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This RPG takes place 10 years AFTER the events in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End".

Also, we are going by the assumption (and the interview with Rossio and Elliott) that the curse of the Dutchman was broken by how true Will and Elizabeth stayed to one another.

Thus, when Will was returning home ten years later (scene after the credits of the film), he was returning home for good. He's still the Dutchman's captain, but now he can be with Elizabeth and their son, William Turner (yeah, too many Wills).

This RPG starts out with Will's return (which was seen after the credits of the film), as well as Jack and Barbossa in Tortuga AFTER Jack "broke" the Fountain of Youth.

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• Min-Son:
  AnnaLusia Roberts
  Joshamee Roberts
  Samantha Roberts
  
  
• Nileregwen DoUrden:
  Izanami
  
  
• Oreparma:
  Ashlin Hawthorne
  Henry Morgan
  
  
• Rananteriel:
  Jenna
  
  

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Will Turner stood on the railing of teh Flying Dutchmen's bow, his body straining and leaning forward as his brown eyes surveryed the island spread out before him. On the rope that he was holding onto kept the young man from loosing his balance completly and falling over the chip's railing he was paerched upon.

He could see them..two figures in the distance on the island. Waiting for him. Will's heart gave a great leap as his eyes fully registered the smaller figure. He knew Elizabeth was the taller one, their was no doubt in his mind, but then the smaller one must be...

The ship could not get to the shore quickly enough.
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Ashlin Hawthorne knew she was going to catch it today. Not only was she skirting her daily shore duties, not only was she runnign around unchapperones, but she was doing it in pants!. A girl her age was simple NOT allowed to wear boy's clothes. It just wasn't done.

Ashlin thought girl clothes were stupid, bothersome and totally impossible to climb a tree in. She never wore dresses when she went to see Will, the ten-year-old son of Elizabeth Turner. Because she liked to pretend she was just another boy with Will. Because girls just didn't get to have many adventures, that's why.

It was only when she finally got to the house of the Turner's that Ashlin remembered neither Will nor his mother were their today. Will had mentio he and his mother were doing something today. Something important. Something private. They had been awefully evasive about it.

"Will Turner, if you go off and have an adventure without me...." Ashlin muttered darkly, "I am so goign to keel-haul you."

Will's breath was caught in his throat as The Flying Dutchman approached the beach. When the ship could go no further, Will did not bother himself wih a boat to take him to the beach. No, the man just dived right into the water and began swimming to the shore. Elizabeth was right there waiting for him. And so was his child. His child!

((OOC: I was going to say Will's heart was pounding in excitment and then I was like "wait, that's not gonna work...."))

When Will finally touched solid ground, her broke into a run. At that moment, he was completly oblivious to anythign and everything that was or could be going on around him. There was only Elizabeth. Elizabeth and their child. He had thought, he had hoped that he might have left her with a child of his for her to remember him by for the long ten years.

Tne years without Elizabeth. Ten long years. It had seemed more like an eternity.

Will caught Elizabeth midstride, lifting her up into the air and spinning the woman around. Ten years had not seemed to touch Elizabeth at all..she was exactly the way he remembered her. His mouth met hers and he kissed the woman, willing himself to drown in the sight and feel of her.

This was what he had waited ten years for. This is what he had died to protect. This woman in front of him made any and every suffering worth it. This woman who held Will's heart, literally and figuratively.

The man chocked back tears as his fingers ran through that familiar long hair. Ten years...ten years too long.

"Elizabeth," he whispered, holding her tightly to him as if he was afraid a gentle breeze would carry the woman away from him.
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Ashlin was wandering the island, traying to find a good strecth of beach to practice her pebble skipping. She was planning on showing William all the practice he missed when he came back from whever-he-was tommorow. Well, after she pounced on him and dragged him through her own made-up adventures. Even though she was small for her age, William was even smaller. That eant she had both senoirity and...well...bigger-ority, or whatever.

Ashlin's little mouth skrewed up in a tiny scowl. She missed not beign abel to play with William. He was her only friend on the whole island. And his mom seemed to be the only grown-up that didn't got ballistic if Ashlin wore pants. Because girl clothes were stupid.

Will swalloed as he tore his gaze from Elizabeth and looked at his child...his son..for the very first time with wonder and love in his brown eyes...eyes that mirrored his son's almost exactly.

Words failed the man at that moment. What to say to this, this wonderful child of his and Elizabeth's love that he had not seen, not been able to see or to raise in ten years? Even if he had found words, his throat was constricted so tightly, he doubted he'd even be able to get them out.

He swept his son into a hug, holding the boy gently against his own body, as if to reassure himself that the boy was in fact, real. He stopped trying to hold back his tears and let them fall as he held his child for the very first time.