Why is the Chainmail Bikini Pirate angry?
Tell me why, and win a prize.
But first, I’ll tell you why I think she’s angry. She angry because she wants to buy Arcane Power and get it as both a print book and a pdf, all at a reasonable price. She doesn’t want something that’s not a pdf. She wants the real thing, not a DRM crippled knockoff pdf wannabe. She wants her name watermarked in the bottom corner of each page too, because that proves it’s hers and stops those non-licensed pirates from taking what’s hers by right. And she wants the pdf to be a fair price, not the same cost as the print edition. Sell them as a bundle for a few dollars more, and she’ll be smiling not shouting.
The chainmail bikini pirate says screw you, Greg Leeds. She is your customer, and knows what she wants. If you want her hard earned dubloons, you’ll damned well give her that.
Soooo…… that’s why I think she’s angry. Now it’s your turn.
Tell me why the chainmail bikini pirate is angry, and the best one wins a real, honest-to-goodness print edition of Moldvay Edition red book D&D so you to can game like it’s Nineteen Eighty One too.
You know you want it.
Closing date is Saturday May 16th. Enter as many times as you like, but only your last one counts.
Over to you.
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How do I enter? Post something here? Email you? Post it to my own blog? How? How? How?
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Doh! Guess I should have said that.
Post in the comments, or post in your blog and put a link in the comments. Either is good.
about 1 year ago
Arr, pirates have no problem getting pdfs, me harties!! She’s angry that this damn chainmail chafes!! :)
Sidenote: watermarks like that only catch foolish pirates – Fake name, visa gift card, coffee shop internet, useless watermark.
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@wulf: Thankyew… No chance of scoring that Greyhawk Gazeteer my… ahem… the prize is next to then? ;)
@Tom: Wow. That is a far more motivated pirate than seems necessary, but I suppose.
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Arrr, she be angry that lilly-livered landlubbers be giving piracy a bad name. Copying files ain’t a patch on the “sweet trade.” Iffen she wanted a billy-be-damned copy of Arcane Powers she and her hearties would hoist the Jolly Roger, grab Greg Leeds, slit his weasand, and take all the copies they wanted.
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Sadly, I am quite poor at the moment. It’ll be all I can do to scrape together the S&H after I win yer contest ;)
However, pass along your ebay handle and I’ll give the auctions a look.
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Uhmmmm… I’m assuming my first attempt at linking to my entry got snagged by your processed canned meat filters.
Well, this one has the link as my “website” and my latest post. SO, that ought to do.
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Arrr, Blackbush the Pirate be angry because she was using dual scimitars before it was cool.
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She be spittin’ like a seasnake because the ninja’s been cheatin’ on her with the monkey.
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Arrr, she be mad because the throne be a mite chilly this mornin’ if ye takes me meaning. That stone can’t be given any kind of warmin’ y’know.
Those ninja scum at WotC aren’t going to win!
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She’s torked because her hubby the captain said he’d changed the lightbulbs before he left to plunder and pillage. Alas he did not, and now the entire hideout is lit only by the green disco ball they got during the raid on the USS Travolta
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about 1 year ago
She’s angry because she thought Pirates would look more like Johnny Depp and less like your average gamer.
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Yarr, she be all wrathful like on account ‘o there be no place on her outfit for those thar scimitars, so she has to be holdin’ them all the time and can’t pick anything up.
about 1 year ago
Arr, she be aggravated because green is an unflattering lighting colour for females.
about 1 year ago
Uh, that amount of chainmail can’t possibly provide the advertised armor class of “chainmail” in the PHB. Yet she paid full price. When she gets her scimitars into the bloke that sold her the stuff, she’ll cut him to the quick, if you take my meaning.
about 1 year ago
She was in a fine good humor before the .pdf issue came to light, but the surliness incited by the .pdfs only increased when she learned that, in real life, she is Lorraine Williams.
about 1 year ago
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Huh.
