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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7110309" data-attributes="member: 20323">[SECTION][align=left]http://i.imgur.com/hHYpoTE.jpg[/align]Just as Katerina takes a few paces toward a bookshelf framed by twin golden-hilted sabers, Van Djik cracks a jaundiced yellow eye at her with astounding perspicacity exceeding his seeming decrepitude. "Blackheart's daughter. I recognize you now, jonge dame (young lady). Blackheart, there was a man who knew how to stage a tar black night raid. And I don't say it lightly, but he gave our dwarven raids against the Spaniards during the Eighty Years War a run for their money." Despite his rough jovial spirit, Van Djik's eye twitches slightly when he says 'Spaniards.' "Come, join us for a bit of a drink..." Van Djik pours another shot glass for Katerina to the brim. Famous last words coming from a dwarf's mouth; Katerina would be in for a bender of a night if she accepted, and etiquette demanded she did. "The East India Company, you say?" inquires Van Djik, suppressing a coughing fit as he refills his and Old Zef's glasses. It's clear the ancient dwarf stands either by force of will or magic sustaining him against the ravages of the yellow fever. "I signed on with them nigh a century ago. Returned a captain, and then they sent me to the West Indies. Put a big bright star on my lapel calling me a vice-admiral, no less. It was well enough when the Company was young and wild, but too much bureaucracy killed the spirit of the thing for me. Aye?" he inquires of Old Zef, about to toss back a second shot.Upon hearing Blaise's words, however, Van Djik pauses with the glass raised midair in his shaky hand. While a thin sheen of sweat was on his cragged skin before, he seems to positively break out in fever and his eyes water. "We christened her that – The Coral Curse because she was curse upon the Spanish Main," he says in a distant hollow voice. "I never would have kept the name had I known what awaited us..."[/SECTION][GM]So [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION], I think you were eluding that you wanted to make an Insight check to deduce Piet Hein Van Djik's motives in staving off death, yeah? I'm holding off a little on that since it would make sense Nia would need to observe him in conversation a little before making that determination.[/GM]</blockquote>

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