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Zehn - [Voice]

[Well, Kurt is at home with nothing to do. He's finished his homework, goofed off in the Battle Dome, and isn't quite up to crashing in on his friends and seeing what they're up to. Apparently that's annoying. So he has only one alternative - watch movies he's already seen several times or be entertained by Luceti's populace. Which means getting a discussion going. Something simple and mindless to talk about.]

Okay, so everyone. You're on a boat and it shipwrecks on a deserted island. You can only take one thing with you from home. What is it?

... ohh, right, and if you have any kind of superpowers that would get you off the island, those don't count. Or for making new stuff and- actually, yeah, no superpowers at all. Just stuff you bring!

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I don't think a raft would get you off the island. It's a very dangerous island, yeah? Besides, the point isn't to get off the island!

How dangerous are we talking here? Something like "everything on the island seems to be trying to kill you"? Or is it just the area around the island that's dangerous?

Oh, definitely both. There's dangerous reefs all around the island! Not to mention predators on the island... cannibals, maybe sometimes pirates... that kind of stuff.

In that case... Assuming that I can't summon them there myself in this scenario, a good sword. That way, I can fend off any cannibals or pirates, get food, and get supplies to build some kind of shelter. Then I'd just have to survive until some kind of ship passes by, or steal a pirate ship.

Would you be able to take over a pirate ship?

[He's curious to know. After all, if you kill the whole crew, one person can't sail a ship. And if you leave them alive, they can double cross you.]

Probably, if the pirates aren't like the type that we have here. ...I'd probably leave the captain, first mate, and other people with significant influence over the crew on the island, to prevent them from stirring up trouble. Once that's settled, I would take the necessary people, like cooks and navigators, and the lower-ranked pirates with me to maintain the ship.

No no, definitely not like the pirates here. Maybe more Jack Sparrow. What's to stop them from having a mutiny to kill you and rescue their captain?

[Nevermind the fact pirates might have other plans if they ran into a woman...]

I'm pretty good with keeping the members of my guild in line even when they're at their worst. Keeping a bunch of pirates from mutinying should be even easier. I can be quite intimidating when I want to be. [And when she doesn't want to be...] I'm sure that, given a short amount of time, they'd listen.

[If they tried that on her, they'd find Hell a much more preferable alternative afterwards, given how much she'd kick their asses.]

And then you'd make yourself you're own Pirate Queen, yeah?

No; I'd go back to civilization and turn them over to the proper authorities.

Not much in it for the pirates, is there?

Well, they would be extremely limited in terms of what they can do. Really, they could either cooperate or swim for it; whether on the ship or in jail, they'd at least get food.

What makes you so sure you would win? These pirates could all be legendary zombie pirates.

I've dealt with worse things before.

What if they have dealt with even worse things than you have? [What? It's a legitimate question.]

I can't think that many pirates would have fought off demonic creatures larger than most buildings.

How big of buildings are we talking here? Because in my world, buildings are really big and Godzilla is even bigger than those.

Well, the creature itself was slightly larger than the community houses here, if I had to guess. Are monsters larger where you come from?

Oh no, none here. But Godzilla's leg would be the size of one of these community buildings. Or maybe just up to his knee... [It's hard to tell, okay.]

I've heard about that creature before, but... I didn't figure it would be that massive! How is something that large dealt with?

Lots and lots of tanks! Although in other movies, he turns into a good guy and fights off other evil giant monsters.

...Wait, movies?

Yeah, like on TV!

So he's... not real?

He could be. A lot of the people here aren't real in my world.