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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!)
sabigoe: (⚙ 18)

[personal profile] sabigoe 2023-08-19 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ A deep breath. ] ...I'll try to talk to her soon. [ Maybe she should bring some kind of gift. She does have a plush puppet of Jenny and Friday that came from the sundries shop a while back. Her collection of toys is already huge, so she can let go of a few. ]

Mister Captain, Sparkles, and... Miss Friday. They remind me of Mister Monster. [ Maybe closer to the Captain and Sparkles. The dream-eating monster had a smooth face though, like Friday. ] In some ways. Like...

[ A pause, as if she's trying to figure out the words to say. The observation's crossed her mind not long ago and it's become something she's started to think about more. Only now, she's voicing the comparison out loud. Levania had a similar awkwardness and uncertainty around others. ]

It seemed like... he found humans confusing. And he was learning how to be around people too. A bit like Sparkles and Mister Captain.
sabigoe: (⚙ 37)

[personal profile] sabigoe 2023-08-22 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thinking how long she's been here as a passenger and the last time she's seen Levania, it's almost discouraging. Almost. She doesn't let the passage of time crush her spirit, no matter how long it is. When she sees Levania again, she'll introduce him to her new father, all of her friends and show him how much she's grown and how much stronger, braver she's become. ]

It's okay. [ She smiles wide. ] One day, we'll see each other again and I'll introduce you to him. I'm sure of it!