Re: Pirates of WWBN - AT HONEY'S END!

Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:27 am

Facepalming at the questions in his head Captain Marcus glanced at his wife with the 'you're hearing this too right?' look in the hope that she might find a better way to calm the inquisitive firelizard now that plan A. had been ruined. Unfortunately the smile on her face was hardly reassuring and so Captain Marcus nodded at his Boatswains answer "Right..right.. um.." this required a good beard scratch in thought. No Rum, No Honey, No Bertie Beetles... things where worse then he thought! So it was time, Captain Marcus blinked a bit as his beloved wife answered in song, wondering as she did if someone hadn't mixed up the script with the one for the stage adaption. It was enough to make him take a deep breath as Beanie shouted out.. the last thing they needed was a four minute vocal solo by a cat. Nobody would pay for a bunch of singing allycats after all. "Ye'll get ye vote" Captain Marcus just said with a grumble at the ill tempered kitten before looking utterly confused as his boatswain voted for certain death..and aliens. "Yer sure?" The Captain shrugged and after Pirate Greta's singing summed up the votes so far with a nod "Alrighty then.. that's two against and two for.."

Then a hand popped into view, Captain Marcus blinked, oh yeah it was that Jared lad, smart kid who'd taken over the Cabin Boy duties after the previous Cabin Boy had disappeared in weasily circumstances two years ago to never be seen again. Smart enough to keep his head down anyway. "Good lad.." Captain Marcus smirked, a trip to the pub and adventure would make a pirate out of him no doubt about it. That put the decision firmly on the side of the pub, and even without the last vote...which was promptly ignored as the First Mate appeared on deck.. ohdear! Captain Marcus knew visiting the island of killer bee's wasn't his finest idea but nobody had been hurt.. or at least he'd thought they hadn't. "Right.. Pub it is then!.. HOIST THE MAIN SAILS.. GUNNER SEE TO THE PIE OVENS..FIRST MATE TO THE HELM.. AND SOMEBODY FIND THE PARROTPHONE.." Aside he added to his wife "Best get Doctor Ethan to meet us at the pub as well.." he added with concern over his sister. Those stinger marks didn't look friendly at all. "Anyone seen the goat?" Considering Bertrand the goat had previously been a most Evil Pirate he'd always been a bit weary of leaving it out of his sight for too long.

Yes this was turning out to be one disorganized adventure as Captain Marcus scratched his head trying to remember where he put the note with the number for the Secret Pirate Council.. that was the problem with secrets.. they tended to be well secretive and unimportant when compared to the complete unabridged lyrics to 'She's a Sea Shanty Girl'. In the meantime though they had a lot of ocean to cover and scarcely enough fuel to make it. "C'mon First Mate.. man you sure gave them Bee's a hell of a time eh?" he said to his sister as he flopped into the captaining chair and turned the wheel to point them towards land. Of course a watchful eye would have noticed the fuel gauge hoverring just over the empty mark. Captain Marcus tapped it a couple of times but it refused to budge. But they had no choice did they? So Captain Marcus pulled the lever to push the engines into fast-foward speed... which worked right up until the fuel ran out.

"Bugger.." was all the Captain had to say as the ship slowed to a stop.

Now how where they going to get to the pub?

Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:31 am

Lady Macbeth had not realized she was holding her breath as the vote was taken after she cast hers but she was until she heard Captain Daddy announce that the trip to the Pub had won. After all, that meant not only would there be stores to restock the ship but she would get to see Auntie Cara, owner of the Golden Honeypot Pub and her buddy, Ebby, the only koala bartender in all of piratedom.

The little fire lizard pintmaster was a happy girl until the ship ground to a halt when it ran out of fuel.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:43 am

As the vote was taken, Lady Rowan waited for everyone to make their choice though she did notice that Pirate Beanie seemed 'slightly hesitant' about going to the pub. But it did not matter as the vote came to the choice of pub and so everyone went about their respective duties to set a course for Great Ocean Road as the Lady Rowan stood at the prow, arms outstretched as if in flight... Right up till the ship ground to a halt when they ran out of fuel. As her beloved Captain Marcus expressed his thoughts on the matter, she offered a solution. "We must call...

Speedy Tweety has a real fast ship
She'll come get you if your wings are clipped
We're out of fuel and it's crying shame
& till we find out the one to blame!
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea

We can't do my navigation and we can't fly straight
It ran outta fuel this morning, 'bout a half past eight.
This not having honey is not cool.
But until we find the massive honey pool
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea
She can pick us up and take us to Great Ocean Road
Maybe someone there will have honey to unload.

The ship's not movin' with its honey gone
and I don't feature we'll get any soon
Since we need to get to the pub
and we really don't own a yellow sub,
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea

The ship's not movin' with its honey gone
and I don't feature we'll get any soon
Since we need to get to the pub
and we really don't own a yellow sub,
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea
Hey hey, tho it's not free
Speedy Tweety, will sail the sea

Speedy Tweety [8x, spoken]

Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:19 pm

It wasn't the captain's fault that she'd gotten stung. If First Mate Chloe had any idea that her brother's thoughts were leaning that way, she'd have quickly corrected him. After all, it had been Chloe who'd had the bright idea to approach the bees. Bees that were not antisocial because of shyness but because they simply hated people. And everything else. They were like... like Daleks! Trying to kill everything that wasn't a killer bee.

