THE BOX OFFICE

[tellthestory]

This is where you can meet privately with the Balladeer! The Balladeer is almost always around during the day; just knock.

(Secretly, the door's usually not locked if he's inside. But you wouldn't want to be rude, would you?)

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Comments

[catliketread]

Hmm... I do appreciate that warning, but I appreciate that you won't tell the others that more. Thank you for not trying to push us any further than you must; I can only imagine that there are some people willing to go to such lengths if it were in their best interests to do so.

[It's a nasty thought, but not one he's naive enough to dismiss entirely.]

You've been a very accommodating host, actually. I ought to thank you for that as well!

[tellthestory]

You're welcome! I figure it's the least I can do - the more comfortable you are here, the less likely you are to kill someone to get out, right?

[It's not quite as simple as that, but it's one thing he has a little control over.]

I've enjoyed my time living here, so I didn't really expect you all to dislike it so much. Not at first. But some plants and cards and things, that's no problem.

[catliketread]

It would seem that many of the people here find this too small a place to be trapped in. I don't see it, but I suppose that's because I've spent the past thirteen years on a ship.

[It's been a wild ride.]

You're an interesting man to talk to, Balladeer! ...Do you have a name I should call you or is the title fine?

[tellthestory]

That would do it. Though you've got the whole ocean if you're out on a ship, don't you?

[That's small and huge all at the same time.]

No, I'm like you, it's just the title. [...wait] Do you have an actual name?

[catliketread]

True! The space within the ship is confined, but the open ocean...

[Dreamy sigh!! Anyway.]

I do have a name! I haven't used it in so long, though. It really isn't worth picking it up again. Billy the First [billy flynn] is trying to find a name that suits me, but I doubt he'll ever have any luck with it.

[tellthestory]

I should've figured. [Why would he just be named the Pirate King? But it's what he goes by now, so that's fun.] What's he come up with so far?

[catliketread]

...At one point he tried to call me Arthur.

[Apparently that one is the gravest insult.]

I will let you know if he finds something particularly ill-fitting or something plausible, but I doubt he'll manage anything I actually like!

[tellthestory]

That doesn't seem very pirate-y.

[He gets it, man]

He probably won't. Big difference between a fancy lawyer and a pirate king.

[catliketread]

That's very true! He'll certainly have a difficult time of finding something worthy of the Pirate King!

[i'm sorry about him]

[tellthestory]

It's a challenge! But I won't hold my breath. It'd be a pain to re-do the signs anyway.

[And, truth be told, it's way too entertaining the way it is now.]