Voice Test: no spoilers

[finefuckery]

[ There is a man in your bedroom! Or your kitchen, or just somewhere that is yours really. He is dressed head to toe in highly functional black leather, and has an incredible greying mane. He smells like sweat and the sea, and inexplicably of... lavender?

And he's touching things. He's touching everything. Just casually picking up trinkets and turning them over in his hands. ]

Now this? This is neat. This is cool. What do you call this?

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[nocawsforconcern]

[Blackbeard finds himself in what is probably familiar- The captain's cabin in a galleon at sea, rocking gently over calm waves as the ship makes its way to its next port. The room is even filled with a wide variety of trinkets and knicknacks- Gold coin and gems of such size and brilliance that his fine-tuned pirate senses would immediately identify them as priceless... and mixed in with them, little glass beads or baubles that have absolutely no value. The owner of this cabin, though, seems to think equally highly of all of them, put up for display on shelves as they all are.

Also, the cabin's owner, a young woman whose outfit can best be described as a cloak over a swimsuit, is now pointing a knife at him. A knife he'd be able to identify as a rigging knife for ropes, rather than a proper weapon, but when you get down to it, a knife is a knife.]

That's a coin from Eridanus. When seas get rough, you throw those overboard so the ghosts of drowned sailors get distracted.

Who are you and how'd you stow away on my ship?

[finefuckery]

[ Truth be told he has no idea how he got on this ship. But, y'know, at least today isn't boring. ]

I'm a pirate and... I'm a pirate.

[nocawsforconcern]

That's not an answer. Put my treasure down. Even if you are a pirate I don't wanna throw you overboard if I don't have to.

[finefuckery]

Ooooh, now I don't think that'll be a concern.

[nocawsforconcern]

I am strong.

[She lowers her dagger, and rustles her cloak around herself, muttering something that's...

Wait, no, is she just making bird noises to herself? Yeah, that's definitely just a muttered 'caw'.]

[finefuckery]

[ Straightens up a little, suddenly way more interested. ]

Bird person!

[nocawsforconcern]

[She shrugs.]

I'm from Corvus.

[finefuckery]

Corvus. They got bird people in Corvus?


You got a bird?

[nocawsforconcern]

If you're a pirate, shouldn't you know this sort of thing already?

Why would I have a bird on my ship? They have their homes already.

[finefuckery]

Never been to Corvus, man.

[nocawsforconcern]

Oh.

That's good, 'cause I'd probably have to stab you a lot if you tried to pirate Corvus.

[finefuckery]

Dunno, are there a lot of bird people? Might be fun.

Oh, an ocean too. Got one of those?

[nocawsforconcern]

We're on the ocean right now.

And with a stowaway on my ship, I have to figure out if we have enough food on board to make it to the next port now.

[finefuckery]

I'm a light eater.

[nocawsforconcern]

Light eater or no, I'm not going to starve you. It would be more merciful to throw you overboard.

[She rustles her cloak as she thinks.]

And food that goes to you doesn't go to the rest of my crew.