Helloooooo Genessia [video/action]

[chicken_kun]

VIDEO

[With absolutely zero apologies to anyone who sees this, Bartolomeo spends the first 30 seconds of the video feed looking into the camera with a dubious expression and picking his nose. Just. Placidly staring, digging for gold. Enjoy the prolonged video study of his fangs, nose ring, goth makeup, and bright fucking neon green hair. Best first impression ever.

When he gets bored of that, his finger drops and he just bares his fangs into the phone's camera.]

This is stupid. Get a job? Hah! Jobs are for losers. And this jewelry is ugly. I'm so over this place, look at it. This little town is way too pretty. [he grins widely] It needs a special touch, I think. Maybe it's time for a new Barto Club, eh?

[he drops the video away and forgets to turn it off right away, so for a moment it just swings wildly back and forth in his fist as he walks. In the process of this vertigo-inducing view, it also picks up his last mutter to himself:]

Ain't as much fun if Luffy-senpai isn't around. Che. Ugly-ass town, no ocean, nothin'...

ACTION

[Bartolomeo is not at all interested in going to the employment office or getting an apartment. No, first he wants to have a look around, and even though he really did read the pamphlets and maps - which are now hanging out of his pants, shoved in his belt - none of that shit matters at the moment. Without his ship, his crew, his bounty, and his beloved great captain Luffy to follow after (that he knows of), he's been left adrift. His dream of sailing as a member of the Pirate King's fleet, put on hold. His purpose for getting stronger, derailed. Oh well, there's always mob work to fall back on. A pretty place like this just deserves to be torn apart at the seams by a gang or ten.

Barty can be found sauntering lazily along any street, hands in his pockets, insulting people at random, spitting on the sidewalk, flipping the finger at vehicles who honk at him for jaywalking, trying on clothes but never buying them, and overall being a nuisance.

By evening, though, he's hungry and bored and looking for a bar with good bar food and beer. Help a pirate out, man!]

Comments

[Video]

[enchantressofore]

[ Apparently it's Adela's job to meet every pirate. Except not really.

She is bored and looking over her comm when she sees this though. ]

I have met with someone named Luffy, though it may not be the same person. However, there is ocean in the south-most town Fayren.

Just what is a Barto Club, though?

[Video]

[chicken_kun]

[HOLD ON WAIT BACK THE TRUCK UP]

L-Luffy-senpai? You have? Is he here? Really?

[Video]

[enchantressofore]

I just said he might not be the same person though!

[ CALM DOWN DUDE. ]

Uhm... The boy I met by that name... He wore a straw hat and a red coat. And he had a scar across his chest. Is that the same person?

[Video]

[chicken_kun]

[NO NO CALMING DOWN NEVER CALMING DOWN

oh jesus Adela why did you tell him that? witness a first-class Bartolomeo fangasm. On video. There is trembling, first, then his eyes go wide, then his lower lip starts to tremble and holy shit are those tears? He grabs the phone in both hands and shoves his face right up close as if he could pour himself through it and come out on the other side and grab her by the shirt and shake her.]

Th-th-th-that's...AUGH! His legendary straw hat! The very reason he's known as Straw Hat Luffy! The scar he suffered after the Battle of Marineford! That's him! THAT'S HIM!

LUFFY IS HEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!

[Video]

[justicereigns]

Senpai? Really? Really?

[Oh his fucking gosh. How did you get dumber since he left Loguetown?]

[Video]

[chicken_kun]

[it takes him a second, just because he's blinking at the face on the phone like wow really, this guy?

And then Barty plays it cool, raising one finger slowly into view...and then using it to tug down his eyelid in mocking]

Well, well, look who it is. Been a while, eh, White Hunter? You know our bounties are no good here, heh! NYEAH!

[Video]

[justicereigns]

So you managed to figure that much out without even being led there by your grandmother.

I applaud your newfound wisdom and personal growth development.

[HE WANTS TO DRIVE YOU MAD. ON BEHALF OF ALL MARINES EVER FOR ALL PIRATES EVER.]

[Video]

[chicken_kun]

[Smoker. Smoker no. Driving people mad is what Barty does for a living. Don't start this fight.]

Oi, you leave Granny out of this! She's a perfectly sweet lady and I bet you went and gave her shit all the time behind my back, didn't you?

Whatever! This ain't Loguetown and I don't answer to you either way.

