Satellite 21

pirate superstition #1: if your lips have kissed the ocean's waters, a mere whisper can travel through the waves, your message carried out by all sea creatures and life.

who knew some of the pirates they met along the way believed in romantic supersitions. wemmbu chalks it up to coincidence, but egg pointed out that law officers had them pinned to the shoreline just as the waves were passing by and suddenly jaden shows up. then they spend a good minute underwater looking for the collector, ouroboroid, and they managed to find the entrance to his base.

there's a bunch of other things that he learned when wemmbu gets back. that one time jaden got himself held for ransom and he returned seemingly drenched. he says it's from the rain which, last he checked, was part of this pretty cool process called the water cycle, so he's somewhat sure that it counts for the ocean's waters.

there's this other time wemmbu was running low on healing and his attacks barely did any damage, and he was so far away from the great sea and jaden, there was no way it worked. but apparently for the pirate king, you don't really need the ocean to deliver a message. in his words, just call for him and he'll come down falling like a thunderbolt. that was so aura, he had to put it in the lore book.

pirate superstition #2: tossing a shot of your liquor to the sea grants you endless treasures!

he supposes that as a pirate, you gotta drink. and he supposes that as a pirate, you gotta love treasure. that's why there's so many taverns scattered across the sea, at least that's what he got from linnwyrm. plus, that tavern by the marketplace seemed to partake in this tradition.

he supposes that, in the time wemmbu was invisible, the ocean rangers base became their treasure (because both of them stole it, technically). in some corny way, their friendship had to be treasure too, seeing how jaden is going through the motions of keeping him safe. so he supposes that while the base his pirate civilization didn't last long, there must be something else keeping him close.

there's another time they got really drunk. they had high alcohol tolerance so for them to engage in a friendly drinking competition meant so much money spent on liquor. but the return investment seems worthwhile? at least, that's what jaden says, but what exactly he's getting, they're not sure. this seems to be the only thing wemmbu half-jokingly believes in, since it led him to some of his greater weapons.

pirate superstition #3: if you gotta claim something, make sure you reveal it in some grand gesture.

he made that up. the actual superstition says something about claiming stuff, but there's only so much he can put on a page so this'll do. claiming means anything. something is yours to have or for only you to use, that kind of stuff. the grand gesture wasn't all that much what they said, but egg attributes that at least to whatever those two got going on.

he heard from wemmbu that jaden didn't need to join him in the caves kingdom. he just did it anyway. if that's not a grand gesture or some kind of claim on wemmbu then he doesn't know what could be. bro could claim that his loyalty belonged to wemmbu which is a pretty big thing for a pirate. he thinks it's sweet, wemmbu thinks it doesn't mean anything. (note to self: "you're my crew" is also a claim? whoa.)

there's also a rumor that wemmbu claimed jaden at some point. apparently a kiss counts as a gesture, but wemmbu's insistent that it didn't matter if it was through cloth and it wasn't even a proper kiss. he goes on about how they were just trying to escape some people hunting the pirate down and this was a pretty good distraction. jaden not saying anything about that didn't help their case at all, so everyone just believed that wemmbu did claim him.

pirate superstition #4: a captain's ship is very important so always keep it clean!

it might just be proper etiquette or a fear of scurvy that you gotta keep your ship clean. otherwise a lot of your pirates will be bored while at sea. he doesn't even know how to phrase it as a superstition so here's what's probably just a good tip. apparently these pirates had an extreme version, where if for whatever reason a pirate's ship is destroyed, there will be a great accident waiting to happen to your crew.

it should probably go unsaid what happened to jaden's pirate civilization, and what happened to egg and wemmbu after the law. they weren't exactly pirates but with how these logs are going, they might as well record it in the lore book. but there's no way to verify if this state of karmic justice can be reset by getting a new ship or appeasing the pirate gods, but if there is, surely jaden found a way by now.

although there is this one time, something he heard a while back, how wemmbu lit up jaden's old pirate ship. neither of them recall it, but somehow a large number of people remember it well. the story goes that wemmbu was trying to make an escape and accidentally set the ship on fire. what he was doing there, he had no idea. and why neither of them can recall that event, he will never know. he'll have to mark it as an unsolvable mystery, then.

pirate superstition #5: lanterns always light the way back to the place you long for the most.

he never noticed it before, but jaden kept his pirate civilization pretty well lit. he didn't think he would be the type to keep up the aesthetics, but apparently it was more superstition. lighting the way meant lighting the way home.

he remembers their first time venturing to his civilization. they used a neat signal thing with the lanterns, somehow communicating through the rain and fog. he never got to see more of that, but the other places in the great sea like lynn's base and the tavern made use of them. in a way, he supposes that anyone who's been out and needed some kind of direction back would need some kind of guiding light.