//100 pages of bartending, woo!
CHATTY: "You're not the first person to come here with a merchantship named with numbers. What's up with that?"
"Ah, yes. Fifty-fifty. The percentage ratio of ships I've owned versus those that I have wrecked."
"I assume one wrecked, one active?" Vincent takes a sip of his mix.
"You're a clever guy. Yeah, I had one ship before, for half a year."
"What have happened?"
"I worked small scale back then. You know, as a courier. I was like many others, a young pilot, confident in his skills, fetching parcels and cargo crates here and there. I had an Aviso, one of newer models back then. One day I had to go through a recently liberated star system, and instead of going around a fresh debris field, I was thinking 'hey my ship is small and agile, I can cut through no problem to save time'. Well. I was very wrong back then." He takes a sip again.
"There was an unexploded missile or torpedo or some such floating about the field, which I didn't notice and I accidentaly bumped my ship's starboard thruster against it. And, boom."
"But you've managed to survive."
"Yeah, but the ship and the cargo I was carrying was a total loss. Barely managed to haul my ass into escape pod and launch clear of the debris field before the Aviso exploded. Had some dumb luck back then, too - another ship was passing by the debris field at the same time so not even one hour later I was on way back to Gamma Draconis. Still, learned my lesson."
"You decided to name your next ship 50-50 because of that?"
"Sorta, you know, good luck charm? I mean, I had it for four years now and nothing major like that happened." He raises the glass. "Here's hoping it stays that way." He drinks the remainder of his mix and puts the glass down.
A) CHATTY: "And how it is going nowadays, besides turning to heavier cargo loads?"
B) CHATTY:"You own a merchantship so I know you sell wares to outposts and colonies. What sort of goods you deal in?"
C) CHATTY:"Your glass is empty. Should I try and magic up another mix somewhere near your preferences?"
D) FLIRTY: "Man, so daring and handsome, you are really quite something, you know~?"
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