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So! Uh. Hi, everyone.

Question for the masses.

[Bennett fidgets a bit with his communicator, fingers audibly shuffling up the side and back down.]

If, if I haven't met you yet, my name's Bennett Marrow. I was a professor and researcher, back home. I-- I had a little bit of a second job, too.

[Evasive, but he's getting to it.]

Um, my question is kinda... multi-part, bear with me here.

So, we've-- we've been here for a little while, some of us longer than others, and, uh. I'm, I'm always looking for ways to understand the world around me. Aaaaand, uh, obviously, there's-- there's a lot to understand here. So, if anybody has any information about the nature of the Black Tide, or-- or, the previous ship that I've heard about, the MS Elegante-- could you please contact me? I would love to interview anyone who would care to step forward so we all have a log of information about our, uh, houseboat. Boat-home. This will not be confidential and I will be happy to share it with anyone who needs it at any time.

Also, on the, uh, confidential side of things. I, uh-- I know there are some other nonhuman and supernaturally-inclined beings-slash-people on this boat. If you need any help-- if you need anything, please let me know, okay? I'm-- I'm never going to tell anyone, but I know how-- h-how terrible it feels to try and find the help you need all alone. I'm, I'm a werewolf myself. I, I ran into a few of you last weekend.

I used to run a network for the supernatural crowd so I could bring help to anyone who needed it. I might not have all the tools I used to, but I know I can build that network here again.

[He sighs and runs his hand through his hair, fiddling with the communicator again.]

This-- this got kinda long. Sorry, everyone. Anyway. Um, I'd normally tell you to meet me at my room if you didn't want to talk over the network, but, uh, it's-- it's flooded entirely right now, so I'm, uh-- you can find me in the back corner of the shopping area. I've made a little, uh, cave.

Hit me up if you need anything. This is, is, B-bennett Marrow, signing off.

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[Skewed perception of safety? Ben, try living in the Deep Underground for four years. Pirate attacks and ghosts and witches are nothing to her.]

The general idea on the Elegante was "don't kill anybody and don't break anything," but a looot of people didn't really... agree.

Do you get the same vibe from-- f-from our current set of passengers? Or, uh. Or do they seem a little more towards the 'safe and sane' side of the spectrum?

Well, nobody's dead yet.

Y-your inclusion of the word "yet" gr-g-greatly concerns me, Lily.

People die.

[She doesn't say it in a, "haha, that's just a fact of life," way. She says it definitively.]

[People die.]

[Period.]

[Ben suddenly tastes blood in his mouth and has to stumble to the mirror to see if his gums were bleeding, or what. His mouth is a clean, healthy pink.

It takes him another moment to reply as he tries to gargle out the imaginary flavor. It works for a minute or so.]

I-- I guess they do, don't they?

[It's all he can manage. He's just... going to go sit next to the toilet. He feels like he's going to throw up-- it happens every time he thinks about his brother.]

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