☠Twenty-Sixth Reel: New stripes [Closed]

[redcinemareel]

Who: The Bloody Roses, and the bodyswap victims
Where: The Gilded Rose on the their way south
When: Aug 21st to Aug 26th
What: Shenanigans, surely!
Warnings: Probably foul language
Style: always
Status: closed to the crew!

If body swapping, please say who you are. If you could use different icons, that would be great, but if not, at least a link to the person's image. We may not know who is who in this game!

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[kabutos_claim]

Sheesh, there was a lot of commotion today. People yelling over the journal, and was it just her, or were people yelling on the ship? She wanted some peace and quiet to practice her stealth moves on the moving ship, but all that noise was distracting.

Whatever their problems were, she didn't care. Except... As she was walking out into the open, something caught her eye.

Who was that? It hadn't been someone she'd been introduced to on the ship. Which could mean an enemy had come on board... She smirked, and put her hand on the hilt of her blade. She could prove her worth, and have some fun.

[sinister_blade]

Katarina has been feeling weird since the early morning. The people suddenly popped up on the ship and the rumors flying around- it's keeping her on the edge and very, very wary.

She's been stalking the deck for past hour, trying to find the inconsistency. And it hit her- as if shadow danced over her back. Katarina smirked- her instincts never failed her.

"Trying to sneak up on me is futile." Katarina speaks loudly and pulls out one of her twin blades, pointing in general direction of the other woman. She has more than enough experience from the battlefield to sense when someone's sneaking up on her, watching her. Because- that's what Katarina does as well.

[kabutos_claim]

What a pity. Perhaps being in this new environment was throwing off Karai's game a little. But the way this woman kept looking around the ship, as if she was unfamiliar with the territory, was highly suspicious.

"You seemed a little lost." Karai said without leaving her spot. "I thought I might do my good deed for the year, and help you off."

[redcinemareel]

After having a chat with someone who thinks they're Thash, Grell makes a private entry to the crew:

Be on the look outfor some impostor claiming to be Thash, who is claiming to be a raccoon.

Yes, I'm very serious.

If you notice anyone suspicious, slit their throat. Your cooperation is most appreciated.

Meanwhile, Grell can be found at the helm, taking notes of their coordinates and other details of their travels.

[Action] - 21st

[caster_blaster]

Yo.

[Gene calls from off to her left, giving a little wave.]

Yeah, about that last order. Might wanna' reconsider your course of action. Have you seen the chaos in the message system lately? People are ending up in the wrong bodies all over the place, or at least that's what it seems like. That means they aren't impostors, they switched out with someone.

[redcinemareel]

[Grell looks over to him and stands upright from being hunched over her notebook. She puts a hand on her hip, giving him a look as if saying 'not you too'.]

Has anyone else claimed to be a racoon?

[sinister_blade]

Having talked to Thash, Katarina makes her way towards the helm- fast. She heard the message of course, and she agrees with the last part- anyone suspicious will be dealt with. However-

"Captain, Thash is a raccoon. I just talked to him."

One redhead had more patience than the other.

[hollywood_bro]

what if he really is a raccoon though?

ota~

[sinister_blade]

When Katarina opened her eyes this morning, it felt as whole world shifted. Or at least, everything on the ship changed. She could feel creeps crawling up her skin at alarming rate- something happened. Something bad happened. She slipped off her bed and picked up her twin blades, silently pulling them out of their sheaths. She didn't bother dressing up, remaining in black sleeping pants and black tank top, barefoot.

Step by step, she stealthily made her way towards the upper deck. Everything looks normal, but she has a feeling it will change any second. She grips hilts of her blades harder as she steps through the door.

[caster_blaster]

"Well now, apparently people do sleep later than me. It's a nice change of pace from back home," Gene said, laughing from off to her left side, "You look a little tense, maybe you should rest a bit longer."

Anytime

[caster_blaster]

Gene was up at the crack of dawn, as per usual. He had to admit, he got used to a new crew faster than he thought he would. Not that he didn't miss the people back home, but he was sure they'd be fine for a little while without him. How long could he possibly be here, right?