She'd just had such optimistic day dreams about toting along a giant killer bee posse behind her to the ship. They were huge so they could like fly beside the ship if they couldn't fit. Or if they didn't want to leave their home, she'd be able to lug along so may huge honeycombs. But she'd never even gotten close. Shame.

Achey, the girl stood around trying to catch up on events. They were going to the Pub? Why were they going to the pub? Did it have anything to do with honey? She hoped so. They couldn't afford to do much without the stuff.

There wasn't much time to give it more thought because the Captain was on the move, barking orders. Chloe looked up to where the helm was and groaned a little. It suddenly seemed like a lot more effort now. Sighing, she set off to move as fast as her pain would allow. As she was thinking about needing leverage, she suddenly thought about Bertrand. He'd still been asleep and she hadn't wanted to wake him. Now on the other hand...

"OI!! BERTRAND!!! First mate shouted at the top of her lungs... She waited a moment and then smiled as the goat clomped over to her side. After a friendly greeting where he nuzzled her hand, Chloe gingerly took his fur and pretty much let him drag her along. Once she reached the helm, she pouted as Marcus commented on her bee stings. "You mean, they gave me one..." Chloe muttered, pouting.

But all in all, it was still a good day. Until the shipped suddenly stopped in its tracks. Suffice it to say, the Captain's words were quite tame compared to what her mind was shouting right now.

Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:26 pm

Nathan felt rather guilty for not siding on that of his friends, a glance down at Beanie however meant that he nodded that yes, he was sure that he wanted to sail towards their certain death rather then have Beanie blame him for whaver it was that had got the kitten so upset in the first place. Nathan sighed, talking kitteh's seemed to be just as hard to understand as people, and at least most people where less prone to bite and scratch when he got it wrong. It seemed however that the vote was against them, Nathan looking a bit embarrised as Greta started singing however Beanie just glared at her before doing turning his back and skulking away to hide in the bowels of the ship to sulk. "Um sorry.. really don't um know what's gotten in to him.." Master Nathy apologised to Greta with a sigh. He'd taken the cancellation of the old series hard and had been prone to sulking that he now had to compete against a goat, monkey and firedragon for the kids vote.

Speaking of goats Master Nathy looked dismayed as the First Mate appeared, she didn't look good and he just had to hope the Captain wasn't going to blame one of them for not keeping a eye on her. Nathan tended to be in the mental state that if anything went wrong, no matter how far removed it was there would probably be a way that it could all lead back to be blamed on him. It didn't help that his one overall job was to ensure that the Good Ship Awesome lived up to it's name. Good Ship maybe but Awesome was debatable when the engines where near dry, the supplies just about exharsted and the honey.. gone. With a twitch Master Nathy listened as Captain Marcus barked out the orders, sails where to be hoisted, ovens to be cooking and items to be found. Nathan's first order of binsuess however was something he was not looking foward to at all as he went below deck.. bright eyes in the darness from where Beanie was watching him. Slowly he managed to manuver a jar down with him though the long passageway to where the large copper boiler waited. Holding his nose Master Nathy poured the last of the fuel into the boiler, the meter barely raising even a degree as steam and the whine of stuff at work deep within the bowels of the ship signaled that Captain Marcus had put things into gear. This wasn't good!

Hurrying his way up above decks Master Nathy was stopped by the sight of the First Mate being dragged along by Bertrand the goat. Oddly enough that wasn't the strangest thing he'd seen in his times but it was enough to distract him from his mission.. as was Beanie jumping down from the roof with a rather bright look upon his face. "Yuck Beanie.. where have you been?" Nathan asked, the kitten was filthy with his fur all mattered with grease.
"None of your bizzo" the Kitten just replied with a huff before jumping down to go find somewhere private to clean up. Concerned Master Nathy didn't think anything more of it as he checked that the rigging was rung correctly and wondered more then a few times as to if he should see how the Gunner was doing with her duties. But of course she'd probably think him a bother and so Master Nathy remained quiet until there was a sudden shudder that went though the ship.. the kind usually followed by one overdramatic person in the cast shouting that they where all going to die! Wide eyed Nathan looked around, then got running as suspicion told him that only one thing could cause the ship to stop that suddenly.. the pressure building up in the engine now that the fuel had been exhausted was enough to blow the entire ship sky high! There was nothing for it but to grab his guitar and head below and defuse it with some good old Rock and Roll action before the crew where put at risk by a 'minor' thermonuclear explosion.

Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:36 pm

Ianto was not to worried that his vote did not count as Monkey hung from the rigging above him. Ianto really hated all the dancing and singing that happened on this ship all the damn time. It really was not his thing so most of the time, he just sank in to the background and prayed it would end soon. "Monkey, I be going below now, are thy coming?" Ianto asked his pet. Ianto did not get a reply as it was at that moment the ship STOPPED dead. "Out of gas," ianto mumbled. Ianto wondered why, unlike so many other ships, they had not moored at one of the many place along the Great Ocean Road. Now they were stuck in the middle of nowhere with no honey or rum and there were few, if any ships, going about the sky now as most had no honey or so little that leaving there moorings was just stupid.

