invite pls

always yay

it will be an invite-thru-the-grapevine event with skulman sending out 1 tier of invites with the expectation that word of mouth will spread it

which is my ic way of saying "im not stede i aint inviting you all individually its ota"

Izzy and Ed can be Lucius and Stede's +1s

Perf

yea!

Claudia will 100% come lurk in the background in a party gown and drink blood from a wineglass if he mentions it to her at all

I love how committed to the Aesthetic she is

She’s not especially invested in killing the Captain (she’s enjoying the vacation!) but she’s definitely here for the dirty deets

skulduggery's absolutely 100% against killing the captain for a host of reasons that include "we will all die terrible deaths" and "there's possibly far more complicated underpinnings that we're missing and we might destroy things on a cosmic scale"

other reasons too you know, like "i feel bad for him" "i kinda wanna see what's going on" and "my evil alter ego likes it when murder happens"

but absolutely NOT for any reasons like "i like him" "i want to help him" and "i see so much of my own past in what little he's shown of himself that i cannot NOT over-identify with him"

Skully + Captain =

there's such a strong divide with team killing the captain vs team not doing that

the former team is made up almost entirely of teenagers he spited

KIDS REACT to existential crisis, cosmic horror, and overbearing control over their lives

with murder

some of these teenagers already murdered the overbearing forces that spited them and grow angrier every day that murder the captain takes longer

^ yes that

can annihilate an entire society but struggles to murk one scraggly boi with shitty facial hair, the fuck

all this genocide cred for nothing

the blue thumnbtacks on this map indicate concentrations of high 月(luna) energy, the red ones are all the teenagers that are mad at me

its kind of funny that all the teenagers hate a guy who hasn't actually done like. anything to them

other than put them in zany situations

completely normal fun little events where nothing bad happens unless they make it happen. not like there are consequences (real or imagined) for not playing along!

I mean he is actively intending to use their souls as fuel for the ship

uh excuse he burned rita's hand

Lmao

clarke and natsuno: teens good at murder extra angry that the captain won't die

sure, rita already disliked the captain even before he burned her hand off, but now she has extra reason

RITA BURNED HER OWN HAND SETTING A FIRE IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE

captain simps only in this plurk sorry

did the captain set the fire rita??? or was that your own impulsive desire for violence acting out in a way that affected you instead of your enemies for once???? hmMMMMMMM???

wow cruise is right we desperately need a hannibal lector

this plurk is Problematic

HEY LOOK starting the fire doesn't make it her fault!!

she blows up ONE of palamedes' skeletons and for some reason everyone gets on her case about it

Bo Burnham - Problematic (8D Audio + Lyrics)

im gonna be real with you guys, skulduggery learned about rita's shit from the captain so he is actually Biased about it lmfao

definitely thinks "if this chick had just chilled tf out...."

lmao I love that he's biased about it, and isn't exactly seeing anything from rita to change his mind

divinesaber: Ed's 1000% on board with the idea of the "starting the fire doesn't make it [firestarter's] fault" aka "I didn't kill them, the fire did" and so forth

omg this plurk

jade, who has both seen the aftermath of the hand-burning and has also watched rita have to deal with the repercussions of being one-handed all the way up to and through fuckin dying alongside her in the battle royale: "actually yeah that was Extremely Fucked of the captain and why are we being apologists about this pretty clear-cut fact excuse me???"

god im living for skuls side-eyeing rita's hotheadedness in general bless.....

she has pirate approval yesss

lmao something the dads heavily disagree on

(also throwing another thumbs-up in here for a skuls-hosted info party next month yes good !)

tbf after this hypothetical argument with skuls jade is also just as liable to turn right back to rita like "kiddo your temper really is a difficult thing and it'd still be great if you could reign it in and use your head more tho "

but also, we cannot forget: the captain is still a Motherfucker tbqh

she'd feel so called out even if it is true

yeah the teens on this boat have NOT given him much confidence
100% if darcy had gotten killed in that convo with the captain skulduggery would have just ignored her dead body like "i told you not to start a fight ugh"

like he officially does not think the teenagers should have any say in what the plan is lmfao

ESPECIALLY AFTER CLARKE

(darcy is the exception b/c she's not just any teen. she's a teen detective)

Clarke did let us know he's made of void tho

that's pretty useful

tru without her skuls never would have gotten the chance to fist the captain's skull????

imagine what timeline we'd even be in now without this v important event

LMAO , meanwhile skuls just fisting the void as clearly not a reckless thing to do

the voidussy is plot critical

we should honor Clarke with a statue

the statue needs to be holding a pair of lobster crackers ofc

legendary

the teens will make their OWN plan then, with blackjack and murder

have darcy beat him at uno

skuls is right tho in that the teens are a scary disaster and should get no vote in the plan if the teen plan is just MURDER

YEAH THAT'S THEIR FUCKING PLAN MAN

lmfao skulduggery and ed like "jesus christ some nuance please"

clarke WAS cool until she DUG A PEN CAP INTO HER ARM TO DRAW A BLOOD SIGIL IN A POPULATED AREA

if skulduggery needs to reach the void inside the captain again he sure aint askin for her help!

the teens are here to get questionable things done!!

insert the horrible bosses whiteboard with MURDER written on it meme here

"teens don't get a say" wow rude, so they can get info but not use it for murder??

