Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27120173-20190113071131/@comment-26892768-20190116035256

Elsewhere...

Floating along the Sparkling Waters is a large, wooden ship, notable for it's pink and white striped sails, and also for the large, treasure chest-like structure built into the back of the ship, giving it a rather distinct look. High up on the mast, a single black flag waves, with the symbol of a white skull with curved eyeholes resembling an angered expression and two odd curving protrusions on the sides being printed with pride.

Currently working on the deck of the ship are a variety of characters. Most of the crew consists of dual-toned brown creatures that resembles blobs with hands, feet, and a striped bandana, keeping a watchful eye out over the waters. Of course, they aren't the only crew members - a variety of creatures are walking around, like short, wolf-like humanoids dressed in overalls and striped bandanas, and duck-like humanoids with goggles, black shirts, and striped bandanas (seems to be a pattern here), with both groups of humanoids also keeping an eye on the water. Well, sort of. The ducks are alternating between looking into the water and inspecting the things that more of their fellow crewmembers bring, with said crewmembers being pelican-esque creatures with - once again - a striped bandana. Seems like they're searching for something in particular...

And then someone walks out onto the deck. This person is a tall, curvy redhead, wearing a light purple top puffy purple pants, purple boots with pink cuffs, a red belt with a buckle resembling the emblem on the flag, golden earrings, and a light purple bandana (which is, surprisingly enough, not striped). Giving the entire ship a brief glance, the figure walks up to one of the ducks. "Status report."

"No luck, captain! We've yet to find the sack here, either!" The duck explains. "What do you say we should do?"

"...keep searching! We need to find that sack, and we're not returning to the castle until we do!" The captain orders. But just who is this captain, you might ask?

This would be Captain Syrup - full name Maple Syrup, but she's not a big fan of people knowing her first name at all - the captain of the Black Sugar Gang. Currently, she and her crew are on The Sweet Stuff, the most recent ship of the Black Sugar Gang, and they are looking for the Bottomless Coin Sack. Why?

Well...

It was lost when they were heading to Syrup Castle.

Captain Syrup had easily acquired the sack by manipulating a certain overweight greedy egomaniac in yellow to do the hard work for her, allowing her to easily snag the sack from him while he wasn't looking and ride off in her car. What she hadn't anticipated was losing the sack out at sea, and because of that, she and her crew have been out at sea for months trying to find the Bottomless Coin Sack, only stopping at islands to refuel on various supplies. The Black Sugar Gang has been assured that this will all be worth it - with the Bottomless Coin Sack, they can get their share afterwards and then some.

Because if Captain Syrup is ever going to show her face to Wario again, she refuses to endure the ensuing embarrassment upon revealing that she lost the thing after stealing it from him. She wants to be able to flaunt the fact that she has infinite money right in his face.

But, as Captain Syrup prepares to walk back to her quarters, a nervous-looking Pirate Goom calls out to her. "C-captain! Look at this!"

"Did you find the sack?" Syrup goes over.

"No...look at the fish! They're all swimming away from something..." The Pirate Goom gestures to the water with his spear. Syrup looks at the water, noting that he's right. Nevertheless, she rolls her eyes.

"That isn't so unus..." Syrup trails off when she sees some Dragoneels heading off in the same direction as well - not even trying to eat the other fish, but just trying to get away as fast as possible.

"...something is wrong." Syrup looks around, trying to see what the cause of the disturbance is.

"Hey! Is that Diamond City over there?" One of the crewmembers asks, pointing to something in the distance. Syrup looks - sure enough, that's Diamond City way on the horizon; she's learned to recognize it from a distance. But it would seem that Diamond City's having a bit of trouble...apparently so much trouble that it's spooking the animals, even those far out here...

Syrup thinks. She can avoid this mess and just keep searching for the sack, hoping internally that whatever's causing that doesn't come for her...or, she can figure out what the hell is going on, and maybe make Wario's life a little harder in the process.

She can live with making Wario's life harder. Might as well get her mind off of that bottomless sack for a moment.

"Everyone, get on deck, set a course, and row as fast as you can. We're headed for Diamond City." Captain Syrup points to the distant city, and the Black Sugar Gang nods, pulling up the anchor and changing the course of The Sweet Stuff to the city of Syrup's rival.

One of the pelican-like members gets on deck a bit late, spitting out something he found in the water. It's a blue gem of some kind - looks rather valuable to him, at least. But, seeing as there's a new job at hand, the pelican decides to skip inspection and just do the sensible thing: toss the gem into the captain's pile of gold and various treasures. Surely, that will turn out well, right?