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After just conking out, Jinn was once again rudely awakened. This time by a jab to the ribs. With a grunt, Eri peeled off Jinn's face and the scarf's owner forced an eye open. The sun was shining directly behind the problem maker so Jinn couldn't get a good look at who it was.
     "Unh... Just five more minutes..." He turned over to lay on his side, using arms as his pillow. The instigator laughed and told him it was time to wake up. Who was he to tell Jinn what to do? But the voice sounded familiar...
     "Come on now..." the voice continued, this time sounding even closer. Suddenly, Jinn felt a tug on his collar and then, he was pulled up to his backside, forcing Jinn to come alive. There, he was now face-to-face with this annoying guy; sunglasses' glaring off eachother, noses almost touching. The man grinned as Jinn blinked a few times, adjusting his eyes to being awake. "...the rest of the crew will think less of us if we're too late, eh?"
     
     "Oi..." Jinn mumbled, his eyes still half closed. "It's way too early..." It was that Trivia-guy from the day before. He had almost forgotten about him... and the meeting. He continued to stare lifelessly into Meijin's eyes as if his brain was still in sleep mode. Meijin stood up straight and laughed a little, turning to the sun.
     "Too early? Ha-ha! It's never too early when an brand new adventure beckons you." he stated rather excitedly before turning back to his sleepy nakama. Jinn seemed to just ignore him, exaggerating a long yawn with a full arm stretch. "Now, let's head over to the stage, alright?" The tactician rose, almost weakly, and scratched the back of his head. He patted out his clothes and wiped off any grass that had clung to him overnight. He ran his hand through his hair and looked at Meijin.
     "...How's my hair?" The Triviamaster couldn't help but laugh again. He nodded at Mr. Fashion.
     "It's just fine." he said with a smile and Jinn just blinked. With an almost unnoticable shrug, Jinn slumped his way past his new friend in the white jacket and started down the street. Meijin followed the boy with his eyes, noticing he was drearily making his way in the wrong direction. He waited a moment before speaking up.
     "Oh, Jinn?" he called out and the sleepy scarf-wearing one looked back. "The stage is..." Meijin pointed in the other direction. "...that way." Jinn looked, rather annoyed, where Meijin had pointed and mumbled something to himself as he slowly made his way down the street in THAT direction. Meijin smirked and pulled out his notebook, flipping to the page he had about Jinn. Whipping out something to write with, he quickly read over some of his notes.

"Jinn Tsukiro. "Expert Tactician". Wears a long scarf named Eri. Devil Fruit user..." He started to add something to it. "...Not a morning person." With that, he tucked away his notebook and resumed his search of missing nakama.

Last edited by Cap'n Jefu (2006-10-25 00:30:51)

After meijin left in search of sleepy nakama, Mat and the parrot looked at each other for a while. "well' asked Mat
"can you do somthing intersting?" The parrot, hearing these words grinned and flew away to the other siide of the stage, making way betwin him and Mat. At that time Din went and sat on the stage and yawned "after all, we came too early" he said "no ones seems to be coming soon"
"Not know shorty" said Mat and got up "the parrots going to do somthing amazing!" he said exitedly.
The parrot at the other end of the stage flew twords Mat/Din at great speed and preformed many amazing airborn tricks. After his grand preformence Quiz landed on the stage and gave a bow to the sound of Mat's applause. "Your quit a parrot" said Mat
"i'm sure we'll find you more usefull then this shorty here!" he said exitedly. .
"HAY!" he said to himself "I'm more usefull then a parrot!".
"of course you are" said Mat "I ment during a battel" he said and winked to the parrot
"ARE YOU SAING THAT A PARROT IS STRONGER THEN ME IN A FIGHT!" yelled Din.
"Not just any parrot, this ones especialy good!" said Mat exited agian
"i can beat theis parrot in a fight" said Din Ina determind voice "although i do not enjoy violance"
"see that parrot!, shorty's afraid of you!" said Mat and laughed.
"im not afrad a the parrot its just that i dont like violance!" said Din his face becoming red with anger. "ll show you my skill"
he said "ill leave you amazed at my skill with a Crossbow" he said and sent his hand to draw his crossbow from from his back. "damn i didn't take it" said Din in an annoyed low voice. Mat gave out a loud laugh and even the parrot semmed laough
"then ill fight you bare handed a mere parrot will not beat me at combat!" said Dib and jumped twords the parrot. The parrot easely doged Dins rekles attack cousing Din to fall on the ground. Din got up and cleaned some of the dirt frome his cloth at the sound of Mat's laoughter "told ya you couldn't beat it" he said.

