You are immediately drawn to the PYRAMIDAL PILE OF PLUMP, PERFECT PICKLES. Unfortunately, your path is somewhat blocked by the PUGILISTIC POSSE OF PIRATE PERSONS currently engaged in diplomacy with a group of SHADOWY FORMS across the RIVER. While you can't be entirely sure, it's a pretty safe bet that those are the NINJA of the INVISIBLE SHOGUN who killed the former PIRATE LORD, SILVER JIM PEGBEARD. It appears that STEELWOOD CORSAIR is leading the defense at this position.
Well, might as well pump the PUBLIC INFORMATION PIRATE on duty for information. He appears to be quite young, and the ACNE scarring and BOYISH EXPRESSION support that theory. Also, the frighteningly high pitch of his VOICE.
PUBLIC INFORMATION PIRATE (PIP): Hi! Welcome to the public info desk! We arr always happy to help you with any and all questions! About anything!
JET: Thanks! Question the first: how do I get on the roof of the produce market without climbing straight up the outside wall?
PIP: What? Um.... I don't think... um....
(You duck as a NINJA STAR flies past and embeds itself in a nearby WALL.)
JET: You said any and all questions!
PIP: Um. Arr! I did say that! But I don't actually know. Really! No one's asked that before!
JET: That's disappointing. Thanks anyway!
PIP: Um, it's arr pleasure!
3 comments:
DEPLOY BISON as a BOVINE SHIELD to defend STEELWOOD CORSAIR from the NINJA onslaught. NINJA STARS caught in his hide may be useful later.
don RED DOMINO MASK, HEAD-KER-CHIEF, and WHITE COTTON GLOVES (as disguise)
duel wield STYLIZER and FLINTLOCK
join BATTLE
Hmm. Perhaps I was very much wrong and those ninja stars are random scatter, not some sort of asymptotic trail indicator. Poor pirate in blue; that has to sting; I wonder if it's poisoned.
Tom has a truly awesome idea (although it would be awkward to die the same way a second time on the same island if those "ninjas" just happen to be pirates having a tea party). But if Jet isn't interested in pursuing Tom's idea, for some reason, I'm all for, "Ask PIP a QUESTION VITAL TO THE PLOT."
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