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[crisisrain]

Ya know, I'm gonna skip straight ta the point. Anyone care ta tell this old man what the date is? Last time I was here it was somethin' like August.

[He pauses for a minute. August sounded right to him, but it had been an exceptionally long time since he'd last been here. Was August even a legitimate month, it wasn't native to his calendar. He wasn't even certain if this is how you use the journal properly. It had been several months for him and his memory isn't very kind.]

Actually, is anyone I know even around anymore? I've got no idea how long it's been. Just when I thought I'd finally gotten rid of this place.

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[all7seas]

Space squids eating...

[Suddenly Jack feels very, very afraid for Leonard McCoy. Very afraid.]

Erm---well at least you learned things from it? That's always a lovely thing. Learning. I love learning, myself. Education and such.

Squids, eh?

[crisisrain]

I'm not jokin' either! Called the Adephagos, I'd heard about before but I didn't expect it ta be real. [Yeah all that part about him learning to move on from the past and choose his own path in life is insignificant compared to space squid.]

Least I have somethin' fun to kill ta look forward too.

[all7seas]

[Of course it is! Cephalopods have been and continue to be of very great interest to Sparrow.]

Not so sure about fun. They're direly squashy things, I expect, though I suppose their lack of a bone structure and general physiology allows them to endure the vacuum of space, planet-consumption aside.

[crisisrain]

I can't say I really know how it works... [That went totally over his head.]

[all7seas]

Hmmmmmm...

I've had my own problems with similar creatures, but nothing quite as bad as you describe. Luck to you with that, mate, in future. Now you're back here, though, and all the more better for us. It's nearing that time again.

[Jack hesitates a moment.]

Where is it you're wanting to go, anyhow?

[crisisrain]

Wait, hold on, what do ya mean it's nearin' that time? [No, really, he's not following.]

[all7seas]

All Hallows? Another draft? Who knows. It's been far too quiet around these parts. And you're a handy sort in a tight spot.

[crisisrain]

All Hallows? [Hallow... oh god, he remembers.] Ya mean halloween?

[all7seas]

Aye, mate. [He shudders.] You're here just in time for whatever wondrous horrors they're cooking for us.

[crisisrain]

Wonderful! Just what I wanted ta hear the moment I get back! I'm screwed already.

[all7seas]

Nonsense! You're simply one more sensible head to have in this place.

[Another ally. They've been wearing thin, lately.]

[crisisrain]

Are ya sure 'sensible' is the best word ta describe me?

/lost this tag : (

[all7seas]

'Course I am! I've fought beside you, haven't I? Highly sensible, you!

Its ok I'm painfully slow

[crisisrain]

I s'pose I am when I want ta be. Oh, Jack, yer flatterin' me!

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[all7seas]

Aye.....aye, I suppose I am. But nevermind it. Place wasn't the same without you. Vash, for one, got far too comfortable I suspect.

[crisisrain]

Ya know what that means then, don't you? We gotta drag him out drinkin' again!

[all7seas]

Aye! Sooner rather than later, to my mind. What shall we do to him this time?

[Jack will have no idea that sweet Rem is gone. That might be something he will have to take into consideration, though, where Vash is concerned.]

[crisisrain]

I don't think it's gonna be as easy as it was before. We're gonna have ta be real clever about it.

[Maybe a drink to drown his sorrows?]

[all7seas]

I suppose the real question is, does the Raven what's just come back to us enjoy getting up to mischief as much as the old Raven who left us did?

[crisisrain]

I started lookin' for a dream to follow instead. Sounds stupid, I was never one for dreamin', but... [He seems to have thought very hard about this.] Let's say I have a new outlook on life at least. Doesn't mean I grew up though! I'm still a bad excuse for an adult!

[all7seas]

Ha! Excellent! Then we must somehow dress him as a ballerina.

[crisisrain]

A ballerina? You kiddin' me? It was hard enough gettin' him in a bear suit! Ya know he's not gonna be as trustin' as before.

[all7seas]

Pfft. The OLD Raven would've RISEN to the challenge, wouldn't he?!

[crisisrain]

Bring it! I'll show ya I still got it!

[all7seas]

Pink. Crinoline. Toe shoes. Flowered garlands. The entire package, mate.