Ao the Overkitty
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Arrrr. Avast, ye land lubbers! We're hear to plunder your hoard of updates, Cap'n Piratecat. Hand them over and we won't make you walk the plank.
Piratecat's up-to-date story hour (updated on 8/10, come game with PCat at GenCon!)
Zaruthustran
The tingling means it’s working!
Avast! Many a lunch has passed without an update to me favorite tale, an I've been forced to waste time on CNN dot carrrrm. Bad times, to be sure.
-z
-z
Richard Rawen
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From the dept of bored desk job workers:
Keelhauling, while sounding innocuous enough, was one of the more brutal means of punishment short of walking the plank into the ocean which, while not as bloody, meant sure drowning as there was nothing to keep you afloat once you tired of treading water... but I digress.
The actual process involved tieing a stout rope around the victims legs or waist and throwing them overboard.
In front of the ship.
While the ship was making Best Speed with the wind...
The rope was long enough to allow the victim to be forced under the prow and under the length of the ship, 'hauling' them under the 'keel'. This wouldn't be so bad except for the barnacles.
For those land lub, er, lovers among you, a barnacle is a sharp edged rock-like deposit that contains a small sea creature. The barnacle acts as the shell for this creature and resembles a volcanic mountain with a large calderra. These are crusted quite thick along the bottom of the ship and so as the victim is forced by the rapidly moving current accross the bottom of the ship they are most often torn to shreds by the thousands of small yet sharp edged crustaceans. The other likely outcome was that the rope would be severed... yet if you survived you would be hauled up and your wounds treated (likely with wine or rum).
All this just for being lax with a few updates... it hardly seems fair
And now, back to something... worklike. *sigh*
Blessings
M < > <
Richard
Keelhauling, while sounding innocuous enough, was one of the more brutal means of punishment short of walking the plank into the ocean which, while not as bloody, meant sure drowning as there was nothing to keep you afloat once you tired of treading water... but I digress.
The actual process involved tieing a stout rope around the victims legs or waist and throwing them overboard.
In front of the ship.
While the ship was making Best Speed with the wind...
The rope was long enough to allow the victim to be forced under the prow and under the length of the ship, 'hauling' them under the 'keel'. This wouldn't be so bad except for the barnacles.
For those land lub, er, lovers among you, a barnacle is a sharp edged rock-like deposit that contains a small sea creature. The barnacle acts as the shell for this creature and resembles a volcanic mountain with a large calderra. These are crusted quite thick along the bottom of the ship and so as the victim is forced by the rapidly moving current accross the bottom of the ship they are most often torn to shreds by the thousands of small yet sharp edged crustaceans. The other likely outcome was that the rope would be severed... yet if you survived you would be hauled up and your wounds treated (likely with wine or rum).
All this just for being lax with a few updates... it hardly seems fair
And now, back to something... worklike. *sigh*
Blessings
M < > <
Richard
KidCthulhu
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Richard Rawen said:
Yeah, but very exfoliating. Leaves you with that youthful glow. Errr, or was that the blood?
Artoomis
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Just for completeness...
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/punish.html
A little more fact-based account of punishments at sea. While the account above was slightly off, the point about barnacles and drowning killing most men who were keel-hauled is absolutley accurate.
Piratecat, I miss you!!
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/punish.html
A little more fact-based account of punishments at sea. While the account above was slightly off, the point about barnacles and drowning killing most men who were keel-hauled is absolutley accurate.
Piratecat, I miss you!!
Probably the wrong day now... but I don't want to miss the opportunity 
Arrg, cats with nine lives? naaa, I be showing you cats. Cats with Nine Tails! If there be no update, I'll be givin' yon' three leg'ed kitty nine more tails than e's used ta!
Hmm, this pirate thing is harder than it looks.
Zustiur.
Arrg, cats with nine lives? naaa, I be showing you cats. Cats with Nine Tails! If there be no update, I'll be givin' yon' three leg'ed kitty nine more tails than e's used ta!
Hmm, this pirate thing is harder than it looks.
Zustiur.
MerakSpielman
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Excellent stuff, PC. Finally got around to reading this thread. Looking forward to more to come!
KidCthulhu
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Hey Pkitty. Don't you owe Sialia a birthday present? I bet she'd love an update. One size fits all, and the color is always right.
Ashrum the Black
Explorer
Hey, how about in honor of my new son turning one month old? Is that worth an update? huh huh?
The proud daddy needs an update to read to his son. You wouldn't want to disappoint a child now would you?
-Ashrum
The proud daddy needs an update to read to his son. You wouldn't want to disappoint a child now would you?
-Ashrum
