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The pirate captain’s ethos was to never steal from those who couldn’t afford it, and to offset their dark deeds with charity.
This proved unpopular with his crew. They had to sit around and wait wait while the quartermaster did an inventory confirming that it met the current threshold for pillaging. The pirates favored drinking over math, so mutiny was probably inevitable.
They marooned the captain and wrote a new charter. They had a lot more fun with a change in leadership.
Until the boatload of nuns they’d been donating some of their spoils to came looking for their cut.

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