The Adventures of Solaire, Part VIII: Top Deck Shenanigans

By Noah Hoffmann

An ongoing series of fantasy adventures, “The Adventures of Solaire” tells the story of the dread pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart and his tales all across Lorian, from the the steam-powered world of Dinas to the magical superpower of Archone. What follows is every deed of sabotage, back-stabbing, intimidation, piracy, demon-summoning, automaton-killing, government-toppling, crew wrangling, and general defiance he committed in his quest for his ultimate goal: to save his sister River.

With a rampaging guest from the top deck strapped into a steam-powered exosuit of death, it's up to Solaire to fix the problem, once again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: Jan 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463141328

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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The Incredible Yet Accurate Adventures of the Dread Pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart,

Otherwise known as

The Adventures of Solaire

Part VIII: Top Deck Shennanigans

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords

Copywrite 2020 by Noah Hoffmann

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

Creepy America

A horror mystery series set across the United States

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Part VIII: Top Deck Shenanigans

The Incredible Yet Accurate Adventures of the Dread Pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart

Otherwise known as

The Adventures of Solaire

Part VIII

Top Deck Shenanigans

When one reviews the catalogue of bardic interests, both of their profused muses and of unoriginal tales bards find interesting enough to steal for their own under the guise of archiving folklore, one sees that the subject of mariner tales and sea shanties are very under-represented. Indeed, the attitude of most bards is that sailors are an unrefined and coarse people, and any poetic substance gleaned from them will be a diseased kind of substance, one more fit for scrawling on the walls of taverns than gracing the pages of a book.

I find this rather disappointing. During my time on the sea, both whilst I sailed under Solaire and then afterwards, I discovered that a great amount of maritime culture was beautiful in it’s own right: the sea shanties used to keep time were gorgeous examples of multi-part harmonies, their superstitions offered a fascinating and rarely-used doorway