Fisherman, Returning

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The description depends on your A Fruitless Harvest quality and varied over the years.

A Fruitless HarvestDescription
3Something floats offshore, a little black shape emerging from the deep. A fishing boat, bobbing far, far out to zee – far further than is usual for such a tiny vessel. The boat grows larger, approaching the shore at a rapid pace.
4[…] Drownies emerge from the zeefoam. Six in total, […] bearing the boat upon their backs […] within lies the bloated body of a Mutton Island fisherman. He is unmistakeably dead.

[…] "We carry a message from our lord below, His Complexity, the Fathomking."

5The ghost of deep authority leaves him then, and he slumps over […] His attendant Drownies lower the fishing boat […] and retreat back into the zee.

[…] a confused hubbub erupts […] The Custodial Chef is purpling, brimming with— Well, brimming over, really.

A Fruitless HarvestChanges in 2024Text
3Final sentence: A number of locals are already here, watching, as if they knew to expect it.
4Additional paragraph: "Get on with it, then," says a Nine-Fingered Fisherman. "We know what 'e wants. Same as last year I bet."
5Replaced final paragraph: Then the Custodial Chef claps his hands together. "Well then. You heard the fellows. If this is going to become a tradition, let's make it a good one!"

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