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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819374" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 01/23/06 session - “Old Whores Make Bad Sailors”</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 01/23/06 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Old Whores Make Bad Sailors”</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Once the Circle sailed into the port of Atlantis, they went their separate ways.</p><p></p><p>Gareth went home, checked the shops stores and books, and was actually around to drum up business and deal with walk-ins. His birthday was a fairly quiet affair, as far as the Circle was concerned. He spent the evening with his family. His mother griped about him still being unmarried and not giving her grandchildren. One of his in-laws approached him about taking on apprentices. He got a few nice things (a leather apron, a heavy wool cloak with matching mittens, and a young cat for his shop). He spent the rest of his time expanding his business to include armor, restocking supplies and making plans for building forges on Hoen-ba and the Elemental island, chewing the fat with his friends and contacts, spending time with his family, and training two apprentices. Jade’s Luck had helped him come up with several stories to tell his nieces and nephews that were based on their recent travels, like ‘the crazy rain worshipping people of Vancouver.’</p><p></p><p>A-dom spent his time hanging around Gareth’s shop. Not much for him to do when he can’t look like he used to without being brown, and thus attracting the attention of dragon-bloods.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck spent the time working for Matron Jade and explaining her whereabouts for the past several months. She talked with Matron Jade about the trading company and her possible role in it. She also talked to her about needing a bodyguard and taking one on. She brought She-Dom (think Ugly Stepsister from Shrek 2) around so that Matron Jade could inspect this new bodyguard of Jade’s Luck’s.</p><p></p><p>Jahar and Jade’s Luck had several sessions where they talked about the formation of the trading company. <strong>A lot!</strong> The spent hours, maybe even days, discussing what they were going to sell, where they were going to sell it, how they were going to procure it, where they were going to get backing from, and what they were willing to do to get that backing. They decided to employ some of the old whores who worked for Matron Jade, but they weren’t sure what they were going to use them for. For some reason, Jahar seemed to think old whores made bad sailors. But, basically, it was a very long conversation that not even Jahar paid much attention to.</p><p></p><p>They also met with the other members of the Circle about their trading company. Gareth offered to help them with what forms they’d need to file, what bribes they’d need to pay, and what permits they would need to obtain. He also offered to introduce them to several different merchants and craftsmen they might have interest in doing business with. Jahar mentioned something about needing Gareth to build a city sometime. Jade’s Luck was very grateful to have some help with the paperwork.</p><p></p><p>Jahar and Tiger went around forming the new trading company. Jahar sold the poison for capital; they talked with seedy contacts and family.</p><p></p><p>A couple weeks after returning home, Gareth went to visit the shop of his merchant friend across the street (the guy who lent Gareth a horse and told him about the Swiftstone archipelago job). He let Gareth know that the noble dragon-bloods were cracking down of dishonest merchants using illegal slave labor to protect honest merchants like them. </p><p></p><p>Sometime later, Gareth had a quick chat with A-dom back at his shop before talking to the slave, Joe. Gareth told A-dom he might have to knock Joe out if he looked like he was going to flip out and cause problems. Gareth explained to Joe that Empty Bucket had wandered off and very likely failed to file the proper papers after purchasing him, so the dragon-bloods would likely consider him an illegal slave. He then talked to Joe about getting him off the island for a brief time so they could straighten the situation out and asked him what he wanted. As Gareth explained things to him he looked more and more nervous. He kept shifting from looking at Gareth to looking at A-Dom and back.</p><p></p><p><strong>Joe:</strong> <em>Umm... I'd like to be free. That would be nice. But my master or at least some Dragon Blood would have to free me. I don't want to be an escaped slave. Escaped slaves are not for filling their role in the universe. They reincarnate as bugs and leeches or worse... disenfranchised. *he visibly shivers* I don't want to reincarnate as any of those. Freeing me probably involves lots of paperwork too.</em> (looked really depressed when this came up)<em> But they don't tell us slaves much about that.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Even if I'm freed, I don't think I could survive in the wild. I'm just a tailor. I don't need to live in a city but I would need to go to a town or village. Cause I really need a place where I could buy food. This just sounds awfully complicated.</em></p><p></p><p>His eye-line clearly dropped to look at the ground and he wrung his hands together.</p><p></p><p><em>But I don't want to be executed or tortured or anything. You've been nice to me, so I don't want you to be beaten or interrogated or investigated because of me. Maybe we should just go and tell a Dragon Blood that my master ran off and hasn't taken care of me, and they will know what to do. That's why we have Dragon Bloods. To take care of these kinds of things. We just aren't qualified. Lets go tell a dragon blood before we get in trouble. Waiting will only make it worse. You have a Dynast friend don't you? You know some Dragon Bloods who could help us... right?</em></p><p></p><p>He then looked up at Gareth with puppy dog eyes. A-Dom wisely waited for Gareth to respond instead of just knocking Joe out.</p><p></p><p>As Joe began to panic and talk about going to the dragon-bloods to sort it all out, Gareth realized he had given Joe too much information and, well, truth.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em> Everything is going to be fine. I know some people that can help. You are not an escaped slave. You won’t be an escaped slave, you’ll be a freed one. You’ve been performing admirably in your task the past several months and the gods have seen this. Just as you have been fulfilling your place in the universe, I need to fulfill mine in making sure you get a fair cop. So, now is not the time to draw attention to yourself. It will take some time to get you freed and talking to the dragon-bloods before then about your situation will only make it worse. I was suggesting we relocate you briefly for your comfort and ease of this process. I know of a couple of villages that could use your skills and you wouldn’t have much problem fitting in.