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ST The lobster-creature that originally escorted you, the one with the indigo-pink shell, escorts you to the caves where they are holding the prisoner. He takes his leave of you at the mouth of the cavern, turning you over to a fairly large lobster-creature with blue-green-yellow shell coloration. He is introduced to you as Blue-Green-Yellow.
ST Blue-Green-Yellow takes you deep inside the caves, to a place where the lobsters have bound a man to the rocks with thick weed ropes and hold him behind coral doors with bars as thick as Myrrh's wrists. The man's eyes spark with hatred at the lobsters guarding him. He is well-muscled, covered in strange tattoos in blue and black ink and dressed in nothing but a necklace and an anklet.
ST He looks at Xar and Myrrh, obviously curious as to their presence
Myrrh "Can you speak under the water?"
Xar`Rex cocks his head at the prisoner, curiously. He tries to see if he can interpret the tattoos that cover his skin
Prisoner speaks in Wavetongue "Why do you help these stupid lobsters? You should be setting me free. I'm the one they've captured."
Myrrh "Stupid? They seem rather concerned about the family members you've kidnapped..."
Xar`Rex "You have been killing their people. Why?
Prisoner So far as Xar can tell, the tattoos covering the man are designed as magical protection to keep him alive and breathing underwater.
Prisoner "They're not people, you soft-hearted fool! they're lobsters!"
Xar`Rex "They think you are the monster."
Prisoner "Because they are foolish lobsters!"
Myrrh "Well you're much dumber than we are...maybe we should kidnap you and eat you?"
Prisoner "I'm a human, you fool. Not some Wyld-twisted lobster with delusions of grandeur."
Xar`Rex "I am no human, would you eat me?"
Myrrh "Did it ever occur to you to maybe, talk to the lobsters?"
Prisoner "Why should we? They're just shelled fish."
Xar`Rex "Look around you, they have their own life, their own buildings, they make things, they were smart enough to capture you, and seek help, instead of killing you."
Myrrh "They even have a grasp of Thaumaturgy."
Prisoner "I hear tell of monkeys in the east that carry clubs and live in huts of leaves, yet the easterlings still eat their brains for dessert."
Xar`Rex "That does nto make either right."
Myrrh "You are SO lucky i'm here and not my partner...you should SEE what he does to cannibals..."
Prisoner "You aren't a cannibal if you eat a lobster. Even you must enjoy the taste of a well-cooked lobster in its shell, lizard-man."
Myrrh "Actualy I think Xar's a vegetarian. What are you, a Lintha?"
Prisoner "I'm a fisherman from Coral." The man smirks at you
Myrrh "Coral. Right. Xar I think we have a house call to make. Well after we help these lobsters with some sort of defense...maybe a few plasma cannon emplacements!"
Xar`Rex memorizes the patterns of the tattoos, for later use. "What about him?"
Myrrh "Hmmm...well he is a murderer. Maybe a jail a the bottom of the sea is the best place for him."
Xar`Rex shrugs a bit, "I cannot say I feel sorry for him."
Prisoner "I am a fisher, not a murderer!"
Xar`Rex swishes his tail through the water, "If you are only a fisher, perhaps you are not in a prison then."
Myrrh "We'll ask the lobsters what they think you are, hmm?"
Prisoner "Hear yourself, asking lobsters about the fate of men!"
Myrrh "And what would YOU prefer? That we let you go so you can keep "fishing" the old and the weak?"
Prisoner "Yes! As is the way of things!"
Prisoner "If we can't harvest their meat and shells, their pearls and innards, how will we survive? What will we have to eat and trade?"
Myrrh "I tell you what, i'm going to talk to your people and see if we can get trade and mediation between you two peoples because i'm sure as hell not going to go with a status quo of kidnapping and cannibalism!"
Prisoner "We will not talk with fish in shells!"
Xar`Rex "Then you will die here, I imagine."
Myrrh "You don't really have much of a choice now. Because if you don't i'm going to beat you all about the head until you do."
Myrrh "You can either trade with the lobsters for fish and pearls in return for trade goods, or I suppose you can all throw yourselves against a soon to be well trained lobsterman army. I know which one i'd choose..."
Prisoner "How will they come against us? These fish can not survive outside the water."
Xar`Rex "As you cannot survive in the water, without help..."
Myrrh "Ah true. One good counterspell and they might all drown..."
Xar`Rex "But you cannot survive without your ships, without your nets to catch fish."
Myrrh "Hm, a claw is pretty good at slicing a net..."
Prisoner "You will be the death of my folk!"
Myrrh "Only if you continue to refuse to negotiate I suppose. I have a certain head for figures you see. Well and farming."
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