William Jones
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The next day, Captain Woodrat took oaths from his new crew, and put them to work getting the So of course, they started by rescuing the rum. Woodrat pointed out that they had two strong mates who could each haul back a ship's boat full of swag, and it would be a shame to leave all this lovely rum just sitting here. Two boats were loaded with barrels of rum and huge crab legs and the party set out for the Splinter. Butterbelly was a bit put off by the fact that not only could Ozzy lift more than he…-
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Mariah raced ahead, her long strides not touching the ground, leaving the others behind. Woodrat and Derrick ran as fast as they could, with Ozzy bringing up the rear. The ashy top layer of the sargasso put up clouds of dust as they ran along, and they could see a similar cloud being kicked up in the distance. As they ran further and further, Derrick began to slow down, and then Woodrat as well. They'd been running over a mile at this point, and Ozzy was slowly beginning to gain on them. As he overtook…
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Ozzy told the story of his day's adventure. To make it a proper story, he added a part about one of the smaller crocs climbing the mast after him and biting at his toes. Woodrat had laughed, especially when the mast had fallen over with Ozzy at the top. Afterward, he admitted to Woodrat about having unknowingly put one of the globes in the cargo hold of the Those thoughts quickly turned to how to use the globes to make a passage to free the Ozzy had estimated that the radius of one spheres destruction…
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Before anything else happened, Ozzy carefully removed the glass spheres from the smoke. One by one he swam over to them and pushed them closer to shore. After that he dug a hole for each one in the turf, nestling them into the salad so they wouldn't roll around. It was stressful, being that close to so many fragile bombs. Which reminded him about the one he'd naively brought back to the They needed to clear one hell of a lot of the sargasso weed to free the ship, and using sails and muscle to pull it…
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Ozzy was not a sprinter, but he also wasn't slow. This had surprised a couple of people before. The S The meal in question closed the distance as fast as he could, and was very thankful he had bought the first level of He was just a couple of feet away from the tip of the crocs nose when he leaped on top of it. One foot landed on its snout, the next step between its eyes, and then he was sprinting down it's back. The tail was tricky. A croc could hit hard with its tail, and this one could probably kill…
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Derrick was suffering from two much heat just as Woodrat had been. Ever sense Jack had showed up, Ozzy hadn't had trouble with his own heat, and he'd kept a close eye on Woodrat. Having enough food had solved a lot of the problem. Food turned into fuel, and then fuel and heat made smoke. As long as you had food to eat and a way to burn smoke, a man could regulate his furnace even with the over-abundance of heat coming from the eruption. Derrick told him that they had escaped with a barrel of dried fish and…
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Ozzie awoke and rolled over on the hard deck. It took a few seconds to remember why he was sleeping out here and not in his comfortable hammock. When he stood up and saw how much of the deck he had destroyed after he bumped his head, he remembered that Woodrat had insisted that he sleep out here. Work had already begun on the repairs, but it was two days work lost. Woodrat hadn't seemed overly upset. "Nothing a skilled wood wright can't fix. I was the one told you to eat a whale's heart, so it's mostly my…
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When Ozzy had asked the captain about how you should go about eating the core of a shark, Woodrat had just smiled and said "Like you eat anything else. Just chew a couple of times and choke it down. No worse than the cooking on most of ships." Ozzy was relaxing in his cabin. He was off duty for a few hours while Woodrat took his turn on lookout. The two of them were making sure someone was always awake. The possibility of monsters, charred, or pirates was too high. Ozzy only needed four hours of sleep and…
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Ozzy was on the deck near the open hold making chain while Woodrat snored in his cabin. The two of the worked continuously trying to get the ship ready to sail. Or at least float away from the Sargasso. They had worked to weave the stays and main chain that would hold the mast steady and carry heat from the hull. When that had been done and their one sail made, Woodrat had been able to claim the ship. With a ship under their feet again, and a much larger ship at that, Ozzy could pick a specialty as a…
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Ozzy was on the deck near the open hold making chain while Woodrat snored in his cabin. The two of the worked continuously trying to get the ship ready to sail. Or at least float away from the Sargasso. They had worked to weave the stays and main chain that would hold the mast steady and carry heat from the hull. When that had been done and their one sail made, Woodrat had been able to claim the ship. With a ship under their feet again, and a much larger ship at that, Ozzy could pick a specialty as a…
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