The Adventures of Madge, Q, and Squeak!

Arrrgh, mates, we be fearsome pirates!

Madge, Q, and Squeak be bloodthirsty pirates who claim origins in a small archipelago off the Kara-Tur mainland. Our names be feared through all the grandest ports o' trade, from Sylvania to Kara-Tur! Our achievements have made us the terror of all the seas of our facet! Are we exaggeratin'? ye may ask. And our answer is, mates, if ye be harborin' doubts about our story, then maybe ye'll believe a cutlass wound or two!

Watch yer step as ye board our fair vessel, mates . . .
a pirate's life can be rough!

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Meet our fearsome crew.


Madge, Squeak, and Q
Left to right: Madge, Squeak, and Q
Sketch by Julia.

Madge Madge, or Suriyasat Kim, is the sword-swinging, curse-bellowing hengeyokai shark who dreams of someday being a REAL pirate.
Q Q, or Ryukiu Shenokuseku, is the irrational (though not fruitlessly irrational), literate hengeyokai albatross with one leg.
Squeak Squeak, or Tsylo, is a changeling, meaning he can shapeshift into anything he likes. His three main forms are a young Elven warrior, a grotesque ogre, and a beautiful woman named Patricia. His mission: basically, to get some dough.

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Madge, Q, and Squeak: A Brief History

          Madge, Q, and Squeak all began their pirating careers as tragic outcasts: strangely ironic for these pirates who would come to dominate the seas.
          Madge, a Hengeyokai shark, also known as Suriyasat Kim, was born to a poor farming family in the eastern lands of Kara- Tur. The last daughter of this numerous family, she was nothing more than an extra mouth to feed. As a "solution", she was sold as a galley slave when she was twelve, to bring her family a fair amount of money. When the ship she was on was attacked and taken over by pirates, Madge fought her way to the deck, and hence began her pirating career at the age of fifteen.
          Q, a Hengeyokai albatross known to her family as Ryukiu Shenokuseku, was born in a very different social environment, as one of many pampered daughters of the Shenokuseku family, rulers of the island of Niguru-Ja. However, when she was kidnapped and held for ransom by pirates at the tender age of nine, her family refused to pay the ransom, for whatever reason--the main cause of her bitterness toward the nobility which still stands today.
          Squeak, originally known as Tsylo, was cursed with being a changeling, and dreaded throughout the land. He took throughout his life the only slightly more desirable form of an ogre, and moved from city to city, never stopping long enough for his true identity to be known.
          Two of these three outcasts, Madge and Q, first came together in a waterfront bar in an unknown city, about to start a legacy of infamy...

In a dimly-lit bar on the waterfront, a group of scruffy-looking sailors gathers in a corner, their attention set on the figure who stands on the table over them. "So there we was, mates, on our last legs in bloody battle on the poop deck..." The speaker, a petite woman of Kara-Tur with sharply cropped black hair and ragged clothing, is swept up in the drama of the remembered scene. The crowd's eyes are locked on her hands as she waves them with every word. "I'd just taken a slash to me ribs, when-- well, maybe I'd best start at the beginning...

"So, mates, which of our adventures are ye most interested in?"

  • Our First Adventure: In Which the three of us meet (and are duped by) a Charming Nobleman and his son, and a horse meets a Tragic End

  • The One-Ogre Ogre Raid and the Portly Ferret: In Which Madge and Q are stupid about their gold, and Squeak creates a Panic

  • Delusions of Grandeur: In Which they attempt to go legal, try to seduce nobles, spend oodles of money, and almost acquire the quality of Patience

  • How Q Got Naked and Lost her Leg: In Which Madge takes a Flying Leap, Q makes a Scene, Squeak gets lost, and a Turning Point is reached in our adventures

  • Taking Control: In Which Madge earns respect for acting like the Pirate Scum that she is, and Q learns to Whittle

  • Madge and Q do Something Smart: In Which Madge and Q (now captain and first mate of the Silver Shark) acquire some useful new crew members and become Absurdly Rich (briefly)

  • Madge and Q Hatch a Plan: In Which another ship is added to their fleet, and then quickly lost again

  • The Queen of Evo and Beyond: In Which their Incredible Wealth of Ale gains them a new ship, The Queen of Evo, and some nifty accoutrements, and Q parts on some solo adventures

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Grub and Grog!!

A pirate's life ain't all fun an' games, mates. There's tough and sometimes bloody work ta be done. Sometimes, when the stress gets too much for us, we take the occasion to drink ourselves into oblivion. If only ye'd experienced some o' the tough times we've known, mates, ye'd understand that it ain't through poor judgement that we do this, but through necessity.

We're pleased ta share with ye some o' the best recipies we know for that blessed beverage that's oft been our sole comfort on a dank and perilous voyage: GROG!

  • "Grog" according to The Secret of Monkey Island, our favorite piratey computer game.

  • Not exactly grog, but an outrageous drink nonetheless: The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster! Recipe quoted from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

  • Real Grog. Sorry, mates, we was pullin' yer legs (or peglegs, as it may be). These entertainin' concoctions ain't the real McCoy. True grog was actually just watered-down rum. 'Twas nasty, but when things get ugly at sea, ye'll take anythin' ye can get, mates.


Madge (right) and Q (left)
before some of their more exciting and
occasionally disfiguring adventures.
Sketch by Julia.

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