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Re: John E. Doolittle
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Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:29:50 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote a truly epic story.
It needs a bit of a beginning.
How about.....
So, at the height of their (John E. and Aurora's) success, while Waite is
broken and penniless having blown his not inconsiderable fortune in vain
(and often comic) attempts to undo Doolittle, Aurora feels the need to be
reconciled with her father.
She and Doolittle, travelling under assumed names, book passage on a supply
ship returning to England from Port Block. En route, they are accosted by
black hearted pirates (masquerading as Doolittle's men). Grossly
outnumbered by the pirates, and with only the lack lustre and uncertain
support of the merchant crew, the supply ship is taken. Doolittle is a
little peeved.
The cargo (probably just rum from Port Block) is transferred to the pirate,
and in their disgust at such a light haul, they also take the darling
Aurora. Doolittle is probably more than peeved.
In dastardly pirate style, they set the merchantman afire, and sail away.
Doolittle is now feeling so incredibly more than peeved that peeved just
doesn't belong in the same sentence as what Doolittle was feeling, unless
the sentence also included words like 'incredibly more than'.
Under Doolittle's direction, the fire is controlled, and he takes over (what
remains of) the ship himself, and immediately steers for Shangrila. Walking
from the quarterdeck of the still smoking merchantman onto the quarterdeck
of the Aurora, he sallies forth. He encounters the pirate ship that stole
his love away, and by playing possum, takes the pirate, only to discover
that the day before, Aurora had been sold to a slaver! (shock horror etc!
Etc!!).
Knowing that even he could not bring a two decker slaver to heel without
running a substantial risk of blowing it, and the (dear Aurora) to blazes,
Doolittle drives on to Port Block in full view, hands over the captured
pirate as a gesture of good faith, and respectfully requests the Agamemnon
join the Aurora in pursuit of the slaver.
Governor Bligh, temporarily in command at Port Block, and hiding under his
bed as usual, refuses. And impounds the Aurora. And confines Doolittle to
the Aurora, until Bligh can work out what he should do, and whether it is
safe for him to come out from under the bed.
Captain Sheridan can make no sense of these proceedings at all, and is
almost overwhelmed by his desire to set sail and set all this to rights, but
he is bound by his honour and his oath. Stout fellow!
He joins Doolittle for dinner aboard the Aurora, and in the midst of a game
of hypothetical, moderated by the chief steward (one Geoffrey Robertson QC -
that's Quite a Cook), they stumble upon a course of events which would seem
to allow the Legoverse to assume more proper proportions. Hypothetically.
Extraordinarily, the very next day, those self same events as were talked
about in a frivolous parlour game the night before, began to unfold.
Hmmm. Big post. Kind of got on a roll there. Sorry ;-)
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
Note the change in URL - Port Block is moving (to new and larger
accommodations)
Do adjust your set.
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