Round 8 Lynch - What do you do with a drunken sailor?

Blackwater looked up at the underside of the Golden Sunset. He wasn’t completely sure how he had ended up here. He had been drinking and discussing the deaths with the remaining captains. Maybe had scared them with his massive size. Maybe they didn’t like his face. Jack had initially planned to sit and quietly drink his rum and let the others do all the talking, but rum makes you bold. He must have said something to anger one of them.

Come to think of it, Jessop had begun claiming to be a modern medical miracle. All Jack had said in reply was, “Bullshit”. He couldn’t imagine what was so upsetting about that. For whatever reason, Jessop and the other captains took offense and now he found himself in this position. He had been tied and lowered into the sea. So here he was looking at the bottom of the ship, and the worst part was that the rum was gone. And now, so was his air.


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The other captains stood looking over the side of the ship. After several long moments, Captain Piestewa spoke up, “ This is probably irrelevant, but historically when you keelhaul someone you are supposed to bring them back up, eventually.”