Alessandra looks scornful. "Hells no, we only just got here! I'm off to spread the word about us - you know, local girl makes good. Bad. Whatever. Local girl makes it rich."
With that, she's off to spread the word, throw a little cash around, brag a bit to anyone who'll listen - and scare people. Port Peril was not kind to the girl when she was growing up, and she intends to return the favour.
The Sargavan fishing ship you had earlier captured was called the Elten Baide.
Event 7
The next couple ships you pirated were:
Truewind a barque (10,000gp) out of Absalom carrying 2 points of plunder (manufactured goods). Her captain and first mate had between them a mithral BP, a +1 composite longbow [+2]
Dowager Queen a caravel (10,000gp) out of Cheliax carrying 3 points of plunder (gems and grain).
Her captain and first mate had between them bracers of armor +2, potion of CMW.
Sanbalot a Rahadoumi schooner (10,000gp) carrying 2 points of plunder (cloth, copper, and salt).
Her captain and first mate had between them cloak of protection +1, amulet of natural armor +1.
Event 8
The towns along the coast are mostly fishing villages, so if you have the stomach for crushing salt of the earth type folks, let me know…
Event 9
Herein you hit some cities and sell some plunder, we’ll want to roll that. Presumably you are selling the ships, so you should have a decent amount of plunder. Your ship can only hold 10 points of plunder total, so you’ll need to sell several times, (paying the crew off each time). I’ll throw down some cities where you did your selling, and someone can roll, and we get through that admin.
Event 10
Late in the day, as the sun is going down, you spotted smoke on the horizon. You sailed closer and found a Chelish ship the Famished Mane that had just captured a pirate ship the Vorsfang and was in the process of burning her and executing her crew. As you got closer, the Vorsfang was burning already, and you saw the Chelaxians forcing the last couple crewmembers below decks to die in the fire and the sinking of the ship. You were able to board the Famished Mane and take her over with little problem as she was moored to the pirate and her crew still busy. You were able to take the ship and free the crew of the Vorsfang from a terrible death.
Famished Mane a cutter (10,000gp) out of Cheliax carrying 1 points of plunder (ship’s arsenal and stores).
Her captain had ring of protection +2 and potion of CMW.
Decision to be made here, let the crew of the Vorsfang keep the Famished Mane?
Event 11
Another midnight raid by Sahuagin, which you defeat easily. However, one of them was wearing a necklace made of coral and a strange silvery metal with blue-black whorls worth 1500gp.
Ok, so we’ve a couple things to handle administratively before we move to event 12.
I think we need a roll to sell plunder in Port Peril (metropolis). You have 4 plunder, and 5 more from the sale of the Kurstav
Then you’d have gathered 15 plunder from the next 2 ships (10+5 for the second ship) and need a roll in Senghor (metropolis), on the Mwangi coast.
The Sanbalot ship and stuff gives 7 plunder. What happens with the Famished Mane decides how much more you have to go into Crown’s End (small city) on the Sargavan coast.
At any point in there, when you sell plunder and have cash, you can equip yourselves. That should amount to quite a bit of gp for gear I’d think.
Event 8: No from me to raiding fishing villages
Event 10: Let them keep the ship
Event 11: *shrug*
We should probably roll after 7,9,10, and 11 to increase infamy and stuff.
Event 10: unknown, but of course "no good deed goes unpunished" hahaha.
Event 7: Alessandra can have that bow. I'm not strong enough to draw it to full power, anyway.
Event 8: Pass. I still feel bad about taking a father from his son.
Event 9: Purchase a magic bow for myself!
Event 10: Let them keep it. Hopefully they'll see we're not all bad. Just Alessandra :P
Event 11: "Now that...that's a rare thing this part of the seas..." I say we keep it and not sell it, since it could be used as a bartering tool later.
And that is my set of suggestions.
BTW, I'm resorting to coffee shops for internet, so I'll be infrequent at best and non-existent at worst. Thanks for keeping things updated, though!
Event 7
Alessandra relishes the combat between ships; savage, swift, bloody - and her side always seems to win. She gladly snatches up the magical longbow, grinning at the others.
Event 8
The half-orc girl looks at the villages as they pass by, but she knows her companions don't have the stomach for that sort of raiding. To be honest, there's not much in it for her, either. So the villagers get to live another day.
Event 9
At each city they make port in, the group divides: Doc to do the recruiting, Ethron to do his pinkskin smily act and sell the plunder they've accumulated. Alessandra goes round generally putting the fear of all the gods into whoever crosses her path.
Sadly, most of the citizens seem immune to her natural charm, until the girl flashes around some of the hard-won loot they have acquired. The crew of the Chimera are developing a reputation for themselves, it seems.
Event 10
Alessandra chuckles grimly at the outcome: they killed pirate-hunters, so does that make them pirate-hunter hunters, she wonders. She is all for adding what remains of the pirate crew to the Chimera and selling the Famished Mane - but she will go with the consensus here. No point rocking the boat.
Event 11
Alessandra's getting pretty damn fed up with these fishmen attacks. Her reprisals are savage, and bloody - none of the shark-things survive her counter-assault.
She listens with half an ear as Ethron tells them how valuable the thing is that they have found. "Great. But we don't seem to be able to sell it back to 'em - they're only interested in killing us, so how does that help?" she grumbles.
Event 11
Oohhh deeep platinum. That is what it is. The madness of the bottom of the sea made metal. she giggles. I am sure there are some places that the shark men would trade
So what was the end results on Event 10? did you let them go, or keep them?
Event 10
Alessandra scowls blackly. "So, what, we give a buncha people we don't even know a ship instead of taking it for ourselves and selling it?! Count me out!"
