hearrrtofgold | 01 ⚓ Video ⚓ Strangers, who are you? Where do you sail from?

[For half a second the feed catches the corridor outside of the mess hall, showing a blurred image of the walls before focusing on a new face. It's a rather handsome youngish male face, framed by brunet hair, adorned with a soul patch, beard, and moustache, and dominated by a prominent nose as well as brown eyes and lips pulled into a thoughtful frown.]

That is officially the weirdest way I've ever been sprung from custody.

Hi. Duke Crocker, token new guy, here to do - you know, all the typical crap. [Graduate an inmate, save his hometown and his best friends, possibly start an underground trade system, that sort of thing. No big deal.] Two things, before I go any further: first, mess hall and kitchen's this way on level one, right? I'm starving, and that hospital food isn't fit for an animal. Not even a spotted hyena would touch it.

Second, what the hell is the date? Is it still December, or is it June? Apparently it's been a really long time since I've seen a calendar. Someone should really do something about that.

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So yeh expected to die on the sea, then.

For a long time, I thought I would. [And he'd liked that idea, to be honest. If he had to die anywhere, the sea was the place he'd pick.]

And what changed? Are you dead, now?

[A premonition warning him he's going to be murdered!] No. I've been spending a little too much time on land.

Hmmph.

You've got all the time on an unfamiliar sea now, Crocker.

I know! If I have to be stuck in a limbo dimension at least this one's a ship.

You may regret those words, when next we come on a flood.

Are yeh a commander of a vessel?

That's what they've been telling me. What happens during floods? "Magical influence" and "people change" is all I've gotten so far.

Yeah. I own the Cape Rouge.

That's the whole of it. Ye'll know it when it happens.

What sort of a ship is she?

Is that a sure thing?

She's a fishing vessel, though most of the time I use her for shipping.

It's difficult to mistake a flood for anything else.

So you're a merchant.

Good. [Nothing is more annoying than a weird influence coming up that makes you think it's totally normal.]

Among other things.

And your wares? Your shipping route? What point is there in keeping a merchant on this ship?

I ship what I'm hired to ship and go where the money takes me. It's a global business.

Don't ask me. They probably didn't bring me on to help steer.

Even if you were terrible, ye'd still be a better choice than the man we've got.

I choose to take that as a compliment.

It's more an insult to the captain we've got. But take it as yeh like.

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