Noonan gets his work clothes on so eh can help with supplies.
Pluck leads a flock of parrots to their new home....Parrot Rock!
Lito heads into The Rock.
As he approaches he tells the gate guards:
Tell your wonderful mistress that her husband is home from a successful raid of the Sahaguin. Oh and that he do be bringing a load of men to make her life more interesting.
The guard listens to the greeting and thinks hard what that could mean. But doesn't come to a meaning he is comfortable to tell the lady of the Rock. "Please come in and feel free to tell her yourself." The guard replies.
Lito laughs and addresses the guard.
Carl right? You must learn to trust me, she would have known what you were talking about.
He flips him a gold piece.
Here, for you good job at guarding the gate. Just be sure to spend it on something important like wine or dice once you see what we have in mind.
Then with a laugh and a joke he sweeps past the gate and up to his wife.
Agasta I'm home!
"Like I wouldn't know that for an hour already." Agasta welcomes him with open arms and a wide smile. By the look of it she is either always dressed up, or she used that hour to get ready to meet Lito.
Estelle will seek out her other, giving her some items that she picked up while on the main land and then heading out to help with building of the town.
"OwlBear yer with me ta help, Flipps, I want ye making some siege weapons to defend this rock from other ships and sharkmen."
Both of the men go about their tasks.
In private, Lito fills his wife in on the events of the past few weeks.
Besmara is no fan of the life on the dry. She has always dreamt of being at the sea. And now that she has it, visiting ports is just a necessity that can't be avoided.
So she affixes a hammock on the aft deck and watches the - in her opinion - dull construction work from a safe distance. "Jessica, bring me another Pinacolada."
"Yes ma'am." the girl says as she practically runs to fulfil the captain's order
How long you reckon before we can get back to sea?
"I am at sea!" Bemara replies from her hammok. "I could leave right now. But we are stocked on provisions, have no lack of gold, why the hurry?"
Fishguts comes on deck. "Ah'm sick ta cook that landlubber stuff. Trytton, ya still have ta bring me a fish fer a week."
Walking to the rail he leans on it and watches the starting construction on The Rock. "Captain? Are ye getting ta be a Free Captain? Might'a made enuff of a name fer that."
Captain of everything!
"I'm free and I'm a captain. What's to get there? Even if I get a free parrot with that, what good would it do me?" Besmara asks keeping an eye on the parrot sitting in the rigging. If you drop a s%!#-bomb on me there will be 'coq au vin' on the menu instead of fish.
*Sqwak!* Dozens of parrots!
"We could be puttin' in ta be a free cap'n, plus we still owe The Captain Harrigan and the crew o' the Wormwood a beatin'" Estelle's eyes light up at the though of beating Harrigan.
Being a free captain sounds like something. We get more stuff by doing it?
*SQWAK!* Infiltrate! Take em over from the inside! Crackers for everyone!
"Would you like to place an order? I have something new I would like to test out anyway." Trytton says to Fishguts as everyone discusses the free captains which honestly doesn't bother him.
"Something large and meaty." Fishguts replies.
"Lets see what I can do." He says. "Do you have anything in the galley I can use for bait?"
"Yesterday's fish stew?" Fishguts replies.
"That will work. Bring it up here."
Estelle wretches at the thought of yesterdays fish stew.
Fishguts fetches the stew from yesterday made from the remaining fishes from last week. "Want me to pour it into the sea?"
"If ye want that free captain stuff so bad we can go asks what that is about." Besmara replies to Estelle and Noonan.
"Indeed I do." Trytton says with a grin as he takes off his short and doves overboard. He swims yo the bottom and the water begins to swirl a bit as he gathers power.
Jessica makes her way to stand behind Besmara and whispers in her ear, "A free captain? I hope you are still allowed to use a whip."
Fishguts pours the stinking stuff overboard.
Trytton waits on the sea floor looking up at the mess.
After a while a shark with a wicked looking curved jaw swims I and start devouring the mess. It gets a single mouthful before being hit by Tryttons blast of crackling water.
Damage: 72.
The shark breaches the surface of the water... upside down. Killed by the blast.
Trytton surfaces away from the chum and shouts, "That good enough Fishguts?"
"That be a good meal." Fishguts tells. "Here take the rope and knot it at the tail. ye can help me gutting that."
"Fine." Tryttton says as he swims into the chum and ties the rope to the shark. He then dive back down and emerhes on the other side of the ship, clean, before climbing aboard
Fishguts pulls out the shark with the help of some others. Finally it hangs from a boom. "That'll be a fine meal."
"How the he'll do you cook it though?"
"Cut it into steaks and grill it."
"Aye we do wantin' ta be come Free Cap'ns, would give us more time to pirate and less time to worry bout them lesser pirate. Plus we could be takin' out Harrington without the Free Cap'ns comin' after us. "
Estelle will make sure that the craftsman are looked after and see what else they need, after that she will gather her gear up and her craftsman kit and load it all onto the Kraken.
Noonan scratches his head. Why we so hate on about Harrigan? It was Plugg and Scourge that made our lives hell and we killed them. Harrigan was just some hard-ass who might even thank us for killen a betrayer like PLugg.
"We stole his ship and ran away with it, he will be wantin' it back you see." Estelle moves about the ship taking Owlbear with her to check on things.
"Okay, someone tell Lito that he got only this night for his wife. I'll enjoy this hammock a little bit longer and tomorrow we're sailing. Let's see if we can take over that Free Captains club." Besmara tells.
Noonan writes a letter for Pluck stating as the True Captain of Pluck's Pirate Ship, he requests the Guild of Pirate Parrots to send a letter to the Hurricane King requesting that he let the dutiful servants of Pluck become Free Captains.
Pluck sends out some parrots to deliver it to the Pirate Parrot Guild.
"I don't know about you lot, but I fancy getting a drink." Jessica says as she skips down the gangplank onto dry land, and then heading in the direction of the most raucous pub on the waterfront.
Trytton shrugs as Jessica makes her way down the gangplank, and follows a few paces behind her.
As the noise of Trytton walking down the gangplank sounds behind her, Jessica looks over her shoulder and gives Trytton a seductive smile.
Once in the bar she picks a seat at the bar, orders a drink, and watches the crowd, looking for people that are attracting attention, people around which the crowd congregates and flows.
Besmara gets her hammock again and fixes it on the aft deck. Lying in it she watches the life on the dock. Who allowed that insolent girl to leave? Shall I get my drinks myself or what? I'll show her what it means to leave her duty.
Noon heads up to deck with Pluck on his shoulder. Pluck says he can get us in to meet someone who can help us. We gotta go present ourselves to him.
*SQWAK! Don't keep the Parrot King waiting! Kin Eater's name isn't just for show. *Sqwak!*
Noonan will head out to Kin Eater when the others follow.
Estelle goes by her old house where she rescued her mom from, knowing that her Pa will likely be out drinking and gambling she looks in the soot stained windows, sighs then heads to the bar with the rest.
"So who knows how to get before the Hurricane king?" Estelle asks loud enough for others to over hear.