MMMM wonder how long it takes a man to starve to death

Ianto decided to be brave and ask, "so what now, Captain?" Ianto hoped there was no life boating required as he hated small boats. Monkey jumped behind an empty crate, knowing that Ianto uselly got a serve when he asked some question of the captain .

Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:05 pm

Running a ship was a lot harder then most people realised. Captain Marcus had been Captaining for just about as long as he remembered, he'd been though the good and bad and back again but it had been many a year since they'd found themselves so hard up to not even be able to make it to land. As each went to their duties Captain Marcus jumped and covered his ears at his First Mates yelling, before bursting out laughing at his sister's great idea for transportation. It got him thinking that maybe if they where able to capture a school of aquatic goats they might just not be in such a dire situation at all. But of course the evidence to support such creatures where hearsay at best. Kicking his feet up Captain Marcus felt something with the end of his toe.. moving to examine he pulled out the Parrotphone which had been stuck to the helm with some suspicious green glowing slime. "Aha.. there you are!" Captain Marcus said before tossing it over his shoulder and turning his attention towards watching the Lady Rowan standing at the front of the ship looking beautiful as only she was allowed.

All seemed well for the moment, laughing a little as his First Mate sooked about the stings Captain Marcus shook his head "Dontcha worry.. soon as we get the fuel we'll go right back there and give them bee's a seeing to they won't be forgetting for a long time eh?" yes, because while things looked dour Captain Marcus was forever a optimist as only one who had a open-ended contract to see though to the next Pirates of WWBN could. However even he had to curse when the ship stopped in it's tracks.. Captain Marcus looked to his Boatswain only to find him heading below deck with a serious expression.. humm well he was sure there was nothing to worry about as a few minutes later he emerged covered in soot. It was of course not much of a big leap that his wife would present the solution. "You mean that Speedy Tweety from the late night ads on WWBN-Channel 4?" Captain Marcus asked, the sponsors pleased he went on to shrug "I guess it's worth a try" he said handing his misses the phone since it was outside of his expertise.. he only knew how to make prank calls.. not real ones.

With a voice popping up from behind him Captain Marcus quickly reached to grab a knife to toss at the Bilge Rat.. but even those had run out and so the age old game of grievously harming the least popular member of the crew was limited by their non-existent supplies. He sighed, Ianto would live another day. "Well if I recall right.. I'm supposed to do this!" With that Captain Marcus threw himself sideways onto the deck, cheek pressed against the wood he thought for a moment as the camera showed a artistic shot of peoples feet and the ship stretched out around him. "Then we have a bunch of fashbacks of how you guys got on the crew with sad music and then we get rescued.." he explained. However instead of the soft piano music it was more rather.. bouncy. In fact one would almost say that somewhere folks where most certainly jumping.

Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:10 am

Lady Rowan had stepped aside as the Boatswain and Bilge Rat had things to ask the Captain and well, the First Mate Chloe sure had need of his attention more than anything at the moment as she suffered through recovery from her heroic attempts at obtaining honey for the Good Ship Awesome. Gunner Greta had gone off to assure they had enough ammunition for the weapons and apparently, to remove quite a bit of tar and grime from one Pirate Beanie using a bit of cat bathing magic spells and, even with the aid of magic, some industrial strength, elbow length protective gloves.

At the Captain's recognition of the Speedy Tweety service, Lady Rowan nodded. "Yes, that's the one. Cheapest fares in the entire Great Ocean Road, local taxes and tariffs apply, group rates available, no service after Sunset on Sundays due to local ordinances. Limited time buy two get one free passage offer cannot be combined with any other discounts." Taking the parrotphone he tossed to her, Lady Rowan checked for coverage and smiled to see they had good service where they were stranded. It was moments like this that she was glad they had taken out the contract with Beerizon (can you call them now) rather than the other choices of Droptus (please send payment before bills arrive) or even DDT with their exclusive AyePhone 4R's coverage. Within moments. she had Speedy Tweety service on the phone and the shuttle on its way scheduled to arrive just as the flashbacks ended.

Thinking back to begin the first of several previously moments, Lady Rowan remembered that day when she and her familiar were

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
Sure she'd be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in
And then she'd watch 'em roll away again, yeah

Sitting on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Wantin' a ride

She left her home in Scotland
Headed for the 'Melbourne bay
'Cause She had nothing to live for
And look like nothin's gonna come her way

Sitting on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Wantin' a ride

Looked like a pirate ship a comin'
Everything made that claim
It was Marcus and the Good Ship Awesome
So she guessed she'd sail with them yes

Sailed with the cross & bones
And this honey need won't leave here alone
It's two thousand miles she's roamed
And she's made this ship her home

Sitting in the Captain's quarters,
Just him and her and the honey
Sitting in the Captain's quarters,
Havin' a good time......

Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:39 am

If Boatswain Nathy could have heard Lady Macbeth, he'd have realized he was quite right in judging the severity of the moment.

We're allll gonna dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

She whimpered and then relaxed when her mum and dad reminded each other about Speedy Tweety. Okay, well they weren't going to die but they'd be stuck there for a bit. With that, she waited for her mum to make the call and have her flashback moment before adding her own to the mix.

