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Skulduggery Pleasant ([personal profile] light_mischief) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-07-01 03:20 pm

[open] come on, make a joyful sound

Who: Skulduggery Pleasant & anyone who wants to deal with him
What: you'd think after an announcement like that one, he'd be making himself scarce, but nope!
When: July, up until the excursion.
Where: Around the ship, by the pool, and also the Chatterbox, obviously. but NOT at Bobby B's. nope!!!!
Warnings: None at the moment, other than potential being-a-dickness from Skuls
Notes: with the Bobby B's prompt, if your character can see through magic invisibility, let me know :)


[AROUND THE SHIP] if you will believe in your heart
[Skulduggery can be found wandering the ship at any point during the day or night. to the untrained eye, it may look like he's pacing, but you couldn't be more wrong. this is simply idle exercise for an old man who is definitely not churning over a lot of thoughts about what his plans are for the future.

he won't stop to talk unless a familiar friend waves him down, but he's more than willing to Aaron Sorkin this shit if somebody decides to pull a walk-and-talk with him.]


[CHATTERBOX] and confess with your lips
[alternatively, Skulduggery can be found in the Chatterbox after midnight for his own private hour-long karaoke session. it isn't quite the same, now that the karaoke machine isn't inhabited by any ghosts that may or may not have ever existed in the first place, but he seems to be making the most of it.

actually, he's having a little too much fun. anyone who tries to have a conversation with him here may find themselves subjected to a musical response in lieu of a real one, and woe to anyone who tries to take the microphone out of his hand before his hour's up.]


[POOL] surely you will be saved one day
[and finally, Skulduggery can occasionally be found lounging on a deck chair with a book during the afternoons and early evenings. he's even dressed down on these occasions, with his shoes tucked under the chair and his jacket folded neatly over the back. he can't seem to stop humming the same few bars of Time after Time... that song is such an earworm!

if someone is looking to corner him, this is liable to be the best time, because he isn't inclined to start a fight in the middle of the day.]


[BOBBY B'S] don't see what the point is in even trying to fight
[there's no skeleton detective to be seen, which would make this a pretty terrible prompt for a roleplaying game. luckily, there is one thing that seems curiously out of place inside Bobby B's: an unattended ship-branded pad of paper and a pen, resting next to an ashtray with a half-smoked cigar stubbed out in it. written across the top of the page are the words: SKULLDUGGERY PLEASANT. underneath that is a list, written in seemingly several different fonts:

- can remove & replace limbs (head too?)
- senses movement thru air, flies
- latent necromancy?
- always armed (2 guns)
- charming (talks way out of problems)
- irrational & mentally unstable
- easy to anger? (no)
- death by car crash
- death by spike pit??? HOW


and then, at the bottom, hastily scrawled and underlined: how do u kill a skeleton?

huh. that sure is weird. it looks like mutliple people have added to this list with the same left-over pen. maybe somebody else has something to add?? or maybe they're trying to figure out why there's one less bar stool at the bar...]


[closed to Darcy] getting into knives
[the cloaking sphere isn't the only thing that Skulduggery picked up from the sundries shop. alongside two relics that would make extremely fitting gifts for a newlywed couple, he's also been given a deceptively simple item that he thinks is just perfect for Darcy. their birthday was... some time ago, which makes this rather belated, but he figures that there are enough extenuating circumstances to keep him from feeling too guilty about that.

he texts Darcy to meet up at Sand Dollars for a surprise (conveniently on his way to Bobby B's for a spot of enemy-watching), and even though he doesn't need to, he invites them to bring any of their million+ swords along. might as well ensure the gift works the way he suspects it will!]


[wildcard] look for the bigger picture when I close my eyes real tight

(Throw something up at random, or throw me a line on Discord to plan something!)
saltwaterlungs: (Pretending to be invisible)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-05 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's... no further sound of footsteps. Which is suspicious, because Darcy wears heavy boots. But there is.... very slightly....

The sound of someone holding in a giggle standing right next to the door of Bobby B's. Doing the ol' 'let them run straight past you' manoeuvre.
]
saltwaterlungs: (Gigglefit)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-06 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Someone moving towards him! Someone creeping towards him. Presumably with intent to startle him. As payback for spooking her, naturally. ]
saltwaterlungs: (Indian Ocean)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-08 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aaand she doesn't see it coming.

THUMP.
]

FUCK!
saltwaterlungs: (Um actually)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Darcy takes the opportunity to demonstrate her maturity and personal growth she's been doing over the course of her time aboard the ship by reaching a hand out and tugging a sheet of air at knee-height towards Skulduggery, trying to do the same to him as he did to her. ]
saltwaterlungs: (Pretending to be invisible)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-09 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For a second, the force of the impact and the fact he doesn't move is enough to draw a panic out of her.

Then he says 'ow' and the tension deflates, she reaches to to gently bop him on whatever she can reach.
]

Do you want me to call Life Alert?
saltwaterlungs: (Caspian Sea)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-11 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Some perfunctory attempt at swatting away the ping pong ball that ultimately fails, earning her a thock on the nose. ]

Well now you're definitely not getting it back.
saltwaterlungs: (Scheming)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-12 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably not, but you could probably play some really good pranks on someone with this, if you could get it into their pocket, [ Darcy makes an attempt at working out how to palm a perfect sphere of that size before she gives up and rolls it back to him. ]

Something to think about, anyway.
saltwaterlungs: (Um actually)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Darcy sits upright just enough to plant a hand on her hip and scowl, ] "What? I'm not invisible, idiot, are you blind? There's something wrong with you, not me! I'm a sensible genius!"
saltwaterlungs: (Gigglefit)

[personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-07-22 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ If he asked, Darcy would be all over that like white on rice. ]

Christ- okay- c'mon, maybe we shouldn't make fun of someone in a public space-

[ And she stands, offering a hand to get Skulduggery back up. ]