[voice entry, backdated to the 17th]

[crankyshark]

 [As always, Thash's entry is in voice rather than writing... He's not so good at writing. However one might question why when they hear how weak and tired yet obviously pissed off his voice sounds]

Anyone out there meet the Corpse King.... Do me a favor and freaking kill him. Painfully. I've lost enough dang friends recently.... [first Dave and Gene vanish, and now this? It was too much] and that piece of crap had to go adding to the number. Seriously, make him wish he was dead and kill him.

[okay, that was enough of that. He didn't have the energy to go on an energetic rant... He'd just woken up from a few hours of deep exhaustion-induced sleep thanks to being poisoned. A sleep that probably would have been rather more permanent if not for the efforts of a certain crew member]

[What he said next was private to Grell]

Hey, Captain....you might've found this out already but in case you haven't.... [a miserable sigh] Katarina is dead. The Corpse King killed her.

Comments

[voice]

[buttwarmed]

You gonna be alright?

[crankyshark]

Yeah, I think so...

[he still felt like complete crap and couldn't keep that out of his voice. But at least he didn't feel like he was dying anymore]

....thanks for asking. That's nice of you.

[seriosuly. He could get used to having people that cared. That was pretty cool]

[buttwarmed]

No problem. You feeling up to visitors? I'll bring you a dinosaur skull.

[crankyshark]

[he doesn't reply for a while...maybe he fell asleep because he was doing that badly. But he sees the entry a couple days later]

[hes not sure what he'd do with it, but he sorta likes skulls]

Yeah, guess I'm feeling well enough for visitors now. I don't think our nav's been used in a long time either so you should be able to come and go whenever

[action]

[buttwarmed]

[He knocks on his door that day. He's holding a Troodon skull, with a string through it to mount on your ceiling as a ghastly ornament.]

[crankyshark]

[Thash was feeling well enough to walk a bit by then, so eh got up and answered the door. When he saw who it was he smiled]

Hey, Yasaburo. It's really nice of you to come by... You wanna come in?

[buttwarmed]

Sure. Here, omiyage. [He hands him the skull-ornament.] In Japan, it's customary to bring your friends a gift when you travel. [He grins. He's only pretending to give a crap about tradition, figuring Thash would bristle at getting a get-well gift.]

[crankyshark]

[He didn't know what omiyage meant or where Japan was, but he mostly got what Yasaburo was saying]

Huh. This is cool... [Yasaburo was right, Thash would have thought he was uncommonly nice if he thought he brought it for the heck of it. He tended to get suspicious of overly nice people... a bad habit carried on from his life in his home world]

What animal is this from? Oh, and sorry um... you want anything to eat or drink? [He remembered someone telling him long ago that you should offer guests food and drink when they visit. He didn't exactly get guests often though so he'd almost forgotten]

[buttwarmed]

A dinosaur! A small one, but definitely the real thing. This kind's the mischevious, egg-thieving type. [Yasaburo is himself a mischevious creature so he can have some sympathy for the dead Troodon. Thus he brought the skull back to be an ornament rather than just get stepped on by an Apatosaurus or something.]

Got anything that's not standard ship far? I think if I eat any more salt pork or mandatory lemons, I'll die.

[crankyshark]

[he'd only heard that term once after finding some strange remains himself so he didn't have much of a concept of then besides that they were big creatures that aren't alive anymore. But hey, that was cool]

Mischievous huh? I like it. [and it seemed fitting since Yasaburo seemed to Thash to be the mischievous type]

I usually keep a good stock of fresh seafood on the ship, but since I've been out of commission for a while, all we've got is standard stuff. However I'm feeling pretty good right now, and in the mood for some fish myself...if ya give me 20 minutes I could probably catch and cook us some kind of fish.

[buttwarmed]

"Only if I get to tag along. I'll transform into something that works under there."

He's fairly bouncing in anticipation. Ever since he met Thash, he's wanted to see him hunt but doesn't want to seem like he's stereotyping.