Wherever we go, whatever we do,
we're gonna go through it together.
We may not go far, but sure as a star,
wherever we are, it's together.

Wherever Mum go I know he goes.
Wherever he goes I know she goes.
Just mum and dad and me to go
a sailin', pirates, together!

Through thick and through thin,
all out or all in.
And whether it's honey rum, glace or comb.
With you for me and me for you,
we'll pirate through whatever we do.
Together, wherever we go.

Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:21 am

Chloe laughed a bit even though she was beyond skeptical at her brother Captain's words. She was pretty sure in the end, it would just end up badly. But the thought counted, it did. Or maybe her judgement was just clouded by the pain and venom from all those bee stings. Wondering about the giant bees, she suddenly hoped she didn't get like seriously poisoned and end up keeling over. And then Chloe worried that now she had just jinxed herself.

Okay stop thinking about it. Stop thinking. Now. If she forgot about it, the jinxing was canceled, right? Right.

There wasn't much left to say now as they all focused on the main issue at hand. Getting this ship moving again. She didn't have any particular suggestions to add so it was all about listening to everyone else. Speedy Tweety? Chloe had a vague memory of that... But her mood was all irritated again when it became apparent it was flashback time.

Ugh, she hated flashback time. Focusing on the past was boring. She could never find a proper song to go with hers. Le sigh. But what else could she do? So Chloe just sighed again then tilted her head up so that her mind could wander. Oi, their rescue better get here soon.

Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:44 pm

Master Nathy had missed much of the action above as he went about defusing the engines from what otherwise would have been quite a spectacular (and messy) explosion. His guitar had been handed down from one guitarist to another alongside the secrets of how to do that really odd chord that lesser musicians would give up rather then defeat. One intense solo later Master Nathy blinked and looked down at his costume which had been artistically frayed and spray painted black to match the soot he was covered in. Blinking in momentary confusion Master Nathy shrugged and was glad to see the engines showed cool green rather then the rather nasty red 'OMG YER GONNA DIE!' blinky light. It was a job well done which was why it was all a bit disappointing when Master Nathy came back up on deck to find the Captain apparently listening to the wood of the ship while the others either stood around or where taking turns singing.

He was quite sure there hadn't been that much of it in the script and despite any attempt of prompting Master Nathy was most certainly not going to sing on any account. It was in his contract that he'd provide the sad artistic music but vocals where right out of his area. Not that there was much to turn to song anyway, he'd known Captain Marcus for as long as he remembered, sailed with him alongside his brothers and the young Sky Captain Mel in the HMS Dingy. Oh the adventures they'd had, all of which could be bought in the collectors edition purple-ray edition of My Little Pirates : The Movie. "Um Sir?" Master Nathy asked eventually as he grew bored of waiting and the sound of bubbly pop music was starting to drown out his senses with the urge to put on a pair of brightly coloured shorts and fashionable hairstyles. Clearly he was more then a bit ill from the effects of the heat and lack of food, drinks and just about everything?

Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:35 am

Things had to be taken in hand and Gunner Greta suspected she would have to be the one to do it. First, she took out her iToad and found the Speedy Tweety app. Activating it, she sent the current coordinates of the Good Ship Awesome and their desired desination, including current tonnage and availiability of towing ropes. When the fare came back, she entered the appropriate coupon codes for discounts and, with the fare down to half price, hit accept and received notice that the Speedy Tweety would arrive on time for it's first cue.

Then Gunner Greta reached for the shoulder-to-wrist Dragon Hide Gloves and took hold of Pirate Beanie, carrying him to the tub of soapy water prepared for this scene by stage crew. Now, it would be here that one would see the bravery of the good Gunner as she cleaned the black grease off of said Pirate Beanie but the WWBN censors have determined it would result in an Too Violent for any but Death Eater Viewing so we instead provide this musical interlude.

Gunner Greta survived intact, Pirate Beanie was clean and the Speedy Tweety was due to arrive shortly!

Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:49 am

Imagine the rolling waves of the sea.

Imagine blue skies.

So far, so good.

Imagine a streamlined, elegant but sturdy towing vessel.

Ok this is where w run into a problem cause that's not the Speedy Tweety.

Think more like old fashioned, bought at a ship nargle market for a few hundred knuts under blue book value. Ok now you've got it.

Lady Polly had purchased the vessel with a dream to sail the seven seas. So far she'd sailed one. On a limited area. Back and forth. Towing larger pirate vessels. But she was sailing so she was happy. Plus this way, she was still near her friends at Great Ocean Road, especially the lovely Lady Tiffany who was not only her friend but her mentor on all things of fashion. Lady Tiffany ran the local Pirate cake shoppe at Great Ocean Road. When the alert went off on her Honeyberry Curve, Polly made notes of the location and took off, arriving just in time to hear the final notes of the musical interlude.

