Yo ho, me hearties? [video] (set after steampunk pirates, but before Earth field trip])

[iamresponding]

[Rich looks a little confused. Just a little. He's lived too weird a life to look a lot confused after something like this. But he's at least a little confused about suddenly being a pirate and then turning around and finding himself back in his quarters without even a boom or flashy lights or anything. ]

So, this may, uh, seem like a really odd question.

But who else remembers being a pirate?

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[enthraller]

And here I was thinking that might have just been a dream.

[It was certainly ridiculous enough for one. Saralegui's tone is dry as a desert.]

Though I thought we were supposed to be fending off the pirates.

[iamresponding]

I thought we were pirates but like the kind that get hired to fight pirates.

What're they called...privateers?

[enthraller]

I don't know. I certainly never hired pirates to deal with other pirates back home.

[iamresponding]

It's a thing in Earth history.

At least in my Earth's history. Some countries would hire pirates to fight other pirates or even ransack the passenger ships of a country they were at war with.

I'm not sure if that was the exact scenario, though. I never was that good at history.

[enthraller]

It was a "thing" where I came from, too.

[Phrasing it like that sounds awkward coming out of his mouth. Modern earth slang definitely does not come naturally.]

But that doesn't mean I ever had to resort to it.

[iamresponding]

Yeah, well, I don't know why whatever-it-was chose it, either.

And this time at least we know it's a who rather than just a what. That voice meant someone was messing with us.

[enthraller]

We can only hope. A "someone" would certainly be easier to deal with.

[Clearly, your world didn't have vague enemies in the form of somehow sentient malevolence.]

[iamresponding]

[His world totally has those! It just...has lots of other evil things too.]

We gotta try to narrow it down with the Legionnaires. Something that powerful might be something they've dealt with before.