We're wide awake now, our eyes are wide open. We're running this world, we keeping it turning

[opheliac]

Who: EVERYONE ON THIS DANG SHIP!
What: IT'S A PARTTTYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When: last week of april before more shit happens.
Where: rischie
Warnings: PG-13??? alcohol is definitely involved, teens being teens, drunk people or doing bad decisions??? who is to say!!!





Fast Travel Thread Links

★ ENTRANCE.
★ THE DANCE FLOOR.
★ AT THE BAR.
★ GAME AREA.
★ DJ TABLE // PRIVATE WITH JINX
★ LOSER CORNER.
★ THE FOOD TABLE.
★ KARAOKE.
★ OUTSIDE RISCHIE.
★ WILDCARD.

Comments

[light_mischief]

Agreed on that front. I'm not exactly excited to be dealing with this when I know there are much bigger things going on back home. Feels like an unnecessary waste of time.

[Hmmm.] Has anybody tried... asking the captain for more information?

[neverleave]

[Natsuno just. Stares at him flatly.]

People tried knocking on the bridge's door. [Pause.] He never answered.

And the one time he did, a girl lost a hand.

[light_mischief]

[WHAT! It's a reasonable question!!!]

...How did she lose her hand?

[So he doesn't make the same mistake....]

[neverleave]

The captain turned her fire magic against her.

[All emotion disappears from Natsuno's expression. His tone is eerily calm and clinical as he relays the rest.]

Then he let her go. So she would have to choose between surviving a painful injury, and killing herself to get it fixed.

[light_mischief]

And she chose the former.

[Interesting. He's not sure he'd make the same choice.]

Sorry if this topic is uncomfortable. I'm playing catch-up, but I don't mean to press.

[Because obviously, he noticed the change. Considering how generous with information Natsuno's been, Skulduggery's inclined to look to his wellbeing. The last thing he needs to do is accidentally drive away somebody being helpful.]

[neverleave]

[Another shrug, still emotionless.]

If I feel "pressed", I won't answer and go away. [Uncomfortable topic? Maybe. Rita isn't quite a friend, but he respects her intellect and willingness to endure a painful recovery instead of going for the easy fix. He's mostly angry that the captain plays with people like this.] It's pointless to hide information, or people will keep making the same mistakes and we'll never get out of here.

[He isn't entirely forthcoming, though. Natsuno keeps one piece of information to himself - that Jenny Storm gave the captain the souls of her fellow passengers for a chance to win her freedom. It's nothing personal, but he doesn't want to give wrong ideas to someone he just met.]

[light_mischief]

Glad to be on the same page. I'm trying to make sure that any dumb ideas I get are at least original ones. So anything you can tell me, from the storm pirate to the captain to the barrier keeping us trapped here... you'd be doing me a favor. Even the smallest, most insignificant details that you've found weird about the ship.

[Because if Natsuno doesn't care, then Skulduggery certainly doesn't. Why beat around the bush with someone who understands the importance of collaboration? The enemy of my enemy, and so on.]

You never know what's going to turn out to actually be useful information, after all.

[neverleave]

Jenny Storm left ten years ago. Apparently she won a hand of blackjack against the captain and he let her go. [Not mentioned: how she brought him the soul of every other passenger to be even allowed to play, and how she used those souls to power he galleon.] She came back to find her brothers, but...

[A shrug. That didn't work.]

She learned some of the captain's magic here. With blood and sigils. I can show you the symbols, if you want.

[Maybe the weird skeleton man can make some sense of the weird runic bullshit?]

[light_mischief]

Blackjack? That's it?

[The game fades completely from his mind at the words blood and sigils. The skeleton man doesn't have eyes, but the way he straightens his posture might indicate his excitement at the offer.]

I'm not familiar with many sigils, but yes. Yes, I would like to see them, very much. Did she show them to you? Or did you see them while she was using them against the captain?

[So many questions!]

[neverleave]

Skulduggery Pleasant, right? I'll send you the photos.

[Time to whip up the phone!]

This is what the captain sent Rita Mordio the first time she tried to blast the bridge. [Sadly, the captain's version has no convenient title] Apparently this didn't have "intent" in it, so it must've been a threat. [And Natsuno already told him what happened to Rita on second strike.] And this is from Friday's desk drawer.

I saw Jenny drawing other symbols in blood in the jewelry store. Made the glass disappear. She didn't really care people were watching.

[light_mischief]

[BestDayofMyLife.mp3 plays]

Oh, wow. [Because he's used to pretty ornate sigil work from his acquaintances back home, but this one's... different. The outer ring is full of esoteric symbols and... hmmm.]

Certainly looks like magic. A few of the symbols remind me of alchemy, but that's all hokum, so they must be... different, then. I wonder if they're from Earth...

[Oops, getting lost in that detecting sauce. Still!] I appreciate you letting me take a look at them.