2nd Song [Video/Action]

[tapdancinskelly]

[Brook is bouncing around the various locations of Luceti, seeming to be filled with some sort of hyperactive energy as he sings. It seems he's brought an accordion with him this time, and is playing with a broad grin this weird song. His journal seems to be open on a little musical stand he attached to his accordion so that he could broadcast his playing.]

I'll be mellow when I'm dead! I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead! When are you cosmic cowboys gonna get it through your heads? I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead I'll be mellow when I'm dead!

[Then he pauses mid song realizing something.]



Oh wait! I am dead...



[Upon this realization, Brook sits down with his accordion, puts it to the side, pulls out a cup of tea, and begins to read a newspaper as if nothing had ever happened. Where did he get the newspaper? It's an old article from the library that doesn't exactly make much sense, but it's mostly just a prop anyways. Feel free to talk to him as he's bouncing around hyper, or while he's reading his newspaper.]

Comments

[Video]

[savedtheworld]

You're dead...?

[But he just met you... Also, you're a skeleton.]

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Yup! Dead as a doornail! Although I've never really understood that, as doornails never seemed all that lively to begin with.

[Video]

[savedtheworld]

You're right, I've never seen doornails that're alive. But... How are you dead? You're - you, you're talking to me!

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

... Well you see, I got better.

[Siiiip]

But after a certain point, you're still considered dead no matter how much better you get, see?

[Video]

[savedtheworld]

I... don't think I follow. You seem alive, but you also look like... bones.

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Allow me to explain with a bit more clarity! Are you familiar with a cursed fruit known as the devil fruit?

[Video]

[savedtheworld]

I heard about that! Do you know Luffy?!

Voice

[eightlazylegs]

[Hermes isn't usually one for music, and he almost flips to another channel before he realizes what he's looking at. It takes a lot to surprise someone like him, he's so used to being the surprising one but this...this is surprising enough to go lemon yellow for.

How is dead? Are still moving around.

Voice

[tapdancinskelly]

Well I did die. I just ate a cursed fruit that sort of makes me less dead than your ordinary dead... if you call being dead ordinary. Actually, when you think about the history of the world, and how many dead people are in it, I guess it's more ordinary than not. Yohohoho!

[If Brook saw Hermes he'd probably be surprised... fortunately for him, this is an audio chat.]

[eightlazylegs]

Fruit makes less dead? [Hermes is skeptical. He's seen plenty of TV and is familiar with the concepts of zombies and vampires, but they're not supposed to actually be real.] What kind of fruit? Is pineapple? Dislike pinapple.

[tapdancinskelly]

Well, while I agree pineapples are not very good for eating, it was not a pineapple. They are a cursed and very terrible tasting kind of fruit in my world, known as a devil fruit. In particular, the fruit I ate was the yomi, yomi fruit, also known as the fruit of resurrection.

[eightlazylegs]

...If terrible how is yummy? [There's some logic that's gone missing here.]

[tapdancinskelly]

It isn't, that's the point.

[Logic? What logic?]

[eightlazylegs]

Why eat if not tasty?

[unseenspy]

[What kind of a song is that?]

...You're just now realizing that you're dead?

[tapdancinskelly]

Well you see! It's more of that I only now realized that the song isn't applicable! I thought to myself, what an interesting concept! Why be boring and lethargic, when as a dead man you can't be wild and crazy anymore!

Of course then I realized that I'm dead, and I'm still hyper and energetic... so why shouldn't I be mellow?

... If that makes any sense.

[Sluuuurp]

[Video]

[unseenspy]

[He raises an eye.]

If you're dead, why aren't you six feet under?

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Wow, that's just so *BUUUUUUUUURP* rude!

Suffice to say, nobody was around to bury me.

[Video]

[unseenspy]

Please. You're hardly one to talk, you belching corpse.

Well, there are plenty of people around here to bury you. I might even have a coffin that you can...well...use.

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

That's quite alright, I don't exactly need burying any more.

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

What kind of tea is that?

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Earl Grey.

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Not bad, eh. Although doesn't that have a lot of caffeine? Or does it not affect you as a skeleton?

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Yeah the caffeine tends to have random effects on me. Sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it makes me incredibly hyper, and sometimes it just makes me tired. So as a skeleton I usually like teas with a little less caffeine. Plus we had nearly an endless supply of the stuff on my ship, so after 60 years or something, it kind of grew on me.

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

I guess sixty years will do that to a man. I know that's why I'm forever fond of fish. [Even though he's not sixty... or is he? DUN DUN DUN!]

[Marco spreads his hand with a shrug.] Stick with what you know, eh?