The DDO Chronicle: Issue 345

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[PurpleTimb]

Tell me about your most favorite pirate adventure!
This one time I downloaded every episode of Doctor Who...

[Memnir]

Tell me about your most favorite pirate adventure!It involved a lot of drinking, three leather belts, improvised crampons, a telephone pole, girls to impress, and ended with free cable.

[Jerevth]

It starts with a farmboy and a beautiful girl named Buttercup.
Then there's the Dread Pirate Roberts, a Giant, a Spaniard and an oft quoted Sicilian.
You'd find it inconceivable but, as you wish.

[mbartol]

There was this pirate named One-Eyed Willy who hid a treasure...

[C-Dog]

Some decades ago, in highschool, a friend and i "inherited" a 23', double-ended monterey fishing boat - that was kinda sinking.

https://www.woodenboat.com/sites/default/files/wetton-045.jpg
(But not that big (that's about 30'), and not NEARLY so nice looking!)

We beached it on the bay next to some other boats, rigged up a 4x4 and mooring line so it looked legit like all the ones next to it, put updside-down trashcans in it to support it at high tide, and proceeded to start fixing it up. A week later it disappeared - so I called the Harbor Patrol to report our stolen boat! They said "We confiscated that piece of junk! It has about $500 in fines owed - who is this?!" <click>

[byzantinebob]

Like all good stories, it starts with drinking and ends in drinking. No one remembers the middle on account of the drinking.

[cdbd3rd]

It involved a lot of drinking, three leather belts, improvised crampons, a telephone pole, girls to impress, and ended with free cable.

Free cable for you, or for the three leather belted girls? ;)

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Pirate adventure....

Well, there WAS this one time at Pirate Camp where we , and, then.... But...

Naw. I better not.





...but if there HAD been a time at Pirate Camp, it would've been kinda like
https://66.media.tumblr.com/053dd1e0faf8b6fb07f948a88d768046/tumblr_ohh0gyKk5n1qdhps7o5_r2_250.gif

[Claver]

yarrrhhh!

[Fnordian]

Aye, I remember we had a pretty experienced crew. Let's see...there was Blackbeard, Bluebeard, Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, Captain Hook, Anne Bonny, Long John Silver, Smee, and me.

We sailed the seven seas (all in one night!), discovered new lands, looted, pillaged, met lots of sassy lasses, and drank a few million barrels of rum.

Ahh, those were the days, matey!

[1cebeast]

Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof...

[ideal_insomnia]

My favorite pirate adventure would be Dai Tozoku, known in my country as Samurai Pirate, a 1963 Japanese movie starring Toshiro Mifune. It's about a samurai who becomes a pirate, yep.

[ComicRelief]

Well, you pretty much can't go wrong with any Errol Flynn adventure; and unlike some people, I actually liked "Cutthroat Island" (not that any of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies were bad, mind you). Of course, John Newton's role as "Long John Silver" in the Disney adaptation of "Treasure Island" (1950) is considered by many to be the quintessential portrayal of a pirate (and the model by which most people mimic 'pirate talk' [Arr, matey!]). And though technically not a "pirate adventure" per se, I must confess to being quite partial to "The Princess Bride" (so many quotable, um...quotes) so I think maybe I'll go with that one.
;)

[The_Human_Cypher]

The one in which the pirates come to my home and perform all of my household chores for me.

[Memnir]

Free cable for you, or for the belted girls? ;)For everybody, once I moved in with one of the three a few months later. :)

[brian14]

I was wondering why the rum is always gone. Oh... That's why.

[Egilson]

It's Peter Pan. The one with Mary Martin as Peter.

[Scuddy]

It was Epic. The greatest pirate metal band of all time (Alestorm of course) could release a boxed set concept album around it that takes several discs to completely tell. Sadly I ain't been drinking enough to start telling the tale and sadly it involves too much drinking to remember it all well so yeah it's kinda like all the other Alestorm albums & songs. Just pick one and I suppose I could claim it as my own (Except the anchor song I ain't going anywhere near that one on these forums).

[Livmo]

It's one with all the booty!

[Dime_407]

Unfortunately the Statute of Limitations haven't expired on on my favorite pirate adventure. I can tell you that one time I took over a star ship cruise liner within nothing but a towel and some Romulus ale. It all began with a bet I made on Nimbus Three...

[Dragonlover333]

I was lying on the couch, and our cat, Pirate, took a catnap on my chest. It was very comfy.

[GoldyGopher]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of Galifar, and I quote the fights historical
From Prophecy to Thronehold, in order categorical; a
I'm am well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

[MichelOue]

I was lying on the couch, and our cat, Pirate, took a catnap on my chest. It was very comfy.

