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[starmark]

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[manuscripture]

Sailors and pirates mean boats. Boats mean the ocean or bodies of water. Bodies of water mean other places that aren't here.

Do I need to keep going or are you catching my drift?

[starmark]

i'm catching that you just made a drift pun

you're saying you think they had to come from somewhere, so where is that somewhere else

is that it

[manuscripture]

Where did I make a pun? Catching my drift is a pun?

[starmark]

oceans, drift

that's the current one i spotted


so was i right

[manuscripture]

I'm going to sink this before it goes too far off-course.

Where do you think they came from? Did you find anything on them that looked like it wasn't from here?

[starmark]

i was a little busy discovering myself at the time but let me think

i remember it was laid out like someone had set up camp there. there was wreckage around, too — it was hard to get into the cave because there were these rocks we had to navigate around. josuke was worried about shoaling out on something underwater so i dove in to help

from the size of the wreckage though i'd guess that those boats were built to sail a long distance. not just bay trawling or fishing or little stuff like that

[manuscripture]

Could you tell which direction they looked like they were headed? I mean I know they have probably been down there forever and were tossed about but there might have been SOME indication of whether they were inbound or outbound.

[starmark]

inbound makes the most sense to me. if they were outbound why camp there in the first place?

seems more like they sailed in from somewhere else and that's where they made landfall

[manuscripture]

I wonder where they came from.

Or why they wanted to come here of all places.

[starmark]

THAT i can make some better guesses about

piracy is either economic or political. economic being, this place had something of value, goods or whatever, and it was lucrative enough to be worth the risk of coming here and raiding to try to take it.

political would mean either the pirates were after land, trying to annex parts of the countryside for themselves, or they were representatives of some other government who came here to fuck around with this one

so that still brings us back to your question, but a better way of asking it is, what was here that was so valuable?

[manuscripture]

Your extensive knowledge of sociopolitical boat-bourne violence is doing it for me.

The only place that has anything of high value has been Vandare. There are other smaller cities that are far less accessible. Vandare got its economic situation from some form of trading. Do you think that might have been a kind of catalyst that got out of hand?

[starmark]

vandare hates monsters

maybe they were monster pirates

maybe the pirates carried the virus with them from overseas or something

like scurvy

monster scurvy


no but in seriousness i think you're probably on to something. if they were trading, they had to be trading with somebody, and probably they had a particular export they specialized in

[manuscripture]

There's no virus, Jotaro.

Monster scurvy isn't real.

The question is what was that export. Vandare isn't known for any one thing in particular.

[starmark]

maybe not anymore

but i bet it was once

[manuscripture]

Tell Her that.

[starmark]

...

you know

a god would probably have a longer memory than anyone, right

i mean about vandare's supposed export

maybe She really would know

[manuscripture]

Do you think I should ask? I can take a trip to Dyster... She might have better things to do than answer a history question.

[starmark]

or maybe She's a history nerd and no one ever knew

does anyone ever talk to Her, period?

[manuscripture]

Through Her prayer boxes or in Dyster with the same concept. It's praying and She will answer eventually.

There is one at the cafe.

You could always leave Her one. Just write a letter and stick it in.

[starmark]

should i mention in the letter that you think i'm cute

like will that score me points with Her

[manuscripture]

Jotaro.

[starmark]

are you saying you don't think i'm cute

[manuscripture]

You know the answer. Now you're fishing.

[starmark]

speaking of answers, how will She answer if i write Her the letter

like will i get one back

[manuscripture]

She came to me in a dream and left me a rock.