</em></p><p></p><p>Joe seemed more relieved by this. Gareth set him to the task of sewing something in the back and closed up shop. He and A-dom headed off to Luck’s Tea House to find Jade’s Luck. While they waited for Jahar and Tiger to show up, Gareth explained the situation to Jade’s Luck. She came up with a plan how to get Joe off the island discretely. When Jahar showed up, all he wanted to talk about was the trading company and ignored the problem at hand. Gareth talked to Tiger about forging the proper paperwork in Empty Bucket’s name for freeing Joe. Tiger said he wasn’t sure if he could do it or not, but he might know someone who could. They hung around for a while yet as Jahar kept going on about the trading company and everyone’s role in it.</p><p></p><p>Gareth collected some supplies for a sleeping potion from the market and brewed one up. The next day Jade’s Luck came over while Joe was enjoying a stew laced with sleeping potion. Once Joe passed out in his stew, Gareth told Jade’s Luck to do her thing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Huh what de huh?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Purse him, woman!</em></p><p></p><p>Luck pulled out Pursey and asked it to grab Joe. Pursey sucked up Joe and the stew, then promptly fell asleep.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Your purse is sleeping. That’s just weird!</em></p><p></p><p>With that taken care of, Gareth, Jade’s Luck, and A-dom took a quick trip to Hoen-ba island. Once there, they woke up Pursey, who now had the hiccups, and spit out a sleeping Joe.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck carried Joe to town and to Hoen-ba-ba-den’s hut. Gareth explained that Joe was a tailor and he wanted him to stay in their village for a few months. Hoen-ba-ba-den said her old hut was free. Gareth told her he was a nice guy and a good worker. He explained that Joe didn’t speak their language and asked her not to eat him. She said Gelf would stick around him and said that, if they decided he needed to be eaten, they’d wait for Gareth to get back to so they could chat about it. Jade’s Luck let her know she could know speak their language.</p><p></p><p><strong>Hoen-ba-ba-den:</strong> <em>Good for you. Nice to see you’re getting civilized.</em></p><p></p><p>They found out that Chief Klun wasn’t very good at sailing his boat, so Gareth went to go teach the chief and some of the villagers how to work the sails and riggings. Jade’s Luck brought Joe to the hut and sat watch over him for a day and a half till he woke up. A-dom, now unsupervised, decided to try juggling children. He didn’t kill any, but some had to be fished out of a tree. He gave them a Solar doll to fight over.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck calmed Joe down when he woke up and explained he had a bad reaction to something to his soup and they were now on the other island. Luck explained that it was a good island with nice villagers and not to discuss religion (ah, heathens). He went to use the bathroom (second tree on the right) and noticed the villagers lacked pants. He decided that needed to be rectified. Gareth came back by from teaching the villagers to sail better boats to introduce Joe to Gelf. Joe offered to make Gelf pants. Gelf didn’t like his inside leg being taken, but Gareth convinced him pants were a useful thing and that he’d like them. They got along fine. Gareth said they’d check back in a few times and the trio headed back to Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Jahar waited a few more days before decided he had put off seeing his wife long enough. He figured out how to take off his bracers. He then went to see her cousin to see if she was in town and how she had been.</p><p></p><p><strong>Cousin:</strong> <em>Grumpy. Do you know what morning sickness is? You haven’t been married before. (pause) Oh, by the way, congratulations. </em></p><p></p><p>Jahar found out she had her Goremaul with her, so decided not to visit her in the morning. He visited Jara in the early afternoon, hoping she’d be sluggish from food or a noon nap. He found she was lounging in a Cynis garden with Isis. He went in with Harmonious Presence up, just to be safe.</p><p></p><p><strong>Isis:</strong> <em>Ah. Look who’s here.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I just heard the news.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Isis:</strong> <em>Well, that’s what happens when you disappear for months on end. You do realize you still have wedding presents you haven’t unwrapped.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> (wifely voice of doom) <em>Hello husband. (pause) Where have you been?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar stood there thinking for a minute before he answered.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I was debating on whether to congratulate you or answer your question first. I was marooned if you must know, but first, congratulations.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> (wifely voice of doom) <em>Thank you. Marooned? And how did you become marooned?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Well, the ship we were on was stolen.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> (wifely voice of doom) <em>Why were you on a ship?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar told her that he was trying to make a name for himself and their family and start up a trading company to provide for them.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> (wifely voice of doom) <em>Oh, that’s nice. You could have left me a note!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I didn’t know where to leave it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> (wifely voice of doom) <em>You find a slave.</em> *whistles* <em>Bring me a slave!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I most humbly apologize for me extended absence. It was not intended.</em></p><p></p><p>He then told her he had named the new ship that brought him home in her honor. She said she accepted his apology. A slave was brought in.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jara:</strong> <em>You are responsible for taking all notes from my husband and bringing them to me promptly! You’ll be flayed alive if you fail!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar asked her how she had been and what she was doing. She said that they had not managed to capture the anathema that had destroyed a chunk of the city during the wedding. But they did manage to find another anathema and kill it outside the city.</p><p></p><p>He stuck around for some more small talk, then left.</p><p></p><p>The Circle got together to plan their next voyage, they decided to head to Abalon by a circuitous route so they could combine establishing the trading company with finding a gate to heaven. Jahar set up <strong>Jara’s Pride</strong> to go on another voyage to establish a trading route or something.</p><p></p><p>They spent another month on Atlantis before heading off on their quest. Gareth managed to train his two apprentices enough so they could run the shop and make horseshoes and stuff, but not weapons or armor.