piratejournal | 1st report [Voice/Action]

[It's a voice recording, though it takes a few seconds for any sound to come through. There's a sigh and the voice is clearly that of an agitated 20-something male.]

Pirates? This isn't really my style. Someone is going to way too much trouble to pull one over me.

Man, what a nuisance. If you were going to kidnap me, at least have it make sense! Where am I! Aughh! And why the journal? This is entirely too much detail for someone's hollywood fantasies!

At least common pirate tropes still allow for your egregious hats.

[Philip's voice is very abruptly to Shotaro's left, muffled by his knuckle being set upon his lower lip.] And you're asking the wrong questions in the wrong place. The journal is for communication, it's hardly responsible for the kidnapping. As to where we are, it seems the town is named Isla Empieza, which seems to be some sort of play off the Spanish term empezar, meaning to start, open, or begin.

[There's a loud scoff.]

Those ratty, salty excuses for hats don't even come close to comparing to my hard-boiled hats of the trade, Philip. I--PHILIP!

[Oh good, you finally noticed him. He lifts his head away from his hand and splays the hand in something like a wave, grinning.] Yo, Shotaro.

HAAAAAAAAAAAA! What are you doing here!? How did they get us both!?

[The grin quirks at one corner and he chuckles for a moment.] I've already exhausted most resources to figure out what happened, and it seems the lore on the supposed perpetrator leads him to be quite a fearsome person. Though previous to now, and even given the situation, I have my doubts that this "Davy Jones" even really exists.

[There's another scoff.]

It's probably some small time crook taking on a name much bigger than they are. Aaaah, what a pain. I guess we have no choice but to take the case, Partner.

[ooc: Shotaro (

countyoursins) in black and Philip (

keyworddouble) in green! Shotaro has no idea what he's doing with the journal so feel free to laugh at him. They're both by the fountain so its open for action tagging!]

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[Don't worry Shotaro, Marvelous is terrible at poker, in spite of a great poker face. He just rolls with it.]

You'd think! But a hell of a lot of folks coming in here ain't pirates in any sense of the word.

Still, that just means it's up to the rest of us to whip people into shape.

That said, it's a hell of a lot different here than it was back in my world. For one thing, I wasn't stuck on the damned ocean.

[Clearly they should just play old maid.]

Ocean? What else would you be on? Who ever heard of land-pirates?

[Skeptical voice, go.]

Oh, that's an easy one.

I'm a Space Pirate.

[There's a flat-line silence from Shotaro.]

Why not! It wouldn't be the strangest thing I'd ever seen.

[Ah, he kind of loves that reaction.

It never gets old.]

You're in good company, then!

We get a lot of "strange."

[Glad he could entertain you 8| ]

It's not like I was expecting a vacation or anything. Is this place crawling with monsters, too?

Well, I did just fight through an entire fortress full of zombies and a killer horse a few weeks ago. Though the horse wasn't under her own control, she's on another crew--

[He stops and weighs the benefits of going into all that.]

--eh. Long story.

There's some island out there with a bunch of dinosaurs.

So... close to that, yeah. Probably weirder stuff, too. Heard a unch of us got turned into monsters and back again just before I arrived a few months ago.

[Most of that doesn't really sound all that weird to him- okay, now. Killer horse is up there but he doesn't ask. He's taking note of everything he says though. He might not be the human google Philip is, but he's still a detective and he's writing all of this down.]

[One thing catches his attention specifically, though.]

Just us? I mean, people who were kidnapped here?

[That sounds kind of worrisome but it also sounds familiar.]

I don't suppose you've heard the term "Gaia Memory" here, have you?

Yeah. Just us, normally. Locals aren't generally affected, but most of us are also a hell of a lot tougher than them, too.

[He shrugs unseen, and quietly to himself.]

Can't say that rings a bell. Any reason it should?

Just curious. [There's a moment or two of quiet consideration.]

People turning into monsters was a bit of case specialty of mine. It would just be my luck that the cause of this mess would be a Dopant.

People turning into monsters?

[Huh. That's... interesting.]

Never heard of a Dopant, but how the hell'd you deal with something like that?

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