❖ Turn 14

quick question, what do you mean by the relay?

Krah-Moh is acting as your interpreter — a relay between you and the old crab-man.

The situation is:

• You speak Common and the High Tongue, but not crab-click language
• The old crab-man speaks crab-click language, but not Common
• Krah-Moh speaks crab-click language, and understands your intent well enough from context and gesture to translate across the gap

So the chain is: you → Krah-Moh → old crab-man, and back the other way.

When the old crab-man said something and Krah-Moh raised his open claw toward you — that’s Krah-Moh holding the channel open, waiting for you to give him something to carry back across it. He received the old man’s words; he’s waiting to see what you want to say in response before he translates it.

The “relay is open” just means: the conversation is live, both parties are willing, and the next move is yours.

◆ Vothrog   HP 3/4   ·   Ward of the Salt Shore, tidal mark   ·   Old crab-man spoke; Krah-Moh holding the relay open; waiting on you

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