</p><p></p><p>The trip was fairly boring. They stopped at a number of places to make friends and trade stuff. They got to the point where Jade’s Luck needed to start speaking the Koomba Barbarian language she had learned. Since they had an actual crew on this voyage (in addition to Jahar’s two acolytes), they found themselves trading for food a lot. They laid off on the preaching and no dolls or sundrops were distributed. They hit a stretch of islands that were Hoen-ba sized. Jade’s Luck did hand out candy at one of the islands though. No one went behind her saying ‘worship the unconquered sun’ though.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Conquer the Unworshipped Sun! Conquer the Unworshipped Sun! </em></p><p></p><p>Spoken like a true death knight. Bad man.</p><p></p><p>Gareth realized that, from what he was told, the next island was just far enough away that, if they pushed really hard, they could get there before calibration. If they didn’t push really hard, they’d be at sea when Calibration started. So, he had the choice of staying on the crappy island they were on until after calibration or taking the chance to get somewhere better.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>We’re going to push really hard and head for the next island.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Do we want to talk to the crew and ask their opinion?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>No.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Gareth understand the idea of being a captain. The crew gets nervous when you start asking for opinions.</em></p><p></p><p>The mortal crew got to sleep more than the Circle the next few days. Gareth also set up the shifts so that the mortals were all on the same shift. The day before Calibration they still hadn’t reached land. The crew got sent down below to rest.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>A-dom, push!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Aye aye, Captain!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom got off the boat and started pushing the boat and kicking. His strength was only an eleven. Jahar went down below with his acolytes to pray to the Unconquered Sun for aid.</p><p></p><p>As it got closer and closer to midnight, A-dom pumped up his strength more. Gareth kept his eye out for any land, but didn’t see any. Once it clicked past midnight, A-dom was happy cause it was his birthday. Of course, it was also now the first day of Calibration. Jade’s Luck threw a muffin down to him.</p><p></p><p>Off in the distance, Gareth noticed a small boat being chased by a larger boat, without sails. The larger boat was going faster than <strong>The Grumpy Craftsmen</strong> and seemed to be trying to catch the smaller boat before it reached the land off in the distance.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: (to A-dom)</strong> <em>Peddle faster!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth then pointed out the boats to the others on the deck and went to go tell Jahar. He found Jahar and his two acolytes praying in Jahar’s room.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar & acolytes:</strong> <em>Hummina hummina Unconquered Sun. Hummina hummina good stuff. Hummina hummina please don’t let us die.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: </strong> <em>Stuffs going on.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar sighed and left the room with Gareth. When he filled Jahar in, Jahar relayed that there were tales of pirates in the south with sail-less ships that were dragged by poorly controlled demons. He suggested they be stopped.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: </strong> <em>They’re pirates, so stopping them sounds like fun. Cause then they’ll be dead pirates, and then they’ll be okay.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth went back up and yelled down to A-dom what Jahar just told him about a demon propelled ship.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Aww! I’m out of essence!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: </strong> <em>I wouldn’t mind at all if, while we’re killing the pirates, the dead ones rose up and helped us kill the rest.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Damn it! I need essence for that!</em></p><p></p><p>As the larger ship was getting harpoons out to grapple the smaller ship, no one noticed a raven fly off the smaller boat and fly up and over to the mast of the larger ship.</p><p></p><p>Someone asked Gareth if they could ram the pirate ship with <strong>The Grumpy Craftsman</strong>. He wasn’t sure, but was willing to try. He then got a better idea and told Jahar to ram the larger ship with butterflies instead.</p><p></p><p>Gareth told A-dom to get back onboard and that Jahar was casting butterflies. A-dom started putting finger holes in the boat as he climbed back onboard. About a hundred yards away, Jahar got to the fore of the ship and began casting. The pirates were hurling harpoons at the smaller ship and some of them were sticking. Jade’s Luck and Tiger noticed the raven drop off the mast and dive bomb towards the deck. It then did something strange, because it made a hard veer away from the ship and dove into the water. Then butterflies went off and plowed into the middle of the pirate ship, leaving a large hole and lots of dead mortal pirates. Gareth then turned the ship as hard right as he could to avoid the butterflies, but ended up scraping alongside the pirate boat. Tiger leapt across to the nose of the pirate ship and started killing mortals, followed by Jade’s Luck. No one noticed a fish leap out the sea, change into a huge bird/human creature and start scaling the pirate boat.</p><p></p><p>Tiger slashed up pirates as he made his way towards the back of the boat. He rarely killed a guy outright, but the fast acting poison on his sword finished the job. Jade’s Luck didn’t see any obvious sorcerers or demons, so she beat up a pirate by running up him, whapping him with her war fan, doing a summersault over his head as he dropped to the ground dead and whapping his friend with the fan on the way down again.</p><p></p><p>Jahar, however, DID notice the demon. The demon was a huge thing in the water pulling the pirate ship. It was almost underneath the smaller boat up ahead. He told Gareth he’d protect the ship and that the demon was in the water. He then pulled out a bow and fired an arrow into the water. Unfortunately he didn’t manage to get the arrow to the demon.</p><p></p><p>Gareth looked across to see the guys parallel to him. He leapt into the air, did a summersault, and cleaved through the mortal chump steering the pirate boat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: </strong> <em>Ha-HA!</em></p><p></p><p>The guy standing next to Gareth spat in his face, burning Gareth’s flesh like acid. A group of three pirates ganged up on Jade’s Luck, not that they actually managed to hit her.