[Video] What do you do with a drunken pirate? (open to action in Lockwell)

[pirate_booty]

[A Lockwell bar. And a rather drunk pirate slumped in his(?) chair.]

A job...?  'm a pirate.  I ain't done an honest day's work in me life.  Do ya scurvy dogs.... do ya scurvy dogs think I'm gonna start now?

And this... this stupid country...  I ain't had the sea beneath me feet in far too long...  Who th' bloody hell makes a country with no seas around her...?


[A sigh, and he(?) tips back another drink.]

Never was good with figgurs.... had mates fer that.  

Bloody stupid country...

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[forgotten_vows]

[Victor's not sure what brings him to reply, but maybe he just feels a bit sorry for the inebriated man. He decides to start off with text, though, just in case the man isn't all that open for company.]

I'm sorry you miss the sea and your old world, but surely there must be something you can do here? Any skills picked up -- er -- pirating?

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[pirate_booty]

[It takes a moment for Faris to work up the concentration to pay attention to the text.]

...Pillaging? M'be... somethin' with ropes...?

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[forgotten_vows]

[All right, probably a bit hard for the sir to read at this level of inebriation, so Victor switches to video.]

I don't think people would take kindly to pillaging. . .then again, being a pirate, you surely know that. Might be something in the rope business. . .

[Although he's clear he himself is not sure what.]

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[pirate_booty]

'm supposed to be savin'... savin' the world... Instead 'm here...

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[forgotten_vows]

. . .Are you?

[Uh-oh. Victor bites his lip.]

I -- I'm sorry. I wish I could send you back so your world wouldn't be in danger. . .

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[pirate_booty]

m... 'm onna th' Light Warriors, I am....

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[forgotten_vows]

Would you like to tell me about them?

[Might help the man to talk about home -- and Victor can see just how plausible this talk of being a "Light Warrior" is. After all, this is a drunken pirate.]

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[pirate_booty]

[Faris pulls up into a better sitting position with a little bit of effort.]

Well, there's, there's... Bartz. Real idiot that one. More guts 'n' brains... Charges in without even thinkin'...

And Galuf... pretty spy... fer an old codger. Tougher 'an he has any right to be. Suppose to... suppose to be from some other world...

And Lenna...

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[forgotten_vows]

Heh -- I've known people like that.

Really? So -- your world has people coming in from other places too? [He could have sworn that was a quirk unique to Mallow Hallow.]

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[pirate_booty]

[Nnng. Focusing. Difficult.]

Somethin'... somethin' like that. Th' old sea dog... wasn't too clear on that. Got here on a... onna... on a... one of them space things.... a meteor?

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[forgotten_vows]

Er -- maybe? I'm not the best person to ask about 'space things.'

[You know, 1876 -- though he has read a little science fiction.]

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[pirate_booty]

Beats me. 'm just a pirate... Space is a bit beyon' me.

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[forgotten_vows]

Same here -- now, if you want to know what's under the ground, I'm your man.

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[pirate_booty]

You a.... you a miner?

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[forgotten_vows]

No, I've just -- talked to some people who live down below.

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[pirate_booty]

...dwarves?

[Dwarves were supposed to live underground, right?]

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[forgotten_vows]

No -- well, actually one of them might have been. . .but I'm talking more about -- um, the dead.

[Little awkward tie-fiddling here.]

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[pirate_booty]

[That's... that's really not even in the top ten most unbelievable things that have happened to Faris. So there's not any doubt at that.]

...y' look pretty alive t' me. Y' ain't a zombie, are ya?