Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho (Hates Blade & Eclipse)

[VINCENT H. COLE]

Loguetown the town that one man had made famous, the one town that everyone saw as the last stop on your way to the grand line. This was the town the Vincent had finally come back here after years of searching the blues for devil fruit. He has used up all information from the normal places and figured that as a last resort he would try coming here to use the very hit or miss information that pirate spewed out well they drank themselves into the grave. Most of the information he got this way would be complete hogwash but he figured it was worth his time to make sure. As time was something he had lots of being so young, something he would be willing to spend going everywhere and anywhere he could if it meant finding a powerful fruit.

As such he would need to make his way to a very popular pirate bar, places he normally would not go. He didn't enjoy drinking, nor did he really like the way people acted while drunk. But he did like that people were much easier to use when they had a couple pints in them. Nonetheless he made his way through this down right at peak drinking hours, wanting to the bar to be as full as can be before he went in. It would really keep his profile low, and it would mean that almost everyone in the place would have about the looses lips possible. He was also was hoping to meet a couple of his crew mates here, the crew had slip up as most of them work better alone. That was to say they could move around better alone, as to not draw any unwanted attention to them. But now he had called them back in. He needed his crew back, he felt it both time for them to be like a real crew, and he had just acquired a ship and he even got it personalize to his crews liking. But the people he had been using to sail it were now sleeping with the fishes and he knew the time was now.

So he made his way into the bar he had found the best place for them to meet, and some how at the busies time of night found a table, it was a large table, big enough to fit at the very least 6 people if not more without problem. He took his place on the left side of the table and order a cola. He was now going to wait for his crew to arrive, and he was going to be keeping this table all for himself until then. I do hope they can find this place

So sorry about the wait but here is finally our meeting of the captains, and it has just enough room for the crews we could bring to the table if they so want to show up.

[REI KIRISAKI]

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"I told ya, I'm comin'!" Rei barked in a somewhat lazy manner, showing no signs of hurrying as some of the crew skirted off into the bar. Then again, the Captain had never been much of a drinker, so these sorts of places weren't on her favorite places to visit. Even so, after coming all the way to Lougetown, there seemed no harm in, at the very least, make an attempt to act like most captains and go drinking with the crew... Well, okay, so maybe it was more like she'd let them drink and she would keep an eye on them to make sure no trouble started. Why split hairs though, especially when they seemed so happy about the matter? Of course, even if Rei didn't have much of an alcohol tolerance, that didn't mean she didn't enjoy the entertainment that was sure to follow.

Stepping in through the swinging doors, Rei looked somewhat out of place and her nose wrinkled slightly at the strong scent of smoke and rum. Yeah, she was never going to get use to that part of the experience and chances were her hoodie would wreak of the smell tomorrow, but she tried to ignore that thought for the moment. Thankfully, the crew had already settled in around the bar and began ordering drinks. Tapping one of them on the shoulder, he soon handed her back a bottle of rum, what normally would have been cola. Without thinking, Rei threw back a drink, only to recoil at the taste, much to snickers of the crew.

"Bastards." Rei snipped in annoyance, but didn't bother to return the bottle. Instead, she grabbed a glass and filled it with some rum and the rest with the cola. Aside from killing the taste, it allowed her to drink without worrying about getting to drunk. Even so, that had been enough of a kick to make her pay attention, even if the bottle came from her crew mates. Speaking of which, where had that shipwright wandered off to? Surely, he hadn't skipped his first chance to drink with his Captain and crew after all those years of being locked up - it was unheard of.

Glancing back to look for him, it wasn't hard to see the place was starting to get crowded. Even so, Rei managed to snag a seat at the end of the bar as one of the crew moved to go partake in one the drinking games. Now normally, the Captain would have spent the whole night watching the crew, but as crowded as the place was, it was the unusual that managed to stand out. In particular, the young gentlemen seated at the large table with no one else around. That was strange. Rei wondered silently if he was waiting on someone, but before she could really ask, an arm plopped down on her shoulder much to her annoyance and with a good shove sent her off the stool and towards the table.

