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8 Fathoms Down ☠ [written x 4] + [action]

Mar 26, 2011 14:27

[Jack is home from his seaside adventure and immediately writes out four very quick notes to certain people, not bothering with filters or any of that rubbish:]

( For Tia Dalma )

oh i do like to be beside the seaside, saqueador, pirate, oh we have fun, walking on the mines i've laid, oh no not again, rattle my bones, a bit of piracy at last

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[ written || filtered ] wise_maiden March 27 2011, 01:07:51 UTC

A pet?

I have to say that's unexpected, though I suppose you do pride yourself on not being very expected.

[ written || filtered ] lists_to_port March 27 2011, 01:18:21 UTC

Dear Raine,

This pet is just the first step on your road to loving water once more.

...

He needs to live in a tank or barrel or other container of water, and he also needs to be coddled a bit.

Yours,

Jack

[ written || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 02:11:25 UTC

Jack,

Just how large of a container are you talking about?

Perplexedly yours,

Raine

[ written || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 02:23:49 UTC

Nothing that wouldn't sit quite comfortably on the top of your desk, Mistress.

He's not a very big thing at all.

[ written || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 02:54:05 UTC

Just what is he?

[ written || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 03:10:03 UTC

Octopus?

[ written || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 03:40:06 UTC

For a pet?!

[ written || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 11:50:13 UTC

A very loving, huggy pet, yes! You needed a hug from the sea, darling.

[ written || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 12:01:10 UTC

A... hug from the ocean.

Wouldn't he need ocean like water to live in? How are you bringing him?

[ VOICE || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 12:32:45 UTC

He can live in that lovely magical urn what you used as a chunderbucket that night at Good Spirits. Ooooor I could bring a tank thing. He's not picky, darling. Reminds me of an octopus I ate once in Italy, so I've named him Fabio.

[ VOICE || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 12:45:26 UTC

No! [Not the urn. Scrubbing that out had been a very tearful experience once sobriety set in.]

... I mean. A tank would be preferable, yes, if you can help find a suitable one. And he'll be needing food as well.

[ VOICE || filtered + video ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 12:53:29 UTC

Raine, do not trouble your mind! Captain Jack Sparrow shall bring you all the needful things for octopus-keeping! Erm...octopussery.

Whatever.

Fabio is eager to meet you, very eager. Oi! Watch what he can do, eh?

[Jack pulls a not-surprisingly-unthrilled-looking creature from his pail and presents him with a small jar of wild honey. The octopus seems to sigh and, untwining a tentacle from Jack's arm, opens the jar, before grumpily rewrapping itself and almost demanding to be set back in the pail.]

He's brilliant, really.

[ VOICE || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 13:28:49 UTC

[ ... Huh. How curious. Then again, she's never observed the habits of octopuses closely. Only enough for her monster-recording records.]

That seems like a handy trick. [... Yes she went there. But she's just trying to wrap her head around the idea of it. ... Okay, that was bad too.]

I just want to make certain that Fabio won't be uncomfortable so far away from his home.

[ VOICE || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 13:32:13 UTC

He's a bit of a rogue, is Fabio. Unpopular among his people due to his ideas on mollusks, I believe, and a political exile. He won't be fussed.

[Fabio is back at home, sulking in his pail.]

He'll be happier with a tank and some crabs to chew on, I expect.

[ VOICE || filtered ] wise_maiden March 28 2011, 13:36:02 UTC

I hope so, for his sake.

[ VOICE || filtered ] lists_to_port March 28 2011, 13:40:02 UTC

Mistress, you've got to treat him well. He's a philosopher. They get depressed.

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