Jinn had trudged his way down the street, his brain being debateably awake at this point. The lone steps of his boots were the only thing to be heard as he turned a corner. Hands shoved in pockets, Jinn made his way down the street still, eyes on the ground, quite annoyed that he had to be awake so early in the morning. He turned down another street just out of instinct.
     "Stupid meeting... Why couldn't we just jump on a ship and sail the Grand Line?" he grumbled and kicked a misplaced tin can. Surprisingly, the can seemed to bounce back almost instantly. "What the...?" he muttered as he stopped and finally looked up from the street. Maybe a foot away from him was a solid wall and obviously, the end of the street. Jinn examined the wall for a moment before turning around quickly. An unfamiliar street lined with houses was all he saw. He searched for anything that looked remotely familiar to him but found nothing. The boy scratched his head. It seemed that he had been so absorbed in complaining about things, he got himself lost in a town he's never visited before. Jinn sighed. "...Looks like..." he started, slumping over even more. "...I'm lost."

Lucky for the tactician however, the sound of shoes clacking along the stone street was heard. Jinn looked up and to his surprise, he saw the blonde-haired girl from before. His new nakama. She didn't seem to notice him however and was moving quickly, probably intent on getting to the meeting.
     "O-Oi!! K...Kuro-chan!" he shouted, waving his hand at her, hoping to grab her attention.

"Waking up eight in the morning... just to lie on the grass... I can feel-" Sakurai's song was interrupted by an old man who was walking by on his way to some obscure early-bird special. "S'cuse me young'un, but tha time is six-thirty. Yer song is off." Sakurai almost broke a string. "Whaa~at?"

Unknowingly, he had crossed two time-zones to get here, which had ruined his perception of time. "Someone invent a portable time-telling device that does NOT make you look like an old man!" he sighed and laid back on the grass. "Ke ke ke. Well, have a good day young'un. I am off to the prune-porridge and grapefruit salad at Fanny's. Sakurai shuddered and waved at the old man.

Meijin gave a hearty chuckle as he walked down the main street to the inn.  Stopping at a newsstand, the Triviamaster bought a paper and continued on.  He was still smiling as he arrived back at the inn.  Zason had definitely chosen some unique crewmates for this pirate ship.  Going up the stairs, he arrived at the door for Yin’s room.  Trivalu slowly opened the door and went inside.  Yin was still asleep on his bed, with Icaris curled up on his chest.  They both looked so peaceful, no where close to the agitated state that the Triviamaster had found them in last night.

Opening the window, Meijin sat down in the empty chair and leaned back on its two rear legs.  He flipped through the paper, glancing at the headlines.  Some Marines caught another high bounty pirate, a hurricane in South Blue demolished a whole island, the World Government is holding another summit, and some pirates are rampaging about in a part of the Grand Line.  Trivalu found the bounty posters and thumbed through them.  Some interesting new bounties appeared, as well as some raised bounties.  ”Hmm, that Straw hat fellow seems to have done something impressive to have his bounty more than triple in this short amount of time.” the Triviamaster thought as he analyzed the wanted poster of the smiling pirate.  A new wanted poster caught his eye, because it happened to belong to his mutinous first mate: ASSARISHITA “CHIARASCURO” KURO: B 20,000,000.  “So, you’ve arrived, have you?” the Triviamaster said with a tinge of disgust in his voice.

Meijin flipped to the listing of bounties and browsed through them.  A name popped out, as he realized that he was on this new crew.  Mumbling softly to himself, he said, “35 million, huh?  Looks like I’ve underestimated that merman nakama of ours.”  Moving down the list, he saw his own bounty: MEIJIN “TRIVIAMASTER” TRIVALU:
B 48,151,623.42.  A small smirk came across his face as he reveled in the fact that his bounty was not a round number.

