Uh sounds bad with a snow storm... then ye better stay in here and stay warm... *leans back in chair and takes a good gulp of warm grog*
Well... Next day, things really started to happen. We got to sail with our sloop and boarded and commandeered a Danish galleon with a cargo of vanilla. We sold both the galleon and the vanilla to the Dutch Trading Company, who promised us a brig and we got a large sum of money – for rum and grog. There were fight and things happening the entire day. The British marines were constantly fighting us pirates, and someone had captured Sykes and tried to sell him! The Jacobites helped to rescue him, but Beard from our crew was badly wounded. Mouth had to make him recover. Later the same day we set sail again, and captured a brig - we wouldn't need the brig from the Dutch Trading Company after all. So now we had both a sloop and a brig, which was great. And plenty of money! There were other fights that day, among others a woman with “high white hair” had been the one going behind the other pirate’s back! So we worked together with the crew of Red Ruby, and attacked their hut and made quite an impact. After we wounded almost the entire crew, the marines suddenly attacked the hut we were now standing in. They wanted to fire a cannon, but we did not surrender and ran out to fight. After another fight with many wounded, Mouth helped many people, not only our own. He grew tired with having to “glue us together” all the time, and made a deal with the marines while he helped them. They wouldn’t fight us after he helped their doctor, and so we were fine. But anarchy ruled the port of Tortuga, and our captains were so annoyed by that fact. They really wanted to do something to stop the anarchy.
During the day we suddenly heard that our brig was being boarded, and had to run to fight. It was the Irish Terrorists boarding us, and we fought our very best. Everyone ended up very badly wounded and British doctor helped us. My arm was hurt though.
We had more dealings with the Dutch Trading Company too, and heard of a treasure in the jungle. Said to be El Tigres treasure, he was a legend too. Our crew set out to find this treasure, but in the jungle were savages, wild people! And three of us went down before the rest of them ran. I was paralyzed, and when I woke up again, my feet and hands were tied with rope, and I had an apple in my mouth. Next to me lay the Admiral and Beard. We were helped by a strange man in the jungle, who just wanted some cheese. After we were freed, our crew returned after us, and they had the crew of the Red Ruby with them, and the marines! But before that happened, me, Admiral and Beard crawled after the treasure and got quite a lot of it. I put a handful of jewels in my bag, and did my best to play dead when the savages came near. But they were fought down by our people, and we came out! Dealings with the Dutch Trading Company gave us half the outcome of the treasure, while Red Ruby got 1/3 of the rest and the marines 2/3 of the rest. But… both me and Horse had taken values to ourselves, and back in our own hut we traded some more with the Dutch. What we got from that treasure was much more than we expected, and the captains made sure our crew could get free grog in the tavern from Sykes.
*drinks some more of the grog* But that be not the end of the tale yet!
During the evening, strange things happened. Rumours of zombies in Tortuga! And they had captured Sykes! Suddenly they came walking, spreading terror around them! People ran into our hut to hide, and everything was chaos. Later in the tavern, Sykes suddenly returned and he was angry as never before. Said he’d leave Tortuga to be a farmer in Yorkshire. It was a sad day. During the evening there were also several smaller fights, because Beard returned to our cabin, saying that a treasure map had been stolen from him. Me, Mouth, Admiral and Munk set out with Beard to get it back. It appeared to be a man called the Jew who had taken it. I went out with the Admiral and Mouth to find the Jew, and we did find him and slay him, but alas, he had already given the map to someone else. And during the fight outside the tavern, Beard was wounded once again (bad habit of his), and a very important little golden elephant was stolen. All while our captains was in a meeting with the Brethren of the Coast.
When they returned, they had Duncan with them. They had got more news about me and what Duncan wanted with me. I had told them I could navigate earlier, a man at the tavern in Nombre de Dios taught me, and he also gave me a compass. The man had been navigator aboard the Juggernaut which my father captained, and the compass was from my father. The compas didn’t point north and so it was magical. It lead us to a treasure, and once again… the Dutch Trading Company gave us dubloons. After that it was getting late, and we expected a man called Le Rat – who had meetings with Brethren of the Coast earlier – to show up soon. He had taken our captain’s lucky amulet and wanted 10.000 dubloons in exchange. Like we ever had them… although we almost did, but Le Rat was friends with Death and not a good man to fight. Too little happened though, and our crew decided to take action. But by then it was already too late… Le Rat was gone, nobody know where he went. And the fights were over in Tortuga this time.
and that be the end of the tale for now
