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<blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2449127" data-attributes="member: 16166"><p>The crew of the <em>Silver Sovereign</em> dispurse into the crowd at the Dyke and Wheelbarrow, seeking their counterparts upon the <em>Moon Goddess</em>. This meeting had been whispered as only a rumour for months, like a legend about to happen in people's lifetimes.</p><p></p><p>Captain Fontane, the 'Seadog', sat to rest his old bones at the table with Swoops, looking at his feet with indignity. Raising is walking cane up to table-level, he slowly pushes Swoops feet from the table, mumbling through his long white beard: <span style="color: SeaGreen">"You know, young people like you should know not to put your feet where your food rests."</span></p><p></p><p>The old Seadog sighs and his first mate, the small halfling whose name was later to be learnt as Rennie, tugs at his pants leg and passes the old Captain a small pouch. Fontane gently pulls the pouch up towards the table and the sound of clinking money can be heard inside, a noise that is well known in these circles.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"I have a proposition for you boy, and I would think that you would have at least the common curtosy to listen to an old man and take it a little seriously."</span> Fontane spills the pouch out onto the table and several dozen golden half-crowns* slide into the centre.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"It seems that you and I have both seen much of this in our time, though most of it has come and gone in taverns like this or shipyards along the coast. But with all the pirates in the waters these days, it just seems like there is less and less to go around, that we have to work harder to earn our keep."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"I'm old Swoops, though don't confuse age with weakness. I think that it is nearly time for me to retire, leaving you as the only 'Living Legend' on the waters, but I have no problem with that, they have been my home for too long."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"But it seems that in the thirty years that I've been Captain of the <em>Silver Sovereign</em> I have little to show for it. Sure, I could sell her and retire comfortably somewhere, but I'm not interested in comfortable. I want to live in rampant luxury."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"That's why I called you here Swoops, we both have something that the other wants. You want me out of the waters, I want your money. But I don't just want <em>your</em> money, I want <em>everyone's</em> money, I want to wile my days away with no thought of coin whatsoever."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"So I propose this, a Test of Captains if you would. In three months time, ninety days from now, we will meet in the Haven's Den with our respective ships. The Captain that possesses the most coin at that time will win not only the other Captain's ship, but <em>his </em> fortune as well."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SeaGreen">"The loser and his crew will be left at Haven's Den with enough food and water to survive until the next ship arrives. What say you Swoops?"</span></p><p></p><p>[sblock]*During the height of the Kingdom of Verentis many money-lenders and merchants found a lack of currency type of certain trading deals. There were just too many instances where a silver noble was too little and a golden crown was too much, and so the Kingdom began to mint half-crowns to suit the need of a certain merchant caste.</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phoenix, post: 2449127, member: 16166"] The crew of the [I]Silver Sovereign[/I] dispurse into the crowd at the Dyke and Wheelbarrow, seeking their counterparts upon the [I]Moon Goddess[/I]. This meeting had been whispered as only a rumour for months, like a legend about to happen in people's lifetimes. Captain Fontane, the 'Seadog', sat to rest his old bones at the table with Swoops, looking at his feet with indignity. Raising is walking cane up to table-level, he slowly pushes Swoops feet from the table, mumbling through his long white beard: [COLOR=SeaGreen]"You know, young people like you should know not to put your feet where your food rests."[/COLOR] The old Seadog sighs and his first mate, the small halfling whose name was later to be learnt as Rennie, tugs at his pants leg and passes the old Captain a small pouch. Fontane gently pulls the pouch up towards the table and the sound of clinking money can be heard inside, a noise that is well known in these circles. [COLOR=SeaGreen]"I have a proposition for you boy, and I would think that you would have at least the common curtosy to listen to an old man and take it a little seriously."[/COLOR] Fontane spills the pouch out onto the table and several dozen golden half-crowns* slide into the centre. [COLOR=SeaGreen]"It seems that you and I have both seen much of this in our time, though most of it has come and gone in taverns like this or shipyards along the coast. But with all the pirates in the waters these days, it just seems like there is less and less to go around, that we have to work harder to earn our keep."[/COLOR] [COLOR=SeaGreen]"I'm old Swoops, though don't confuse age with weakness. I think that it is nearly time for me to retire, leaving you as the only 'Living Legend' on the waters, but I have no problem with that, they have been my home for too long."[/COLOR] [COLOR=SeaGreen]"But it seems that in the thirty years that I've been Captain of the [I]Silver Sovereign[/I] I have little to show for it. Sure, I could sell her and retire comfortably somewhere, but I'm not interested in comfortable. I want to live in rampant luxury."[/COLOR] [COLOR=SeaGreen]"That's why I called you here Swoops, we both have something that the other wants. You want me out of the waters, I want your money. But I don't just want [I]your[/I] money, I want [I]everyone's[/I] money, I want to wile my days away with no thought of coin whatsoever."[/COLOR] [COLOR=SeaGreen]"So I propose this, a Test of Captains if you would. In three months time, ninety days from now, we will meet in the Haven's Den with our respective ships. The Captain that possesses the most coin at that time will win not only the other Captain's ship, but [I]his [/I] fortune as well."[/COLOR] [COLOR=SeaGreen]"The loser and his crew will be left at Haven's Den with enough food and water to survive until the next ship arrives. What say you Swoops?"[/COLOR] [sblock]*During the height of the Kingdom of Verentis many money-lenders and merchants found a lack of currency type of certain trading deals. There were just too many instances where a silver noble was too little and a golden crown was too much, and so the Kingdom began to mint half-crowns to suit the need of a certain merchant caste. [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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