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[ostro_goth]

Teja is sitting at a table in the bar today, doing paperwork on his computer. It's likely to be forge related paperwork, not Security, as he is doing it out her in public.

He's got a cup of tea, and the company of his small black cat, Myrrh.



[[OOC: Content warnings for discussion of suicide in the Norrington thread.]]

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[scourgeofpiracy]

James passes by, stopping to give Myrrh a friendly pat.

"Hello, Teja."

[ostro_goth]

"Hello, James," Teja says, easily. "You seem to come more often again, lately."

[scourgeofpiracy]

"It varies, as time goes on. We've almost cleared the backlog left by the previous captain, so there's more time for leisure."

[ostro_goth]

"He simply did not ferry any dead at all?" Teja asks, clearly disapproving of such dereliction of duty.

[scourgeofpiracy]

"More than that, he added to their numbers."

[ostro_goth]

"Who is it that put him to that duty?" Teja says.

Pause.

"Would you have some tea, and a seat?"

[scourgeofpiracy]

"And both gladly." He takes the offered seat. "The goddess Calypso, for all I know."

[ostro_goth]

Teja pours him tea. "Where I am from, Calypso is a sea-nymph, not a goddess," he says. "But why did she not take him to task?"

[scourgeofpiracy]

"Because he had her imprisoned in human form, by a great magical working. I'm given to understand it's been undone now."

[ostro_goth]

"So he imprisoned the goddess and then usurped the powers of the ship for his own ends?" Teja says. "Oh, she must have been so angry when she was freed!"

[scourgeofpiracy]

"I wasn't there to see it - but I imagine it was a terrible and unforgettable sight."

[ostro_goth]

"What did she do to him, did they tell you?"

[scourgeofpiracy]

"She didn't end his life. That was done by the hand of a dying man, guided by another to drive the knife home. The last anyone saw of Jones, he was falling into the maelstrom."

[auxin]

Auxin stops to pet the small black cat.

[ostro_goth]

The small black cat cranes her neck for scritches, and purrs.

[auxin]

Auxin pats the cat a little more.

"Hey Mr Teja."

[ostro_goth]

"Greetings, Auxin," Teja says. "Did you manage to catch the man who had stolen the battle bread?"

[auxin]

"Yeah, I caught him today." Auxin says. "It was an inside job."

[ostro_goth]

"Inside job?" Teja asks. "What does that mean, in this context?"

[auxin]

"The old lady who got hit organised the whole thing." Auxin says. "It was her son that did it. They got conned into buying a really big dwarf bread oven and they were making a loss, so they started a scare that dwarf bread would get banned to make people panic buy it."

[ostro_goth]

"That sounds very odd," Teja says. "Why stage an attack, in that case?"

[auxin]

"To get talk of the dwarf bread being banned." Auxin says. "Which made people buy more, because it never goes off."

[ostro_goth]

"So it was what the future calls a publicity stunt?"

[auxin]

"I guess, certainly they made a lot of money."

[ostro_goth]

"And what shall be done to them now?"