Trade ship headed for Rogue town. (open to anyone)

[Farris (Kuro)]

The cool breezes and fair weather made for a relaxing day on the Merchant ship. It almost made Farris restless for adventure, or something exciting to happen. Not for the sake of combat mind you, but to help shake her from this acursed writter's block. She had been trying to write a new song for weeks while on this ship and had only managed to get:
"Through the mists,
On the harbor,
Dancing lights,
On the water..."

Sure it was a fine start, but hardly enough to be proud of for three weeks of work. The wind played with Farris' mint-blue hair, making her long ponytail dance wildly, much to her irritation. Maybe if a Seaking attacked or if they ran into pirates or something... maybe that would stir her muse into giving her something she could turn into music. The musician turned as one of the merchants neared. "Well miss Farris, you look positively miserable... Or is that part of your "image"?" The fat old codger asked with a hearty belly jiggling chuckle. "Hey ya old fart... Yeah I guess I am. I got a horrible case of writter's block." She replied with a smirk as they made light conversation. "Hmm? That so? Well, I'm sure it'll come to you." He said looking out over the sea ahead of her. The two were at the front of the ship and above deck so the view was quite nice.

"Will be nearing the East Blue soon. Your presence as a bodyguard will pay for your passage so I wouldn't worry." The old merchant stated turning and preparing to walk back into the ship. "Yeah, I guess so..." Farris stated not all that happy with the fact that she had yet to play any of her music for the crew, and that she may not have the chance soon. "By the way old man... Where exactly in East Blue are we going?" She added as a subject change. "Oh? Didn't I tell you?" He said then paused until Farris shook her head. "A famous town, called Rogue Town. The market is exquisite there." He said before continuing on his way into the ship. Farris looked to the sky, "Rogue Town... I think... I've heard of it before." She muttered in thought

[honaj]

Honaj sat a few dozen feet towards the cabin from the bow. He was cross-legged beside his bag of equipment (which could easily be misconstrued as the larger of the two). It carried all of his possessions. Hidden beneath the burlap were numerous objects, varying from clamps to boring tools, and even a small anvil. He let out a sigh as he relaxed into the sun light.

One might confuse him for a merchant of the ship. He likely did not look like any kind of a fighter. Honaj was what one might call short. In addition to his height his loose clothing did not do much to deter the fact that he was not of that class. Instead of standing and readying for the island that would be coming eventually, he would wait much like he had been, his mane of brown hair dropping to cover his sight.

[Farris (Kuro)]

Farris heaved a sigh and looked at the Saber. If nothing else Cyan would be happen that his teaching's were being put to use. The mint blue haired woman didn't like to dwell on such things, it only made her depressed. The clouds shifted in the sky making the sunlight glint off something and on to her scabbard. Farris looked up and tried to locate the source of the light.
The musician's eyes fell upon what looked to be a merchant with a bag larger than he was. His eyes being hidden by a large brown mane of hair. Curiosity struck and she found herself walking over to him. Farris knelt down in front of him. "That's quite the load your hauling, you one of the merchants too?" She commented looking at the large bag and wondering what was in it. Farris tried not to judge others or make assumptions based on appearances, after she had first hand experiance with that.
The man looked nice enough too, so maybe (assuming he was a merchant) she would by something from him. If not perhaps they could just enjoy a nice conversation until they reached the ports of Roguetown. This of course was assuming that nothing occurred before then.

[honaj]

Honaj was reveling in the sun beaming upon his head, he did enjoy the heat applied by the light. The scent of the sea wasn't his favorite, but he had adjusted to that negative point. Soon the noise of the merchants about him hustling each other was broken by the sound of footsteps.

His head fell back to rest against the railing of the boat, which allowed him to peek through his bangs and see who was coming toward him. As the newcomer to his day questioned him, he brushed his hair away to reveal his eyes.

"A merchant, not quite but close." was his reply. "I make weapons actually." A moment after explaining, his eyes fell upon her belt and what was attached to it.

"What's that you've got there?"

[Farris (Kuro)]

Farris smiled, "So your a blacksmith? I've never seen a blacksmith that travels around before." She commented as yellow eyes meet golden brown ones. They had seemed darker for a moment until the light had hit them making them appear much lighter now that she could see them. "Oh this?" The dark clad woman said as she regarded her saber, and lifted it up so the smith could get a better look at it.
"It's just a saber I picked up on my own travels." She explained before handing the blade over to the smith. "I seem to have a bad habit of being mistaken as a bandit or a pirate, though I'm just a simple musician really." The blue haired woman told him, making her own career clear. "Not to say I don't know how to use a sword mind you, an old friend taught me." Farris added quickly, not wanting to seem like she couldn't use a weapon or defend herself.
Though it probably did seem weird that a musician was on a merchant ship, Farris was pretty sure the blacksmith had put two and two together. She had been hired as a bodyguard, but her appearance was enough to keep most away. True she didn't have a bounty but her attire made her look like a pirate and it was enough to give the illusion that the ship was under some type of unusual protection.

