Prompt: Why did pirates bother making prisoners or enemies "walk the plank" instead of just chucking them overboard?
Well, I can tell you the story of why that is. It was in 1567 and there was a ship in the middle of the Atlantic called the "Black Jewel". There were three types of people on this ship, the prisoners, the laborers and the captain. Well, on this night, the captain wasn't feeling very agog to be on the ship.You see, the prisoners were causes quite the ruckus with all their yelling, and the laborers weren't doing their jobs because of pure exhaustion. Getting more and more rankled by the minute, he decided to go down and force the prisoners to be quiet. The moment the prisoners heard the steps of the captain coming down the stairs, they fell silent. The captain walked down stairs into the crammed room with about four cells, each holding three to four prisoners. As he strolled through the silent room, only the crashing of the waves audible, he checked the cell to see what was going on. When he got to the third cell, he saw one of the prisoners trying to hide something behind his back. The captain demanded the prisoner to give him the paper he was hiding. The prisoner dubiously handed over the paper. As the captain opened it and started reading it, the prisoners got tense. The paper was full of polemics written towards the captain.
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