Finder's keepers losers weepers as they say and that was the reason why as soon as Bob heard about the shipwreck he raced to the bay. While he might find that cool looking lizard tomorrow and maybe something else better the day after, nothing beats having the first pick. "You know Jinsen...you may like boring old stuff like food but Bob likes to have the interesting stuff you know? They need to look fun and interesting with their own things to tell" he told the dog as though it would understand what he was saying and realize what he wanted. The reason is eventhough humans were smarter than the animals unless you count the dead in Sunberth and fools like Darik, dogs like Jinsen just had that very astute sense of things. Danger, valuables, food, you name it they know it. So..."Jinsen! Find me something which will make me happy today you hear?" he asked grabbing a rock and rolling it on the sand like Jinsen's new favorite toy which was the snowglobe it also found "and maybe I will make you happy too" rubbing the dog under the jaw before rolling the rock over to the front which it followed.
Bob was not the only one looking around though. Walking around the bayside he saw Jinsen scratching its paw on...something. Not a body like he will find tomorrow but a box! Where there are boxes there are stuff, hopefully. "What do you have there boy?" Bob asked excitedly and ran right for it. On his way he saw that Jinsen was just about to..."wait! Stop! Jinsen! Don't do it!" he yelled out. While the dog may have found it, the contents should go to Bob as its owner but now Bob could only "sigh..." and rub his face in frustration because the dog had just marked its territory on the box. For those who do not know how its done, lets just say that Bob is not going to want whatever is inside unless it was really worth it. In fact, if someone else came asking nicely that they wanted the crate he would be very willing to give it up.
Sweeping his cane sword to push the dog away from the crate slowly he would tell it to "just wait and let me check what is inside alright?" Jinsen must have really sensed something inside because it was not letting up. Pointing the cane away from the box, Bob who was getting quite annoyed growled a command that "Jinsen, go now and wait!" until Bob was done. The dog by now should know that Bob was a really patient master but there are times that he gets tired of it. Pushing the dog away with the cane to the side Bob would tell it one last time just to get through its skull that it should "stay!" and proceeded to draw his sword out on his way back to the box.
Holding the sword up, Bob took aim of the crack between the box and the crate and made a stab right into it. Wedging it in deeper and deeper until it stopped, Bob started applying pressure on the box to prop it up but it was just too tough. These things were really built to keep things in but Bob would not give up. "Too. Bad. You. Can't. Help. Without. Hands" he grunted out to his dog each time he pushed the sword down until he finally gave up. "This is so not worth it right?" he asked Jinsen as he struggled to pull out the sword. Even better! Now even the sword was stuck on it. This was so different from the rocks that he used to train with years ago. Right that is going to be his story. He cannot pull out the sword because some akalaks thought that pulling rocks are more useful for training the body. Pressing his foot at the side Bob continued trying and it was maddening until he yelled out at random a very popular folklore that "if I get this out then I will be king!"
All the commotion would bring a lot of attention and Jinsen started growling first. Ignoring the dog he put a finger to his lips and told it to "keep quiet! If I find something for you I will give it to you as well alright?" Maybe a new toy like that snowglobe but then he finally heard some other voices behind him asking about what they were getting. Surprised, Bob gave a tiny hop and the sword got pulled out but it was so sudden that he dropped on the sand and had an upside down view of the world. Wait that was Sunberth where everyone was a petching shyke in their own way like the three people who wanted to get a share of his goodies.
At least they had the decency to wait until Bob got up so maybe Bob would give them a share or maybe they were just held in place by the growling of Jinsen which Bob looked to with a smile and said "its alright Jinsen, they are friends. Remember? Like Zenai?" bringing up one arm and wrapping it around an imaginary person so that the dog would get an idea. Then facing the trio he lifted the other other hand to show his whole body all friendly like because he had to ask if "friends share nice things together right?" but apparently in Sunberth the answer was no because they said the short friend has to work to open the crate and then leave whatever he took from it including his sword so that his other friends will not have to beat him into a pulp for it. That was not very nice. Forget giving them anything but a butt whopping after this.
