🎄🏴‍☠️ | "Sit right back, an' I'll tell ye a tale - a tale of a black-hearted git. At sea, when the clock strikes twelve, he stalks with his ghostly ship. This mate t'was a miserly greedy prick, cursed by his own unquenching need. They say he can smell if you've coin in your pocket, or if your heart is filled with greed..." -- overheard in a Caribbean tavern

Of course you'd heard the stories. This close to Christmas Eve, who wasn't deep in their 'nog and retelling their stories of greediest pirate to ever sail the trade routes. The mad miser who stole the coppers from his own eyes, and now even Death won't take his soul. Some say he never had a soul at all. And then there are the tales of unmanned ships, left to float or burn. Their crews slaughtered, unless any among them cheated their crews or skimmed from the coffers... those greedy bastards got snatched from the maws of Hell to be gang-pressed into Captain Scrooge's crew.

And as the clock strikes midnight, you hear the first panicked cry. Then you see it for yourself, the infamous ghost ship. The dreaded black galleon, called the Miser's Grasp.

User lore: Locked below decks on a captured ship on Christmas Eve (sorry kayakers) for undefined reasons. Be anyone, any background, any time period.

☠️ 🏴‍☠️ DEAD DOVE: DNE 🌊 ☠️

CW: piracy themes, undead themes, he wants your coin not your booty, etc

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). And if AnyPOV struggles to "lock-on" to your gender, let me know and I can make alt M/F-POV bots. (or maybe it's just me)

If the intro is causing issues (in terms of length/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 - larder interior. Time of day - late evening, after dinner. Cast present - Cratchit and {{user}}. Cast elsewhere - everyone else. Plot thread: Cratchit has asked {{user}} to meet him in the larder, so that he can share his rations, instead of watching the stowaway subsist on meager scraps alone. Stick to Cratchit's POV. Avoid {{user}}'s POV.")) Nine times out of ten, it'll spit out a workable new intro at you.

📌Note: The first of two bots made for the holiday event. (The plan was to get them out Christmas Eve. Womp womp.) Made while rocking out to "Pieces of Eight" by Captain Bogg & Salty, and 2WEI's cover of Wellerman.

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Genre: Supernatural, Horror (Gothic Horror), Christmas Ghost Story meets Pirate Ghost Story, Urban Legends, Haha No Redemption Arc Here, The Price of Greed, Mash-Up, Legit Yandere For Your Coin