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You decide to have the whale skin turn into a personal Overcoat for yourself. Perhaps a bit selfish, but a Captain has got to look the part, and you think you look pretty good. While armor against firearms and swords is nonexistant on the Black Ocean, too heavy and impossible to make, a thick whale coat is just about the next best thing, providing a small amount of protection from snapping ropes and burning dust from cannon and gunfire, and about the best protection against a snapping claw or spray of acid as you could hope for. It couldn't stop a sword, but the tip of a harpoon or swing of a knife might be deterred just enough. Feeling accomplished, you have the rest of the whale gutted for parts, grinding its less useful bones into two more REPAIR POWDERs, and keeping the longest rib for yourself.
In the mean, as you chart course for the Fruit Barons, Bones pulls you aside.
"Just so you know, Captain, don't sell off those vials of glowing goo to the Barons. Trust me. Good Teeth Island is full of miners, that type of light is perfect for them, and they'll pay you a better price for it!"
There's just one more thing to attend to. The skeleton of every coral ship is made of whale bones. You have fresh supply, and while several can be sold, you know as a CORALMAN that this is an opportunity to UPGRADE AND GROW your ship. Deep in the hold you take the bone and a pick-axe, and you turn towards the brow of the ship. Here you can bury this bone to upgrade the PINK LADY, but how should you do it?
>Bow & Stern (longer ship)
>Port & Starboard (fatter ship)
>Straight up (extra mast)
