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Prompt 12

Although she was initially sad to, Sequoia decided to trade her favorite diamond bracelet to Thatcher, hoping she won't have to trade anything again.

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How does your kalon convince Thatcher to give you one of his diamonds for an engine part?

antheia quite frankly has no idea how to get the gemstones from thatcher but she's willing to try if it means she gets to get back onto that cruise ship and get back out to sea. she's starting to get nauseous here on land - landsick, could you ever believe it? - and wants more than everything to feel the boat swaying under her feet on the open seas once more.
so she thinks on it for a while, tries to figure out what someone who spends most of their time worshipping crab gods would like, and then decides and heads over to where he likely is to greet him.
"hey," she calls lightly once she's there, giving him a smile. "how are the crab gods doing today? are they happy with your shrine? listen, i was thinking-" she doesn't even give the poor kal a chance to reply to her question before she's shooting into her explanation, ignoring his slightly off-put look at her ignorance. she's used to those by now. "what if the crab gods really want a song? and a cool dance in their honour, the whole thing sideways like a crab walks. wouldn't that be amazing? special music, special lyrics, special actions. it'll be great entertainment for them. here- you start thinking about it and i'll go round some other kals up to join in. i'll even help figure out the dance and song. but uh, i'll need a diamond. or something. yeah, just a couple of nice tough rocks and - listen, do you want the crab gods to be mad? no? then give me the rock, thatcher. hand it over. let's dance my man, let's rock and roll."
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"I have this hermit crab shell!"

[LivingLethal]

prompt #12
username: LivingLethal
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kruiser: Mushi
response: It wasn't convincing so much as it was working...

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More trading? Seriously? She'd never done this much swapping and haggling since she was in primary school, trading marbles with her classmates.

She didn't have much to offer – she'd literally given the buckles on her backpack away, after all – and she had no idea what Thatcher would be wanting for such a precious gemstone. Who carried something as valuable as a diamond around? Who ever found themselves in the situation of needing to trade for a diamond? More importantly, why did Shark need one in the first place? She didn't know a lot about boats, but she wasn't sure that was a commonly used material.

“I'm gonna be straight with you here Thatcher,” she said, crossing her arms as she looked up at him. “I don't have a lot to offer. But I need that diamond, so I'm going to make you a deal. In exchange for that diamond, I'll tell you some crab jokes. Deal?”

He raised an eyebrow. “You want to trade an actual diamond for crab jokes?”

“Yes.”

He stared at her for a moment, and then shrugged. “Alright. Shoot.”

“Why did the crab keep all the seaweed to himself?”

“Why?”

“Because he was shellfish.”

Silence.

“A man walks into a bar and asks if they serve crabs. The waiter replies, 'Of course sir, we serve everybody here.'”

“Please stop.”

“But I've only told two-”

He pushed the diamond into her palm. “I will literally pay you this to stop.”

Huh. Well, that was that done.

[uηsρεcifiεd ¢ryҏtiɗ]

How does your kalon convince Thatcher to give you one of his diamonds for an engine part?

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"Please, the longer us kruisers are here, the longer you and all the crabs will have to deal with us!"

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Prompt #12

Cesar grumbled as he made the long trek to find Thatcher. He thought about how back in America he would be able to simply ask for what he wanted and he would receive it on a silver platter with no questions asked. He was a feared mafia boss and Cesar enjoyed asking for ridiculous things on occasion to watch others panic and have a complete meltdown because they think he would yell at them. Cesar chuckled and when he met Thatcher, he looked at all of his gems. A smirk grew on his face as he thought about someday coming back to this island and stealing all of the gems for himself. They were beautiful and had every color of the rainbow it seemed. The downside was the the man who owned all of these precious gems seemed to really like them a lot. Cesar grumbled and tried asking nicely but he was very stubborn and told Cesar he wouldn’t do it. Cesar sighed dramatically.

“Look. We really need that gem for a part on our cruise ship to get us all back home. There’s people here that have families back at home and really want to see them again.” Cesar explained and was emotional for once. Thatcher finally agreed because Cesar’s very small speech was powerful and touched his heart.

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[watts]

aquila tries to offer some of his hair but i don't think anyone would want that, ever.

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"I doubt he'll notice one or two missing"

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.secretsociety. - detroit - sign up post - mentioned;; Oliver
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Detroit just stared at Carcharodon as he explained what she might have to do to. Look she loved being helpful as much as the next helpful kalon but man this was pushing it, she wasn't good with words and all of her previous resources were gone, having used them to try and get other things that she needed. She rubbed her forehead and sighed as she walked away from him. she thought about it for a while, maybe painting a rock to be shiny would distract him long enough to grab one? maybe she could buy it off of them? although she didn't actually have any currency on her, she could most definitely get some from her good friend Oliver. Maybe he could hep her out in getting the diamond? She chuckled to herself and shook her head, the kalon with the diamond most likely could just be talked into giving her the diamond with some sweet words. Couldn't they?

they could not, she learned as she walked away from them. she walked up to a small cliff by the ocean and sighed as the sun began its descent downwards. She didn't want to steal it off of the poor kalon, but man she just wanted to go home and relax on her sofa with her boyfriend.
she sighed, when push came to shove she would,,,
give up because man, she wasn't going to steal just to get a diamond from this poor kal. And she was sure someone else could do it. someone with y'know powers or something fun and funky. she returned to Carcharodon telling him "i'm sorry, I can't do it, maybe someone else can get him to give up the diamond?"