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    (have no fear of falling)

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    Maccadam's Old Oil House once again welcomes all lifeforms! Here to serve you good engex with great cheer.
    All complaints can be taken out of the door where you are very welcome to start your own bar. Karaoke nights every fifth cycle.

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  1. Rec 34

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    “Recently returned sailor seeking some connection. Write to Tom Bowline at the Symposium”

    The advertisement, which had run in a very selective paper only distributed to a small set of particular underground institutions in London, was wanting. James was certain of it. He should have made it longer, more detailed regarding exactly what sort of connection he was looking for. It had run in the paper for two and a half weeks now, and James was beginning to regret ever posting it at all.

    After their return, after his recovery, after the court martial, James finds himself adrift. With Francis no longer speaking to him, no new posting, and nothing to occupy his time, he decides to take out an advertisment.

    Eventually, he gets a decent reply

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    08 Jul 2026

  2. Rec 11

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    A curious lichen is brought on board the Enterprise, causing an orgy to break out on the ship. Everyone's caught up - well, almost everyone.
    Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames hunker down and wonder why they're among the few spared.

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    06 Jul 2026

  3. Rec 30

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    This man - this irritable drunk who apparently saw nothing of worth whatsoever in James - was a sad, far cry from the man he had imagined, when he’d first thrilled at reading the name Crozier in dispatches.

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    05 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 50

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    “Where will you go, Francis?” James says. “When we’ve returned home?”

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    15 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    GOOOOOOOD. heartwrenching

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    I’ll not have a picture, he thinks, gazing grimly at James’ drawn, damaged face. I’ll not have a miniature to tuck inside my breast pocket, or a sketch made on a winter’s evening by the fireside. It will be my own burden to remember him, until such a time as this cursed land takes me, too.

    Twenty five men return to England. For Francis, this means making a poor job of keeping James from scuttling his career, and working out what a sea captain might do with himself in the absence of a ship.

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    04 Jun 2026