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[swordofhope]

[The speaker is quiet for a moment, thoughtfully so. When he speaks, it's with a very heavy accent, Russian, in fact, and his words are deliberate

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[entirelybonkers]

Sword? You don't happen to mean the Vorpal Sword, do you?

[Why yes...that's the only thing she saw.]

[swordofhope]

No. Sabre sword.

[entirelybonkers]

Hm. I wonder if they have any relation - perhaps they are siblings, or even remote twice-removed second cousins!

[swordofhope]

I don't think swords have siblings.

[Russian]

[yaidudamoi]

Care to repeat that in words I can understand?

[Russian]

[swordofhope]

[And he does.]

I'm missing something. Something very important to me. A sabre-type sword, missing its scabbard. If you've seen it, I need it back.

Now.

[Russian]

[yaidudamoi]

Any distinguishing features?

[Russian]

[swordofhope]

It'll burn your hand.

[shenghuanzhe]

Hey, man. I'm First Mate Kage and you're on board the MS Elegante. Our destination is the Golden Shore, and until we arrive you just gotta take it easy, awright? You need anythin' special t'eat, you got any other questions, ask myself or any other crew member.

Your sword's bein' held for safekeepin'.

Welcome aboard.

[swordofhope]

Golden shore? I have not heard of this. It... is not Bali is it? Always wanted to see Bali.

... Where is it being kept?

[shenghuanzhe]

Valley? Nah, man, it ain't anythin' like that.

[Kage rubs the back of his neck.]

Belowdeck weaponslockers where we keep all passenger weapons.

[swordofhope]

No. Not valley. Bali. Is... with a "buh", da?

[Sanya ponders this information.]

So... it is not being used? That is good.

[voice]

[likesfootnotes]

I've handled plenty of swords in my time and most of them match that description. (But I prefer using claws; there's a reason they are all over nature.) Care to be more specific?

[voice]

[swordofhope]

... If you touch this one, your hand will burn.

[voice]

[likesfootnotes]

That sounds like a third-rate trick popular fifteen-hundred years ago. It had style, until everyone started using it. Then the market saturated and who would remember something that commonplace?

You'd have to narrow it down again: First degree burn or third?

[voice]

[swordofhope]

... Huh? Is... It isn't a trick.

Just... burn.

[What is this guy talking about?]

[text - have an Ezio, Sanya!]

[ceilingezio]

[Because hey, it might be English, but it's accented English, and he is fast learning that non-English speakers are something of a rarity, hereabouts]

Ay, amico. You new?

[text - \o/]

[swordofhope]

[Ah, text. He can do text.]

It would seem so.

[text]

[ceilingezio]

Welcome aboard, then. Call me Ezio.

[text]

[swordofhope]

Very strange welcome.

I am Sanya.