Unforgettable cruise

Chapter 87 - (actual chapter 24 concludes…)

More members of the audience joined in, singing and yelling to the song


–🎼 **Save me*heee***
Woo hoo hooo
**Save me from tomor-rrow**
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
**I don’t want to
*Sail*
With this
Ship of fo-oools**
Woo hoo hooo
**Noo, no** no no
Woo hoo *hooooo!* 🎼


No one could hear Swash Buckle’s gasp, freezing as she saw Brent’s all-too-familiar maniacal gaze as he suddenly leapt up onto the stage and lunged towards a big safety-shield-protected toggle switch near the bottom of the equipment rack: the power switch for the 5 KW amplifiers and associated circuitry for skyward-aiming Sky Speakers, intended for noisy parties well out at sea.

Suddenly the music was a whole lot louder, mostly though not entirely aimed skyward.


🎼 Ohh
Save me
Woo hoo hooo
Save me from tomor-rrow
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
I don’t want to
*Sail*
With this
Ship of fo-oools
Woo hoo hooo
Noo, no no no
Woo hoo *hooooo!* 🎼


*BAM!*: Swash Buckle seamlessly looped back to the first chorus so perfectly, nearly everyone thought she had a special extended recording of the song. Brent and she shared a look of deep admiration and respect that few other than talented DJs-also-intimates know.

Letting loose all sorts of pent-up emotions, more and more on the dance floor joined in the singing, others who had been singing now singing louder.


🎼 **Save me**
Woo hoo hooo
**Save me from tomor-rrow**
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
I don’t want to
*Sail*
With this
Ship of fo-oools
Woo hoo hooo
Noo, no no
Woo hoo *hooooo!* 🎼


People in homes and businesses around Coos Bay nearer the dock opened doors or windows, some of them going outside to better hear what all this sudden, unexpected music wafting their way was about.


* *
Down in the Engine Room, as is often the case when large audio power amplification draws current, the loud music up on the Sky deck made the electrical gear in the room sing.

Curious, engineer on watch Billy Bilge turned on security audio on that deck, immediately recognizing the song. “*Oh **Fuck** yes!*” he said aloud to himself, patching the Club Troposphere direct board signal through to all public spaces on the ship at normal background music volume level.


* *
*BAM!*: she did another seamless hard cut back to where the song had been going, putting an animated rolling COVID-19 spike ball up on the graphic screen, rolling atop a U.S. west coast map, following the line on the map representing the Sapphire Prince’s original cruise route.

Thrown off, most people stopped singing to watch and listen.

[There’s an actual map screenshot here in my original:
https://jigglejunkie.com/stories/Unfo rgettableCruise/UnforgettableCruiseC24.html#map
Delete the spaces in the URL as usual to render it usable.]

🎼 Where’s it comin’ from?
Woo hoo hooo
Oh where’s it going to?
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
It’s just a
It’s just a ship of fool woahwahwahwah–


Amazing the audience even further (and making Brent extremely jealous), Swash Buckle used her gravity-sagging right breast in place of her hand to work the pseudo turntable digital rotary encoder scratch wheel Peetie had been manipulating at the very end of his tribute video. The software was currently set to a blending mode rather than a scratch sound mode, merging the current part of the song with just prior to the first chorus to create:


–wahwahwahwahhhwhoa hoa hoooah 🎼


The audience was back and singing along loudly


🎼 Save me
Woo hoo hooo
Save me from tomor-rrow
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
I don’t want to
*Sail*
With this
Ship of fo-oools
Woo hoo hooo
Noo, no
Woo hoo *hooooo!* 🎼


As a brief crack of sunset sunlight momentarily split the clouds and shone sun onto Club Troposphere and Brent (in one of Swash Buckle’s spare pirate hats) cranked up the Sky Speakers, more and more windows and doors flew open around town as the community was bathed in music and light. Townsfolk eagerly/desperately joined the chorus, their voices merging with the sounds from the Sapphire Prince, echoing all across Coos Bay from Marshfield to North Bend, Empire to Eastside


🎼 Ohh
**Save me!**
Woo hoo hooo
**Save me from tomor-rrow**
Woo hoo *hooooo!*
I don’t want to
*Sail*
With this
Ship of fo-oools
Woo hoo hooo
Noo, no
Woo hoo *hooooo!*


**Save me*heee!***
Woo hoo hooo
**Save me from tomor-rrow**
Woo hoo *hooooo**oooo**oooo**oooo**!* 🎼