12 | [Audio/Common]

[rocklikerunaway]

... This thing is weird.

Hey! Priest-guys, or whoever, what do you know about spirit-demon statues?

It's not like we're talking about an ancient library or a dirty river here. So it's not worth hitting back with some mad spirit action, right? I mean, this place doesn't even have a spirit world anyway.

Comments

[couldbeavillain]

T--Toph? Uh, I'm not a priest, buuut I know about demons. Are you talking about the statue thing on... that one deck? Marco said something about it... uh, once...

[rocklikerunaway]

Wow, really?

[Wait. That might not be a good thing. Whatever, it's still pretty sweet.]

Yeah, on deck 18. Forte was gonna smash it. But he didn't.

... So do demons get mad if you touch their stuff?

[couldbeavillain]

Uh, some do? I mean, if they have, like, magic... things... they're not gonna want you to touch it. Or, uh, some demons have stuff that they're connected to that you can hurt them with if you get a hold of it. Like, uh, books? Or... artifacts?

But--b-but I wouldn't suggest smashing the statue, you know?

[rocklikerunaway]

Why not? It'll probably come back again like everything else.

I already touched it. Nothing happened.

Okay fine. It was a little weird, but nothing bad happened. How come you're scared of a dumb statue?

[shipshapeshipco]

Oh contraire, my fine blind urchin! We are a world of spirits, the high and the potent. We, the high spirits, feast upon the delicious elixir of potent spirits, and float away upon wisps of whimsical wonderment.... Ahh, what it is to be alive! Of course, their are malicious spirits as well. JenJen, for example. But that's an unpleasant topic for a young little bucker like yourself.

As for your demonic dummy debacle, I wouldn't bother asking for priestly assistance. If I were the asker, I'd look towards the first mate for assistance! I hear he's a demon in the sack.

To which one must assume I mean to say that he HAS a demon in a literal sack, because, clearly, no other contraction would make a lick-spit of sense.

[rocklikerunaway]

... Have you been hitting the cactus juice?

Forte already asked the crew. They said he could break the thing.

How come Kage keeps a demon in a sack?

[shipshapeshipco]

Because keeping it in a messenger bag would be wasteful, of course.

And if I did drink my fill of succulent water, I promptly forgot it- which would actually be indicative of the stuff- the style of the substance, if you will. So I must then assume that I have.

My god- how low I've fallen. Perhaps we should stage a sort of lifestyle arbitration, before my apparent habit becomes impossible to rein.

[rocklikerunaway]

Wait... What? You mean you've been drinking so much of the stuff, you can't remember. And now you want me to make you stop?

Why don't you just ask Remy not to let you have any? Kate said he won't let me have any either.

[Voice]

[littlelegend]

Be careful it's not a person because if you break a person, when they come back to life they'll be in pieces. A-and they can't put themselves back together unless they're like Mr. Piccolo.

[Voice]

[rocklikerunaway]

Huh. Really?

How do I tell if it's a person? And who's Mr. Piccolo?

[Voice]

[littlelegend]

He's an ali-

[uh oh]

U-uh, a friend! Um, just a friend. A-and I dunno how you tell if it's a person... Are its friends nearby?

[Voice]

[rocklikerunaway]

[Toph is smacking things, trying to find more statues. Stone makes the metal deck ring. And then she's back.]

Nope. No friends. It's stuck to the floor though. Someone put it here by itself on purpose.

[Locked/Unhackable]

[erhabenheit]

Don't break that.

[Unlocked]

[rocklikerunaway]

Why not? You were going to.

[Locked/Unhackable]

[erhabenheit]

And I didn't. Wonder why?

[Unlocked]

[rocklikerunaway]

Because you got bored. Or you were trying to mess with the crew and it didn't work.

[Well, those're pretty much the only reasons she'd say she was going to smash something and then give up before trying, anyway.]

[excuuusemehero]

You sure you should be messing around with stuff like that, kid?

[rocklikerunaway]

You sure you wanna call me kid?

It's a hunk of rock. As long as nothing else shows up, there's no way it can hurt me.

[excuuusemehero]

Why not? You're a kid, aren't you?

[She sure sounds like one.]

A hunk of rock with a spirit-demon in it, according to you. I know who I'd bet on if it decides it doesn't like you.

[rocklikerunaway]

It's shaped like a spirit-demon. That's what I got told.

And I'd take that bet and your money. I'm an earthbender. If the spirit shows up, I'll use his own statue to kick his butt.