Braum finished explaining the rest of the process, but the part where you retrieved the Gem Heart was a bit hazy. There were different ways to do it, but there was a general principle that everyone followed.
The Flexil stayed inert until one of their gems were taken, and after that, it was a race back to the ship. Each group had its own way of doing it, but the general consensus is that tying a rope on yourself was the best route.
That was fine, but the average depth was fifteen meters, and that was a long distance to hold your breath. On top of that, the ship had to be anchored in a place that could get away safely, so it was a long trip, and this is where people start to get creative.
The same people that made the Air Juice Gloria had mentioned also somehow figured out how to bottle air into small canisters. These could then be used for more air, but the containers were large like oversized wine bottles.
Not only were they large, but the price made it so you could only use one per heart. Each bottle contained three breaths of air, and they cost one platinum coin per bottle.
The gem hearts were worth five but two-fifths of every gem heart was given to the boat and crew. Then you needed to get the Gem cleaned, another two hundred gold, and then you had to rent equipment.
In the end, you could make about fifteen hundred gold, which was good, but if anything got damaged, broken, or lost, you paid for it. The repairs weren't cheap, and it didn't matter whose fault it was. As Braum said to us, this was risky business, but if everyone got one that went in then you could have a good payday.
But then that led to the next problem, everyone had to get one. For each person that didn't get one, they would have to pay one platinum for the air tank and the cost of the tools rental, plus repairs.
So if only two people went down, and only one came back with one, then the profits could end up being zero. Not only that, if someone died, the party was reasonable to pay for replacing the lost equipment. That alone could put a person in debt, and that was not a position that a person wanted to find themselves in, according to Braum.
After we finished listening to Braum, the six of us were shown to a room to change. Lesha was all smiles the entire walk from the front of the boat, and I started to get nervous. Just what had she picked out that had her almost splitting her face with that smile.
The deckhand, Wocky, these people all had weird names, but he showed us to our room to change and then left us. I was forcibly pushed into the room and stubbled a bit.
"What is your problem woman? I am feeling very uneasy with the way you have that goofy grin plastered on your face!" I said squinting my eyes.
Instead of replying, Lesha reached into the bag she had brought and pulled out two pieces of red cloth. I looked at her flatly, but I still took the clothes, and that made her smile even brighter.
I sighed, there was no getting away from this now. This damn woman! When I was single, I would have just tied the bottom of my shirt to keep it from riding up and a pair of cut-off shorts.
"Lesha, this is a pair of underwear with a see-through skirt with white flowers somehow dyed into it. You can expect me to wear this?" I complain trying to figure how the top even went on.
Lesha gave me a dark expression.
"If you are worried about the boys looking, Gloria already said she would smash in the head of the first person that learned any of us. I picked it out and I want to see you in it, so don't be your growly self and just try it on!" Lesha said growling at me.
I sighed and looked over to see that the other girls had already changed in the time that I had been complaining. I started to undress, but it was a bit weird and I had to turn around.
Women or not, these ones liked girls, and for me, it was almost like they were men. I slipped the bottoms on and the skirt was not as transparent as I had first thought, but this top half of the suit was a mystery to me.
"Here, let me help you," Lesha said, sliding her hand around the sides of my ribs to cup my breasts and squeezed playfully.
I breathed in sharply at the feeling of her cold hands and the sensations of her gentle playing. I quickly glanced back, but the girls were gone, they must have snuck out. I leaned back and closed my eyes, enjoying the feeling of Lesha's hands, but they have pulled away too soon.
Lesha took the red cloth from my hands and started to turn it around so the lighter side was facing me. She still had her arms under my own, and she pressed the cloth to my breasts and then pulled back from me. She pulled the two strings at the bottom of the cloth around my back and I felt her tie them, but my breast fell out of the cloth, giving a little jiggle.
I pulled the cloth back up to cover myself while Lesha reached over my shoulder to grab the last string and tired it behind my neck. When she was done, I looked down to find most of my chest actually covered.
"See? It's not that bad, right? I know you wouldn't want to like what I am wearing, so I got you this because I thought you would look cute in it. I was right," Lesha said as I turned around to find her in a soft blue bikini that showed a lot more skin than mine did.
"Do we have to go out right now?" I asked hopefully as I ran my eyes over the length of her body.
