismyown]

[Roxas had come out of the room and found someone he wasn't sure he'd met before, leaning on the railing he wanted to sit on. Never minding too much about company if he can have it, he wanders over. Roxas uses his good arm to hoist himself up onto the railing, moving to sit with his legs dangling over towards the water.]

Hey! I can sit here, right?

[misteriletainn]

It certainly seems like you are!

{He offered a bit of an ornery smile as he turned to face Roxas, somebody he'd apparently had yet to meet, before offering his hand to shake.}

I don't think we've met yet. I'm Owain, of Ylisse.

Sailing and the Deesuko

[youhearthebells]

[The captain only knew that he'd had another crewman go missing when things got real quiet around the ship. He checked and double-checked, and it looked like it was Cynthia this time. At first, he stormed onto the Tartle to find the nearest Navy-affiliated patrolman and shook him down, making a rather convincing case with his fists, but the hapless Navyman knew nothing. Nobody had been captured or arrested, certainly not any blond women who likely would have put up a hell of a noisy fight.

So, when they were politely encouraged to get the hell off the island, Gan Ning reluctantly left without her. No amount of searching or questioning (or threatening) got him any information, and her journal was gone, so he forced himself to believe she'd been sent home, and set course for their original destination. It bothered him more than he let on, so the good mood he had managed for about three days reverted to the dark sulk he had been in prior to their landing.

Once they reach Deesuko Ballia, Gan Ning's only instruction to the crew is to set a rotation for one person guarding the ship at all times, and then he disappears himself. No, not like the others, he merely gets himself deliberately, irretrievably lost in the maze of bars and brothels. He has a lot of diamonds to spend in pursuit of forgetfulness, and losing another person mixes with a sudden upswell of homesickness is reason enough to get so drunk and crazy that no one can stop him.

They can, however, join him...]