Trivalu finished reading through the bounty list and flipped over to the puzzle section.  The Triviamaster finished the Sudoku and Kakuro and was in the middle of completing the crossword when Yin woke up.  The archer looked over at the analyst leaning back in his chair as he said, “What time is it?”  Leaning forward and getting out of the chair, Meijin stood up and said, “It’s about 6:30, time to get up and head over to stage 8.  What will everyone else think if we show up late?”  Yin blinked twice, as he sat up and began to get ready for the day.

Last edited by Ronfar z3 (2006-10-27 10:04:43)

It was a moment of serenity. The clouds were gliding across the sky, creating a visual sonata as a gust of wind picked up a few leaves and made them dance in the air. The bird-song was a strange jazz-symphosium when mixed with the excited caws of seagulls discovering fishermen coming in with the day's catch. Sakurai laid with a straw in his mouth, and closed his eyes.

"Man... I am SO BORED!" With a flick of his wrist, he shot a whip trailing into a tree, hunting for one of the ripe apples. Unfortunatly, Sakurai's vision was still affected by the lack of sleep, and his shot severed a branch, which fell on top of his face. "...*sigh* at least it's got an apple on it."

Kato was whistling while walking down the street towards the stage. He saw merchants selling their wares and people just rushing from place to place..U-Oh! theres the stage.. i wonder if anyone is around at a time like this?Kato thought and jogged to the stage. There Kato saw a familiar face "UOH!! Mat and Din! good morning, your´e early aren´t you?" Kato asked and blinked twice "Err.. why are you trying to whack a parrot?" Kato asked and sighed at them. He jumped on the stage , put his bag on his side , falled back and stared the clouds while waiting for an answer

Last edited by Plue (2006-10-28 02:45:34)

'Man... I'm so lost.'

On the crowded streets of tradetown, Byron Farmwell was looking for a place to stay, his over packed rucksack swinging around, as he looked left and right. From a birds eye view, the young man and his dangerously heavy pack  pivoted on the spot, an island in a fast moving current of people, all with somewhere to go... All of them except Byron. Sighing, he took out a hankerchief and wiped his sweating brow, apologising almost non-stop as various comments from passers by filtered through.
'Hey! Watch where you're swinging that thing!'
'Sorry!'
'Stop blocking the road!'
'sorry!'
'Bloody tourists!'
'Sorry!!'
'You smell like a mushroom!'
'Sor- ...what?'

'HEY! WATCH IT- OOF!'
Byron whirled around to see who had just asked him that, hearing with a sinking feeling the meaty smack of his pack impacting with someone's face. He cringed, and turned around as slowly as possible, finding himself face to face with a big, angry dangerous looking man. there was a big red mark on his face where the bag had impacted.
'WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING SWINGING THAT DAMN THING AROU- ...huh?'
As the man had started shouting, Byron had delved down into his pockets and pulled out a wad of notes. He stuck it in the small gap in the agressors bunched up fists and wandered off, waving and smiling as he did so.
'Compensation!'

...It was probably a good idea to move now, since for some reason as soon as that happened once, people started bumping into Byron's rucksack non-stop. He wondered why that was sometimes. He looked at the amount of change he had left. it looked like he'd already spent two million beli just apologising to people in Trade town. He'd known that travelling cost money, but he'd had no idea apologies could get so expensive!

OOC: yes, i'm just setting up byron as a clueless, friendly and care free kind of guy. Bit of an idiot, and a total tourist. He's so absent minded he might even end up barging in on secret meetings by accident...

'Good morning Skaurai" said Mat and laughed "what are you doing talking to yourllsef, I never seen anything so stupid in my life!"
"yeah!" said Din also laughing "what was that just now!"
"oh wait" said Mat "i did seesomthing more stupid" "my stupid orther trying to beat a parrot, and fail!"
Sakurai hearing this bursted into laughing as well "are you sirios!" he said in laughter
"yeah! he tryed to jump on it and fell on the floor" and both of then laughed even harder.
"SGUT UP" shouted Din standing up turninghis back to where Mat should be "stop laughing at me, do you think i enjoy bein  weak! f course i would have like bieng a monsteros guy like my brother but im not!" he breathed heavily in anger and turned around
"i'm a NAVIGATOR and none here can chalenge my skill in that!"
"are you stupid!?" asked Mat still somewhat laughing "I know your not a fighter and i know your weak" then his voice and face truned very sirios "that why i'll always protect you" he said calmly "but you tryng to prove yourself as a fighter is stupid and funny as hell!"
he said and strated laughing agian

