Ah! Excellent. I did want to reveal a bit of an “edge” to the Captain here. You can’t survive in that profession by being an affable character all the time, right?
It really does, doesn’t it? I wanted to catch the flavor of a sailor’s colorful and distinctive hyperbole here. And I drew from some language in the classic Patrick O’Brien naval novels. Back then, it was nailing a transgressor’s ears “to a two-foot plank and setting them adrift with a pound of ship’s cheese”. I just updated the particulars by a few centuries.
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Why am I detecting a ‘daddy-daughter’ vibe here?
I’m just paranoid, I guess.
The captain just went up a few points in my estimation.
Ah! Excellent. I did want to reveal a bit of an “edge” to the Captain here. You can’t survive in that profession by being an affable character all the time, right?
That sound SO much worse than pirates of old “Yer’ll walk ther plank, lassie”
It really does, doesn’t it? I wanted to catch the flavor of a sailor’s colorful and distinctive hyperbole here. And I drew from some language in the classic Patrick O’Brien naval novels. Back then, it was nailing a transgressor’s ears “to a two-foot plank and setting them adrift with a pound of ship’s cheese”. I just updated the particulars by a few centuries.
well I think you captured exactly what you were going for. I loved reading that line.