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[Written] And now for something completely different from the last time

Marco here.

Sorry for my state in the last post, and thank you very much to those sweet enough to humor me, you're too kind.

Bepo, and Vyse, I have duplicates of my maps for you, assuming you both still want them.

For everyone else, I've made about twenty copies of various maps and directions to the Corsair Naval Masquerade Ball. Likewise, in the interest of furthering piracy rebelling against lawful order, I will teach the basics of ranks to anyone with enough brains to actually hold the knowledge. Remember, if you want to go, wear formal costume, and pretend to be part of the navy. Anyone in the Spades wishing to help infiltrate must be able to perform a correct salute and demonstrate ability to discern when it's appropriate. Those who cannot may help infiltrate as waiters.

Thank you.
- Marco

Edited Addendum: Dance lessons for Spades unfamiliar with waltz, samba, and tango will be held every night this week. Namur's breakdance competition comes with a reward, but this style of dance is not acceptable for naval officers, sorry Nam-chan.

[Locked to Nico Robin]

I am embarrassed to say I have about three favors to ask of you.

[Locked to Grell Sutcliff]

Hello Kitten. How do you feel about getting a little vengeance, eh?

[Locked to Sebastian]

My phoenix brother and I are in the mood to spread our wings. Think you can get a babysitter that night to come have fun?

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You make a very compelling argument there, sir. Cannot say that I disagree. [ Actually, the more he thinks about it, the more it is just largely disturbing. It's not like anyone asked to get sucked into Pirate-o-Rama. ] And don't get me wrong, normally I'm pretty okay with laws and order and stuff. Try to be a... justice-upholder. I guess.

[ But he's starting to think there's a point where doing the right thing isn't automatically what people up top are really... thinking about? Like there's Varrick, who did a lot of great things for him and Korra and Asami to help them out, but he was also kind of just thinking about himself. But he's still pretty great, but he's still pretty wrong. And the Navy's kind of only doing their job, but it apparently involves killing people who don't wanna be here anyway and then throwing big parties to celebrate it? Talk about a lack of manners.

This stuff is so overcomplicated. What happened to just being good or bad? ]

[EW JUSTICE COOTIES GET BACK.]

It's your call, eh. That's the thing about being a pirate, you don't have to do anything you don't want to.

And if you just want to come have fun, that's fine too. Maybe you'll learn something.

[ NEVER, HE IS A HERO OF THE SOUTH. ]

Maybe. I'm not too shabby at a fancy party! The secret is to look happy and tell everybody you like their outfit.

Can you dance?

Nnnope. You know, it got down to photographers and fancy outfits and shaking hands and stuff, and I usually just ended up hanging around near the food. I mean, any kind of free food? It doesn't get better than that. [ Bolin's real challenge of the evening will be trying to get out of the place with an intact plate of food, obviously. Or maybe some pockets full... you can take the kid off the streets, but you can't take a natural love of freebies out of the kid. ] But I'm willing to learn some dancing for a special occasion.

Edited (apparently u can take the extra 'f' out of off though wow ) 2014-04-22 01:27 (UTC)

All right, I'll see if you have enough skill to pass in time, otherwise we'll find something else for you to do, like waiting. It'll put you near the food at least.

If you can learn though, Thatch and Ace can show you everything, they're pros.

Sounds good to me, sir! [ SOUNDS GREAT, EVEN, HE'S ON IT. ] Oh-- hey, and is there some kind of animal companion protocol here? I've got Pabu, but if he's gonna get in trouble for being around...

No, animals are completely allowed, just make sure Ace doesn't try to eat him.

And Ace's little brother whenever he's over. I think they're starting to remember that not everyone grew up in the Jungle Book like them, but they're kind of slow sometimes.

The Jungle Book...? [ Ah, whatevs. He doesn't read much anyway. It's down to the principle of unethical animal companion consumption. ] Well, if someone wants to eat Pabu, they'll have to eat me first just to get to him. And I'm probably very gamey!

[ Or he would throw rocks and run away. Either way, really. ]

It's a book about a boy, raised by wolves, who fights tigers and boa constrictors. Ace and his little brother are practically carnivores and the more wild the meat, the happier they are.

