1st report [Voice/Action]

[countyoursins]

[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!]

Comments

[countyoursins]

[It takes a second for Shotaro to realize his point was lost on him. Which, doesn't really surprise him. He shakes his head.] Nevermind.

[The rest is far more pressing. He furrows his brow in thought.]

Has that ever happened before?

[keyworddouble]

[For as smart as he is, an awful lot sails right on over Philip's head.]

[He thinks on that for a moment, shaking his head slowly at first and then looking and Shotaro and shaking it more firmly.] Never.

[countyoursins]

[He was afraid of that answer. He looks at Philip a little longer as if hoping it was actually a joke. Yeah, right. Philip wasn't exactly one for jokes. Or not being bluntly fucking honest.]






[He takes two steps back, removes his hat, and takes a deep breath.]

WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?!

[keyworddouble]

[Closes his eyes as Shotaro yells, and gives him a sort of cross-eyed look when he's through.]

Satisfied?

[countyoursins]

[He nods, waving his arm somewhat dismissively. He then stands up straight, huffs, and puts his hat back on.]

Yep.

[He sets his hands on his hips and manages to look completely casual, as if he didn't just scare off a flock of seagulls just now.]

So, sailing. Have you looked into that, yet?

[keyworddouble]

[He shakes his head and grins. Oh, Shotaro.]

Obviously, the first thing to acquire is a ship.

[countyoursins]

[Shotaro decides to check his pants pockets finally. He pulls out some cash. He frowns. What the hell is this?]

It doesn't look like much. I guess we should see what's for sale.

[keyworddouble]

[Philip extracts a collection of dubloons from his pocket.]

The currency in use here appears to be a marginal amount of Doubloons, though with the meager amount of what I've noticed most people having I imagine some form of other currency exchange is likely at hand. Trading, perhaps.

[countyoursins]

Trading, huh? They didn't give us much to work with.

[Really, everything he had on his person was basically off limits for trading.]

[keyworddouble]

Well obviously we will have to figure out what goes for the highest "price" and acquire some of it, then.

[countyoursins]

Oi, Philip. Piracy is illegal, remember?

[He knows where this is going.]

[keyworddouble]

And quite likely the only means of survival here, where most everyone seems to be a pirate.

[countyoursins]

We don't have to steal to survive. We could just as easily set up another office somewhere.

[He's going to be stubborn about this.]

[keyworddouble]

[A grin.] If that's what you want, I will follow you until it proves to not work.