Clicks journal

The final journey

Date 25/11/1785

Location crow's nest (ship)

Dear my pirate self all my hopes wishes and hard work have all paid off today for I have pushed off my invention worked I am currently sitting in the crow's nest and waiting for the tide to carry me away I am on guard at all times just waiting for the time when I can let loose the sails that I have stitched and prepped for the tide to come in tomorrow. I guess this is my last night on the island and the last day of this nightmare, although I do have a long journey ahead and the final test of my craftsmanship tomorrow I am all around felling in a good mood and I have not felt this way for a long, long time.

Date 26/11/1785

Location at the helm (Cruelty)

Dear my pirate self today I woke up to an amazing side possibly the best I've had in a long time when I woke up from my bed and went outside I would remember this sight forever the sight of freedom, overnight the tide had lifted the cruelty off its makeshift slipway and into the deeper sea and so with all the excitement I felt I unfurled the sails and felt the wheel under my fingers for I was now properly the captain of the cruelty of the ocean. With wheel in hand I sailed her away from the cursed island and into the slowly rolling hills ahead making just a quick stop to get my dinghy to fix as a little side project for the journey ahead, also it seems that although it's a bit wonky due her hull sailing her is like a dream.

Date 27/11/1785

Location unknown (chart room cruelty)

Dear my pirate self today I have made the most bizarre discovery I think so far since finding this ship, today in the captains quarters near my bed I have found a secret hatch and in it a chest full of jewels cheques and gold of all sorts of shapes and sizes which struck me as odd because I never noticed it before but only now do I realize that the rocking of the now sailing ship must of shifted the rug in the captains quarters allowing me to discover the now found secret treasure. I think the only problem with the cruelty is her cannons for if I were to be attacked I would be useless. The cannons that I did find though were rusted and worn from being here that long although the cruelty doesn't have any cannons she doesn't have any jolly Rodgers either which means I would be a friend with the navy as well as a pirate with some fancy clothes.

Date 28/11/1785

Location unknown (gun port cruelty)

Dear my pirate self today I have made the most astonishing discovery I know it sounds odd keeping in mind that I only found that chest yesterday but this one is better in the deepest part of the hull was a cloth covered 32 pounder deck cannon which was extremely fortunate for I was using this type back on the mongoose, I have positioned it on the main deck after I hauled it out using the cruelty's winch crane after doing so I went back down in to the cruelty's hull to retrieve the cannon balls that went with that type of cannon and was also surprised to find chain balls that could take out a ships mast in seconds which I really am pleased to say that with these I could fire it at enemy ships and outrun them in seconds of meeting them. But with all this excitement of having some guns and being able to fight back those storm clouds that I saw from when I was at the island have moved on me like a cat on a mouse and I fear that the worst is yet to come.

Location storm (captains quarters, cruelty)

Date 29/11/1785

Dear my pirate self I fear my luck has run out I'm afraid that those storms have sprung upon me faster than I've thought because while I was readying the sails for this mass onslaught a drop of rain touched my cheek like a knife blade piercing the fragile skin of a Childs hand. Swiftly I climbed down the rigging and began tying up the sails and prepping them more quickly before tying down my food supplies and bracing my handiwork down in the hold from where the damage was. After doing so I shut the gun ports strapped down my cannon and finally went into my room where I nailed down my bed hid my chest in its compartment and stayed here until writing to you now. Anyway my weather compass I found in the chart room the day before last is saying that it should clear up.