What Shall We (hopefully not) Die For?

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Who: Captain Jack Sparrow, Sokka Thunderaxe, Glitch the Headcase, Suki The-Future-Mrs-Thunderaxe, Toph Bei Fong, Katie McCoy, Fox Mulder (possibly??? WOULDN'T IT BE AWESOME IF THERE WAS FOX MULDER IN THIS???), OTHER RANDOM CHARACTERS WHO WANT TO TAG IN (Hornblower? Law? Summers? McCoy? McCloud?)
What: Hijacking one of these. Because a pirate is a

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Glitch was limping to the controls. He'd twisted his left ankle somewhere in the process of boarding-and-not-getting-killed, and was busily focusing on the mission from the Captain so as not to worry about the...carnage.

So this was Third Party. Ozma's emeralds, how would he ever be able to fight them? No, no, don't worry about that, juts focus on the mission of staying in the air and and things.

Gears and levers and switches. "...oh my."

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At some point Jack will pop his head into the engine room and see how Glitch is faring.

"Glitch? We've not as much power as we should to those balloonish things. What's the trouble?"

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He'dd located a schematic of the engine and pinned it to a wall, then unpinned it and stuck it back right-side up. Piping and gauges and none of it made sense but...there on the empty edge of his mind he knew what was wrong, he just needed to push, to presume, to press-

"Pressure!" Glitch finally declared and tapped a gauge with his spanner. The measuring needle was fluctuating wildly, dropping low and then spiking to the proper range. "There's a a a leak, somewhere, probably up in that mess." He gestured to the main pipe which led to the network supporting flotation. "I I think I can..."

And then, staring at the gauges, his expression blanked and his voice went all quiet and focused. "--compensate if I divert some of the power from propulsion at the boiler inlet, but then speed would be compromised." He blinked, cocked his head, and Glitch was back. "O-or the whole thing could blow up."

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"I never want speed compromised, savvy? Speed is my friend. Speed is the especial friend of Captain Jack Sparrow. Just tell me what to do--I'll climb up and fix it!"

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Well so long as someone ELSE was doing the climbing. Glitch hadn't quite recovered from the terror-inducing climb up to the Elizabeth and would be content to stay down in the nice cozy engine room.

"Speed, yes, got it, ah...I I think it's toward the back righ-- um, rear st-starboard balloony thing." He hobbled over to the handy repair supply cabinet and grabbed a roll of...yes, duct tape, or the Third Party actual-duct-repairing variant thereof. He handed the roll to Sparrow. "The leak'll be where the steam's coming out, m-maybe where two pipes come together. The tape'll seal it but you may need to wrap it a few times. A-and I'll check the boiler, see how much fuel we've got."

This suddenly struck him as important, especially if the captain wanted to maintain speed.

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Taking the tape, Sparrow nodded. "Right--back in a tick!"

He was a handy sort in a tight place and always had been, especially when it came to repairing things aboard a ship. The pirate leapt up to the rigging and began to climb, holding the roll of tape in his teeth.