Kulee and Oliver's excitement at staying on land for a few days didn't come as a surprise to Talogan. It had been quite some time since they had last been on land, and the knowledge that they would be staying for more than one day would undoubtedly be music to their ears. When some of his crew returned, Talogan greeted each of them with a nod. "I take it you've had a successful evening Mr. Iron Guts." Talogan said as he noticed that Tayang had returned with more women than he left with. Although Talogan didn't personally have much of an interest in that sort of thing, he could not help being impressed with the amount of women drawn in by his first mate's performance.
"Aye captain, what are y'all talking about?" Johnathan asked as Tayang went off to buy a round for himself and his newfound entourage.
"We were discussing what comes next for us." Talogan replied. "Mr. Collins has suggested heading north to take advantage of the impending war and perhaps claim a few bounties from rival pirates. Mr. Fishbones doesn't think much of the idea though. He's suggested we see if any officials are willing to pay us to do their dirty work for them. For now though, I intend to keep us in Red Shard until the end of the month a few days from now. Then, once I've paid your wages, I plan to take on some new crewmen. Particularly anyone proficient with thieves' tools. It's about time we had someone on the Kraken who knows their way around locks and traps." Talogan then smoked his pipe and drank some rum as he listened to the crew's thoughts on the matter.

Then Hector spoke up.

"Say captain, you got any lovers anywhere?" Hector asked. "Guy like you could probably find quite a comely lass at any port!"
If any of his present crew were insightful enough, they would notice that Hector's words had ever so slightly cracked Talogan's usual expression of cold stoicism. Though he tried to hide it, and though he did so reasonably well, Hector's question had an effect that could cast quite a bit of doubt on the truthfulness of what Talogan said next. "No, and I never will." Talogan replied bluntly. "So do not ask about it again. Any of you." With that said, Talogan smoked a little more of his pipe, finished the last of his rum, and then stood up. "I'll be back in a moment." Talogan said. "Have someone bring me more rum." Having said that, Talogan walked over to the bounty board to look at the curious poster and see if anything else interesting lay hidden under the fresher posters.

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Action: Talogan lies to his crew, rolling a [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/18018]16[/url] in the attempt.
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