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[all7seas]

Who: Jack Sparrow and ANYONE
Broadcast: Fleetwide - Unfiltered
Action: Cargo Bay of the Bishop
When: Soon after appearing on the ship in a shower of brilliant confetti and chocolate

[The pirate's got the general idea of things after the rather sterile initiation aboard the Marsiva with all of the Metal Men serving him plates of mushy foodstuffs. All told, it hadn't been unlike the time he'd disguised himself as a eunuch to infiltrate the Moroccan sultan's choicest harem, but ended up assigned to polish the sultan's prized marble gazing ball collection instead. You were low eunuch on the totem, you didn't guard virgins; you rubbed balls day and night until they gleamed like a thousand dying suns.

But you can't let that get you down. You find a way to profit.

Which brings us back to the Metal Men aboard the Marsiva. Jack's first taste of futuristic robotics, they were rather like eunuchs, but were hard and shiny, like marble gazing balls. There were no virgins anywhere to behold. That was where all the similarities between the Marsiva and the sultan's palace stopped.]

Just like rubbing the sultan's damnable balls again. [Alert listeners will hear him mutter that whilst musing over his adventures and trying to figure out use of the coms.

[The Bishop, though, had possibilities. Its cargo hold was empty save for a bicycle that didn't move and moving pathway to nowhere, but it had plenty of smuggling potential. Maybe, too, a place to hide the rum.

Later, louder, with video:] Captain Jack Sparrow, here, aboard the bloody metal box, Bishop.

[He doesn't care that Cersei is the "official" captain.]

I've got a keg of ale and a lovely bottle of rum [no he doesn't] to give to the gentleman -- or lady -- [no, he won't] what knows the prime trade routes in this quadrant of the universe. Savvy?

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[all7seas]

Sevenish?

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[mucked]

What do you think?

[ take a stab, sparrow. give us a guess. will she be any less indisposed at seven? ]

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[all7seas]

....Eightish?

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[mucked]

Unfortunate for the both of us, Captain, but I do believe my schedule is all full up for the foreseeable future.

[ oh, but she might as well have some fun with it. ] If it's that important to you, I could arrange you a different meeting. My First Mate has all those details by heart.

[ her life. her career. her resume. now, she suspects nothing will come of the offer -- but she's not above a prank or two. ]

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[all7seas]

[Perfect, as it's nearly April Fools' Day.]

Pity. But understood, darling. Has she all her teeth?

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[mucked]

Every last one. And in peak condition.

[ and she sounds so utterly pleased, as well. ]

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[all7seas]

Lovely and strong? With an eye for the sea, and long locks that blow in the salt wind? Knows how to aim a weapon and load a cannon? Enjoys the finer things?

[SET HIM UP.]

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[mucked]

Damned finest ricochet shot you've ever seen. [ ... ] And always looks becoming in blue.

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[all7seas]

Hmmmm...Always preferred green, myself. Or black. Or gold. How many eyes is she missing, this lady?

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[mucked]

Both eyes present and accounted for. [ should she feel bad about this? at least for steve's sake? except she knows steve's decent-hearted enough to perhaps even befriend the fiend. ] Blue, as well, by the way.

[all7seas]

[Oh he's never had luck with the blue-eyed ones, nor trusted them very much.]

Ah, pity. Partial to the dark-eyed, me.


[Also the conversation is getting a little creepy because he never would have pegged Peggy for a madame.]

Give her my regards, in any case. Captain Jack Sparrow sends them, late of the Black Pearl. With any luck, I'll soon be getting back to her.

[mucked]

-- The Black Pearl?

[ good sense and deduction tell her it's a ship, but she might as well ask. ]

[all7seas]

[Don't get him started on his boat, Peggy.]

The fastest ship in the Caribbean, love. The most beautiful. The bestest.

[And THIS is what he truly loves and desires.] Makes this Bishop look like cannon food. Gorgeous.

[mucked]

The Caribbean? [ that, plus mode of speech. plus appearance. plus the bit about cannon food...? ]

You're talking about a sailing ship, aren't you?

[all7seas]

[Well what sort of ship did she THINK he was talking about??]

Aye. And I know a fair few ladies, as such, who are some of the best sailors around.

[SO THERE.]

[mucked]

[ monotone: ] How good of you to acknowledge them so broadly, and without any prompting.

[ --you don't get points for it, friend. ]

[all7seas]

[You already prompted him, Peggy, with your hissy fit about resumes.]

That is because I am very, very good.

[mucked]

[ hissy fit! wow. ]

Even so, it's a pity. Sailing ships are a bit passé.

[ oh, look, more french. ]

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[uprightness]

Your regards were noted.

[ this is it. That's the person steve is going to throw out of the airlock :|| ]

Captain.

[ well peggy wasn't lying. She does have a first mate with blue eyes and judging by the size of him, he will know his way with a weapon.

Actually, he could try acquainting this person with his shield. Three or four times. ]

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[all7seas]

[Who is this blond beefcake? Jack isn't making the connection. He's still thinking lady.]

Erm.........they were? Excellent...?

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[uprightness]

You wanted to talk to me, I heard.

[ his tone is so serious, the old captain america one but he's biting back a smile. he's usually the one who doesn't get it, this reversal isn't too bad. ]

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[all7seas]

Are you the bloke what has the charts of the trade routes?

[It might be. This would be a very clean-cut smuggler, though. Still. It takes all kinds.]

What do you run, usually?

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[uprightness]

'fraid not, not me.

[ does he look like a smuggler to you, wow jack. ]

Steve Rogers, First Mate aboard the Starstruck.

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[all7seas]

[Wait, he's beginning to get it now...]

Ah.




Ah.


You're the mate, then. THE mate! Well met, Steven.

[Wow Jack admires you, Steve Rogers. You put up with so much.]

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[uprightness]

[ you have no idea, Jack :< ]

Wouldn't say the mate. Just a first mate.