"Good Ship Awesome, ahoy!" she called out, "You called for a tow in to Great Ocean Road?" With that, she levitated the tow ropes up to the crew to attach and once done, pulled the pirate ship back to the docks at Great Ocean Road.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:38 am

Ianto stood on deck great full there were no sharp implements near the captain when he asked the dum question . ianto hatted this point in any movie the flashback section with musical interludes ianto hatted the past and very thing in it and he was the would worst singer so you can imagine the relief when the speedy tweety arrived just as it was his turn to sing or what not.
Ianto screed across the debt to the morring lines to help tie off the ship for a tow to the great ocean road.
where ianto hoped there was some honey rum and tine away for all this singing it was to drive a man to drink wait he did drink so what did it drive him to, drink more that right drink more
now if only there was more rum or hell he would settle for a beer right now tho it was not very pirate like to be seen with beer but really what was with all the singing
"we'er not in a musical ya know" Ianto mumbles as he tied a line off to the ship

Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:48 am

While his wife was spruking the latest adverts for the Speedy Tweety Captain Marcus was rather concerned about the moral of his crew. They certainly where a dour bunch and the fact that the Pintmaster was calling their doom was not to be discounted. "We're not all gonna die.. some of us are required to be horribly maimed remember?" Captain Marcus reminded the Pintmaster before realizing that said prospects where not all that much better. "Eh nevermind.." he stated before waiting for his wife to finish her lines so that he could do his dramatic 'faceslap' moment. Why it was important he didn't know but he was sure as hell glad when the flashback moment came to a end. "Right.. enough of that then.." Marcus said dragging himself back to his feet and rubbing his cheek. "Mental note.. don't do that again.." Marcus had just remembered the first mate's 'accident' last year.. eww and he'd been rubbing his face right on that spot too! Stretching before putting his hat back on Captain Marcus grinned at there was a voice.. Running over to the side of the deck he was a bit disappointed to find that unlike the adverts the Speedy Tweety wasn't quite the 9 deck,3547 capacity luxury liner that he'd seen in the adverts.. but then again on the plus it was probably much less likely to strike a unlikely iceberg and sink as well.

Sticking his head over the edge he bellowed down a reply to the owner of the Speedy Tweety "Yarr.. indeed we did ask for a ride Missy.. Polly.." Captain Marcus was trying it hard to refrain from the 'Missy Polly had a Dolly' line due to them not owning any copywrite for that old ditty... that the First Mate was far to young to hear the additional lines about what kind of sickness the Dolly had and why Dolly's should always remember protection when going from one port to another. While the tune was rather infectious he did have to agree (much as he hated it) with the Bildge Rat. "Yeah.. he's got a point guys.. can someone check the scripts again because I'm sure this part about the big dance number with Elephants is way out of budget.. I mean I didn't even think they had scuba gear that big?" There was a pause as a stagehand arrived to check over that particular element of a script. With a nod it was agreed that the song numbers where to be cut to a bare minimum. Which was lucky because with Sky Captain Mel on the cast there was no question heads would roll if anyone dared trying to make her sing along to 'I am a very model of a modern feminist symbol, I'm not a stereotype of the males massive-ego' and soforth.

There was however one minor issue as Captain Marcus left the others to hook up the robes and see over the HMS Speedy Tweety bringing them into land. You see Honey wasn't the cheapest habit for a Pirate to get into, and with the prices skyrocketing as supplies ran out well... the crux of the matter was that 50% discount or not he sure as hell didn't have enough pieces-of-eight to cover it.. even broken into pieces-of-sixteens wasn't going to cover it. So it was that glancing around to see that Lady Polly wasn't looking Captain Marcus first went to his wife and then the First Mate to spread the word. "Psst.. okay so we don't actually have any gold to cover the tow.. so soon as we get to port we're gonna have to do the old runner.." because they weren't a bunch of dirty untrustworthy pirates if they weren't out to rip someone off. It was basically their job description after all!

Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:58 pm

"Thank you young sir," Lady Polly called up to the pirate who began tying off the tow ropes. Once he assured her they were done, she cast a few securing charms so that the ropes would not slip off en route to the Great Ocean Road docks as well as a levitation charm on the ship itself to make it lighter and easier to tow. "Ready?" she called out and when given the go ahead, shifted the Speedy Tweety into first gear and slowly began the trek back to the docks. As the ship made its way and she was sure all was undercontrol, she turned back to the Good Ship Awesome and called out to the captain. "Ahoy, Captain Marcus? Just want to let you know the tow is already paid for. Pirate Queen Mum has covered it and 'politely requests' (read that get your ass there or else) your presence at the Super Secret Pirate Council meeting. She said just follow the neon signs to the location." With that, she went back to navigating the Speedy Tweety and it's tow.

Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:31 pm

With the plan in place there was nothing to do but wait and watch, Captain Marcus glanced across at his crew as the ship moved forward. It was only a matter of time before they leaped into action. For the meantime however he rather enjoyed the view of watching the little ship, how it managed to pull the entire bulk of the Good Ship Awesome was beyond him, probably some kinda magic which he as a proper Pirate Captain never did get involved in. It just wasn't as easy to get respect when folks knew you went about waving your wand at strangers. All well and good when you where young but there came a point where a Captain had to decide which road he was on... not that oceans actually had roads or anything. In truth they hadn't managed to do any real pirating in weeks, and he was getting that urge to do something offensive and up-the-nose of the ruling class.

So nothing was worse then hearing Lady Polly call up that it was a pre-paid tow. Curse it! and to make matters worse Queen Mum Doris was behind it all. Captain Marcus groaned, he hated meetings... all that tedious talking and minute taking and votes and yarrs. You'd think that for a bunch of dirty Pirates they'd have figured out a less civilized means of doing things but it seemed they had no such luck. "Aye aye" Captain Marcus just said sarcastically, he just knew there was going to be a platter of biscuit assortments and bad grog for all his luck.

