1 {on the infinite featureless plane of Death}
1 Long Tom: Arrr! Who be ye?
2 Charity Collector Guy: I'm filling in for the regular personification of Death.
3 Long Tom: But ye nay be havin' a skull, nor crossbones! Ye be belittlin' the whole piratin' experience! It be a disgrace!
4 Long Tom: We be rather dead than collected by the likes o' ye!
4 Wendy: Um... cap'n...

For a while I used an "olde English" style font for the pirates' speech, which you may remember was a bit difficult to read. I also had to scale it up a bit to make it even as legible as it was, which meant I couldn't get as much dialogue in for them either. So I decided back in #846 to switch them to the regular dialogue font.

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2014-10-17 Rerun commentary: Technically, the Charity Collector Guy does be havin' a skull. It's stored inside a handy protective case known as his head.

Just think about that for a minute. Inside your head there is a spooky skull just waiting to get out some day.