piratejournal | [Private to crew of the Charming Murderess] [Audio + Possible action]

Okay, so here's the thing.

As that Hornblower guy pointed out, every month people arrive at the same time. No reason to think it's gonna be any different now.

Everyone always appears at the same place.

Right now? Anyone who comes in is going to be wading face first into a firing squad.

I don't like it.

If I see something I don't like, I wreck it.

So, I'm going to do something about it.

If enough of you DON'T want to, I'll find some other way of getting on that island and getting people off that's not going to put this ship in the crossfire. If you all DO want to kick around some of these assholes though, then we need to figure out how we do it without getting sunk ourselves.

I might be Captain, but I'm new to this ship. I'm not expecting you to stick your necks out for me, or anyone else, yet.

But we've got a long road ahead, and we won't get very far on it if we spend all of it hiding. Plus, if any potential help we could get gets constantly stuck on an island crawling with those bastards, that's going to put us in a bind eventually anyway.

Whether you want to be or not, we're labeled as pirates. I say we give 'em reason to worry about that label.

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Not missing, just' otherwise engaged.

Sounds like it!

You wanna hash out introductions or just wait until we've kicked some heads in?

[Gibss at least is an honest man among pirates and English born, so he at least feels it's only proper to do introductions before any fighting takes place.] Joshamee Gibbs, first mate of the Charming Murderess.

Good to meet ya, then. More or less, anyway.

The name's Captain Marvelous.

S'good to know we have a captain aboard once more.

Well, I'm certainly gonna do what I can, anyway.

Good luck to ya, I'll raise one in your honor. [And that's what he does, taking a swig for the new captain.]

Heh, appreciated!

Though I've figured out over time you sorta make your own luck.

That be a thing Jack would say. Are you like him then?

Heh, couldn't say really, could I?

But I do know that I've never gotten anything by being lucky.

Being good at what I do, having a good crew, trusting them - that's what's gotten me places.

[The comment about a good crew gets a snort out of Gibbs. He has worked with the dregs of Tortuga, but they at least knew their way around a ship. This crew.. well it need an awful lot of work to be worth even a tenth of the salt in their veins.]

I'll follow you as I have naught else to do but that. That is if you are in need of me still.

[Marvelous has weird and probably quite different ways of deeming people fit. So long as SOMEONE knows what they're doing with the ship itself, he figures it's fine.]

Heh, you know more about this sort of ship and sailing, right? I need someone like that, without a doubt.

Oh aye, I've many a year before the mast and have proven my weight in salt as both a navy man and a pirate.

Good, then!

You can bet I'll be relying on you on that end. My ship was ... a lot different.

And with as many kids as we've got on board here, we need someone who knows their way around here, too.

Different how? [Gibbs has heard of ships being different to sailing ships, but he cannot, for the life of him fathom how they look or function.]

It actually looks a lot like the ones around here. At least on the outside.

Except it can fly and go into space.

Oh. And turn into a giant robot.

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[There is a period of long, silence. Gibbs isn't sure what to think.

Finally, he is forced to ask a question.]

What be a robot?

... I guess I keep forgetting.

Think a giant... mechanical... suit of armor?

Only it's as big as a, um.

Mountain.

[That all sounds pretty far fetched, but then who was Gibbs to complain? He'd seen dead men walk, a kraken and a goddess released from her bonds. A giant robot was just one more fantastical thing to add to the list... provided he ever saw it.]

Perhaps you'll have to draw me a picture of it. In miniature o' course.

I'm not that really good at... um.

Hm.

[He's not a good artist, Gibbs. He draws into the journal the most sketchy and probably questionable rendition of Gokai-Oh one likely could. It's terrible, but .. maybe it gets the point across...?]

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[To Gibbs it looks like a suit of armor. So how that can be a ship and a robot is beyond him. The thing would have to be massive... bigger than even the kraken. Give him a minute to study it.]

I... see.

[He won't mention the lack of drawing skills to anyone else... and he will politely offering to draw any maps of any place they come across in the future.]

This can go into the air?

Well, not like that.

It usually needs a dragon to do that in this form.

[The man must surely be having him on now. A dragon? Not that Gibbs didn't believe in Dragons... It was just.. well... this robot thing seemed far fetched.]

A dragon? Where do you get yourself one of those?

Wizards.

[He says it with complete and utter sincerity.]

And keys that have their powers inside them.

[That too.]

...

[Gibbs is quiet a moment as he cocks his head to one side and thinks about it. Given all that he has seen and experienced, wizards might not be too far from it.

Come to think of it, Dragons and magic keys is not nearly so far fetched as this robot thing.

Glancing down at his journal page, he thumbs over the scribbling of the robot, deciding at long last to believe him.]

So these... robots... does everyone have such things where you are from?

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