(please don't let the teens murder)

skul man, lets just hang out and drink drinks by the pool while these kids run amok until they tire themselves out, then we can put them down for naps like good wine-uncles

(clarke and natsuno will literally kill everyone to get rid of the captain)

yeah and that's what makes them... the bad guys

look there can be murder after there is 100% confirmation literally everyone on the boat doesnt die by proxy??

aka jade's stance on murder prospects rn lmao

if you're willing to murder fio to get to the captain??? yeah that's a huge red flag to skulman

sighs tiredly at natsuno and clarke forever in these ways tbh

good news is: skulduggery's evil alter ego will love the murder plan!

theres a good reason why jade and skulduggery are so close............

is that good news tho?

(disclaimer: this is good news for only specifically for skulduggery's evil alter ego)

it's good news for people who don't care about being bad guys who murder seven year old children who just want to live with their surrogate mommy and daddy!

lmao skuls and jade do vibe in this sense.......though on the other hand jade Cannot relate to the captain the way that evil alter ego over there sure does, so, im sure this will be a fun revelation convo somewhere way down the line in the future

he'

yeah the whole "i am deeply invested in reforming this guy because i need to prove it's possible so when my friends find out i'm a Bad Guy Too they'll know it's ok bc i reformed" thing is a lot

s not too fussed about how easily skuls seems to be able to manage convos with the captain rn but!!

...okay she's part of team teen but rita is about the murder-everyone-plan

still.....

aw skuls.........that baggage oof

skuls....

skully...

shitposting aside, clarke would probably prefer to save everyone (except herself) and not kill them all to destroy the captain

(natsuno wants to save 6 people)

but if they can't take control of the reality somehow, then might as well crush it on everyone's heads

skulduggery's actual hope is that they can put an end to any and ALL weird ship shenanigans. the fact that jenny's doing it too tells him that stopping the captain is a temporary fix. eventually jenny will just end up the same way. or someone else will

so the goal for him is to figure out the root problem, the thing that caused all of this in the first place, and then destroy that problem with every available resource

hopefully guns but he expects some wits and also heart to be involved

also he has Serious Disinclinations towards plots where they use the Captain's weaknesses to control him. he has Things about control lol

so between the concerns of someone being able to control the captain (and therefore his powers) and the power vacuum he's afraid will show up..... yeah he's being cautious lmfao

what power vacuum. You have two, three if you count Izzy, perfectly capable ship captains here to assume command except that'd be a disaster even without weird powers and whatever

you know what kanye says and skulduggery agrees with: no one man should have all that power

Ed doesn’t want to, stede is green and Izzy is done with everyone. Together they may form one capable captain.

Except that would require izzy and stede to not hate each other so rip

For what it’s worth izzy doesn’t think they should kill the captain and he’s said this to darcy who agreed with him

Direct result of being shook by a conversation with skulduggery who izzy is under the impression of being the only person on this ship who knows or cares to know what the fuck is going on

And has even the barest idea of a plan

Sooo Ed, ig you better prepare yourself and your waning interest for your first mate’s interest also waning.

Needs must. This is survival.

ooo

not to be the guy to throw oil on that fire but skulduggery was already impressed by izzy during their first convo, he knows that Darcy idolizes him (which means he's solid), and as soon as he learns about how the parlay went down he is going to flip his lid

gonna show up at izzy's like "i have so many tips to help you make a sick ass impression on this guy"

Excellent. He will be sus of the price of this information but he wants it.

Gotta get shit done

Izzy is teaching darcy codes shorthand. He is happy to also teach skully to then compare notes more openly.

Coded*

By coded I mean 18th century English is a fucking trip

god that would be good tbh he probably has his own like personal form of shorthand but i guarantee it is illegible to anyone except him (and he would never be able to teach it, it's just... his brain)

he saw darcy's shorthand and was like "!!!!"

izzy's gonna find himself suddenly being appreciated and ed's gonna have to watch out

Utilise him skulduggery. For the love of god please someone utilise him.

lucius didn't already?

LOL I mean it’s even stevens on that front now

^

lol

Ed's too busy to watch out for anyone undermining his position with Izzy

Sorry blackbonnet izzy and lucius are late to parlay part 2, izzy was bringing lucius to church.

Tsk tsk. Won’t even notice once he’s gone.

Still haven't gotten there, but they'll probably be late as well. probably not due to sex, but due to being dumb

Ed gonna have an awakening when izzy literally gives up on him for feeling ignored

If he notices

He probably needs that awakening, and Izzy probably needs to give up on him. Neither can give each other what they want

"and that makes them the bad guys" who said they were trying to be good guys?

I'm not caught up with this whole plurk but +1 a statue, the pen cap only came into play bc her trusted knife is currently ABSENT, and I love the budding problematic hot takes milling about

this whole thing can only end serendipitously

murdering a bad guy doesn't make them bad guys

penbee: would Ed really be able to sever that tie

Genuinely if Izzy walked away would he be okay with that.

probably depends on a lot of other factors

seriously

yeah murdering a bad guy is fine. murdering every innocent person on the ship to murder the bad guy is not ideal

yeah that would be...not-great collateral damage

mount weather 2.0

okay clarke we get it you had a bad childhood why are you taking it out on the rest of us we didn't even go to the same school

(what i imagine kids say to their friends who steal fucking toilets out of the bathroom)

(...wtf)