audio | un: yiling laozu | early on in the storm at sea event

[weifinder]

( so the audio comes on, no announcement, playing across everyone's pendant. the sound of the storm, of a boat at sail, and of a voice some will know, others might choose not to remember after his shouted love declarations, as he speaks with the dead of a ship quicksilver swears second damnation upon: )

Let me see if I understand. You and this crew are seeking vengeance against Quicksilver for him leaving you to die after you left him to die. Quicksilver is seeking vengeance by attempting to kill you all directly, whom are already dead. The Dawn's Reach Trading Company is surprised that entrusting pirates with a venture posing high returns went wrong once, and now again, while our other pirate captain wants just the tangible gains, and to the hells with everything else.

Meanwhile, none of you have control over the waters, which was the treasures heart. Is that somewhat correct?

( there is an extended pause, an awkward one for its seeming understanding of the true absurdities which have been spoken, before a voice unfamiliar to all the ragtag travelers responds in the cadences of the bodied dead: )

... Aye. It be like that.

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un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[beitangmoran]

So human stupidity doesn't even stop with death, I see.

[weifinder]

( a wheezed laugh under his breath, and first: )

No, never stopped there.

[beitangmoran]

I am afraid this is my first time experiencing it so directly.

[weifinder]

May it be the last, but...

( then he's distracted and ah... Moran. congratulations, you get to hear the rest of his encounter before he backflips off the dead men's ship. in fact, hear even the thud of his landing in the dinghy he rowed over in! )

[beitangmoran]

Unlikely in this place, unfortunately.

So they want to bring us down with them? Some sort of sacrifice to this treasure, whatever it is?

[weifinder]

Oh, no sacrifice, this is more pettiness. Suffer like we do, argh! That sort of thing. The treasure doesn't appear to care.

[beitangmoran]

............ Well, that's even stupider. I didn't think that was possible.

[weifinder]

( with a sigh, then a grunt as he's rowing: )

The depths of short sighted stupidity are more abyssal than we expect, nearly each time.