As a boy, Jean La Foote heard tales of a seemingly immortal sea captain with an endless supply of the golden mineral known as "crunchium." From a family of sea-farers himself, Jean decided early on that he would one day sail under Cap'n Horatio Crunch.
Sadly, by the time the grown La Foote finally met Crunch he had garnered a (deserved) reputation as a ruthless and bloodthirsty brigand. Thus was La Foote turned away by the upstanding Cap'n, his childhood hero. This snub drove La Foote (now called "The Barefoot Pirate" thanks to an affectation that La Foote claimed was a choice for stealth, though it was more likely due to the lack of any boots in his prodigious size) to declare himself Cap'n Crunch's archenemy.
Their cat-and-mouse across the Milk Seas and beyond has lasted years, though La Foote and his pirate band have been thwarted time and again in their attempts to plunder Crunch's stores of crunchium. But perhaps a new alliance with Chocula have turned time and tide in the Barefoot Pirate's favor....
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