"I hang out at the small bar and restaurant called Alideia dos Piratas (Village of the Pirates) on my favorite beach. The owners are the Fafa Brothers, Jose and Chuy, and I regularly meet there to have dinner and discuss things with my friends, collectively known as The Dudes.
"One day while I was having one of my favorite drinks, one of the Dudes came in very excited and told us that the latest victim of the sea, the USS Proprietary, was floundering offshore. Most of the people in the bar were not surprised. We had been expecting something like this for a while..."
