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Pleased to meet you
Hi child, I'm Yaghoub ibn al-Sabbah, the most famous merchant of all the Persian Empire, pleased to meet you.
(Oh gods, another fool...) Hi. What is this Persian Empire thing?
My, my... You've never heard about the riches from the East? Jewelry covered in gems, silken clothes, gigantic tapestries...
Hmmm nope.
If only I still had my ship... I'd kidnap you at once to show you the marvels of the world!
Creepy. You've seen a lot of crazy stuff, no?
Yes, yes... More than a human should see in a lifetime.
Tell me!
Aha, I'd change my trade to bedtime stories merchant, then! But I'd be a terrible merchant if I didn't ask you something in return. So, what will you give me?
... What if I don't like your stories? If they are fake, it's cheating!
Refunds are beyond question, I'm afraid... You'll learn that there's a part of uncertainty in any deal, child.
Okay... So, I'll give you my undivided attention, and the benefit of the doubt. Believe me, that's a high price to pay.
Aha, you're a though girl to do business with! You don't want to be my apprentice, do you?
Never. I can be your bodyguard, if the pay is good. Or even better, a treasure hunter!
Naked Men
(...I'm so bored I could punch a tree...)
*sigh* Hey Yaghoub... You promised stories, remember? Now's the time...
Hmm... Did I tell you the story of when I nearly got eaten by naked men? I was on my way to a fairly promising trade, when my ship wrecked on an unknown island.
It's a habit of yours...
Aha, yes. We were welcomed by strange, naked men. Very friendly. They invited us to their village, where they fed us with some weird herbs. But it was a trap! The herbs drove us completely insane... The naked men fed us aplenty so that we became fat... To eat us! I realized what was happening and stopped eating the herb. They soon got fed up with me and released me!
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That's why mom always tell me to be wary of naked men?
Ahahaha! No doubts!
Another tale
Hey! Another tale? Last one was not bad...
AHAH! You are getting addicted to my famous storytelling skills, right?
Don't get carried away...
Let me carry you to a deserted land, far away... My crew spotted a gigantic, majestic egg in the distance... Twice the size of a man! But that bunch of nosy men broke the shell, and ate the giant chick! "Fools!" I yelled... "Come back to the ship!" But it was too late... Two gigantic birds flew to my ship and sank it by throwing boulders they carried in their claws...
... Gigantic. Birds. Hmmhmm...
It's true! But wait, that's not the most incredible part... After that, someone jumps on my shoulders, twisting his legs around my neck! I was enslaved by an old spirit of the Sea, which I disturbed! He rode on my back for days and nights, until I would I thought I would die...
...
- What happened next?
How did you escape?
I gave him some wine... It's a trick that can be useful in many situations, believe me! He got drunk, fell, and I skewered him with my sword. After that I landed in a city full of man-eating apes... But that's another story...
- Bullshit...
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