He claims he never intended to become a pirate but was originally a hard-working sailor, one of the crew of the Angry Goat. His ship had mutinied and he’d be forced to go along, but his ship had run aground on the rocks of Scorpion Island. Slipknot Pete had found the survivors and forced them to have knife fights for his entertainment Lefty was the final winner, and had been allowed to live, so long as he joined the Rat’s End pirates.