Pirates of Cookietown

Our story begins in the Port of Cookietown on the Isle of Plenty the day a new leader comes of age. Young Captain Holiday, son of the legendary yet long-lost Admirable Admiral Big, assumes command of his father’s ship and sets out on his first grand adventure.

It's important to note that Captain Holiday's father was cast overboard in a violent storm when he was just two years old, Captain Holiday has been mentored by his fathers rag-tag crew, known as the good “Pirates of Cookietown.” But these are not your typical pirates. The crew is comprised of a remarkably strange, yet likeable cast of multi-ethnic, deliriously deranged and animatedly outrageous sailors. They are big and small, from all ports of call, but they share a bond of loyalty to a long-departed Admiral, and his surviving son.

Since the loss of the Right Admirable Admiral Big, the Pirates of Cookietown have spent the years perfecting their late leader’s legacy while adapting to the change of times. They’ve tutored the young Holiday since he was a toddler, through adolescence and the approach of manhood. In so doing, they’ve developed an unusual bond, as close as any brother. And now, sixteen years after his father’s untimely demise, Holiday is destined to become Captain of his father’s ship, while the welcome fate of the good Pirates of Cookietown is to once again sail the seven seas.

In the midst of the wild celebration marking Holiday’s ascendancy to the command, drunk on pride and several drams of the Pirate Potion, the new Captain is called to his mother’s side. There, following her quiet guidance, encouragement and reminder of his lineage, Lady Marie presents Holiday with a curious heirloom left to him by his father. This chain necklace with disc, made of precious metals, includes strange inscriptions that provides a clue to untold treasure. This gift only encourages the young Captain’s longing for adventures at sea.

With Captain Holiday at the helm and with his band of brothers and sisters along, the Pirates of Cookietown go in search of the treasures of life, and come to find fortune not in gold, but in caring, compassion and commitment to themselves, the grandeur of mother nature and the less-fortunate with whom they come in contact. Tempered by time, the joys of victory and the agonies of lingering loss, these good Pirates possess the wisdom of their age, but retain the energy and optimism of their youth. This inward strength and humility is evidenced by their good deeds, their love, their words, their fun and their music.

When the Pirates of Cookietown sail away from the Isle of Plenty, they connect with peoples of varying cultures and often encounter those in need. Making and distributing “cookies” for the stomach and the soul, and always entertaining and making true friends everywhere through good deeds and music. This course soon heads them to assist the small island of Mt. Merveilleux, just ravaged by a great sea storm and deadly earthquake.

Entering the harbor, it is here that Captain Holiday catches first glimpse of a young beautiful woman named, DeeLightful Attatooda. She’s sailing away from the devastated Merveileux on a very modern luxury vessel. As the two lock in a stare King Badama Attatooda, a large overbearing man standing beside the young woman, sees the young captains ship, looks in distaste and demands the young lady below. Holiday is left smitten and bewildered but falls right back to his mission to help.

On Merveileux, they discover, Bob, a past friend of Holiday’s father. Bob is known to be quite industrious, yet a drunken old slob who  sometimes believes himself to be a monkey. He has owned and operated one of the most popular beach clubs on the planet. His island destroyed, Bob scoops up his valuable stash, re-stocks the Jonathon Livingston’s galley from his leveled resort, and joins the Pirates of Cookietown at sea after the Captain Holiday and his crew help, feed, and entertain the islanders of Merveileux.

After setting sail to help others ravished by the storm, Holiday shares with Bob the unusual necklace left by his father, Bob directs the ship toward a string of remote islands. As they near the new land masses, it is increasingly evident that something is poisoning the seas. They follow the pollution toward the ill-named Fantastico Magnificus. 

There they discover an exploited isle overseen by Queen Regal Attatooda, where everyone is oppressed, poor, malnourished and without hope. Captain Holiday and his crew discover that for decades, residents have worked solely for the queen, who sent their products to the Isla de Opulence for her personal gratification, power and profit. It’s also discovered that because of the storm the Queen was struck down by the nature she so abused.

The crew begins immediately to do what they do. We see OBK, Gustav, Lougi at work and making cookies. Armstrong carrying ten foot plates to feed the starving. As their work comes to an end Holiday shifts his mind to the young beauty he had seen in Merveileux - still unaware of her name he daydreams about how wonderful she must be. Bob and the crew have a pretty good idea of where to go to fulfill the young Captain’s fancy for the unnamed girl.

A few days of travel the Pirates of Cookietown arrive on the Isla de Opulence. Captain and crew are stunned by its magnificence. Rich and regal, King Baddama Attatooda’s realm is capped by the famed Mile High Club – the Monte Carlo of the high seas – and the preferred destination of the world’s social, cultural and financial elite.

In a comical twist of fate, one dance with Deelightful, daughter of King Badama Attatooda, immediately gets Holiday and his crew cast off the island and told never to return. As they’re escorted off the island, Holiday notes the markings on his metal heirloom match the contours of the island.

Meanwhile, Bob has discovered that the lavish club is merely a facade hiding more nefarious activities, including child slavery and the exploitation of resources. And Deelightful, a woman admittedly yearning for adventure, sneaks aboard Captain Holiday’s ship as it leaves the king’s port under armed escort.

The next day the entire Royal Armada is ordered to seize the vessel and recover the princess. Attacked by a legion of the king’s battleships, Holiday is forced to unleash the Jonathon Livingston’s most innovative defensive weapon – the Musilar. Lowering giant conch shells into the sea, and emitting sound waves generated by the crew’s guitars and drums, they chant, “Send this beat to the watery depths, we’re going to kill them with kindness, we’re going to love them to death!” With the growing tempo and volume, waves rise from the sea and destroy the king’s fleet.

In a magnanimous act, Captain Holiday saves the king from certain drowning, and further endears himself to Deelightful. They all return to the king’s island to sort out the royal mess.

When Holiday imprisons the king and seizes his substantial assets to pay for the island’s clean-up, Princess Deelightful objects, primarily on the grounds that she will be left with nothing to wear. Dumbstruck by her selfishness when others have so little, Holiday judiciously and diplomatically breaks off his affair with Deelightful and, heart-broken, goes in pursuit of the King’s secrets.

Led by Bob, Holiday is exposed to the King’s nefarious activities. Upon attempting to help free the enslaved Holiday encounters members of the king’s private guard and a fight ensues. Holiday renders defenseless all but one of his foes, who appears certain to kill the young commander. But, beloved Bob intervenes and, telling Holiday that his father would have done the same for him, grabs the enemy warrior and falls with him over the ramparts of the king’s palace. Holiday then frees hundreds of children subjected to involuntary servitude, one of whom tells him of a place in the palace where secrets reside.

There, in the deep, dark, dank bowels of the king’s private fortress, Holiday discovers a beaten-down, long-haired man in tattered clothes. He notices in the moss-covered walls of the condemned man’s cell are scratched the same words as he had memorized in songs of his fathers taught him as a youth. We see Holiday kneel down to help the man. As their eyes lock and they both connect their likeness to one another, their shared appreciation of the carved words around them, and that metal heirloom that dangles from around Holiday’s neck - they both begin levitating.
 

Captain Holiday has found his father, the Admirable Admiral Big. The reunion is an insane emotion of joy. Together, father and son and the Pirates of Cookietown --Bohemian Vikings who live of their likings and laugh when the sun goes down – sail back to the Isle of Plenty. Once there they celebrate the return of the island’s great founder and his son, Captain Holiday. The two begin to plan all of tomorrow’s promised adventures - together.