Joe waited for Syrphrin to finish talking before introducing himself.

"Sorry, pal. Meet Joe Black - that's me. Used to be a first mate, but I can fill any post on the ship, except swabby. I *hate* being swabby. I don't know who the cutie over there is, though she'd better be able to pull her weight... Just looking good isn't going to help much..."

"Do you know old Lucky John over there? I saw you two talking earlier."

Aras looked at the captain evily, having had his shuriken banned from use on the ship.

Did he saw using at all, or using on people...?

Inside Aras' head...

The Aras head watched the pirate and angel. The pirate started first. "Yeah me matey, he said on PEOPLE, not using at all! Go cut some things apart!"

The angel looked at the pirate evily, then smiled at Aras. "Now Aras, you don't want to destroy things, do you?" She did a sad puppy dog face.

The pirate shot a pistol at the angels feet, scaring her. "Haha! Sure he does. And capt'n said nothin' bout pistols! Shot everyone!" The pirate started grabbing all of his pistols and firing them in random places.

The angel, now getting desperate since the pirate was right for once (About the pistols), went for some guilt. "Now Aras, didn't you mother say violence was never the answer?"

"But she also said to protect yourself from animals! These ship going bastards are all animals, and you must attack first to survive!" The pirate drew a cutlass and charged the angel, swinging at her.

As the two little figures fought, the Aras head sighed and disappeared.

I'll just do a little of each...

Real world...

Aras looked around, trying to decide what to do next. His two new friends had left him, and now he was bored.

"Uh... we knew each other... it's a long story..."

Raj was standing behind him and said, "I don't know about your comment about her looking isn't going to do any good. Right circumstances, she could be a nice distraction." They turned to him.

He was upside down from a rope. "Whoops, didn't mean to 'drop' in. Buh dum psssh."

He pulled himself up, grabbed a pole and vaulted away.

Chasing that guy might be fun.

Aras jumped up onto the rope Raj had been on, then grabbed the pulled he had grabbed and vaulted away to where Raj went.

OOC: His shuriken can be attached to his belt, so that explains how he can keep it and do this stuff.

(OOC: I'm assuming that Dante was talking about Syphrin)

Syphrin's eyes darkened, "I can pull my weight just as well as the next man here." She resented ever being called useless, and Joe just might as well have called her useless, as far as Syphrin was concerned.

Joe shrugged and let the two lunatics behind him play among the rigging. It *was* the year of the monkey now, by some strange calendar he had picked up from somewhere. He turned to Syrphrin, sighed and bowed.

"No offense of course, miss, I'm sure you can do anything you set your mind to. Just that I've taken on a few female sailors in the past, and they were vain beyond words. I don't think you'll be like that. Forgive me."

"As for you, milady, I'm sure you'll be of some use," he said, then lowered his voice. "But its little use putting on heirs of not coming from money. There won't be a man aboard who doesn't know it in two weeks time." He adressed Joe again. "I should be speaking to John soon. And knowing him, he'll probably tell it. In great detail. And exagerated to boot. Add a couple of blatant lies, and he'll have the next naval legend fabricated for our listening pleasure."

Syphrin's heart sank, he knew! She swallowed, trying to stay 'in character', "Well, Captain. I hope you will not regret me becoming one of your crew." She said, as if what he had whispered to her hadn't fazed her, "I am no stranger to hardship, Sir, and I promise no trouble will come to you from having me on board." She nodded her head, "And feel free if you would like to speak to me more about such things..." She nodded again, then turned and walked to the railing of the ship. She leaned against it, <Oh man, what am I gonna do. The captain is gonna ruin my perfect cover...>

(OOC: it's kinda fun having my character have the 'acting' sort of mindset.)

"Tell you what, captain, I'll take care of her. Make sure she does her share. If it's all right with her, of course."

He flashed her a grin.

From above, the crew could hear someone yelling. Aras was free falling from the top of the ship, aiming over the side of the ship.

Syphrin was about to respond to Joe when she heard a yelling from above, "What the hell...?" she looked up to see Aras freefalling. You could say she was a little more than surprised.

Yosuke looked around at the crew <hmm I wonder if this situation could become any more interesting. I'm quite sure that woman addressing the captain is lying about her character. She seems to be hiding something. Lets just see how thins play out over the coming weeks>. He turned to the Captain "so what happens now, Captain?"

Joe smacked his head and sighed.

"Idiot."

Kia came up next to Syphrin and leaned on the railing next to her. She talked to her quietly. "Your act may work on some of the crew here, but not on me. I'm a woman too remember? I can tell that you come from money. Lemme guess...ran away from parents because of..." she looked her up and down, "ah! Arranged marriage! You have that defiant, I'm not marrying any snobby man look. No one's going to hurt you here," she glanced up at the plummeting Aras, "although I'm not too sure about that one. As long as you can prove that you can pull your weight, you'll be fine. Oh," Kia began to walk away, "we'll probably be bunking together so if you snore, you're in for a pillow being stuffed in your mouth." Jade gave a half wave over her back and walked away towards Yosuke. "So, how long has it been since you were back home? Too long for me. Blasted clients keep me away most of the year."