</p><p></p><p><strong>Demon Pirate Captain:</strong> <em>Get them! Take their ship! Arr!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom leapt over and jumped down to knock another hole in the boat near the obsidian butterflies. A-dom came out the bottom of the boat and noticed that the demon was a lot deeper than everyone thought and it was surfacing rapidly towards the little boat. A-dom thought it would have been cool to fight the demon, but he couldn't get there in time. So, he just watched.</p><p></p><p>When the thing scaling the boat got to the top, the Circle and pirates could see it was an eight foot tall female human/Raven monster with feathered arms, wicked looking claws on feet and hands, and a bird head.</p><p></p><p><strong>Female RavenBeast:</strong> <em>Lightbringer, Demon Slayer. What are you waiting for?</em></p><p></p><p>She then grabbed a pirate’s head and twisted it off.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck saw this raven beast near her and was a bit afraid of it, but at least it was killing pirates.</p><p></p><p>Tiger made it back to Gareth, leaving more dead pirates in his wake, leaving just the acid-spitting Captain alive.</p><p></p><p>The demon shot out of the water, hanging in the air for a second. It was a big, scary thing with lots of tentacles and spikes on its tentacles. Some of the people in the small boat were knocked out into the water by when the demon emerged. Then the demon flopped down on top of the small boat, destroying it and those within. A-dom would have clapped, if he had seen it.</p><p></p><p>A couple of pirates jumped to <strong>The Grumpy Craftsman</strong> by Jahar and engaged him in combat. Jahar managed to wound one of them. Gareth actually managed to wound the Demon Captain. For him, that’s pretty good.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Careful Tiger, this one spits acid.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom crawled into the hull of the boat and monkey leapt up through the boat, smashing much. At the apex of his jump, he realized he didn’t have a plan and fell back down through the boat, making more boat shards. Between the obsidian butterflies and A-dom's extra work, the boat was now starting to break in two, down the middle.</p><p></p><p>Tiger managed to dispatch the Demon Captain by chopping off his arms. Unfortunately, this freed the demon from its servitude and it swam away. A-dom waved goodbye. It waved a back.</p><p></p><p>With the pirate boat breaking apart and sinking, Gareth and Jade’s Luck booked it back to <strong>The Grumpy Craftsman</strong>. Also, several pirates started surrendering to get off their broken boat. One surrendered to the Raven beast. Three surrendered to Jade’s Luck. One surrendered to Jahar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (to the Raven Beast): <em>Um. Hi. Truce and you can get off the sinking boat?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Raven Beast:</strong> <em>Ummm. Suuuure. I don’t know why you’re trucing.</em></p><p></p><p>The big Raven Beast picked up her surrendered pirate and jumped boats.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong>: <em>So, how do you know Jahar?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Raven Beast:</strong> <em>We’ll get to that… Who’s Jahar?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong>: <em>Well, you called him Lightbringer, but nobody calls him that anymore. We call him Jahar. Well, he was Lightbringer, now he’s Jahar. I just figured you knew Jahar.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Raven Beast:</strong> <em>Well…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Yeah, it’s kinda weird that way.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Raven Beast:</strong> <em>Well…</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar realized that there was something he needed from the sinking boat and leapt across. He got Tiger, who was currently mutilating the body of the Demon Captain, to pick up the pieces and bring them back to the ship.</p><p></p><p>Gareth worked to untangle his boat from the pirate vessel so they wouldn’t capsize. He then went about looking for survivors in the water from the small boat. Finding one floating in the water, Gareth fished him aboard and checked him over. He seemed okay, except for some nasty bruises from hitting the water after being flung twenty feet up by the sea demon.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck collected the pirates’ inferior weapons and tying up the prisoners. The Raven beast looked overboard for more survivors from her boat, but didn’t see any.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong>: <em>Should we head for land, since it is right over there and such and Calibration bad?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Raven Beast:</strong> <em>Yes, and I’m sure the island people would love to deal with these people.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom’s head bobbed out of the water, then he climbed back onboard.</p><p></p><p>The Raven beast changed into a raven and then into a young, pretty woman. Though she was only five foot two inches tall, she was built lean, so appeared taller than she was. She had black hair, stick-straight and about waist length. Her nose was a bit hawk-like, giving her a fierce appearance that was softened by bright blue eyes and a compassionate expression.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong>: <em>Well that’s unusual.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Uh, are you a demon too?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> (annoyed) <em>Are you a demon?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>No.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> (annoyed) <em>What do you think my answer is?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar walked over holding a demon head in one hand and a knife in the other.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We’ve been looking for more like you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> <em>Really?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong>: <em>So, how do you know Jahar?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> <em>I don’t know…</em> *points at Jahar* <em>That. I remember Lightbringer. This is only…half.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>He was a long time ago.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> <em>Lightbringer would have dived into the water and slain the demon. Instead of letting the demon be free and running about Creation.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Lightbringer is, was a lot stronger than we are now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>No Longer a Raven or a Beast:</strong> <em>Lightbringer probably knew a great deal more. More than I know.