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[dairekka]

[Okay. This isn't hard. He's stuck here... and... there's no real way back so the best option is to work with this ALASTAIR ... clan? Clan. In order to fix issues in different places...

... and this ear cuff will let him talk to people but he has no idea how. Jewelry doesn't let you talk to people?? Talking to people lets you talk to people??

Carefully and very tentatively, like he's worried the communicator is about to leap out at him and grab him, Yukimura sets the little ear cuff communicator on the ground in front of him and crouches down in so he's eye level with it. Enjoy the overabundance of red.]

...

[He takes a deep breath. He was told he could talk to people, but he can't see anyone so... he'll have to speak loudly so he can be heard.

Brace yourself, Futurology.]


HELLO?

[... Nothing.]


HELLO, ARE YOU ABLE TO HEAR ME THROUGH THIS PIECE OF JEWELRY?

[Still nothing?? This is concerning him. Is he alone here, other than the man who had spoken to him when he first arrived? What should he do in this situation? Begin a scouting mission to search out any signs of life? Or should he continue shouting through this piece of jewelry he doesn't really believe is doing what he was told it would do.

...

Option B it is.]

I AM WORRIED THAT THIS JEWELRY IS NOT DOING WHAT I WAS TOLD IT WOULD, AND THAT I WILL FIND MYSELF AT A COMMUNICATION DISADVANTAGE IF THIS DOES NOT WORK. CAN ANYONE HEAR ME? [He reaches out and taps on the side of the cuff, shaking the image rather violently.] ANYBODY?

[TAP. TAP. TAP.

BEEP.]

... [He leans forwards, almost conspiratorially and whispers....] Hello?

[... Someone help this poor, unsuspecting loser out. Please. For the sake of your eardrums if nothing else.]

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[dairekka]

... ...!

[Oh hello. You sound familiar.]

Lord Chōsokabe? Is that you?

[Yes, Yukimura. Yes it is.]

[dokyuu]

[Well, that was... better. Ish. Aside from the overly formal thing, but that was. Well. Hopefully no one else would get weird ideas.]

Yeah, it's me. Guess you got dragged into this too, huh?

[adlantisag]

[ Laughing! ]

'Lord Chōsokabe'...

[dokyuu]

[That sound is him muffling a groan of embarrassment in his hand]

Ah, don't make too much of it. Everyone's a 'lord' with this guy.

[wardance]

Wait-- Have you been hiding this from everyone?

[dokyuu]

What? I haven't been hiding anything.

[He just... hasn't been introducing himself with his title or anything. That's tacky, and no one here knows where Shikoku is anyway, right?]

[wardance]

[ well, that's actually a valid point. Masamune doesn't include his title, either. ]

'Captain' before 'lord', yeah, aniki?

[dokyuu]

Damn right. Who wants to be a lord in some stuffy castle anyway?

[He... may have had reasons for running away to a life of piracy. Maybe.]

[adlantisag]

It is not so unpleasant a life--if it can be made productive.

[ Says the princess trapped in a castle the last couple thousand years.... ]

[dokyuu]

Yeah, well... I prefer the sea.

[Why was this conversation even happening? Ug, embarrassing.]

[adlantisag]

Is that what you prefer to be called, then? 'Aniki'?

[ Big brother, really? You have some weird kinks, man. ]

[dokyuu]

Well, I mean. That's just what my sons of bitches call me...

[Oh, yeah. Referring to the crew that way is really going to help.]

I don't need them callin' me 'lord' or any of that.

[adlantisag]

Your--

[ ??? ]

That is a rude thing to call your wives.

[ (unsure) ]

[dokyuu]

What? No. I'm not married!

[And certainly not more than once.]

[adlantisag]

Then who are you calling such vile names?

[dokyuu]

My crew. They're sailors, it's...

[He's really glad this is not video because his face is probably bright red.]

It's like a friendly expression... you know...

[adlantisag]

I see.

[ That admission seems to knock the wind out of her sails, as it were. She knows how much his people mean to him, though she still wonders what he calls his enemies, given the pet names he seems to prefer. ]

They are like your brothers, then?

[dokyuu]

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.

[It was complicated, because he was still their captain, and coincidentally also their lord, but it's not something he's going to try to explain, especially when the topic was... a little sensitive.]

They're important.

Here i come to make things wooorrrssee

[dairekka]

[Blink. There sure are a lot of people replying to Motochika now, huh?]

You have not told your comrades of your status as a daimyo, Lord Chōsokabe?

[dokyuu]

[He has become painfully popular, it's true.]

It doesn't really come up in regular conversation around here...

[dairekka]

[It's a tough life.]

Really? You do not talk about home while you are here?

[dokyuu]

Well, yeah, some, but...

[He's a pirate damnit, that's the important thing.]

[dairekka]

[A daimyo pirate.]

You should receive the respect you deserve as a daimyo, no matter where you are.

[He'd be genuinely angry if someone treated his lord with a lack of respect, no matter where they were...]

[dokyuu]

I get all the respect I need. This ain't Shikoku anyway, so I'm not in charge.

[Because really, demanding people respect him just because he had a while island back home... that was the kind of tedious thing he preferred to avoid.]

[dairekka]

[... Well, he has a point. Forcing leadership on people would be no better than some of the conquerors they've dealt with in the past.]

If you feel that is the better option, then I will not question your judgement.