Pay 45 crowns

From Create Your Own Story

You pay the tailor 45 gold crowns (quite a hefty sum even by pirate standards) and leave his workshop with your new uniforms. You go back to Midnight, get Miguel and tie his hands behind his back. Then, dressed as Royal Navy officers, you and your four men walk Miguel to Drakesport's jail, a squat grey building that sits right next to the sea. Two guards are standing at the door.

"Halt! Who goes there?" shouts a big, red-haired guard.

"We're bringin' this prisoner," you grunt, trying to imitate a dour British soldier. "He's called Miguel, surely ye've heard of him."

"Ah, yes. Of course we have." He squints at you strangely. "Wait here please." He goes back inside the building.

A minute later, a dozen armed guards burst out of the jail: "Hands up! Drop your weapons!"

"But we're officers of the Navy!" you protest.

"No you're not," replies the red-haired guard. "These uniforms are fake. The badges are all wrong."

As the guards haul you away, you understand that the tailor tricked you and your men. You are hanged the next morning.

THE END