You Wouldn't Pirate a...that was unexpected

[19:41:00] <~Aori_Radidjiu> BEFORE YOU START
[19:41:11] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Intuition or Focus to remember what happened to Rick
[19:41:20] <Mackenzie> For perspective, Mack had seen he got an email from her, and refused to look at it, but as was shown, was quite unnerved by its presence
[19:41:37] <Mackenzie> 1d6+2 pfft
[19:41:37] <DiceMaid-9001> Mackenzie, pfft: 7 [1d6=5]
[19:42:59] <Mackenzie> So this could be after people have cooled down after the battle.
[19:43:22] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Rick was another actor that Jennifer was working with.  He ran off to get hookers and blow and ditch her since he had money and wanted to spend it wantonly.  Around that time you got to see Jennifer with the reddest face you'd ever seen her with.  You don't know what happened to Rick.  You just know Jennifer went after him and Rick was never mentioned again.
[19:49:04] * Mackenzie is shut up and locked into his room, pacing around with his laptop open. He's yet to muster the courage to open the email.
[19:53:42] * Mackenzie sends out Ross. "Dear lord... I've really messed up this time, Ross."
[19:55:59] <Med> aori, just for context ... when exactly is this? Like, is it after ghosts? Are they still travelling or did they reach a destination? or is it before that?
[19:56:14] <Mackenzie> I clearly stated it was after ghosts!
[19:56:20] <~Aori_Radidjiu> After ghosts!  Same night
[19:56:24] <Med> ...oh
[19:56:27] <Med> so you did!
[19:56:28] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Lani said you weren't going to stop anywhere until the morning.
[19:56:46] <Med> i was looking for that line! :c
[19:57:28] <Mackenzie> He continues pacing as he  rants.  "I've gotten an email from Jennifer.  Do you know what that means?  It means she's had to contact me not by phone.  My phone hasn't been working since the last pirate raid, when I had to swim.  I knew I should have left my coat behind and taken the risk!"
[19:58:14] <Mackenzie> "I know she's mad.  I don't have to read a word to know she's mad.  She's probably found out where I am, and she's probably going to come to find me."
[19:59:01] * Med was on the deck, seeing the ghosts off. She's got zero actual training in ghosts (she learned stuff when she was little, but her dad died before any actual training might have started), but she still feels obligated, or... something! Besides, it's cool out and there's fresh air and stuff!
[19:59:20] <Mackenzie> "Oh, Arceus.  What am I gonna do?"
[20:00:49] <Med> But, she's been out there a while already, so she was finally deciding to go back down below deck!
[20:01:12] * Mackenzie flops down into his comfy chair and puts his head in his hand.
[20:01:55] <Mackenzie> He crosses his knees, and his foot that's in the air is tapping at the air uncontrollably.
[20:06:55] <Mackenzie> "I don't know what to do.  There's nothing to do!  I'm screwed.  I don't have a c areer to go back to after this!"
[20:06:56] * Med decides to go visit Mackers again. She feels a bit nervous about the idea, but it would do her no good to give up to feelings like that! Besides, she's conquered them before!
[20:07:34] <Med> And by decides, I mean, she strolls right up to his door to go *knock knock*
[20:08:29] <Med> 3d6+6+2 defeat nervousness with determination!!
[20:08:29] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, defeat nervousness with determination!!: 23 [3d6=6,5,4]
[20:09:05] * Mackenzie jumps to his feet at the knocking. Oh Arceus, just strike me down now! Taking a second to compose himself enough to be able to move, he goes over and opens the door.
[20:09:14] <Mackenzie> 3d6+2 cover up his extreme nervousness and worry
[20:09:15] <DiceMaid-9001> Mackenzie, cover up his extreme nervousness and worry: 15 [3d6=3,5,5]
[20:10:49] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Mackenzie puts on a very good brave face~
[20:12:00] <Med> whataboutmed
[20:12:25] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Med puts on an even braver one!
