Lt. William Bush (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wouldntbetonit) wrote2012-01-21 08:52 pm
wouldntbetonit) wrote2012-01-21 08:52 pm
1st Order [Voice]
what in the --
[Give him a moment. He just figured out how to use this monstrosity.]
I'm -- ah -- not sure if anybody is listening to this. This is a message to Luceti. [He pronounced it wrong. Whichever way you pronounce it, Lucetians, he did it wrong. Judge him and his lack of talent with foreign words.]
There is a ship in port, The Britannia. Quite a beauty, I have to commend Mr Kennedy for the design of her. Unfortunately she's come to be rather understaffed, so if there are any men who are interesting in crewing her....I'm sure her captain would appreciate it greatly.
That is all...back to your business.
[If William Bush could have it his way, he'd start a press-gang right here, right now. But that required a navy and men to help. So asking nicely would have to do.]
[Give him a moment. He just figured out how to use this monstrosity.]
I'm -- ah -- not sure if anybody is listening to this. This is a message to Luceti. [He pronounced it wrong. Whichever way you pronounce it, Lucetians, he did it wrong. Judge him and his lack of talent with foreign words.]
There is a ship in port, The Britannia. Quite a beauty, I have to commend Mr Kennedy for the design of her. Unfortunately she's come to be rather understaffed, so if there are any men who are interesting in crewing her....I'm sure her captain would appreciate it greatly.
That is all...back to your business.
[If William Bush could have it his way, he'd start a press-gang right here, right now. But that required a navy and men to help. So asking nicely would have to do.]
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Wait till your fool words insult them enough to drive them off. There's no penalty against desertion here. They're volunteers. Women or not, if they walk away, we can't move the ship an inch. Who looks the fool then?
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It's not done.
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[Because hell, there's got to be something good about being dead.]
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[And here we come to the crux of the matter - that Bush is, essentially, a traditionalist in the worst sense. He'll stick to the book as much as he can but when it suits the greater good he'll turn the other cheek. Only here a few days and Bush is already trying to instill something familiar. Change isn't going to be easy for him and he will dig his heels into the ground every painful step.]
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[He doesn't bat an eye at the accusation of mutinous behavior. If anything, after a year of separation from the Navy and friendship with a pirate, he swells with pride.]
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[And that's what it all boils down to: women are soft and supposed to stay on land with the babies while the menfolk go off to war and die. That's just how the world works.]
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