[Ah, there, the name rings a bell now. One messaged him shortly after arrival. Buggy the Clown. One of the Roger Pirates.
A life with the Marines means that realization makes his blood run cold. He does his best to keep his expression unchanged, but - well, but this guy isn't even really a pirate, is he? Maybe he was never with Roger. Maybe Roger never existed in his world. He's more eager for a friend than an enemy or a tool of some sort and he knows he may regret it later but he can't refuse someone who seems so genuinely kind toward him. Being on his own for so long has been utterly exhausting on top of the last for years which had been even worse.]
Yeah, well - [He stoops to pick up his lighter and that gives him the second he needs to compose himself and continue on. Buggy? Never heard of the guy.] - It's a pretty short system underground. That way, where you came from, eventually ends in a cave-in. Over there it ends in a ravine and some rapids. But in between is just a couple rooms. Here, we're close to the main one.
[He turns and leads Buggy to the room with the statue and its chalice, and the carved stone door set into the wall.]
Unless you feel like climbing out of a ravine, that door might be the best way out of here. Just have to figure out how to open it.
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A life with the Marines means that realization makes his blood run cold. He does his best to keep his expression unchanged, but - well, but this guy isn't even really a pirate, is he? Maybe he was never with Roger. Maybe Roger never existed in his world. He's more eager for a friend than an enemy or a tool of some sort and he knows he may regret it later but he can't refuse someone who seems so genuinely kind toward him. Being on his own for so long has been utterly exhausting on top of the last for years which had been even worse.]
Yeah, well - [He stoops to pick up his lighter and that gives him the second he needs to compose himself and continue on. Buggy? Never heard of the guy.] - It's a pretty short system underground. That way, where you came from, eventually ends in a cave-in. Over there it ends in a ravine and some rapids. But in between is just a couple rooms. Here, we're close to the main one.
[He turns and leads Buggy to the room with the statue and its chalice, and the carved stone door set into the wall.]
Unless you feel like climbing out of a ravine, that door might be the best way out of here. Just have to figure out how to open it.