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"Someone was looking for you," a drunk, muscular man applying some paint to his fingernails says to Belmarniss as she walks by. "Drow girl."
followup belmarniss thread
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"No, she says that the ways drow and humans do babies sound ridiculous and she's very worried about us."
not_born_evil
"Don't snakes, uh, lay eggs somewhere and then forget about them? ...did she really say that? Can she understand us to that level of granularity?"
the-snake's-name-is-snake
" - I'm translating a tiny bit of conceptual stuff she didn't put in words? But she can understand language, yeah."
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"You don't have to spend time on them and you certainly don't need a suitable mate."
Another ship approaches on the horizon. The pirates change their colors to those of an Osirian merchant vessel; the few non-Osirian crew go belowdeck.
not_born_evil
"Interesting they have enough Osirians to crew the whole place if they want. Not very properly international pirates."
not_born_evil
"Shouldn't you have an especially low rate of piracy? But they're at least not outright hostile to foreigners, there's a handful."
"Maybe we have a higher rate of piracy because we have a lower rate of on-shore crime? So all the people who are irretrievably criminally inclined leave? But I wouldn't have predicted it'd work that way."
"And some countries actively fund pirates, cheaper than a navy, but one assumes we're not doing that."
not_born_evil
"But what about the virtues of thrift and making an enterprise profitable? A navy that never gets into wars doesn't see much revenue."
"Piracy is really bad for international commerce. I guess paying pirates to do less piracy and more weapons smuggling would be defensible under some circumstances."
