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[thatched]

Well since we're breaking away to begin with, why not go all the way and just become pirates? Floating the seven seas, waving our battle flag from the massive white dome. Pillage and plunder and the occasional panty raid. What do you think? Shall we put it to the vote?

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[thatched]

Aye, probably not, mate. I'm a pirate. But it still seems to me that you're saying it's fine to slaughter your old employer so long as your new employer pays more. You are earning your keep and keeping your morals. Fine slice of cake, that.

[tiamat_shot]

Whereas the alternative would be to attack indiscriminately for whatever you can grab?

[thatched]

It's the freedom to fight for who you want, regardless of money. Raiding Marines, aye, but protecting innocent Fishmen from raids by others who were targeted because of their birth. You can choose to be savage or you can choose to rob the robbers and petty thieves. As mercenaries, you choose to do whatever your employer suggests.

[tiamat_shot]

...huh.

I dunno, that's definitely nothing like the pirates we had in Jylland. They fell pretty firmly in the "robbers and petty thieves" category one hundred percent of the time, and since most of them were Seeqwere idiots about it, they basically had to rely on brute force alone to do anything.

[thatched]

There are some pretty brutal pirates where I'm from. Not everyone is as great as my Captain was. Still, no matter where I am, I would rather be pirate than mercenary. The employer says shoot and we shoot. Do we even know the full story? Do we know whose interests we are really serving? And these people, painted in a bad light, are they truly 'bad' or merely 'inconvenient'?

[tiamat_shot]

We're getting dragged into wars that aren't ours because some bitch of a sorceress decided to fuck common causality sideways for laughs. We're outsiders, and by the view of the rest of the world, we're villains no matter what we do.

[thatched]

Well if we're screwed whatever we do. Why not be pirates and do what we want?

[tiamat_shot]

Can't argue with that logic.

[Which means there's probably some glaring flaw in it that he can't actually spot. That's how it always worked in Tiamat. Regardless, he doesn't seem that eager to respond again.]