What to do with a drunken sailor

[dishonestlyhonest]

Who: Captain Jack Sparrow and YOU - choose your own adventure with prompts!
What: In which a pirate goes about trying to not be a pirate in a big city filled with things he does not understand though he is grateful that there is at least rum
When all day and into the night and maybe the next day 2/19 through 2/21
Where: A pirate themed bar called 'The Drunken Pirate, the open ground floor clubs at both Virgo and Pride, and a rescuer's apartment in which there is a bathtub and a jar of dirt
Warnings: Jack is being Jack which should be a warning in itself


act i
Jack wasn't sure exactly how he became gainfully employed, but it was a fact that if someone needed a person to act as piratey as possible and tell tall tales, then there would be no doubt in his mind that he was the person to talk to. Well, given that the people that could out-pirate him were not even on this planet, let alone in this universe. Jack landed this job by sheer accidentally showing up the original 'Captain Story', who then quit because of how much a lubber like Jack could out tall tale him. Jack had been a little disappointed since pirates usually tell tales until they pass out but it gave him money for rum and free rum so life was good.

Those times when he wasn't telling tales and drinking rum, he could be singing songs. He might not have the inclination to play an instrument, he still had an nice voice and he knew a lot of songs thanks to Teague. He took requests, but only the way Jack took them - by singing what he could remember and making it up as he went along. He traveled between tables or sat in his corner stool or hung out around the musicians. Maybe he decided to bother you in one of his passing circuits of the bar.

act ii
If there was one thing that Jack knew (granted there was a lot that he could fake given the circumstances) not knowing the layout was a sure fire way of completely screwing things up later on. Luckily, the ground floors of both of the enemy camps were open to visitors. All Jack had to do was take a bath, do that mysterious ritual called teeth brushing and wear something that was a little less piratey than normal, though given just how most people dressed, he really wouldn't have stand out as it was.

So there was this guy dressed in a motley of layers that included lace and sashes and a really nice hat (fedora) swaying through the public areas, fingers wiggling, wide grin on his face showing his golden teeth and generally poking at stuff before drifting on. Care to bother him?

act iii
It was a long day and Jack was tired. Because he didn't really do what normal people did and rent a place to stay, he ended up drifting between the places of other rescuers that he knew of. Today there was a distinct lack of space on the couch and floor, so he ended up in the bathtub. So there is a sleeping pirate sans his boots curled up in the bathtub holding a jar of dirt close to his chest. Wanna wake him up?

Comments

[variaboss]

Wow. Just wow. This guy. This guy is good. He must have been some sort of actor or something, making rent between roles. Because he's just so convincing. It's like what happened was really real. And that impassioned talk about what pirates were. That really touches him. He understands. But instead of "pirate" it's "Varia". Still, he leans forward and sort of smiles.

"All the treasure you could carry." He gives the guy a look over. "Probably not a lot then, but a royal favor was probably worth it's weight in gold." He finally reaches for his glass again. "But real talk here. What agency you from? You're damn good. You should have starring roles with that sort of acting. Why the hell are you here telling stories instead of taking the acting world by storm."

[dishonestlyhonest]

"Gold does have a bit of heft to it, aye, but it was a goodly amount. Would have set me up like a noble if I'd kept it but there were a few complications to that, as it were."

Jack took a swallow od rum and frowned a little at the 'real talk' thing. He didn't understand it, not really. Well, he understood that an agent was some kind of person that worked for another person's interests, but he didn't think that's what this guy was talking about. Especially when he was talking about a 'starring role' and 'taking the acting world by storm'. Was he slipping up or was his pretending to be a pirate lacked because he was actually a pirate? Jack had to come up with something that sounded probable.

"Well..." What does one say? Spin a different sort of tale? Like when he had to become a merchant sailor during that unfortunate incident following the betrayal of the Code?

"You can say that I had the wrong sort of run-ins and had to beat a very hasty retreat until such times I can find a way back into the good graces of the industry. Like a 'black spot' on my name, savy?"

Did this place have black spots? He wasn't sure but most businesses seem to have that sort of play behind the scenes, even back in the day when he destroyed Cutler's dream of becoming a peer.

[variaboss]

His eyebrows raise a little at that. That certainly does sound like quite a story there. For such an amazing convincing actor to have gotten shunned by the movie companies, he had to have done something truly terrible. He almost wants to ask what the guy did to get banned from the industry.

"Oh, I see. I get that." In more ways than one. He knows all about being unwanted by the powers that be. So he feels for the guy. Feels enough to cough up some money for him.

"Let me buy you a drink then or something. Since that was one hell of a story you told."

[dishonestlyhonest]

He wouldn't really have an answer because he wasn't even sure what industry it was in the first place. Would it be slept with the wrong woman? Well, that often happened no matter what walk of life there was, so he could say that, even if he was sure that 'wrong woman' covered pretty much everything.

"Thankee kindly, I would love a refill."

So long as no one brought up why he wasn't in some kind of industry that he knew nothing about, Jack was going to be fine. He was also going to have to ask other people exactly what was happening after this, but first thing was fist. Surviving this.

[variaboss]

That would be a pretty good story actually. Xanxus would believe it. But for now, it's just more alcohol. He isn't cheap either. The top shelf rum. The expensive stuff that only rock stars could afford. That's what he's going to be ordering for the pirate.

"I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed your little story. I'll be sure to tip generously before I leave as well." Yeah. Money is going to happen as well as booze. Mostly because he really liked the tale, especially the pirate code stuff.

[dishonestlyhonest]

And that would get a very broad grin filled with as much gold teeth as there was in Jack's mouth, because the top rum was a customer's thing and not something he would have been allowed to have unless he was gifted with it.

"You're too kind, but thankee again. It will certainly hit all the right spots, I'm sure. And if you want to hear more tales, I can always find more to tell."