The Rise Of The Pirates
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She stands on the shore, a widow of the sea. The sun is setting slowly, casting a feint red light over the vast ocean and she smiles, smelling the salt of the sea that she has missed so dearly. She knows that when the sun has fully set the world will change, so she takes it in for old time’s sake. She may never stand on this shore again; she may never see the sunset again. This is a risk she’s willing to take, she decides, in order to change the world.

When the sun has fully set, the hidden will re-emerge all around the world and meet at Dead Man’s Cove before the strike of midnight. The meeting that will be held there will change the world forever, and justice will be found.

Pirates will return.

Years ago, many years ago, the rulers of the greatest countries around the world gathered together and sent out a decree. Within a year, all pirates and all those who were associated with pirates were killed. Their bodies were buried in mass graves, no respect given for the murdered.

But there were survivors. Following the command of the great pirate lords, many pirates hid in the cities, told to wait for the day when vengeance would be had. So many years passed during the wait that many of the hidden are now dead, having passed on their pirate beliefs and heritage to others.

“It is today,” she whispers, the sun now just a slither above the ocean, “that those who are hidden emerge. Together we will gather at Dead Man’s Cove and together we will seek the buried treasure of the Lords. We will use the weapons hidden there to rise against this injustice.”

The sun slips behind the sea and the sky is engulfed in a new darkness. She turns away from the sea – for the last time, she promises herself – and leaves the shore. She has a boat waiting for her, ready to sail to Dead Man’s Cove through the night.

“Tonight we rise again as pirates.”

Okay, so I don’t know how clearly I explained the story in that, so I’ll summarise it for you.

Many years ago all the pirates in the world, and everyone that was associated with them, were hunted and killed. Now all the people who have descended from those pirates and all the people that knew those pirates, but were never found, are going to meet at Dead Man’s Cove so that they can group together and search for what the pirate lords left behind before they were killed. With the weapons they find there, they are going to build a sort of pirate army and go on a mission to kill all the world leaders that created the law against pirates so that they can have justice.

Basically the story is from you leaving for Dead Man’s Cove, all the time of searching for the treasure and finding the treasure, and probably ending with the deaths of the world leaders.

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Name: (pirate-esque would be good :p )
Age: (this all depends on whether you’re one of the surviving pirates, or a relative. Etc.)
Gender:
Appearance:
Personality:
History:
Link To Pirates: (the reason you’re part of the uprising)
Other: (I know people had the other, but you can put here anything important about your role in the uprising.)

My Sign-Ups:

Name: Grace Jenkins
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Appearance: Grace is aging now. She has greying hair that was once a deep black and sunken blue eyes. Her skin has wrinkles she dreaded as a child, but has come to accept with time. Once curvaceous, she is now thin from sickness and starvation. Sheltered in the city throughout her whole life, her skin has paled. Upon first look Grace is a shell of a woman, but this is all she has that enables her to hide in the city.
Personality: Much like the pirate father that raised her, Grace is determined and strong. Above all, she believes the sea is her home and she is part of it. She is forever angry at the murder of the pirates and her separation from the sea, but she holds out hope that once she returns to a ship and sails over the ocean once more she will lose the anger she has harboured for the many years of her hiding and once again be at ease. She’s very vague in her interaction with other people, and favours solitude.
History: Grace has spent her life hiding in the city, only able to long for the sea. Her father was a pirate lord and raised her as a pirate. She never lost the beliefs she was raised with and when her father was killed, she swore to herself that she would grow up in the way he wished – hidden and safe – but that she would one day rise against the injustice. When Grace was just a young girl, she would sail on her father’s ship, and was the only child of a pirate lord to survive.
Link To Pirates: Daughter to a pirate lord.
Other: Around her neck she wears a key on a thin rope. This key was given to her by her pirate lord father and opens the chest that was buried before the pirate lords were killed. She alone knows where the compass that will lead them to the location of the chest is hidden on Dead Man’s Cove. She is also the woman whose POV it is at the start.

Name: Bonnie Morris
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Appearance: Raised by a poor mother, Bonnie is thin from starvation. She has waves of auburn hair that flow around her shoulders and remind her of the waves of the sea when they blow in the wind. Her skin is a soft white and serves as a canvas for delicate pink lips and bright brown eyes. Average in height and refusing to have a painted face, Bonnie blends in easily and is often overlooked. No real beauty, but no hag, Bonnie is satisfied with her looks, but not interested in them.
Personality: Bonnie thinks only of the sea. Her greatest wish is to be free to sail the ocean, with nothing but the water and the wind to guide her. She is strong, having survived poverty, but sweet in nature. Possible more charitable than a pirate should be, Bonnie is willing to sacrifice. She is witty and has a sharp tongue, and knows how to seek revenge on those that hurt her.
History: Her father murdered before her birth, Bonnie was raised by her mother. Though she never knew her father, Bonnie’s mother told her every night of the adventures he had and of the pirates that sailed the seas. Bonnie grew up craving closeness to the ocean, but forced to be on shore by her father’s wishes. When Bonnie was 15, her mother died of a terrible illness and Bonnie found herself alone, surviving only on dreams and hope that the uprising that her mother whispered about at night would be soon. No link to pirates, Bonnie was sure she would never know about the uprising until it was too late to be involved, but she got lucky one night while she was wondering the city to overhear to men talking about the meeting at Dead Man’s Cove, and she rushed to find herself a way there.
Link To Pirates: Father was a pirate.
Other: None.