Rei was still cursing by the time she managed to prevent herself from running into the table, shooting the crew behind her a dirty look for the action. The only response, however, was several thumbs up with the meaning obvious. The cheeky bastards, when we're they going to learn to leave her dating life alone. Glancing down at the dark haired, young man, Rei immediately flashed what could only be described as an apologetic and somewhat sheepish smile. "Ah, m-my apologies." Rei spoke quickly, straightening up, though the Captain didn't have to turn around to tell from her general demeanor that someone was going to be scrubbing the decks for many weeks to come for this little tidbit of amusement.

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[COYOTE E WILE]

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[atrb=style, background-color:#eee; max-width:360px; ] THE CAPTAIN SAID TO WAIT HERE. Members of the crew had filled the workshop of the Carpe Noctem mere moments after the large ship had stopped in port. They all had wild guesses as to what fun they were gonna happen once departing the ship, and the absolute last thing they wanted was to have the oddest member of their crew to tag along. God only knew that, as a collective they were all tired, and irritated from Coyote's rants, that whenever they were doing something that they were hurting the ship, and making it cry in pain. The smug little bastard acted like he was the only one around who knew how to operate, and take care of the ship. Needless to say they needed a break from him, hell if they could they'd convince the captain to leave him behind on some random island. "The Captain says you're too recognizable, so you will have to stay with the ship while we're gone. She said that we'll leave you, and take the ship if you don't do as you're told." Humorously the lie has some truth in it, as Coyote honestly was the most recognizable of the crew. After escaping from the Marine's most secure prison quite a few times then anyone's face would be largely noticeable. Like a sap, Coyote believed every bit of what they said, and simply remained in the workshop while everyone else headed out to have a good time. Now when you've spent nearly all of your life living alone on a large ship loneliness normally doesn't affect you. No, it was when you spent so much time alone only to suddenly be surrounded by so many people only to have them up, and leave you that you got lonely. Not even half an hour had passed before Coyote departed from the ship desperate to be reunited with the rest of his crew. Yes, he was completely oblivious of their plots against him. Looking as miserably as a beaten, and abandoned puppy, Coyote roamed throughout Loguetown with no real clue where everyone went. The only thing he was completely sure of was that they had mentioned going out to a bar though in a town like this finding the right bar was like finding a needle in a haystack. Several of the crew members laughed, and cheered Rei only befor turning to their own conversations when they believed she was both too far, and uninterested to hear them. "I still can't believe he bought that. Ha, Coyote is such a damned idiot." There were nothing but smiles all around as the crew finally got the break from their shipwright that they so rightfully believed they deserved."So glad to be rid of the creep, dont know why the Cap'n picked him up in the first place". The conversation carried on partially complaining about being on the same ship as him, and partially joking about ways of getting rid of him. Not one of them seemed to notice what was going on outside... Low, and behold if you looked towards the front window's of the bar, whose face would you see pressed against the glass outside, but none other than Coyote. Of course you couldn't see much of the man's actual face just long grey bangs with specs of emerald peaking between them.

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[NEAH RYOTOJI]

Lougetown it felt so nostalgic being back here. Neah sat in his room aboard the ship staring outside the window at the port looking towards the town. He could see there was some new construction going on where the old town hall of records use to be. His lips quivered and soon turned into a smirk as he remembered what happened to the old tow hall of records. He licked his lips and smacked his lips together and felt particularly parched. The captain had gone out to some meeting that he was supposed to go to but he said he would catch up in a little bit. He turned his eyes away form the town towards the sky. He saw a few passing clouds go by and soon the moon came into view it was a full moon tonight. He walked towards his door and opened it and shut it and climbed a ladder that lead up deck. He slowly walked of his ship a violin case hung over his left shoulder while the other lazily swing at his side. His Kokuto ryumaru lay tucked hidden inside his trench coat away from prying eyes.

