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[tibias]

[ in the background, there's the sounds of nature. rustling leaves, rushing water, chirping birds... and then there's a quiet chuckle from the owner of the journal. ]

This is quite the place. I've seen a lot in my time, but nothing like this. And that guide is handy! [ there's another small laugh ] Very thorough in its explaining this place. My thanks to its maintainer.

[ shanks pauses and there's the sounds of splashing. he's kicking his feet in the river. ]

If this place gets new arrivals in cycles, I imagine you get a number of these "I'm new here," journal entries. Aaah, well, that won't do. Let's spice things up and give you something more interesting than that!

Stop me if you've heard this one before... A Marine officer falls overboard during a battle with some pirates. He's a Devil Fruit user, so he can't swim and has to be rescued by a deckhand. When he's back aboard his ship, he thanks the deckhand and asks how he can best repay his underling for saving his life. The deckhand looks sheepish as he replies. "I think the best reward would be keeping it a secret, sir," he says, "If the other fellows knew I pulled you out, they might push me in!" Dahahahaha!

Comments

[voice]

[tibias]

I changed my mind, you can thank me whenever you want.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Wow. Really? That easy, eh?

I should have known.

[It's deadpan, but you can pretend there's emotion in there. Maybe.]

[voice]

[tibias]

You really should have. Shame on you for not knowing.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

[Right back into annoyed.]

Is my idiot brother over with you already?

[voice]

[tibias]

He is. Would you like to say hi?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Nah, just tell him we're not keeping you.

[voice]

[hiken_ace]

[Pops his head in.] Yeah, we are!

[Pops back out.]

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

No, we're not. Don't make me come over there.

[voice]

[hiken_ace]

Killjoy.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Aye. He needs some space so I don't get fed up and try to kill him.

[100% deadpan... as always.]

[voice]

[hiken_ace]

You just don't want me to have any fun.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Aye, that's obviously my goal in life.

[voice]

[hiken_ace]

I knew it.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Try to be home at a reasonable hour. I might go out tonight or tomorrow so he can have the couch, but only for one night.

[voice]

[hiken_ace]

I will be, don't worry. Can't he stay longer?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

No.

You don't remember because you were living with Luffy last time, but it's a pain in the ass.

[.... It's really not, Marco is just a tsundere asshole about Shanks. =\]

[voice]

[tibias]

I wouldn't let him keep me permanently, don't worry.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Indeed. You'd be like a baby bird. Your mother crew might not take you back.

[voice]

[tibias]

Technically speaking, my mother crew's been disbanded for more than twenty years. So I think I'd be alright.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

You never know. Red-Nose Buggy seems to find you as annoying as I do already, and Silvers... actually he probably wouldn't give a damn if we kidnapped you, but that's not the point. Keep your red cooties to yourself, eh.

[Yes. Marco did just say Shanks has cooties. ... Yeah.]

[voice]

[tibias]

My cooties? Marco, don't tell me you never got your cootie shot when you were a kid.

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

Vaccinations have a way of not working on me.

[voice]

[tibias]

But diseases do?

[voice]

[fierybluebird]

I always thought cooties were more like parasites. Like fleas.

[voice]

[tibias]

Are you implying that I have fleas?