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[PH]
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[SP]
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PH: Ahoy, Torent! ?re?are to be boarded! Are the winds scudding across the waves, whi??ing their shark-tooth shar? ?oints into a frenzy of foam????
PH: Are the tem?ests well keeled by the sails of your dread shi???? Are you well
PH: ...
PH: ... oooor ...
PH: ... have you been cursed? >:P
SP: whoa
SP: hey
SP: i mean ahoy
SP: how could anyone curse me
SP: experienced sailor and
SP: uh
SP: a pira7e
SP: aye
PH: Oh, didn't you hear the rumors?
SP: wha7 rumors
PH: Really, they were more ... whis?ery than MANY rumors are, but ... You know how whis?ers can bring a whole shi? down ... ?lummetting from beloved, number one rated, number one watched ... to the bottom of the fish barrel.
PH: Oh! If you haven't heard, I will tell you!
PH: But ...
PH: ... we'll ?retend we're whis?ering better than the whis?erers, okay?
SP: okay
SP: by whispers 7aking ships down
SP: do ye mean li7erally
SP: or like a revolu7ion
PH: Hee, Hee! Then we are whis?ering this, that we might not be heard by...
PH: ...unsavory ty?es...
PH: ...the revolutionary ty?es, you are exactly correct!
PH: That's the ty?e of whis?ers I meant.
PH: The ty?e of whis?ers a ?irate must always be wary of!
PH: Don't you agree?
SP: aye
SP: revolu7ion in middle of 7he seas is never a good 7hing
SP: i know 7his because of personal experience no7 because of books
SP: i mean books yarre also a7 big pyarr7 bu7 mainly personal experience
SP: aye
PH: Oh, no. Although I su??ose there's less chance of any interference from meddling fussyfang neighbors who think they know better than you do which u??ity jerks are best fed alive to the sharklusii and the ragewhales.
PH: Have you ever seen a ragewhale? I meant to ask you! >:)
SP: ragewhale
SP: aye of course
SP: many
SP: all 7he 7ime
SP: occasionally
SP: no7 like 7hey would be 7oo common bu7
SP: s7ill every now and 7hen
PH: Oh, wow. Whatever did you do? You haven't been swallowed alive, have you? That would be rather ?irate-y.
PH: >;)
SP: uh
SP: well
SP: i usually see 7hem a7 a dis7ance so 7here isn7 usually any 7rouble wi7h 7hem
PH: Huh. Thaaaat's strange.
PH: I thought ragewhales were only ever seen just beneath a shi? they're about to swallow whole and bring back to The Great Horrible Emperess of the Dreadful Glub, there to regurgitate.
PH: I've always thought that would be a TRULY terrible fate.
SP: aye
SP: 7ha7s because
SP: 7hey don7 no7ice my ship
SP: because i7s only for one person
SP: so id jus7 be a 7iny snack if 7hey were 7o ac7ually bea7 me
SP: bu7 7ha7 wouldn7 happen
SP: heh heh
PH: Hee, Hee. You do have a very lovely Hook. I feel certain a Hook can really SHOW most dee?sea creatures what's for. You know????
SP: aye hooks yarre 7he bes7
SP: be77er 7han any7hing else a7 leas7
PH: Oh! I also wanted to ask you: What is your stance on Grog? I've had a cou?le of arguments with "Ninja" Trolls about the ?racticality of ?irate Grog. I've never imbibed!! The only jar I ever saw was ?art of Aascam's inventory, and it did not look very ... uh, seaworthy.
SP: ye mean rum
PH: Is it the same?
SP: i haven7 really go7 a good sip of 7ha7 ac7ually
SP: i mean yes i have lo7s of 7imes
SP: i7s no7 like my lusus could s7op me
SP: he he
SP: and yes i7s uh
SP: alrigh7
PH: Awww, have you ever noticed that Lusii often seem to be far more trouble than they're worth?
PH: Almost every troll I know has an antagonistic relationshi? with theirs.
PH: Does ?olly like the rum, too???
SP: no he jus7 pecks me in 7he head whenever i 7ry 7o 7ake a sip
SP: among 7he o7her 7hings he pecks me in 7he head for
PH: Maybe you should christen him with a bottle BASHED O?EN across his beak? Or ?erha?s his eyes? I bet he'd look very rakish with an eye?atch.