Last edited by Dubi (2006-11-01 00:23:45)

As Yin gathered his things, he turned to Meijin with his head down and softly said, “I know that you want me to join this crew, but I haven’t even met anyone except for you!”  Trivalu scoffed and said, “Oh, come on!  They’re great guys, I’m sure that they’ll warm up to you after a while.”

Yin lifted his head and locked eyes with the Triviamaster, “Don’t try and persuade me otherwise.  I’ve got a lot of issues that I have to deal with right now.  I’m flattered that someone would want me to join him, but now is not the right time.”  Meijin turned to the window and looked out upon the emerging day as he said, “Well, if that’s your decision, I’m not going to stop you.”

Meeting Yin in the middle of the room, Trivalu extended his hand for a parting handshake, “I hope that you can solve your problems.  Just keep your chin up and I’m sure that everything will work out fine.”  The Triviamaster left the room and headed back into the street.  He made his way out to the docks and stared out over the open ocean.  Something caught his eye on the dock as he bent down to pick it up.  It was an invitation for the White Bandana Pirates!  On the back it had the name “ERIS” printed on it.  Taking out his sketchbook and notebook, Meijin tore out the pages for Yin and Eris and crumpled them up.

Trivalu threw these paper balls out into the ocean and watched as they absorbed the water and eventually disintegrated.  ”Two members gone.  I wonder who else isn’t coming with us.”  He let out a deep sigh as he headed back to stage 8.  This time when he arrived, there were definitely more people around.  Besides Mat / Din, Sakurai and Kato had joined the bunch.  ”That’s strange, Jinn isn’t here yet.  I told him to go straight to the stage.  I guess he probably got lost.”  Approaching the stage for the second time that day, the Triviamaster said, “Hey guys, I’m glad to see you made it!”

There they all were just as the invitations had instructed when first given out.  The brothers, the doctor, Triviamaster himself, the pervert, and the tactician, including herself that was six people but wasn't their originally more than that?  Once the stage was in full view the thief waved her hand to grab their attention, "Oi!  Hope we're not late!  Kinda got... lost." she called and glanced to Jinn, biting back a laugh, but that feeling lasted no longer than a second.  The tactician's words were still fresh in her mind and though she would lose no hope to him, it was probably best to keep an eye out.


"Wasn't there more people?"
"Hi~!"
Kuro turned and the half-wolf cook came running towards the group, waving an arm with a smile decorating her face.  Mei slowed and let out a heavy breath, letting her lungs refill with their fuel, and panted, "I-I'm leaving."  The smile was nothing truly happy, there was a bit of sorrow mixed into it but she was trying to be cheerful about this sudden decision.

Last edited by Kurotsuki (2006-11-03 15:05:29)

"I hadn't really... thought about that," came a mumble from the thief.  Truth be told she hadn't really thought of the riddle at all.  She set her bag down, resting the blades by it's side, before sitting down herself and hugging a knee to her body.  Meijin's words drifted through one ear and out the other silently then hit a sudden brick wall, bouncing to the brain which processed them a bit too fast.  "We're going to meet at the docks on the west side of the island at seven tonight..."
"No... way..." Kuro bolted up and pointed to Meijin, some kind of shock in her tone.  "You have got to be kidding me!  We all woke up this early to get here and find out it's not until seven?  Yeah sure, it's nice of you to bring us all together so we could meet, but c'mon!  It's only... six-something, right?"  Her hands went to her face and she sighed but laughed, "You just wait... I'll be waking everybody up before dawn once we're traveling."

Though she would not mention it, she would probably set some sort of a trap in her room at night to keep any wandering eyes or hands away.  Now that Mei had left and she was the last female, what else could she do?  In her mind, she saw herself in a maid outfit, cleaning and cooking while the men watched in joy.  It made her shudder.

Last edited by Kurotsuki (2006-11-07 07:11:59)