"They are waiting for us, you can wait till tonight," Lesha said while flipping her hair over her shoulder.
"This is your fault that I am this riled up!" I complained as the two of us left the room.
"I know, but you listen better when I make your brain melt out your ears. Sometimes you're almost as bad as a man!" Lesha said to tease me.
"You are evil, and I will figure some way to tease you!" I said, grabbing her sides and pulling her into a kiss before we left the hall and back out onto the ship's deck.
The other girls were waiting with Tim and Corbit, and we went over to them. Both Tim and Corbit looked away from us and back to the other girls who all somehow had fully covered suits, but the four of them still looked cute.
"So, who wants to come in for the first attempt?" Gloria asked as she tied a belt around her waist that had a long rope that ran from a winch that was now installed on the deck.
There were four of them, but they hadn't been there before. I turned and found Braum who was carrying five oversized wine bottles that had fluted tips.
"Why weren't those things on the deck before? I guess they would get in the way, but it seems like a lot of work to have to drag this out each time."
"The hands take good care of the equipment. There are just some things I would pay for, and laziness is one of them. This boat is out here almost every day and in most storms, unless it's a round of water, but then that is the best time to be out!" Braum said with a cheerful smile.
"Where is the other one-eyed guy?" Trinity asked, putting a finger to her bottom lip.
"Stays inside most times if he even comes out, but we don't come out that often. We are specialists, and Jester has us do other Guild-related work, but we still make our rounds and make sure that everything is in good shape. Can't have things break on us or no one makes any money, and these boys all got families to feed," Braum explained.
That made sense, and it must be expensive to pay the workers and keep a ship like this going. Still, I wasn't sure if I should be going in the water, this was a lot of money to waste if I wasn't able to do it.
"I think it would be best to sit this one out until...I figure out how to swim," I said, looking away from Braum.
"I heard you were a mountain girl from over there Tiagelia, no, sorry, Healia. Hard to think this was just over half a year ago. Now, all of the nine great cities' names have all changed to these God's names. Strange times, but don't worry, you can sit this one out, but I'll ask that you run my winch. It has a gear-down system to make it easier to crank, and since I am so big, I need someone to pull me up with some strength," Braum said.
"I will take that as a compliment," I said with a smile.
"You should, you're a tank, so you need to be able to be strong, but you will be a beast after Jester and Kal get a hold of you! BWAHAHA!" Braum laughed out as he pulled his shirt off and tossed it to the side, revealing a large and impressive chest, and Braum noticed me looking. "Oh? Seeing a real man be enough to change your view? Hehe!"
"More like she was sizing you up to her if she could take you in a fight," Lesha said, coming up and taking my hand, pressing upon my shoulder with her chest.
Oh? Was she getting jealous? Now that was something, but she was right, and I wasn't sure if I could beat him. There aren't many men that I won't at least try fighting first before making this assumption, but this guy was more than just muscle.
"Woah lady, don't worry. I am not trying to hit on you woman, I am just used to the stars, so I thought I would make a little joke. Plus, Your leader needs to put some meat on those bones," Braum said with a smile, walking past the two of us.
I turned to Lesha who was now looking down and slightly blushing. She had let go of my hand and now she was fidgeting with her fingers. She looked adorable and I wanted to go somewhere else and just lay in the sun with her pressed into my chest.
"K?"
I napped back to the present moment, and I concentrated back on Lesha who was now grinding, her slight gone.
"What were you thinking about that gave you such a dreamy look?" Lesha asked me, but I took her by the hand, taking her over to the edge of the boat by the railing.
"I was thinking of finding a sunny spot and spending the rest of the day there with you," I said, giving Lesha a quick hug and a kiss before turning to lean out over the railing, and then I saw them.
Like a gigantic pile of mucus that was clear floating far from the shore. I leaned out to get a better look, but then someone yelled a warning out, but I have no idea what it meant.
"GRAY WHALE COMING IN FAST STARBOARD!" Someone I couldn't see called.
"K! Get back from the edge," Lesha tried to cry out, but everything happened so fast that I couldn't react.
The boat was hit on the opposite side from where I was leaning over, making the whole ship tip to the side and the right itself, but I was hanging over the edge. The dip made me lean forward more, and then when the boat was righted, I flipped over the edge, smashing my head on the side of the boat.
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