Panel 1:
We're in a dimly-lit tent. A skull sits atop a brazier, which glows with a dull blue flame. The brazier stands on a low table, draped with a cloth.
Brazier Skull: HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN! Once I was the most feared pirate to ever have sailed the seas! My enemies’ breeches would turn brown at the merest sight of my sails on the horizon!
Interrupting Voice (off): LIAR
Panel 2:
The interrupting voice belongs to a skull at the other end of the table. This skull has a candle melted atop it.
Candle Skull: You were naught but a cabin boy! it was I that was the true scourge of the ocean! my ship would descend upon a settlement and the inhabitants would fall on their own swords rather than face me! my reign was absolute!
Brazier Skull (off): CHARLATAN
Panel 3:
We look back at the Brazier Skull as he continues to boast.
Brazier Skull: I was the ultimate evil on the waves! Tales are still told of my deeds! Even now, my name is spoken only in hushed tones! My legacy lives on through more than two thousand illegitimate offspring! My seamanship is unmatched to this day!
Candle Skull (off): DECEIVER
Panel 4:
We zoom out to see that the skulls are arguing at each other across a table belonging to an Order of Souls mystic, MADAM OPAL. She's obviously had to listen to this for a while as she's developed a nasty twitch.
Brazier Skull: FABULIST
Candle Skull: TRICKSTER
Brazier Skull: CHEAT
Candle Skull: PERJURER
Brazier Skull: CRETIN
Candle Skull: CAD
Brazier Skull: MORON
Candle Skull: FALSIFIER
That's a nasty twitch you've developed, Madam Opal.
Skeleton Crew is inspired by Rare Ltd.'s seagoing masterpiece, Sea of Thieves. You'll get more out of the comic if you play the game.
Skeleton Crew is neither affiliated nor endorsed by Rare Ltd. or Microsoft.