Community Center Class: Tactics Pancake!!! | Monday

[bookbeltof_love]

Okay so, like, the fact that she'd been forced last week to have them do nothing but character build in the sketchiest sort of tavern that she could recall ever having been in herself meant that, like, they were a little behind on where she wanted them to be in her glorious story.

Her original plans had called for them to reach Cereelel and spend a week there, searching for clues, before they embarked towards Waffledonia…

Alas, however, for she was having to strike the visit to Cereelel from existence. On the other hand… well. She'd been looking forward to this class a bunch.

So as far as downsides went… she was okay with this one?

"Compatriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina proclaimed, in a ringing voice, from where she stood absolutely surrounded by chalk drawings. And, yes, the class was blocked from stepping past the door quite yet by an invisible barrier. "Your visit to Cereelel has borne fruit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! While few signs of the prince's plight remained, what you did find suggested that rather than be ingloriously kidnapped…………… the prince had, indeed, taken off on his own in pursuit of some greater power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sorry, Sir Eggolas, the prince's best friend and all. You'd been ditched.

"All signs point his journey taking him towards Waffledonia," Nina continued gleefully, "and after a heated debate—would Princess Danisha still pay you all handsomely if the prince had not, actually, been kidnapped????????—you take after him upon a trustworthy scow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

What? Give them a proper ship for this? Don't be silly!

"A mere handful of hours from the shores of Cereelel you come across the torn and scattered remnants of a ship bearing the royal insignia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But no, not the royal insignia of Crepelandia or Pancakeia—the royal insignia of Waffledonia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who could the ship have belonged to when the sole heir to the throne, the late, great Prince Bagellan passed years ago?????????????????"

Nina heaved a dramatic sigh. Of delight. Her story was terrible and she loved it in every, single way.

"Alas," she said, "for poling amongst the wreckage means that not only do no further clues show themselves, nor survivors, but you are caught unawares by the appearance of the ghost pirate ship, the Queen Jama, and the fierce, and thoroughly undead, Pirate Queen Marmalady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Surrounded on all sides and your scow pathetically underpowered, you are quickly taken into captivity and thrown into the brig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Left there to rot………… but will you let this stand?????????????"

And it was only now that Nina's chalk drawings came to life, as she stepped back against the wall, a ghost ship in dark, weather-worn grey wood. Cobwebs, huge and thick danced about in a chill breeze, and the sea air carried the tang of blood and rot. Enormous spiders and skeletal rats skittered about the place as chains creaked and rattled.

The bars to your cell were rusted but the metal underneath was as solid and sturdy as the day the ship had been built.

"What," Nina asked, "will you do????????????????????????"

[Please to be waiting for the OCD is up, up and away!]

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[bookbeltof_love]

Ghost ship, ghost ship!

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Sir Eggolas

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[howareyanow]

Dread Sausafesge

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[betterthanaplan]

Lox Bagel

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[sith_happened]

Graaaaaaaaaaaand Muffman

Listen to the... lecture?

[bookbeltof_love]

Are you sad about missing a trip to Cereelel?

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke listened closely to the set up, eyebrows climbing steadily higher with each new detail. Personally, he'd pictured Prince Bagellan going MIA during a giant land battle, but a shipwreck worked way better. . . .

And then there was the ghost pirate queen. He was kind of wishing he'd thought to do a ghost pirate queen in his class last semester.

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Sir Eggolas was sad, but not so much about missing the trip, but more for this unfortunate turn of events that was fine, it was fine that the prince had just abandoned them like that, totally fine, because, you know what? It was just a story, and a silly one from Nina at that, and so it was no big deal and didn't sort of hit Sir Eggolas where it kind of hurt the most or anything and make him sort of really regret going that whole Prince's BFF route with his character, or anything!

(Seriously, though, Nina, how could you do this to him?)

Fine, it was fine. It was just a story!

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[howareyanow]

Wayne was...mostly still wondering why he kept coming to this thing. On the one hand, Nina was a friend, and he liked to show support for his friends, but, on the other hand, he couldn't help but feeling like this was the sort of thing you should try to prevent and that you only made it worse when you went and actively participated.

New Compatriots!

