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The Docks, Thursday

Down on the docks today, people might find a rather large fellow. A large fellow who was raising rocks from the ocean with his bellows, and occasionally throwing them at goblins that came too close to him.

"Ludo SMASH!"

One of the Junk People had been reading old comics to Ludo, oh yes. But he was a very friendly sort...if you weren't scared off by the horns. Or the fur. Or the sheer size.

[OOC: OCD free and oooooooooooopen! Please poke us here for Ludo-fun!]

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Ariel certainly wasn't frightened off by things like horns or fur and size. Or not even the screaming, really, though that had caught her attention while she was Totally Not Exploring, Really, and so her redhead was peeking around something to peer at the docks and the big fellow who was there.

"Boy," she said, after deciding that, hey, she had a crowbar if there was any trouble, "what's all the yelling about?"

Ludo didn't know the strange girl with the big eyes. She didn't look like a goblin. But the goblins were mean and Ludo didn't want any of them getting close.

So there was going to be a wordless yell sent in Ariel's direction. Just a warning.

The yell got a disapproving frown. "That's not a very helpful answer," she informed the creature. "Do you know how to talk? Are you hurt? Lost? It's pretty easy to get lost in this place lately, but I've got a map I've been trying to work on, here, let me get it out of my bag..."

"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap?" Ludo asked, tilting his head curiously at her.

He might be intrigued by the particulars of this map. Or he may just not recognize the word.

At any rate, he wasn't yelling any more!

And it proved that he was either really good at mimicry, or he understood what Ariel had said, which was a bonus. She smiled almost immediately, looking up from the satchel she was shifting through to find her map.

"That's right," she said. "A map. It isn't very good, though; I think things keep changing, but I'm making an effort, anyway. Hold on a second. I just have to...find it...."

There was a lot of stuff in her bag, okay? And it didn't help that she kept adding things along the way.

"Ah-ha!" she cried, and then held aloft a rolled up parchment. "Here it is! Would you like to see?"

"Maaaaaaaap," Ludo repeated, a smile covering his face. He was far less threatening like this. He held a hand out expectantly. "Ludo maaaaaap."

"Oh, sure!" Ariel said, unrolling it and handing it over with a smile. "Maybe you can help me with some of the questionable parts."

Ludo stared at the map for several seconds. Maybe he was going to articulately point out some of the places where her calculations were off!

And then Ludo jammed one end of the paper into his mouth.

And beamed at her.

Look what he could do!

Ariel might have objected to having her painstakingly professional (crayon!) map being put in someone's mouth, but that was so darn cute she could only giggle and put her hands back on the part hanging down to reclaim it.

"No, silly; maps are for reading, not for eating! I have a bacon sandwich in my bag, though, and some Cheetos, if you're hungry. Would you like some Cheetos?"

"Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetos," Ludo repeated. But there seemed to be an actual word in there that struck a chord, because the next thing Ludo managed was, "Ludo hungry."

Look at the sad poutyface of a hungry Ludo!

"Awwww!" Ludo had such a great sad poutyface! Ariel definitely was not going to refused, rolling up the map again and then wiping a hand on her skirt from where there was still Ludo drool on it. "Is that your name? Ludo?"

She started going through her bag again, looking for the snacks. "My name's Ariel. And, here you go, have some Cheetos," she held out the little snack pack bag. "They're delicious!"

"Aaah-ree-uh," he managed. Not too bad, all things considered. "Aaah-ree-uh friend."

'Friend' was one word he knew.

And now, to take the bag from his new friend and sniff at it, with a frown. It was plastic. Was he supposed to eat plastic? Plastic didn't usually taste good.

"That's right, Ludo!" Ariel said happily. "Friend! And, oh, no, here!" She reached for the bag again to help him. "You have to open it; the good stuff is inside. Like a present!"

"Preeesent," Ludo said. Presents were good things. And the shiny plastic was just a coating! Like some fruit that had bad tastes outside so you had to get to the good stuff inside.

Which might have been insightful, but Ludo lacked the words to explain it.

Instead, he was going to shove his face into the bag and inhale the weird little crunchy orange things inside.

Which was not helping with Ariel's giggles, not at all.

"So?" she asked once he'd had a chance in inhale some of it. "What do you think?"

"Preeeeeeeesent," Ludo said again, this time beaming at her with orange dust all over his muzzle. "Present good."

The present was also empty, now. Hopefully Ariel wasn't saving those Cheetos for later, because they were gone.

See, that's why she came prepared and had several more little bags in her satchel!

Ariel beamed at Ludo's approval. "See? I told you they were tasty. They're my favorite. Did you get enough or would you like some more? I have another bag I can spare."

Oooh! Ludo knew that word!

"Moooooooooore."

And if there wasn't more, he'd just gnaw on this plastic, even though it didn't taste good.

"You're pretty hungry!" Ariel noted with a giggle as she fished out another bag for Ludo. "Although, I guess that makes sense, since you're so big. Takes more to fill you up."

Ludo gave her a broad grin. "Ludo preeeeetty!" The orange dust was like makeup, you see? It brought out his eyes!

He held out a hand for the more present, because grabbing wasn't polite.

"Very pretty!" Ariel agreed, with another laugh and she opened the bag for him before putting it in his hand. "It's a good color for you! Just like your hair; it's like mine, only you've got a lot more."

Ludo inhaled this next bag, and then dumped the crumbs on his head. "Ludo haaaaair!"

He tried to get some on Ariel's head, too. "Aaah-ree-uh haaaaair!"

Robin had been staying out of trouble all week. But darnit he was just too adventurous to stay in any longer. So he'd gone exploring.

And after a momentary bit of hiding from the yelling, he came to investigate.

"Uhm, hi?" He said, perched on a stile.

The figure was small and green. It wasn't wearing any weird-looking armor, but it was decidedly more goblin-shaped than the girl-thing with big eyes.

Which meant Ludo was going to now growl in his general direction, too. He was big and scary! He was not someone to mess with, possible-goblin!

Eep! Robin shrank back. But he screwed up his courage. "A-are you lost?"

The goblin-thing got his name wrong. So he was going to correct it. As you do.

"Luuuuudo," he said.

Not lost. He was Ludo. There was an important distinction.

"Ludo? Is, is that your name? I'm Robin."

"Rooooobin," Ludo managed. "Rooooobin ... friend?"

Maybe the not-a-goblin-thing was nice. Ludo was optimistic like that.

"Yes!" Robin said cheerfully, glad that his being nice had worked. "It's very nice to meet you Ludo."

It certainly was! "Ludo niiiiiiiiiiiice."

He reached out to pet the green not-goblin. Or possibly squash it. Hopefully, it wasn't delicate.

It turned out to be sort of a mix, as Robin was not that delicate, but he was kinda soft. But he'd survived being stomped on by a Brachiosaur so he was okay.

He giggled, and petted Ludo's arm too. "Are you new here Ludo?"

The green friend kept getting his name wrong! "Not new," he corrected. "LUUUUDO."

But he'd called him Ludo. Maybe there was a language barrier here. He'd try something else. "How did you get here?"

He'd walked, of course! There had been attacking goblins involved, too. Unfortunately, that information was on the other side of the language barrier.

Ludo looked around, a little confused, and then pointed at the ground. "Heeeeeeere!"

Well Robin meant the island itself, but that worked, yeah. How about...

"Where are you from?"

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