Rigging up and logging in Allen found himself sitting in front of his cabin mirror with Rick's face already displayed "What the fuck?", he asked.
"Good morning to you too 'captain', i was just chatting with Carol when you booted her off" Rick answered coldly.
"Shit, what is the deal with the pink flowery eyepatch?" Allen exclaimed.
"I think it accentuates your scars", Rick answerd, "Luke informed me of your deal", he smiled "I accept it".
Allen looked at Rick, "Good, should I give the deed to you or should i wait for him to log in"
"I am already logged in", the mirror answerd in Luke's voice.
"Thats a nice trick you have there", and Allen shut up when the mirror seemed to split to 6 different screens.
"Its a remenant from days long past" the left middle image spoke, "we decided to trust you with it" Luke looked at the image of a woman set at the top left of the mirror and she added "its possible to make room for another when you occupy a body" and the bottom right image of an elderly man finished "but you really have to trust the person you are letting in".
Shivers were running up and down Allens arms as he thought of the implications and applications but he let it go and focused, "I captain Slom hereby transfer the deed to the ship Odacious in my possession to the ship Odacious", the document in his hand changed and in the ownership list Odacious was added as current and the names 'Luke Scraper', 'Rick Nroll', 'Sasha Hashs', 'Moody Morning', 'Tim Tram' and 'Halia Ashfort' were added as co-owners of the deed.
Another letter shuffle and the name 'Allen Pearlson' was added to the list bringing the shivers back when Luke said "a little bonus for playing fair with us", the faces in the mirror faded leaving Allen to stare at his scarred face and the flowery pink eyepatch.
Walking around the ahip Slom found a lot of things that needed doing and he started issuing quests to tie knots, break salt, count bean sacks and preparing food when he got a popup message
[System: it appears your ship is infected with wererats, do you wish to issue an extermination quest to draw more active players to your ship? Y/N]
"NO" he shouted in his mind, the last thing he needed were real adventurers crawling all over the ship.
[List:
The most frequent question after the big red message was not, what is coming but how to paint the messages, as soon as some people figured it out Allen's headache multiplied with the plethora of edited messages flooding his vision, at least most people got to the deck to see what was happening.
[System: It appears your ship is being targeted by monsters from the deep, do you wish to issue a S.O.S quest that will guide heroes to your location? Y/N]
Thinking a clear "No" Slom ran to the figure at the head of the ship, "what is happening?" he asked between heavy breaths.
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"We crossed to The Unknown Waters of the north" the statue said while looking at the water, "This is supposed to be a guardian monster from the deep"
"If its a border guardian we cant outrun it" Allen said when he caught his breath, "do you think its an NPC?"
The statue paused before replying, "if it is then it has to be a contract" he sighed "we have nothing to fight it with"
Allen looked at the statue, "but it also has nothing to gain from us", turning to the water, "we should try and talk with whoever it is".
The statue nodded and the ship slowed down, messages started popping when a giant shadow loomed from below the ship.
After some thought allen used his credits to paint the ship sails with words.
"NPC SHIP"
"WANT TO TALK"
The water around the ship started churning and a monster from the abyss shot out to be taller than its masts.
Giant dark tentacles wrapped around the ship knocking the NPCs about and throwing some of them into the water.
Before allen could react some people were already hacking at the monster's arms and he had to use his credits again to shout "STOP".
The creature's head rose above the water and looked at him then at the sail he was pointing on and back to him.
The arms retracted and the creature started convulsing in the water, flipping up and down and creating huge waves that tossed the ship all around.
It took Allen a few seconds to realise the moster was heaving with laughter and when it caught onto him he started laughing as well, catching other crewmembers into the fit of laughter while others were just staring at the mad show of mirth.
It took a few minutes for the monster to calm down and retrieve the fallen crewmembers back to the ship.
[Whisper: Kraken so this is the famous Odacious /Whisper]
The message aopeaering on Allens' vision was a different, it wasnt pushed by the tide of chat madness in the list function and it took him a few seconds to figure the command.
[Whisper to Kraken: 210m we didnt do anything to be called famous /Whisper]
[Whisper: Kraken Oh but in certain circles you are /Whisper]
[Whisper to Kraken: We can't fight without players]
A girl pulled Allen's hand and asked "what is going on captain?"
Allen looked at her player id "Janice?" he explaimed, "Why the hell are you a little girl?"
"It was my NPC on Odacious before the attack", her face contorted, "sick fuck has a thing for little girls and payed for a bunch of them", she looked at him "but you are derailing" and added "what is happening?"
Slom pointed at the aea monster that seemed intent on its rescue mission "its a NPC", he rolled his shoulders "i was talking to it before you came".
She looked at him, "talking to it how?" turning her eyes to the monster "can it take over your mind".
[Whisper to 85f: 210m like this, you think whisper to and the id and it sends the message on a different scroll /Whisper]
[Whisper: 85f omg this is a game changer for NPCs everywhere /Whisper]
[Whisper: Kraken please tell them to stop fighting me, i cant save them like this /Whisper]
210m used even more credits to shout "THE KRAKEN IS FRIENDLY LET IT SAVE YOU" which at first seemed to have no effect but slowly more people were thrown on the deck to dry.
[Whisper: Kraken wait till Poseidon hears about this, we had a bet going about who will meet you first]
When all the people were back on board the Kraken moved to the head of the ship.
[Whisper: Kraken it costs me credits to speak but it is my pleasure to say]
The monster seemed to stand in front of the ship with two of its arms raised high when a booming feminine voice shouted "YOU MAY PASS" and it took a dive into the water splashing everyone on deck and knocking too people off.
[Whisper: Kraken Oops /whisper]
The fallen crew were lifted each with an arm and then the beast was truly gone.
[Whisper to Kraken: 210m thank you]
[Whisper: Kraken your welcome]
Janice burst into giggles and rolled on the deck laughing her ass off, it took her a few minutes to catch her breath and sit up, "so you do have a thing for big women?"
"It's nothing like that", he blushed, "we were just chatting".
"Oh sure captain", janice put on an idle routine for the girl to fix her hair adorably "you cant get them bigger than her though"
Slom played with his eyepatch and it got Janice to start laughing again which broke the idle routine, "it suits you" she leaned her back against the rails "tell Carol i said hi when you chat with her".
The ship started moving again and soon after a group of islands appeared on the horizon.