[kiarus]

But what would that really do?....

A true professional at the arts of piratism and bounty hunting could tell a fake when they saw one. Would a mere woman with a few days of sword training provide the ship full of plentiful goodness with the protection it needed. The lone guard with a simple saber, rag tailed in a pirates outfit to put on a scary external appearance?

Maybe so.

The charade was good enough, or rather well set up. But the fact that the ship was so under guarded it must of warranted it for capture. Even though one has given up their pirate ways in hopes of setting up a life of bounty hunting, you couldn't really break from your natural roots. And today's lesson for the kiddies was-...

Looting.

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Laying abruptly, comfortably reclining in a wooden chair, E ~ Kard was resting his eyes for his upcoming endeavor. Something inside of him stirred, motioning, and moving about in a way all too familiar to him. Interpreting it as a signal the jeweled bounty hunter allowed his weight and gravity to take effect. Bringing the airborne leg pegs to the cool surface of the wooden floor. He sighed, his eyes opened slowly, quickly shifting to his left where his hand followed reaching over grabbing his jeweled sword by the hilt.

Getting up quickly and grabbing his full body cloak, E ~ Kard easily and gracefully attached his sword vertically down his back under the cloak so the only visible piece of hostility was the jeweled hilt that stuck up out of the cloak. E ~ Kard hid this well by pulling his hood over the hilt and his head.

Making his way to his private room door, he reached out pulled it open, and stepped out into the world to complete the task at hand. In his other hand he dug into his pocket pulling out a small book he labeled, 'Bounty Book'. Here he listed all of the bounties he came across on his travels along with a small picture and as much information as he could gather.

Maybe he'd find a bounty on this merchant ship today, if so. He could most likely let the merchant ship go un-looted.

Pro-ba-bly...

[honaj]

"I'm looking for something actually, it's something I have to do before I actually set up shop."

Honaj chuckled lightly about her explanation as he accepted the small blade, one hand lay under the blade and his right gripping the hilt. He was almost too distracted by the weapon in his hands to converse back and forth with her, but after fully training his eyes to any features the saber had to offer he could finally look up again.

"I'm sure you do just fine, but. . ." He began again as he handed back her sword. "I doubt it could hold up to my sword." He joked at her.

[king]

The seas current was gentle to Poot since they pushed him along all this way to some place that he wasn't found of. He was floating along a piece of wood that seemed strong, strong enough to travel a far distance. During his time of this piece of wood that he had been stuck on floating onto where ever he was fated to be, he knew that being a pirate was something that he had to do, but what was even more important was finding a crew that would help him come closer toward his goal.

Poot soon then arrived next to some type of ship that he never seen before. He was out cold sleeping and woke up only to the impact that the piece of wood made when it knocked itself into the ship, with the help of the sea's current. " What the hell" he was in a hurry to stand up and see what he just knocked into "Eh...where am I know?" As Poot looked around he seen that he was in front of some sort of ship. A ship that he never sen before an heard voices coming from ontop, while he looked from the bottom of the ship.

"I wonder......is this a pirate ship?" Poot smirked and folded his arms and started, knowing that he would soon come in contact with some people that would either break him or make him. Maybe they were just simple people but who now a days traveled in huge boats. Poot didn't care if a fight broke out an the instant thought of this made him lick his lips and decreased the size of his pupils, actually these pirates that he came to a conclusion about were probably able to help him but no matter because at the end of the day he would not die because his goal was more important to him then his own life.

[Farris (Kuro)]

Farris didn't pay any mind to the man that was cloaked nearby. He looked to be a shady character, but She assumed the merchants weren't dumb enough to have only hired her to defend their ship. Though merchants were often a greedy sort so who knew? But if they were that stupid, then they likely deserved what ever they got.

"Looking for something?" She repeated with interested. It seemed everyone was searching for something these days. Not that it was any of her business of course, she wouldn't pry if he didn't want to talk about it, but she was curious. she accepted the sword back with a smirk, "Oh Really? I might have to see about you making me something better. Like I said, this is just something I happened upon." She chuckled, not entirely joking. If his blades were as good as he claimed, then it'd be worth upgrading to a better sword. Who knows? Maybe the young smith would even give her a discount.

Farris was shaken from any further thoughts when she heard a clatter, like wood hitting the side of the ship. "I'll be back in a minute." She told the blacksmith before standing and moving to the ship's side to peek over board. The dark clad musician raised a brow as she spotted a man on a piece of drift wood. "That's an odd mode of transportation." She called down to him is a sort of snarky way. She'd likely help him out, though the merchants may not be too happy about it.

[honaj]

Honaj nodded along with her question, though he didn't know her well enough to answer it right away. He smiled and turned to a little notebook he kept on his person before replying to her request.

"Uh let's see here," he said, flipping through the pages. "To replicate the size and shape you are used to, wouldn't actually be that bad. Maybe fifty to a hundred beri, actually." He smiled at his offer. A moment later she was gone across the boat and seemed to be talking to someone.