PH: And then ?erha?s he'd a??reciate the ...
PH: ... s?irit of sharing?
PH: >:?
SP: i don7 7hink smashing eye from my lusus would make 7hings any be77er
SP: o7her 7han giving me sa7isfac7ion
PH: Is satisfaction not reason enough ...
PH: ... for a ?irate????
PH: Arrr????
PH: >;)
SP: a77acking yer crewmembers could give 7he possible enemy upper hand
PH: I su??ose, to give the devil his due, I should at least admit I would never dare do such a thing to my lusus. They can be quite fearsome, the guardians!
PH: Ah, that is very cunning and far-seeing of you!
SP: al7hough im no7 sure if my lusus would coun7 as crew
SP: bu7 a7 leas7 i7 would peck me in 7he head in case i7 saw any enemies
SP: prodably
SP: and 7ha7 would be hyarrder wi7h jus7 one eye
PH: Hmm! A com?elling arguement! I su??ose you'll be able to come u? with another com?romise on the rum issue, ?roooobably.
PH: And I think your lusus counts as crew! He takes u? s?ace and eats your food, doesn't he?
PH: I'm ... actually sur?rised...
SP: well yeahoy
PH: ... that he ...
SP: and ge7s food 7oo
PH: ... fits on your boat.
PH: >:? Isn't he rather large?
SP: he is a pyarrro7
SP: abou7 my size
SP: so he can7 even cyarrry me
PH: Oh, are you smaller than an average troll your age, Torent? I was imagining a full-sized kid-troll, about my size ?erha?s.
SP: wha7
SP: no i 7hink my sizing is pre77y normal
PH: Then ... isn't having your ?retty ?o?injay lusus aboard just the same as having another ?erson?
PH: Or does he fly above, when you're in ragewhale territory?
PH: And they don't notice you because your shi? is only for one ?erson?
PH: Must be very handy to have around, in the case of shi? sinkings!
SP: maybe for himself
SP: bu7 as i said he can7 cyarrry me
SP: so if my ship were 7o sink i would be good as dead
SP: because of being in middle of ocean 7ha7 is
SP: no7 because i couldn7 swim or some7hing
SP: 7ha7d be silly
PH: It sure would be! I'd be ?retty sur?rised if it came out that you couldn't swim! Hee, Hee!
PH: After all these years of shenanigans, too!!!
PH: Ahahaha!
SP: ha ha aye
PH: The thought of being miles and miles from shore, surrounded by a dee? and sou?y miasma, a sinister sea fog, no controlled by some mutantblood in the ?ay of the sea trolls ...
PH: ... and beneath that sea fog, icy, relentless waters ...
PH: ... which it would be oh so EASY ...
PH: ... to just sli? beneath forever, swallowed without a sound ...
PH: ... my ?assage unnoticed even by my lusus ...
PH: Just because I couldn't swim and kee? myself afloat before the fog cleared?
PH: Terrifying!
PH: >:(
SP: horrifying even
SP: i7s a good 7hing
SP: people like us have 7he abili7y 7o swim
SP: righ7
SP: heh
PH: It certainly is. >;)
PH: But hey, I've just noticed that I've been controlling the conversation, and that you never answered my question: How are you?
PH: >:) What have you been kee?ing yourself occu?ied with lately, Torent??? Fun things??? Have you acquired any new enemies?
PH: Or keelhauled any? >:D
SP: i 7hink i comple7ely missed 7ha7 ques7ion
SP: im alrigh7
SP: and no i don7 7hink i have achieved any new enemies
PH: Awww. What about new allies? ?otential crewmembers, for the nights that come when you ca?tain a galleon -- which you have, of course, SCOUNDRELLED out of some more ?rissy troll's gras??
SP: po7en7ial crewmembers maybe
SP: lamia for example
SP: im no7 sure if i 7old ye 7ha7 i 7alked 7o her
SP: and 7ha7 lamias friend
SP: pepper or some7hing
PH: Oh reeeeeeeeealllllllly? What do you think of them? >:?
PH: Hee, I just call him ?e?.
SP: oh ye know him 7oo
SP: well pepper 7akes his role as a greenblood well
SP: makes i7 easier for me as a blueblood
PH: Awwwww, is it usually very trying for you, being a blueblood?
