No Risk, No Reward: Head Back To Thier Ship...

You consider for precisely 0.68 seconds, nearly an eternity for an Artificial Intelligence such as yourself, before deciding that this may be your one and only chance to see 'Operation: Goatocide' through to full completion. "I will come to meet with Captain Mayweather-Dupree and make my case to him," You state, and everyone piles back into the Jolly-boat, to head for the good ship "Dancing Mermaid" anchored offshore. Things go well enough at first, but just before you would reach the ship there is a pop-up alert...

+++WARNING!+++

One NPC On Your Vessel Is Zone Locked To This Island!

The Quest-Giver Whom Your First Officer Has Temp-Named [Monsieur Crab] Is Zone Locked To "Zin-Jarawie Island" And May Only Leave If Tamed And Thus Accepted Into A PC Party. Doing So Will Not Effect His Quest-Giver Status Unless He Leaves "Zin-Jarawie Island" For At Least Ten Consecutive Years: With Returns To The Island Of Less Than A Lunar Month Not Counting For Breaking The String For Absence.

The Text flashed before everyone's eyes and the First officer ordered the rowers to halt the boat.

"Well, it seems we have a conundrum here," The First Officer began, "Each of us on this boat except for our rowers Max and Gregor has a presently unoccupied class feature that would allow us to 'Tame' you, but which of us would be willing to make that sacrifice and which of us would you be willing to be tied to for the foreseeable future in order to be free of the island?" She asks.

"To begin with I would like to know my options," You start and everyone nods agreement.

The First Mate replies first, as is her position. "My name is First Officer Gloriana Salacia Mayweather-Dupree, and I am Captain Bernard Rupert Mayweather-Dupree's younger sister. At the moment I don't have an Officer's Swagger Beast: my previous animal, a "Demon-Duck" from the Hell-Cove area, having been eaten by an Assassin Orchid along the coasts of the Southern Jungles about a month ago. As to why you should pick me, I'm the captain's sister, so you'll have an edge in negotiations, and as for why I'd want you I need a new swagger beast and an intelligent one would be advantageous on several levels..." Gloriana explained.

The Druid was the next to reply, and she made it plain that you would need to earn her respect if you wanted to keep on as her animal companion. "My name is Saethar Maraor'onna Kenyraheal'replith, and My last animal companion was the first one I had when I started my career fifteen years ago, a lovable mongrel dog called Erdre. He had grown mighty in my service but was old, and one night he simply did not wake, as is the way of things. I am wary of taking you as my companion 'Monsieur Crab', you are weak compared to Erdre, and even if you did grow mighty in my service, how long do crabs live? If you wish to be my companion I will do it, but you must then prove yourself during this goat cleansing, and continue proving yourself, or I will bring you back to this island and renounce you," the druid explains.

The Priestess of Debatula shakes her bone clad hair and says in an aged voice, "I am Grandmother Vanya Kalashnikov, and am currently lacking a psychompomp, I've just never found a beast I felt worthy to become one. If you swear yourself to Debatula you would be most suitable. However, if all goes well I intend to stay on this Island, so if you are wishing to leave you should pick someone else," and then falls silent.

They seem to think that that is the end but both the lesser priests also speak up, "I am Brother Jebsuba Dokrit and I too have recently earned the honor of having a Psychompomp, if you wish to serve Debatula but not to stay here you could do so beside me." The Dark skinned and haired young man carrying the coffin of ritual items says, and you think for a second but then the girl who gave you the echo scarf pipes up too.

"I am a mere worshiper of Debatula following these two Priests as a ritual cleansing for violating a sacred Kabbu. While I encourage you to swear yourself to Debatula: if you just want to get on the boat, make your case, and then be free of us with minimal fuss when the time comes, I am a Monster Tamer by profession and could tame you for the length of the cleansing, our business with the temple, selling the meat, then have you give the quest to another group to bring you back here, and set you free again on your native shores, if you still wanted to live here having seen more of the world..." She says.

All the options now laid out before you, you must chose one of the five to allow you to visit the ship...