When they mentioned beat, Bob took a good look at them and found out why they said that. They were nothing more than a group of impoverished kids if what he could think from their tattered clothes told him looking for something to keep them going for the next season. They did not even have a proper weapon between them. Only the biggest one had a cheap kitchen knife all rusty and dirty unless the other two had weapons on them. One thing for sure, Bob did not want to get but by that. It was not because he was afraid of knives but of what would happen after that. He would have to "brrrrr..." meet the doctor of Sunberth.
They started to get impatient and Bob knew what he had to do and so did "Jinsen, you know what to do with friends right?" ignoring any outbursts he pointed at one of them and said "he is your best friend" with a smile and waited until the dog started charging at him tongue wagging before Bob went at the one with the knife with his own sword. He heard some shouts of surprise indicating the boys inexperience in any fight and then a squeals of terror when Jinsen started lapping on one's face. After that anyone close by could hear the clanging of his sword on the biggest's dagger.
While Jinsen had that one incapacitated, Bob still had to take on two. Using his sword he blocked and sliced at the rusty dagger with focused tenacity of not wanting to get hit. His other hand had him waving his cane wildly without restraint at the other. In the end it was no use to try fighting two people off even if they were just boys and he had a weapon for each of them. Bob was still not used to using both in each hand and the rusty dagger still terrified him so...why not share what he felt? Staring at the one with the dagger, Bob focused some djed into his eyes with all the terror and pushed it out into his armed opponent. It could have worked if not for the fact that Bob only worked it out in tiny trickles instead of one gushing powerblast. When he saw the dagger coming his way, Bob cut it off leaving most of the djed lingering in him unable to work on anything...but himself. With a squeal or terror he beat the dagger away from him and knocked the cane into the other's cheek.
All that was not without its effect and the big boy was wavering even if it was a little bit. That was enough for Bob to make a quick slice at his hand and make a big cut in it forcing him to drop the dagger. The other one? He was rubbing on his cheek on the sand crying and the last one finally got Jinsen off eventhough his face was all soggy. He looked angrily at Bob and then at his friends who were incapacitated somewhat and Bob asked him whether "is it your turn?" with the evillest smile he could make and gleaming the sunlight off his sword to his target. Finally they all gave up.
Now it was not that Bob was evil but he just could not allow the boys to leave so easily. Taking the knife and throwing it into the water he told the boys to "open up the crate" and of course they were protesting with lame excuses. Tired, Bob smacked one in the head with a cane, smashed the flat of his sword behind the knee of another and whistled shaking his head at the last for Jinsen to do whatever it wanted. In a matter of moments they were saying that they would do it as long as he stopped and he put his sword away and carried up Jinsen telling it that "that is enough boy. I am sure they know how friendly you can be now" and with a smile he asked a question to confirmed whether he was "right?" getting back some forced smiles and nods for his trouble.
Long story short, they all got the crate open and its contents was not that interesting for Bob. Just some cargo to be shipped off somewhere and there could be other people who could use it. While he could have tried to sell it, that would be too much trouble on his part since he did not have much business sense or trusted any of the Sunberth merchants to give him a good price. Still, it was a shame that it would all go to waste so he smacked his cane at the head of the biggest boy who he believed was the leader of the group since he also had the only weapon to get his attention when he told him to "put all this to good use" and smacking it at his bleeding hand he told him to "get that wound looked at too." Grabbing Jinsen's leash he began to walk to look for other things but he looked back and pointed 'V' fingers at his eyes and then at them telling them to "watch yourselves properly. Next time you won't get someone as nice as me."
That was a waste of a good morning but things could not get any worse. No, they only got better. Like everyone already knows, finder's keepers losers weepers but Bob did not get to keep anything until it was first come first served. It was that rowboat that Antar would find later only getting the one valuable left which was the compass. Want to know why? Simple. As soon as Bob stumbled on the body, he went "Do you know what this is Jinsen?" and lifted the dog up to have a look at it. "Its a captain of a ship! The most important person on board" for all the good it did now that he was dead. Looking around so that he will not be caught by surprise as with the three boys earlier, Bob told Jinsen that "now it is me" with a satisfied grin and went over to take what he wanted.
