The School O'Crossbones

Ricardo Basco's Log - Day 1 - Part 3 - Plundering Puerto Manto

Ooooo, I remember that I was looking forward to this. I could get a sword? And at this age?!

Hey, I ain't not complaining. I get to swing around a SWORD.

Like SWISH SWISH! SNIK SNIK!

Okay I'm getting ahead of myself. We had  to have to find our way from "The School O'Crossbones" to wherever we were supposed to go.

We saw guy named 'Andrew Sisters' offering ferry service on his Ship "The Serenade".  It was a free trip since I figured he might have been paid off.

As we were sailing we saw the harbour strip we were heading to.

I heard Andrew Sisters say "Welcome to Puerto Manto!".

We saw a huge strip of stores overlooking the ocean. We arrive at the dock and we got onto the mall strip.

Billie-Jean opened up one of the maps we where given. Puerto Manto was on an Island called "Loba Luna", I guess it's due to the fact that the island looks like a giant crescent moon. The first item we wanted to get was the SWORDS!

I saw the shop up front, IT had like a big brown door with a statue of a some sword dude next to it.

In the window where displays of the types of swords you could buy. On the sign above the door and another sign above the window said "Summertime Smithery".

As we went in, a bell dinged. The first thing that grabbed our attention was the big pinwheel of the middle of the shop. The were swords around it and swords dangling above.

I heard dinging coming from the back, it was in some sort of rhythm.

Ding-ding-THUNK. Ding-ding-THUNK. Ding-ding-THUNK. Ding-ding-THUNK. Ding-ding-THUNK.

Then the guy doing the dining looked up and towards us.

"Ah forgive me boys, I didn't see ya there." Doth say the dinging dude.

The walked towards the counter of the shop. He was some tall lanky dude with dark skin, a black flattop haircut with a big stray curl. He wore like a big dirty apron with all his Blacksmith tools, I guess? He was also wearing a jacket but it look like it was turned inside out, it had some weird patterns on it. His face had eyeglasses and a curly beard goatee.

I tried drawing him below, tho it'll look a little wonky.

"So I'm guessing you fellas are here for your starter swords?" He had an American accent. A little bit of variety from the British accent fest I've been hearing. Me and Billie-Jean both nodded.

"Ah nice to see, nice to see. I'm Willard Summertime and I like to personalise each starter sword to every beginner."

So, Willard went over to his blast furnace and got out a long piece of metal.

"Okay 5 questions Fellas."

Wait for what? I asked

"You see I like to personalize every new starter sword to their owner's personality; it's how I give them their own flair."

Alright, ask away then.

He then went on to give us the weirdest pub quiz that I've ever heard.

Willard's Questions

· "If you were marooned on a desert island, what would you bring?"

· "Which of the five elements do you relate to?"

· "There is a pumpkin full of candy, how would you open it?"

· "You are on an iceberg that's sitting on a lava bed, what do you do?"