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar and the woman then had a short conversation I couldn’t hear while Jade’s Luck rearranged her scarf to hide her caste mark and went downstairs. The woman said her human name was Ceri. She said that they were on their way to the island because someone needed healing there. Gareth inquired what was wrong with the person there, stating that he was a decent healer in his own right. She didn’t seem to know why the demons were chasing her boat, but wanted to find out. Jahar wandered off to muck with the demon head.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> I’m a demon.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>No, he’s not. (pause) Sometimes I think he wishes, but he’s not. (pause) I’m Gareth, by the way. Captain of this vessel.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck found the crew had been watching outside through a porthole. They couldn’t see much, but they seemed excited about what was going on. After all, pirate battles are neat. She tried talking to the crew to misdirect them and reassured them that they were going to land.</p><p></p><p>Jahar was walking around trying to find a way to preserve the eyeballs of the Demon Captain. He decided pickling was the way to go and was looking for a jar. Jade’s Luck intercepted him and told him about the crew having a peephole. She sent him back topside while she fetched him a jar. He went to his room to spend time with his acolytes. They tried to roast some food on his bonfire.</p><p></p><p>The non-glowing Circle members set about putting the pirates in the hold where they wouldn’t interact with the crew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819374, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 01/23/06 session - “Old Whores Make Bad Sailors”[/b] [i]Synopsis of 01/23/06 session[/i] [size=5][b]“Old Whores Make Bad Sailors”[/b][/size] Once the Circle sailed into the port of Atlantis, they went their separate ways. Gareth went home, checked the shops stores and books, and was actually around to drum up business and deal with walk-ins. His birthday was a fairly quiet affair, as far as the Circle was concerned. He spent the evening with his family. His mother griped about him still being unmarried and not giving her grandchildren. One of his in-laws approached him about taking on apprentices. He got a few nice things (a leather apron, a heavy wool cloak with matching mittens, and a young cat for his shop). He spent the rest of his time expanding his business to include armor, restocking supplies and making plans for building forges on Hoen-ba and the Elemental island, chewing the fat with his friends and contacts, spending time with his family, and training two apprentices. Jade’s Luck had helped him come up with several stories to tell his nieces and nephews that were based on their recent travels, like ‘the crazy rain worshipping people of Vancouver.’ A-dom spent his time hanging around Gareth’s shop. Not much for him to do when he can’t look like he used to without being brown, and thus attracting the attention of dragon-bloods. Jade’s Luck spent the time working for Matron Jade and explaining her whereabouts for the past several months. She talked with Matron Jade about the trading company and her possible role in it. She also talked to her about needing a bodyguard and taking one on. She brought She-Dom (think Ugly Stepsister from Shrek 2) around so that Matron Jade could inspect this new bodyguard of Jade’s Luck’s. Jahar and Jade’s Luck had several sessions where they talked about the formation of the trading company. [b]A lot![/b] The spent hours, maybe even days, discussing what they were going to sell, where they were going to sell it, how they were going to procure it, where they were going to get backing from, and what they were willing to do to get that backing. They decided to employ some of the old whores who worked for Matron Jade, but they weren’t sure what they were going to use them for. For some reason, Jahar seemed to think old whores made bad sailors. But, basically, it was a very long conversation that not even Jahar paid much attention to. They also met with the other members of the Circle about their trading company. Gareth offered to help them with what forms they’d need to file, what bribes they’d need to pay, and what permits they would need to obtain. He also offered to introduce them to several different merchants and craftsmen they might have interest in doing business with. Jahar mentioned something about needing Gareth to build a city sometime. Jade’s Luck was very grateful to have some help with the paperwork. Jahar and Tiger went around forming the new trading company. Jahar sold the poison for capital; they talked with seedy contacts and family. A couple weeks after returning home, Gareth went to visit the shop of his merchant friend across the street (the guy who lent Gareth a horse and told him about the Swiftstone archipelago job). He let Gareth know that the noble dragon-bloods were cracking down of dishonest merchants using illegal slave labor to protect honest merchants like them. Sometime later, Gareth had a quick chat with A-dom back at his shop before talking to the slave, Joe. Gareth told A-dom he might have to knock Joe out if he looked like he was going to flip out and cause problems. Gareth explained to Joe that Empty Bucket had wandered off and very likely failed to file the proper papers after purchasing him, so the dragon-bloods would likely consider him an illegal slave. He then talked to Joe about getting him off the island for a brief time so they could straighten the situation out and asked him what he wanted. As Gareth explained things to him he looked more and more nervous. He kept shifting from looking at Gareth to looking at A-Dom and back. [b]Joe:[/b] [i]Umm... I'd like to be free. That would be nice. But my master or at least some Dragon Blood would have to free me. I don't want to be an escaped slave. Escaped slaves are not for filling their role in the universe. They reincarnate as bugs and leeches or worse... disenfranchised. *he visibly shivers* I don't want to reincarnate as any of those. Freeing me probably involves lots of paperwork too.[/i] (looked really depressed when this came up)[i] But they don't tell us slaves much about that. Even if I'm freed, I don't think I could survive in the wild. I'm just a tailor. I don't need to live in a city but I would need to go to a town or village. Cause I really need a place where I could buy food. This just sounds awfully complicated.[/i] His eye-line clearly dropped to look at the ground and he wrung his hands together. [i]But I don't want to be executed or tortured or anything. You've been nice to me, so I don't want you to be beaten or interrogated or investigated because of me. Maybe we should just go and tell a Dragon Blood that my master ran off and hasn't taken care of me, and they will know what to do. That's why we have Dragon Bloods. To take care of these kinds of things. We just aren't qualified. Lets go tell a dragon blood before we get in trouble. Waiting will only make it worse. You have a Dynast friend don't you? You know some Dragon Bloods who could help us... right?[/i] He then looked up at Gareth with puppy dog eyes. A-Dom wisely waited for Gareth to respond instead of just knocking Joe out. As Joe began to panic and talk about going to the dragon-bloods to sort it all out, Gareth realized he had given Joe too much information and, well, truth. