Welcome back indeed, Rim! It's great to have you questing with us again; we hope Halfemption (great name!) will have the time to continue on - perhaps all the way to Valleyum. There are too many ideas in your post to mention all of them, even providing I caught them all, but a few of my favorites are: the aged mariner; warp factor; "Prawn Spreader" - sounds like a sandwich!; Bawlin and Snorin; and the nature of 'dead silence'. Oh, and his ditty about the names!
It will be interesting to see how this new but feeling-like-old character will fit in with the rest of the Shipshape-Ship! I can't help but wonder what story is behind the fact that he already seems to know Kuru's name, even taking the liberty to use the short version...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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