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sureiSo, let me see if I can track the conversation.
December... somethingie (a Friday) there's going to be a gathering with meat-on-sticks and mushrooms-on-sticks and apple cider and mulled wine to read Beowulf around a bonfire. Only the table tents aren't going to say "mulled wine," they're going to say "grog." But "grog" just made us think of "Beowulf in the style of pirates" and wearing an eyepatch (or a blindfold) to the gathering thing. Somehow this got to Amanda's side, and she was going to say something more about pirates, but I forestalled her with "pirates or ninjas?"
Which lead to, why not pirate ninjas? After all, there were Japanese pirates, there were Japanese ninjas. So some daimyo decides to get in on the whole pirate thing, and he's like: 'samurai!vassals-- no, no, you're too honorable. Okay, ninja!vassals! Go get a ship and become pirates!' And they're like, 'yes' *vanish* 'arr'. Which sent us into giggles.
And then it was 'oh no, it's a ghost ship! There's nobody there!' 'Oh no, we're being attacked by someone invisible!' 'arrr'.
Or maybe it's a ninja ship, too, and you don't see it until it's right on top of you, 'hey, where'd that come from?' 'arr'.
The only problem with this is that Japanese doesn't allow for 'arr' so it would instead (insert pause here because I was laughing too hard to speak for a while) be 'arurururu'
「おい！だれー？」
「アルルルル！」
But where did the Japanese pirates come from? Apparently I'd missed the class that Yamachan (eh... Yamashita-sensei - bad habit from Kiriko there) mentioned Japanese pirates in but I know he brought them up in a previous class because he mentioned that he was descended from pirates, and after that class I was like, 'hey, so am I?' and he was like, 'really? who?' and I was like, 'well, if you go back far enough, Olaf Tryggvason' because I'm Norwegian, and my ancestors were Vikings and they're pirates! At which point everyone reveals that they're also descended from Vikings in some way or another, and we cheer up about the fact that our ancestors beat up everyone else's.
And, was it here? Amanda has a friend who likes to dress up as a Viking. But somehow there were the hats, and I motioned the horns, and then what if they went after the Egyptians, they'd have to turn down one of the horns, puit. 'Cause, you know, "walk like an Egyptian," and all that. 'Alright men, we're going to take on the Egyptians. Turn your horn down.'
At which point, I mentioned the spatula ninjas of Animazement. And I'm not saying anything more because I'm going to use them in a story, dammit!
Puit again, and instead of doing "pirates or ninjas" what about pirate ninjas versus Vikings taking on Egyptians? They'd meet in the Indian Sea. Why? Dunno.
Oh! One of them would have the wrong horn turned down, and it would be the navigator. 'Turn left! Left! Your other left! What are you doing, we're in the Indian Sea.'
Which is how the two would meet.
'Yah whui!' (or something - correct me on this?)
'Aruru!'
Engage.
December... somethingie (a Friday) there's going to be a gathering with meat-on-sticks and mushrooms-on-sticks and apple cider and mulled wine to read Beowulf around a bonfire. Only the table tents aren't going to say "mulled wine," they're going to say "grog." But "grog" just made us think of "Beowulf in the style of pirates" and wearing an eyepatch (or a blindfold) to the gathering thing. Somehow this got to Amanda's side, and she was going to say something more about pirates, but I forestalled her with "pirates or ninjas?"
Which lead to, why not pirate ninjas? After all, there were Japanese pirates, there were Japanese ninjas. So some daimyo decides to get in on the whole pirate thing, and he's like: 'samurai!vassals-- no, no, you're too honorable. Okay, ninja!vassals! Go get a ship and become pirates!' And they're like, 'yes' *vanish* 'arr'. Which sent us into giggles.
And then it was 'oh no, it's a ghost ship! There's nobody there!' 'Oh no, we're being attacked by someone invisible!' 'arrr'.
Or maybe it's a ninja ship, too, and you don't see it until it's right on top of you, 'hey, where'd that come from?' 'arr'.
The only problem with this is that Japanese doesn't allow for 'arr' so it would instead (insert pause here because I was laughing too hard to speak for a while) be 'arurururu'
「おい！だれー？」
「アルルルル！」
But where did the Japanese pirates come from? Apparently I'd missed the class that Yamachan (eh... Yamashita-sensei - bad habit from Kiriko there) mentioned Japanese pirates in but I know he brought them up in a previous class because he mentioned that he was descended from pirates, and after that class I was like, 'hey, so am I?' and he was like, 'really? who?' and I was like, 'well, if you go back far enough, Olaf Tryggvason' because I'm Norwegian, and my ancestors were Vikings and they're pirates! At which point everyone reveals that they're also descended from Vikings in some way or another, and we cheer up about the fact that our ancestors beat up everyone else's.
And, was it here? Amanda has a friend who likes to dress up as a Viking. But somehow there were the hats, and I motioned the horns, and then what if they went after the Egyptians, they'd have to turn down one of the horns, puit. 'Cause, you know, "walk like an Egyptian," and all that. 'Alright men, we're going to take on the Egyptians. Turn your horn down.'
At which point, I mentioned the spatula ninjas of Animazement. And I'm not saying anything more because I'm going to use them in a story, dammit!
Puit again, and instead of doing "pirates or ninjas" what about pirate ninjas versus Vikings taking on Egyptians? They'd meet in the Indian Sea. Why? Dunno.
Oh! One of them would have the wrong horn turned down, and it would be the navigator. 'Turn left! Left! Your other left! What are you doing, we're in the Indian Sea.'
Which is how the two would meet.
'Yah whui!' (or something - correct me on this?)
'Aruru!'
Engage.