For that matter, how?

That's what I was wondering.

X-post!

This is one of the walls you are leaving, right? Not one of your new walls that should really be looking out for you.

Leaving walls are attacking. I'm sure the new walls will pull their own stunts.

The walls are probably still reeling from the paint explosion.

Maybe they are trying to keep Sarameg, or at least some of her.

Stands to reason.

Charter had an all-day appointment. Someone was supposed to be here between 8-5.

It is currently 4:53.

Blender, toaster, toaster oven, flour- packed.

Not true. The charter they sailed under was a working model for anarchist styled democracies. Pirate utopias are pretty fascinating, actually. Recruitment was not that uncommon. And it was far better to be a pirate than a member of the British Navy. While there were certainly pirates who were sadistic killers, it wasn't the norm and wasn't considered good for business. I'd expect you found as many sadists among Her Majesty's navy where the slightest infractions could get you scourged or keelhauled.

Yeah, I'm aware of the histories of Pirate utopias. Being on the crew of a pirate ship was undoubtedly better than being on the crew of a naval ship. But that did not change that as far as the people they stole from, pirates were stone killers. They were "utopian" even democratic among theselves. But if your ship was taken by pirates, your odds of dying or being enslaved were pretty good. A typical merchantment taken had 24 to 50 crewman. The odds oa pirate ship having 24 to 50 openings were pretty bad. Sometimes they'd leave the ship adrift, stripped of everything valuable and any sails that would let the location of the attack be reported in a hurry. But that was only if the odds of anyone finding the the people left on the ship was poor, at least anytime soon, meaning that it was still probably a death sentence. If there were good odds of the ship being found soon, then some other solution had to be found, because if the survivors of a a pirate attack were found too soon after the attack, that increased the odds of someone tracking the pirates. All the non-fiction attempts to romanticize pirates focus on their internal governance, and what they did with the loot. It kind of glosses over the actual piracy, cause there was nothing romantic about that.

And no, nothing romanitc about Navies, Privateers, and other criminal conspiracies that took place under cover of law. Doesn't make pirates anything less than brutal.

I think your definition of "romance" is insufficient if it doesn't include free, law-flouting, dangerous rogues. That is romantic. Both in the capital "R" Byronic sense, and the small "r" romance.