Marcel Boucher's Diary

Early March, 17XX The expedition began well enough: we established ourselves on the island and took over three ruins. We'll sleep in the first, turn the second into a storehouse, and fortify the third properly in case of trouble. For reasons beyond me, my idiots even hauled a gate all the way up to the second floor. Louie spotted three ships belonging to Blackbeard's pirates. I ordered my men to stay away from the shoreline and hunt deeper in the jungle. Louie flew into a rage. He wants to lure the pirates into a trap and gun them down. A fool! There are as many of them as rats in a cellar, and we're short on powder. I promised I'd skin him myself and stretch his hide over a boar if he keeps stirring the others up.