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season. You're going to do. seeing the captain emerge there's like a bit of a sigh of relief and a few more

members of the crew decide to move off to drink however I don't think your group feels any of this relief.

As the captain starts walking down the plank to the port itself,

we see a small collection of rough-looking individuals, folks with bulging arms covered in tattoos.

A few of them have crude depictions of the Mariners mark.

Thankfully, not inscribed upon their palm. have crude depictions of the Mariners mark.

Thankfully, not inscribed upon their palms,

but on shoulders and forearms,

letting you know that they are definitely

on the rougher side of transport and in between all of them is Sonia.

Sonia is a heavy woman. I think she is about 260 pounds and most of that is muscle.

Very broad shoulders, very wide hips and strong thighs.

She looks like a rugby player and a football player sort of got smashed together.

Just a dense tower of strong.

So four arms, four legs, two heads.

Yeah.

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