why is fishing such good business?

[tender]

WHO: Derrica, Ellie + Loxley
WHAT: Bullying a fisherman
WHEN: Very early August
WHERE: Jader
NOTES: ooc notes

Basile Anselme was probably having a very fine day, by the look of things. His nets are full, the deck had been clear, and squawking loudly from a cage in the corner of the deck is a raven, presumably from Val Chevin.

Yes, a day that by all accounts had been going to plan, but now is certainly not.

Basile has been cursing at them in a steady stream of increasingly indignant Orlesian, after several escape attempts and Loxley's most persuasive efforts had failed. Crushed belly-down on the deck while Derrica tries to wrestle his wrists into a loop of rope, he has very decisively rejected their suggestions as to relocating to Rivain and leaving his fishing boat to Riftwatch.

"The message was in code," Derrica is saying, a little desperate. "Do you think we can find the codebook somewhere on the boat?"

They're all a little drenched from the near-loss of Basile to the sea on his last attempt. The kind of problem he presents is something to be dealt with after they've figured out whether or not his codebook is somewhere easily accessed. If not—

Well, maybe Commander Flint won't be too put out if they bring back an entire fisherman for Madame de Cedoux to interview and extract codes from.