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Hokay. Tink I gots a courze plotted dot should get us avay from here real qvick-like. If all goes vell, ve von't have to vorry about dem sharks for long.

Just no vun bleed over de side. Just like us Jagerkin, de best vay to get a sky shark's attention iz vith de scent of blood.

I gots our courze plotted out, und it looks like doing dot nize leedle turn to get avay from de Victoria II should be a piece of cake. Just keep on distracting dem, und ve should get out vith only scratches.

Demn, but I iz going to be itching for a fight after dis if ve doezn't get to take dem on in perzon...

According to de charts, ve should be dere real zoon. I, for vun, iz eager to taste blood.

(Backdated to right when the Jagers get back to Licere)

[filtered to the 4423 minus Isako]

Hey, thenks for de gifts! Dere's lots of goot booze here, ezpecially dot bottle of vhat looks to be home brew. Thenk hyu to everyvun vhat brought it for me!

I gots prezents for hyu guys too. Hyu should find dem vaiting for hyu zoon. I also brought back a new cabin boy for de ship, und a Maxim vhat gots both hands, though de new vun iz not all de vay functional yet.

[filtered to Penelo]

Thenks for de kerchief, dollink. De embroidery iz very vell executed! It vill accent my pocket real nize, I tink.

[filtered to Holmes]

I haz never heard of zome of dese before! Vill need to schtart practizing right avay, as zoon as ve gets Madame Captain back.

[filtered to Zack]

Hey, nize vun! I needed a new zet of tings to make sure dese iz schtill nize und sharp. Thenks!

[filtered to Anko]

*sounds thoughtful*

Dese looks like zome zort of ninja knives. Very goot to hide about vun's perzon. I like a gorl who knows vhat I likes.

[filtered to Anthy]

Thenk hyu, Miss Anthy! De knitting supplies vill come in handy, ezpecially vith vinter just around de corner. Und de painted rock iz...charming!

[filtered to Zeetha]

Hyu gots goot taste in clothes, sveethot.

Und ve found Oggie. He's vith us right now.

[filtered to Quin]

*sounds genuinely touched*

Did hyu drawn dis hyuzelf? How did hyu get everyvun looking zo much like ourzelves if hyu's never met Maxim und Ognian? Oh, und schpeaking of Oggie, ve found him.

[filtered to Gorobei]

I gots vun more ting for hyu, but I needs to give it to hyu in perzon. Can't just leave it laying around.

Ve are perhaps a day avay or zo from rejoining de ship. Maxim's hand vas successfully replaced, und he can even viggle a finger or two now! He iz qvite heppy vith it, und zo iz de odder two of us. Ve all hope dot de rest of de crew iz schtill having a goot time, und dot de holiday haz gone vell.

No sign of Oggie yet, but dere's schtill a day or two. Ve's hopeful.

[filtered to the 4423, minus Isako][hard to hack]

Anybody vant to give me an update on vhat's heppening right now? Ve gots Madame Captain beck yet?

[OOC: So, for anyone who wants to know, Dimo's Lunasa gifts will be arriving back with him in a couple of days. For folks not on the 4423, yours have been mailed, and should be arriving soon. Feel free to interpret that however you want.]

It sure vill be goot to have Maxim vith two hands again. Not dot I minded de metal vun, but...dis iz better. De surgery heppens tomorrow schtarting early in de morning, und I tink dot I iz going to vatch de Mistress do her schtuff. Should know vhat de inzides of him looks like too, eh?

[wry laughter]

He vill be fine. Gott knows he haz lived through vorse before. Und dis iz to fix vhat's broken, not an injury. Even zo, de vaiting iz getting on my nerves. I tink dot I vould rather have it all done right now, vith Maxim recovering und letting tings heal vhile Jenka und me goes out to look for Oggie zome more. I kissed de place vhere de scars iz, und iz fonny to tink dot I von't zee dot again ever. But goot.

I cannot vait to have my choice of hands to hold.

Jenka, Maxim und me haz reached Mechanicsburg just in time for Lunasa. How lucky iz dot? Ve's going to be spending de day having fon und enjoying de sights und [takes a deep breath, and sighs happily] de schmells of de holiday vhile ve's here. Mechanicsburg does make de best gingerbread around, after all. Den, in de evening, ve's going back to der Kestle, und schtaying for de festivities. Zeeing old friends und getting real goot und drunk--dot's de vay to spend it, eh? De next day or zo, de Mistress iz going to be giving Maxim his new hand, but iz probably going to take him a vhile to learn to uze it again. Haz been more den tventy years zince he's had a normal vun, after all.

Ve's bringing prezents beck, too, but dey's going to be late for Lunasa. Dere's real goot schtuff here vhat hyu can't get anyvhere elze, though.

