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[wheresmyfingerbones]

Hello, I wish to ask for a boat. How is the sea trade in this world? I know the world I used to live in is gone, but the storm did not take away my skills on navigation and sea travel. I grew up as a son of a crabber and became a smuggler, and then a knight. Still, I know more of the sea than I do of anything else.

(( Sometimes. It's complicated. ))

I appreciate the help.

Thank you,

Davos Seaworth

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text, un: Yousoro★

[ayes]

as far as i know there isnt any
all the fog around the island means that nobody can sail past it and nobody ever has

i wanted to do that too
my dads a ship captain back home and i grew up in a fishing village so
im pretty comfortable on the ocean

but everyone tells me you cant get past the fog

text; un: flowerknight

[triplerose]

I'm afraid the only waters I've come by are those at Flona Cove, and I cannot recall any ships. My apologies that I'm of no help, though it is good to see our lord Stannis has a companion at last.

text; @unburnt

[dorzalta]

[ Well... that's a rather familiar name she'd not expected to see. Is it a sign that perhaps more of her own people would soon walk these lands? The happiness over a more familiar face isn't feigned one bit. ]

It's good to hear you're awake, ser Davos. [ Jon never made mention of his advisor's awakening--did he know? ] Have you spoken with Jon yet? He walks these lands, as well.

As for the boat, I've not seen a port for you to take advantage of, but that means little. I imagine there are neutral territories we've not yet heard of who use the sea to their advantage.

text | un: stormsend

[bruxisms]

WHAT ARE ALL YOUR PLANS FOR THE BOAT, SMUGGLER?

[ he is mostly curious and hardly angry. yet the text has a habit of making all seem as though he is yelling at them. ]

voice; un: theon

[reek]

[ This is what draws Theon out onto the network for the first time since returning from stasis. He doesn’t type and doesn’t show his face, but there’s a hollow note in his voice that wasn’t there the last time they spoke. ]

There is none.

[ Asha would have said if there were ports or sea trade to take advantage of. She wanted to build a boat and sail beyond that fog. Victarion likely would have wanted the same. All Theon wants is to remain Theon Greyjoy, but he can’t help but feel a pang of jealousy that this man should know more of the sea than a Greyjoy of Pyke. It still hurts that all of that was stripped from him. ]

They've landlocked you without truly doing so. They don’t want to risk the chance of you escaping.

un: CherylBombshell

[sweetwater]

Where would you go on a boat?

text, un: swan

[sheriffing]

There's not a lot of sea action going on around here.

If there was, maybe I could get the pirate on my couch out of the house more often.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( Well that's bad news. ))

I am sorry to hear it. So you can't even travel along the coast for travel?

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[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( He didn't realize Ser Loras was here. But which one? Davos was told of the two Westeros. ))

I am sorry to hear that. I have hoped to put some of my old trades to some good use and employment, but it appears that's not the case.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( The dragon queen of the east. Davos last heard of her in a dumpy tavern in White Harbor, talking of how sailors encountered her and her court . . . as well as three dragons. ))

Briefly. I am afraid we had some confusion of a Davos he knew that I am certain I am not.

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[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( Davos just rolls with it, like he always does. ))

Mostly to make do on a honest trade, Your Grace. Before I was a smuggler I've learned of my father's crabbing.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

Perhaps trading, or fishing. Even crabbing. The trades of the sea I know well.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

I was afraid of that. I can learn a new trade here if I must, but I prefer to the sea. Perhaps one day the fog will lift.

voice

[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( Ah, Theon. ))

What is there to escape to? The worlds we once called home are gone.

[sheriffing]

You'd rather do that than put your knight status to some kind of use?

[sweetwater]

Isn't that dangerous?

[reek]

I don't know. Somewhere. Anywhere.

[ Anywhere where Ramsay isn't. It's personal for him. He feels just as trapped here as he did in the Dreadfort, but it's better not to reveal that. ]

How does a smuggler become a knight?

[wheresmyfingerbones]

(( Well, Davos can't argue with the desire to leave. That desire is what led him to enlist to the Cobblecat. ))

By smuggling onions and fish to a besieged and starving castle, in hopes of payment. I was knighted by Stannis Baratheon, and paid my crimes by losing the first joint of every finger in my left hand.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

Can be. Not always. Depends on where you set sell from and too.

[sweetwater]

This place seems fairly dangerous, if you haven't noticed.

[wheresmyfingerbones]

Sometimes, I find my life as a knight is not as needed to serve others as the life I once lived as a smuggler.

(( It felt like Manderly was, in a way, symbolically executing Davos Lord Seaworth of Cape Wrath so Davos the smuggler from King's Landing can go forth and save the North from the Boltons. It gave Davos a chill even now. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home. ))

[wheresmyfingerbones]

I have. So was Westeros.

[sweetwater]

Do you consider this an upgrade or a downgrade?

[wheresmyfingerbones]

I find them similar, except here the dangers are either obvious or their subtly is lost on me. But I am new here.

[sheriffing]

That makes sense. For me, it's the other way around. I never really served others until I learned how to fight for them.

[ sometimes with a gun, sometimes with a sword. occasionally, with magic. it's why she was so quick to join up with the guard here.]