It shouldn't have come as a surprise that one member of their 'crew' was already making another attempt to give them all the slip. As he turned his attention away from the sky to glance at Elizabeth and the others now that everyone was assembling outside, Norrington noticed that a certain pirate seemed to be in the process of putting as much space ( Read more... )

( from hereA huge palace-like structure stretched up to the sky with smaller towers and other little buildings radiated out from the base. From the descriptions, this was Hollow Bastion ( Read more... )

To the pirate, boats be boats. They all sailed back and fourth (some faster and plainly better than others) on the waves in the open sea. It was quite a new concept for a boat to sail so fast--but to sail upwards was unheard of ( Read more... )

So we had Will and Elizabeth eagar to leave, Jack wanting to commandeer a new ship, and James - at least, that's what Touma thought he had heard earlier - wanting information on Port Royal ( Read more... )

Japan. It sounded like it must have lay far to the east, but that was young William's best guess. He had been a blacksmith before all of this piracy had entered his life. It hadn't been his business to become concerned with things like geography. Still, the man had to have quite an impressive ship if he'd sailed all the way to Port Royal on his own ( Read more... )

On the way back to the little sloop, he made very well sure that a couple necessities were brought along for the trip: From a still-breathing carcass on the roadside he acquired a half-consumed container of rum, then for some unknown reason to the pirate he happened across a little jar of paprika toss on the road which was picked up as well. Any ( Read more... )

'A bit dirty' was an understatement. The blue coat had seen better days - it wasn't really blue anymore. Norrington shot a warning look after Jack as the pirate retreated, but he left his pistol holstered. No need to go back on his word. For now, Sparrow could do as he pleased, as long as he kept his own word and returned to the waiting ship. It ( Read more... )

After a while of poking around Jack had concluded one thing: This little sloop had a lot of gadgets. Every time he poked a button or groped a lever, some kind of light would respond or strange beep would sound out of nowhere. He spent about an hour searching for the source of said beep, ducking and looking up into the roof of the cabin. After a ( Read more... )

Norrington didn't know whether today was Tuesday or Wednesday or perhaps Saturday ( Read more... )