pirate sermon

"REPENT!!" shouts the big bearded fellow. "Stealing is WRONG!"

"BOOOOOOO!" The pirate crowd screams.

The preacher adroitly uses his book to deflect a rotten tomato.

"TAKING WHAT YOU DID NOT EARN IS LAZY!" he yells over the crowd.

"We LIKE being lazy!" someone yells back. The preacher dodges a few more flung food items, and actually snatches a chicken leg as it flies by. He takes a greedy bite before flinging it aside.

"IT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU RICH AND KEEP YOU FROM HONEST WORK!"

The crowd roars at this.

"YOU DON'T WANT TO BE RICH!" screams the preacher in an appalled tone "IT WILL ONLY LEAD YOU INTO DRUNKENNESS!"

Several shouts of "HURRAY!" and "AMEN!" come from the crowd at this, and pretty much everyone raises an enthusiastic mug to the sky. "Preach on, Preacher man!" Some one shouts drunkenly. This must be the worst preacher you have ever heard. Execpt- getting a better look now you can see that the big blond preacher has an extravagant scar down one cheek, incredibly gaudy golden earings and what looks like an artificial hand.

"A drunkenness, my friends" calls the preacher gravely, as the cheers die down "drunkeness will only lead you into SIN! AND THE COMPANY OF DISREPUTABLE WOMEN!!"

More cheers explode from the crowd, and the preacherman continues over them at the top of his lungs:

"LET US ALL SING!" he roars and wets his lips from a glass of his own before leading the crowd in a boisterous hymn:

"Oh there once was a peg-legged lass
she had one eye made o' glass
she called for RUM
you scurvy SCUM
drink UP my hearties YO HO!!"

The crowd roars with laughter, singing along with every verse, and when the preacher,with an evil gold-toothed grin, doffs his hat to take a bow, its not rotten eggs that come flying to the stage this time but coins and other tradeable goods. He catches most of this deftly in his giant hat.

Suddenly the big blond pirate points into the crowd with his mechanical hand. If you didn't know better, you would think he is pointing right at--

"YOU THERE!" He shouts. You and several people around you point at yourselves questioningly. "That's right, you! Do you want to be a pirate? My crew could use a kid like you, and" he jingles the coins in his hat meaningfully "I'm paying real money! Step up, step up! Unless of course you think you'll get a better deal from the Bogeys when the sun goes down!"

He seems to be offering you a job. Do you go up front and take him up on his offer?


Or would you rather try to slip out of the crowd and make an attempt to escape instead?

On the other hand, you are hungry. If you want to try to sneak some of that barbecue before trying anything else click here.


While you decide the preacher and crowd continue singing:

I met two lovely clones!
They were cold and all alone!
But they called for BEER
and kicked my REAR!
drink UP my hearties YO HO!!

Oh my lady's name is MEG!
She's got cybernetic legs!
when she strips a COG
She calls for GROG!
drink UP my hearties YO HO!!

oh there once was a bawdy dame!
and I forgot her name!
she called for WINE
and broke my SPINE
drink UP my hearties YO HO!!

I once met a mutant girl!
she had auburn eyes and curls
She called for ALE
By her curly TAIL
drink UP my hearties YO HO!!


There are quite a few more verse after these, but I think you get the idea.


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