Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page122 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Rhuddlan has the biggest mint around, far larger than Wolfland\u2019s own in Carlisle. Rhuddlan has the capacity, so it mints not only Meirionydd sovereigns but also Mannin sovereigns, and roughly half of the sovereigns which circulate in Wolfland.<\/p>\n The most dangerous stretch of water lies between Meirionydd and Wolfland. The coastal route from Amlwch to Conwy is usually trouble free. The pirates tend to operate either nearer to Boot, or somewhere in the middle of the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n BlackCloud prefers the simple routines. When he takes The Frumious Bandersnatch<\/em> out on business he tends to stay close to home. But not this time!<\/p>\n — o —<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A short, skinny fellow, a bit like a cross between Wylie Coyote and Napolean, BlackCloud is a most unlikely pirate captain. He also has the luck and the resilience of Wylie Coyote! Always avoiding catastrophe and then coming back for more.<\/p>\n In stark contrast to BlackCloud, the first mate BlackDog is a burly, pig headed man. He believes that brute force and shouting are the main skills needed to be a pirate. When he brandishes a weapon and descends onto a freighter everyone is petrified. His raiding parties are formed of equally brutish, screaming, desperados.<\/p>\n Lesson one of the book Effective and Efficient Piracy for Fun and for Profit<\/em> states that you shouldn\u2019t try to sink the target!<\/p>\n If a vessel goes to the bottom of the sea, then it takes all the booty down with it! Nor is it a good idea to intentionally massacre the crew. The theory is that damaged ships and impaired crews can recover and can return to their normal routines. Then they can be raided again and again.<\/p>\n Once the whole navy is sunk, there\u2019s nothing left to plunder, no future to a pirate career, and they\u2019ll be forced to<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page122 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page122 \u2013 Next Rhuddlan has the biggest mint around, far larger than Wolfland\u2019s own in Carlisle. Rhuddlan has the capacity, so it mints not only Meirionydd sovereigns but also Mannin sovereigns, and roughly half of the sovereigns which circulate in Wolfland. The most dangerous stretch of water lies between Meirionydd and Wolfland. … Continue reading “Chapter 16 The Battle of Puffin Island122”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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