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Blue at the Mizzen While cutting out Peruvian fifty-gun frigate Esmeralda, Jack gets shot in the shoulder and stabbed through the thigh. How fortunate that Awkward Davies and Horatio Hanson are quickly on hand. And how fortunate for me that I have people in my HEMA club who are happy to model for me :)
"Is them his brains, doctor?"
Crew members aboard the HMS Surprise watch with morbid curiosity as Ship's Surgeon Dr. Stephen Maturin treats their mate, Joe Plaice, for a brain injury by cutting a hole in his skull.
The Reverse of the Medal
The Ionian Mission capturing Torgud and Kitabi after eternal chapters on blockade duty and Mediterranean politics, we finally get our well-deserved naval battle
guinevak: also the Advent of Martin!
manypalimpsests: That's riiiiight.
guinevak: the recurring Martin, not the Channel Islander Martin who up and dies of typhus, POB what is your naming strategy.
manypalimpsests: I can never figure that out.
guinevak: he reuses names a lot.
manypalimpsests: He really really does. At least nobody else is named "preserved"
guinevak: although I think the peak of Augh was having Hollar, Hollom and Horner in the same book.
manypalimpsests: or "killick" - ahahahaha that's RIGHT
guinevak: COME ON, O'BRIAN
manypalimpsests: That's cackling to himself levels.
guinevak: and he never does settle whether Awkward is Davis or Davies.
manypalimpsests: Possibly Awkward could never settle this himself. It is still early enough for that.
guinevak: Point. I think in earlier volumes he was Bolton. Unless that was A DIFFERENT large deeply annoying and unreasonably grateful sailor
manypalimpsests: I don't reeeeeemmmmmeeember hmmmm.
guinevak: there are times when I'm like "okay either you are forgetting names or you're reusing jokes." Of course, how many 20-volume bestselling series have I written lately. But still.
manypalimpsests: Or both! He does reuse jokes a lot. I'm SURE there's more than one Obnoxious But Hilariously Grateful sailor around. They get into FIGHTS at times.
guinevak: ahahaha - davis is the survivor of the tournament
manypalimpsests: Makes as much sense as anything. Probably by virtue of his name. Awkward Davies is too awesome a name to ditch. Or Davis.
guinevak: heeeee. True.
manypalimpsests: or whatever, the awesome bit is not the surname.
