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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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thedicearecast March 26 2011, 22:15:15 UTC

[Amelia doesn't look like she's got much of value on her as she heads across the bridge. At least nothing more than an umbrella to keep away the rain. She's been going out a good deal despite the weather, and she doesn't want to risk getting sick. Still, she's headed to the forest, just to explore a bit. Coming from a desert, the lush plant life is pretty amazing to her.

What do, Jack?]

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 01:40:59 UTC

Not really. Why?

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 01:44:37 UTC

Because people like you make innocent people suffer.

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 01:57:11 UTC

Now that's rather silly, isn't it? What's so innocent about you, hm?

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:01:42 UTC

...Silly.

[That makes Amelia stop in her tracks, and she faces Jack with a glare. Someone just hit a trigger.]

Don't just push it aside like it's nothing. You don't think about it, right? So what would you know about what people have to go through after they've been robbed, or just because they're connected to a robber? People suffer and they die, and you think it's silly?

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 02:06:26 UTC

Suffer and die? [Jack is really not following. He might steal, but he's not a killer.]

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:10:14 UTC

Yes.

[Of course he doesn't get it. Idiot. Then she'll put it in terms even he would get as she keeps walking.]

My father was a robber. And my mother died because of it.

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 02:12:20 UTC

.........Oh. Erm.....sorry? Were she hanged by association?

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:14:13 UTC

No.

[No details. Amelia doesn't feel like sharing that much.]

Idiot. You're missing the point.

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 02:21:42 UTC

How can I get the point if you won't tell the tale? I assure you, I've stolen more than most pirates will in a lifetime and haven't killed to do so.

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:29:37 UTC

[Amelia walks a few steps further, then stops again.]

No one would help us, because we were his family. Not when we were robbed, and not when my mother got sick. She hadn't done anything, but she still paid for his crimes. And she was just one person out of many. His victims, and their families--because Gasback robbed without caring about who he hurt.

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 02:38:33 UTC

Ah. So you were neglected, left behind. That's far more criminal than a simple robbery, darling.

[There is a great deal of sympathy in his voice.]

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:43:30 UTC

It wasn't just us. [Amelia's voice may soften a bit at that sympathy, but she's learned not to just focus on her own concerns.] It was the same for his victims, like I said. He took whatever he wanted without thinking about how it affected them.

You should think more about what happens because you steal.

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 02:47:27 UTC

I think not, actually. My stealing, darling--it teaches others that material possessions are not the end-all and be-all of life. There's things beyond wealth in this world what are far more valuable.

thedicearecast March 27 2011, 02:50:40 UTC

He tried to make it seem pretty too.

[Amelia shakes her head slightly. Hopeless.]

So? What was the point of trying to steal my umbrella?

lists_to_port March 27 2011, 11:49:50 UTC

Dunno. It was something to do, wasn't it? And you wouldn't have missed it terribly. And probably would have got it back in the end, due to...

Due to how things are, here.

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