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Rise of the Pirate God

Rise of the Pirate God is the final chapter of the five-chapter Tales of Monkey Island. It was released for PC on December 8th 2009 with the Wii date still to come.

Plot

After LeChuck runs Guybrush through with The Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, Guybrush ends up inside his own grave in the afterlife. Upon liberating himself from the grave, he discovers being a ghost and is directed by a mysterious ferryman to the Crossroads in order to separate himself from his physical form for good. He carries a "shred of life" in his inventory and, as explained later, was holding to it while being killed as his last hope of return.

Upon arriving to the Crossroads, Guybrush meets Morgan LeFlay, now a ghost too, who has been down for being killed by LeChuck so easily and is rather eagerless since her arrival. Guybrush engages in an insult swordfight with her (joined by a headless swordfighter who tags along) in order to reason her back into her senses. Convinced that she might still be of use to Guybrush, Morgan cheers up and decides to help him with his quest.

Guybrush visits three different realms of the Crossroads and encounters a strange eerie man named Galeb who lies a lot (before openly contradicting his own lies), but seeing as Guybrush wishes to return back to Elaine and LeChuck, grants him with a spell that opens a rift back to the corporeal world. Guybrush then engages in the search for all the necessary ingredients (with Morgan giving him advice). As he finalizes the spell a rift in reality opens up and Guybrush steps in.

In the corporeal world, LeChuck has absorbed back all of his voodoo and is trying to convince Elaine to marry him, as always. In anger, he has been sailing around destroying different in-game places (such as much of Spinner Cay, the Screaming Narwhal and parts of Flotsam Island). Guybrush meets LeChuck on his undead ship (with his army of skeleton minions) and accidentally mentions La Esponja Grande, which gives LeChuck the idea to absorb as much voodoo as possible with it through the rift opened by Guybrush and channel it into Elaine, turning her into his undead bride. Guybrush then tries seizing the Cutlass originally used against LeChuck, but is not tangible in his ghost form and passes through it.

While Elaine is possessed by LeChuck, she turns against Guybrush and sprays him with a concoction of root beer (the same one Guybrush used on the ghostly form of LeChuck in the first game) that hurts him so badly he has no chance but to return back in the afterlife. Guybrush seeks help and experiences an epiphany of the Voodoo Lady telling him to reunite back with his corporeal form in order to be able to face LeChuck again. This sends Guybrush on another quest which winds him up inside his original body, much like the zombie LeChuck was reunited with his corpse in the second game.

Having regained control of his original body, Guybrush returns to face LeChuck, only to discover that he still cannot hold the Cutlass of Kaflu because he is not a demon (unlike LeChuck, since the third game). Back in the afterlife, Guybrush lives another epiphany in which the Voodoo Lady suggests him to "reverse the order of things" instead of going further. Guybrush then talks to Galeb who provides him with a spell to diet the sponge back to its original size, and by doing so, unstick it from the rift it is stuck in.

With the Esponja shrinking back, Guybrush breaks the rift and all the voodoo is released back. Elaine regains control of herself and turns on LeChuck, as do many other characters from the game for having had enough of him. LeChuck, however, easily fends off their attack and gets on Guybrush, deciding to finish him once and for all. During their fight (which is hardly even one as LeChuck easily overpowers him and mostly just throws Guybrush around), Guybrush puts several objects on LeChuck's ship in place to shoot himself from a cannon through the mast back into the rift with Elaine's help. There, Morgan attacks LeChuck (who follows Guybrush) with her sword retaining him there, with Elaine impaling him with the Cutlass from the other side. In order to lock the rift forever on LeChuck, Guybrush uses the remaining shred of his own life, supposedly ripping LeChuck apart between two worlds.

As Guybrush is left alone, his body seriously damaged, trapped within the afterlife with nobody around and no means to escape, he remembers the initial spell to open rifts and uses it again, this time with only Elaine's ring as their symbol of unity throughout the afterlife. When he does so, he reappears back on the Screaming Narwhal in his living form (with his left hand back), with Elaine and Winslow aboard, and all three sail into a romantic sunset.

When the ending titles close in, Morgan is shown bringing LeChuck's remains (in a capsule) to the Voodoo Lady who fulfills her promise of allowing Morgan to return to the land of the living as a Ghost Pirate Hunter, and laughs with evil while holding the capsule.

External links

• Rise of the Pirate God on Wikipedia