Last night my friends and I were playing an old role-playing game from the eighties called Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Currently our party is in an airship flying over the Icefinger Mountains. However we were hit by a squall and in the ensuing near-catastrophe one of the PCs bit the Big One. Salty Jack had been the Minor Inconveniance of the Seven Seas. That was until he got permanently turned into a monkey. As our airship nearly flipped over poor old monkey Jack was crushed by a falling treasure chest.
After divvying out Jack's gold, my dwarf and Gau the Man-Orc insisted he be buried at sea....even though we were still high over the mountains. We put his little furry corpse on a board and wrapped him in his skull and crossbones. Then Gau gave the eulogy.
"Well mate, you were kind of my friend though I hated you. You were a lousy pirate, Jack, but you were a first rate pet, shipmate (chokes). See you on the old dusty trail."
We tipped Jack over the side. The board hit the snow and slid off down the mountain - body, flag and all - and into legend.
Hit the snow and slid down the mountain... into legend.
Now that's a funeral fit for a monkey-pirate!
That was wonderful.
*sniff* I think I have something in my eye.
Quote from: the_takenThat was wonderful.
*sniff* I think I have something in my eye.
Something the monkey threw at you?
You realize if a Necromancer gets him he'll be Jack the Undead Monkey-Pirate, don't you?
"We named the monkey Jack."
Quote from: Sidekick BoyYou realize if a Necromancer gets him he'll be Jack the Undead Monkey-Pirate, don't you?
"We named the monkey Jack."
good point, here. Jack didn't happen to steal any aztec gold, did he?
Quote from: Sidekick BoyYou realize if a Necromancer gets him he'll be Jack the Undead Monkey-Pirate, don't you?
Then all he needs is ninja training.
Eh, we should have a whole squad of them. Maybe you should make a setting with undead ninja monkey pirates as the main villains. Or heroes. Or both.
Quote from: Phoenix KnightEh, we should have a whole squad of them. Maybe you should make a setting with undead ninja monkey pirates as the main villains. Or heroes. Or both.
Done.