PH: And you don't find him ?erha?s a little TOO timid?
SP: ye mean 7iring
SP: aye i7 can be pre77y hyarrd having 7o 7ake 7he leaders role mos7 of 7he 7ime
SP: bu7 i7s jus7 some7hing ye have 7o deal wi7h
PH: Hee. I find, in many cases, Trolls who aren't DULL and BORING are willing -- through ?ride, consequence, error or enthusiasm --
PH: to ?retend not to be so cowed by the hemos?ectrum.
SP: yarre ye implying 7ha7 i am dull and boring
PH: ?sht, no!
PH: ?irates cannot be dull and boring.
PH: It is in the charters they sign with their own lususes blood ...
PH: .. when they give their BLACKENING HEARTS over to the BRETHREN.
PH: I'm ?retty sure that if someone said: What is more likely to fail? The Law of Gravity or the Law of ?iratical Enthused Trolls Being Com?letely Lacking in Dullness?
PH: The Law of Gravity would find that it is not quite as safe in its ?osition as it thought it was. >:)
SP: well gravi7y is no7 7ha7 s7rong everywhere
SP: as fyarr as i know
PH: What, you mean, like under the water and in s?ace?
SP: space mainly
PH: I sometimes s?y on the stars with my VERY extreme s?yglasses. The ones that are slightly less nautically inclined. It looks vast, but gravity still exists, doesn't it? In the stars and the ?lanets?
PH: And, oh! Do you think Lamia also takes well to her role as a greenblood?
SP: i 7hink pepper wins 7he medal in 7ha7 case
SP: she is nice o7herwise 7hough
PH: Oooh, you aren't feeling anything ?aaaaaaale as far as ?e? goes, are you? You make him sound very calming, or very stabilizing. Very ... ?lacating, I su??ose.
SP: wha7
SP: ye mean morails
SP: no
PH: Awwww. Are you sure?
SP: yes
PH: Awwww. Well, I'm kee?ing a s?yglass ?eeled for you! As soon as the shi? comes in, I will be there to direct it to your ?ort. >:D
SP: aye we should 7alk abou7 ships like we usually do
SP: ins7ead of 7his morails 7omfoolery
PH: I confess, I'm rather meh on the subject of the ?ale quadrant. There are certainly OTHER, more INTERESTING, and by interesting I mean ... tantalizingly intriguing, delectably exciting ... shi?s to contem?late.
PH: Although there seems to be great interest in the ?ast cou?le of days as regards to SINKING some of my favourite new shi?s.
PH: Ezreki! Octavi! Even Lamia!
SP: i7s amazing how ye manage 7o save 7hem from all 7hose ships 7ha7 sink
SP: or how ye ge7 7hem 7o come back 7o 7he new ships even if 7he old ones all sank
PH: Ahahaahhaha, it's really DIFFICULT sometimes. They struggle so! Sometimes they thrash, des?erately trying to break the threads of destiny that bind them to ...
PH: ... dry land, so to speak. You know?
PH: Lamia at least tries to hel?ful with ?atching ?lotholes and all! >:) I su??ose to give him his due Ezreki also TRIES to hel?, he's just not very objective when he ha??ens to be ?art of the shi?.
PH: The thing baout new shi?s is ... they're new, everybody looks at them and thinks, Oh, this will NEVER go down in flames, THIS, at last, THIS IS TRUE, this is the shi? to lead all other shi?s, the ?roudest, finest shi? ?ossible. But sometimes ... new shi?s are just flash. Nothing beats the old classics! >:) What do you think, Kyarib?
SP: i didn7 know lamia was good a7 pa7ching holes
SP: ill keep 7ha7 in mind
SP: and regyarrding 7he ships
SP: i7 depends on 7he au7hor of 7he ship
SP: for example some ships issued 7o 7he legislacera7ors were pre77y bad
SP: 7he newer ships 7hey have yarre much be77er
SP: bu7 wi7h ships of7en used by pira7es 7here is li77le advancemen7 over 7he sweeps
SP: as 7he ships were perfec7ed long ago
SP: and 7here isn7 much 7o improve on
PH: YES! I couldn't agree more!!! Oh, god! Okay, I know it's ...
PH: ... HISTORICAL ...
