Originally Posted by
GeneralHankerchief
*SNAP! CRACK!!!*
Finally, everybody looked up. The mast, which had taken a direct cannon hit a day and a half ago thanks to the Four Horsemen, was finally starting to give way. Everybody looked on in horror as dozens of splinters flew down, a rather large one impaling Joooray on the neck.
"Oh... oh God!" somebody moaned, as Joooray, gasping for breath, staggered around the ship. Of course, the splinter happened to pierce his carotid artery. He would be gone now regardless of whether he fell off the ship or not. Meanwhile, pandemonium had taken hold of the crew.
"EVERY ABLE SEAMAN UP THE RIGGING AND TO THE MAST!" Captain Rabbit bellowed, with his officers already rounding up the crew. "TIE OFF THE BREAK WITH ROPE! TIE HER TIGHT, LADS, SHE'S GOT TO LAST US 'TILL WE MAKE PORT IN NASSAU!!!" Everybody was in action at once, running to and fro, climbing, fetching rope, and yelling. Nobody noticed Joooray, still gasping for oxygen, pass out and topple over the deck.
Thirty tense minutes later, and it seemed as if the mast would hold out, Rabbit finally allowed himself a moment to breathe. "Bleedin' Horsemen," he muttered to himself, and retired for the night.
Day 8 tally:
Joooray: 8 (White_eyes, A1, DiY, Subotan, CDF, TinCow, Yaro, Split) :skull:
Reenk Roink: 6 (Joooray, Seamus, Blackadder, Kukri, shlin, Centurion)
Yaropolk: 1 (Reenk)
Cultured Drizzt fan: 1 (Louis)
TinCow: 1 (ACIN)
Abstained: 1 (Crazed Rabbit)