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Back in the day we used to "declare initiative". "What is your intent?" before rolling initiative. In that case, if the Pirate say "I'll try to jump 5 feet away" and barbarian wins initiative, then the barbarian tries to hit the Pirate while he is trying to move/hide or whatever he wants to...

This is what makes sense to me: The barbarian surprises the Pirate, so he has a partial action: moving out of the rock. If he wants to attack directly, then that action is moving out of the rock (let's say it costs 10') and moving another 30'. In this round the Pirate is flatfooted, but he is...