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[ladybirdshit]

With a loud crack you hit the shore. Thanks Bilbo.

There's something floating in the water near the beach. It's a blue bed with white curtains. Someone's sleeping in it.

[ mission: get your asses ashore. ]

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[cabineyes]

[ jumps off the shipwreck and into the water. ]

What you got over there?

[butgrandma]

What are you doing floating in the middle of a lake on a bed?

[ignores hook]
[yeah]

[magesails]

[ wrinkles nose. you filthy people. ]

My step-mother put a curse on me. I cannot leave.

What are you doing if I may ask?

[butgrandma]

A dwarf crashed our ship.

[nods at wreckage]

[its on fire]

[cabineyes]

[ reaches the side of the bed. expensive fabric. ]

A hobbit actually.

[magesails]

Quite extra-ordinary. This is the first shipwreck I have witnessed.

[ not too impressed but always polite. ]

[frogface]

[pops back out of the water and flops arms onto the edge of the bed]

How long you been here?

[bedridden just got a whole new meaning]

[butgrandma]

[pushes hook away from the nice ladys floating bed]

[which she has yet to vacate]

[its comfortable and she doesnt want to be wet]

Your stepmother cursed you?

[magesails]

[ puffs her dress out of the way as she settles herself. has to look good for guests. ]

Yes, that was ten years ago. Unfortunately she didn't quite like me.

[ofbagend]

[looks for a tail. no tail? warily approaches then.]

[cabineyes]

[ rude. ]

Ten years?

[butgrandma]

Why??

[magesails]

I broke her favorite vase.

That must have been the last drop.

[ smiles weakly. ]

But enough about that! The story is quite dull. I'd like to hear about your adventures instead. Tell me about the dwarf. [ eyes bilbo curiously. ] Why did you crash the ship?

[ofbagend]

I'm not a dwarf. I'm a hobbit.

[first, let's be clear again.]

... I was learning to steer.

[magesails]

You have ambition. Wonderful!

That's an excellent characteristic, I've been told.

[ofbagend]

[he could blush.]

Thank you.

[magesails]

May I ask... Where are you headed?

[butgrandma]

I don't think we've gotten that far yet.

[looks at heap of map guy over there]

[magesails]

Oh! I may be able to give you some direction.

[ presses hands together. ]

[butgrandma]

No offense, but you've been stuck on the same bed for ten years, how are you going to tell us where we need to go-?

[magesails]

... Ah.

You may be right about that. I'm sorry.

[butgrandma]

It's okay. You tried.

[gold star...]

Maybe we should be the ones helping you, instead.

[cabineyes]

[ that's never a good idea. newbie. ]

Alas, we must be on our way...

[magesails]

No, no. I wouldn't want to be a bother.

[butgrandma]

She's trapped. We should help.

[no one likes being trapped]