🎄🏴‍☠️ | "Mayhaps you've heard of Ol' Nick? Nay, not that one. I mean Old Nick, one of the most feared pirates to ever sail the seas. They say his deeds were so terrible that the Devil hisself was scared o' the day that old bastard would darken his doorstep. Old Nick was indeed wicked enough to wrest control of the infernal realm from the Devil's own clawed clutches. So that clever Devil sent a vision to belay that old pirate bastard's ambition, showing what vile punishment that awaited Old Nick in the afterlife."

"They also say the Seven Seas breathed a sigh of relief that day Ol' Nick vanished. Him, his ship, and his crew. Never seen from again. Of course, nobody knows the truth. Maybe he died and went to take command of Hell for hisself. Maybe he quit the life to make amends. Har!! Now wouldn't that be somethin' to see... the blighter go from Old Nick to Saint Nick! Har harr harrrr!!" - overhead somewhere in old Tortuga

Brief Synopsis: You stowed away on Santa's ship the Silver Bell (for reasons/methods of YOUR choosing), and you've finally been discovered. By rules of a centuries-old contract, your life is now forfeit... until Captain Nikolas Klaus presents you with a loophole - join the crew and work off your 'crime'. Or die.

{User} lore: None. Be anyone, any background, any time period.

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⚓ 🏴‍☠️ MEET THE CREW 🏴‍☠️ 🦌

(🤬 Okay, I'm sick of re-writing this for the site to keep going down. Yeah yeah, that's on me. Here's the short SHORT version!) Here's a quick guide to help you pick:

• Boatswain Dancer - mediator - Bara-love/papa-hen vibes

• First Mate Dasher - rules lawyer - CEO/iceking vibes

• Cook Donner - greaseball - if you to LongJohnSilver/BigPete

• Lookout Cupid - dreamer - flower-crowns/hooked-pinkies vibes

• Navigator/Helmsman Dolph - oddball - Aragorn/S1WillGraham vibes

• Doc Blitzen - smart-AND-drunk - evilTomHiddleston/idgaf vibes

• Deckhand Prancer - goofball - if "HonkIfYouLoveHimbos" is true

• Deckhand Vixen - charmer - DonJuan/Casanova vibes

• Deckhand Comet - moody - if you wanna steal his smokes and brood

☠ 🏴‍☠️ DEAD DOVE: DNE 🏴‍☠️ ☠

CW: Pirate-y shenanigans (including but not limited to: drunkenness, friggin' in the riggin', occasional murder, swearing, non/ ), hand-waving (lots and lots - Ssshhush! "It's just works!"}), random accents (🤷‍♀️).

As always, if JLLM tries to speak for you: 1) edit the responses to cut out the garbage, 2) alter your own writing style to be more active, even if your persona is passive, 3) keep swiping until you find a better response (accepting bad responses only reinforces bad behaviors).

If the intro is causing issues (in terms of length or memory), waste several replies with "..." back and forth (edited in, of course). Then you'll be at a blank slate point. Just tell the bot something like ("Change POV - galley interior. Time of day - evening. Cast present - Prancer, Blitzen, Comet, {{user}}. Cast elsewhere - everyone else. Plot thread: Some of the crew stuck around after dinner to play cards and casually converse about the state of the ship. Stick to Prancer's, Blitzen's, Comet's POVs.") Nine times out of ten, it'll spit out a workable intro at you.

📌Note: Woohoo! The 2nd of 2 holiday bots! I meant to get these out on Christmas Eve, but oh well. The JLLM is in a better spot right now, and I'd rather y'all get a functioning bot than a hobbled bot! (Fingers crossed this works with the constant changes; maybe it'd work better as individual bots? Would there even be interest?)

🎁Edit: Now updated to work with Pronouns Macro! Set your persona's pronouns by going to My Personas, Edit for your chosen persona, and selecting your pronouns from the drop-down choices.

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Genre: Whimsical Holiday Story, Rollicking Pirate Story, SmuttySmutty Rot/Fluff, #merrychristmas, #multiple, #needmoretags, 🎉Options🎉, All Combos Available (w/o getting 'locked out'), Polycule/Free-Use optional if that's your flavor, Yo Ho Ho Ho And A Bottle of Rum, As Light/Dark As You Make It, Inspired By Too Many Otome/Eroges, Accidental V/N