Turning back to his crew he put the word out "Right you lot! First Mate you're with me.. rest of yer it's shore leave.. you lot all know what that means.. steal everything that's not nailed down.. and if it's nailed grab those as well.. scare the women and children.. raid the supermarket and most important of all don't get caught!" Captain Marcus eyed the smallest member of the crew especially at those words. "If I recall right we meet back here at the start of chapter four". As he'd talked the scene had changed, seagulls overhead as the port came into view, "Woa.." there was a lot more Pirate Ships in port that he was rather embarrassed to see the Good Ship Awesome out classed in such a way. But that's what happened when you expanded the series to let more folks in, people didn't seem to think the old' ship was good enough that they had to go on making bigger and better ones.

There was however one ship that very much was not there. "Right.. to the pub" Captain Marcus said.. too lazy to wait for the plank to be put out he grabbed a rope and swung down.. sure that at any moment he'd catch sight of the white not-at-all-footwear-resembling ship. But even as he held the door open for his sister before stepping inside the pub. He noise hit him first, as did the feeling of nostalgia that the pub never seemed to change no matter how long it had been since they had last made port it was still the friendly vibe of a place where everybody knew your name.. and probably how much you owed on the bartab without ever planning to pay. It seemed that the meeting was already in order, Captain Marcus eyed off the other Captains trying to spot Doctor Ethan and Sky Captain Mel amongst the bunch of usurper Pirates. Most of all he wished to avoid Pirate Queen Doris.. because there was nothing worse then having to face someone after they'd bailed you out of a scrape.

Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:25 pm

It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

Well, really it was only the worst of times when the lovely Sky Captain Mel remembered that thieving varmints had stolen her ship, the HMS Enterprise. Ethan hoped they found it soon so that it would just be the best of times. At least, they still had plenty of jam fancies thanks to his sister Lady Emma, the Missing A Ship Ship's Cook. Since Ethan was the ship's doctor but the ship was missing, he had been filling in time and earning funds to keep them comfortable by returning to the doctor's practice he had at Great Ocean Road during the day and at night and weekends, was the piano player at The Golden Honeypot Pub.

Yes, currently, It was nine o'clock on a Saturday. The Pirate crowd shuffled in. There's an old man sitting next to them, makin' love to his honey and gin. He says, "Ethan, can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes, but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes."

La la la, di da da
La la, di da da da dum

It was on the last dum that Ship's Doctor Ethan looked up to see Captain Marcus and the Good Ship's Awesome's First Mate. At least he thought it was, though it was hard to tell for all the bee stings.

"Aye, Captain," he called out, the player piano continuing the music while Ship's Doctor Ethan went over to greet them. "Ye be here for the Secret Council's Secret Meeting at the Secret Lair, just follow the neon signs?"

Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:42 pm

Pirate Marty couldn't believe his luck when he was hired on as the Chief Science Officer of the HMS Enterprise. The Enterprise was legend among the pirate brethren as the top of the line, state of the art ship of the century. But then, he could believe his luck because the ship was missing and so far, he had not had a chance to sail a single mission on her. He still counted himself lucky though because he was able to continue to carry on his trade in the town for wages until such time as they did recover the ship. Pirate Marty had no doubts that the ship would be recovered and in his spare time,
he was doing what he could to try to locate for Sky Captain Mel by trying to pick up any signals that came from the ship's equipment.

For now, he was sitting in a corner of the Golden Honeypot Pub with ale and the recent edition of Pirates' Science Methods.

Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:13 am

Waiting was for the birds and Chloe was no bird! But she wondered in her odd little way if that's what made Speedy Tweety take such a time to get there. But it was a little fun once the wait pretty much ended. Mostly when it clicked in her brain as well that embarrassing accident she had last year. It still made her face go red over time when she gave it some thought but... there was just something funny about the terribly grossed out expression the Captain had.

Anyway, Sweety Tweety did arrive soon and that was awesome. Chloe was a bit surprised that her captain brother actually agreed with the Bilge Rat's complaints. Were goats actually flying now? Actually, now that she thought about it, it sounded really cool. She twirled to see if Bertrand was already up in the air with his wandering around. But oh wait... nope. Still on the ground. Nuts. They could have had so much fun if goats could fly.

Normal days, Chloe wouldn't have minded doing a runner. That happened a lot. But she was way too sore to be running! So her face actually went a bit pale at the thought of doing so. Aww man! Of course she nodded loyally and all. Couldn't let her brother and the crew down. But oi, this was going to hurt.

Fortunately, it ended up not being an issue. Their tow was prepaid? Yes! Oh thank goat, she wouldn't have to try and sprint with these injuries. With her luck, she might have hurt herself worse or something. Captain Marcus seemed disappointed and Chloe tried to show sympathy even though inside she was singing with relief and all. But there was enough of that because now they were at port and it was time for other things.

