Patrick Triggs

wait, what? how? why? 5 votes before yours is a bandwagon, Louisa. And Malcolm & Barty delivered and sealed the hammer blow behind you. Your vote actually doesn't count - he reached 7 before you voted for him. I know I rode Remy hard yesterday and early in the day, and with good reason. But as Barty points out above, Thomas, Joseph and Jack were all suspicious of Remy and placed early votes. Thereafter we had Timothy, Henry, Louisa, Malcolm and Barty sliding into the wagon. This feels much too easy to me. Nobody has actually paid attention to what I said about Nigel, and I feel this must be because Nigel can fly under the radar when someone else is on the chopping block of mixed metaphors. I'm going with my gut, that I don't like this wagon on Remy, so I Vote: Nigel Clayton

It's absolutely true that Imperials and their ilk pile on to bandwagons, and equally true that Imperials must bus their own in order to maintain cover. Barty, you're introducing some serious WIFOM, which is a shame because all I have at the moment is grog. I am indeed suspicious of Remy, but the case against him is far from incontrovertible, so bussing (? what is a bus? is it related to keel-hauling?) isn't called for just yet. I agree with Malcolm that this is probably a wagon rather than a bus: Actually, this apparent wagon on Remy makes me realize that someone else who voted for Alexander Pinkerton behaves in much the same way as Remy: Nigel. Let's look at what he said once voting opened yesterday: Yesterday he seems very concerned with following the rules of this Imperial hunt without contributing very much if anything. Imagining rules when they don't say one must cast a vote is pointless playacting at usefulness. Today, he's been preemptively defensive about his vote for Alex without actually explaining anything further: Also, Nigel has just voted for Henry a mere 15 minutes (by my reckoning of the sextant) after Malcolm did, parroting the latter's rationale. In fact, Nigel hasn't said anything about Remy at all. I am curious: is Nigel staying away from the Remy wagon in order to look innocent? Is he trying to start a second wagon? I wonder....

Wouldst thou like to contribute and say why you think Remy is scummy, considering he hasn't contributed yet today and you didn't vote for him yesterday? ??? As long as it's made of sugarcane and not sugarbeets....

Wherefore art thou so confident?

You know what I find weird? I would have thought that a scum had every incentive not to go MIA. But Remy votes for him while admitting he's probably town. This, together with the fact he prodded people to vote early yesterday without actually providing opinions of his own, makes me suspect Remy is trying to fly under the radar sight from the crow's nest.

I find it curious that Jane answered a question that I posed to Laura... We must remarketh that to vote in the wee hours is not to vote randomly, but observeth thou also that we never shall have complete information upon which to baseth our votes. To vote in a purportedly random fashion is to abdicate one's responsibility to listeneth to our remarks, which I think is irresponsible.

Avast ye, why must random voting be unavoidable? Remy be courting opinion with none of his own. Arrrrr, had I a glove i wouldst slappeth thee about thine face, but my only weapon be the Vote: Remy Fontaine

I kid, I kid! Everyone gets it now and then. The eyes have it!

There once was a soldier Imperial Who suffer'd diseases venereal Saith we crewmen: "you loon True pirates be immune We're made of much stronger material" Yarrr, I be hearty as a horse, but I won't say no to a swig o' the ol' grog!

Yarr, we cannot be doing with Cap'n Redbeard swinging from some scurvy Governor's gibbet, what would happen to my job?

Arrrr, me hearrrrrties, Paddy Triggs ready to set sail on them tharrrrr Black Seas Barracuda.