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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 19 Sept 06 - Avast
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 19 Sept 06 - Avast
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Time: 03:37 PM

A two-day sea voyage is not absolutely the best time to discover that you seem now to suffer from sea-sickness. I never used to suffer from sea-sickness. In fact, now I come to think of it, I suppose it's possible that it's not really sea-sickness but the inevitable effects of having spent this Saturday night trying to forget how I spent last Sunday night.

In fact, when Scarlett turned up at my apartment on Sunday morning wearing my jaunty Levenay sailor-stripe top from last season, I'd completely forgotten that I needed to talk to some Cubeheads of my acquaintance to find out what they know about the Lancewood Archipelago. Of course, she was intensely curious about how I came to know some religious fundamentalists (and she does talk awfully loudly when she's curious) so I told her as much of the story as I could manage in between her excited squeals about the upcoming sea voyage.

I don't think she'd ever known about the part I'd played in getting Aiko arrested all those months ago - it's not something I'm particularly proud of. Especially as I had that rather strange experience at the compound. I didn't really want to talk about it then - I don't really want to talk about it now. All I can say is that they gave the impression of knowing rather more about me than I was entirely comfortable with (although, you know, not enough to foil my dastardly-yet-pointless plot). I've wondered a lot about it since then, whether they could really have some kind of mystical powers after all that time meditating on the Cube or whether it was just an elaborate trick to induce awe in the faithful. Anyway, they were pretty friendly at the time, if freaky. And when I finally managed to raise Brother Hans on their antiquated key system he greeted me like a close personal friend. In fact, he called me "Sister Violet!". Which made Scarlett snigger. Which did not help me to keep a straight face.

When I explained our plans to visit the Lancewood Archipelago, he beamed and said:
"Ah, the Isles of Gyvann are most blessed. If it is enlightenment you seek there, sister, you will surely find it."
"Er. Yes," I said. "Enlightenment. That's what we're going for. It's what we need."
"We all need enlightenment, sister. But the Cube blesses where it lists. We can only hope to receive its bounty."
"Yes," I said. This conversation was not going as I'd hoped.
"And your own meditation, Sister Violet, how is that...?"
I interrupted him. "Actually," I said, "we're not sure we're going to be able to make it to the Holy Isles without some guidance. A few of the islands are difficult to navigate, they say, and you're the experts I think."
Brother Hans beamed again.
"You wish for our assistance on your holy quest?"
"Um. Yes."
"You wish us to bring you guidance, as the Cube guides those who are in doubt or fear?"
"Yes, that would be..."
"I am transmitting the map of the treacherous sands to you now. Although, Sister Violet?"
"Yes?"
"We would greatly appreciate a visit from you upon your return."
I just smiled at that. The file was already on my key.

Unlike me, Scarlett has been loving the whole sea expedition. For some reason, although we're travelling on a super-modern three-hulled schooner she's been insisting on talking like, well, like in her words "a scurvy sea dog". I never knew Scarlett had quite such a whimsical side, but something about leaving the city on "another adventure" has brought it out in her. She's been charging up and down the deck asking the ship's crew if they're about to "splice the mainbrace" and calling everyone *knaves* and *curs*. I don't even know where she picked up these words. She started telling me that Von had been teaching her something and then wisely left that one where it lay.

We arrived late last night, later than expected due to some bad weather on the way over, so this morning was our first sight of the islands. We are very far away from anything else - the port town here is tiny and we're going to have to charter another boat to pick our way through the smaller islands to our destination. It's beautiful, in a windswept bleak way. And the island we're supposed to go to has apparently been abandoned for the past several hundred years. There should be nothing there but some puffins and perhaps a tretretretre skeleton or two. Something tells me we're not going to be quite that lucky though.

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She's been charging up and down the deck asking the ship's crew if they're about to "splice the mainbrace" and calling everyone *knaves* and *curs*. I don't even know where she picked up these words.


Seems like Scarlett is getting in the spirit anyway!

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 		I hiope that Violet and Scarlett know about the Pirate's Code if they need to parlez with anyone... but then again it isn't a Code more like guidelines.
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She started telling me that Von had been teaching her something and then wisely left that one where it lay.

*stomps feet*
I wanna know what Von did... Confused
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