Antenora
Detriment Deleter
Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
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Post by Antenora on May 5, 2005 12:39:28 GMT -5
Great story. We pirates shall defeat the evil ninjas!
I think I should have a pet parrot on my shoulder. Or better yet, a crow.
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Post by Amber on May 5, 2005 12:41:17 GMT -5
Great story. We pirates shall defeat the evil ninjas! I think I should have a pet parrot on my shoulder. Or better yet, a crow. I read that as "Or better yet, a cow" I was quite frightened until I re-read it.
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Post by Ennui on May 5, 2005 12:42:53 GMT -5
That can be arranged. We're on a random island, after all...
I plan to make the Ninjas take the pirates to their fortress to be interrogated. On the way, we'll hear stories of treasure somewhere near the fortress, which will pique piratical interest. And Dante will just hang around beingly bitingly witty to everyone...
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Post by Dante on May 5, 2005 12:46:21 GMT -5
And Dante will just hang around beingly bitingly witty to everyone... Which, appropriately enough, is what I do in real life.
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Post by Ennui on May 5, 2005 13:01:17 GMT -5
My grammar is awful. But you've caught it in a quotation, so I won't bother to edit it...
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Post by Ennui on May 6, 2005 13:28:34 GMT -5
CHAPTER 2
"We have them all at our mercy! Let's slit their throats and chuck them in a lake to be eaten by piranhas," Pee-Jai suggested.
Luckless Ennui feigned a mournful expression. "I fear that wouldn't work, swab. Ye see, when the Danish locked me in a brig o' a lake-barge with nothing to eat, I became an expert, yeargh, in plucking and devouring piranhas raw. A piranha doesn't swim that'd dare to nibble me now, yeargh..."
Am-Ber patiently put one of her tiny, elegant hands firmly over the pirate's mouth.
"This one showed spirit, and defeated me in the path of the warrior. Besides, we should interrogate them before we kill them."
Pee-Jai looked sour. "Just 'cos I suggested it..."
"Excuse me," a sardonic and furious voice cut in, "are you just going to leave us to rot under this rope?"
"If I had my way..." muttered Pee-Jai, advancing on the defenceless Dante, but Am-Ber yanked him back.
"He of the hair like fire has a point. Cut the wire and bind their hands with it. As for you," she murmured to Ennui, "give me your blade, or I will take you at your word about the piranhas..."
Ennui handed over his fine rapier fairly quickly. Am-Ber smiled sweetly as she tied his wrists together.
"There. Perfect. Now let us travel to the fortress of the Six-Six-Seventh Serenity..."
EDIT: This is only about half of Chapter 2. I'll write the rest tomorrow. Enjoy!
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Post by Dante on May 6, 2005 13:46:13 GMT -5
Yes, naturally, you have to tie it in to 667. Good half-chapter.
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Post by Amber on May 6, 2005 13:57:42 GMT -5
I like Pee-Jai in this chapter. I'm nicely evil(?) as well. I wonder if we'll meet anyone else at the Six-Six-Seventh Serenity?
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Post by Ennui on May 6, 2005 23:53:09 GMT -5
I've got a Hepatitis A jab this morning when I was intending to continue this, so I fear you may not see more till about Monday. Sorry...
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Post by PJ on May 7, 2005 0:24:16 GMT -5
How come I'm the incompetent one? Huh? 'Nora, Dante, you got lucky this time. But next time..... Ennui, when they escape from 667, make sure it isn't my fault, or you'll find a shuriken lodged in your......ego!
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Post by Amber on May 7, 2005 2:50:45 GMT -5
I've got a Hepatitis A jab this morning when I was intending to continue this, so I fear you may not see more till about Monday. Sorry... I feel your pain, I hate jabs and needles. *shudder* It makes my skin crawl.
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Antenora
Detriment Deleter
Fiendish Philologist
Put down that harpoon gun, in the name of these wonderful birds!
Posts: 15,891
Likes: 113
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Post by Antenora on May 7, 2005 5:14:48 GMT -5
Needles make me nervous, too.
Anyhow, I'm enjoying this story greatly.
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Post by Ennui on May 7, 2005 5:18:32 GMT -5
You were conspicuous by your absence in the last bit...I'll work in you and your crow in the next wad...
The jab wasn't bad. Too bad. The nurse really irritated me though...
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Post by Ennui on May 12, 2005 7:47:12 GMT -5
CHAPTER TWO CONTINUED
The three captives were tied together in mercilessly tight knots by Pee-Jai, who was taking out his anger at being downtrodden by Am-Ber. He also produced three blindfolds, and began to apply them.
"Ye don't need to blindfold me," Luckless Ennui babbled. "Ye see, I'm blind already, after a cutlass wound the French gave me, aye..."
"Really?" Pee-Jai answered. "Then you won't mind if I impale your eyeballs with a lightsaber spoon..."
Ennui submitted in due order. Shrewd 'Nora, while the Ninjas had been distracted, had made peculiar chirruping, cawing sounds, and all at once a large black crow alighted on her shoulder. Pee-Jai tried to stab it, but it flew out of reach, and then regained its perch when the coast was clear.
"What's the point of blind-folding us, anyway?" Dante snarled. "We don't know where we are, or where we're going."
"Becket-Godot-as-referred-to-by-Snicket," cawed Nora's crow, who was very well-read. But no one listened to him. The European Commissioner for the environment noted something about "awareness of avian welfare."
So it was that they set off to the impregnable fortress of the Sixth-Sixth-Seventh Serenity, also known as the Place Which Is Hard To Annunciate When Drunk.
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Post by Amber on May 12, 2005 7:50:48 GMT -5
Yzay! I like Pee-Jai's spoon.
I find Sixth-Sixth-Seventh Serenity hard to say anyway. If I say it out loud that is, it's okay in my head.
I love it.
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