Neah hid his face inside the side of his trench coat as he began walking off the dock into the street. He really couldn't afford being spotted by someone so he had to maintain a low profile. After all last time he was home he burned down a building. He hummed to himself as he walked on the stone pavement. He passed by a flower shop that was just about to close. he quickly went in and bought two bouquets of a mixture of red and white roses. He placed one inside his coat and the other in his free hand and proceeded out towards the street. He was going to make a quick pit stop before he went to the meeting with the captain. He took a left turn and proceeded down the road for about five minutes and soon arrived at a grave yard. A mist was covering the ground around the graves and it sent a small chill up his spine. He shuddered and walked into the graveyard and turned his head left to right as he passed row by row of tombstones.

After a few minutes of searching he found what he was looking for. There was a single large tomb stone that read Here lies Mana and patricia ryotoji beloved husband father and wife and mother.He bit his lower lips and choked back a few tears as he stared down at the grave and placed the two bouquets of flowers on the grave. He knelt down and cleared away the weeds and dusted off the tombstone with his hand his fingers etching into the stone of each letter. Neah then said in a low voice "Hey mom, hey dad I miss you guys so much but i know your watching over me somehow." He placed a kiss on his left gloved and then patted the tombstone and got up from the ground and turned away and headed out of the graveyard. His grey eyes swimming with tears as he felt the liquid pour from his eye sockets. He wiped the tears on his coat and headed towards the meeting place. He saw a grey haired man standing outside the bar watching something it didn't concern him for now so he just shrugged it off and walked inside. He scanned the room a few times and then spotted his captain with his feet up on the table of course. He chuckled and walked over to hi and took a seat at his right side next to the captain. "Sorry I'm late captain I had something I had to take care of."

[VINCENT H. COLE]

Vincent was just take a large gulp of his freshly ordered cola when people started to flow into the bar once more. It was not a lot of people but the people that came in did make most people take noticed. The first of which was a smaller girl. She walked in an seemed to have a small effect on the bar, it was something not a lot of people had. It was something of an effect that came from someone clearly being in charge and knowing it. She was clearly a captain and every took notice. She seemed to be here with her crew, and unliked the rest of the bar they were not paying her the proper mind. But that was fairly true of most crews, she then went to the bar and started drinking. She seemed to be keeping her eyes on her crew once at the bar and Vincent kept his eyes on her.

The next to come in was his very own crew, it was the rather young and innocent boy who had recently joined his crew. He was one of the members that he had called to this little bar, mostly to finally allow there full crew to sail on one ship. Others may not be making it. He knew this boy fairly well, he had scouted him out a bit before making the orchestrating the encounter in which they met. He was not going to let just anyone into his crew, he would need to vet them. He knew this was his crew mates home town, and figured his famous father was around here somewhere. Well in the ground but still in the area. Vincent had even met that man at one time in his past, sure he was still a kid and his parents took him to see him perform. This fact had come into thing when he took this boy onto his ship, he felt this boy would make a good part of his family.

"No worries I have not been waiting too long, I figured you would be a little late given you're in your home town." He figured he went to visit his father but he would not want to bring it up now, right now is a happy time was not part of it. "Well my boy, I am not going to beat around the bush, I have called you here to tell you we are no longer going to be traveling a part, we are going to be a real crew from now on. Just as he finished saying this he heard some odd noises coming from the position of the captain he had seen earlier and when turned to look at her, he saw her falling towards the table. She came close to hitting too but was able to shift out of the way rather quickly. She seemed to be a bit quicker then most, as the rest of the pirates in this bar after drinking would had ran right into the table. She then apologized, something he never expected her to say, not in a bar from a pirate anyway. "No worries, no harm done, well not to me, I think your crew might not be so safe He said with a bit of a chuckle seeing the death glares she was firing at her crew.

This young captain was rather interesting, the kinda interesting that made Vincent want to get to know her more. He knew interesting pirates were always the ones to watch, either they could come in handy later in life or become real trouble later. Either way his best bet was to get to know them now and nip as many future problems as he could in the butt now. "But it seems the bar might be a bit to dangerous for you to sit at, so I say come sit with me and my friend. You see I am waiting on some more people but we could use some company until then, and you seem to be nice enough. Plus maybe this will shut the people you are mad at up. What do you say? He was unsure how this would all play out but he had time to kill anyway, and who knows maybe this girl would know a bit about the marines acquired books.

Sorry for the wait guys, Anime North kinda got in the way but I am back