OOC: My you all post fast

Yosuke thought for a moment "well its been about four weeks now. Being a Samurai I'm not normally allowed to leave the Barracks but my family requested that I be allowed to see more of the world. I don't understand why personally. I was perfectly happy where I was but" he laughs a bit "orders are orders!"

OOC: Indeed they do. That's why my guy is off on his own...

Corgan had found the kitchen, and a promising keg of beer that he was sampling. He had cleaned out a mug he found, and sipped a second mug of the tasty beer down. <Boy, and I thought my last crew was full of characters. This will be an interesting voyage...> Corgan thought to himself, reflecting on the strange new crew he would be traveling with.

Krim, who had thus far been simply taking in all the crew completely unnoticed, decided that he should probably introduce himself to the captain.

He wandered over and stuck out his hand. " 'Lo Captain. My name's Krim. 's nice to meet ya."

Aras came flying down, right next to where Syphrin was leaning against the rail. If anyone looked over the edge to see what happened to the idiot who jumped, they would see his survived.

Half way down the ship, Aras threw his shuriken at the ship's hull. The shuriken dug in deep, and the chain prevented Aras from hitting the water. Using the chain as a swing, Aras got ready to hit the hull. When he did, he hit it feet first, then fully went against it. Using the recoil, Aras pushed back, sending himself up. The shuriken was still stuck, and Aras arced upwards. One he was sailing towards the ship again, Aras gave a sharp tug on the chain, loosening the shuriken, making it fall out. Aras landed on the deck, caught his shuriken, then turned to the nearest person. "Haven't done that in such a long time. Want to try?"

Yosuke watched Aras performing his landing and gave a round of applause "you seem very skilled with that weapon of yours though how you would wield it in combat is beyond me"

Joe put a hand on Syrphrin's shoulder and guided her away.

"Come on now, you know what they say, stupidity's contagious..."

OOC: Not to be a nag or annoying or anything, but do you think we could slow down the posting for a bit? I'm trying to draw a picture and every few minutes I have to check the site to make sure nothing happened. It's only been like a day and there's like 100 posts already.

Syphrin was relieved that Kia at least seemed to understand, and give her a chance, but at the same time, she was unhappy as people being able to see through her act.

Just then Aras did his stunt and jumped back up on board, <You. Are insane.> She told him mentally. Just then, Joe came up, "It's alright. I'm used to weird people. And I'm sure this isn't the last of his stunts that we're going to see."

(OOC: yeah. I'm all for posting slower ^^ I can hardly get a post up before it's nullified by somebody else's post. (and I'm going to bed, if this keeps up like this... I'll have a LOT of reading to do tomorrow... ^^;; )

OOC: It happens to everyone... When I have work, the posts just zip through.. especially since I'm in a different timezone... Your night is my 8 AM, which isn't bad, except for the fact that I can't touch the comp until about 2 AM your time.

BIC:

"Probably."

Joe stretched, and turned her around to face him.

"I believe our captain knows what he's talking about, and No, you don't look like a typical runaway. Care to tell me the story? I'll understand if you don't want to, but I just think that we shouldn't keep stuff from each other. Might not be very good..."

What did mom say to do to bad men again?

Having a quick flashback, Aras remembered himself when he was eleven, just before he went to work as a janitor at a shop in Hietga. His mother gave him a lecture, but the only part Aras needed to remember is what he was thinking of. "Now, if any boys are mean to you, knee them in the balls. Hard."

Aras motioned towards you. "You, mean guy, come here."

Edit: OOC: As long as you don't lie about it, Aras won't realize your acting (Or try and act to much and be dishonest)'

Edit again: OOC: And Aras isn't stupid, just easily distracted. He's like Fighter. You know fighter isn't stupid, just naive. (But if someone is stabbing him, he won't think of them as a friend)

OOC: slow it down but keep it steady. Celes if you think your problem seems bad. I live in australia so when you're all going crazy with the postings, im pushing up Zs

OOC: I know what you mean... I stay in Singapore, which is about 2 hours behind Australia IIRC... While they're spamming, you're sleeping... The only reason I can keep up is because I wake up at 4:30 every morning...

OOC: Luckily, the time I miss, at most only has much posting from Raiden, Jad, and Dante...

OOC: where as i appear to have classes at exactly the time you guys all spend posting. >.<

(OOC: :eek: :eek: I go to work, and there's 11 frickin' pages!)

John Crow was sitting on the opposite side of the boat from everyone else, and was completely oblivious to what they were doing.

"Damn it all. To be on the same ship as that double-crossin', lilly-livered, dog-loving, bastard of a first mate."

OOC:hmm ah we should really start a new thread for this. Like as soon as possible

OOC: Okay everyone, this is going to be fun. I'm going to start a new Chapter: Smoke and Embers, which will begin with the final conference, and continue with our preparations and journey to the Cannal. You guys are great. This failed as a novel because my character's weren't good enough, with the exception of one or two. With this cast, its sure to be a success. :-D