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i] Everything is going to be fine. I know some people that can help. You are not an escaped slave. You won’t be an escaped slave, you’ll be a freed one. You’ve been performing admirably in your task the past several months and the gods have seen this. Just as you have been fulfilling your place in the universe, I need to fulfill mine in making sure you get a fair cop. So, now is not the time to draw attention to yourself. It will take some time to get you freed and talking to the dragon-bloods before then about your situation will only make it worse. I was suggesting we relocate you briefly for your comfort and ease of this process. I know of a couple of villages that could use your skills and you wouldn’t have much problem fitting in.[/i] Joe seemed more relieved by this. Gareth set him to the task of sewing something in the back and closed up shop. He and A-dom headed off to Luck’s Tea House to find Jade’s Luck. While they waited for Jahar and Tiger to show up, Gareth explained the situation to Jade’s Luck. She came up with a plan how to get Joe off the island discretely. When Jahar showed up, all he wanted to talk about was the trading company and ignored the problem at hand. Gareth talked to Tiger about forging the proper paperwork in Empty Bucket’s name for freeing Joe. Tiger said he wasn’t sure if he could do it or not, but he might know someone who could. They hung around for a while yet as Jahar kept going on about the trading company and everyone’s role in it. Gareth collected some supplies for a sleeping potion from the market and brewed one up. The next day Jade’s Luck came over while Joe was enjoying a stew laced with sleeping potion. Once Joe passed out in his stew, Gareth told Jade’s Luck to do her thing. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Huh what de huh?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Purse him, woman![/i] Luck pulled out Pursey and asked it to grab Joe. Pursey sucked up Joe and the stew, then promptly fell asleep. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Your purse is sleeping. That’s just weird![/i] With that taken care of, Gareth, Jade’s Luck, and A-dom took a quick trip to Hoen-ba island. Once there, they woke up Pursey, who now had the hiccups, and spit out a sleeping Joe. Jade’s Luck carried Joe to town and to Hoen-ba-ba-den’s hut. Gareth explained that Joe was a tailor and he wanted him to stay in their village for a few months. Hoen-ba-ba-den said her old hut was free. Gareth told her he was a nice guy and a good worker. He explained that Joe didn’t speak their language and asked her not to eat him. She said Gelf would stick around him and said that, if they decided he needed to be eaten, they’d wait for Gareth to get back to so they could chat about it. Jade’s Luck let her know she could know speak their language. [b]Hoen-ba-ba-den:[/b] [i]Good for you. Nice to see you’re getting civilized.[/i] They found out that Chief Klun wasn’t very good at sailing his boat, so Gareth went to go teach the chief and some of the villagers how to work the sails and riggings. Jade’s Luck brought Joe to the hut and sat watch over him for a day and a half till he woke up. A-dom, now unsupervised, decided to try juggling children. He didn’t kill any, but some had to be fished out of a tree. He gave them a Solar doll to fight over. Jade’s Luck calmed Joe down when he woke up and explained he had a bad reaction to something to his soup and they were now on the other island. Luck explained that it was a good island with nice villagers and not to discuss religion (ah, heathens). He went to use the bathroom (second tree on the right) and noticed the villagers lacked pants. He decided that needed to be rectified. Gareth came back by from teaching the villagers to sail better boats to introduce Joe to Gelf. Joe offered to make Gelf pants. Gelf didn’t like his inside leg being taken, but Gareth convinced him pants were a useful thing and that he’d like them. They got along fine. Gareth said they’d check back in a few times and the trio headed back to Atlantis. Jahar waited a few more days before decided he had put off seeing his wife long enough. He figured out how to take off his bracers. He then went to see her cousin to see if she was in town and how she had been. [b]Cousin:[/b] [i]Grumpy. Do you know what morning sickness is? You haven’t been married before. (pause) Oh, by the way, congratulations. [/i] Jahar found out she had her Goremaul with her, so decided not to visit her in the morning. He visited Jara in the early afternoon, hoping she’d be sluggish from food or a noon nap. He found she was lounging in a Cynis garden with Isis. He went in with Harmonious Presence up, just to be safe. [b]Isis:[/b] [i]Ah. Look who’s here.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I just heard the news.[/i] [b]Isis:[/b] [i]Well, that’s what happens when you disappear for months on end. You do realize you still have wedding presents you haven’t unwrapped.[/i] [b]Jara:[/b] (wifely voice of doom) [i]Hello husband. (pause) Where have you been?[/i] Jahar stood there thinking for a minute before he answered. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I was debating on whether to congratulate you or answer your question first. I was marooned if you must know, but first, congratulations.[/i] [b]Jara:[/b] (wifely voice of doom) [i]Thank you. Marooned? And how did you become marooned?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Well, the ship we were on was stolen.[/i] [b]Jara:[/b] (wifely voice of doom) [i]Why were you on a ship?[/i] Jahar told her that he was trying to make a name for himself and their family and start up a trading company to provide for them. [b]Jara:[/b] (wifely voice of doom) [i]Oh, that’s nice. You could have left me a note![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I didn’t know where to leave it.[/i] [b]Jara:[/b] (wifely voice of doom) [i]You find a slave.[/i] *whistles* [i]Bring me a slave![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I most humbly apologize for me extended absence. It was not intended.