4th Wave [voice/action; Backdated to their stay at Humildad (Friday)]

[feetarestrange]

Spades? You guys are still here, right? [Nami sure hopes so.] I don't really know how else to say this.

Something happened and now I can't use my powers to move around.

[You know, like she does.]

Can someone come find me and take me back to the ship? I feel fine, but it's a long way and I...

[Have no legs.]

I need some help.

[That too.]

Comments

[Voice]

[wheremygillsat]

Damn I hate this shitty island.

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

Namur...?

[It *sounds* like him. Kind of]

That's you, right?

[Voice]

[wheremygillsat]

Yeah, 's me.

Well.

Mostly. I mean. Still me on the inside.

[Lord of the Sea she is going to be SO unimpressed by him now. T.T]

Uhh. Where y' at? Someone hurt y'? I'll beat the shit outta 'em.

[Somehow.]

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

I'm not hurt or anything. I just can't use my magic to move on dry land.

...

What was that part about "mostly" and still being you on the inside?

[Voice]

[wheremygillsat]

Well. For right now, uh. Let's jus' say I kiiiiiinda mostly look a hell of a lot like a human.

So, y' gonna tell me where y' are? Can't track for shit like this.

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

[UM.

A pause. She kind of needs a moment for this.]

Y-Yeah, just go along [directions here or something.] I should be pretty to spot.

[Action]

[wheremygillsat]

[He makes it there in decent time. This walking without falling over thing is getting easier, especially when he reminds himself to compensate for not having a dorsal fin.

Nami is, indeed, fairly easy to spot. In spite of appearing human himself, Namur still finds their range of shades of brown to be pretty boring on the whole, and Nami's sparkling yellow and green stands out in stunning contrast. He runs his hand over the back of his head, hoping he'll be recognizable enough, and heads over.]

Hey! So, what's up?

[feetarestrange]

[Nami stares for a moment. She was aware that she should've been expecting a human Namur to show up. But, uh... Well, he wasn't exactly lying, it was just going to take a bit of getting used to. The voice was recognizable enough, so she knew that it was really Namur.]]

Nothing good, but you can probably tell that.

[Her tail's stretched out in front of her and she lifts up her caudal fin a few inches off the ground before letting it rest on the floor.]

I don't like this, Namur.

[She doesn't sound like her usual confident self.]

[wheremygillsat]

Yeah I ain't a hugeass fan a this shit m'self. Next time we're at Empieza I'mma talk t' Miss M an' get ahold a some bubbly coral t' have on hand. Then even if some island screws with y', y'll at least have that t' fall back on.

[He holds out his brownish-pink-definitely-not-webbed hand. He can't help but stare at it a little before blinking himself back to the more immediate concern.]

Can y' stand on it yet? Yer fin, I mean. Or d' yer people's fins not get strong 'nuff t' hold y'?

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

Are you stuck as a human too?

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

Huh? I still look the same. I just can't float like I'm used to.

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

Strange...

Is Namur coming? I can help you, but I'm not able to fly right now.

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

He said he's coming but... he's supposed to be human now?

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

Aye. You lost your ability to float, I lost my ability to fly, and he lost his whole... fishman thing, physically anyway. So weird.

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

Everybody's losing something about themselves? [Just what she needed in her day.]

What about Ace?

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

I don't know yet. It seems to be things we like most about ourselves, but I don't think that's fire for Ace. I haven't been able to find him though and he hasn't gotten back to the ship so maybe it's his sense of direction or ability to find us all.

[Voice]

[feetarestrange]

You're saying that he likes us the most...?

[What a softie.]

Audio;

[hiken]

Ah? Nami, what's up?

[Nami always sounded cool and composed, so he didn't figure anything was terribly wrong. He didn't know if it was that big a deal for her, but most mermaids tended to adapt to not being able to move on land pretty quickly from what he remembered.]

You can't float anymore?

Audio;

[feetarestrange]

[It's less a matter of adaptation and more that she doesn't feel nearly as self-sufficient. Not being able to move as freely is a pretty big hindrance.]

Yeah. I was doing some looking around and next thing I know... I fell and couldn't get back up.

Audio;

[hiken]

...Can you use any of your other magic?

[Ace was pretty sure at this point that he was going to blow up the island the moment Nami said that.]

Audio;

[feetarestrange]

I can use the rest of my magic, yeah. Why are you asking?

Audio;

[hiken]

Just in case there's trouble, somebody's gotta be able to tend to others.

If you can still use your water magic and healing, then that'll be a lot better than not.

Audio;

[feetarestrange]

I still need to be able to actually make it to the injured before I can heal them. Crawling my way over isn't going to do much.

[The fact that he's talking about this, though.]

Is there going to be trouble, Ace?

Audio;

[hiken]

...I'm angry.

[It was a fitting answer, he thought.]

Taking away my crew-mate's strength is enough to make me angry.

Audio;

[feetarestrange]

I'll be okay. Sitting on the ground isn't all that comfortable, but the weather's not dry enough to bother me.

I'm definitely going to have to rinse my tail when I'm back at the ship.