"Gah," he said, blanching as he tasted the alcohol in his mouth from the prior night. He immediately started brushing his teeth to get rid of it, "Blech. There we go, ready to face the day."

He stepped out into the sun, idly twirling one of his pistol as he paced the deck.

"So, what's up? Got anything on the agenda, guys?"

\o/

[myfayevalentine]

The moment Faye caught sight of that pistol twirling, she pulled out one of her own, pointed directly at him. By this stage, she's figured out that people are freaking out all over the place, and she doesn't know who the hell this guy is. So she stopped up on the deck, just a short distance away, and ready to shoot if need be.

[crankyshark]

[so a little while after the confusion kicks off, the nav activates and a furry little animal appears on the deck. Is it a raccoon? Is it a dog? It's a Japanese tanuki! ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog ) and it has the mind of Thash trapped inside it. He looks around upon arrival, expecting to see Grell and Kat nearby...and expecting to be immediately imprisoned. Well, at least it was better than getting sliced up by Grell's noisy weapon]

[spotting Grell, he addresses her first] hi Captain...hope you don't seriously think I'm an imposter here to endanger the crew in THIS pathetic frickin' fuzzy body...

[he shakes his furry head and looks to Kat] but, I agreed to your terms. Alright Kat, go ahead and lock up my dangerous, threatening little forestland self...

[if nothing else maybe his disgruntled attitude would prove to Grell it was him]

[redcinemareel]

[Okay, so she didn't expect a racoon, despite what everyone else was saying. After glancing to Katarina skeptically, she nods her head over to the lil doggie of a racoon. Be glad that she doesn't harm animals, Thash.]

You heard him~! We'll see if he's actually whom he claims to be. Be sure to put a leash on him.

[Then she looks back to...the racoon.]

You had better NOT relieve yourself like the forest animal you are, either! Or you're DEAD.

[myfayevalentine]

*After the startling discovery this morning, and upon hearing the rumours on the journal and all the various chaos (including Thash's own journal post), Faye decided to investigate. She'd heard that Thash was on the ship, but that he'd turned into something different all together. Immensely unimpressed by this, Faye stomped her way directly towards where she'd heard Thash was being kept in the meantime*

[hollywood_bro]

Option A: Dave is fast asleep in Grell's bed. He has no idea what has been done to his body, but he's about to find out.


Option B: He cann't hide under the bed forever. Dave figures that as long as he dresses well he won't look bad, so he gets Arthur's best jacket on, coat and everything. He even makes a special effort to pull the hat down over his eyebrows, but he can only seem to get it to cover one at a time. Luckily, Dave finds an eye patch lying around and uses that to cover the other. It isn't working very well. The strap is thinner than Arthur's eyebrow is and he can't seem to get it to stay in place. He keeps the eyepatch on anyway and walks out onto the deck. Maybe if he acts smug and looks pretty enough no one will notice how ridiculously ugly he is.

(ooc: Option A is for Grell, but Option B is ota.)

Option A

[redcinemareel]

The day is wasting away, and Dave was still in bed! Well, Mister Lazy Bones needs a good wake up call, and who better to give it than his girlfriend?

She slinks into her room, where he's asleep on her bed, and walks over slowly, admiring his sleeping face. He's almost too peaceful to wake up, but there are things that need to be done, and having all hands available would be in their best interest. Grell eventually makes it to the bed and sits on the edge, reaching over and running her fingers through his hair.

"Darling~? It's time to get up."

Yasaburo, swapped into Thash's body

[buttwarmed]

[A: Locked to Faye]

Daylight found Yasaburo no worse for wear. The sun woke him up gently and he surfaced from a sleep full of warm pink noise and earthy scents (for tanuki, unlike humans, did smell in their dreams). He was in a bed that wasn't his own. There was a beautiful (apparent) human woman across from him.

He spared himself a moment to feel pleased with himself, then a moment to internally panic as he realized he remembered nothing about her or how he got here. Yet curiously there was no pounding hangover and he didn't feel like death. Well.