[/i] He then told her he had named the new ship that brought him home in her honor. She said she accepted his apology. A slave was brought in. [b]Jara:[/b] [i]You are responsible for taking all notes from my husband and bringing them to me promptly! You’ll be flayed alive if you fail![/i] Jahar asked her how she had been and what she was doing. She said that they had not managed to capture the anathema that had destroyed a chunk of the city during the wedding. But they did manage to find another anathema and kill it outside the city. He stuck around for some more small talk, then left. The Circle got together to plan their next voyage, they decided to head to Abalon by a circuitous route so they could combine establishing the trading company with finding a gate to heaven. Jahar set up [b]Jara’s Pride[/b] to go on another voyage to establish a trading route or something. They spent another month on Atlantis before heading off on their quest. Gareth managed to train his two apprentices enough so they could run the shop and make horseshoes and stuff, but not weapons or armor. The trip was fairly boring. They stopped at a number of places to make friends and trade stuff. They got to the point where Jade’s Luck needed to start speaking the Koomba Barbarian language she had learned. Since they had an actual crew on this voyage (in addition to Jahar’s two acolytes), they found themselves trading for food a lot. They laid off on the preaching and no dolls or sundrops were distributed. They hit a stretch of islands that were Hoen-ba sized. Jade’s Luck did hand out candy at one of the islands though. No one went behind her saying ‘worship the unconquered sun’ though. [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Conquer the Unworshipped Sun! Conquer the Unworshipped Sun! [/i] Spoken like a true death knight. Bad man. Gareth realized that, from what he was told, the next island was just far enough away that, if they pushed really hard, they could get there before calibration. If they didn’t push really hard, they’d be at sea when Calibration started. So, he had the choice of staying on the crappy island they were on until after calibration or taking the chance to get somewhere better. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]We’re going to push really hard and head for the next island.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Do we want to talk to the crew and ask their opinion?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]No.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Gareth understand the idea of being a captain. The crew gets nervous when you start asking for opinions.[/i] The mortal crew got to sleep more than the Circle the next few days. Gareth also set up the shifts so that the mortals were all on the same shift. The day before Calibration they still hadn’t reached land. The crew got sent down below to rest. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]A-dom, push![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Aye aye, Captain![/i] A-dom got off the boat and started pushing the boat and kicking. His strength was only an eleven. Jahar went down below with his acolytes to pray to the Unconquered Sun for aid. As it got closer and closer to midnight, A-dom pumped up his strength more. Gareth kept his eye out for any land, but didn’t see any. Once it clicked past midnight, A-dom was happy cause it was his birthday. Of course, it was also now the first day of Calibration. Jade’s Luck threw a muffin down to him. Off in the distance, Gareth noticed a small boat being chased by a larger boat, without sails. The larger boat was going faster than [b]The Grumpy Craftsmen[/b] and seemed to be trying to catch the smaller boat before it reached the land off in the distance. [b]Gareth: (to A-dom)[/b] [i]Peddle faster![/i] Gareth then pointed out the boats to the others on the deck and went to go tell Jahar. He found Jahar and his two acolytes praying in Jahar’s room. [b]Jahar & acolytes:[/b] [i]Hummina hummina Unconquered Sun. Hummina hummina good stuff. Hummina hummina please don’t let us die.[/i] [b]Gareth: [/b] [i]Stuffs going on.[/i] Jahar sighed and left the room with Gareth. When he filled Jahar in, Jahar relayed that there were tales of pirates in the south with sail-less ships that were dragged by poorly controlled demons. He suggested they be stopped. [b]Gareth: [/b] [i]They’re pirates, so stopping them sounds like fun. Cause then they’ll be dead pirates, and then they’ll be okay.[/i] Gareth went back up and yelled down to A-dom what Jahar just told him about a demon propelled ship. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Aww! I’m out of essence![/i] [b]Gareth: [/b] [i]I wouldn’t mind at all if, while we’re killing the pirates, the dead ones rose up and helped us kill the rest.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Damn it! I need essence for that![/i] As the larger ship was getting harpoons out to grapple the smaller ship, no one noticed a raven fly off the smaller boat and fly up and over to the mast of the larger ship. Someone asked Gareth if they could ram the pirate ship with [b]The Grumpy Craftsman[/b]. He wasn’t sure, but was willing to try. He then got a better idea and told Jahar to ram the larger ship with butterflies instead. Gareth told A-dom to get back onboard and that Jahar was casting butterflies. A-dom started putting finger holes in the boat as he climbed back onboard. About a hundred yards away, Jahar got to the fore of the ship and began casting. The pirates were hurling harpoons at the smaller ship and some of them were sticking. Jade’s Luck and Tiger noticed the raven drop off the mast and dive bomb towards the deck. It then did something strange, because it made a hard veer away from the ship and dove into the water. Then butterflies went off and plowed into the middle of the pirate ship, leaving a large hole and lots of dead mortal pirates. Gareth then turned the ship as hard right as he could to avoid the butterflies, but ended up scraping alongside the pirate boat. Tiger leapt across to the nose of the pirate ship and started killing mortals, followed by Jade’s Luck. No one noticed a fish leap out the sea, change into a huge bird/human creature and start scaling the pirate boat. Tiger slashed up pirates as he made his way towards the back of the boat. He rarely killed a guy outright, but the fast acting poison on his sword finished the job. Jade’s Luck didn’t see any obvious sorcerers or demons, so she beat up a pirate by running up him, whapping him with her war fan, doing a summersault over his head as he dropped to the ground dead and whapping his friend with the fan on the way down again. Jahar, however, DID notice the demon. The demon was a huge thing in the water pulling the pirate ship. It was almost underneath the smaller boat up ahead. He told Gareth he’d protect the ship and that the demon was in the water. He then pulled out a bow and fired an arrow into the water. Unfortunately he didn’t manage to get the arrow to the demon. Gareth looked across to see the guys parallel to him. He leapt into the air, did a summersault, and cleaved through the mortal chump steering the pirate boat. [b]Gareth: [/b] [i]Ha-HA![/i] The guy standing next to Gareth spat in his face, burning Gareth’s flesh like acid. A group of three pirates ganged up on Jade’s Luck, not that they actually managed to hit her. [b]Demon Pirate Captain:[/b] [i]Get them! Take their ship! Arr![/i] A-dom leapt over and jumped down to knock another hole in the boat near the obsidian butterflies. A-dom came out the bottom of the boat and noticed that the demon was a lot deeper than everyone thought and it was surfacing rapidly towards the little boat. A-dom thought it would have been cool to fight the demon, but he couldn't get there in time. So, he just watched. When the thing scaling the boat got to the top, the Circle and pirates could see it was an eight foot tall female human/Raven monster with feathered arms, wicked looking claws on feet and hands, and a bird head. [b]Female RavenBeast:[/b] [i]Lightbringer, Demon Slayer. What are you waiting for?