Post by Queenie on Aug 26, 2012 16:29:42 GMT -5
Here you'll find definitions of various things that need explaining; namely the odd lingo that the pirates and mariners use and live in.
You can also find lots of pirate terminology on this site here
Reverse Hanging[/color]
This is the punishment that awaits all pirates who are caught by the mariners or their on-land counterparts, the police. It is a practice in which the caught pirate is secured into a steel cage-like device that wraps around their chest, holding their arms to their chest and restraining their ankles and wrists against the base-support for the chest cage. A loop of steel cable is wrapped around the pirate's neck and tightened to fit the size of the specific person's neck and not slip over their head. The steel cable is attached to a boom-arm type of thing that has reels underground to jerk the loop up and "hang" the pirate. There is hope, however, for the pirate in the hanging machine (its true name is 'the Arbor', but pirates refer to it as 'the Cage' due to its cage-like appearance.) Each Arbor is connected to every other one on Earth by means of computer programming, and only a single Arbor hangs either its pirate victim or air at a time, a single one on the planet performing its purpose every hour on the hour. Due to this window of time between each Arbor doing its job, the pirate in its grip faces a few different possible fates: starvation, death by means of dehydration, exposure to the elements, being reverse-hung should their time come, or rescued by fellow pirates.
You can also find lots of pirate terminology on this site here
Reverse Hanging[/color]
This is the punishment that awaits all pirates who are caught by the mariners or their on-land counterparts, the police. It is a practice in which the caught pirate is secured into a steel cage-like device that wraps around their chest, holding their arms to their chest and restraining their ankles and wrists against the base-support for the chest cage. A loop of steel cable is wrapped around the pirate's neck and tightened to fit the size of the specific person's neck and not slip over their head. The steel cable is attached to a boom-arm type of thing that has reels underground to jerk the loop up and "hang" the pirate. There is hope, however, for the pirate in the hanging machine (its true name is 'the Arbor', but pirates refer to it as 'the Cage' due to its cage-like appearance.) Each Arbor is connected to every other one on Earth by means of computer programming, and only a single Arbor hangs either its pirate victim or air at a time, a single one on the planet performing its purpose every hour on the hour. Due to this window of time between each Arbor doing its job, the pirate in its grip faces a few different possible fates: starvation, death by means of dehydration, exposure to the elements, being reverse-hung should their time come, or rescued by fellow pirates.
-credit goes to Birdie for coming up with this awesome idea