[20:13:36] <Mackenzie> "Oh, um, hello Med.  What brings you over here so late?"
[20:14:38] <Med> "The same reason I came by before!" wait. before, there was a Mistral.
[20:14:39] <Med> well
[20:14:46] <Med> there is ONE solution to THAT!
[20:15:18] <Med> "Do you have a thing for her - you know, Mistral?"
[20:16:10] <~Aori_Radidjiu> On that note, Mistral is taking a nap at the highest point on the ship.  She doesn't really have a thing for beds.
[20:17:26] <Mackenzie> "Huh?  Um...  No?"  Mack clearly seems distracted.  His aura may also have been noticeable different since she saw him!
[20:17:38] <Mackenzie> *y
[20:17:58] <Mackenzie> Like,  wavering or something, maybe
[20:18:35] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Mackenzie's noble purple aura is getting a little yellow.
[20:21:01] <Med> "Are you sick, or something?" she blinks, finally noticing that something's up! maybe she was a little too determined!
[20:27:27] * Mackenzie exhales, and all of the okay drains out with it. "I got an email, from Gennis." He moves into his room and sits by Ross.
[20:28:06] * Med takes that as an excuse to invite herself into the actor's bedroom! "Gennis?"
[20:30:25] <Mackenzie> "Yes, from someone I have to keep in touch with.  She's...  Very integral in my life."
[20:34:03] <Med> "She is?"
[20:34:15] <Med> unfortunately, Med is completely unaware of anyone that would ever describe a significant other in that way.
[20:38:27] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Could describe a parent or child or sibling, though!  Or someone he works with...naaaaah.
[20:39:28] <Med> maybe if he were a musician.
[20:39:37] <Med> but who would actors have that'd be SO integral?
[20:40:35] <Mackenzie> He opens up the email and steps back.  "See for yourself.  I...  haven't been able to bring myself to read it.  I know it's very bad, if she didn't just text me instead."
[20:42:10] <Med> "Ok," she takes a look!
[20:42:24] * Med READS IT OUTLOUD BECAUSE ~Med~
[20:43:27] <Med> "To my esteemed client Mackenzie Frazier... our last correspondence was when you faxed a contract to me... I regret to inform you that your... legalese is extremely lacking and couldn't fool me in the slightest. Seeing as h... you have decided to ignore my calls, and cut off communication, I've decided... it appropriate... to visit you in person as soon as possible."
[20:44:17] <Med> "My research into your whereabouts points that you're at or near Zebra Town... at the moment... and will be paying you a visit as soon as I get your exact location and reach there. Make necessary arrangements. Best regards, Jennifer Harrington. P.S. remember what happened to Rick."
[20:44:23] <Med> "What happened to Rick?" '-'
[20:48:03] <Mackenzie> "..."  He sighs.  "He went off the grid for hookers and drugs.  She went after him.  Nobody's heard from him since.  And now she assumes the same is happening to me."
[20:49:23] <Mackenzie> "For a while, she thought I was doing a movie here, like I did at first.  Once I found out, I wanted to get her involved with this, but I wanted her to keep it under wraps so I tried to get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement.  But obviously that has failed."
[20:54:20] <Med> "A non-disclosure?"
[20:54:33] <Med> *non-disclosure agreement?
[20:55:28] <Mackenzie> "So she wouldn't be able to go out and tell people about PIRATES, since it's sorta supposed to be secretive, still."
[20:56:31] <Med> "Oh... but, um... shouldn't you get one of the military people to handle that? Maybe Lecia!"
[20:56:58] <Mackenzie> "I might need the government for personal protection, at this rate."
[20:59:02] <Med> "But... we can protect you!"
[21:00:07] <Mackenzie> "I need to think about this.  Once we get back to where we can reach headquarters.  Maybe we can come up with a plan."