Bob excitedly stripped the man off his clothes. All the nice pretty clothes leaving the dull and boring armor behind and yes, he took the mark of a captain as well or what he thought it was from how he saw them back in Zeltiva. The longest spyglass he had ever seen maybe because this was the closest he had ever been to one. It was so big that he scoffed at the stupid small compass and left it behind for whoever else to get it like Antar and ran off with it and a bundle of clothes with Jinsen telling it that "now I am going to show you the power of clothes." The worst part was, if Bob could he will end up dressing up his dog sooner or later and Jinsen could do nothing about it even if it wanted to unless it prayed. But what do gods pray to if not their masters?
He ran off towards the city hoping that no one would find him there since they were all so busy scavenging the remains of the wreck until he found a concealed place to hide in. Bob led his dog to a spot at its entrance and told it to "stay and bark if anyone comes alright?" Nodding his head and pointing to himself to tell Jinsen that Bob was good and looking outwards and shaking his head to tell it everyone else was bad, he went in coming out a few moments later all dressed up as Captain Barton! No one would recognize him well enough unless they were looking real closely. There was the cool captain's hat, the most awesome monocle with a matching eyepatch to go behind it even if he found those on separate eyes on the corpse and the oversized but snazzy captain's coat. While the coat gave him some problems which he solved by wearing his clothes under to give him some extra bulk, the pants were the worst of all. It was just too long but with the help of the belt and folding up the bottom, Bob was able to make it work somehow and it was really effective. When he stepped out Jinsen started barking very wildly until the sound of his voice when he told the dog "it is alright Jinsen" was so familiar that it knew just who it was dealing with.
"Now for the fun part" Bob said holding up the spyglass. Grabbing everything he ran to a high point and started looking through the spyglass and saw all the looting going on and them being satisfied with something as stupid as musical instruments. Then he held it out to Jinsen asking it to "look through it. It is fun" but the dog was shocked which just how far that it was looking and shook Bob's arms off. "Have it your way" Bob said looking through the spyglass again to watch the group and after a while the red haired one turned to his direction and he recognized who it was. Keeping the spyglass away Bob told Jinsen that "its time for us to meet our real friends" and wondered just how long it would take until Zenai realized that Captain Barton is actually his buddy Bob?
With Jinsen at his side Bob made his way to shipwreck dodging the rest of the scavengers on the way just in case they wanted his stuff again. It became easy when he told "Jinsen, we don't want to meet anyone but Zenai alright?" which made the dog in the lead move away from anyone whose scent it caught and also with the spyglass, Bob could see people before they could see him. "No Jinsen, not there. We will go through there" pointing at another direction. It took longer than the straight route but then safety was always better. Only once he was forced to pass by a group and that he hugged on to Jinsen whispering for it to "be quiet" over and over as he crawled on the sand until he passed them by and were on their way.
It was just disappointing that when he reached the shipwreck there were guards all over the place. Bob looked around to look for another way in and then he saw that the ship was riddled with holes. Excellent! After looking at the way he would do it, he started to climb up using the holes and footholds and handholds. It was so slippery and tiresome, worst than anything he had climbed before but after taking the time Bob got up to the middle hole when he realized something. Jinsen had no hands! Putting the bundle on the floor, Bob searched around until he found a rope and tied it on one of the supports which were still intact. Holding on the rope, Bob started hopping down. Releasing and tightening his grip each time until he reached the bottom where Jinsen was to tie a rope around it. At least now there was a rope and Bob used it to hold with his hands. The holes were still needed as footholds though and he got up faster this time with the support of the rope. At the top he started pulling Jinsen up and heard some panicked yelping mostly muffled by the sounds of the sea but instead of his dog's feelings, Bob was more worried about "what have I been feeding you Jinsen?" This was ten times worst than the trying to open that box or anything with rocks that Xalet had put him through.
After catching his breath from all the hard work Bob started walking around the ship looking at all the other neat things that he will not be able to get because he was just in time to hear the words chest and wretches. Bob walked in right through the door after Eridanus and heard the word Captain so he just spoke out loud saying that "the only captain we have here is Captain Barton you petching landlubbers!" knocking his canesword on the floorboards to get their attention. "And my first mate..." which was nowhere to be seen...stupid Jinsen..."is on his way shortly." While Bob had no idea what was going on, if it came to a fight he would take sides with his friends or "my crew" gesturing to Zenai and Eridanus "would be more than enough to take care of you scum who are still wet behind your ears" gathering a large quantity of saliva and spitting it to the side in disgust as he saw all sailors do. If he was going to look the part he might as well act it as well only...instead of one clean shot to the side the saliva stuck to his lips and made a disgusting trail to the floor which is going to tell everyone that he was not who he seemed.
