Write Them A Message: They Decide To Give You An Echo Scarf...

You scuttle up and down the beach intercepting wherever it looks like they are trying to land until they finally give up and just land near you. Soon you are furiously scribbling in the sand with your stick:

"Hello, welcome to my Island, I assume you are here f-" a wave washes away what you've written, so you start over.

"Hello, welcome to my Island, I as-" you write, but the young bleached white acolyte of Debatula says, "I think I can speed this up a great deal quest giver," and lays a plain white vestment across your shell at which point you suddenly find yourself able to speak!

"How is a vestm- By-the-Gods-I-Can-TALK!" you exclaim, and she grins.

"Echo Scarves, never leave home without them," the Bleached Acolyte says twirling two black-with-a-skull-and-cross-bones crystals in her hands, which her dark-skinned and gray-dreadlocked teacher silently admonishes with a slap to the back of the head.

"Ahem, as you were saying quest giver?" The pirate with the scandalous clothes redirects the conversation.

"Ah, yes, right: now I'm sure you are here for the temple at the peak of the island and whatever treasures and magical guardians are inside it, but if you and your crew wish to make a few hundred gold pieces more there's a side quest available here, 'Operation: Goatocide'. In a few minutes, the island is going to reset, and there will be 30 goats running amok destroying the vegetation. Kill all of them for me and you can use the driftwood from around the shore and the fallen branches of the interior to smoke the butchered meat into 'Bucan' which sells well in the western markets and/or can stretch your ships rations by ten percent for as much as two years. You also will receive 2000 EXP per meaningful participant for completing the quest," you explain and the three main women huddle up.

After a few minutes of talking in low tones, they reach a consensus.

"Monsieur Crab, I am but the first officer of The Dancing Mermaid and such a decision which would surely involve a majority of the crew to carry off requires the authority of Captain Mayweather-Dupree to be enacted, if you would get into the jolly-boat with us and come aboard the ship you can make your case to him..." The scandalously dressed Pirate Says...