[21:05:35] <Mackenzie> "Honestly, I would like to just chill her out, and get her on our side."
[21:09:36] <Med> "Why don't you just be honest with her, then?"
[21:33:25] <Mackenzie> "That might be the plan.  I've just wanted to have her come here without being mad, or...  likely to go and spill the beans, but...  maybe now the best I can do is show her everything and tell her the truth.  I mean, when I first told her I was shooting a movie, that's what I believed at the time.  I wasn't lying then, but once I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't just tell her
[21:33:26] <Mackenzie> over the phone."
[21:34:41] <Med> "Yeah! I mean, you don't need to tell her all of the details... maybe you should do it around someone like Lecia. She seems pretty cool about stuff like that!"
[21:46:22] <Mackenzie> "Maybe I can still get her on our side, though.  I know this is a bad first impression of her, but she's really quite smart, and she has a lot of connections."
[21:47:20] <Med> "Is she your agent, or something?"
[21:53:32] <Mackenzie> "More like overlord, but yes."
[21:58:17] <Med> "Oh!" phew! he doesn't seem to actually like her or have secret feelings for her!
[22:00:13] <Med> "Um... Mackers... this is probably a bad time, but... I came here to tell you something!"
[22:04:57] <Mackenzie> "What do you mean?"
[22:05:10] <Mackenzie> 1d6+2 Do any logical conclusions occur?
[22:05:10] <DiceMaid-9001> Mackenzie, Do any logical conclusions occur?: 3 [1d6=1]
[22:05:35] * Mackenzie has no fucking idea.
[22:09:08] * Med SUDDENLY TAKES HER TRUE FORM AN- oh wait, she's only a half-demon not a FULL demon.
[22:13:41] * Med puts her hands in her pockets. She's never done this before - confessed her FEELINGS to a FAMOUS PERSON. It's kind of awkward - how many people have already said this sort of stuff to him?! "Um, well, I... came here to say... that I like you!"
[22:21:09] <Mackenzie> "Well, I would imagine so.  Other than the captain, you're the only one that I think I share any mutual trust in."  Does he even understand what you mean?
[22:22:49] <Med> "No, like..."
[22:23:02] <Med> "Wait, I am?"
[22:24:20] <Mackenzie> "Mako still wants to rip my face off, Melanie is...  Melanie, Lesieli might not trust anything that isn't a machine, the bears resent me, and I have no idea about Mirai."
[22:29:01] <Med> "Oh... um, anyway! That's not what I meant!"
[22:31:39] <Mackenzie> "Oh?"
[22:35:14] <Med> "Like... you know... I want to go out with you!" never mind the fact they have been on like TWO DATES already
[22:50:51] <Mackenzie> "...Oh."  Mack thinks for a moment.  "You know, I want to tell you something before I continue."
[22:52:20] <Med> "What is it?"
[22:59:36] <Mackenzie> "Outside of here, my life is...  Pretty complicated.  In PIRATES, things are actually really straightforward.  But...  Outside of here, in my normal life, there's a lot of...  Unspoken rules.  And ruthless enforcers of them.  Not the law, but the media.  If I were to...  Openly admit that I'm in a relationship with a girl who's barely legal, the media eye would have it painted all across
[22:59:36] <Mackenzie> Gennis, if not the entire world, with slanderous intent, and brutal fake accusations designed to turn my life to ash."
[23:05:44] * Med nods. She didn't actually THINK about that all that much, but it kind of makes sense! :(
[23:12:23] * Mackenzie leans forward in his chair of thinks. "That said... This is not my normal life. The people here will still judge me for my decisions, but they won't run my career into the ground out of a spite borne from a conflict of personal images."
[23:19:42] <Mackenzie> "If you can understand that "you and I" does not exist outside of PIRATES, and that we cannot be together after that, I won't object."
[23:25:52] * Med spends a good moment trying to find words and put them together into sentences! It's an awful lot of work.
