tapdancinskelly | 1st Song [video]

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1st Song [video]

[Brook has found himself stuck on a flimsy raft out at sea. He can be seen drinking a cup of tea while seemingly having a tea party for himself.]

Well... the accommodations aren't exactly five star, and it's a little leaky, but at least it seems steerable. Not quite as bad as the last vessel I found myself alone on in the middle of nowhere. Yohohoho!

[Brook keeps fiddling with the journal, not really sure how it works.]

I wonder if anyone shall find me? ... Well! No point in sulking about it, when you're feeling down and alone, you should sing!

When you are refined,
And would like to dine,
There's only one beverage that you need,
When you need a drink,
To bring you back from the brink,
It's the greatest thing indeeeeeed!

This is an ode to tea,
The greatest drink in the land!
Tea is great for snack times,
It is so very grand!
Without tea I'd be lost,
Although I think already am!
So here's an ode to tea,
To help me give a damn!

Yohohoho!

[He seems to be taking notes in his journal on the lyrics... that make no sense]

Hmm... I think that last verse still needs a little work.

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That's really quite remarkable! The technology here must really be something else!

My nakama? My Nakama are here?! Yohohoho! That's wonderful news! I was worried I'd been separated from them completely!

Well you see, that's why it takes so long to complete! You have to guess a few letters, check if you're right, then wait until you've forgotten the word again to continue! It's very challenging, but it's something to do when all you've got is something to write with. That and tea.

Yes and no. It's actually a little behind the times in some ways, but there's magic here, which just makes everything a little weird.

Not all of them, but I know Nami, Vivi, Robin, Luffy, and Sanji are here. [And Zoro. Gdi Marco always forgets Zoro.]

Ah... aye. You're lucky they left you with tea I suppose. [No seriously, you're weird even by Marco standards.]

Any idea how far out at sea you are? Any land in sight?

Hmm... so is this... actually a different world then?

Well that certainly is something at lea-... Vivi?

Hmm... not as of yet, no.

Oh! Yes! ... I probably should have explained that earlier. [Oops.] This is Luceti. If you flip to the back of your journal, there's a little guide in there, eh?

Right, Princess Vivi. If you don't know her, I'm sure you soon will, eh.

All right, I'll come flying and try to get a look. Don't worry, we can keep talking as I go.

What? Really? [Flips journal.] Yohohoho! And to think I missed that the entire time!

Ehh?! She's a princess?!

Aye. Of Alabasta, eh?

I'm not sure the order that Straw Hat found you all though.

Well I suppose technically I'm the most recent...

Vivi... didn't die or anything did she? Losing a crew member is a terrible burden to deal with.

Eh? All right.

What? No. [... Yeah he knows what it's like losing nakama...]

But I guess she's still with her country. Which is good. More time with her father, eh?

Oh okay. So they just parted ways. I was starting to worry why I may not have never met her or anything.

Maybe you'll meet her again soon, eh?

And not just here I mean.

Hmm... I'd never have thought of that.

So how far are you all in the New World now anyway?

Oh, we found ourselves on the island of Punk Hazard. Lovely little place really, because if you're too hot you can go to one side of the island, and if you're too cold you can hop over to the other side. And let's not forget the fresh air! Yohohoho!

[Of course... this joke doesn't make much sense unless you've been there recently >_>]

What are you talking about? Why'd you go there anyway? Isn't it basically gone?

[Man when even Marco thinks you're nuts...]

Well Captain Luffy picked up a distress call from the island, so he thought it might be best to explore it to see if anybody was alive, or needed aid of some sort. As for basically gone... that does sound roughly accurate. It's sort of a mix of molten rock, and frozen ice burgs. Then of course there's that lab too, but that's another story.

What?

How did it get like that? And who put a lab there? Or was it the only thing that survived?

Hmm... I wonder how behind the times the majority of folks are in Luceti?

I'm not exactly sure how it got like that, namely because I don't exactly know what it was like in the first place. What do you mean by survived anyways?

It blew up. The island. Vegapunk did some crazy experiment and it blew up.

It did? Huh... Maybe that's why Ceasar figured it was a good place to research in private?

Caesar? Who's that?

Some mad scientist? Probably a rival of Vegapunk or something if he was the one who blew up the island the first time.

Che. Figures. Not like the marines are exactly big proponents of telling the truth to the public either.

[To be fair, seeing as pirates would use that against them, there's a reason they don't tell.]

And what's he doing with it?

From what I can tell, working on a weapon of mass destruction to rival even the one that went off years ago. I barely escaped with my life from the blast of this deadly gas bomb.

Oh wait, I'm already dead. Yohohoho!

[Just. Mental keysmashing everywhere in his head over here. Oh. His. Gosh. He is getting way too old for this. No no, there's a talking skeleton rockstar in the Straw Hat Crew who should definitely be considered too old for this and he's still cracking jokes. Keep it together Marco.]

What's he going to do with it?!

[That just comes out as a squeak really. He's tired of getting told that the islands aren't his to protect, that he doesn't hold onto really any of them, and now this weapon is going to be available just for what? To really make it impossible to save lives? Seriously, he hates people right now.]

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