Magnanimity

Myriad Reality

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That's too bad. You'd probably earn more.

@Legend Begins

Or the tools. I don’t remember you showing me a smithy in the castle or anything like that.

Myriad Reality

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I think that a legendary fishing pole would make for a great story. Maybe you should try to sell it as that.

@Legend Begins

I don’t think I have the skillset to actually make something of this.

Myriad Reality

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If you get hurt on the first day of the job, it won't be the greatest first impression.
*Picks up a piece of scrap and turns it over in my hand*

@Legend Begins

*Knocks on it with one hand while I hold it with the other*
It’s fine. This should work. I imagine whatever alloys these ships are made of are so hard that it would impress townsfolk of a vaguely medieval-to-Victorian era society. Might go for a pretty penny, and they could melt it down and make Excalibur.

Myriad Reality

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Maybe they'll be sympathetic in this case.
*Kneels down and runs my finger across a piece of broken, rusted metal*

@Legend Begins

They never came for any of it. Never saw signs of someone even scouting the place out, much less anything to the scale of whatever an official salvaging operation would look like to sufficiently put a dent in all of the stuff here.
*Walks up to a bent piece of the hull on the edge of the damage. I glance it over, then put both hands on it and pull really hard until a jagged piece about as big as my torso snaps off*

Myriad Reality

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*Sits on the edge and slides off to minimize the fall, watching closely for stray pieces of metal*
Is it legal to hunt for scraps here?

@Legend Begins

The legality of it never crossed my mind. I’ve already functionally looted up months worth of food out of these wreckages, and this armor. If it’s illegal, I’m already well beyond being worried about that.

Myriad Reality

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I'm really glad I wasn't in the middle of this. Whoever insured these is about to go bankrupt.

@Legend Begins

To my understanding, one of the largest single collectives in all of reality used a lot of their manpower to mount this war effort. They didn’t provide the majority of the strongest people, but they provided numbers like no one else really could.
*Looks down and drops a few feet onto the earth below, and steps out into the sunlight*

Myriad Reality

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*Follows, trying as hard as I can to avoid stepping on uneven surface*

@Legend Begins

*Takes a right near the end of the hall, which very suddenly leads to jagged metal, defunct wiring sticking out of the infrastructure, and a massive opening in the ship from damage that leads to the outside near the ground. As far as the eye can see in this direction, IA warships of varying yet vast sizes lay derelict across a flat, grayish-yellow landscape, and many smaller wreckages and bits of junk are scattered in the dirt between them*

Myriad Reality

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We won't come across any corpses, will we?

@Legend Begins

Despite the sheer vastness of this graveyard, as far as I can tell, it’s just a graveyard for shipwrecks. Never saw a body.
*Walks down the hall to the right, which, as the floor seems to be un-level to the ground, seems to lead down*

Myriad Reality

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What about the other rooms?

@Legend Begins

I scrounged around in them. They’re mostly the same, but this one was the easiest to clean up. I imagine these were where the ship’s higher ranking officers slept since they’re all private.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks from the left to the right*
Have you been here long?

@Legend Begins

No, not in this specific room anyway. I’d been sleeping here for about a week and a half before I got found.