[23:26:51] <Med> "I... I understand that discretion is important... and that you have your career to think about... but..."
[23:27:04] <Med> "Mackenzie Frazier, I'm not just some side fling!!"
[23:27:41] <Med> and then it turned out mackers forgot to take his aurashades off, and was staring at an angry looking devil
[23:32:35] <Mackenzie> really?
[23:33:10] <Med> well
[23:33:20] <Med> she normally looks like a demony girl
[23:33:27] <Mackenzie> (I mean that as an confirming whether you mean that, not in a generic slang form for exasperation)
[23:33:28] <Med> and now she looks a little upset
[23:33:54] <Med> and
[23:34:00] <Med> she's taken out her contact lenses for bed time stuff
[23:34:01] <Med> so
[23:34:16] <Med> her eyes are all red and stuff
[23:34:16] <Med> so
[23:34:31] <Med> she basically looks like an angry med!
[23:37:33] <Mackenzie> "Y-you don't understand!  If...  If I didn't want us to be able to be together, I wouldn't have presented the possibility in the first place.  And...  I'm not sure if I'm going back yet."
[23:48:46] <Med> "You already broke up with me, and we haven't even started dating yet!" :c
[23:50:25] <Mackenzie> "I never said no!  I'm the one trying to get you to say yes now!"
[00:00:17] <Med> "But I don't understand your rules!"
[00:08:31] <Mackenzie> "I just mean...  If I go back to being an actor, I still can't be with you.  But I don't know whether I will go back to acting."
[00:19:07] <Med> "Why not?"
[00:23:42] <Mackenzie> "Like I said, it's a complicated world I live in, when there's cameras watching you every day of your life, whether you know it or not.  You have to live on egg shells, and do what everyone else does, and even if you follow the rules like a nice puppet, sometimes they'll still tarnish you just because the news isn't busy enough.  It's like a prison of your personality."
[00:31:41] <Med> "That's 'cause you're mainstream."
[00:34:37] <Mackenzie> "I'm pretty sure that the Pirates of Visiwa franchise is going to outlast my entire lifetime, so I'm now officially typecast."
[00:45:23] <Med> "Well... do you... like... being a puppet?"
[00:51:08] <Mackenzie> "Of course not!  Acting itself is fun and exciting, though.  Sure that's essentially puppetry as well, but it's so fun to be extraordinary people that live extraordinary lives.  But then the rest of my own life, outside of the stage, I'm not even myself.  Who I am might as well not exist so long as I am an actor."  Mack sighs.  "That's the thing, though.  Out here, I don't have to pretend
[00:51:08] <Mackenzie> to be extraordinary, and do extraordinary things.  And I can be myself and do the things I want freely."
[00:55:13] <Med> "You always could, though..."
[00:59:24] * Mackenzie looks at Med directly. "Med."
[01:12:37] * Med is looked at directly!
[01:12:45] <Med> "Um...?"
[01:16:13] <Mackenzie> "I think what I'm trying to say is, I don't think I'm going to go back to that.  I'm coming to enjoy this life, which...  I suppose could become our life...  More than the idea of going back to that.  I don't want to live like that any more."
[01:27:57] <Med> "Well... it's your life, so you should do whatever makes you happy! Just... don't... plan on breaking up with someone before you've even started!"
[01:32:14] <Mackenzie> "I'm sorry, Med.  I didn't mean to say that to you in such a way.  I just...  wanted to make sure you knew that if I was an actor, I couldn't be with you.  But, I'm pretty sure now, that...  I am not gonna be an actor any more, so that won't happen."
[01:32:24] <Mackenzie> "So...  Do you want to give it a try?"
[01:36:23] <Med> "Uh... sure!" Med can't help but feel like she's forgetting something important and dangerous, though.
[01:46:29] * Mackenzie stands up. "Just remember, Jennifer can't know about us, or about my plan, yet. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
[01:49:37] <Med> "Oh... uh... but... shouldn't she know, if she's your agent?"
