Terrell Bradley/IF-1667
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The waters beyond this point are uncharted, tales from distant shores echoed back into our reality.
Background
The following information was uncovered, documented, and annotated by Lance Serotonin, researcher at The Atlantean Facility for Interdimensional Studies and Hypotheses, as part of an ongoing research project into the history of the Tokyo Adrift.
Early records
Terrell Bradley was an experienced ship’s cook long before his recruitment by Captain Jan Canberra[citation needed]. “Pa Bradley” seems to have been popular not just with crewmates but in every port at which his vessel docked, sharing his hard-won wisdom and even hosting cookery schools for local children when tides and winds allowed.
Bradley's duties saw him spend much time below deck, away from the action and thus absent for large portions of the written record. He is however depicted in one crude thumbnail sketch in the logbook of galleon Perpetua Veneris, wearing a pair of oven gloves and clutching what has been interpreted as an experimental barbed cannonball (Serotonin, S21) or an ordinary pineapple (Serotonin, S23).
His first brush with the Tokyo Adrift came when that ship’s crew raced his own to claim a great treasure. The deciding engagement was an ambush under Bradley’s watch and he was singled out for humiliation; a pistol-waving Gerund Pantheocide forced him to caper and jig before Cory Ross shoved him through a hatch into the darkness of an empty hold.
With the Tokyo Adrift
He resurfaces some time later as chief cook aboard the Adrift itself, bearing no apparent ill will for his earlier treatment. Indeed the crew appear to have considered him a source of great encouragement, an artist in the galley and a tireless deckhand. After the Encasement of Cudi Di Batterino he is noted as “doing the work of two men, for good or ill”. In one particular manuscript uncovered in Atlantis, an unnamed author describes Bradley first as “Cap’n Canberra’s right hand”, only to score this out and substitute “the Captain’s trusted assistant”. The significance of this rephrasing is sadly lost, and research is ongoing.
