Hello Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Coast , for once i have been able to make a Topictitle you could answer straight away.
But i wouldn't be Old George ( * Old Nag was a better name...moron) if i wouldn't use a surplus of words that you don't need to read.
This Forum is already in it's thirth year.It is not a secret that i adored and yearn for the Forum like it was in the very beginning.
This was a peaceful, gentle Forum that had Magical Powers towards the more shy or uncertain Pirates in which i was one of many...i completely understand that ,when a game gains popularity , and the group becomes bigger that , on a certain point , you start to lose the "connection" with eachother.
So no stigmatizing finger to anyone because we slowly but certainly became drifting apart as a Community...
Oh, i do know ( * nothing?) that we have so many groups , Fleets and Friends in crews we play often with and i do know that it is nearly impossible to know everybody and determine their personality by reading their gamertag and remember who is behind that name...But still...i see many New Forummembers and the question to what has made you fall in love with piratism or this game crosses my mind ( * yer mind is a wasteland ,moron) more than you would realize…
The Older Pillars of this Forum will immediatly recognize a necromanced or copied Topic and they are 120 percent more than right...i have no Talent nor intellect ( * now you're telling the truth , finally,fool) to come up with a Community Gathering Topic or question. i have stolen this question from a dear Friend of mine who had a very personal writingstyle that betrayed real love for this Community of Old . Miss Captn Jaq, who once again is missing...Sadly.
Oh , i see the shining in yer eyes ,while you hold that Banhammer in yer hands , oh dear Moderators , but i try to take a torch in my hand that i immediatly want to give away to a more Talented and Community Orientated Pirate like Miss captn Jaq ,back in the day...You can acuse me as Necromancer or copycat , but i'm still typing…So who you gonna call , ( * certainly not Clumsy George) Ghostbusters? Whaahahaaa, you can't touch me , sorry for the few eighties jokes...
No , i really have hold this Community dear but eversince the Game release a certain grimness has come as a dark cloud over this forum...Many were dissapointed because they expected a storybased game and never listened to a cristalclear Passionate explenation of the likes like Mr Chapman…
The Old Pillars of this Forum have literally written off the fingerprints from their fingertips in order to write down how you should see and play this game...Many Great Pirates have left this Forum because of this constant bickering and relentless ,repetitive , explaining…
But this Forum doesn't die and a whole new bunch of Pirates have flocked down to create a New and Different Forum...Myself , i have lost the connection with all of you ,i simply can't read nor translate fast enough to be able to read every Topic and answer , something i really regret but i had to throw the towel, let loose of a peleton i couldn't follow anymore because even if i could read and translate 24/7 i still wouldn't be able to follow so many Pirates…
As a sad result , i don't know many of you , unfortunately .i'm still under the spell of this game that has teached me that there are real Diamonds and Pearls of Personalities amongst Old and New Pirates alike so that's why i reanimated an old question who did not come out of my brain…
But i would be a coward if i only ask you a question and keep myself ,hiding in fear ,into the shadow.
So my love for Pirates was triggered very early , back in the late seventies ( * Oh oooow, did i just see a dinosaur passing in yer memories? , moron?) our national TV broadcaster was in love with "old " movies . My favorites were historical based movies , from the Knights in Medieval Times to the Far West created by Ennio's Morricone Magistral Music ( * Aaiaiaaiaaa whaa whaa whaaaaa...He calls that squiling donkey music , marvellous , the moron - Come on , Sunshine , you love the Good the Bad and the Ugly theme too * Okay okay , i just want to thrash the old man ,okay, Captain Tearface?) towards the World War two movies , they all tied my four year old eyes to the screen...i couldn't read back then , not in my own language , certainly not in thy Beautiful Language , i also couldn't understand English back then ( * And now you do? ...Liar..).
But as a kid i reenacted everything i saw , the Television was my extender of my dayDreams and those came to reality by using Playmobil...
To the younger generation , Playmobil is a bit like Lego but you don't have to build that much…
And so on a rainy , television bound day i saw the movie that would plant the seed of PirateLove in my carcass: The Crimson Pirate , a movie from 1952 ,in which Mr Burt Lancaster played the rooftiles of the ….uhm...Pirateship ( * what the hell, are you losing it again, punk?).He had a sidekick in a speechless Mr Nick Cravat, both were former circusman and they did all kind of scallywagging tricks with the ropes of their ship and other props…
i looked up to both and thanks to their movie i was so tied to the story that in my reenactment games with my trusty ( * and only ) little plastic Friends ,i was able to seal myself off from the daily domestical arguements that darkened the mood…
In all honesty , the way i could lock myself off has saved my sanity i think ( * No , you hope , fruitlessly...crazy fool). Still roaming at this age , still unable to read i came across to the Roodbaard , Redbeard comics . A property of my nephews who had a lot of comics ,but they never took care of them. i liked to look at the scenes which i glued a different story upon since i couldn't read back then…
My Mother , who had discovered my love for Piratism ,had a marvellous idea , that went...wrongly a little bit.She loved history but knew nothing about Pirates , sadly... In my country you have the tradition of Sinterklaas or Saint-Nicolas as you would call this Holy Man...
