[test post.]

[jawsfive]

A

[Congratulations! You've just acquired a boat full of valuables. Either you filled your own boat with valuables, or you bought one, or whatever. SHIP FULL OF STUFF.

Of course when you go down into it, there's.. a lot of stuff missing. Coinage, jewelry, expensive liquor, anything that can be easily carried.

And the culprit is working his way out of a hole in the side of the ship, just barely large enough for him to fit through, and just barely above the water level.]

B

[Do you like fishing.

It's pretty relaxing, right. Well, when you pull in your line, there's a fucking kid on your hook, or in your neck.

Either way, he looks extraordinarily unhappy.

C

[Or whatever I'M SURE YOU HAVE SOMETHING.]

Comments

Re: A

[merpaid]

No, we have a lot of catching up to do! And you need to repay me for what you just did to my ship.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

[Oh god dammit.]

...That hole was there when I got here?

Re: A

[merpaid]

I have made enough holes in enough things to know when they don't belong.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Oh, right.

Of course.

I suppose I do have to...pay for that, then.

[He's not looking forward to this.]

Re: A

[merpaid]

[She licks her lips.]

Oh, you'll pay, all right.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

W-well you know.

As soon as I.

Have money, I'll do that.

Re: A

[merpaid]

Payment can come in many forms.

[This is a smile that promises Kangagwaa a great deal of future anguish.]

Re: A

[jawsfive]

B-but it can also come in money.

Money I will get.

I promise.

Re: A

[merpaid]

With interest.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Okay, okay!

[I don't want to know what the alternative is.]

Re: A

[merpaid]

Until you can make that money, I'm putting you to work.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Work doing what?!

Re: A

[merpaid]

Deckhand, cleaning chamberpots, scraping barnacles off the hull, concubine.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

[Well that's not s-]

What was that last one.

Re: A

[merpaid]

That was concubine. If you want to earn a little extra money, that is.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

I.

Guess.

I could do that.

Re: A

[merpaid]

We've had some fun, haven't we?

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Y...yes..

[His memories of being thoroughly tentacled are slightly less so, but.]

Re: A

[merpaid]

It's just an option. If you want a little more cash.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Well, if it means you're paid back sooner...

Re: A

[merpaid]

Oh, I've really missed you. Such a tasty little morsel you are.

[Letting him go, but caressing his face with a tentacle.]

Re: A

[jawsfive]

Do you really have to phrase it that way!

[It has bad implications for me!]

Re: A

[merpaid]

Please, Kangaroo, I am not a cannibal. Well, only on the octopus side.

Re: A

[jawsfive]

It doesn't have to be literal to be an unsettling phrase.

[Not even bothering to correct her.]

Re: A

[merpaid]

Are you saying that my sexual appetite is too much for you? What a shame.