Very well.
She’s angry because SHE was doing the two-scimitar thing FIRST! Goddamit!
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She is angry ’cause there’s no treasure except a stone demonic throne and the limelight is on her.
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She’s mad because the chainmail bikini isn’t kinky enough.
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She’s mad because Pirate Power isn’t coming out until 2015. Damn Wizards.
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She’s mad because she got ninja’ed and stole her pants. Little did she know that he is hiding behind that throne.
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The Chainmail Bikini Pirate was angry because she arrived at the party wearing her business casual chainmail bikini and every one else was in semi-formal wear, even though she had explicitly asked about the dress code the night before.
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The Bikini Pirate is angry at the Wizards of the Coast. This is simply because the Wizards of the Coast keeps messing with her ships’ designs. The ship she’s on should have cannons, but they took the cannons away. The ship she’s on has big sails, but no galley crew to keep her ship going when the wind stops.
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She’s an entity of nonexistence unless someone downloads her off a torrent along with the book she’s in. Her anger can only be quenched if she slits *all* the employees of the Wizards of the Coast’s throats!
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She be mad as the geek stuffed into Davey Jones’ locker cause her eyes be up thar… If she wanted to be yer wench, she’d be workin’ at a tavern, lads. (That outfit had a different effect than the intimidating one she was hoping for…)
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er… make that “her eye be up thar”
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Yarr, she be mad because she woke up to find some “Net Squatters” had taken over her domain thanks to the lazyness of her ISP. Doing as any pirate would do in such a travesty, she grabbed her scimitars and headed out with a belch and a roar to handle this herself.
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Tchaa! Yon Chainmail Bikini Pirate is torqued off because of the dozens of blind and outwitted fools what calls themselves clever pirates! Because, y’see, the Chainmail Bikini Pirate is not a Chainmail Bikini Pirate at all, not on yer life! Though her ruffly pirate shirt be finest elven chain, and her leg-hugging boots be sheathed in gleaming silvery links — that be no bikini at all, let alone a chainmail bikini!
Yes indeed, the Leather Knickers Pirate is right mad at being so misspoke, and she’s a scimitar for each o’ the eyes of the sorry scalawags to make such a landlubbin’ mistake!
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about 1 year ago
She’s angry because she had to fight hundreds of ninjas, evil monkeys, undead sailors and even an undead captain who called himself LeChuck and in the end all she got was that lousy t-shirt! (T-Shirt not shown in image because Chainmail Bikini Pirate Girl feels deeply ashamed!)
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about 1 year ago
“Not another $%#@%ing rust monster!”
about 1 year ago
She’s angry because SOMEONE saw it fit to have her fill all sexist fantasy/pirate stereotypes by not fully clothing her.
about 1 year ago
She’s not angry ’cause she still be sailin’ under the 3.5 rules, and some scallywag told her to take Two Weapon Fighting and Weapon Focus: Scimitar as feats, instead of the more flexible Power Attack & Cleave combo (after all, where is a pirate lass expected to get two magic scimitars when her landlubber DM say he be random rollin’ fer magic items?) No, Chainmail Bikini Pirate be angry because the know-it-all who advised her in her less than optimal feat choices be the same scurvy dog who TOOK HER LEFT EYE!
about 1 year ago
With a look of agony and rage like that it could only be one thing… She arrived at the biggest Monster Slaying Bash of the year, dressed to impress, only to discover that she was wearing the EXACT SAME chainmail bikini as some other wench! *gasp* The boots, the snazzy red bandana, even the left-eye patch in black… oh the horror! What’s a scimitar-swingin’, dubloon savy gal to do? Well, from the look on her face I’d say she’s probably about to head over and perform some ‘alterations’ on the scurvy wench’s outfit. I hear peg-legs are in this season…
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about 1 year ago
She is not really angry. She is dancing at a 80′s disco…
about 1 year ago
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