@ArcherFXX imagine the visiting artists, with their characters in public DDO places, I would feel that danger Island archer team would fit in quite fine :))

Get Steve martin to play banjo as a bosquer in evening star or House Pharlane

[Velenfein]

After years of searching in three barrel cove, i finally discovered that lost ship whose famous captain was Jack Jibber. So excited to take possession of that priceless blade, i fought my way to his treasure cache. I thought he was dead. Indeed he was, but still very powerful in death. What a duel!!! After giving the last blow (in fact i casted a meteor swarm spell so it was a few last blows...), the chest was right in front of me. I opened it and it was there! That cursed blade! After all these years of research. Just as i grasped it from the chest, i heard something from the shadows (very high listen skill!!). Click. I felt something in my back. I was frozen in place. Paralysed... Then from that same shadow, a goblin appeared. He went straight to the chest and took Jack Jibber's priceless blade.... And i could not do anything. He turned his head, looked at me with a smile, and left throught a dimensional door! His biggest mistake. Now i know his face. I heard he was heading to some city called Sharn. We'll meet again soon. Trust me.

My best pirate story!

[Twitchafied]

That would have to be many years ago when DDO went FtP and I had a night in irestone inlet with every person in group was drunk.

[MrXaatXuun]

“There is something I must tell you…I am not left- handed!” – The Princess Bride

[bryntian5]

What happens in the cove, stays in the cove.

[Aelonwy]

Cancun 2004, involved lots of rum, drunk friends, snorkeling, a bad dolphin experience and that unnamed friend who will never live it down. Oh and the sunburn of '04... in which I took on the coloration of a very hot-pink tiefling. I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about how awful it was to bathe and dress with that sunburn.

What does this have to do with pirates? Rum, of course.

[ahpook]

Many many years ago as a small child going to visit the pirates of the Caribbean. that was long before there was a movie for you young whipper snappers.

[rfachini]

Precious Cargo

[Breezwyn]

That time I worked for $3.14 an hour. I got paid the "pi" rate!

[Lalangamena]

as a child when i threw up on the pirate-ship at the local amusement park,
I hated pirates after the experience,
i never went on one again, but my children love it.... go figure...

[erethizon]

My favorite pirate adventure involved a haunted ghost ship and a hull full of treasure.

[ThomasMink]

Don't remember much, but I'm sure a lot of booty was plundered..

[Dulcimerist]

My favorite pirate adventure is from 1975, when George Harrison dressed as a pirate and trolled a national television audience on a live BBC broadcast!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbRHxM4X2g

[waryJerry]

I decided to name my wooden leg Peggedy and **** if I didn't fall in love with her: three half-wooden elf children and twenty years of wedded blisters.

[dsmwhiteknight]

I really really like The Princess Bride!

"You keep using that word, I do not think that word means what you think it means."

"Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die."

[Roberdt]

My only pirate adventure. I was king o the high seas after a night of grog; but once we where out in the waters deep I was laid low near the ship's throne room, shivered me timbers.

[Spellburst]

Quisiera ser un pirata,
no por el oro ni la plata,
sino por ese tesoro,
que tienes entras las XXXXX.

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I'd like to be a pirate,
not for the gold or the silver,
but for that treasure,
you have between your XXXX.

(In Spanish it does rhyme)

[slayson]

The one my sons took at Disney World when they were wee tykes.

[Lanadazia]

oh. com' here ye little scallywag, listen me story 'bout crystal coves! shiver me timbers, ye better watch out for ghosts in that one!

[wiliamsane]

(Bluff) Yaaarrrrr.

[ThrakThor]

One does not discuss pirate club.

[Saekee]

we were loving nature, living in harmony with her and then these sad white face demons showed up and populated the land, destroying it and everything, centuries ago. Well, ok, not pirates?

[Dark_Chocoholic]

I went in to a bar and collected the 500 DDO points.

[EnragedBears]

The movie where the big blue genie give one wish to a little boy who's father was killed by pirates... and he say " I wish all pirates to die, right now"

[Sebastrd]

Well, it all starts with Johnny Depp...

[Vyrzain]

'Yo ho ho!'- get me a mug of grog and I will bucko!

[Grandern_Marn]

Arrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

[Feal]

Princess bride got some nice pirate stories in it

[btolson]

It involved a lot of booty. I really shouldn't say more than that while impressionable children are listening.

[Vasandralov]

Yeah, I can't. I've read your Terms of Service. This is just another trick to get me banned. Again. Fool me 12 times, shame on booze.

[Strambotica]

All start with rum, a lot of rum... maybe too much rum... don't remember the rest.

