Journal Pirate Meetup 2014

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The Piratey Journal of the great meetup 2014.

Starring; Royals: Melite, Sweetmoth.

Captain of Team Octo: Needkraken. Senior Officers; Bisca, Faith, Philliphius,Quyicha, Amatoria, Babydolphin, Devilhimself, Ikke, Anonymous, Axlapi, Maerras.

Captain of Team Bambi: Toemoesh Senior Officers; Nidhoeggr, Kamuflaro, Tornmean, Angara. Dopeyhook, Dylan, Trish, Perfectus, Godmother.

15 August 2014. Today we arrived at the great flag hall; The Kruithuis. Our great royals, Sweetmoth and Melite, took charge immediately! They ordered us, Toemoesh, Faith and me, to start decorating the great hall, and hoist the great pirate flag! Our royals left us there, to go and get our stock, for no pirate cannot have a great gathering without their Rum. When the flag hall had been decorated, the Senior Officers and Captain at the spot decided to play cards in the await of the stock and the other Senior Officers and the second Captain. Fortunately, they did not have to wait long. Captain Needkraken and Senior Officer Perfectus arrived soon. Slowly more Senior Officers would walk in and the gathering started off with a lot of happiness. When the stock finally arrived after more than two hours, with a lot of rum and other stock we would need, we started to get settled in all the rooms. When everyone had picked their bunks, place their raffle items on the table and threw their luggage out of the way, the gathering could finally get started! Seeing it was only the first day, no serious things needed to be discussed yet. Therefore we could start off with playing card games, bets and open the first bottles of rum. Even though this was a lot of fun, the crews started grumbling as their stomachs were doing the same. The royalties agreed on lighting up the fire, and prepare the meat. Pork was brought, chicken and of course there was beef. Unfortunately, the pirates hadn’t created a fire in so long, it took them an hour to get things started. Once they did, a soft rain would drive us pirates inside, because without being on a ship, pirates are very spoiled. The tougher pirates (and the smoking ones) would stay outside and prepare the meat for the rest of us. I think I do not need to tell you that they did an amazing job and everyone would eat there bellies full! With the proper amount of liquor that always comes with a pirate dinner. After this dinner the royalties did not even need to order these scurvy pirates to clean up the mess. I guess that in the past the royalties have been giving severe punishment if this would not happen. I cannot find another explanation. When everything was clean, the pirates would pick up their cards and bottles again, chatting and betting until the sun would come up. It was time to get some rest.

16 August 2014. YARR you scurvy pirates! Wake up! You have had enough sleep for now. Apparently nothing changes when you’re on dry land instead of out on the sea. Royalties will wake you up, Captains will stay snoring until they think they had enough and us Senior Officers must wake up. After breakfast, cleaning up.. and then the card games would begin again. It was very interesting to see people play spades. Because honestly, I’d be pretty lost trying to keep that score. So complicated. There had to be bought more stock today, people would take walks with their friends while they still could. I was surprised to see some other Senior Officers arrive! Some just to drop by, some to stay for the rest of the gathering. Unfortunately I missed a lot that happened that morning, even pirates get sick sometimes. Luckily there be doctors that are willing to give a scurvy pirate like me some proper medicine. When I got back with Sweetmoth it was in the afternoon. We ate something and then joined in on the fun games such as Pirate Fluxx, Cards Against Humanity and more of that. Around 4’o clock the royalties barged in on our games telling us to grab our favourite pirate outfits and head outside. For those who wonder why, apparently they decided it was portrait time. I learned that it is a tradition to make portraits of everyone in their best outfits, and with their bandana’s too later. So the familiars came out of their cages, everyone dressed up and we went to stand with our pirate flag. Since everyone wanted to be on the portrait we had to ask a scout that was camping in the hall next to us if he would like to make the portrait. Funny thing is that we discovered he was a pirate just like us! Only retired. A lot of portraits were made. A lot of smiles, a lot of laughter, and after that, again a lot of rum. Dinner time arrived and the royalties decided they wanted to make a typical landlubber dinner. Macaroni with veggies. Healthy and very delicious I must say! The rest of the evening the games would come back on the table, there would be chatter and laughter and a lot of drinking. It’s a pirates life for us!