[01:50:34] <Mackenzie> "I need to make sure she isn't going to murder me for this, before I try putting more on the pile.  I want to have her support for this."
[01:52:00] <Med> "Did you sign any contracts... or... anything? You didn't, right? I mean... that's why you're even able to come here in the first place... right?"
[01:53:18] <Mackenzie> "I was shooting a different movie here.  It just finished when I was approached by Gran.  So no, I am not under any contracts right now."
[01:56:21] <Med> "So you should be free to do whatever you want!"
[02:04:39] <Mackenzie> "I...  I'm pretty sure she would be rather cross with me if I said 'By the way, I'm not going to be acting under you any more.  Also, help me fight pirates.'"
[02:05:19] <Med> "Yeah... but... wouldn't she get even more angry if you lied to her about it?"
[02:07:12] <Mackenzie> "I'm telling her about PIRATES.  I'm just not telling her I don't plan on acting any more, until later, when she's already on-board with us.  Or I'm dead."
[02:08:10] <Med> "What if she asks you if you plan on acting anymore or not?"
[02:10:37] <Mackenzie> "I don't know.  I might just say that I'm unsure."
[02:16:17] <Med> "So... uh... does that mean we can't go out until you're brave enough to tell your agent?"
[02:20:13] <Mackenzie> "No.  She's not going to be hovering on my shoulder my every waking moment when she comes.  I'm hoping, if she does come along with us and not try to murder us all, that she won't even be on the ship."
[02:21:13] <Med> "Yeah... but... you're famous!"
[02:25:58] <Mackenzie> "I think you'll understand my worry better when we meet her...  Please just trust me, though.  I've made harder things work."
[02:28:40] <Med> "No, I mean... well... okay!"
[02:43:47] <Mackenzie> "Anyway, maybe we should try a date tomorrow when we visit Ark."
[02:44:31] <Med> "Okay! ...Wait... we're going to Ark City?!"
[02:45:03] <Mackenzie> "Yeah!  We all decided yesterday, and that's where we were headed when the ghost pokemon showed up."
[02:48:40] <Med> "Wow! I've always wanted to go there!"
[02:52:28] <Mackenzie> "Sounds like a perfect opportunity, then."  He takes her hand and kisses it.  "Better get some rest for tomorrow, then!"
[03:00:31] <Med> "Yeah, I should get to bed - you should too! Though... I usually don't see you in the morning... do you sleep in late?"
[03:01:28] * Mackenzie smiles. "I'll set my alarm nice and early tomorrow."
[03:02:06] <Med> "I get up early... but... I'm not usually ready until ten or eleven anyway..."
[03:09:16] <Mackenzie> "Alright.  I'll see you then!"  Mack is kind of...  In his room...  So he can't really exit stage left.
[03:09:46] * Med PROCEEDS TO STAY THERE THE ENTIRE NIGHT
[03:11:17] <Med> "Good night!"
[03:11:37] * Med gives the actor a kiss on the cheek before fleeing to her room! Which is probably comically right next door or something like that.
[03:13:48] * Med proceeds to spend the next hour or two empathing up a storm about WHAT JUST HAPPENED with I personally presume Knives. I mean, I'll have to consult with Aori later about this, but I just have this feeling that the pokemon gives zero shits about anything not immediately interesting to him, but secretly really likes complicated relationship stuff, and Med just found out a bunch of
[03:13:48] * Med years ago, and eventually it just evolved where that's a thing they do.
[03:14:20] <Med> because this is pokemon, and things evolve!
[03:17:48] * Mackenzie probably talks to Ross about it, since he's his longest-standing pokemon. Which, of course he would want to talk about it, and presumably Ross would give fucks about his life. He also does a thinking chair about Jennifer, and how to handle meeting her.
[03:20:12] * Med and Knives have a very special relationship~