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[GeneralHankerchief]

Post #1 of main thread.

Night 0

The dawn bell did not have a chance to ring on the Presence this morning. Everyone was aroused far earlier, courtesy of the piercing scream of one of the ship's watchstanders. Naturally, the crew was a bit annoyed, but they were too hung over and sleepy to overtly grumble. However, they were quickly shaken out of their stupor upon the sight that greeted them: Their captain, the same man that brainstormed the wildly successful attack on Charleston - dead, with a British flag painted on his chest.

Quickly, the men started cursing. There was no quicker cure for a terrible hangover than a terrible shock to the system, after all. Eventually, cursing turned into shouting, and shouting turned into drawn cutlasses. Surely, the British agents could have sat back and just watched as the crew sliced each other to pieces, but it was not to be.

"No!" one able seaman cried, one who had shown barely enough intelligence to carry a broom and sweep it in the past. Surprised by his own bravery, he continued on. "This be just what the scumbucket scallywags want us to do! Nay, I'll not see our haul be put in danger just because of a bit o' adversity! We be needin' to organize! We be needin' to elect a new Captain. It's just what the old man would've wanted us to do!"

Ashamed by itself (and still a bit shocked that their fellow sailor had been able to not only form an intelligent thought but eloquate it as well), the crowd slowly fell silent in agreement. He was right, after all. The Presence was under attack, and everybody worth their salt knew that a ship in battle without a captain was a ship soon to be sunk, or worse.

The Stewards and Watchstanders, currently the senior officers on the ship, started counting votes. Since the majority of the pirates were illiterate, they each swore oaths to be true with their counts, to the best of their knowledge.

"Now remember gents," one said, "if ye be elected Captain, it be yer prerogative to appoint a First Mate and Quartermaster, and replace them at will. Ye also be gettin' a set salary o' 15 pieces of treasure per day. Ye forfeit yer vote, except in the instance of a tie where you and yer officers have tiebreakin' authority. Should the three of ye be deadlocked still, then ye have final say over who walks the plank. Any questions, the lot o' ye?"

A resounding "nay" came out from the crowd.

"Good," said the man. "THEN GET VOTIN', YE RUSTY SCUPPERS, AND DON'T TAKE ALL DAY EITHER! THERE'S STILL WORK TO BE DONE!"

The men scurried every which way. The fight for the Presence was on.

OOC: It is now Day 1. As stated above, your only task today is to vote for a Captain. Votes must be lodged in the following way:

Select: GeneralHankerchief

Vote changes must be made like so:

Unselect: GeneralHankerchief
Select: TosaInu

You will be rewarded 3 pieces of treasure for lodging a legal vote. Voting will last until 12:01 PM, Wednesday September 30th, US Eastern time. Not all rounds will be this long, but as this is the very phase exceptions will be made.

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Souls aboard (51):
a completely inoffensive name
A Very Super Market
A1 Unit
Andres
Askthepizzaguy
atheotes
Beefy187
Beskar
Captain Blackadder
Centurion1
Chaotix
CountArach
Crazed Rabbit
Cultured Drizzt Fan
Death is Yonder
Diana Abnoba
DisgruntledGoat
Double A
gibsonsg91921
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
Jolt
Joooray
Khazaar
KukriKhan
LittleGrizzly
Lord Winter
Louis VI the Fat
miotas
pevergreen
Psychonaut
Reenk Roink
ricera10
Sasaki Kojiro
scottishranger
Seamus Fermanagh
shlin28
Sigurd
slashandburn
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
SSNeoperestroika
Subotan
taka
TinCow
Tratorix
White_eyes:D
woad&fangs
Xehh II
Yaropolk
Yaseikhaan
YLC

[GeneralHankerchief]

Post 166 of main thread.

