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[Voice] For the Spade Pirates

Right!

Yes!

Got it! Good!

[The Doctor's voice finally gets closer to the journal, clearly he was doing something on the other side of his workshop.]

Hallo everyone! I think I've got it running now. Yes. That should do it! I'll just flip the switch. Thought I'd record it for posterity...

[The ship lurches a bit, and picks up a little bit of speed. Not much, but a bit. Enough to maybe get them out of a doldrum.]

Haha! Now we're talking! [There's a satisfied clap.]

Yes, that will do it. That will go nicely. Alright...well, the first project is completely. It's just a simple motor, but we won't be stuck in dead water anytime soon. And it makes toast too. Goes ding when it's done.

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[He notices the lurch before he sees the entry, so by the time he opens the journal they're already moving smoothly along.]

Now there's a combination I never would've thought of.

And why not? Toast and locomotion, what's so strange about that?

Nothing, I guess, if you're a huge fan of toast.

If there's room for any additions, you should add a waffle maker.

Thought about it, but didn't have enough scrap metal. How, if you find me some iron, maybe...then we'll be in business.

...Wow, you actually did think about it, didn't you?

[Laughs.]

That's all kinds of awesome. Do you have any other ship upgrades in mind?

Well...yeah. Waffles are good.

[He likes waffles, geez.]

As for that...well...I've thought about upgrading the sails so they'll retract automatically. That'd be easy enough. But I'm open to suggestions...

That right there sounds good to me. One less thing to worry about if we get caught in another storm, right?

Right, yes. That was my thinking exactly. Better that than getting caught with our pants down, yes?

Heh, well that'd just be awkward for everyone. But yeah, I'm still getting used to sailing on a ship this big so that would definitely make things easier.

Oh? Never been at sea like this before?

Like this? No. Not for an extended amount of time, and not on a large ship like this one. And the only other pirate ship I've been on, I didn't hang around very long.

Ah. Well. Think you've got your sealegs at least?

Oh yeah, I'm fine! I mean, I grew up on an island, I'm used to being out on the water. Just not, uh. [Tries to remember what the heck type of ship they have.] On a brig sloop? That's what this is, right? And living on it, that's new. But I'm good.

Yeah, I understand that. This is the longest I've been at sea myself. Longest I've dealt with...linear...time ever, too. But it's not so bad. Yo-ho-yo-ho, and all that, right?

Yo-ho, indeed... Nah, it's not bad at all. Ace and them are different than other pirates I've met in the past, though. Not quite as...swashbuckling. His hat is cooler, too. No giant plume thing going on.

Yeah, they're...a lot less stereotypical and scurvy ridden. It's a nice change, really.

I can definitely appreciate them being less scurvy ridden.

Nasty thing, scurvy. Not quite so bad as space scurvy, of course...but considerably more common.

At least we don't have to worry about that. Probably. I think we've got enough citrus...

[Maybe...]

...I didn't know space scurvy was a thing. As in, a thing that's different from regular scurvy.

Oh yeah, definitely. Similar symptoms, of course...but more severe.

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