Like getting off the ship. First Mate Chloe was rather surprised that she would be traveling with Captain brother. She wondered if he was taking her to a doctor. Boy, she hoped. At the moment, she was worried about how the hell she was getting off this thing. Swinging like her Captain? Bahahahahahahaha! No. She'd just have to be boring this once and wait for the ship to stop so she could carefully walk down. And that's just what she did. Cautiously walking down the plank, whimpering every few moments or so.

'Twas a slow walk, it was. Chloe hated that Marcus was faster than her. She liked walking by his side. But at least he didn't leave her behind or anything. Once they got inside, Chloe immediately plopped down. She was resting and that was that.

Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:51 pm

It was a good thing that Captain Marcus had walked the path up to the pub from the ship many a time before. Often roaring drunk and just trusting that his feet would know where to go. Either way he waited on the jetty while the plank was plunked and resisted in the urge to have a few photos taken of the piece of wood well.. planking as only a experienced bit of log could. He felt a strong jab of sympathy as his sister eased her way along the plank, the pair walking slowly due to the first mates injuries. Captain Marcus had to admit that those stings looked mighty painful. "Don't worry.. soon as we find Doc he's sure to sort you right out.. best Surgeon in all of The Great Ocean road and all that.. or your money back even" Captain Marcus looked thoughtful for a moment "Not that we have any bloody money of course.. but we're Pirate eh?" He gave his sister a wide smile, trying to reassure her that everything would be just fine as he waited for her to go inside the Pub before following her. It was noisy with the sound of the excess crew from all the other ships who had chosen to make the most of the TOP SECRET MEETING to get a bit of the old drinking-fighting-writhmatic in. Captain Marcus hadn't seen the place so busy in ages.

"Hey Doc!" Captain Marcus shouted above the din at the man sitting at the piano got up to come greet them. Captain Marcus had to stare a bit at the change, was it just him or was the good doctor looking a little more filled out since last time? Then again he could hardly talk, last film he'd spent half the time lurching about and trying not to have any limbs fall off. "Yarrr..yeah.. the meeting.. everyone keeps reminding me of that" Captain Marcus muttered in annoyance. He could just see the agenda now, all written up with dot points and indexes.. a small shudder of revulsion passed over him. "But actually I'm here for me First Mate.. she had a bit of a run in with a swam of Killer bees.. " Marcus explained as his sister had already found herself a seat. Captain Marcus didn't wish to leave her alone but he knew the Doctor was a good man.. which reminded him that there was another pressing thing that had been bugging him for all for half a hour. "Oh.. by the way Doctor.. you wouldn't have happened to see Sky Captain Mel would you?" Captain Marcus asked, it wasn't like her to not turn up when they where stranded and offer some kind of genius solution like talking the parking break off. Sometimes it did rather annoy him that Sky Captain Mel seemed to know how to run his ship better then he did.

"Guess she's at that stupid meeting.." Captain Marcus muttered to himself as behind them the door to the Pub swung open, a figure stepping into view.. Captain Marcus had to stare at the blond haired woman, she was wearing a skirt.. but most of all she was carrying a baby.. this could. not. be Sky Captain Mel of the HMS Enterprise who had been voted #1 of most inspiring female lead characters for her role in Pirates I and II? No matter of evil could ever turn the fiercely independent Captain of the most advanced ship in the fleet into....... this??
It was on that bombshell that Captain Marcus just looked slackjawed, no way was this his old friend. It had to be some kind of mistake. "Mel? What happened?" Captain Marcus asked somewhat afraid of what answer could have lead to such a radical change. The Sky Captain Mel he knew would have never given up flying, not for anything.

Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:56 pm

Sky Captain Mel had many times cursed the day her ship had come into contact with the sickly sweet island of candy. It seemed that the island had been cursed with a run of bad luck that had started the day her Quartermaster had disappeared and much of their rum soon with it. The HMS Enterprise was still declared missing, more for the fact that while she'd been able to triangulate a position thanks to the pompom navigational software the sad fact was that the amount of high-octane honeyrum required to get the ship back into the air was well beyond any known to exist since the dreaded honey famine had meant that the wells and rivers had all dried up. So it was that with her crew disbanded Sky Captain Mel had done what all pirates did these days and turned to the internet, her cache of booty containing everything from the complete Seawitch collections to all five-hundred episodes of Who's Leg is it anyway? Either way it was getting late and Doctor Ethan had not yet returned home to their humble house, the contents of which was in rather disarray due to Sky Captain.. or how should we the Captain Formally known as Sky Captain Mel chasing and swatting the multiplying letters reminding her that she was to attend the super-secret Captain's Meeting which glowed a bright neon pink on her generally-accurate-positioning-device.

It was becoming clear that Pirate Queen Doris was not going to take No for a answer. Sky Captain Mel sighed, carefully she wrapped up her greatest treasure and gave her a kiss on the head before slipping a bag of loot over her shoulder and going out into the night. For a plot crutch Sky Captain Mel was more then a bit attached to her daughter and liable to threaten anyone who suggested it would be wiser to cut the child from the script to ease up the budget and insurance constraints. It was quite a nice night, the stars had come out to inspire artists to paint swirly dots. The continuity department would have pointed out the lack of logic seeing that it was daytime just a few moments ago but sunsets where short..or long depending on the narrative required and everyone knew that you couldn't have a big inn scene in the middle of the day. So it was then as Sky Captain Mel stepped into the Honey Pot Pub, looking around for the familiar face of her friends and that of her love, the Doctor Ethan.