In any event, just tell him no, and he's usually pretty good about it. He's not always an idiot, he's just a D, so it comes out sometimes. Plus, Pabu is pretty small if I remember right, so he'd be less likely to bother. If you had a bear, it'd be another story. He still keeps traumatizing Bepo, poor thing.

Ohhh. Well, I'm a city kid at heart, but I can totally see where you're coming from there. [ It sounds horrifying. ] And I'll keep it in mind. I mean, I met Pabu when I saved him from being eaten anyway, so I kind of know what I'm doing! Lucky for me, I needed a buddy more mobile than a... uh, a bear.

[ But wow, is this Bepo like.... just a bear.... he saw one or two of those on Serenes but it's still kind of weird. ]

Then you'll be fine. Just make sure you remind him and collect enough of the right kind of food when you need it. Chef Zeff is pretty good about his stores, but he doesn't allow sneaking food, so just make sure you're clear in advance.

Oh, my food-sneaking days are well past me, sir. [ Stealing from criminals, no matter how technical, is usually a big no-no anyway. Stealing from one who lives on the same ships and feeds everyone is a shade too rude on top of that kind of nonsense. ] If I need to have something ahead of time, I'll just ask him! The worst he can do is say no, right?

[ He'll have a better picture in the future, once he's actually conversed with Zeff, of course. ]

Aye, and he probably won't even that.

Maybe not. He's got the moustache of a very kindly man.

Aye, just like my Pops.

Of course once Pops became famous for his, everyone wanted one. And Roger was so damn proud of his he put the curly monstrosity on his flag. Copycat. [Don't listen Bolin, Marco is just being Marco.]

Your dad got famous for his moustache? [ It's too late, he's listening and he's freaking amazed. Mako probably feels a sense of brotherly despair descending upon him from the other side of the ship right now, for reasons he doesn't yet understand. ] That is so cool!

Aye. You ever see the tattoo on the Captain's back? Same as my Pops' tattoo and our flag back home. The mustache is even part of the flag.

I always knew facial hair had an important place in life. You guys come from one heck of a quality world, you know that? [ Even though he literally only knows that there are mustache flag pirates and it's where Ace and Marco come from. ]

Aye. It's a shame you can't see it. It's not too much different from here though.

If it's a lot like this, I'd need a village of earthbenders for a crew or something. We could just float an island around! Boom. Fighting problems, all fixed up. [ Things to eventually propose to Mako, item #1. ] But it still sounds like it can be pretty great. We don't get a lot of regular ol' adventuring under our belts back home. There's some traveling around, but it's usually because there's something super important we have to get to in time, so it takes away from the mystery, you know?

You could have an entire village of earthbenders?

Ah, but in my world, there isn't a lot of land in general. I'm not sure how hard that might be to do. I know Shiki mentioned trying something like that, but that was fuck... over a decade ago? And we haven't heard from him since. [Only because Marco was extremely busy during Shiki's grand return.] You'd also have to make sure the World Government didn't catch you, or they'd put you to work as slaves doing weird shit. [LONG AWKWARD PAUSE; in which Marco realizes (~~or possibly remembers? Thanks Oda for making a character that knows way more than has been revealed in canon fuck~~) that actually might be how the Red Line got formed. WELP. He doesn't want to think too much about it.]

So your world is all mapped then?

Uh... yeah? To both questions. I mean, I can't really say if there are actual villages full of only earthbenders, but the Earth Kingdom's pretty huge, so there are enough of us out there to fill a town out without a lot of trouble. And the world's definitely mapped out! The Spirit World isn't so much, but...

[ ....... W E L P ]

Well, either way, it'd be nice to pass on the slavery. So. I guess I don't really know how moving a whole island all the time might work out, anyway. Especially not on another world.

[Fascinating. Marco kind of wants to go there now.]

What's the spirit world?

The world where all the spirits live. Oh, wait, used to live. They sort of still do live there, but we've got an open doors both ways thing going on now. I haven't seen much of it, but what I did see was pretty creepy. [ That was probably because of the spirit of darkness and stuff though. ]

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