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[ooc]BTW, how useful is Infamy/Disrepute? Using plunder for bonus / reroll is quite expensive, and I don't quite know what the real benefits are. In PFS the rough value of Prestige Point is 300 GP, so in this light spending couple of thousands of gp for a possibility of getting an increase seems quite a waste. And reroll costs 3 plunder, so I'd like to forbid that on Alessandra's last roll. Besides, we have to stay in port for one day per plunder we sell, and you can take one infamy check each day. So since we spent 28 days selling the plunder, you've got plenty of rolls to make :)
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"One fer me, one fer 'lessandra, one fer me, one fer Cap'n..." After each day of plunder sales, Rogar distributes the gold among the party members. Despite his suspicious counting, everyone has 5100 pieces of gold after the clash with the Famished Mane (+480gp each if selling the ship).
Out of the looted items, Rogar expresses interest in Cloak of Resistance +1 and Ring of Protection +2.
Criminy! You guys were busy.
Ok, let's press on, it seems you sold the ship, and Rogar has figured out the loot.
Alessandra, how much total do I need to add to the disrepute and Infamy scores?
Feel free to use your money to make the usual purchases while you were in towns. Based on the size of those towns, you know their limits for stuff right? And roll the 75% to find items, etc.
Sounds like you are keeping the deep platinum necklace, correct?
@Rogar Infamy and disrepute are very similar, but not exact, to how Fame and Prestige work in PFS. You need enough to have the respect needed to do certain things. Example:
Once the PCs have acquired an Infamy score of 20 or more), they are infamous enough to sail into the well-traveled waters and ports of the Shackles as respected, perhaps even feared, pirates.
Disrepute can be "spent."
Check out The rules I had posted earlier.
Give me two seconds, and I will post the lead in for Event 12.
A Sargavan galleon lurches from the impact of a catapult shot upon its stern that shatters its rudder. It heels over hard and feathers until its sails luff and it drifts to a stop. Its attacker, a Shackles drekar, runs in hard to guard its prize.
Profession Sailor Checks.
Alessandra scowls sulkily as Rogar puts a stop to her splashing the cash around. "Stumpy-legged spoilsport... Give a girl a chance, never had a chance to be rich before..." Realising that the dwarf can likely not only out-drink her, but out-cuss her at the same time (and being more sensitive than he is about her looks, not that she'd admit that to anyone), she wisely doesn't push the point.
"This thing is so light! It feels great! I'm not a fan of the logo on the chest, but that's easily fixed!" Ethron pulls out a regular brown tunic, fixing it over his person. "There! Problem solved!"
Ethron returns from shore leave with a new attachment to his belt: a small, gold and silver decorated box. "Found this while haggling with a few merchants. They like to change their prices, but I managed to get this for a steal!" He opens the box to show his new Wayfinder. "I also bought this." He holds up a small piece of tourmaline cut into a sphere, making it look like a cut watermelon. "The merchants said to use the wayfinder as a holder for the stone, but I've heard that can cause adverse effects. I wanted to do it somewhere safe instead of in the middle of the street."
- Longbow: 2200
- Wayfinder: 500
- Tourmaline Sphere Ioun Stone: 1000
- Unspent Funds: 1400
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Rogar yells suddenly one afternoon, as their ship sails peacefully in the Shackles. "Ther' be Sea Chanty, out o' Eleda. She be hunted by Devil's Pallor. If I recall right, 'er cap'n is Gortus Svard, real basterd fer a hobgoblin. Looks like eh ain't goin' t' share 'is prey."
"What say ye? Shall we take good ole Gortus to th' bottom o' the sea, and get our hand's on soften'd prey?"
But sharing is nice. We should teach Mr Svard some manners Chaenath pronounces as Swum chatters his agreement from her shoulder.
Ethron looks out as the two ships take each other on. "I say we watch them duke it out, then give a sucker punch to the winner. Anyone have another idea?"
He looks over at Chaenath in her new cloak and bracers. "Nice cloak. Who's your tailor?" He winks as he gives her otter a scratch behind the ears.
Was there any purchasing you guys did with your money in towns?
You sold all of the plunder right?
I will be out of town and out in the wilderness, with no internet this weekend, so same problem here.
I'm going to say "no" on steel breath. I like the idea of racially unique spells.
Ethron looks out as the two ships take each other on. "I say we watch them duke it out, then give a sucker punch to the winner. Anyone have another idea?"
He looks over at Chaenath in her new cloak and bracers. "Nice cloak. Who's your tailor?" He winks as he gives her otter a scratch behind the ears.
The half-orc girl flashes a quick grin of approval. "Nice. I was gonna suggest the same thing, no sense working when you don't need to."
She puts a hand to her new belt, before thoughtfully fingering the cloth of her equally new shirt. Turns out that once you actually have some possessions, you're more cautious about getting them wrecked. Interesting. She files that bit of self-awareness away with the others, in case they come in handy one day.
For now, she plans on living in the moment.
The Chimera turns her bow away from the fray, giving the appearance of her intention to leave the pirate ship to its prey without interfering.
However, as the day begins to darken, you turn her back around and come upon the two ships still grappled together. It is apparent that the battle is resolved and the pirates were quite victorious and are now engaged in enjoying the spoils of their victory. Drunk pirates are on the decks of the two ships, taunting, torturing, and worse. Most appear quite drunk.
As your ship comes alongside, your crew has no trouble lashing it to the other two and crossing onto the deck of the pirate ship.
Your party moves over to take possession and are confronted by what must be the only sober man not tied up between the two ships, Captain Gortus Svard's reputation as the scourge of shipping is well known, but equally well known he is a great warrior, and as a hobgoblin especially vicious.
Ethron and Doc are up!