93 Vol 2. pt. 30 Patch 5.0: Downtime, Plots, and Upgrades (2/2)

”I swear, the biggest douchebag in this game is probably going to personally take care of hundreds of sick pets that nobody else wants,” Fenrir thinks to himself. ”I wonder if having pets myself would have stopped people from trying to dox me…”

”Now that we're all here, let's get down to business,” Jax says, slamming a fist down onto the table. ”Let's introduce ourselves since not everybody here knows each other. I'm Jax, and this is The Weeping Tit.”

”Alexander. I am the captain of The Steel Tiger,” Alexander says.

”I am Captain Squiggles of Tentacle Grape!” one of the men who Fenrir hasn't met before announces. He is a large man with what looks to be the head of an octopus with tentacles for a beard, and going by the name of his ship, Fenrir already likes him. Though, while Fenrir is smiling from the awesome names of the captain and his ship, he hears Alexander scoff and sees him rolling his eyes.

Alright, Alexander is back to being disliked.

”I'm Fenrir. This is my helmsman, Oleander, and my combat specialist, Bonekraka. Our ship is The Shoebill,” Fenrir announces. Oleander does a feminine curtsy and Bonekraka grunts.

”We all know who ya are, mutt,” another unknown man says. As much as Fenrir may like the tentacle captain, he really likes this new guy. His skin is grey and white, and his head is similar to a great white shark's. He has gills on the sides of his neck, fins sticking out from his back and the backs of his arms, and a tail sticking out from above his rear like Nell does. Only, his tail looks far more powerful than hers. ”I'm White Tooth of Barracuda's Nightmare,” White Tooth introduces himself.

Unfortunately, aside from Squiggles, White Tooth, and Fenrir's trio, everybody else is a plain human as far as Fenrir can see. He wishes more players would be unique rather than just playing humans all the time.

When the final captain introduces himself, White Tooth speaks up and asks Jax, ”We're here to deal with those foreign bastards, right?”

”Aye. Not one of us can take them down on our own, but together, we'll be able to sink those bastards and get revenge for Morven's lot and the others,” Jax explains.

Fenrir glances at Alexander, and Alexander notices it.

”Relax, Mr. Wolf. I don't like them stealing the spotlight,” Alexander whispers to Fenrir.

Being so easily read just makes Fenrir even more annoyed with Alexander.

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”Everybody here watched the wolf's fight again him, right?” Jax asks. All the men nod. ”We know that fire seems to be the most effective against their ship, and it looked like half their crew was taken out, and they won't be respawnin' until the round is already underway. This round is goin' to be our best chance at takin' them out. I sure as hell ain't going to let some foreign bastards killing our NPCs win our tournament.”

Fenrir looks around. Everybody seems to be in agreement with Jax, even Alexander.

”Now,” Jax pauses to look at Fenrir, ”what's the plan?”

”Eh?” Fenrir asks.

”You're the one who almost sunk 'em yesterday. Give us a plan and we'll follow it. Ain't never seen anybody pull off anythin' close to what you did.”

”Are you sure? I mean, most of you haven't met me before today, and I don't know how everybody here fights and what they're good at. I'm going to need to know all of our strengths and weaknesses if I'm going to try and come up with a plan, and Oleander is actually better at coming up with battle plans than me,” Fenrir explains.

”Then we'll take turns goin' around and tellin' the deer about ourselves. You two come up with a plan, and we'll follow it. We trust ya. You put yourselves at risk to save Morven and his crew, so ya gained the trust of everybody who matters in the city with that,” Jax says.

Fenrir takes a deep breath. ”Alright. Then we'll go around the table, and I want each of you to tell us about your style both when it comes to sailing and fighting, your ship's and crew's capabilities, and about any ideas you might have yourselves,” he explains.

…

”Your little wolf has made it into the second round,” Ull says, walking back and forth in front of Nell.

She doesn't say anything, but when Ull glances at her face, he sees a slight smile.

”What makes him different from the others who have tried saving you?”

No answer.

”You hardly spent any time with him, yet he has already changed you so much. I remember when you used to behave like a good girl and answered my questions when I would ask them. No matter, I know that you will tire of this game just as you have the other times you have played at it. You always have been the delusional drama addict. I take it that you get enjoyment out of this?”

”No winning streak lasts forever,” Nell says.

Ull stops his pacing and glares at her. Before giving in to his temptations, he leaves the room and locks her in once more.