An Inglorious Return [video]

[shivvymetimbers]

Gah! I'm soaked to the bone!

[Are yimos waterproof? Hopefully. It would suck if Bastien already broke his. Then again, this pesky pirate always been a tad reckless. It's simply how he is. The accused pirate is back in town and today he looks like a drowned rat or rather...a drowned fish considering the blue scales and fins.]

Ahoy, mateys!

[He grins goofily into the camera looking all bright eyed and bushy-tailed. It seems the pirate is in a good mood despite the slight bruising around his nose. Someone socked him good, very good.]

Didya miss me? Of course ya did! I'm Captain Bastien Courbis, after all.

[The haughty laugh that follows is indeed quite haughty. Bastien is being a pompous arse but he's having fun. Let him have fun, folks.]

Now where's my gang of merry troublemakers? Where's my pretty fern, Trahearne?

[He peers into the screen curiously as if waiting for a reply. This usually soulful brown eyes look amber in the sunlight like a cat's eye. Bastien is hanging out by the pier it seems.]

Also, who made off with me squid?! Little Oswald is nowhere to be found, you thieven landlubbers!

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[shivvymetimbers]

Madam Ching did. [He interjected.] Yep, a woman pirate lord hailin' from the mainland. She's as sharp as a tact and quite mean. Even to this day she rules over the Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Seven Seas.

[Bastien seems to speak of her fondly but with respect. Madam Ching isn't someone you want to disgrace.]

She took me in when Mom went missin'.

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[Though rumors of a Pirate Queen in the Pacific had reached her, Valdis had never spent much time in China or on the Pacific.]

Let me rephrase, not many men I've known in that line of work live to an old age.

[shivvymetimbers]

Hey, hey! I'm workin' on it! You'll hear of my accomplishments someday.

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Pirate Captain Bastien Courbis, [Said with a dramatic flair] scourge of Aifaran, fearsome rogue of the seven seas.

[A sly wink]

Bested by a woman he tried to mug in a back alley.

[shivvymetimbers]

Valdis!

[Great. He's pouting.]

Meh! That was all just one big mistake!

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Bastien.

[Said with an innocent smile]

Just be careful. You may be a pirate, but you are also mortal.