Quote:The Lost Boys/Peter PanActually I remember the Neverland Lost Boys carrying wooden swords that could go toe to toe with the pirate metal ones... Though that could just be time to last view distortion. The pirates are just confused by there being two independent tribes in the area with the same name and different out looks and species. The whole reason they live on the boat is that crossing moving water thing. Remember the sun kills a vampire things is based on a silent movie (in which the vampire was far, far out of the protagonists league and needed a method of dealing with it)... and there are a bajillion types of vampires anyway. Mainly its Hook and Peter's mutual dickory that have kept the other tribe of Lost Boys around as the pirates, who can take those, are too busy fighting the wrong side of a two front war to actually accomplish something. A tragic tale of ego over productivity.
(because, properly applied, vampires can make something even better)
or you can have Hook bail on NeverNeverland and end up wiping out the Lost Boys out of brand name hate. The broken Aesop being about giving up being helpful in life as the DM will lower your encounter ratings and let you stop fighting things that embarrass you as much as they maul you. Hook lost half his first crew in an encounter with a lost boy, the parents hired him to find the kid, and the kid had gone feral and sick surprisingly lethal squirrel hoards on them.
(Edit: forgot to quote the quote)