SECOND ANNUAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY! (Open RP)

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Crowley awoke, not in his comfortable bed inside Club 33, but disoriented and hung over on a bench in front of the castle, an empty bottle of rum still clutched in one hand, mouth fuzzy, and head pounding.

"Ngk."

He brought up the other hand to guard his bleary, uncovered eyes from the glaring sun. It took him a moment to realize that there was a great deal more frilly sleeve around his wrist than there should be. After a perfectly still moment, Crowley ever so cautiously moved his hand down slightly to discover a mustache and double braided beard.

"Bugger."

It wasn't what he meant to say.

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[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi comes flouncing across the drawbridge, sporting new duds (http://flickr.com/photos/strongestgirl/1322800625/), and happily and loudly singing a sea shanty...

"say, old man, your horse is dead.
An' we say so, an' we hope so!
I say, old man, your horse is dead.
Oh! Poor old Man!

One month a rotten life we've led.
An' we say so, an' we hope so!
While you lay on y'er feather bed.
Oh! Poor old Man! "

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

The demon wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up. Instead what came out was, "Elizabeth? What've you done to yer hair, luv? And where's my hat?"

It was lying on the ground next to the bench.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"It's lying on the ground next to the bench!"

Pippi wondered at first who Elizabeth was but then concluded that if nobody else who could possibly be named Elizabeth was around so that must be her.

She certainly didn't mind being called Elizabeth, it was such a pretty name. And any gentleman so piratical as this must certainly know what he's talking about. Why, he was almost as piratical as Grandfather Fabe!

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

((*BOOGIES*))

The first thing Fay noticed when he woke up was that his hair had grown, and was tied back loosely. The second thing he noticed was his lack of depth perception (he tripped over Kurogane on his way to the bathroom) and found he was wearing an eyepatch. Unfortunately, lifting the eyepatch did not change his vision any, so he decided to leave it on for Chii's sake.

He wandered out into the park, looking around curiously and occasionally bumping into things. "What be this?" he murmured, then stopped. "... Yarr?"

[vowtoprotect.livejournal.com]

Well, being tripped on was a pretty good wake-up call. Kurogane was up and dressing by the time Fay got back out of the bathroom, and blinked when he saw how the other looked. He wondered what the hell Fay was doing, and why, and exactly how big a headache he was going to get from all this.

He finished dressing, following Fay outside, not really noticing that the clothes he'd put on were slightly... different, from what he usually wore. "Hey," he called out, trying to get the apparently off-balanced mage's attention. "What th' hell be goin' on? What`s wi' th' eyepatch?"

... Then he stopped. What the hell?

[whistlingwizard.livejournal.com]

Fay turned and smiled, obviously relieved, at the sight of Kurogane. "Kuro-matey!" he exclaimed, and again had that moment of unpleasant surprise when you realise that what you meant to say is not what came out of your mouth. "I have no idea," he said, touching his eye patch lightly. "I think t' park be up t' no good again."

[palletkid.livejournal.com]

When Ash woke up, the first thing he noticed was that his Official Pokemon League hat that he always kept next to his pillow was missing, and had been replaced by an admittedly cool big blue hat.

"Aar!" he exclaimed. "Pikachu, where be me official captain hat, won with the greatest haul of postcards in the seven seas?" Then he blinked, and grinned. "Avast! We be pirates!"

[lightningpika.livejournal.com]

As Pikachu had no clothes, none of them had changed, but he was speaking with a definite pirate accent. "Pikarrrr!" he said cheerfully, jumping up and picking Ash's hat up for him.

[palletkid.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, matey!" Ash placed the hat squarely on his head on a jaunty angle, and then, with Pikachu on his shoulder, made his way cheerfully towards the river to find a good pirate ship.

"Thar she be!" Ash shouted, pointing to the Sailing Ship Columbia, which was docked. "Now we be takin' her over!" He strutted over to the ship, and shouted "Ahoy thar! I, the dastardly Captain Ash and me First Mate Pikachu, will be boardin' this ship! Surrender, ye scurvy seadogs!" There was a pause, and then he added "If that be okay with ye."

It wasn't nice to forcibly take over other people's ships without permission. Just because you were a pirate didn't mean you couldn't be a polite pirate.

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

There was nothing different about the way James was dressed, per se, and he went for about an hour that day thinking that there was nothing different.

That was, until he tried to contact Sirius over the mirrors. "Sirius you scurvy dog, ye be there?"

There was a pause, then he thought over what he had just said.

Not again, he groaned mentally, and quickly hung up the mirror.

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

"I don't be havin' scurvy," Sirius muttered, and then started. He reopened the connection with James, and said "Bloody pirates agin?"

Sirius' clothes hadn't changed at all, but his beard was somewhat longer, and the tattoos on his chest had changed to a skull and crossbones.

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

"Aye," James said, picking up his mirror again. He pushed up his glasses so he could pinch the bridge of his nose. "I be getting the feeling that this 'ere park has run out of ideas."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Waking up with a hangover wasn't a strange occurrence for Leon. Waking up with a bottle in his hand kind of was, seeing as he usually had a night stand beside him that he put the bottle on once he was done, but it had been known to happen.

Cursing like a sailor about the hangover also wasn't much like of an oddity, except that he had a sailor's accent, which made him stop, try to think of the night before, and go "What in the ruddy 'ell is goin' on 'ere?"

Then he sprang out of bed, tried to figure out why he was wearing a unbuttoned, billowy shirt and a pair of brown pants that definitely weren't made of denim, and then tried to figure out why he couldn't seem to get them off. Finally, he headed out of the apartment (after curing his hangover with more booze), and began to look for someone who could help him.

