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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacConnell" data-source="post: 7534243" data-attributes="member: 6855223">Tor and His Father[ATTACH]103603[/ATTACH]Bulywif Ericsson rubs his right eye while holding his left in a gesture of halt. "Slow down, son! One question at a time. That first one will take some time."He takes a deep breath and coughs, not from any specific illness but malnutrition. "Seekers? Oh, I guess that is what you all are calling yourselves. You all have changed much. I did not recognize the rest of you, but I think my eyesight is failing, too.""It was a matter of chance that I am still alive, though I have had many days to wish otherwise stuck on this ship. Had had been drinking that watered swill they make from the Centrin Ale and needed to unload some of it. The tavern was indeed a bit rowdy that night. While I was relieving myself in the alley an explosion shook the tavern from inside. I was knocked from my feet.""The same chance that spared my life also imprisoned it. Ansylin regulars were on the scene pretty quickly. There I was laying in the alley, exposed. I was arrested and taken to face the Magister who owned the tavern. That sniveling goat slipper who owned our caravan was there whispering with him along with some other Amiradthan. Next thing I know I was accused of the destruction of the tavern and remanded to a life of labor upon this ship. Sometimes I think I should just pull off this collar.""I was told that if I were to remove this collar, it would kill me. I have seen another on this ship do that very thing. I have no reason to doubt it.""Your mother is gone, along with everyone else who was with us in that tavern.""Hmm. The captain, his first mate, the quartermaster, and the master-at-arms are all soldiers, so is the chief cook, for that matter. There are five other soldiers on board at all times, as well. There are ten other crew, counting me. Only three of us are collared. The five officers have stayed the same since I have been aboard. The other soldiers are periodically changed out."He makes a squeaking noise to get the others' attention. "That grate is very heavy. They use ropes and pulleys to lift it. That Ansylin must be Sannit. You my son, and Sannit, there, could probably climb up there and throw it off, but the soldiers are all armed. Be prepared for that. They also have your weapons. The captain said it should be part of his pay for his crew. They would probably like to have had your armor too, if they could have removed it without having to cut it loose. It is impossible to remove such armor, intact, from an unconscious person."</blockquote>

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