17 August 2014. Such a lovely morning… Rain… It feels like I’m back on me ship, in the middle of a storm. The royals seem very excited today. Luckily I didn’t have to wait very long to see what was about to happen. First we had an amazing breakfast, made by the amazing Amatoria, Nidhoeggr, Needkraken and Dopeyhook. Their teamwork resulted in amazing waffles! They had powdered sugar, chocolate paste, chocolate sprinkles, jam… Everything you don’t have when you are out on the sea. It was really a treat. One of the amazing traditions these gatherings hold. After this lovely breakfast another interesting thing happened. If you know pirates a bit, you will also probably know that they like to take stuff that does not belong to them. Since our royalties are fair ladies, the decision was made to let these scurvy pirates take things that did not belong to them, in a legal way! Every pirate had to bring an pirate item. These were all placed upon a table and today there was a raffle. Whenever your name was called out you got to pick a pirate item. There were amazing things such as; a pirate flag, pirate candies, tiny pirates to play with (for the children of course), a portrait made by a wonderful artist and even a familiar! Everyone was in on this, even the royalties! Sweetmoth had the honour of drawing the pirate names out of the hat. ‘If I pull myself it would really be a coincidence… No cheating!’ Obviously, she did not pick herself, but our other lovely royal Melite. Personally I gained the honour of having a portrait made by the amazing artist Godmother. At the end of this raffle we could all go back to our piratey games and have a small break. So the royals could prepare for the big competition that would take place that afternoon. The two crews, Octo and Bambi, would fight against each other to win the grand price. Medals! For this competition the royals had ordered us all to bring along a rubber ducky. They collected them and threw us in our shacks, just so they could do something with those rubber duckies. Scary! After a while they would finally unlock our shacks, take us back to the main room and explain the rules of the competition. The first thing our crew had to do was write a limerick. That seemed very weird to me, what do pirates have to do with limericks? That’s a landlubber thing! Anyways, we had 3 words that we were ordered to use, Lime, the Kruithuis and Bunk. Since we have a lovely crew, this really wasn’t the hardest thing to do. While we were writing this down, the other crew was doing their first challenge, which would be our second challenge. Our second challenge... was a very well made carpentry puzzle! As fast as possible we had to fix this drawn hole on the paper, but only the captain could lay the pieces, and once put, they weren’t to replace. We had to try to have as few empty spaces as possible or it’d cost us precious time. We didn’t do too bad but I must admit… Yes, crew Bambi was faster. Luckily, the royalties decided that they loved our Limerick more, so then it was a tie. After that we went on to the final challenge. A rush and think thing. The royalties had hidden the ducks all over the place, except outside, and we had to find as many as possible. Each ducky would count for a letter and with those we could make a sentence. The team that got the sentence first would win. Our team started off amazing and found 6 duckies! Unfortunately, the other team got the right letters and guessed the sentence first; To err is human, and to Arr is pirate! To be honest, this sentence didn’t make any sense to me, but alright, well played! Team Bambi won the competition and with that, beautiful, golden, plastic,(I guess it’s recession even for pirates) medals. This competition had to be celebrated with a lot of liquor, again. Also we could prepare for our last dinner at this gathering. Salads were made since they do want us to stay healthy, we don’t want to get scurvy, the meat came out and it was time to relax and enjoy. Except for our cooks. After that, obviously everyone helped again to get it cleaned up. Quickly after that, all the card games came out again and since it was the last evening, pretty much everybody stayed up very late. For me it was a wonderful evening at least.

18 August 2014. 10am. We were all forced out of our beds and had to be finished with our breakfast and packing our bags by 11am. Obviously, I failed. Packing took a big longer because I made a serious big mess of my stuff. Then breakfast (waffles again! Yay!) took a bit too… But eventually when that was all done, we had to do the dishes, sort the stock out and clean up the entire building. Usually we have just pirates to do that for us, but seeing this was a meeting of Royalties, Captains and Senior Officers we’d just have to do it ourselves! But when you are with so much people it really doesn’t matter. Do it together and you’re done in a flash. Once we had it cleaned up one of the owners checked it and everything was okay. Now came the hardest part. Say goodbye to everyone. With this many people coming from so much different countries it was most likely that the first time we’d see each other again face to face would be at the next great gathering. So many friends were made, so much fun and laughter we shared. It was an amazing gathering, so many memories were created. That is why I decided to write this piratey journal. I don’t want to forget you guys, or the things that happened. Thank you all, for the memories and the fun. I will miss you very much! Now lets write this journal a couple of more times so I can send a copy to everyone.

Written by Bisca.

Limericks;

Team Octo:

We arrived at the Kruithuis just in time,

To meet an octo coloured lime.

He quickly got drunk,

Ended up on my bunk,

And could only remember this rhyme.

Team Bambi:

It happened once upon a time;

That a group of pirates was forced to do rhyme.

They all got too drunk,

Passed out in their bunk,

So they could not add ‘Kruithuis’or ‘lime’ .

Funny Pirate Quotes:

Angara: “So where is Blyndpew this year?”

Ama: “In London at a SiFi convention. What a nerd”

Bisca: “I am red but I am still blonde”

Toemoesh: “I cheat on women not on games”

Needkraken and Perfectus: “I saved my micropenis for you forever”

Angara: “I would want to have a penis”

Perfectus: ”All the ladies want my gonk”

Needkraken:” I have not had the most amazing hands… or partners

Quyicha: “blahlahlahlahlahlah… good (kut)

Bisca: “we wiggle, you giggle”

Kamuflaro: “you have a sixpack don’t you?” Toemoesh. “yes, in the fridge”

Kamuflaro:” I was looking for the right time to use anal beads”

Needkraken: “ Amatoria do you need help in waffle-making?”

Dopeyhook: “no she has minions already”

Amatoria: “Mmmrawr I have minions! And Nidhoeggr is my backup minion.. “

Toemoesh: Don’t you have a glass ( to Needkraken drinking Prosecco from the bottle) (at 15:00, probably to early to drink wine from the bottle) ?

Needkraken: Yes, but its full

Melite: I have the solution in my pants

Kamuflaro: Did we really kill all the meat?

Perfectus : I have got some meat for you… if you know what I mean

Needkraken: I don’t got the balls for mecca city, I will stick with the safe green little one

Amatoria: Are we not scoring?? Quyicha ( with her head in a book) oh sorry

Bisca: Go find people, I have an excuse not to do it, I am trying to kill people.

Quyicha: ‘I always make funny noises!’ -> “Whaahwaaahwwhhawhaahwwa……”

Anonymous: can we play another game? Amatoria: you mean another ( different) game or do you want another round (of piratefluxx). Anonymous : ‘if you ask me if I want another round, can I have a drink please? ‘

Amatoria: ‘if you can think of improvements for next year, let me know so I can put them on the list’. Nidhoeggr: ‘Strippers?’ Axlapi: ‘you can get chickenstrippers at Dominos… Amatoria: ‘mental image: delete!’

Kamuflaro: “I am running for president, good thing I am a dictator!’ Faith: ‘it’s a German thing”

Kamuflaro: “Everything I lick now will taste after chocolatepaste!’ Babydolphin: ‘go clean the toilets then!!”