He decided to take advantage of her absence, by taking out a large tome. In this book, was a catalog of weapons, all of which he planned to create. The page he finally stopped on, showed the diagnostic of a saber. Honaj smirked, placed the book where he had taken it from and stood. He moved to stand beside Farris, leaning over curiously.

[Farris (Kuro)]

The man bellow her on the raft seemed to ignore her, something that Farris found irritating to say the least still she dropped a line down to him. Traveling by drift wood was no way to travel the sea, and likely he'd end up as food for a sea king if she didn't help him now. Although it would be funny to watch this guy get eatten by one of those large sea monsters, the blue haired woman doubted she'd be their to see it and that was just no fun at all.

As the musician lowered a rope down to him, she noticed the blacksmith stand by her and also peer down at the straggler. "I know, probably not the smartest idea to help a stranger, but if we leave him, he's likely to become Sea King bait. That's attention we don't need." Farris said to the long banged smith in her defense. She knew the merchants were likely to garnish her pay for this though but that was fine.

Thinking about their prior conversation, the dark clad woman decided to change the subject back to that. "Anyway, about what you were sayin' earlier... About my saber..." She started with a smirk. She was still griping the rope but her attention was focused on the smith. "Only about fifty to a hundred beri you say? You have any on you or would this be a custom piece?" The sword wielding musician asked with interest.

So caught up in her conversation was she that she didn't hear the waves push the drift wood away and it's odd passenger with it. When she did take a moment to notice, the young man and the raft were too far away and drifting farther. Oh well, she guessed, it was his own fault for ignoring her and not taking the rope when he had the chance. Farris just hoped at this point her precognition of the straggler being Sea King bait didn't come to fruition, that would really make a mess of things.

[honaj]

Honaj absently leaned over the railing on his elbows staring out to sea. His movement to the rail, jostled his bangs just enough to send a single strand to hang just across his nose. It almost blocked his view of the man disappearing into the horizon, but even that was disrupted as he chose that moment to discuss him,

"Isn't it a law to salvage people like that?" Honaj inquired, he knew that if they were in reverse situations he would very much like to be pulled from wreckage of a ship. It was a moot point at this time, though, as he was far too far gone to help.

The blacksmith turned about, leaning upon the railing to let that topic die off. He was very interested in the other offered, weapons did happen to be the highpoint in his life. Her questions prompted him to check into his metal surplus, crossing the distance to his luggage in a few short steps. When he stood once more he shook his head and walked back to the railing.

"I would have to purchase it, I barely even have enough iron to make a dagger, and trust me what I have planned would be better with some quality metal." Honaj explained, a chiding type of language coming from the normally quiet male.

[Farris (Kuro)]

The dark clad woman could just make eye contact with the smith as his movements caused his bangs to part. She smirked at his inquiry, "Maybe." Was her reply. "But just between the two of us, I don't really care ether way, and It looks like he doesn't ether." Farris remarked in a slightly jaded tone, it faded quickly however as the subject shifted.

She watched him look threw his things, then return. The musician turned temporary ship guard nodded in understanding. That made sense, hauling around a lot of metal ore wasn't easy and would be easier to buy once they got to land. Though she was curious as to what he had in mind she could wait she supposed. On the other hand may be one of the other merchants had something. It normally was against the job to go through the stock of goods, but a peek couldn't hurt.

"One of the other merchants might have some one board, we could take a peek." She suggested. "Then if we find what you need, we can see what the merchant that owns it wants for it?" The blue haired woman added as an after thought, even as she headed for the fore mentioned store room. She paused briefly and turned to see if he was following before opening the door and going inside.

[honaj]

"We could check. I've got some money in case we do find anything." he said. For a moment he was silent but then glanced around quickly. "Do you think that any of them have it?" He was curious if they did, but they could work with what they would find.

Honaj waited for her to lead the way for a moment, but just as she would begin to walk away, he would reach out and place a hand upon her shoulder.

"Oh and tell none of them what we plan to use it for. This project has to be kept a secret." he added in a very serious tone.

[Farris (Kuro)]

Farris could have sworn that she saw someone in here, but if their was he wasn't there anymore. All the better in her case, less chance that things are missing or that she has to doing any fighting. Not that she'd mind it really, would be better than sitting around twit-tiling her thumbs but she'd rather be singing or maybe sitting down with a bottle of rum. She had quiet a taste for liquor though she managed to keep from over drinking. She knew that a Drunk was an easy target for con-men and other such scum.

The blue haired woman started peaking under sheets of fabric at the goods until she came upon the stocks of metal ore. "Hey, I think I found something over here. What do you think?" She asked the black smith, holding the sheet up while looking over at him so he could easily come to inspect it. The dark clad woman was no expert on metals but she at least knew metal ore when she saw it. Taking a few moments to looking around the goods to find out which merchant owned the ore, Farris found a name scribbled on the tarp. The name was Korun, and a merchant she actually knew conveniently enough.