PH: ... so "treasured" and bluh bluh "untouchable" and bluh bluh "perfect" and bluh bluh "canon" ...
PH: ... but Reds?ade and Eviscerator Darkblood? Hell no! Granted, she is not a Legislacerator exactly, since she was with the Devastagents.
PH: Still, I have yet to meet a Legislacerator ex?ert who can agree on the ?recise distinction between Devastagents of that ?eriod and Legislacerators.
PH: It's alllllmost ...
PH: ... as if ...
PH: ... there was a cons?iracy afoot.
PH: A ?lot! to hide the truth! >:) Or at least to lie very ?oorly.
PH: And... Hee, hee! I must agree. Those with a dashing, flamboyant cock to their ...
PH: ... nom de ?lumes ...
PH: ... the ?iratical ... generally are unafraid to steer ?erfect shi?s others might overlook.
PH: You know, find the ... Unex?ected treasures?
PH: Hmm. I should make more shi?s for you, Torent. >:) Of either kind. All kinds. Do you ?refer a color?
SP: ha ha aye
SP: i can make ships myself 7hough
SP: bu7 help would be grea7 i guess
PH: Whaaaaaaaaat! Have you been holding out on me!!!!!
SP: well i have 7he model of a ship
SP: i mean a real ship
SP: 7he one i have 7alked abou7
SP: of7en
SP: aye
PH: Oooh, we're talking about that shi? now! >:) I thought you meant that you made others! You know, in all the four acce?ted colors, or ...
PH: ... well, who knows? Maybe you're a maverick!
PH: Maybe in NEW colors! >:O
PH: Can I see a ?icture of your shi? one of these days?
SP: i 7hink i prefer 7he usual color
SP: and i 7hink 7aking a pic7ure of my ship would be hyarrd
SP: because i7s
SP: uh
SP: i mean i don7 have a camera
SP: 7o 7ake a pic7ure wi7h
PH: Well, do you ?refer ... darker or ... rosier?
PH: As far as the usual colors go!
SP: i don7 7hink i really mind 7he color
SP: 7he func7ionali7y is wha7 ma77ers
PH: Blargh. No kidding. That's the trick. Functionality.
PH: Sometimes ... it'll look right, it'll SEEM right, it'll SOUND right ...
PH: ... but if it doesn't work day to day, what's the ?oint, yeah?
PH: Still, you should ?ick ... at least ... a slight ?reference to begin!
PH: Maybe it's a girl thing, but ... it just seems so odd to have NO ?reference at all. >:P
SP: i don7 7hink i7s girly a7 all 7o have reference
SP: okay cyarring 7ha7 much abou7 color migh7 be sligh7ly girly
SP: if i7s 7ha7 impor7yarr7 ill pick 7he rosey one
PH: I'd like to think boy trolls were just as fastidious about their colors than girls, but I sus?ect that there must be SOME difference besides a likelihood of long hair and ?retty lips, so maybe I'd be entirely wrong. >:P
PH: Rosey, huh? Hee. Very rogueish of you! An excellent choice!
PH: Let's talk about your shi?, again. I could send you a camera if you'd like?
SP: my address is a secre7
SP: because
SP: uh
PH: You must long to take ?ictures of some of the exotic ?laces you see.
SP: of vyarrious reasons
PH: Oh, realllllllyyyyy?
PH: Even a secret from me? Your buddy, in things Hook-related? >:(
SP: well uh
SP: 7ha7s jus7
SP: because
SP: i don7 wan7 ye 7o ge7 in any 7rouble
SP: if ye would know my address
PH: Whyyyyyy would I get in trouble for that?
PH: Or, to ?ut a finer ?oint in it, I su??ose ...
PH: ... howwww would I get in trouble that wasn't actually the trouble getting in trouble with ME?
PH: >:) Arr!
SP: wha7
PH: ...Oh. Are you worried I'd sna? and ram?age all through your neighborhood and ruin your fortress of saltwater solitude?
SP: ye pu7 i7 in a ra7her confusing way
PH: Ahahaahahaha! I only meant most trouble isn't really all that troubling for me, Kyarib! >:P What s?ecial trouble could be around the mystery of your address?
SP: people wan7ing 7o know my address
SP: no7 so nice people
SP: from pira7e perspec7ive
PH: >:| Are you calling me weak??????
