Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

[chalicejoker]

Heads up--if you run into Teruo, Kinji's infiltration, some kind of yellow sea snake mermaid--be really damn careful. He's a menace.

Asshole goaded me into what I thought was a spar, but then he started singing, and it...

[Hajime's mental voice trails off in embarassment here before picking up again.]

Look, I'm not proud of it, but it's hard to get me to back down from a fight. And what he did, it...I just stopped fighting. Didn't even think to defend myself. He kept it up long enough to hit me with a cheap sucker punch.

[The irritation is just coming off his mental voice here.]

He also said several times that if I was a warrior, I should be sticking closer to the boat and protecting my school--I'm still not sure if that was a threat or not. I wouldn't put anything past him.

...and if you do end up talking to him and he mentions someone named Chalice, that's me--I'm not about to go by my real name in the same world as the Bando, even if I'm a fish this time around.

Comments

[shiroganeheir]

Yes, that does seem a bit difficult. Good luck.

If there is anything you all need, please let us know, and we can coordinate.

[chalicejoker]

We're going to have to--who knows what the humans on the other boat are like, if their mermaids are this bad.

[shiroganeheir]

When we find the other ship, we should get a group together for reconnaissance. I can speak to the others who have retained their usual form on the ship and we can possibly put something together.

[chalicejoker]

We should probably figure out who's supposedly serving what purpose on the part of both groups. I know our little "school" down here is coming off as a bit fragmented. Presenting a more unified front would probably help us out.

[shiroganeheir]

There has been some comment on that from our end. I believe we are saying we lost most of our ship-board officers in a storm.

I hope it is believable enough. If it comes to it, I do have the ability to lie extremely convincingly.

[Thank you, Mako]

[chalicejoker]

That's good to know. I know we've been saying our school's on the run from the Empress and already suffered heavy losses, so I guess we go well with the boat.

I don't know who else is posing as warriors or Sirens or whatever, though.

[shiroganeheir]

We all might want to take a stock of who is saying they are what.

I am mostly taking the part of a young navigator. I think.

[chalicejoker]

Yeah, if we start telling conflicting stories, that's going to be a bit of a problem...

I figure I can cover by saying I don't pay much attention to what the humans on the boat are doing, so there's that. But navigator? That's good to know.