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ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:15 / 24.07.07
Previous to this, I was expecting the elevator operator to be the Watson to my hotel detective's Holmes, but I think now, the front desk clerk Templechurch will be her sidekick. YES.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:17 / 24.07.07
"which you would be welcome on at any time."

AWESOME!
(Can we pillage and plunder? Even just a litle bit)
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:18 / 24.07.07
this is the smaller one:

  
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:18 / 24.07.07
I miss plundering.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:19 / 24.07.07
Yes, please do pillage and plunder. In specific I'd appreciate it if you'd plunder the first mate's personal orange ceramic mug, which she loses and indirectly accuses people of stealing about twice a week.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:20 / 24.07.07
You couldn't just oh, I dont know...accidentally tie her to the anchor.


And what the heck does Turan-turah mean?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:21 / 24.07.07
A song about the Shroud of Turin, recited to the tune of "Qu Cera, Cera?"
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:23 / 24.07.07
It's a bastard operetta equivalent of toora loo, innit?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:27 / 24.07.07
...Sing me the kind of song
You hear in an operetta
Sing me the words I long
To hear out of Violetta
In an operetta
She will fast be outcast
From her castle, with nary a friend
But, since she's a princess,
There's hints of a prince
In the end
She'll enjoy some employ as a boy
With her name changed to Pip
Soon, by gum, she'll become
The brave captain of some
Pirate ship
Singing a thing fit for a king
In an operetta
In an operetta
It's the all-singing,all-dancing
Princess Violetta
Of the operetta
In an operetta
Within an operetta...

(Magnetic Fields)
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:27 / 24.07.07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAl4EpuHv5w
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:27 / 24.07.07
Sure, it'll all start with some sailors and soothing promises of 'sexay girls,' but somehow, by the end of it there'll be me with a parasol in one hand, some foeman's sword in the other, and blood all over my cute little sundress, boat sailing off in the distance under it's new crew. Again.

Maybe if we were going for two boats. Though, Barbelith vs the Italian Navy does have an awfully nice ring to it.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:28 / 24.07.07
Not as nice as Captain Keggers.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:31 / 24.07.07
With Papers at the wheel?

(Because, you know, my comedic sense of direction would lead to some HILARIOUS high seas adventures and lost cities of Atlantis and Nantucket, the awkward and revealing innuendoes of Davey Jones's Locker-Room, et cetera)
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:33 / 24.07.07
i get to be chain monkey!!!
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:33 / 24.07.07
Make it so!

(sorry, wrong ship)
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:33 / 24.07.07
They always hang the Captains first, or make'em walk the plank, so sure, take the title all you want. I'm just in for the pundering and whatnot.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:34 / 24.07.07
can i have your sundress when you're done with it? to be chain monkey in?
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:35 / 24.07.07
chain monkey?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:36 / 24.07.07
Every pirate needs a novelty animal sidekick, Hat.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:36 / 24.07.07
that's where they send you down a little dank hole into the chain locker and you crouch in the dark and make sure the chain lays pretty as they're drawing in the anchor. it smells like sea and it's nice and secretive in there.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:36 / 24.07.07
Actually, y'know, I could stand to be gunner. Like the idea of using a ship to shoot things, and nine tenths of the time there'd be exactly nothing for me to do but lie around and wait. And drink, eat, and sleep, and nothing. Then a bit of loud noise, back to the eating.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:37 / 24.07.07
Oh. I was going with giant squid on my shoulder.
But I can change my plans.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:37 / 24.07.07
You've got to take the parasol and sword, too. Nothing says 'chain monkey' quite like a parasol and flashing some steel.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:37 / 24.07.07
Yis.

The LA ship does have the advantage of having a cannon.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:37 / 24.07.07
YOu just want to play with the full-auto cannons
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:39 / 24.07.07
Oh all the adjustments Im planning to that ship.

It'll be the first ship with trebuchets!
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:40 / 24.07.07
Oh. I was going with giant squid on my shoulder.
But I can change my plans.

Note: originally, I read that as "...change my pants." Hilarity.

But, really, having giant squid on your shoulder is going to lead to one of those weird Captain Hook dealies, where you give order from within the strange and oddly pornographic digestive system of said giant squid.

I'm just sayin'.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:40 / 24.07.07
In some small way, 'full auto cannons' was possibly why I decided to be born. Strafing cannonball run! Accept no substitutes.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:41 / 24.07.07
Yeah... so? What's you point? MAYBE THAT"S WHAT I WANT!
 
 
Deculture Decedent
07:43 / 24.07.07
Giant squid on the boat would make it hard for us to hit land and start looking for new recruits. Two out of three we approach, the conversation would quickly turn to 'No, the ship's not under attack, that's the Captain's animal mascot.' They'd never believe us, and we can't get all the crew who do actual work on the ship by scouring for drunks and signing them up for a turn before the mast while they're unconscious.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:44 / 24.07.07
but what if it was a tiny giant squid?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:45 / 24.07.07
They'd never believe us, and we can't get all the crew who do actual work on the ship by scouring for drunks and signing them up for a turn before the mast while they're unconscious.

But isn't that how we sended up signed into service aboard this Ship of Fools? I had such a headache the next morning, but hey! Look! The Mediterranean!
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
07:45 / 24.07.07
dunno, isn't that how they used to do it back in the old days? shanghai-ing and whatnot?
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
07:45 / 24.07.07
sended=ended, obvs. My typos are neurotic.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
07:46 / 24.07.07
Well thats how I got you folks into the lateshift!

oh. did I say that outloud?

CRUD.
 
  

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