[crankyshark]

Sure, why not? Just do me a favor try not to startle the fish.

[He took his pants off, leaving him in in just his tight black swimming shorts. He'd then head up to the deck with Yasaburo and walk up to the railing, ready to dive over]

what'll you turn into?

[buttwarmed]

Well. They're both pretty. he observed as Thash disrobed before heading up himself. He had no need to do the same himself. The clothes came with the transformation.

He stood at the railing, not at all ready to dive but willing to try it anyway. "How's thiiiis?" he called in midair, poofing into Coelocanth form. He hit the water with a not at all graceful splash.

[crankyshark]

[Thash didn't seem to notice or care he was being watched, but when they came to the railing and Yasaburo started to change, Thash watched him intently, finding it fascinating. He dove in as well, meeting the tanuki under water]

Whoa... I've been in a lot of bodies of water and seen a ton of aquatic life...and I don't think I've ever seen a fish like that. [interestingly, his voice could be heard very clearly underwater unlike the muffled, unclear speech that would come from a human in such a place] whatever it is, it's pretty cool... So let's see if we can find some fish.

[he turned and started swimming, his motion underwater completely different from how he moved on land. He didn't use his arms or legs much, and his tail seemed to push him through the water almost effortlessly]

[buttwarmed]

He took a few seconds to recover from the virtual belly flop that was.

"I just saw it at the same island." He says, not nearly so distinct but hopefully understandable. "Anyway I figured you'd be less likely to catch me by accident in this form." You know, cause it's ugly.

[crankyshark]

Hm, gotcha....yeah, I'm not likely to catch you in that form hahah. I typically go for smaller fish. [he tried to sound jovial, but it was actually a good thing Yasaburo had chosen a form that would avoid setting off his instincts. He hated to admit it, but he didn't always have perfect control over them]

Let's see what we've got down here....

[if Yasabro had never been in open water in the middle of the ocean, he'd find it rather open and barren compared to water near a shore. At first glance, everything around them seemed a nearly uniform blue with nothing to break up the monotony. But looking around for a while they'd start to see distant, hazy shapes in the water. Fish, or whales, it was hard to tell the size and shape of sealife from a distance. Thash kept swimming ahead though, and soon a blurry shape out in front of them would start to grow and clarify into a school of fish. The closer they got, the more they'd be able to tell the fish were a good size for lunch]

Those look pretty good to you? I should be able to catch a couple.

Voice

[givemelee]

[With all the chaos that had unfolded lately, what with his father throwing most of the crew into a bounty box, and having to rescue them it took him a while to catch this entry]

Gladly. [Was all he said at first, and he meant it. He would be glad to remove a corrupt force such as the corpse king. Although the man had done little to them during the race, he obviously was not a friend either. There was just something about the man that instinctively rubbed him the wrong way]

[crankyshark]

Good. The jerk is a gutless coward who hides behind his crew to kill enemies in sneaky ways and doesn't give a crap when his men get slaughtered by the hundreds to protect him... maybe that's why they call him the Corpse King.

[Since his reply came a while after the initial entry, Thash was feeling well enough to chat a bit] How've you been by the way?

[givemelee]

[Sneaky ways? Well- Ratonhnhaké:ton's methods tended to rely on stealth too.. but he wouldn't interject that. He also had no qualms facing opponents face to face either and would stand up for his crew.] It very well could be. Who knows how many crews he has been through in his duration as captain. You would think with a notoriety building like that that there would be few that would sail under his colors.

[It was a relief to know that his friend on a distant ship was in slightly better spirits than when he first sent this] I am not even sure where to begin. [A sigh] We have run into a few... difficulties ourselves.

[crankyshark]

Yeah, you'd think...

[though the man on the other side of the journal would to be able to see it, Thash frowned in concern as he mentioned difficulties]

Really....we've been 'sailing some rough seas' ourselves lately so it's been hard to keep up with current events. What's happened?