Bob was not the only one looking around though. Walking around the bayside he saw Jinsen scratching its paw on...something. Not a body like he will find tomorrow but a box! Where there are boxes there are stuff, hopefully. "What do you have there boy?" Bob asked excitedly and ran right for it. On his way he saw that Jinsen was just about to..."wait! Stop! Jinsen! Don't do it!" he yelled out. While the dog may have found it, the contents should go to Bob as its owner but now Bob could only "sigh..." and rub his face in frustration because the dog had just marked its territory on the box. For those who do not know how its done, lets just say that Bob is not going to want whatever is inside unless it was really worth it. In fact, if someone else came asking nicely that they wanted the crate he would be very willing to give it up.
Sweeping his cane sword to push the dog away from the crate slowly he would tell it to "just wait and let me check what is inside alright?" Jinsen must have really sensed something inside because it was not letting up. Pointing the cane away from the box, Bob who was getting quite annoyed growled a command that "Jinsen, go now and wait!" until Bob was done. The dog by now should know that Bob was a really patient master but there are times that he gets tired of it. Pushing the dog away with the cane to the side Bob would tell it one last time just to get through its skull that it should "stay!" and proceeded to draw his sword out on his way back to the box.
Holding the sword up, Bob took aim of the crack between the box and the crate and made a stab right into it. Wedging it in deeper and deeper until it stopped, Bob started applying pressure on the box to prop it up but it was just too tough. These things were really built to keep things in but Bob would not give up. "Too. Bad. You. Can't. Help. Without. Hands" he grunted out to his dog each time he pushed the sword down until he finally gave up. "This is so not worth it right?" he asked Jinsen as he struggled to pull out the sword. Even better! Now even the sword was stuck on it. This was so different from the rocks that he used to train with years ago. Right that is going to be his story. He cannot pull out the sword because some akalaks thought that pulling rocks are more useful for training the body. Pressing his foot at the side Bob continued trying and it was maddening until he yelled out at random a very popular folklore that "if I get this out then I will be king!"
All the commotion would bring a lot of attention and Jinsen started growling first. Ignoring the dog he put a finger to his lips and told it to "keep quiet! If I find something for you I will give it to you as well alright?" Maybe a new toy like that snowglobe but then he finally heard some other voices behind him asking about what they were getting. Surprised, Bob gave a tiny hop and the sword got pulled out but it was so sudden that he dropped on the sand and had an upside down view of the world. Wait that was Sunberth where everyone was a petching shyke in their own way like the three people who wanted to get a share of his goodies.
At least they had the decency to wait until Bob got up so maybe Bob would give them a share or maybe they were just held in place by the growling of Jinsen which Bob looked to with a smile and said "its alright Jinsen, they are friends. Remember? Like Zenai?" bringing up one arm and wrapping it around an imaginary person so that the dog would get an idea. Then facing the trio he lifted the other other hand to show his whole body all friendly like because he had to ask if "friends share nice things together right?" but apparently in Sunberth the answer was no because they said the short friend has to work to open the crate and then leave whatever he took from it including his sword so that his other friends will not have to beat him into a pulp for it. That was not very nice. Forget giving them anything but a butt whopping after this.
When they mentioned beat, Bob took a good look at them and found out why they said that. They were nothing more than a group of impoverished kids if what he could think from their tattered clothes told him looking for something to keep them going for the next season. They did not even have a proper weapon between them. Only the biggest one had a cheap kitchen knife all rusty and dirty unless the other two had weapons on them. One thing for sure, Bob did not want to get but by that. It was not because he was afraid of knives but of what would happen after that. He would have to "brrrrr..." meet the doctor of Sunberth.
