Description from original post (created 2012-06-12 08:10):
YAARGH! Lemme tell ya the story of one of the most notorious pirates to ever sail the endless seas of Minecraft!The Infamous Blond-Beard The Pirate!
So the legend goes, Blond-Beard had the world by the scruff of the neck. Buccaneers dared not stand his way, Kings cowered at the very mention of his name, and they say, that even death itself was too afraid to claim him. For his most successful plunder, was eternal life.
His crimes spanned several hundred years, several thousand shipmates and several million diamonds. But it was his greatest asset that was his eventual downfall, his eternal life lessened his sympathy for everyone else around him, his crew were working longer and harder with each passing month... failure to work would mean you take a long swim, whilst wearing his patented lead boots and gauntlets.
Death was right around the corner for his crew, it was never a question of "if", but "when". So one night, they decided to do the unthinkable, by toppling the evil captain. But how do you silence what cannot be killed? Why with his own cruel creations, the crew hastily restrained and fitted their leader with a tight pair of lead Boots and Gauntlets, carried him to the deck and threw him overboard!
Blond-Beard sank to the darkest depths of the ocean, any normal man would have drowned before reaching the bottom, but for this Pirate, he had no such release. If you have ever been unlucky enough to know the feeling of struggling for a gasp of air, then you will know how Blondy here feels, only... that is all he feels, for the countless years he has spent under the sea. It's hard to believe how with each passing second his strain for air gets more and more painful, so much as that any passers by in the way of predators would do him a kindness to replace that pain with another.
His former blessings, now his curse. His mind is going and his only meaning to continue, is the fact that he has no choice.
Blond-Beard, the drowning man, forever under the sea.