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[orangeoutlaw]

[oddly enough, death comes in mysterious ways even in this small town. See: A young man, dead before his time...again. Face down in a plate of spaghetti while concerned talk ruffles through the restaurant. His other hand is on a beer that is sadly only half gone. What a tragedy of our times]

[action forever]

[chicken_kun]

[Barty saunters into this place looking for a good meal and a good time, and there's an awful lot of interesting chatter going on - an opportunity to laugh at someone's misfortune or catch some gossip? Sign him up!

He shoulders his way through the crowd like it ain't no thang.]

Oi, oi, what's the big deal, here? What, somebody choke on a meatball or something? Heheh, I'll give you idiots something to choke on...

[oh wait shit they weren't kidding. What's wrong with that guy?]

[orangeoutlaw]

[they seem to not be interested in his dick but in making funerary arrangements. Maybe this guy was poisoned somehow? Is the food safe to eat? Can Barty carry him (and himself) off the premises?

Fortunately for Barty much to the great shock and awe of all present, Ace stirs]

Shit...

[eyes coated with spaghetti sauce but hey there person with a long convenient coat, don't mind if he does]

[chicken_kun]

[WOW excuse you, guy, that is his very special jacket and...

...wait.

No.

NO. No this isn't possible.

Bartolomeo has enough newspaper clippings from Marineford in his scrapbook to know exactly who this is without having to guess. That freckled face is famous goddammit, every bit as much as his brother's straw hat and the Mera Mera and holy shit how is this even real...

Sorry Ace, Barty can't help but go from irate one second to wibbling with tears in his eyes the next]

N-no...it can't be. It can't be you...

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[om_nom_namur]

Hey man, y' part a Strawboy's crew or somethin'?

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[chicken_kun]

...you know about Straw Hat Luffy, too? Heh, great, sounds like lots of pirates around. Good. For a hot minute there I thought I was fucked.

You could say that. [shhh tryin' to keep it on the downlow] I know Luffy-senpai super-well. What's it to you?

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[om_nom_namur]

Nothin', really. Jus' wondered. Sure y'll find 'im sooner or later.

So's moss hair like, a thing for yer crew or somethin'? First ol' Plecobait, then you. Goin' for like... kelp, or some shit?

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[chicken_kun]

Huh? What?

[he's dumb but at least he does catch on, sort of]

Are you comparing me to Zoro-senpai? No way! He's way cooler than I am! Besides, my hair's always been like this.

[Action]

[azaleafae]

[Well, this guy is just being obnoxious. Azalea can't let this slide, so the mini dragon flies in front of him, keeping a respectable distance as she hovers in the air.]

What are you doing!?

[Action]

[chicken_kun]

[obnoxious is his middle name! You know, if he had a last name...

Bartolomeo looks up from teasing small children to find a...WHOA SHIT IS THAT A DRAGON?]

HAH? What are you doin'? Dragons don't talk!

...I don't think. Right? Naw. Couldn't be.

[Action]

[azaleafae]

That's right. Dragons do talk! We can do whatever we want to do!

[She points a demanding talon at him.]

Now, why are you teasing those children!?

[Video]

[tonytonychopper]

[Yup, that would be his office with a stack of folders along one side of the view and the top of a desk making up the rest. After a few moments of panting...]

Luffy?? I need ice!!!

[Obviously Chopper is somewhere under the feed angle and the desk. After another few moments a nurse will come in and shake a bucket of ice over something not shown on screen.]

[Video]

[chicken_kun]

[Hmmm? What's this weird call? Looks like nobody's there. But he could have sworn his Luffy-radar was tingling. Somebody said Luffy?]

Oi, oi, I don't got time for prank calls, here.

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[tonytonychopper]

[A few moments later, the ice is obviously doing him good because a hoof will appear and be dragged down to where Chopper is laying on a pile of ice in a kiddy pool and reviewing patient files as best he can.]

[Thank goodness for plastic coversheets.]

What's a 'prank call'?

[Dark eyes look up and he'll just... freeze. Pun intended.]

[YOU ARENT LUFFY.]

audio

[soru]

I would recommend against unauthorized redecoration of city property.

[ why. first the whitebeard pirates, now this. why is he surrounded by troublemakers? was it something he did? is it some form of divine retribution? ]

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[chicken_kun]

[NEW PHONE WHO DIS]

Oh, oh? That's an awful lot of fancy talk that I'm not gonna listen to anyway. What's the matter, don't like it?

[soru]

Not particularly, no. I'm rather attached to peaceful living myself, you see.