Children try to behave at their best in the months before he comes along. The better you behaved , the more gifts the Good Man would push through the chimney. He was a very old man but had a lot of help from his Black Pete's. Before you stand on yer hindlegs and acuse me from being a rascist ,i will explain the Origin of Black Pete. Black Pete was a cuacasian man or mutiple man , that dove in the chimneys of the children's parents houses in order to put the gifts in front of the fireplace...He took the carrot and the turnip for Saint-Nicolas his horse back up...After doing a few chimneys he became chimneydust black...That's where " Black" Pete is coming from…
But back to my story then...i woke up on 6th december , Saint -Nicolas day, the most important day for children untill yer Parents dear , tell you one day it is all a hoax and it's the Parents that put it all there...That day , that comes to all my countrymen's Children, is a day where many ChildrenHearts get broken…
But Saint Nicolas had dropped a Pirateship off for me ...but …"the Pirate" ship wasn't a Pirateship , it was a Vikingship? My Mother ,sadly , didn't knew the difference and had bought a Vikingship from a Playmobil copying company that is already long gone...But that didn't dampen my Pirate spirit , many ,many hundreds of adventures did i had together and thanks to my Plastic Friends , aaah those memories , it still brings a smile to my old mug ( * and a tear too it seems, crybaby).
Much later , already grownup and scarred by real life , you know the feel , like your life just passes by while you stand in the Line of Life towards it's end amongst the other zombies , an old game called Seadogs passed by.
For those days , it was graphicly splendid and played a bit like that other cultepisode from assassin's Creed 's Black Flag...An old Love was giving Fire of Life again and the embers of then , became a roaring Fire of yearning and Love for the Pirates Life.
A few good Pirate games enlighted the Long years before the Pirate's Revelation that was to come around 2016...Tropico two , Pirate's Cove was another game that kept me busy for a long time. Sadly it was a islandmanager , in which the plunderjourneys were fought outside the screen...
But all this yearnings towards the years of Childish reenactment would soon become stilled...in 2016 , Old george was surfing the internet while being bored , ( * he was so bored that he uttered his boredom at loud and two little rocks in the garden started to a fight to death in which death would mean a liberating escape from his nagging voice...ts ts tsss, moron), i suddenly came across of something called Sea of Thieves…
i was a realistic graphic lover back then , so you could see my eyebrows frowns within the first minute...The trailer started with someone who came out of a Cavern looked around ,in which indie game like trees were visable, an impaled indie looking skeleton , and i feared that this was just a 13th in a dozen game...untill...a very detailed young cartoony female Pirate figure crossed my screen...The gamecharacter follows her towards a shore where a massive galleon was waiting for her , or so it seemed...Hmm, i remember hearing me say: " This doesn't look that bad...". but then something strange caught me eye...The Water...That Water was ...alive and realistic and didn't seemed to fit in that cartoony, and indie game style…
i swiped away , but the seed was planted , a few months later i tried to recall the name of this game and after a few unsuccesfull attemps , i have a bad memorysystem ( * Yeah ,blame it on us , dumbo, you should never have falled that deep five years ago...moron) but Mr Google had found what i was looking for …
i found this Forum and then i met my Personal Jezus in the shape of Mister Chapman and his sidekick , the Shenenigan Mr Joe Neate , who both explained in their own personal style what Sea of Thieves was and what lied underneath those beautiful ,livelike , waterwaves....and the rest ...well , that's history …
i have and still have numerous edventures with my own crew and Random Pirates in which we try to spread the real reason for this game while being set in one of the most beautiful , Childdreamed settings i could only wish for, back in the days that dinosaurs still passed my bedroomwindow….
So that was in short ( * IN SHORT?????? Are ye out of yer mind , call the paramedics , a few tens of New Pirates have fallen in a comateuz slumber, you idiot ...You have killed and stilled them...moron) how i became in Love with Piratism and of course this Beautiful Game...
So i ask this to you as well, maybe you have time to tell us our story and grant me the favour of getting to know you a bit better , please…
Oh, one more thing , i dedicate this question to the one who , years ago, came up with it ...This one is for you Captn Jaq , because i miss your Writingstyle , yer Positivity and Yourself as well...i cant' carry Your Flame of Positivity as i'm not that shiner like you once was but i'm holding up the torch towards he or she who wants to proceed with yer Positive Work of Old....
An Old Man walks away towards his Sloop...He looks back to the beach of a small Island where a Bloodred Flame is waiting to return of Missing Captn. Jaq or her Successor...He Mumbles: " May your Flame warm my Old Shadowy Heart because , it never liked the Darkness which was induced there by the Elders...I'm missing you Captn . May yer Warming Flame inspire the New to spread thy message ...i'm too old and too cold to take this task upon me ...He turns around and walks towards his old Sloop...A tear drops on the sandy beach and reflects a rising sun...It is time for a New Adventure ...Maybe , it's time to catch me a sketchbook or two ...you never know if there is a new Story awaiting on the Horizon...
A sail dissapears from sight but a Torch, an Everburning One , is still awaiting the Old or New soon the be Torchbearer...
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