Annnnnnd there was the look Guybrush had been expecting in response to his half-truth. Yes, it looked just as intimidating on pre-marriage Elaine as it did post-marriage. He responded with one of his trademark "Trust Meeee" smiles before changing the subject as per her followup comments.
"The Pox is... a long story." His smile faded as he tried to think of out to summarize his latest adventure while leaving out some of the best parts and still having it correlate with what he'd just told her. "See, LeChuck had kidnapped you again, and so I was going to set him straight with the Legendary Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, but the Voodoo Lady's recipe was complicated, and I sortofdroppedthespecialrootbeerneededtofinishtherecipe, so I improvised with some root grog and breath mints. It didn't work as expected, though- instead of destroying LeChuck once and for all, it just pushed all the evil Voodooness out of him, which became this airborne pox that started affecting pirates all over the Caribbean: the Pox of LeChuck." He gestured with his hands as he got to the name for dramatic effect.
"Since it was our fault the Pox was unleashed, you wanted to work to get rid of it, but I was one step ahead of you, already looking for La Esponja Grande- a mythical sea sponge that could cure the Pox. Meanwhile, the Marquis De Singe- that creepy doctor I mentioned- wanted to cut off my hand and use it to make some sort of immortality juice, but then decided he'd rather use the strain of the Pox you had. And there was a Vaycaylian wind machine involved, and I was stuck inside a manatee for a while... you know how these things go."
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"The Pox is... a long story." His smile faded as he tried to think of out to summarize his latest adventure while leaving out some of the best parts and still having it correlate with what he'd just told her. "See, LeChuck had kidnapped you again, and so I was going to set him straight with the Legendary Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, but the Voodoo Lady's recipe was complicated, and I sortofdroppedthespecialrootbeerneededtofinishtherecipe, so I improvised with some root grog and breath mints. It didn't work as expected, though- instead of destroying LeChuck once and for all, it just pushed all the evil Voodooness out of him, which became this airborne pox that started affecting pirates all over the Caribbean: the Pox of LeChuck." He gestured with his hands as he got to the name for dramatic effect.
"Since it was our fault the Pox was unleashed, you wanted to work to get rid of it, but I was one step ahead of you, already looking for La Esponja Grande- a mythical sea sponge that could cure the Pox. Meanwhile, the Marquis De Singe- that creepy doctor I mentioned- wanted to cut off my hand and use it to make some sort of immortality juice, but then decided he'd rather use the strain of the Pox you had. And there was a Vaycaylian wind machine involved, and I was stuck inside a manatee for a while... you know how these things go."