[scary-vampkitty.livejournal.com]

Duzell woke up, and knew immediately that he was dirty. He began to clean himself before opening his eyes, but all it was doing was putting a disgusting taste in his mouth. He certainly didn't feel like he was cleaning himself any.

He opened his eyes, only to realize that he could only open one, and upon finding a mirror, he found that his other one was scarred shut. This, he did not understand at all. He couldn't think of any reason why he'd be dirty and scarred, or why he'd be wearing a bandanna. He was a kitten, for God's sake.

Making sure Setsuna, Sara, and Kira weren't around, he quickly transformed into his Ishtar incarnation. His hair being tied back was something that usually happened, so he didn't think of it, but his eye was still scarred shut, and he was wearing a set of clothes that would have made Ishtar laugh like a hyena. And, he was still wearing the bandana.

Finally, he turned to his regular self. His hair was still tied back, he was still wearing those horrendous clothes, but the bandanna had been replaced with some sort of pointy hat, and he still kept something that kind of looked like a cloak (it was, actually, a trenchcoat). Realizing he'd look ridiculous no matter which form he took, he decided that he'd prefer being in a body that he was comfortable with, and stepped out of the theatre. At least it was only his clothing (well, and his eye).

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell no. It was happening again. And Rukia had been so sure that it was just a one-time fluke! Did that mean all the park's bizarre events were one day going to repeat themselves?

Well, damn.

Sighing, she made the same sign for herself she had before -- I AM NOT TALKING UNTIL THIS NONSENSE GOES AWAY - and this time, got some string and hole punch to tie the sign around her neck.

Hopefully, it'd work better than last time.

[palletkid.livejournal.com]

Ash sailed up near Rukia in his rowboat, trying to look like paddling this much wasn't tiring him out.

"Avoy me proud beauty!" he shouted.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Rukia turned slightly when she heard a familiar voice call out to her. "Ahoy, me bucko!" she called out to him before she could stop herself, and immediately gestured to her sign before she could say anything else that sounded insane.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Somewhere along the way Pippi lost Crowley Jack when she stopped to grab a muffin from a cart (http://flickr.com/photos/strongestgirl/1323692680/)... He seemed like the kind of person who shouldn't be left alone for too long, so she started looking for him.

Until she saw the girl with a sign around her neck.

"... You're not talking until what nonsense goes away?" she asked through a mouth full of muffin.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Rukia blinked when she saw a cute red-haired girl approach, and did her best to smile at the newcomer. "Arr, matey," she said. "I not be takin' a likin' to this sea-dog lingo, y'see." Then, something occured to her, and she squinted at Pippi.

"Ya mind if I be askin' yer name, lassie? And why ain't you talkin' like an old sea-farin' bucaneer, yarr?"

[caycep]

(There's laughter over the loudspeakers, and then Cayce's voice is heard.)

Arr, me hearties! Seems we be talkin' in sea-dog lingo again today! And I've me some sea-shanties and ballads for ye scurvy dogs. They done appeared like magic on me computin' device, and so here they are.

Spanish Ladies (Bill Frisell)
My Son John (John C. Reilly)
Blood Red Roses (Sting)
Coast of High Barbary (Joseph Arthur)
Turkish Revelry (Loudon Wainwright III)
What Do We Do With The Drunken Sailor (David Thomas)

There be some other ballads an' ditties, but I think they be not so fair for the ears of the youngsters here. If you be wantin' to hear The Good Ship Venus or Fire Down Below, be findin' me later.

Arrr!

(More laughter, and Cayce signs off.)

((All of these songs are ganked from the compilation Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. It is made of awesome, and highly, highly recommended.))

[caycep]

((And here is the correct link for "Fire Down Below".))

[always-confuzed.livejournal.com]

(*shuffle* *more shuffling* *sound of a bottle being set down near the mike*)

Followin' that fine beauty's fine example, I seem ter be recallin' a song I came across when I were a... splicin' the mainbrace . Ah! Here it be.

Weird Beard (http://download.yousendit.com/0C55EAB31454DE41) (Mad Caddies)

And Jackson, ye old Jack Tar? Seems like a fine day ter be handin' out moonshine. We best set up shop today, matey!

[lasting-justice.livejournal.com]

Fett came down the steps of the Gallery and tilted his masked gaze up to the sunlight.

"Yar, me-"

Absolutely not.

He promptly turned around proceeded back up the stairs.

[grumpy-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Which strategy worked until about 7 pm that evening, when Sunshine, mildly concerned at not having seen him all day, ventured upstairs to the Gallery with a picnic basket.

She knocked. "Ahoy, there, matey! Be thar some dark an' sulphurous pestilence at work on ye, or is yer rudder jest havin' too many barnacles fer smooth sailin'?"

[a-lonely-god.livejournal.com]

When the Doctor heard over the park’s intercom (http://community.livejournal.com/dizzy_land/167308.html?thread=9646988#t9646988) that everyone was going to be speaking ‘in sea-dog lingo’, he was delighted. He spent the rest of the day in high spirits, wandering around and exchanging piratey banter with whomever he met, never realizing that it was anything else than a voluntary park-wide celebration of one of the universe’s more ridiculous vernaculars.

((Wanna hear the Doctor talking like a pirate? Go here (http://stage6.divx.com/user/Floatylite99/video/1303965/Doctor-Who-Infinite-Quest-Episode-8) to an episode of the cartoon Dr. Who they did a while back. At 1:32 you get to see cartoon!Doctor pretending to be a space pirate, and yes, David Tennant did the cartoon, so it’s the Doctor’s real voice.))