forum Crystalline Pirates: Protectors of the Island (Closed! You can stalk though.)

Started June 19, 2018 by @ShadeStar

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"IT'S IN YOUR BACK POCKET IDIOT!" Cicada yelled at Houston. She finished checking the rigging.

Houston stared at her for a couple seconds, tilting his head in a rather offended and disgusted way before turning back and marching to his cabin, arms full of cloudy crystals. They dropped one by one, leaving a trail of crystals leading to his bunk.
"I'll be expecting that powder bag!" He yelled back to the others.

He was a rather oblivious person if you hadn't noticed yet. Not stupid necessarily, just oblivious. Or, it could be that he was just annoying, for the next minute the last cannon was loaded.

Cicada sighed loudly as she walked over to Brooke. She looked over the maps, "Please stop me from killing him. I am so very close to just stabbing him."

Zoe went back up to the deck once she finished checking up on the supplies. "Hey Cap, I think we need to make a stop, we're running low on Marakip."

Brooke looked up, biting back a smile. "Yes, well… Honestly, I have no idea how to help you with him," she admitted with a shrug.

Cicada sighed before she turned to Zoe, "We'll make a stop in Onyx. I promise."

Zoe clicked her tongue before holding up a thumbs up "Ok, tell me if you need me to kill some people and stuff." She replied before she wentok to check on the crates.

Loud pounding ensues from the decks below, undoubtedly from Houston's cabin. It stutters on and off, just like Houston when he's nervous - but this time with an earsplitting hammer.

Cicada placed a marker on the map for Onyx and then looked to Zoe, "Will you please go check on Houston. If I go down there I'm going to murder him."

"Well it sounds like hes going to murder you so sure." Zoe replied before she went below to Houston's cabin

Houston was revealed to be hammering at a sizeable piece of cloudy clear crystal in the middle of his cabin so hard it appeared as though he might break the ship. There was a peaceful look over his face though as if this was casual and something he enjoyed.

Zoe cautiously openned the door. "Houston what are you doing?" Zoe asked in concern

"I'm crafting my eye so that I can have a special vision in my eyes. And, you know, not be blind." He answered nonchalantly.

"That doesn't explain why it looks like you're going to tear the ship down, are you ok?"

"I'm fine. Besides, how else am I supposed to chisel this thing into a heckin' eye? Use a nail file?" He asked, eyebrows raised at Zoe as if she was being stupid right then - which of course, she wasn't, the odds of that leaning in Houston's favor.

"Wait, why the fuck do you need an Eye?!?! Are you going blind or something?!" Zoe replied. "And yes you could chisel that with a nail file."

"Well, this one's running out of energy. And when it does, I can either take it out and infect my socket, or be blind in it until I make a new one." He explains, turning to Zoe to show her his one crystal eye. "I crafted it out of my crystal, it gives me special stuff, unlike you. And we all know they run out of energy as we use them. I soak it in mint infusion from time to time, but even that doesn't last forever. So I've got to make a new one for the trip. AND IT'S A FOUR FOOT BY FIVE FOOT CRYSTAL, NO, I'M NOT USING A NAIL FILE." He retorts, going back to hammering it.

Cicada came stomping down and took the crystal from Houston. She replaced it with much smaller crystals, "Don't use the large ones. Idiot. We have smaller ones. Where the hell did you find this anyway?"

"Hey! I was making good progress on that. And the big ones help me take out my anger on you. Now, what am I going to do? Pretend the crystals are your eyes so I can repeatedly stab them?" He jokes, laughing a smile at Cicada, and sitting at his desk with the crystal and his file, ready to work.

"Guys no." Zoe interjected as she replaced the smaller ones with a medium crystal, "See compromise and Houston that joke wasn't funny."