[OOC: Yes, there's presents, just like the list says. For people not on the 4423, yours will be mailed to you, and will likely arrive with all sorts of strange postmarks on them, including a prominent one of a trilobite. 4423 peeps, yours will be there in a few days, as soon as Dimo and company get back to the ship.]

Ve's at de border of de Badlands right now. De pilot took us a little extra distance den he had to. Dunno vhat he vas scared of. Jenka only pulls out a knife like dot vhen she's feeling friendly, after all.

Ve gots horses now, too, thenks to a farmer who just gave dem to us. I forgot how nize dese pipples can be. Und in return, all he vanted vas for us to never come back! Generous to a fault, I zays.

Anyvay, ve gots three or four days' ride to Mechanicsburg ahead of us. I vill try to keep dis ting up in betveen, but no promizes.

Dey vants me to keep a log for dis contest, ja? Dot's vhat dis iz de schtart of. I iz Dimo, Navigator of de 4423, und my friends Maxim und Jenka iz coming vith me for our portion of de contest. Maxim lost hiz right hand many years ago, und op until a few months ago, had a nize mechanical vun dot took de place of de flesh. De mechanical vun haz schtopped vorking, zo ve iz going back to Mechanicsburg, our home, to ask our Mistress to give him a new vun, also of flesh. Ve's also going to zee if ve can find vun of our odder friends, Ognian, who ve hazn't zeen in a little over five years.

I haz written a letter to de Mistress already letting her know dot ve's coming, und it should be dere in enough time before ve iz to let tings be ready for us. I haz also chartered a schmall airship to take us as far as de edge of de Badlands, but de pilot of de ship vould not take us farther. From dere, it vill all be on foot, or horseback if ve's lucky und can find mounts. Ve should be back vell vithin de month.

Eh, science, magic, iz all de same sort of ting. Pipples doing tings vhat I doezn't understand vith lots of vires und chemicals und explosions. Zo yez, everyting gots a scientific explanation of zome zort. I might not vant to know about it, becauze iz a long und boring explanation, but if I gots to zit und listen to de Master rant, I zits und listens to de Master rant. Just zo long as I gets to pull the lever vonce in a vhile und keep up vith all of de new pipples vhat needs torturing.

Ho, zounds great! It vill be fon to vatch everyvun elze going around und trying to get schtuff done, und zee vhat dey's going to be up to. But I gots a goot plan, und I tink dot I might just get us de prize. I just gots to plot out how long it vill take to get from here to de Badlands...

(OOC: Backdated to right after this log.)

*long sigh, and a couple of attempts to start a sentence that go nowhere*

...

Mamma? I...needs hyu help vith zometing. Und I needs to borrow a couple of tings from hyu.

Hey, I gots an invitation to head on over to de Victoria II for vun of de cooks' borthdays. Anyvun vant to come vith me und do zome scouting to zee vhat their resources iz like? Iz an opportunity dot I tink iz hard to pass op.

Vill likely be best if a gorl comes vith me. Dot vay, it just looks like I iz bringing a date, und iz not all dot suspicious.

Ha! He vas right! Anko und Reno iz all dressed op!

Und Reno does look damned fonny in dot samurai skirt...

Zo, how does vun go about reqvesting a couple days of leave around here? Vould be for both me und Maxim. Ve's not plotting our next courze qvite yet, und if iz possible, it vould be much appreciated.

Zay, hyu here, Meester Holmes? Everybody elze zeems to be. Vas vondering if hyu might like to join me for a drink vun of dese nights. It vould be pleazant to finally meet, und I gots a couple of tings I vants to ask hyu about.

[voice][public]

I gots an open qvestion for de netvork: vhat does "honor" mean to hyu? Iz it de same or different den "duty" or "loyalty"? Does hyu try to live "honorably", und vhat does dot involve?

[voice][private/moderate to hack]

De more dot I hears about vhat a samurai iz und does, de more I iz reminded of de Jagerkin. Loyalty to de Master or Mistress until death, und a few odder tings here und dere, make me very curious. Perhaps ve could learn a ting or two from dem, und dey from us. I gots to admit, though, dot I finds dis "honor" ting both fonny und confusing...

Zo, I hear dot hyu's de vun to talk to about helping to make sure dot our guy vins? Vhat hyu need help vith? I iz game for pretty much anyting, vithin reason.

Mebbe I iz showing my age a bit, but a plane race iz not all dot exciting if hyu izn't in it, und just vatching from de ground. Und even den, hyu probably izn't allowed to shoot de odder guys down or anyting. Dey takes all de fon out of tings dese days!

But at least dere vill be de chance to meet zome pipples dot I haz only talked to over de netvork!