He resolved to sneak out of bed and look for a clue to his apparent lover's identity and make some coffee. And he was fairly good at sneaking away, though the unfamiliar form made him clumsier than normal...

[B: General]

Yasaburo-as-Thash could be found:

1: ...looking for tea or coffee to make. That was a good icebreaker and the necessity of drinking it would buy him a couple seconds during any emergency 'gotta think of the right thing to say' moments.

2: Up on the deck, confirming that he was indeed at sea.

3 [WARNING: POOP JOKE]: In the ship's head, grunting and straining...

You see, he'd snuck in there thinking it would be a good place to transform into something small, sneak around and eavesdrop, but try as he might, he was stuck in this form. It was immensely frustrating.

But anyone outside it could easily come to the conclusion that he was having a different sort of trouble...

Here she is! XD

[myfayevalentine]

Faye awoke gradually, sensing that Thash was already stirring in the bed. She turned onto her side, blinking her eyes open slowly. Faye smiled to herself, remembering Thash's birthday just the day before, then sat up against the pillows, revealing the rather lovely red nightgown she had on. She smoothed her hair as she watched the apparent Thash fumble around.

"Morning, mister. Are you trying to wreck my bedroom with that tail of yours or what?"

[Action! Princess Celestia is now B.B. Hood or vice versa, who knows!]

[letteropener]

"Oh, well, this is different."

The pony in the body of a small girl took careful steps around the ship, trying her best to acclimate to having only two legs, and fingers, and no wings or magic at all. Compared to the other curses she'd been through, this was downright interesting, and since none of them had been permanent, she expected it would wear off soon enough. For now, this was at last a chance to experience what humans lived like, and to learn about them!

No real level of discretion had occurred to her, so she was neither subtle about her wonder and completely unfamiliarity with the body, nor hard to find.

[redcinemareel]

[Grell is making her rounds about the ship when she turns a corner and spots Bonnie.]

Where have you been?! There's a situation aboard the ship! [She walks briskly over to her.] Have you seen Arthur?

After we get all the switched people rounded up!

[redcinemareel]

[Okay, so now, all members were down in the brig, crew included. Grell examined the ones who were not themselves carefully with crossed arms before sighing. At the moment, no one was in a cell. For now.]

The reason why you're all down here is because it's for the safety of everyone-- [And she looks to the raccoon] and everything-- [then looks to all of them] aboard this ship.

[She begins to pace in front of the gathered crowd.]

There are those who were not here during the first ever curse of this world, so allow me to summarize. [Grell pauses in her stride to elaborate.] A sea witch took over the majority of every non-native, including myself, and forced us all to do her bidding. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I'm sure I killed one of my own crew members.

[She looks to Dave, who was Arthur at the moment. Why is he wearing that eyepatch?]

You remember that, don't you?

[Her attention turns back to the others.]

So while we have most of you sorted out, I'm afraid that those whose bodies are not aboard the ship, or those who are not members of my crew, are to be kept below deck. You will be, of course, fed and taken care of until all this is all over. I really can't take the risk of you lot going rogue on us in our sleep, should this curse turn out for the worst.

I'd rather not have to KILL YOU otherwise. I don't have time for rivalries and vengeance.

Any questions?

[buttwarmed]

Yasaburo (as Thash) raised a webbed hand in objection.

"Excuse me, miss...But I'm not a thing."

A potential meal for humans where he's from, yes. But a sentient being at least.

[letteropener]

[Well. If she hadn't mentioned the whole 'killing a crew member' part, Celestia would be quite irritated with this turn of events, but...]

I don't like to say it, but I'm afraid you may have the right idea.

[hollywood_bro]

Yeah.

[Dave remembers. How could he forget? He was pretty traumatized by that event. He still doesn't like to think about it. He hangs his head for a few seconds and then decides to just forget it.

He doesn't think this is the same thing. People are acting weird, but not violent so far. There's no sea witch.]

What if they're not a threat though? No one's attacked us yet, have they?

[Not like Dave would know. He's been spending most of his time in his room trying to hide his hideous new face.]