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Along the way to Good Teeth Island, you come across a large ship that is not moving at sea. It is flying a white flag.
<span class="mu-r">"Huh. I think they're hagfishing. Look at all the choppy water around their craft."</span>
You're familiar with the practice. Hagfish are one of the most commonly fished type of sea-life on the Black Ocean. Not only are Hagfish very common, they can be brought to the surface in a great feeding frenzy by dumping any kind of food off the side of a ship. Hagfish slime is essentially to creating sails and sea-cloth, and their meat and skins are commonly used as forms of food and clothing, even if it does result in an ugly gray. Slimy skinned eels may not sound appealing, but it's often the best form of protein you can get, since Whales don't exactly grow on... sand.
"Captain! Do ye wish to Swoop them?"
<span class="mu-r">"Huh?"</span>
"Ahh, you know more about fishing then stealing, I forgot. Hagfishing is expensive, what with all the bait overboard, and gets their whole deck slimy and chaotic with the eels wriggling about, they can't easily launch boats or make sail- why many don't like to be caught while Hagfishing. But the eels are slippery beasts and always goes towards the freshest bait. They already drug the eels up from the bottom, we can throw out a comparatively smaller amount of bait to draw the eel-ball over here, net them, and run off with the majority of the catch; while leaving them with a slimy hull!"
<span class="mu-r">"The cargo hold is full anyway.."</span>
"We could toss a box of seed as bait, best thing to give up, and then replace it with fresh caught eel! I'm sure it will go for more at any port, even Good Teeth."
<span class="mu-r">"You're starting to sound like Bones now. It's that White flag that's giving me pause. If there is a Lady Death on board, does that mean they're starving? Why else would they be stopped? I'll not be stealing from the mouth of babes."</span>
"Twas merely a suggestion, Captain... Besides, many sailors put up the white flag when they ain't in any position to fight to beg for mercy. If pirates ran up on them now they couldn' do much to resist, so it makes sense to white flag even if they got no such sensitive passengers. It's your call, after all."
Yet another opportunity on the high seas. You know you'd be extremely worried to come across a ship while in the middle of Hagfishing. What should you do?
>Get up close and Swoop their catch
>Stay far and attempt a Swoop (Chance)
>Attack the ship while they're vulnerable
>Launch your boat and go talk to them
>Continue on and leave them be