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[Over the journals a deep raspy voice quiet sings. Yeah that's not going to sound normal to anyone, whether they know Smoker or not.]

♫The ocean sees the beginning of the world,
And the ocean knows the end of the world.
Thus, it calls us towards the way we must take.
Thus, it leads us towards a just world.
Enveloping pain and suffering,
greatly and kindly wrapping them up.

The ocean sees the beginning of the world,
And the ocean knows the end of the world.
Even if I were to disappear,
The omniscent ocean leads the way.

[That's because it sounds like a dirge. It is a dirge, in fact. Smoker is kind of surprised he's alive now.]

[And not especially thrilled at the circumstances of it. Not that he expected anyone to hear him singing about it. He's sure as hell not waiting for nakama to save him though. That's something pirates do. And if Aokiji rescues him again.... Well... he won't. And that is why Smoker is singing the marine song Kuzan hates. So there. And now he'll try to make a post, but with the way he can't tell how well the gloves are gripping the journal or barrel, who the fuck knows.]

I'm stuck on a barrel. In the middle of nowhere. Now what?

[Now what indeed?] I have no idea where this is, but I wish this barrel had rum instead.

And how has your day been, pirates?

[ooc: Please reserve action for Straw Hats or message me first!]

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Really? It didn't sound naval to you?

[It sings about going home to the OCEAN for crying out loud.]

[And he's 1/2 teasing... as much as Smoker teases, which isn't much, because he's guessing that Ikki meant it was hard to expect Davy Jones to randomly throw him onto the water with nothing but a barrel to cling to because well, who WOULD expect that?]

It sounded related to the sea, of course. But not to a law enforcement organization, though I suppose that if you twist the line about the "just world" it could work.

[A pause.]

So he got you and then sent you off with just a barrel to the middle of nowhere... He sounds nicer than what I imagined.

[Ikki's opinion on gods and creatures with a power similar to them, and Davy Jones fits there, is quite low.]

Hah. [None of your sass damn it.]

Yeah, a fucking saint that guy.

I would have expected him to just give you a trunk to help floating, or even nothing so you had to swim your way.

I can't swim and after dying a couple times already he was getting sick of having me around.

Hoo... Then he could have just made you appear in the stomach of a land monster or on top of a rock in the middle of nowhere. With the barrel you can still row your way around.

No, I can float. If I don't hold on I'll fall off.

Are you really that clumsy that you couldn't row with something without falling off? Though I'm surprised that the barrel can float at all with you inside instead of sinking due the weight or a leak.

I'm not inside it. I'm on the outside.

That explains the falling thing. Still doesn't explain why it's not sinking, are you that light weighted? Because by the sound of your voice I imagine someone tall and muscled, definitively not light.

It's a big barrel, just not big enough.

Our super kind host said he wanted me to learn humility enough to accept help when I needed it because even pirates know this basic law of existence. [Muscle twitches in his cheek.]

Wonder what he will do with me if I ever die and he manages to get a hold of me. I'm not the type to accept help if I don't think I need it, even if the rest of the world is too stupid to agree with me.

[And because he died and didn't go with Davy Jones, probably because of the phoenix thing. He doesn't doubt that there are ways in which his death would end with him under Davy Jones control, but he thinks it would have to be a kind of death that the phoenix would take a long time to heal from probably. Like when Saga made his body explode, or by drowning since that was Davy Jones' realm supposedly.]

You're in a crew aren't you?

So? Weren't you in one too?

I left it.

But you were in one.

Yes, fine, but if you leave your crew it's different.

Jones spent a long time trying to tell me that crews aren't just for the sake of everyone else, it's for my sake too or some shit.

I wasn't going to endanger the kids in my crew with trying to help him or anything so he wanted to find an incentive I guess.

So basically, the crews aren't optional, they are because Jones needs this shit done and he can't or doesn't want to do it himself, and we have no choice in not doing it... And he words it as if it was all our fault or for own benefit.

Can't say I'm surprised.

Yeah, basically.

My guess is he can't.

It's more effort using us as intermediaries so, there's gotta be another reason than laziness or just preference.

My guess is boredom.

Boredom on a being that is technically eternal and all powerful is a dangerous thing. Especially when people are little besides toys for them.

Why do it himself and end everything so quickly when he can use toys and enjoy the show? Time probably doesn't really matter to him.

[He thinks about it.]

[He's not sure.]

[His memories are pretty hazy (THANK FUCK) to begin with, but there's something....]

Maybe.

[A grunt.] I don't know. I think....

[Snorts.] It doesn't really matter.

I guess it doesn't. It's not as if it's going to change or situation or what he have to do. Is it?

Are you going to accept being rescued by some pirate crew then?

Seeing as to do otherwise would involve drowning again, going through a worse lecture with Davy Jones and then being sent right back to the same position and probably forced to accept help from a worse crew?

Yes. Yes I am.

Under protest, but nevertheless, I will... accept it.

[Ikki chuckles at that.]

Make sure to write down your protests and sign it to make it truly official.

Fine.

[Switches to writing as best he can while clinging to the damn barrel.]

I, Smoker, only accept pirate help under protest.

Signed,

Smoker

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