Alright, here's the deal. We're now allowed to have 5 avatars made for the guild to be added to the PiratesOnlineForums.com avatar set. I decided that instead of using the avatars I already have on the site, that I was going to set up a new, more creative set for here.

The theme of this is "Highsea Chanties". I've already made 3, but I need your guys help with the other two. Now, you don't have to design them, I'll cover that part. But I need your help on the theme of the avvie.

First off, here's what the "Highsea Chanties" theme means. I've been taking sea shanties and twisting them around to have a HSP/POTCO theme. Here's the three I have so far...

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../HSPAvvie3.gif http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../HSPAvvie2.gif http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../HSPAvvie1.gif

...but I can't think up little twisted chanties for the other two! Here's what I need from you all. I need you to think of, or look for a sea chanty, then twist it around to describe the game or the guild! A few guidelines...

• However you change it, it must fit the original rhythm of the chanty
• The chanty line for the first frame should be from the chanty, but can be twisted too (just not so much that it doesn't sound the same!)
• The second part should be what you twist around.
• Your entry should be original.
• Your entry should also include what image should be used (a crate, voodoo doll, etc.)
• Only one entry per member, please. :-)

As another example, here are the three shanties I switched around...
1. Yo ho ho
Thirteen men and a dead man's chest
Thirteen men and a royal chest

2. Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me
We pillage, We plunder, We rifle and loot!
We pillage, We plunder, and sail for our loot!

3. Sailor's Song
Sailing, Sailing, Over the bounding main.
Sailing, Sailing, and sinking all ships in sight.


You have until this Saturday to submit your ideas, then I will select the top 2 entries and use them for the last two avvies that can be added to POF. I will however, use all of the entries that follow the above guidelines for avvies to be shown on the Highsea Pillager's site.

(Oh, and for all you officers, I'm letting you enter too, that's why I'm picking them myself.) :pirate111za1:


Current Candidates:
If someone posts an entry that follows all the above mentioned guidelines, I go ahead and make the avatar and post it here. So below are all the ones that currently followed the guidelines.

The Commodore
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../HSPAvvie4.gif

League
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../HSPAvvie5.gif

Hmmm, I'll be thinkin' for my entry. Get ready this will be epic :D

Bugs Bunny
 

Bugs Bunny sings a sea faring song that goes something like this:

Over the sea lets go men,
we're shoving right off, we're shoving right off again.
Nobody knows where or when,
we're shoving right off, we're shoving right off again.
We're leaving today, it's anchors away!
Sally and Sue don't be blue,
we'll be gone for years and years and years and then,
we'll be shoving right off for home, shoving right off for home,
shoving right off for home again!

So change it to:

Over the sea let's go men!
We're shoving right off to pillage again!
Nobody knows where or when,
the Pillagers will strike again.
We're sailing today, from Tortuga and Padres,

Neat, but I only need one line of the song changed for the avvie. Not sure putting it all in one would meet the size limitations. ;-)

Ok ok
 

What will we do with the drunken sailor?
What will we do with the drunken sailor?
What will we do with the drunken sailor?
Earlye in the morning?

change to:


What will we do with the drunken Pillager?
Earlye in the morning?


Stand Navy out to sea,
Fight our Battle Cry;
We'll never change our course,
So vicious foe steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll out the TNT, Anchors Aweigh.
Sail on to Victory
And sink their bones to Davy Jones,
Hooray!

change to:

Sink their bones to Davy Jones,
Highseas Pillagers Hooray!

Hmm, I have one!!!


Explosions booming everywhere
The Pillagers don't really care

Then at the last slide, have a lightning bolt. That's my suggestion.

Fresh from the desk of Jason "I told you I wasn't creative" Davy: a super generic twist on a song that's already been twisted in this very thread.

Yo ho, yo ho,
A Pillager's life for me!

Mind editing your post with the original sea chanty it came from?

Actually, I just made that up jack. No original one.

Lol, needs to be twisted from an original chanty mate.

Also, Green, neither of those follow the first guideline. lol

My bad, I thought we could make a new one off of our own head.

Well, I'm not super creative, but I think something clever could come from these lyrics -

And it's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog
Well I spent all me tin on the lassies drinking gin
Across the western ocean I must wander

(excuse me if the original lyrics aren't appropriate to post)

Also, Flogging Molly has some sea-ish songs don't they? That should be right up your alley Zeke.

Thanks jas.

Sail away where no ball and chain
Can keep us from the roarin' waves
Together undivided but forever we'll be free
So sail away aboard our rig
The moon is full and so are we
We're seven drunken pirates
We're the seven deadly sins

Which i have revised as

We're several drunken pirates
We're the Highsea Pillagers

and have a rum bottle.

Give us your rum and come pillage with us! (i thought of a good one early while i was playing a fullscreen game but forgot, i bet ill remember lol.)

Yo ho, yo ho, a plunder's ripe for me! Doh, I didn't see Davy's suggestion. But hey, mine was originally original.