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Your name is Enoch Slickwick – and as you open up dummy water filters, for the first time in a long time, you don’t know what you want. Pretty much since you were indentured to the Creature, you have been presented with just one path forward – and with that, what you wanted, or rather, needed to do at any point obvious. On the <span class="mu-i">Pinnacle</span>, it was survive and earn your way out of indenturization. On the <span class="mu-i">Scheme</span>, it was survive and earn the respect of the crew – then once you had earned it, it was survive and prove yourself to Jibbs. On the <span class="mu-i">Commissioner</span>, it was back to survive and earn your way out of debt, except now you were a peon instead of an indentured servant, and your debts were all the larger for it.
But right now, you are not on the <span class="mu-i">Commissioner</span>. You are on the <span class="mu-i">Highest Heaven</span>. And two completely different paths stretch before you. Unfortunately, both also seem to head away from what you want most – a debt free and quiet planet bound life. If you were to work something out with Boss Barone again, you would be exchanging one debt for another, one master for another … and who knows if you would ever be able to truly pay them off? If you were to take up arms, and fight your way out of here, who knows if you would ever be safe enough to put them down?
You feel like an ass for being so melancholy over what is the find of a lifetime – Hell, the find of several lifetimes … but you just need to think about this some more. Alright – say you were going to go to Barone. What do you say? Well … you wouldn’t mention the hand-lances, not immediately. Instead, you would ask if there was any way that he could find out if your papers were still being held, and if they were, then by who. On its own, that would cost you a large amount of talents, or a ‘small favor’ – which have a real funny way of turning into shitshows. While you don’t have too many talents on hand, you will have some coming in with the console you tagged. All things considered, that probably will not be enough to cover it, but if you were to use it as seed-money, either for an ‘investment’ or in a high-stakes gamble, then you might be able to get the information without incurring any further debts. On the other hand, having the talents from the console might be useful for other things, and now that you have a ticket out of here with the sidearms, the only debt that you actually have to worry about paying down anymore is whatever you owe to Barone – assuming, of course, that everything goes as planned.
Now, if you were to turn pirate … obviously, taking over a massive prison ship is beyond any individual, so you are going to need to bring other people in on this. But they are going to need to more than just skills, they are also going to need to be receptive to piracy, loyal enough to keep quiet … and not ambitious enough to attempt to cut you out later.