What she didn't expect was to come up against her former crewmates. "Captain Marcus.. First Mate Chloe? My Goats what happened to you?" Sky Captain Mel asked as young Ashleigh caught sight of her Daddy and made a slight 'voop voop' noise. Yes she took after her Dad all right. At Captain Marcus' question however Sky Captain Mel grew a bit cranky. "Well after those fools stole my ship what was I supposed to do? Everyone knows that if you're a main female character and meet the love of your life there's nothing left but to retire and have babies" Mel sighed as she patted Ashleigh's head gently, it wasn't her fault that the writers couldn't think of a more original way to deal with the fact that such cliche's where always required. "Anyway.. I'm into downloads now.. you guys want any movies? ..or music, software.. " Sky Captain Mel looked both ways "or maybe....pictures of kittens with misspelled captions?" Yes, for some reason they had always been one of her biggest stocks in trade.

Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:10 am

Quartermaster Gman had been visiting another establishment in town that was owned by the lovely Lady Tiffany, who he had gotten to know quite well since they had been stuck at Great Ocean Road without the ship. However, his visit had been interrupted by a message from the Pirate Queen Mum to get the Captains moving to the meeting. Knowing better than to dare not honor a request from the Queen Pirate Mum, or as she had been known when he was a wee young pirate learning the family business on her ship, She Who Must Be Obeyed Immediately Or Your Arse Was Grounded!

Not that she could really ground the crew of the HMS Enterprise any more then they already were. But Quartermaster Gman knew better than to cross her. If she couldn't ground you, she'd find something worse. So it was he headed to the Golden Honeypot Pub with a box for Sky Captain Mel from Lady Tiffany and which he presented to her as soon as he walked into the pub and saw her standing there. "Sky Captain Mel," he greeted her, handing the box to her, "Lady Tiffany said that you will be please do know the cake is not a lie. It is your favorite as well." Pulling a slip of parchment from his vest pocket, he passed it to her as well. "Also, here is her download order and payment will be made shortly through her PiratePal account."

Hearing a delighted squeal, he turned to see his godpirate, the Lady Ashleigh giggling as her Daddy was looking over some seriously impressive bee stings on First Mate Chloe from the Good Ship Awesome. "I'm glad you both are here," he told the two Captains. "Pirate Queen Mum wanted me to remind you about the meeting." Sure he knew this was probably the next in a long line of reminders but he'd rather face Gladdos than an irate Pirate Queen Mum.'

Leaving the two captains to make their way to the meeting, Quartermaster Gman took a package of coffee beans over to Science Officer Marty who was working to make a substitute fuel for the HMS Enterprise so they could at least bring the ship back to port until the honey crisis was resolved. The Science Officers latest experiment was coffee beans, pepper up potions and roasted hatch peppers.

Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:48 am

Jamie had been in port for weeks he was one of the first ship to run low on honey and he and his crew went to port for more only to find that the rivers were running dry and that there was no more to be found and no way to make the dragon cat go with out it.
the meeting of the secret pirate council had been called and he was planing on going a soon as he could find his most trusted advisor his soothsayer Dunena that man had the strangest name ever but maybe not for a soothsayer but Dunena had never been wrong he had told the captain himself that there was a great evil coming just before the honey went away and he was right.
Dunena was usually in the Honeypot pub as it was the best place to get a drink and well other things too that the soothsayer said he needed to do what he did best.as he approached the pub he past the dock were it was clear that the good ship awesome had been towed in which meant that it was most likely out of petrol to like us all well the dragon cat had some honey which Jamie was keep for a emergence not that he had enough to get back from were ever he went.
Captain Jamie entered the honeypot and there was group people just standing around talking (not that there was much else to do but still pirates did just talk)
Jamie noted that some of the ill fated Enterprise crew were there and some new capt he had not meat must be the awesome captain and his crewman umm woman what ever he was walking passed when the talk turned to the meeting of the secret council.
"Yep must go talk about going no were" Jamie mumbled as he pass and stopped to look about for Dunena who he spotted in the corner with an ale.
"Dunena get over here we have to be going" capt Jamie yelled hopping he would just hand up and do as he was told for once in his life.

Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:04 pm

Dunena Reid had been a soothsayer his whole life, his mother was one on the Stargazer before it was lost many moons ago. Dunena was drinking an ale as per usual in the Honey Pot, The Dragon Cat at been in port for many months since the honey shortage had started he has for scene the darkness and evil coming he had told his captain but still they ended here in port with nothing to do but chase women, drink and well get smashed as he pleased with nothing to do he was often here the Honey Pot Pub. There were newcomers in today probably one of the last ship to moor in the port how the had stayed in the air was beyond even his skills to tell although he did get a icky feeling when he tried to work it out so Dunena had decided t just let it go.
It was as he ordered his next drink when his Captain Jamie the man called him from across the way.
"Man I just got a drink and there no rush some people haven't even left to go yet" Dunena was well aware that the other Captains on the room were all to busy to go to the meeting right now the Doc was with one of them now.
"so get over here and have an ale" Dunena was the man on the dragon cat he made all the calls Jamie just was there to give the orders and that the crews crap when things got bad like now.