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What happens to used Rattus Faber Assistants?
Rilauven
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2/24/2015
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It seems like they're the mechanic's equivalent to the Doomed Monster Hunter. When I use one, I imagine it sliding down a chute to a hole in the hull, where it bangs it with a wrench before slipping into the zee. 
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Tigers are still legal in Texas!
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Diptych
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2/24/2015
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I like to imagine they're taking a smoke-break and waiting for you to renew their contracts - which can only be done in London, in the presence of an authorised representative. And if you sink, they all take to zee in tiny boats, cheerfully remarking that it's your own fault for not pre-purchasing more repairs!
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Fretling
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2/24/2015
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Since you can get an Assistant from a certain individual by hiring his niece, and returning to him without an Assistant allows you to rehire his niece, I'm guessing the Rattus Faber kind of goes flying through the air thanks to the Ratsender, repairs anything it flies past, then engages its tiny personal lifeboat contraption and zooms away back home.
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Jascob
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2/24/2015
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I thought it was stated that putting a Rattus Faber into the sender - basically a vacuum tube system like at a drive through pharmacy or bank - was an affront to their dignity; the offended Rattus Faber refuses to continue working for the captain. Sir Fredrick Tanah-Cook's explanation fits the facts very well.
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MisterGone
Posts: 139
2/24/2015
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Poor little rat souls that die for our hulls,
May the Stone's blessing be upon them
Shoot down the tube in neither mail nor lube
Their fur gets singed down to the stem
Patching the leaks we wouldn't get to in weeks
For the sake of some lover back home
Soon they all die with a swear not a sigh
All 'cause the Cap'n weren't using his dome!
- Found in the wreck of the Nocturne
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