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[ So you're on a boat, you're on a boat
Take a good hard look
At the bloody awesome pirate boat. As it seems to be Kanye-shrugging on its way into the beautiful horizon.

The camera rooooooolls on board, hits someone's spare glass eye, stumbles across a treasure box holding only two gold pieces and a hastily scribbled "I BE OWIN YE message tucked in, and finally focuses on First Mate Thor the... Terrible? fussing on deck, because - ]

Captain on booooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaard.

[ The camera takes a brief dip in a rum bucket, but floats right back up to show... a hatted bear sniffing the deck, turning to stare deeply and meaningfully in the horizon, then promptly heading for the cabin for its 3927204789th nap.

There is silence. Some awkward clapping. Polite coughing. Then, Thor is done translating instructions:]

Aye! T' Cap'n be saying: sharpen'em knives, kiss t'Luck Token, and be bleedin' them scallywags who hoist their Crown colours. Girl! Get the lass with the hair, there be treasure in the... sea... somewhere, t' Cap'n gone smelled it. Ready t'mermaid, and -

[ ...oh snap, is that an upcoming whale in the distance.

Oh. Oh, no, no. Thank God. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a kraken. But don't you worry: it just wants to make friends. ]

- ...don't be hitting t' kraken.


[ ooc: OKAY, SO. Absolutely anyone is welcome to crash on the Hringhorni at any point, idc how characters get here: they were here all along, they float in on a raft previously stuck in the middle of the ocean, they were drunk and stuck in a mackerel barrel with the rest of supplies, a giant eagle drops them on deck, they burst free from the insides of a captured shark - idk and idc, just jump right in, it's an anyone threadjack everyone kind of thing. ]

[ current crew: the Captain (a bear), the first mate (a Thor), the Mistress of Arms (Lara Croft), a Kraken Hunter (Hei), an all-respected Good Luck Charm (Captain America), a treasure-retriever/cook (Rapunzel), 'the Lady' - a ghost who is actually a stowaway, another stowaway (Serrure), pirate liaison who will likely sell them in (Loki), a makeshift mermaid (Sif), a plethora of NPCs and you. ]

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[What's this? A pod...nay, a fleet, a veritable fleet of sea creatures--dolphins and whales and orca and sharks--fleeing before the Kraken (because even sharks know when the GTFO). And on the back of one of the orca, the king of the killer whales, lord of the wolves of the sea, there appears to be...a rider...

Who hails the ship as the fleet rushes past.]

video;

[asofwar]

The mermaid has a name.

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[ Can... can it be?

Can this be what Captain!Bear was secretly glancing at all along? Can it but be? It is. Surely.

The bear's kokoro thuds in magnificent recognition -- ]

i am not sorry. also, keywords.

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[ As does the kraken's, because what's a young adult pirate novel without a love triangle.

As the ship throws down a ladder, one of the kraken's PG oriented tentacles circles Flagg's orca, undulating enticingly, because hey, baby, hey, what do you say to leaving those filthy pirates along and going for a hot night of cephalopod lovin' instead?

Yeah, gorgeous, yeah. Look at those rings pulse. ]

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The mermaid be a merrrrmaid.

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Don't be hittin', mermaid.

[unflagging]

[Not too keen on the whole tentacle thing, say thankya very much, Mr. Fletcher (as he is still calling himself) will catch onto that ladder and haul himself up. Best wishes to you, Orca. You have served him well. But 'tis a far, far better thing &c &c.

He pulls himself up on deck, leaving the orca and the rest of the oceanic animal fleet to their respective fates. Though it would've been nice to keep a dolphin or two around for a ride home, but...what can you do?]

( action )

[yourbestguysgun]

[ After taking the redheaded girl hostage, he has no choice but to keep going on his mission. This ship has something he needs and he will get it or his captain won't be too pleased. He's toogood at what he does to walk the plank.

So he keeps going. Boarding the ship and while they're all busy with the treasure he's sneaking down beneath the bow of the ship, his hook glinting in the dim light. ]

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[cupio]

[ Because she is a nice stowaway she is finding her way from her crate and carting the drawings of the first mate up to his room. It's her way of silently thanking them for passage even though they don't know she's here.

GODDAMN THE GHOST STRIKES AGAIN. ]

[asofwar]

I'll be hittin' if I so please.

..... : )

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[ Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar an intruder blows!

But don't anyone worry, the Hringhorni is a lovely, welcoming ship, so the committee makes a quick arrival.

Five exceptionally well-fed, lazy seagulls accost their guest, taking a seat on whichever part of Sgt. Barnest they can.

A sixth plops down on the hook.

You know.

Just chilling. ]

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[ Nothing, as it turns out, because the kraken is a fond adept of binge eating.

That one last dolphin's going straight to the lower third of its fifth leg, but what can it do, it likes to dine after romantic rejections.

Nom.

Nom. ]

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[ Meanwhile, a helpfully reanimated skeleton will be lending Flagg a help up, because okay, so maybe he died an exceedingly painful death to a wizard who condemned him to suffer for all eternity on the bottom of the sea, but Mate Bones is a cool pirate bro. ]

Berrrr yeeee frrrrrnnnnnnnn...d...?

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Thar be islanders who eat mermaids.

[punchedhitler]

Please don't kiss the Luck Token. A handshake is fine.

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[ Ah, sea, sunshine, a good cup of rum in hand, and -

...HORROR ON HIS CABIN DOOR, OH ODIN, OH ODIN, WHY HIM. ]

The Lady... t'Lady be choosing...


[ And the manly man pirate be blanching. ]

[asofwar]

And plenty of mermaids who eat pirates.

[unflagging]

[Flagg would like to meet that wizard. Even if he's that wizard himself and happened to forget (it happens when you're a couple of millennia old).]

Aye, say true.

[Oh...wait, pirate-talk. Not Middish. Close, but not the same. Whoops.]

The turtles showed me the way.

[Because that's an inside joke that he thinks is hilarious.]

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Cap'n's orders.

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Sif. Be nay such talk before'em we need drawn.

Shake. The fins.

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[ Mate Bones will be taking the time to nod along with that excellent explanation of absolutely nothing. ]

Good... tuuuuuuurtsssshhhhhhllll....s.

[ Mate Bones' jaw will also be taking the time to meet the floor. He picks it up very awkwardly. ]

Good... shoooou... p....

[ Yum. ]

Frrrrrnd... o... Capppshhhhhn?

[punchedhitler]

....on the hand, then.

[subecho]

Arm. Be more space.

[unflagging]

[Mate Bones, are you a speaking demon? You sure seem like one. Not that it matters. Just professional curiosity. If you are, you really suck at it.]

Aye, I'm a friend o' your captain.

[Probably. Maybe. Gonna pretend like he is. Yup.]

[coldchaos]

Do you intend to parlay with it, Thor? Perhaps challenge it to a drinking contest? If all else fails, we could throw the mermaid at it and flee.

[Is he seriously the only one who has qualms with the captain being a bear?]