The reason I haven’t written up “The Last Raid of Rocca Jack Hwinda” is because I have yet to come up with something that’s sufficiently magnificently and ridiculously awesome for him to do. You don’t waste Rocca Jack Hwinda on something that’s normally stupid. No, it has to be something that’s amazingly stupid.
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…. given the supporting cast, and the (apparent) period, this .. is either a legend which can be told backwards .. or it’s something that’s going to need a big chunk of world-building.
Either way, let it chill in the storyteller’s icebox until it’s ready. Lasagna and a cracklin’ good read both suffer from being served too soon.
Mew
…and not just using Rocca Jack Hwinda, but his *last raid*.
– it’s in first person past, so he’s *probably* not dead. That means he’s retired… somehow. Presumably he *intended* to be retired. What would he be doing that would be so over-the-top lucrative and also stupid to give that kind of payoff when split between eight ships? In *Panama*?
– He might also conceivably wind up going more-or-less straight somehow, which would require that the caper be ridiculously heroic, as well as ridiculously profitable.
The rough equivalent of Spanish Treasure Ships might do for the money level, but it’s too mundane, really… and when “Rob the Treasure Fleet” is too bland, then you know that your’e goign to have to take it a bit weird.
Possibly… lesser divinity? Is there something that they could pull off that would let him steal his way into becoming a tiny god?
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Alternately… perhaps the retirement was unintentional. If they went in intending to go after loot and plunder, and wound up taking the place over through a series of mishaps and bluffing and pretending that it was the plan all along…. Well, becoming the sovereign of a small breakaway country *by mistake* feels to me like it might be stupid/awesome enough.