[Have a gruff, slightly tuneless and also heavily inebriated voice serenade you suddenly from the journal.]

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo, ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest,
yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike,
The bosun brained with a marlinspike,
And cookey's throat was marked belike,
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...

[There is more to the song, but it becomes muffled as the journal falls away from Gibb's hand momentarily while he takes up another bottle of rum and begins to swill it down.]

Yo. Name's Captain Strider, and if there's any of you stragglers around who still haven't hooked yourself a crew, talk to me. Going to be setting sail in a few days for my crews first expedition and it never hurts to have a few extra sets of hands on board. Or paws or hooves, whatever you've got. I don't discriminate. Whatever you don't know how to do, I can teach you so long as you want to learn.

( Private to his crew )

( Private to Itachi )

( Private to Grell )

[It's taken the young knight a bit to decide to actually speak up in the strange journal, instead taking some time to sift through it. First off is simply coming to terms with the fact this book is clearly magical, and secondly is trying to glean as much information as she can from it before making herself known. She's in a completely unfamiliar world, acting hastily would be a poor move and she knows it.]

If there's anyone out there listening, my name's Amelia, I'm a knight from the Grado Empire. If anybody recognizes that name, please speak up.

[A short pause, leaving it there would be silly. It's clear to her she needs to find her way onto some kind of a crew, the sooner the better. If nothing else, she has a much better idea of what she's capable of now that she has a war under her belt.]

Either way, it seems like we're all expected to take to the seas, so I'm curious about who's recruiting. Although I've only been on a ship once before, I was in the army back home so I'm used to following orders and working with others. I'm not bad with a sword if it comes down to it either. Although I do wish I had my lance...

If there's anything more you'd like to know, just ask.