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Excuses
Excuses, excuses...What is the lamest excuse you've ever given for something you've done?In the early days of my apprenticeship, Mr. Brown assigned a fairly important project to me, trusting the design and creation of an officer's sword entirely to my hands for the first time. I was excited and nervous and eager to please him, so I rushed headlong ( Read more... ) -
Hiding in my work
What is your favorite retreat from the world?The forge. It's not much of a retreat, not in the sense of physically getting away from anything, but it is the one thing that relaxes me more than anything else. When I'm in the shop, working on a sword or a pistol, I can block out everything around me. I can stop thinking about my troubles and fears ( Read more... ) -
"When I awoke the next morning..."
When I awoke the next morning, I was surrounded by chickens. My head was throbbing and for a moment, I couldn't remember how I had gotten outside, or why I was sleeping on the road ( Read more... ) -
Home (for pirate_swann)
Will's been thinking a lot lately, about the future mostly, and the past. Or, to be more specific, his future in the past ( Read more... ) -
Describe a chance encounter that changed your life
It's strange how every major change in my life seems due in one way or another to pirates. Pirates killed my father, and as a result, I sailed to the New World to find out what happened to him. On the way, my ship was attacked by pirates and I nearly drowned. Years later, I found a pirate in the blacksmith's shop and attempted to fight him. I ( Read more... ) -
What was/is your childhood ambition?
Don't most young lads have the same ambition? To be like their fathers. And while I admired my father and wished to be as good a man as I believed him to be, I did not particularly want to follow in his footsteps in terms of his chosen career ( Read more... ) -
Danger
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?Some might say setting off for the New World when I was merely ten years old was dangerous. It was: I nearly died when our ship was set upon by pirates. But I had no control over that situation, nor did I get on that ship with the intention of being attacked. Some things come with a certain amount ( Read more... ) -
My father
Write about your father.William Turner was a good man. I didn't know him as well as I might have liked, because through most of my childhood, he was at sea, working. My mother told me he was a merchant sailor. It was an honorable profession, and I was proud to call myself his son. When he was home, he was loving and attentive and would tell me ( Read more... ) -
A matter of leverage
Write about an overheard remark or secret that you were not supposed to have heard.After Captain Barbossa and his crew captured Elizabeth and took her from Port Royal, I was desperate to find someone that would help me save her. Her own father could do nothing, and Commodore Norrington would only stare at his charts helplessly and insist they were ( Read more... ) -
Meme from Orlando
1. Your Name ( Read more... )