[UurlockYgmeov]

Arrghhh! Thar we be
Arrghhh! me matey
ArrrrggGGhhhh!
AaaaRRRRRgggghhh!
aArrrRRrggrrggggrrrHHHHH!
Arrghh! Thar they be!
Land ho!
Polly want a gold coin
Polly had three legs
Polly went ArrrrFFFFhhhh *splat* ran the scurvy landshanks through with my pegglepeg
Arrrgghhh!

[Dark_Helmet]

When I bought a game that said it was based on D&D 3.5

[Rawcats]

If I told you, well you know the old saw.

[Tolpan]

Kobolds are good Pirates! Kobolds can swin a long time!

Kobolds will never forget!

[RockHeavy]

It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, ya shoulda seen us
The figurehead was a ***** in bed
And the mast, a mammoth p...

[krzyysiek098]

It was when Dirty Vingus asked me to do him a favor. "You just need to climb one small ladder" he said..., "Prove me your worth" he said... Arrrrggghhh!!!

[nordlav]

Does "spin the bottle" count?

[Drelak]

It got bit out of hand when it was revealed that the captain was actually the king of England, and all these princesses started started to show up.

This was in a card game called Hounds of the Sea:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/110961/hounds-sea

[John3000]

Argh, matey... that'd be a tale 'bout a parrot, some treasure and some more treasure, :p

[Hazelnut]

There was this one time at band camp ...

[Jango-EX]

The TBC Saga!

[ChocolateThunder]

The one where they fight the ninjas!

[hodforum]

sandokan

[DreamingReality]

Well, it all started when we shoved off one night and sailed through the bayou on our way to an undisclosed island in the Caribbean. Upon reaching it, we sailed around until we found a cave marked by the Jolly Roger. We met with a few rapids at the entrance where sea water and cave water collided but made it safely past those. We found the pirate's treasure there, but all that was left was the empty chest and several skeletons that bore signs of a fight over whatever loot had initially been inside. As we made our way back through the rapids to get out of the cave, we discovered a storm had come up. Imagine our surprise when the thunder was found to actually be two pirate ships fighting it out. Keeping our heads low, we rowed past the brutes and decided to relax a bit in the nearby pirate town. We had a great time there and ended up setting half of it on fire. After such a night of heavy carousing, we floated up into dock behind the previous boat and the lady tending the dock asked us to please exit the ride to our right.

[Nyrvjjn]

Shot a ship with a balista!!!!

Precious Cargo for sure ^^

[beta1]

My favorite pirate adventure a very dashing man who rescues and marries the princess at the end.

[The_Apocalypse]

The King and his men
stole the Queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones
the seas be ours and by the powers
where we will we'll roam

Yo ho, all hands
Hoist the colors high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

Now some have died
and some are alive
and others sail on sea
with the keys to the cage
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green.

Yo ho, haul together
Hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

The bell has been raised
from it's water grave
Hear it's sepulchral tone?
A call to all
pay heed the squall
and turn yourself toward home

Yo ho, haul together
Hoist the colors high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

[minorpenthes]

Well, it was my first voyage, back when I was the cabin boy, and...

Wait, I thought you said "LEAST favorite story".

Never mind...

[storm357]

Best pirate adventure ever was with the Baron Munchausen, though Princess Bride is certainly right up there.

[CPDK9]

Sailing out of Saint Martin in (17)'20 commanding a fine fast sloop Huis van Nassau , I ran into none other than the famed pirate Bartholomew Roberts off the small island of Saba. With an English letter of marque in hand and the wind gauge to my favor, I put my helm over to engage him and make my reputation as the finest Dutch pirate hunter. I didn't win that battle, but neither did he as nightfall found both our ships leaking, mast fallen, and some thirty men or so overboard. I managed to return to port to make repairs and heard that Roberts had limped backed to the French island of Saint Bartholomew. I never ran into him again, although I heard that my encounter had put the fear of God into him and he promptly made for the more southern waters of Saint Lucia after making repairs.

[Bluebird6757]

Any of the many wonderful hours I spent playing Sid Meier's Pirates! in the late 80's

[Traffik]

Precious Cargo

[Nothingtoseehere]

Yarrrrr!!!!!

[gilstar9]

I was on this boat in the Caribbean and came across this adrift smaller boat filled with gold and Rum. Yaarrrr!

[Entil]

Tortuga! 'Nuf said!

[Letu]

I hate that Monkey...

[blackzombie]

there's that day when some folks invaded our hiddeout in the black loch

[Oliveyew]

It's one with all the booty!

Congratulations, you have won this weeks contest! I'll pm you a code.

[Livmo]

Congratulations, you have won this weeks contest! I'll pm you a code.

Woot woot!

They'll be some fun and Old Sulleys at Sugglers Rest this weekend :D

1st rounds on me!

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