They started to get impatient and Bob knew what he had to do and so did "Jinsen, you know what to do with friends right?" ignoring any outbursts he pointed at one of them and said "he is your best friend" with a smile and waited until the dog started charging at him tongue wagging before Bob went at the one with the knife with his own sword. He heard some shouts of surprise indicating the boys inexperience in any fight and then a squeals of terror when Jinsen started lapping on one's face. After that anyone close by could hear the clanging of his sword on the biggest's dagger.
While Jinsen had that one incapacitated, Bob still had to take on two. Using his sword he blocked and sliced at the rusty dagger with focused tenacity of not wanting to get hit. His other hand had him waving his cane wildly without restraint at the other. In the end it was no use to try fighting two people off even if they were just boys and he had a weapon for each of them. Bob was still not used to using both in each hand and the rusty dagger still terrified him so...why not share what he felt? Staring at the one with the dagger, Bob focused some djed into his eyes with all the terror and pushed it out into his armed opponent. It could have worked if not for the fact that Bob only worked it out in tiny trickles instead of one gushing powerblast. When he saw the dagger coming his way, Bob cut it off leaving most of the djed lingering in him unable to work on anything...but himself. With a squeal or terror he beat the dagger away from him and knocked the cane into the other's cheek.
All that was not without its effect and the big boy was wavering even if it was a little bit. That was enough for Bob to make a quick slice at his hand and make a big cut in it forcing him to drop the dagger. The other one? He was rubbing on his cheek on the sand crying and the last one finally got Jinsen off eventhough his face was all soggy. He looked angrily at Bob and then at his friends who were incapacitated somewhat and Bob asked him whether "is it your turn?" with the evillest smile he could make and gleaming the sunlight off his sword to his target. Finally they all gave up.
Now it was not that Bob was evil but he just could not allow the boys to leave so easily. Taking the knife and throwing it into the water he told the boys to "open up the crate" and of course they were protesting with lame excuses. Tired, Bob smacked one in the head with a cane, smashed the flat of his sword behind the knee of another and whistled shaking his head at the last for Jinsen to do whatever it wanted. In a matter of moments they were saying that they would do it as long as he stopped and he put his sword away and carried up Jinsen telling it that "that is enough boy. I am sure they know how friendly you can be now" and with a smile he asked a question to confirmed whether he was "right?" getting back some forced smiles and nods for his trouble.
Long story short, they all got the crate open and its contents was not that interesting for Bob. Just some cargo to be shipped off somewhere and there could be other people who could use it. While he could have tried to sell it, that would be too much trouble on his part since he did not have much business sense or trusted any of the Sunberth merchants to give him a good price. Still, it was a shame that it would all go to waste so he smacked his cane at the head of the biggest boy who he believed was the leader of the group since he also had the only weapon to get his attention when he told him to "put all this to good use" and smacking it at his bleeding hand he told him to "get that wound looked at too." Grabbing Jinsen's leash he began to walk to look for other things but he looked back and pointed 'V' fingers at his eyes and then at them telling them to "watch yourselves properly. Next time you won't get someone as nice as me."
That was a waste of a good morning but things could not get any worse. No, they only got better. Like everyone already knows, finder's keepers losers weepers but Bob did not get to keep anything until it was first come first served. It was that rowboat that Antar would find later only getting the one valuable left which was the compass. Want to know why? Simple. As soon as Bob stumbled on the body, he went "Do you know what this is Jinsen?" and lifted the dog up to have a look at it. "Its a captain of a ship! The most important person on board" for all the good it did now that he was dead. Looking around so that he will not be caught by surprise as with the three boys earlier, Bob told Jinsen that "now it is me" with a satisfied grin and went over to take what he wanted.
Bob excitedly stripped the man off his clothes. All the nice pretty clothes leaving the dull and boring armor behind and yes, he took the mark of a captain as well or what he thought it was from how he saw them back in Zeltiva. The longest spyglass he had ever seen maybe because this was the closest he had ever been to one. It was so big that he scoffed at the stupid small compass and left it behind for whoever else to get it like Antar and ran off with it and a bundle of clothes with Jinsen telling it that "now I am going to show you the power of clothes." The worst part was, if Bob could he will end up dressing up his dog sooner or later and Jinsen could do nothing about it even if it wanted to unless it prayed. But what do gods pray to if not their masters?