Day 1

It was another very noisy day aboard the Presence. The souls aboard were a very hearty bunch and quickly got over the shock of the death of their previous Captain. Several sailors put their names forward to replace them, including TinCow, who spun a tale of how he stole the Governor of Barbados's daughter, and shlin28, who appealed to the lowest Able Seamen aboard.

However, none attracted the following better than Crazed Rabbit, who made a very early, passionate speech that appealed to his fellow pirates' hearts. He ended up being elected in such a landslide that his elevation to Captain by midday was a certainty, and the rest of the crew was set to get back to work (although some of them still had enough time to get together and discuss English literature, which struck the other sailors as a bit strange).

At sundown, it was made official. In a very brief but traditional ceremony, Captain Crazed Rabbit was handed a brand new tricorner hat and the keys to the Captain's quarters.

"All right lads," he said to the gathered crew, "I know it's been a tough ordeal for ye, and I thank ye for the trust ye be puttin' in me. And I tell ye right now that YER TRUST WILL NOT GO UNREWARDED!" There was a resounding cheer to this. "We're gonna find out who those Brits and who those Mavens are, and we're gonna send a message to the rest of the New World that nobody, I mean NOBODY, shakes the sails of the Presence!!!"

Another resounding cheer, this one lasting far longer.

"Now," Captain Rabbit said to the crowd in a bit more subdued of a tone, "Captain be a hard job, so I be appointin' me a couple officers to assist me in this task. Henceforth, Louis VI the Fat be yer First Mate and Sigurd be yer new Quartermaster. Treat them well, lads, for they mean to get us to Nassau in good shape.

This time, Rabbit's statements were greeted by a smattering of applause only. It was a tradition that officers were never as popular with the crew as the Captain was, so Louis and Sigurd thought nothing of it. They made their way up to Rabbit's space and took their places, flanking the Captain and facing the crowd.

"All right, lads," Rabbit said, "it be a long day and it's about time we sailors got some rest. Watchstanders! On duty! The rest of ye, to the cabins!"

Everybody filed out and went below deck. Night had already fallen.

Day 1 tally:

Crazed Rabbit: 28 (Rabbit, Drizzt, taka, Louis, A1, Seamus, khaan, Goat, Centurion, Sigurd, atheotes, woad, slash, Joooray, Double A, Sasaki, AVSM, ATPG, Yaro, Kukri, White_eyes, Iskander, Diana, CA, pever, Reenk, DiY, ricera)
TinCow: 7 (TinCow, Winter, john, Beskar, SSNeo, gibson, Grizzly)
shlin28: 2 (shlin, Tratorix)
Split: 2 (Split, Chaotix)
ACIN: 2 (ACIN, miotas)
Andres: 2 (Andres, Jolt)
miotas: 1 (Psycho)
Self-selections: 2 (Khazaar, Blackadder)

Illegal votes/didn't vote: 5 (scottish, Xehh, YLC, Beefy, Subotan)

It is now Night 1. Please send in your orders.

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Souls aboard (50/51):
a completely inoffensive name
A Very Super Market
A1 Unit
Andres
Askthepizzaguy
atheotes
Beefy187
Beskar
Captain Blackadder
Centurion1
Chaotix
CountArach
Crazed Rabbit
Cultured Drizzt Fan
Death is Yonder
Diana Abnoba
DisgruntledGoat
Double A
gibsonsg91921
Iskander 3.1
johnhughthom
Jolt
Joooray
Khazaar
KukriKhan
LittleGrizzly
Lord Winter
Louis VI the Fat
miotas
pevergreen
Psychonaut
Reenk Roink
ricera10
Sasaki Kojiro
scottishranger
Seamus Fermanagh
shlin28
Sigurd
slashandburn
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
SSNeoperestroika
Subotan
taka
TinCow
Tratorix
White_eyes:D
woad&fangs

Yaropolk
Yaseikhaan
YLC

NOTE: Xehh's spot is currently vacant. If I do not find a replacement by the end of the next day phase, I will remove the role from play.