Oh you mean US as readers. Yup, we already know.
Yup, that's the one

/likes to yank the poor readers around/So, was a deranged Captain, an insidious second mate, a marooning on a desert island, and an attack on a pirate stronghold enough danger for them?
Yes, although I'm not sure the marooning counts as dangerous. Unless you count Clark dying of exhaustion

but then a couple of people convinced me it WOULD be accepted on the archive.
Yeah, I got pointed to it by the quizzes and was surprised to find it here. There've certainly been several fics using Tess et al over the time.

Michael