thinkin its the hardy brothers (natsuno pal and jade) plus ava already got the long-form....

historein honestly if you dont mind i might delete skulduggery's last response in the inbox and just have this be the follow-up

I'M TOTALLY GOOD IF YOU WANT to like, talk ooc about what that conversation wouldve been like jellyghoti if you don't wanna go through and respond to it individually lol

ill show you the version everyone else is getting too >)

it's waaaaay shorter ava will be very happy to know

is she going to tell him????????

or is he going to have to find out mid-argument with the captain while jade dissociates in the passenger seat

Skully should find out about the cranes!!!

the cranes are neat

yeah go for it!!

ava needs to get her groove back and gain some confidence!!!!!

I would love a textaroo from Skully about this

I'd love a textaroo, but Ed would have no clue what he'd been sent

yes!

>)

now to decide if new inductees to the text spree get a different text than the others

I should ask cruiseparent later if there's a talk to text feature and a function that will read the text aloud

oh bless jade and i both love us some lore-relevant tldr in the inbox

im so glad skuls included the waffle deets also?? most important info in this essay tbqh

skuls is 100% right jade is absolutely getting a kick out of this knowledge

hehehehehe

if you go to ava's inbox you can see the full text that he pared down for the sanity of his fellow sleuths

(removing...... hmmmmmmm maybe some important information???)

the hardy brothers

LMFAO womp womp

those of you who asked for plot texts who don't normally get them will be getting some tomorrow!! at some point!!! you get special written messages too because youre all special angesl

lirulin: 100% expecting skulduggery to wind up infodumping about the captain to lucius in a way that earns a LOT of sideeye emojis

penbee: i can definitely have skulman send ed a text out of respect to fucking blackbeard lmfao, thats a dude you wanna warn about some bad shit going down

sparks_fly: malcolm is gonna be easy skulduggery wants to be his friend and also prove he doesn't want to murder him (only that he WILL, if he NEEDS TO)

my goal with all of these texts is to establish that skulduggery is the resident crazy old maurice who is just like. constantly up on the captain's business. for no reason!!!! just because its fun

not at all because he heavily identifies with the creature he's seeing in front of him

DEFINITELY not because he has latent homicidal urges bundled up inside an alter-ego that would like very much to see what it's like when someone's reduced down to the atomic level

Thanks now I have Gaston’s song reprise stuck in my head

the beauty and the beast au that nobody asked for

love it. so many side eyes. lets go.

LOL that’s good...

"We are not going to get out of this by destroying the ship or murdering the Captain" natsuno is feeling attacked by this statement and will ignore it

lol

LMFAO natsuno.... please....

murder the captain

look skuls youre talking to a kid who won vampire lottery, couldve easily escape his doomed village and live a relatively normal life, and chose violence instead

the real reason skulduggery wants everyone to play nice is b/c he's worried if he goes apeshit he'll murder everyone instead SO YOU KNOW he kind of gets the life of violence

Skulman, we need to go apeshit together.ship won’t stand a chance

absolutely NEED to make more of an effort to tag ed with him so they can become unhinged psychopaths together

I need to tag skulduggery more too. Sorry I am shy and everything. But yes, gimme unhinged. And a flying ...date? I don’t really know what’s going on with that, but flying yes

hehe, skulduggery can fly and he took stede up to look at the ship! and stede thinks ed would also like to see the ship from the air

and dooooo not fret i am also shy lol, know i am always drooling after ed thinking "how can i make myself cool enough"...........

Ed is lame. Nothing he does is cool at all. Please come at him, cool skellyman

penbee skulman and stede have to go apologize to darcy, i'm gonna see if stede mentions the parlay which would give skulduggery ample reason to want to immediately tell ed "HEY, DON'T FUCKING STAB HIM"

actually nah he can stab him

ed is not going to parlay

izzy is Stede's second there

but ed can bring Skulduggery the letter from stede to read, if youd like. say he was looking for lucius but Skulduggery was in the cabin idek

so stabby instructions should be directed to izzy

and if no to the letter, that's cool too!

i am absolutely down for that if it works for you and liru, dont wanna get in the way of pirate bonding time but that would be a solid way to loop ed in (and skulduggery too)

and oh right right thats ok then skulduggery already gave izzy a nice friendly warning

penbee: if you wanna do this btw by allll means come on over to skulduggery's inbox