Treasure Island: In ther Bar at the Admiral Benbow Inn

Unending BE - episode 696158

Jim still felt rather confused. His mind seesawed back and forth between thinking that this was all just a theme party that Jim Russell and his 21st Century friends were throwing, and believing that he really, truly had somehow slipped into the world of the novel "Treasure Island", and the life of the character Jim Hawkins. The people drinking in the crowded common room were all dressed in 18th Century clothing in various states of cleanliness and disrepair, but that decrepitude might be just the result of its having been a lively party so far. From the corner of his eye, Jim though he could see a crumpled aluminum Duff Lite can, but when he looked at it directly, the only debris on the table was a tankard on its side and a half-eaten meat pie.

The faces in the room often seemed oddly familiar. Were they beloved characters out of his childhood reading, or were they just his friends and casual acquaintances playing dress-up?

Jim looked across the bustling room and saw....

1. His mother, the one he'd come looking for.
2. His ex-girlfriend Linelle, passing by outside the window as she went with a rake to muck out the stables.
3. His friend Rick, dressed like a kitchen servant.
4. *His disreputable Uncle Sid, looking more like a pirate than usual.
5. Police Sergeant Guadelupe Contreras, who had given Jim a traffic ticket the other day, but here was dressed as a barmaid.
6. Someone Else.

Sat Nov 14 00:14:13 2009

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