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Rick held up a single scaly clawed hand after Marty's little speech about video games. He held up his first two fingers, letting them waver hypnotically in front of Marty's eyes for several moments, then abruptly opened up his hand, place his palm on the center of the man's forehead, and gave him a light push into the water.

"Can you stop talking about games for about...oh...maybe a millisecond, if we would be so lucky?" He jokingly needled as a trace of a smirk played at the corner of his lips.

"As for how I got here, it's nothing very much different from how you two got here. Couldn't stay at my parents after I graduated, so I jumped at the chance to go to an island resort, where I thought I could perform for others in peace...man, was I wrong," He reminisced.

"I'm a musician," He explained, "I specialize in mallet instruments, but I dabble in piano and guitar...neither of which I've seen here..." He muttered as an afterthought.

Rick looked sheepish as Marty produced a harmonica.

"That won't exactly work..." He began, but then succumbed to the thought of possibly contacting the doctor to obtain a vibraphone...or maybe even a marimba...

"The vibraphone is an instrument of grace," He said, making a flowing gesture with a scaly and clawed finger to accentuate his point, "It's meant to be accompanied by something equivalent, such as a saxophone, or even a bass guitar. A harmonica would cut through it like a hammer on the metal bars of the instrument," He poetically explained.

Chay leaned back a bit in the water bemused by their instrumented bickering. "The only musical instrument i picked up was a cheap plastic clarinet in grade-school, but it was a bit of a forced class. Plus only thing i can can do with any form of grace would be Tai Chi, which is far from related to music...now that i think about it i'm not sure if i'm even still decent at it with all the changes." She slapped her tail against the water with an audible smack.

"Adda boy Rick! If you ever want something, you have to get it. Can't always expect things to come to you. Woot!"

Marty made a few popping noises with his lips before grabbing a large rock from shore and wading back out into the water with it, letting it's weight pull him to the bottom.

Marty bobbed back up to the surface after about 30 seconds, considerably furthur out then he was when he went down.

"Heh? Oh, it's a game I learned about a number of years ago, usualay played in groups, but still fun solo. What you do is take a rock large enough to keep you from flating up to the surface, then you hold your breath and see how far out you can wade. Tis good fun" he said before resubmerging for another go.