Disclaimer: This third addition to Overlooked is about Murtogg and Mullroy.Murtogg and Mullroy were those funny little King's navy men who had a lengthy conversation about the Pearl not being real.So without further ado...
Strings
My mate Mully and I were guarding a ship, don't remember the name actually, but it was hot as it usually is in Port Royal. That got me wondering, with it being hot all the time here, why did we have to wear boots? I always thought you were suppose to wear boots during winter, you know when it's cold. Just didn't make sense.
I bet you're wondering why I had the time to think about boots. I mean, I could've been thinking about important things like life after the military or something. Well, the fact of the matter was there really isn't that much to do being a guard in all. I mean you wouldn't think it would be boring, but it was.
Not many people bother you during that time. People know you're guarding a ship and don't bother you in the least bit. We were on duty you see, and you're not suppose to preoccupy yourself with nice long conversations that help past the time- someone could steal the ship, you know. But hardly anyone ever did. So we did preoccupy ourselves in that particular way, mostly because there wasn't anything to do. That afternoon I started the conversation-it was my turn you see:
"What do we do now?"
"What about trying to do something heroic?" Mullroy ventured, even though we knew we weren't suppose to move. He had never suggested doing that before and frankly I didn't know what to make of it.
"Like what?"
"I dunno. I 've never tried." he shrugged. So we stood at our posts a bit more- in silence, then a thought came to me.
"We did fight skeletal pirates. That's heroic."
"No, that was stupid." I was surprised-the last thing I thought he would say was that was stupid! I mean we had been shocked to find skeletal pirates on our ship-even shook each other's hands before charging into them. I had found it exciting if a bit terrifying. So I told him:
"Stupid? What we did wasn't stupid!"
"Yes, it was-they were immortal skeletons! What we were doing was stupid-there was no way we could've won!"
"But we did win-and we didn't know they were undead at the time," I pointed out. "So we were uninformed."
"Sword swinging skeletal sailors have to be immortal!"
"I thought they were undead?" I frowned, he had to make everything confusing-when the entire thing was confusing to begin with!
"How can you be undead?" scoffed Mully. " Not being dead means being alive and if you're alive and can't be killed you're immortal."
"I thought they weren't alive or dead. That's what the stories said." Actually, that's what Mr. Sparrow had said. I had figured he would know seeing as how he had been mixed up in the middle of everything.
"The only way for them to be that would be to be a rock." Mullroy concluded.
"A rock?" Now he was confusing me even more.
"Yes, rocks have never and will never be alive and you need to be alive before you're dead."
"How do you know rocks will never be alive? Never is forever you know."
"Good point. But that doesn't change the fact that rocks have never been alive and you have to be alive before you can die."
"Well, how do we know the skeletons were alive?"
"How do we-you're not-"he sputtered, "-they were dodging and parrying and-and ATTACKING! How-how would they do that if-if they weren't alive?"
I thought about that for a moment. "Strings?"
"Strings. Strings can't turn skeletons back into men!"
"Lighting could make it-"
" Lighting? That's rich, they smelt horrible-how do explain that? Lighting…"
"Ships…smell?"
"Ha! We smell ships and the sea all the time-we're on a bloody island we ought to know what the sea smells like!"
"I don't go around smelling ships."
"That's not what I meant!"
"Well it sounded as if YOU went around smelling ships, going on about what ships smell like-what was I s'ppose to think?"
"Let's talk about those strings again shall we?"
So we had nice lengthy conversation that helped past the time about strings instead of undead pirates.