"RAISE ANCHOR" Slom shouted, not sure why he was wasting credits on a lost cause but he didnt want to go down without a fight.

"We seem to be short on crew captain", the figurehead turned to him, "I cant use most of the idle routines without them"

The ship started to turn but the motion was agonizingly slow, Slom heard a splash to the right of the ship and ran to look over the starboard rail, a dingy with the last few crewmen was making a run for it towards the shore, the captain came to a final decision "hide their movement Odacious" he said to the ship, "give them the best chance to reach the beach without players catching them"

"Aye aye captain" the ship said and started slowly moving to put its bulk between the pursuers and the fleeing crew, it was then that Slom saw the enemy ship angling itself and slowing down "It looks like they think you plan to broadside them captain" he heard Luke saying.

"So they will ran at an angle until we are in their range." Slom wanted to cry when he fealt his dreams of running wild sinking below the crystal waters, "it doesn't seem like they are waiting for the Rats to catch up to them", he played with his eyepatch, "can you turn so we keep our broadside to them?".

"I will try" came the answer, "it was a good ride skipper", the ship started turning very slowly to impose her broadside towards her enemy, "the others gave up their deeds so you can surrender without them sinking her".

"How did they find us so fast?" Slom asked nobody in particular, "damn ratgirl" he answerd to himself when he thought about the rats going to the enemy ship.

The captain stood on the deck of his abandoned ship, looking towards the closing enemy while every now and then he sneaked a look towards his fleeing crew and it seemed like they were going to make it to the abandoned beach, he could now read the name Devastacious on the side of the nearing ship.

It was in gun range but no shots were fired, and the slow motion of the ghost ship made the other captain realize they were low on crew so he decided to capture the ship without wrecking it first.

Devastacious turned her bow towards them and was speeding up again when suddenly Odacious shook with a BOOM from below, the shot hit the incoming ship's prow and made a hole in its front wall, another BOOM was heard a few seconds later and another hole was made as the ship started to turn so its cannons can return fire and a third cannon shot before Slom hit the deck and burst into the dark empty holds below.

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A group of girls was pushing a cannon that was as tall as them back into position and when it was ready one of them aimed and shot the incoming ship, "Why didn't you run Janice?" the captain cried in frustration, we cant win this".

"We can never win silly" was her answere as she shot the cannon, "we aren't even allowed to play".

 Slom peaked through the gauge hole and saw the other ship turned its broadside to them, "this doesnt look good", he said as the whole side of the ship lit up and the thunder of a full broadside washed over them and snd flung him to the other sidwall like a ragdall.

Splinters blasted through from every direction as cannonballs crashed through the walls, beams breaking and whole sections of the wall were missing, he could clearly see the other ship when the timer for the sinking ship was the last thing he read before the routine for a captain took over.

Running up to the deck he was issuing orders no one could hear, he took his position in front of the wheel and spewed out meaningless orders and futile curses when the Devastacious closed the distance and its crew jumped over to Odacious, Slom stabbed the first Player that rushed him and shot the second with his pistol but he was soon surrounded and dropped to the deck where they died him up.

Looking aside he could see Ratmen walking on the other ship's deck, "what the hell is this?" someone was shouting, "you said at least a hundred slaves", a foot stomped the deck beside 210m's head, "all we could find is this NPC captain and group of wounded girls in one of the holds".

Slom recognized the raspy voice that answered to the accusations, "they were here", someone picked him up by his hair "where the fuck is everyone?"

"I will never tell scum like you anything", the captain said valliantly and turned his head to look at his attacker's groin, "you will get nothing from me".

"Don't count on it Captain", the man dragged Slom to the stairs and let him look at the deck below where a group of girls was lead at sword point towards a plank leading to the other ship, "I know you care about your people", and Allen flinched as he fealt that jab was meant for him.

These NPC were pissed and they were burning credits to get their revenge on him and his friends, "had to sacrifice most of the crew to the sea serpent", he said while shaking his head.

"This is great, I've never seen NPCs act so lifelike before", whispered a woman from behind Slom, "Shh, dont ruin it" she was quickly hushed but it was already too late.

"Stab her", the raspy man called down to the man leading the girls and his sword slipped between her ribs as she cried from the sudden pain and was pushed to the water, 210m was dragged down the stairs and towards the plank connecting the two ships.

While the girls were taken down through one of the doors in Devastacious' holds Allen was dragged to the main deck and he was hauled up the mast by a rope hooked to his handcuffs.

Hanging free in the air Allen could see the laggoon as he swayed with the wind, he glimpsed a pod of killer whales swimming in the open sea, then the cliffs and beach and jungle came to his view and back to the open sea, he closed his eyes when he saw Odacious with a gaping hole running all along her side and sinking fast to the bottom of the sea.

A ghost ship drifted through clear waters, her destination already known as she was gliding down towards a sandy bottom.