meme 001 ✽ the pirate au meme

[ditz]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH - okay, who finished the rum?
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ღ Meme originally from amuse_box but I did add #13 for a wild card. 
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1. Boarded: Your ship has been boarded, and as captain you've been captured! Better hope the other captain gives quarter. Alternatively, it's a nice warm day for a swim. That plank was made for walking.

2. Victory: You've captured another ship! You knew those extra cannons would come in handy. And let's hope they've got lots of swag! Where's the captain? Are you the decent sort, or are you going to rub their face in it for a bit?

3. Swab the decks: You're a cabin boy! It's a good thing you don't mind doing all the dirty work, right? Anyway, the captain's calling; better see what they want.

4. Marooned: For a bit there you'd thought you were in Davy's Jones' grip, but somehow you've washed ashore with the driftwood. As you stare dazedly up from the surf, you have questions. Where are you? And who's that already on the shore?

5. Buried Treasure: Sink me! You've really found the mother lode. . . but you're not the only one. Who gets to take the treasure back to their ship? Better make sure it's you.

6. Rum: Rum, everywhere.

7. Swordfight: It's that person you can't stand! And they've taken your most valuable possession, that one of a kind thing you just can't live without! Better get that trinket back before it and your nemesis are gone over the side forever. Let's hear some swashes buckling.

8. Mutiny: The tack is full of maggots and this drinking water may as well have come from the gutter. There's one person to blame for this, and you're here to make especially sure that they pay for it. The captain does always seem to take the best treasure before everybody else.

9. Kidnapping: Don't they look rather peaceful, innocent even, sleeping so soundly there with their fancy nightclothes and pillows. Brings a tear to your eye, it does. Better take them aboard and send for a ransom.

10. Take a Gamble: Gotta spend your loot somehow, but it must have been the rum that had you bettin' everything at once! You've lost to your hornswagglin' shipmate; what did you lose, and what will they make you do now?

11. Under the Sea: You are now a Mermaid/Merman! That sailor over there sure looks appealing; let's see if you can lure them in with your charms. Don't forget that they can't breathe under water! You do seem to always forget, don't you. . .

12. The Doldrums: Can you say cabin fever? The sails haven't moved in weeks. You're about seeing if your mates can relieve this awful boredom.

13. Wild card. What do. Your choice. It doesn't even have to be here - wait why am I even explaining this to you YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.

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[notanotherdiet]

Can I not simply pay you a visit?

[His men are under clear orders not to harm anyone, but-- Mycroft's mouth tightens in irritation-- he can see a few toward the side already getting antsy. Pirates are pirates in their mind, and they don't understand why they're not already arresting these.]

I suggest you stand your men down. I shall do the same; we can avoid any . . . accidents.

[deductives]

You could, certainly. But you don't.

[Sherlock turns to scowl at Mycroft's men-- yellow bellied is decisively the term. His crew isn't doing much other than simply standing there.]

Below deck, all of you. I'll ring the warning bell when my business with the admiral is completed.

[They respond instantly to his commanding shout, shuffling off between his brother's soldiers.]

[notanotherdiet]

[With a flick of his hand, his men stand down as well, retreating back to their boats until he and Sherlock are alone.]

Still smuggling, I presume? Or have you moved on to better tasks?

[deductives]

[Sherlock's authoritative stance sags to a more sullen sort of slouch once both his and his brother's men vanish.]

Smuggling's just as profitable as any other. No ports razed to the ground recently, if that's what you're wondering.

[Or he wanted something. That was usually the way of things.]

[notanotherdiet]

Oh, wonderful. I'm not stretching the power of my position to its absolute limits by not arresting you.

[He sighs a bit wearily.]

There are more profitable lines of work, Sherlock, on the other side of the legal line.

[deductives]

Oh, like the merchant sailors, perhaps?

[Sherlock scoffs.]

Where do you think half my crew comes from? Not everyone gets into the echelon of command like some people.