Daggaz Eber
Ship Captain
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Daggaz Eber start his life as a son of a boot maker in Scotland. His father was a German sailer that married a boot maker's daughter to keep his neck. Daggaz spent most of his childhood in the boot shop. His father left him and his mother to make a new family. That was all he could take and so he left too. He joined on as a cabin boy on various ships to catch up to his father only to find another abandoned family. Daggaz was taken in by his 2 new sisters Brianna and Elsbeth they were Romany and called their house Fools Haven. It was home to all gypsies, rogues, and thieves. Here, Daggaz learned all manner of "bujo" or scams, the arts of quick deadly fighting, and of stealthy movement. He learned that he had a great degree of balance and strength. Soon he heard again the spirit of the waves calling him. He left to sign aboard the Red Banshee, a privateer vessel. This was an ugly ship with an uglier crew. Captain Codwel and the other officers treated the mates like slaves. The Quartermaster, Mr. Coverdale, killed the coxswain, Mr. Roker during a fight and was given a slap on the wrist by the Old Man. The Boatswain, Mr. Cole was fond of the scourge hated dark skinned sailors. Sammy, a freed slave was dear to most mates, but Mr. Cole was always cursing at him and slapping him the the cat-o-nine. The day they found Mr. Cole's dead body behind the binnacle box with his own tongue in his right hand, Daggaz's life changed again. Sammy told Daggaz he caught Mr. Cole's foul tongue with a tuna hook and cut it off with a rusty boot shank. Mr. Cole drown in his own blood. Sammy was scared, and Daggaz appealed for Sammy's life. The Old Man ordered Sammy beaten bloody and beheaded. Daggaz was set adrift for speaking for Sammy. The crew hid a sail and supplies on his ship as he was liked by them. That night the Red Banshee attacked a black beak head frigate with high poop deck and Jolly Roger. It was a bloody fight, but their crew was mostly cut to ribbons by the time his dingy sailed in. Daggaz climbed a drop rope to a cannon door on the Red Banshee. The officers were ordering the beaten remaining survivors to kneel before a cannon. Mr. Coverdale himself was making the small cabin boy dance the hempen jig. Daggaz slowly quietly collected a shlogger blade and approached the tall Mr. Coverdale. Thrusting quickly, he forced the blade through the tall man's raised arm pits. The rope slid from his hands as Mr. Coverdale expelled a glob of dark red blood and died. Daggaz gave a rogue's hand signal to the crew holding the prisoners. With a slight smile, they let loose the prisoners on Captain Codwel. These men raged like wounded beasts. With no need for weapons, the men gouged out the Captains eye. One grabbed Codwel's lower jaw and pulled it off like he was boning a fish. The men then, like creatures born of hell, all grabbed the screaming slurping man and threw themselves into the briny sea. Now the crew turned to the remaining officers and tied them to the mast of the Red Banshee. Daggaz was named the new Captain and his new crew plundered the Red Banshee and then set to scuttle her. The officers screamed as the ship keeled to the careen. "Captain Daggaz Eber, we curse you and your ship of fools....let darkness follow you and may the greet beasts of the sea take you all!!!!!!" They screamed this even as their longs filled with water. The watch bell could still be heard as it sank, like it was warning Davy Jones that evil men were coming down.
The crew named their new ship, "The Stygian Sun" and sailed away under a black flag with De mortise nil nisei bonim (Speak nothing but good of the dead) written at the bottom. It was only the next New Moon that they learned the a huge shark was following them. It is always there, always lurking, waiting.
