017 [Voice, backdated to Sept 5th]

[deathsdoctor]

[Hello Luceti. You’re greeted by the sound of a journal opening and muttering. And in the far background, rustling. Like something is squirming around in the distance - wrapping, twining, growing.

We might have a problem here.]



Is there anyone in the village with extensive knowledge of fairy tales? We have a situation on our hands we could use some advice dealing with. [Or maybe even a rescue, but Law’s pride keeps him from saying that much - for now.]



Thorns. [Katara’s voice piped in.] Lots and lots of thorns. They’re growing and overtaking the house, and we’re not sure why.



We think they’re connected to a kidnapping effect. The lady affected has been in an unnaturally deep sleep for days and nothing seems to wake her. [Nothing. Not even beer bottles perched on her head. 8|a ] Has anyone heard of anything like this?

((This is an open post that can be fielded by anybody trapped in the house. Threadjack to your hearts’ content - Law’s journal is made to be snatched from him and anyone else who has it.))

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[redjacketthief]

[Sleeping? Thorns? Lady?

...He's no expert, but...]

That sounds like a classic story. What do you need to know?

[deathsdoctor]

What the story is about and, more importantly, how do we wake her up?

[redjacketthief]

Sleeping Beauty. A princess was placed under a curse upon her birth that would send her into a coma-like sleep when she came of age, should she prick her finger on a spindle.

Naturally, knowing these fairy tales, it took a gallant prince to wake her.

[deathsdoctor]

So we need a prince?

Good thing Luceti isn't in short supply.

[redjacketthief]

Yeah, right?

Though, there's a catch. The prince needs to love her, and kiss her as proof of that love. That's what breaks the curse in the tale, if that's what you think the Malnosso are playing with.

Who is our beauty anyway?

[deathsdoctor]

Miss Nami.

1/?

[redjacketthief]

2/3

[redjacketthief]

[redjacketthief]

[...

He was going to find a way to get the Malnosso for this one. Nami had been abducted enough if the journals were an indicator. This was the worst that he'd heard.]

Goddamn them. Just--goddamn.

[deathsdoctor]

Exactly my sentiments.

[Goddamnit.]

[redjacketthief]

Anything we can do from the outside, or are you stuck?

[deathsdoctor]

Razing the damn things just gets them to grow back twice as thick. Like lightning. And I can't get out by my usual means. [Hark, there is a Grell below. He does not care to mention he's a teleporter with her chiming in. But Law figures Lupin will figure out what he means.]

So yes, we're stuck until we can figure out a way to deliver her love's true kiss without the true love.

[redjacketthief]

[Yeah, he's listening in on the feeds--and resisting the urge to verbally smack that Masaomi kid for his terrible sense of humor.]

Dear lord. Who all is in there with you?

[deathsdoctor]

[And he begins listing the people trapped. These probably include.

Katara.

Miyabi.

Robin.

Marco.

Zoro.

Sanji.

Ace.

Luffy.

Vivi.

And himself.

A full house.]

[redjacketthief]

[He's only met a fraction of those, and is by no means close with any of them, but he does light on one detail just from this list.]

A bunch of them are crewmates, aren't they?

[deathsdoctor]

Yes. Most of them are nakama.

[redjacketthief]

Nakama. That's the word. [If he understood it correctly, it was a concept he was himself intimately familiar with.]

There's no reason why we can't speculate on the possibility of the kiss being out of love in general, and not just romantic love. The love between nakama is just as influential as romance. Maybe more.

[deathsdoctor]

[So very few people in Luceti were. It was sad.]

Hmm. I would agree. It's most certainly worth a shot.

[ARE YOU LISTENING SANJI?]

[redjacketthief]

[It was sad indeed. They were missing out.]

Anything's worth a shot in that situation. Seriously.

[deathsdoctor]

Yes.

Mind getting the word out to my partner that I'm trapped? So he doesn't worry.

[redjacketthief]

[Itachi. Lupin nodded.]

Consider it done.

[voice] 1/2

[concasse]

[...

WHELP. EXCUSE THIS LURKER, GENTS. Sanji will just be running to Nami's room right about now. Law can probably smell the carpet burning from the trail of fire he leaves behind.

Or just hear him calling out in glee:]

Nami-swaaaaaaaaaaaaan~! Your nakama prince is here to wake you~!!

[concasse]

[Aaaaand then a few minutes later:]

... It's gotta be some royal shithead.

[Guess how he found out. Just guess]

[deathsdoctor]

[Oi Oi! No burning the house down while we're trapped inside!

...

...

...

WHELP.]

Damnit.

[Guessing now...

... oh geez.]

[redjacketthief]

Sanji--it failed?

[...]

Welp, I got nothing now.