crittersheep | BOAT: THISTLE

BOAT: THISTLE

[ You’re in a sleek, gilded reception room aboard a large and - aside from your team - empty ship. It’s full of fabulous kitchens (splattered with blood but still usable!) and ballrooms (full of instruments, all playable!) and glittering spires and stagnant-smelling but comfortable sleeping quarters. When nobody is using the intercoms to speak, a tune hums through.

Other than that, there’s thick mist surrounding everything, a path lit only by the ship’s signal light as it travels toward whatever it is you’re in search of and away from the home you can never return to. Waves crash gently against the hull, growing louder and fiercer as time goes on, and there’s faint wailing and howling in the distance…what is going on in this sea? Well, it’s not very important to you. What’s important is surviving.

You have a life to live. ]

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[She listens to all of this, something flickering across her face at the bit about Yata.]

...I'm fully aware of the implications of a lack of resources. But the second scenario specifically states that the shipwreck has plenty of resources to salvage. If we can salvage them, there's no reason to think there would continue to be a concern. That was my point.

So, from my perspective, there's no actual reason to do it. Rather than being fun and playful, which I do understand could help people, it just seems reckless.

Edited 2024-05-12 02:10 (UTC)

[relaxing a bit, tapping his staff thoughtfully against the ground]

I understand that perspective. And I don't think your concern is wrong.

I still worry that the obvious trap in scenario two will prevent us from salvaging those resources, and thus leave us high and dry if we choose not to steal. And so. . . from my perspective, it's more reckless not to act.

[. . .]

[to the rest of Thistle]

Hey! Let's take a vote! Do we steal from the merchants or not?

Edited (WORDS) 2024-05-12 02:17 (UTC)

The shipwreck might have plenty of resources, but if we're taking on another mouth when our food stocks are already low we need to be more prepared to feed them. I want to steal.

[CONSIDERING...]

Maybe we could bully the merchant ship into giving us resources for this guy we're gonna save. "Look at us, we're doing good in the world, and we'll pass on your good name if you give us stuff to help", that kinda thing.

But if that won't work, we should skip stealing this time. I know we're pirates and all, but we gotta be careful about makin' enemies.

[He'll give a concession for Flora this time, since she has a point.]

Edited 2024-05-12 02:21 (UTC)

. . . I think taking a little just to cover our bases is fine.

[once Odin, Yata and Tyr chime in, Lupin exhales]

. . . okay. Three for stealing, two for staying our hand.

Let's specify that we're only taking what we need, considering we're saving the shipwreck victim, and nothing more.