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A Mutiny of Pirates: Being an account of the Damn Shames and the search for the treasure of Chalcedon

The Damn Shames, a group of bikers-turned-pirates, find themselves at the center of a search for a legendary pirate captain’s treasure–a quest made deadly by politicians, privateers, and the uncaring vacuum of space.

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Rahab

Rahab loosens her nails from the grooves they’ve made in the leather of her seat, though she hasn’t hit the release yet. She’s still trying to convince her skittish brain and body that the Starfarer is on the ground, that the raggedy ship and its raggedy crew are under the sway of the reasonable gravity of a habitable planet. It’s a long process—the landing and the convincing.

Slowly, Rahab unfurls from the turret chair. When she lets out the breath she’s been holding for what feels like hours, it hisses like the hydraulics on the chair as she’s lowered into the Starfarer’s hallway. Falcor wouldn’t let her out of her gunner’s chair if the ship’s systems detected any enemy presence nearby; the ship is just as interested in staying alive as Rahab is.

And thanks to a healthy dose of roguish ingenuity and MISC’s built-in paranoia, the Damn Shames have just escaped certain death. Again. At least for now.
But Rahab wonders if their luck has just run out.

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in the grand tradition of @theoldaeroplane and @preludeinz and many others before them I’m sure, I am embarking on a quest to create…a serial story! that’s somewhat fan-fic-y! but also summed up perfectly by this cap from Bob’s Burgers!

The Damn Shames are a gang of space biker pirate types, roughly representative of the #studiolife group as they are (as well as their idealized selves), who show up in such games as Star Citizen as well as my sci-fi universe (confusing, I know). They’ve taken on a significant life of their own lately, and I wanted to wrangle them into a cohesive series for a while. A Mutiny of Pirates is sort of the origin story of the Shames, or at least a point of canon I can point to and say, well, I use this as a jumping off point if you want to understand all of the inevitable terrible AUs.

AMoP incorporates a number of elements from that classic Treasure Island, though by no means do I intend to follow the book precisely. my goals are to cover all the various dynamics between the Shames in at least one way, introduce the tone and themes of this gaggle, and have a lot of fun writing about the Star Citizen universe while putting my own spin on it. (and did I mention erotic friend-fiction?)

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