He ran off towards the city hoping that no one would find him there since they were all so busy scavenging the remains of the wreck until he found a concealed place to hide in. Bob led his dog to a spot at its entrance and told it to "stay and bark if anyone comes alright?" Nodding his head and pointing to himself to tell Jinsen that Bob was good and looking outwards and shaking his head to tell it everyone else was bad, he went in coming out a few moments later all dressed up as Captain Barton! No one would recognize him well enough unless they were looking real closely. There was the cool captain's hat, the most awesome monocle with a matching eyepatch to go behind it even if he found those on separate eyes on the corpse and the oversized but snazzy captain's coat. While the coat gave him some problems which he solved by wearing his clothes under to give him some extra bulk, the pants were the worst of all. It was just too long but with the help of the belt and folding up the bottom, Bob was able to make it work somehow and it was really effective. When he stepped out Jinsen started barking very wildly until the sound of his voice when he told the dog "it is alright Jinsen" was so familiar that it knew just who it was dealing with.
"Now for the fun part" Bob said holding up the spyglass. Grabbing everything he ran to a high point and started looking through the spyglass and saw all the looting going on and them being satisfied with something as stupid as musical instruments. Then he held it out to Jinsen asking it to "look through it. It is fun" but the dog was shocked which just how far that it was looking and shook Bob's arms off. "Have it your way" Bob said looking through the spyglass again to watch the group and after a while the red haired one turned to his direction and he recognized who it was. Keeping the spyglass away Bob told Jinsen that "its time for us to meet our real friends" and wondered just how long it would take until Zenai realized that Captain Barton is actually his buddy Bob?
With Jinsen at his side Bob made his way to shipwreck dodging the rest of the scavengers on the way just in case they wanted his stuff again. It became easy when he told "Jinsen, we don't want to meet anyone but Zenai alright?" which made the dog in the lead move away from anyone whose scent it caught and also with the spyglass, Bob could see people before they could see him. "No Jinsen, not there. We will go through there" pointing at another direction. It took longer than the straight route but then safety was always better. Only once he was forced to pass by a group and that he hugged on to Jinsen whispering for it to "be quiet" over and over as he crawled on the sand until he passed them by and were on their way.
It was just disappointing that when he reached the shipwreck there were guards all over the place. Bob looked around to look for another way in and then he saw that the ship was riddled with holes. Excellent! After looking at the way he would do it, he started to climb up using the holes and footholds and handholds. It was so slippery and tiresome, worst than anything he had climbed before but after taking the time Bob got up to the middle hole when he realized something. Jinsen had no hands! Putting the bundle on the floor, Bob searched around until he found a rope and tied it on one of the supports which were still intact. Holding on the rope, Bob started hopping down. Releasing and tightening his grip each time until he reached the bottom where Jinsen was to tie a rope around it. At least now there was a rope and Bob used it to hold with his hands. The holes were still needed as footholds though and he got up faster this time with the support of the rope. At the top he started pulling Jinsen up and heard some panicked yelping mostly muffled by the sounds of the sea but instead of his dog's feelings, Bob was more worried about "what have I been feeding you Jinsen?" This was ten times worst than the trying to open that box or anything with rocks that Xalet had put him through.
After catching his breath from all the hard work Bob started walking around the ship looking at all the other neat things that he will not be able to get because he was just in time to hear the words chest and wretches. Bob walked in right through the door after Eridanus and heard the word Captain so he just spoke out loud saying that "the only captain we have here is Captain Barton you petching landlubbers!" knocking his canesword on the floorboards to get their attention. "And my first mate..." which was nowhere to be seen...stupid Jinsen..."is on his way shortly." While Bob had no idea what was going on, if it came to a fight he would take sides with his friends or "my crew" gesturing to Zenai and Eridanus "would be more than enough to take care of you scum who are still wet behind your ears" gathering a large quantity of saliva and spitting it to the side in disgust as he saw all sailors do. If he was going to look the part he might as well act it as well only...instead of one clean shot to the side the saliva stuck to his lips and made a disgusting trail to the floor which is going to tell everyone that he was not who he seemed.
