im bored, time to shitpost
Corsair womp womp moment
Now, with having no contact with the outside world, for a while Maria’s men had absolutely no idea that the invasion was going on and were chilling, wondering why no one was sailing to the Bronze Sea (most of the refugees got cut down or veered far from the Forest of Masts out of fears the Atlanteans had made it their home).
When they saw a ship after weeks of not seeing any they jumped at the chance to loot it and fired their harpoons at it. The ship put little resistance to being dragged, odd as it was a ship-of-the-line. The pirates thought it was their lucky day dragging in a ship this large.
Small issue though.
It was an Atlantean ship.
I think you can tell where this is going.
Upon boarding the ship they find the top deck vacant and assume that the crew had been washed over board. Assuming whatever cargo was in there was still there they opened the hatch. The men who opened the hatch got dragged into the cargo hold, where onlookers described “The screams of men who were being torn limb from limb” came from the lower decks.
Soon Atlanteans flooded the island, causing the Corsairs to try and resist as much as they could. A few of them climbed the spires and hid, surviving the onslaught. These poor souls would survive off of fruit and made little to no noise. The rest fought their best, but were slaughtered.
Captain Maria and the last of her men who didn’t hide made their last stand on the central brig and eventually were swarmed by the infected quartermasters and crew.
The Corsairs at the Forest of Masts would turn into octopi based mutants, growing tentacles which they would use to essentially chain down their targets. They also were dangerously intelligent, though still feral, similar to the Wind-Row Wolves and were incredibly greedy, killing each other over little disputes. Some of them even fused with the harpoons they used to drag ships to the Forest of Masts, using them for their original purpose or as weapons.
