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[ladybirdcrap]

You've made it out of the prairie and underbrush, congratulations! But with the lack of supplies from the journey around Alderwood has left you beat. Your horses hate you, you've got sand up in places where it's not welcome, you're hungry, cranky, and if you've been riding you'll be walking like Dean for a little bit. Lucky enough for you, the next town isn't much of a detour, so you can restock, trade, and try not to burn anything down.

[Mission: Stock up, let the horses rest, treat your cholera, etc]

Comments

[andtrue]

[ now i ain't sayin' she a gold digger ]

Would you call diamonds your... best friend?

[crotchbite]

[ hops on the wagon to do some organization on bags and also to sit down on the edge ]

Diamonds are more loyal than people. They never really-- [ leans back to grab a glass so she can stop sharing germs with these two and another bottle ] --betray you. Quite solid friendship on that premise alone.

[ smiles and pours herself a nice glass of that horrible whiskey ]

[cabineyes]

You heard the lady!

[ gloating because that's right. he'll be marilyn monroe any day of the week. ]

[ takes the bottle from hel and pops the cork off against the wagon side. ]

[andtrue]

[ takes the first bottle back again. ]

Hell, anything's more loyal than people. But no amount of diamonds'll help a troubled mind sleep at night.

[ except for hook maybe. a bed of diamonds. ]

[crotchbite]

[ she looks at him over her glass and smiles against it. it's a very bitter empty smile tho ]

Oh, you have no idea what it can do.

[cabineyes]

[ he'd love a bed of diamonds. waves his hand as if to dismiss his words entirely. ]

A troubled mind?

If it's someone troubling your mind, gold will make someone else take care of that for you and if it's an empty bed that's troubling you, gold can solve that problem as well.

If the fact that you don't have a bed at all is making you lose sleep... well, with diamonds you wouldn't end up in that situation in the first place.

I'm not sure I understand the point you're so feebly trying to make, mate.

[andtrue]

Oh, I know the value of gold. I wasn't trying to make any kind of point.

[ takes another drink from the bottle. ]

I guess I just found more in hoarding experiences, instead of treasures. Any precious object gets stolen in the end, after all.

[crotchbite]

[ leans against the side of the wagon and looks at hook, looking like a little kid talking about gold and diamonds ]

Well, you just got to steal them back then. [ quirks eyebrows up. u feel me? ]

[cabineyes]

That's right.

But there are of course, the joys of hoarding as well, looking for the treasure and finding it.

[ yeah he misses those times. ]

Or stealing, as it happens.

[andtrue]

So what's your greatest treasure? What was the prize that made your adventure worthwhile?

[ august has shit luck with stealing things. ]

[crotchbite]

[ such a pirate. hoarding. ]

There has to be a thing now? Only one? [ laughs a little

yeah there was a Thing
was. ]

[cabineyes]

A case of blue sapphires. Dazzling, most beautiful rocks. I doubt you've ever seen anything like them. Took us longer than a fortnight to find in that wretched jungle and turns out the case was cursed.

[ flashbacks and drinks. :') ]

Ah. Quite dreadfully so, but it made them all even more desirable. Almost lost half of my crew back then, but I wouldn't trade away a day of it.

[andtrue]

[ reminded of bombay sapphire instead of pretty stones. ah, the drink of his first lost weekend. ]

... There was a guy in India. Homeless, but the son of a billionaire. Always tried trading in his old man's jewels for food and drink.

[crotchbite]

Sounds like a story for one of your books.

[ doesn't really believe he's a writer tho ]

[cabineyes]

A ghastly story if you ask me.

[ it makes no sense. ]

[andtrue]

[ can easily imagine hook choosing to die hungry over giving up a couple of shiny rocks. ]

I have some better ones, but they're not for polite company such as you fine people.

[ why is the bottle almost empty ]

[crotchbite]

[ because they've been drinking like sailors

it's okay hook stole a lot of bottles like the awful person/good pirate he is. time for another one ]

Fine people. [ lmao raises an eyebrow and looks at the bag. we just looted a poor man by flashing some cleavage

fine

people

indeed ]

Maybe we should do more treasure hunts. [ she's gonna need the money for later anyway ]

[cabineyes]

And what about you, dear sister?

[ scoots over to her, he'll hold the glass while she pours. ]

What's your biggest achievement?

[andtrue]

[ the three of them half-drunkenly robbing the market sounds like a great idea! ]

Something better than sapphires?

[crotchbite]

[ she could pull it off.

sets down the bottle and brushes some dirt off her knee ]

All my achievements were great. [ dismissive handwave ] I was very good at my job.

[cabineyes]

But nothing that stands out especially?

There must have been something.

[ leans back, feeling bubbly and drunk inside. it's good. ]

[andtrue]

[ tips the bottle back to get the last drops out ]

If that job didn't involve raiding tombs or killing zombies, I know I'll be disappointed.

[crotchbite]

You really wouldn't understand. [ pats killian's leg and brings out yet another bottle because her biggest achievement is not for either of these two. fuck this, she's getting hammered with the two hairiest guys of the bunch

hit rock bottom ]

You'll be disappointed, then. There was none of this magic bullshit in my world. It was all very normal. With guns and cars. [ dreamy sigh. she misses those. ]

[cabineyes]

[ you keep mentioning those. cars. ]

Normal to you perhaps.

[ pushes his hair back and finally slumps down on the wagon floor. it could be worse, hel, at least they know how to drink and not start getting all handsy over her. ]

Well, for each their own I suppose.

[andtrue]

What I'd give for a world like that!

[ he'll give the guns a pass, but no magic and cars? yes. sounds good. sounds great, even. time to change the subject before he gets asked to pinpoint some special event. ]

And I don't want to alarm anybody, but this is running out faster than we can drink it.