Starring:
JollyMarlin3530 -- narrator
Klseyer(back rolls/Sparrow) -- designated border
GoblinSlayer -- helmsman
Goblin, Sparrow, and I were dragging ourselves to the boat with a massive hangover. It had been yet another night of drinking, gambling, and epic storytelling. We had gotten 2 leads that 1. a new crew had washed up in the sea of thieves, and 2. There was a pirate legend planning on doing an athena with some non-legend pirates... and we didn't intend to waste them. So we set out on our brig like normal and began drifting for a bit, we had picked up a small gold hoarders map and voted on it. as we neared one of the islands we were going to we saw a galleon towards the north east. We ditched the mission and the possible loot, we then quickly sailed over to the galleon and came up behind them to blast their rear. Backrolls went and boarded while me and GoblinSlayer shot the ship to hell. Sparrow had discovered they were doing an athena, but it was already too late, we had sunk their ship and Sparrow had killed them all, and since their ship was gone they were dead... we proceed to sail off to another island with chests know as krakens fall, when we got close we saw a sloop with a grade 5 emissary order of souls flag. Sparrow went to investigate the sloop and it had quite a few skulls on board... We began sneaking the skulls on board our ship and just as Goblin, Back Rolls, and I were about to grab the last 3 skulls, 2 people met us on the stairs to the upper deck of the sloop. Mr Snack Sparrow lifted me and tossed my at the two men, knocking them both down and leaving them, as well as me, dazed. Back rolls quickly jumped off the ship and began doggy paddling towards our vessel as Goblin proceeded to toss me into the water and jump off after me. We got to the ship and began raising anchor, once raised we dropped sails and hauled it towards Gallions grave outpost. But the once dazed pirates were already right on our tail, thank Athena, because we were headed with the wind so that meant the sloop couldn't catch us. We were so confident though that we anchored at the outpost and started selling... that was a big mistake... After getting about half the loot sold I noticed sails passing the back of the island. I yelled out to my crew from the order of souls shack that they were here, the sloop had rolled up pretty fast and started blasting us with their cannons. Back Rolls and GoblinSlayer were on the ship with the anchor somehow already raised, I was running for dear life on the dock towards our already sailing ship, I leaped... my arm, hand, and fingers outstretched... my butt cheeks clenched...... i didn't feel the fibers of the ladder through my gloves........
Instead I felt a fleshy hand gripping my arm and I looked up wide eyed at a mound of flesh grinning at me. Back Rolls had saved me... he pulled me up the side of the ship and on deck and patted my back before saying,.. "You owe me a drink" I deadpanned at this and sighed. "fine you drunk whale!"
"Enough you two, get the sails in the wind Sparrow. Jolly you get on the wheel! I'm gonna load our rowboat with the rest of the loot!" Goblin had interjected our little bickering with his orders, we both nodded and did what we were told. As we sailed around the outpost Goblin turned to me as he put the last skull on the rowboat.
"Jolly, I want you to get on the rowboat and row to the back of Gallions grave after me and Sparrow maneuver the ship around this rock." Goblin said.
"But what about y'all? You'll be down one man!" I exclaimed.
"Don't worry about us Jolly! Just get the loot sold! Besides... I'm Captain Snack Sparrow!" Back Rolls replied. I grinned at him and nodded before raising my sword to cut the ropes on the rowboat as we neared the rock. I took one last look at my goofy crew members' smiles before I slashed downwards cutting the fibers. As the rowboat hit the water I began to row towards the island without looking back... which was hard due to the sound of gunshots and cannon fire behind me, indicating a battle was taking place with my friends and 2 other pirates. As I reached the docks of the island I parked the rowboat and started selling as fast as I could, the sounds of naval war had stopped. I had finished selling and I heard a ship rolling up to the dock, I peaked out of the Order of Souls hut, and saw my crew and our banged up ship at the dock. I rushed over and immediately asked.
"What happened?! Are they sunk?! Did we sink?! Are you two ghosts?!" I hyperventilated as Back Rolls grinned while walking up to me and Goblin face palmed.
"Boo..." Back Rolls said... I then proceeded to scream like a girl... After a long argument/conversation of Back rolls trying to convince me they were ghosts back from the dead to haunt me and Goblin stating they weren't dead and that we needed to head towards Reapers Hideout to destroy 2 reapers emissaries ships. Night had rolled around and we were sailing super slow as to let Goblin sleep below deck, Back Rolls and I fished for a bit to stock up our low food supply. As I sat next to him on the railing of the ship with my fishing rod in had, he smiled at me.
"What's up ya big goof?" i joked
"Nothing much, just been thinking..." he stated solemnly
"huh... what troubles are makin those gears in your head turn?" I asked, we could see fishes starting to swim around our hooks
"Well, my dad... the pirate lord... has been nagging at me lately, saying 'I should stop being a pirate legend for a bit because something big and bad is gonna happen if i don't stop seeking athena's fortune'... does he not think i can handle myself, even though i've done that for years without him... " Back Rolls vented, I patted his back.
"I understand where you're coming from, but... he's just trying to protect you and make up for that time he couldn't have with you... by being a father finally... now i'm not saying follow his advice... but just be glad you found him after all these years and you can at least speak with him... don't take that for granted" silence ensued shortly after. The sun then began to rise and I got up to wake up Goblin leaving Back Rolls to think for a bit... as we looked at the map we noticed the Reapers emissary ships were no longer on the map. We then decided to head towards a sea post and sell our cooked fish for some dumb reason. Our brig pulled up to the dock, we sold the fish, and collected the fire bombs from the ship. We got back on the dock and looked at each other.
"Well she had a good run boys..." Goblin said as we looked at our beaten and battered ship fire bombs in hand...
"She sure did gob... Snacky... you wanna the honor of the first throw?"
"Sure" Back Rolls grinned as he reared his arm back. He then flung it forward along with the fire bomb, as it hit the ship a bright spectacle of flames and embers arose from our brigantine along with a steady stream of smoke rising from it. As we smile sadly at our burning ship we notice a skull cloud rise in the sky. The eyes flash a red color... The Fort of the Damned was active, we looked at each other and grinned before sprinting towards the rowboat. We began rowing and rowing and rowing as fast as we could. as we entered the fog covering the fort and got closer to the rocky back cliffs of the fort we spotted another rowboat and... Another crew?!...