[bookbeltof_love]

Should there be any, this place is for you: who are you???*

[*If anyone wants to join in, ping here first so that Nina can get an idea of who your character is! If you don't have a name in mind, Nina will absolutely most definitely saddle you with a terrible breakfast name and attempt to shoehorn your character into a backstory. You are totally free to ignore her terrible backstories for y'all.]

The Ghost Ship

[bookbeltof_love]

Dun dun dun!

Escape the Brig!

[bookbeltof_love]

The pirates have taken nothing from you. The tools at hand are what you have on your person, the creaking, rusty chains, and the cobwebs.

Okay, and the spiders and rats. But are you really going to use those to escape?

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[betterthanaplan]

Ah, but they were skeletal rats. Those small bones could totally be useful as lock picks -- if Duke didn't habitually carry a set on him already.

"Really, this is just sloppy," he said, going to examine the cell door. "You always search your prisoners before throwing them into a brig. That's just pirate 101."

. . . Not that he'd covered it in his pirate class.

Explore the Ship!

[bookbeltof_love]

Once out, the ship is yours to explore! Tattered velvets and ruined silks abound in this once luxurious pirate ship gone to ruin.

Strangely, while there are plenty of creepy crawlies, there are no actual pirates. Where have they gone? The galley is abandoned, food still steaming in the chill air. Braziers have been left unattended. What has happened?

The Captain's Quarters

[bookbeltof_love]

Pirate Queen Marmalady's quarters were richly appointed, their once lush, extravagant wealth faded and rotted over time.

Of Capital Marmalady no sign remains.

Upon her desk is a sapphire as large as a man's hand. In the depths of the sapphire is a ring—Prince Streuselas' ring.

It glows with an eerie light.

Do you touch it? Should you touch it?

What happens when you do?

Re: The Captain's Quarters

[betterthanaplan]

"Right, so." Duke pointed at the sapphire. "That's definitely a trap, right?"

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[hashtag_chocobro]

"Unless..." Sir Eggolas offered, speculatively narrowing his eyes at the sapphire, "that's exactly what they want you to think."

Prompto...no.

Just...no.

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[betterthanaplan]

“Well yes,” Duke said. “It’s not like it’s a subtle trap.”

Talk to Professor Argentum

[bookbeltof_love]

Who is really rather proud of herself for this.

And who is still stifling coughs because, ugh, they won't go away.

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[cypher_can_fly]

"So I've never been to your class and I don't know what it's about," Owen said, walking in near the end of it, "But I do have cupcakes, so... I come out on top, as far as I'm concerned."

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina giggled, waving Owen over while her class was still engaged in their ghost pirate ship shenanigans. For her part, she was sitting on a desk, pirate cape drawn around her.

"I cannot argue that," she admitted, smiling at him. "Especially if, like, you're sharing…………….."

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[cypher_can_fly]

"No," Owen said brightly, grinning at her. "I was going to stand here and eat them by myself. Very... very... slowly..."

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Rude!!!!!!!!!!" she said, laughing. "Owen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll send Pirate Queen Marmalady after you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She would not.

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[cypher_can_fly]

"Oh no! Not Marmalady!" said Owen, eyes big as he clutched his (bright pink and orange and overly decorated) cupcakes.

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[bookbeltof_love]

"She's vicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, with the confidence of one who was in charge of this hot mess of a story.

Since Marmalady wasn't actually present today, except in narrative.

"And," Nina continued, "she can't abide cupcake hoarders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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[cypher_can_fly]

"I earned these fair and square," Owen argued, "And no pirate... wench will take them from me!"

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[bookbeltof_love]

"And just how did you earn them???????????" Nina wondered, swinging her legs down off the desk in preparation of getting off it. "What nefarious deeds did you do?????????????"

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[cypher_can_fly]

"I sold a book," Owen said solemnly. "What will you do about it?"

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Why," Nina said, eyes big, "I think I'm going to take a page out of the book of the very best of pirate wenches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She hopped off the desk and went to steal a cupcake.

"Thievery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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[cypher_can_fly]

"NoooOOOOoooooo!" Owen said dramatically.

As he let her take a cupcake, obviously.

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Mwahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina crowed, holding her cupcake aloft. "My victory is assured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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[cypher_can_fly]

"How could you take my cupcake!" Owen wailed. "You terrible pirate, you!"

He still had three more cupcakes.

OOC

[bookbeltof_love]

ngl Marmalady is my fav. terrible name of this whole madness.