SP: no
SP: did i
PH: Are you im?lying that I wouldn't be able to handle myself??????
SP: no
SP: i was jus7
SP: i don7 wan7 ye 7o have 7o handle 7rouble i have caused
PH: ... Fiiiiine. I su??ose that's a gallant enough sentiment. >:\
PH: In theory.
SP: whew
PH: I will not send you a camera.
SP: i mean aya
SP: aye
PH: Although I'd still really like to see your boat sometime!
SP: i guess i could
SP: some7ime
SP: bu7 from wha7 i have ga7hered we live pre77y fyarr away
SP: from eacho7her
SP: i guess i could 7ry 7o find or buy a camera somewhere
PH: Well, not knowing ?recisely where YOU live, it's difficult for me to sayyy ...
PH: ... but I guess you change your location de?ending on the tides?
PH: >;)
PH: That would make sense for a ?irate.
PH: I do live near a bay. I can see it from -- well, I live in the mountains actually, fairly high up on a craggy ?eak! Beside a waterfall! I like my hive. >:)
SP: aye usually
SP: bu7 i have a hive 7oo
SP: 7ha7 works as a hideou7
PH: Well, if there's so much ...
PH: ... trouble ...
PH: ... sna??ing at your heels ...
PH: ... I ho?e it's a very good hideout!
PH: And, oh! Kyarib! Do you know ...
PH: ... what I ...
SP: i7 is 7he bes7 hideou7
PH: ... juuuuuust ....
PH: ... realized?
SP: realized wha7
PH: The rumors about a ?irate curse. I never whis?ered them to you.
PH: Should I do that now? Or have you remembered about the curse? >:P
SP: no i have no7
PH: All right. You're very sure ...
PH: ... nothing ...
PH: ... UNLUCKY is about?
PH: That noone who isn't initiated can ?ossibly hear?
PH: Or read, as the case may be.
SP: hold on le7 me check
SP: nope 7here is no one here curren7ly
PH: All right. I heard...
PH: ...that this ?articular ?erigrine of the Lunar cycle is the very same that the Dread ?irate Rageguts ran afoul of the Sea ?rincess Knows-No-Mercy, and that in the Green waters, where the cousins of the Horrorterrors ?ulse in radiant dis?lay, and THIS is the two hundredth sew? anniversary after Rageguts ...
PH: ...WRENCHED ...
PH: ...?rincess Knows-no-Mercy's guts right out of her medial bonewhistle, then CHOKED HER TO DEATH WITH THEM, drained her of her blood and threw the desiccated cor?se BACK into the water! And her ghost was so infuriated by the callous treatment of her ?erson, of the refusal of Rageguts to...
PH: a) actually relinquish her guts, which he KE?T for HIS GARTERS and to (b) allow her blood to remesh with the waves, which I hear is a very big sea troll death thing, that she cursed all ?irates who roamed her waves ON THIS DAY, and cursed them in such a way that the curse is CONTAGIOUS. If you ha??en to gamble....!!!!!!!!!!?!?!!
PH: As all ?irates do.
PH: ...well, I thought you miiiiight...
PH: have accidentally run afoul of this curse in your wide travels! What do you think????
SP: so some seadweller killed a pira7e
SP: or
PH: Yes! >:P
PH: Well, no.
PH: The ?irate killed the seadweller, and she used an evil seadweller curse on all ?irates.
PH: But more dramatically.
PH: And the curse became an infection! Like certain other unfortunate ?irate diseases. >:\ Which I kee? out of MYYYYY shi?s.
SP: oh
SP: i don7 7hink i would have 7his curse
PH: There's a whole disgusting school of trolls who actually ... revel in shi?s full of ... THOSE diseases. Blargh.
SP: how yarre 7hey s7ill afloa7
PH: I try not to look too closely >:\
PH: All right, Torent! I've got a FLAR? session to connect to in a few minutes, and I should go ?re?are. >:P I'll talk to you later!!!!!
SP: oh
SP: i never unders7ood wha7s 7he big 7hing abou7 flyarrp
SP: bu7 okay
SP: see ye
PH: >:D It's FUN! I'll drag you into a game one of these days!
PH: A??ro?riately themed, of course.
PH: Bye!!!!!!
