🏴‍☠️ IC contact; Duplicity

[calicoat]

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[adherency]

I suppose if I'm to believe that this place exists, I have to believe that they're able to figure out ways to feed us. No one can fuck if they're dying of starvation.

[calicoat]

Accepting things as they are without asking why or how has never been a talent of mine.

I'm having a grand old time here, as you can imagine.

[adherency]

Believe me, I understand. I don't much like it either but asking questions has proven futile as well. No one has any answers that will make this any better.

[calicoat]

No one has an answers at all, the locals treat you like a raving lunatic if you ask them what's beyond the water, or anything else of any consequence.

I'll have a look at your boat.

[adherency]

I'd appreciate that. I should get it named before someone I know sinks it.

[calicoat]

And who is looking to sink it?

[adherency]

Lotti, I think, if I don't name it after her. Daphne might just because she can.

[calicoat]

Don't think I know this Lotti woman.

Why would Daphne want to? I was under the impression that you two were close.

[adherency]

I don't actually think Daphne would unless I pissed her off. But if I pissed her off, she'd set it on fire and sink it.

Don't piss her off.

[calicoat]

Wouldn't dream of it.

[adherency]

She's not a cannibal though.

I mentioned that to her and she laughed.

[calicoat]

Glad the two of you could have a laugh about it. There is no shortage of questionable sorts around here, can't be too careful.

[ He says, while there is an actual cannibal living in his apartment, unbeknownst to him. ]

[adherency]

Oh, I know. Don't worry, she told me she'd take a bite out of you if you really wanted it.

[calicoat]

Did she, now. I've a full schedule of inconveniences ahead, she'll have to set an appointment.

[adherency]

What are you going to get yourself into, then?

[calicoat]

I've got a Submissive moving in tomorrow, need to get him settled. Among other things.

[adherency]

You've signed with someone? Anyone I know?

[calicoat]

Maybe you know him. Perhaps not, he's newer than I am.

[ Jopson does. No idea if he would have mentioned him, back when the two were on speaking terms. ]

Cornelius Hickey. Fellow sailor.

[adherency]

I don't know him but there's been a few of us coming in lately, haven't there? Sailors, I mean.

[calicoat]

Yourself, Anne, and I. Hickey. Jopson. Anyone else I should know about?

[adherency]

That's all that I know of at the time. But, could be others that I just don't know about.

[calicoat]

There's a man that sails among the stars. Ephemera.

And the sea spirit woman.

We're halfway to manning a longboat.

[adherency]

Gilia?

( he hasn't met ephemera but he knows gilia. )

Gilia would probably be a better sailor than all of us from what I know of her.

[calicoat]

That's the one.

[ And from there, radio silence, regardless of whatever else Billy's got to say about her. Several hours and even more drinks later: ]

glorious day marvelous news etcetera etcetera

another one

Charles Vane's popped in

[adherency]

Vane's here?

Fuck me, didn't expect that one.