Nikola followed behind the captain, straightening his waistcoat by pulling down on it's hem. As they stepped out of the tavern, he looked at the floor and wrinkled his nose, there was a quickly congealing puddle of blood on the floor. The group stopped abruptly, and Levi stood on top of a rock, to talk to them, Nikola found this amusing. '[i][color=khaki]Little man syndrome.[/color][/i]' he quipped to himself. As the woman spoke, Nikola nodded, she had skills, admirable ones in fact - especially from the point of view of a ship captain - though quickly he became overwhelmed as it seemed that she stopped breathing as she was talking, he was considering snapping her out of it before she came to. Now it seemed like it was his turn to introduce himself.

"[color=khaki]An Engineer and a Grunt, I would propose hiring them, skills like theirs would be invaluable on long voyages.[/color]" He walked around the pair and stood in front of the captain, looking him level in the eyes, despite him standing on a rock, "[color=khaki]I initially sought you out to fill your empty holds with salt and sulfur, though now I see that you're not here for trade purposes. My name is Nikola Vanderbilt, I'm a senior clerk for the town's mining sector and former commercial scout, I flew planes and shot at things the prior proactively and the latter when needed. Now, Engineers, Pilots and Grunts are all well and good but have you ever considered hiring a merchant, or a man who can calculate the difficult numbers need to run a ship? If not, then you can consider me your first, I know the where the money goes out there like the back of my hand, we can all come out of this richer then we started.[/color]"