Pirates' Lagoon: An adventure on the high seas

This is the place for epic sea battles, stowaways, pirate ships and the saying of aaaaargh.

Create a character, (feel free to share some stats about them with us) and just let your creativity flow with this collaborative story. The sky is the limit!

He stood on the cliff, wind whipping around him as he gazed out over the sea like a phantom. Night was gathering quickly and darkness settling itself over all. Waves crashed and battered the shore far below. The air was growing colder and more frantic with each gust of wind, the frenzied waves roared as they crashed to their demise.
He numbly scanned the darkening horizon. Still nothing. Then he saw it.

As the full moon rised to the point of where it could touch the havens, a gostly figer walked on the water. Closer and closer. one second it was there the next, it vanished in a fog of undiniying horrer. as he turned to walk to his car, the goust of the fallen piret one eyed fang, apeared with the black cross painted on his car. He was coursed, by the goust of the dead.