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[pirate_gibbs]

Things are tense. Very tense. And Gibbs keeps eying the lifeboats. Thinking that soon he and the captain will have to use one.

Not that Gibbs is letting on about that fear. He's busy inspecting the ship in the early morning, hoping that maybe he can forestall the mutiny one day more.

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[pirate_gibbs]

Gibbs does notice such things. He does his job well, even when he's not trying as hard as he ought to.

He takes a closer look for a few minutes.

[pirate_gibbs]

Truth be told, Gibbs is an expert on covert napping from his navy days. So he can tell all the signs. But which of the crew would be so slack as to do such a thing?

"Whoever's in there, you best come out. This isn't a ship for lollygaggers."

[pirate_gibbs]

Naturally, Gibbs jumps about a foot up and a foot forward, hitting a crate. He then turns around, already sure the face will not be one he knows, since the accent is not Chinese. Or English.

[pirate_gibbs]

Gibbs gives the rather impressive looking bald man a look. He has the look of a Royal Marine. But something else. "You seem familiar...we met in the Bar, yes?" Which makes sense. Where would a Royal Marine come from here?

[pirate_gibbs]

"You came here with the captain?" But wouldn't she have told him about this?

Well, she has been dealing with a lot lately.

[pirate_gibbs]

Gibbs offers his finest look of dubious. A finer dubious look you couldn't buy in Paris.

"Then I suppose I should tell the captain about you."

[pirate_gibbs]

"We do. Unless you can explain your presence." Gibbs should be scared.

In fact, he is scared.

But he has his duty to ship and captain, and that means not letting the man who seems to be made from marble get in his way.

[pirate_gibbs]

Gibbs wants to run. It would be prudent. He takes a breath. And promises himself a lot of rum later.

"She is the captain. And the King of the Pirates. Unless and until she does something that renders her an unfit captain, she stays as captain.

"And as for...bad pirate juju...it would be worse magic indeed to risk offending the captain of the Flying Dutchman by standing against his wife."