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[soundandfurry]

Does anyone else think it's weird that all of the new people have arrived the same time of month that the last batch of new people did? And when us first batch people did? That's weird, right? I can't be the only one that thinks that's weird.

Maybe we should ask Dog about that next time. Because it's weird.

Um, anyways, if any of you new people are looking to join a crew, the Fortune's Favors are pretty awesome! And our captain, Celeste Ludenberg, is pretty awesome, too! She doesn't even care if you're a werewolf or anything!

Um... I guess that's all I really had to say, huh? OH! Well, um, since I've gotten used to this treadle I brought with me, does anyone want to trade some materials for garment making? Or quilting? Sewing keeps me busy when I'm not trying to do work on the ship, and I hear textile trading can actually net quite a bit of money! So it's worth looking into, I guess...

[[ one of these days I'll stop accidentally putting posts in the wrong comm ]]

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[spirits_of_the_air]

A lot of ritual-level type spells need a certain amount of time to recharge before being cast again. Something about draining the spirits in the area to power it and then they have to regenerate for it to be used again.

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[soundandfurry]

You really think so? Well I guess that makes snese.

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[spirits_of_the_air]

Best I got for you. Only other possibility I can think of is that the beginning of the month offers the best circumstances to promote the use of certain magics and one of them might be used to kidnap us.

[soundandfurry]

Geeze, I didn't expect it to be so magic heavy...

[spirits_of_the_air]

...you thought there wasn't magic involved in kidnapping people from all across the cosmos?

[soundandfurry]

Well, sure, but not really complicated stuff!

... Ugh, I'm no good with magic. I'm more of a "tooth and nail" kind of person.

[oceanicbutterfly]

All three times it's been near the beginning of the month. There may not be any more to it than that.

[soundandfurry]

It can't be that big of a coincidence and have it be all there is.

[oceanicbutterfly]

I don't know. The issues I dealt with back home tended to happen on almost exactly a weekly basis, and to of my understanding that wasn't significant at all.

[soundandfurry]

Yeah, but don't you think this is a different case? Mass kidnappings to a different world?

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm not saying it's exactly the same. I'm only pointing out the possibility that not everything is meaningful.

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[uccellodifuoco]

Just because you repeat over and over that it's weird, it's not going to magically turn weird.

[He hasn't counted but he's sure she has repeated that word way too much to just make a suggestion and it's irked him.]

And assuming Dog can actually ever give useful answers, we're wasting enough questions as it is to go and waste another one just because of a little supposed "weird" thing happening.

Ever heard "it must be the right time, at the right place"? Chances are whatever power brings us here only works during this period of time and for a few days or something like that. It makes sense if you take into account what we're supposed to do.

[soundandfurry]

Well excuse me for thinking that it might give us clues as to how to reverse the process.

[uccellodifuoco]

Did you really think that? Knowing what we know of the Dog, did you seriously think that asking "how come new people always arrive at the same time of the month?" was going to be useful? You saw what he answered to other questions, didn't you? All the useful questions we have got to ask, as few as they have been, have been answered in the same manner, with either an "I don't know", a full lie, or a bunch of theories we could have come up on our own and that still tell us nothing.

[A pause.]

Ah, and a poem which meaning he didn't know either. Let's not forget that piece of gold.

Say, if new people showed up every day of the month, how the fuck would we sail around and search for their stupid gem when we're busy gathering all the new ducks on the block? Even with the Nav system at that shop, it surely has to have a limit as to for how long it can work.

[soundandfurry]

I'm not going to talk to you if you're just going to be an ass.

[uccellodifuoco]

So you will only talk to people who agree with you, you should have stated that earlier. That you only wanted people to come and say what a great idea you had and how intelligent of a question it was.

[arcadiasailor]

I have to agree this would be a decent question to ask Dog about Davy Jones.

[soundandfurry]

It's just TOO coincidental, you know?

[arcadiasailor]

It's likely not, be interesting to hear what he thinks on more of us showing up.

[soundandfurry]

More people to look for shards, I'll bet. Still, the timing... maybe it can be exploited, you know?

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[nice_boat_rider]

I'm looking for someone to set sail with, if it's the right crew.

Tell me about yourselves.

[soundandfurry]

Well, we've got a caravel called the Antionette, and a current crew of six. Three women, three men. The three guys are all a bit foppish, but Kyouya seems to really know what he's doing. Then there's the Captain, me, and Karen. Karen's a magician, and I'm a werewolf.

[nice_boat_rider]

The magician. She powerful?

[soundandfurry]

She's pretty, I know that much.

[nice_boat_rider]

What's your reputation on the high seas?