[/i] She then grabbed a pirate’s head and twisted it off. Jade’s Luck saw this raven beast near her and was a bit afraid of it, but at least it was killing pirates. Tiger made it back to Gareth, leaving more dead pirates in his wake, leaving just the acid-spitting Captain alive. The demon shot out of the water, hanging in the air for a second. It was a big, scary thing with lots of tentacles and spikes on its tentacles. Some of the people in the small boat were knocked out into the water by when the demon emerged. Then the demon flopped down on top of the small boat, destroying it and those within. A-dom would have clapped, if he had seen it. A couple of pirates jumped to [b]The Grumpy Craftsman[/b] by Jahar and engaged him in combat. Jahar managed to wound one of them. Gareth actually managed to wound the Demon Captain. For him, that’s pretty good. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Careful Tiger, this one spits acid.[/i] A-dom crawled into the hull of the boat and monkey leapt up through the boat, smashing much. At the apex of his jump, he realized he didn’t have a plan and fell back down through the boat, making more boat shards. Between the obsidian butterflies and A-dom's extra work, the boat was now starting to break in two, down the middle. Tiger managed to dispatch the Demon Captain by chopping off his arms. Unfortunately, this freed the demon from its servitude and it swam away. A-dom waved goodbye. It waved a back. With the pirate boat breaking apart and sinking, Gareth and Jade’s Luck booked it back to [b]The Grumpy Craftsman[/b]. Also, several pirates started surrendering to get off their broken boat. One surrendered to the Raven beast. Three surrendered to Jade’s Luck. One surrendered to Jahar. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (to the Raven Beast): [i]Um. Hi. Truce and you can get off the sinking boat?[/i] [b]Raven Beast:[/b] [i]Ummm. Suuuure. I don’t know why you’re trucing.[/i] The big Raven Beast picked up her surrendered pirate and jumped boats. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b]: [i]So, how do you know Jahar?[/i] [b]Raven Beast:[/b] [i]We’ll get to that… Who’s Jahar?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b]: [i]Well, you called him Lightbringer, but nobody calls him that anymore. We call him Jahar. Well, he was Lightbringer, now he’s Jahar. I just figured you knew Jahar.[/i] [b]Raven Beast:[/b] [i]Well…[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Yeah, it’s kinda weird that way.[/i] [b]Raven Beast:[/b] [i]Well…[/i] Jahar realized that there was something he needed from the sinking boat and leapt across. He got Tiger, who was currently mutilating the body of the Demon Captain, to pick up the pieces and bring them back to the ship. Gareth worked to untangle his boat from the pirate vessel so they wouldn’t capsize. He then went about looking for survivors in the water from the small boat. Finding one floating in the water, Gareth fished him aboard and checked him over. He seemed okay, except for some nasty bruises from hitting the water after being flung twenty feet up by the sea demon. Jade’s Luck collected the pirates’ inferior weapons and tying up the prisoners. The Raven beast looked overboard for more survivors from her boat, but didn’t see any. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b]: [i]Should we head for land, since it is right over there and such and Calibration bad?[/i] [b]Raven Beast:[/b] [i]Yes, and I’m sure the island people would love to deal with these people.[/i] A-dom’s head bobbed out of the water, then he climbed back onboard. The Raven beast changed into a raven and then into a young, pretty woman. Though she was only five foot two inches tall, she was built lean, so appeared taller than she was. She had black hair, stick-straight and about waist length. Her nose was a bit hawk-like, giving her a fierce appearance that was softened by bright blue eyes and a compassionate expression. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b]: [i]Well that’s unusual.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Uh, are you a demon too?[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] (annoyed) [i]Are you a demon?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]No.[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] (annoyed) [i]What do you think my answer is?[/i] Jahar walked over holding a demon head in one hand and a knife in the other. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We’ve been looking for more like you.[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] [i]Really?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b]: [i]So, how do you know Jahar?[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] [i]I don’t know…[/i] *points at Jahar* [i]That. I remember Lightbringer. This is only…half.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]He was a long time ago.[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] [i]Lightbringer would have dived into the water and slain the demon. Instead of letting the demon be free and running about Creation.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Lightbringer is, was a lot stronger than we are now.[/i] [b]No Longer a Raven or a Beast:[/b] [i]Lightbringer probably knew a great deal more. More than I know.[/i] Jahar and the woman then had a short conversation I couldn’t hear while Jade’s Luck rearranged her scarf to hide her caste mark and went downstairs. The woman said her human name was Ceri. She said that they were on their way to the island because someone needed healing there. Gareth inquired what was wrong with the person there, stating that he was a decent healer in his own right. She didn’t seem to know why the demons were chasing her boat, but wanted to find out. Jahar wandered off to muck with the demon head. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] I’m a demon.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]No, he’s not. (pause) Sometimes I think he wishes, but he’s not. (pause) I’m Gareth, by the way. Captain of this vessel.[/i] Jade’s Luck found the crew had been watching outside through a porthole. They couldn’t see much, but they seemed excited about what was going on. After all, pirate battles are neat. She tried talking to the crew to misdirect them and reassured them that they were going to land. Jahar was walking around trying to find a way to preserve the eyeballs of the Demon Captain. He decided pickling was the way to go and was looking for a jar. Jade’s Luck intercepted him and told him about the crew having a peephole. She sent him back topside while she fetched him a jar. He went to his room to spend time with his acolytes. They tried to roast some food on his bonfire. The non-glowing Circle members set about putting the pirates in the hold where they wouldn’t interact with the crew. [/QUOTE]
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