The Sea Of Evil- Skulls and Shackles (Inactive)

Game Master william Nightmoon

I've already used my night action to try and influence Jacob (are he and Kroop any better disposed towards us now?), so I'll try in the morning I guess.

Kroop is already in a good mood with you, you brought him from friendly to helpful. And Jacob from unfriendly to Normal

Also, you have a +2 to all checks to have Kroop help you, loan stuff, or get information.

Nevermind. Are we moving on to the morning?

I edited my post, and I'll have you know spilling rum is punishable by 3 lashes.

Are we moving on to the morning? It would be nice to keep going, and whatever Wade is doing could be done via semi-retcon without too much trouble...

One thing the cookmate has to mind is if the cook is drunk. If he is doing anything other than work it will be harder. For if you plan to go to the shop you better roll high or Mr.Plugg will have more work for you, or worse.

Anyways, the Bildge has some stuff down there as well as a little story so nothing is really bad... At this point anyway.

Also, three ways to get your stuff back:
1) buy it all again at standard price
2) steal it back(obviously​ this causes issues)
3) Convince the quartermaster to give it back as a friend.- although this is the cheapest way you still need at least 30gp in expensive alcohol for this.

If I could convince her to give me the spell book I could cast tears to wine and that spell could pay for equipment
Sadly I need to pay for the book first

Question: by "hammer of fine quality" do you mean like a war hammer or a crafting hammer?

If I could convince her to give me the spell book I could cast tears to wine and that spell could pay for equipment

Sadly I need to pay for the book first

Question: by "hammer of fine quality" do you mean like a war hammer or a crafting hammer?

I mean light hammer

Sucks I'm sleeping off that failed Con check, lol. I probably could have rocked that toss game.

It's a busy holiday weekend. I'll try to post something tonight.

I'm thinking RL is getting in our GM's way...hope thinks get better, let us know if we can do anything to help the game out in the meantime.

I saw him post something about moving so that can certainly take up more time than expected.

RL is a big issue, I've had to close tow of my other games, Just so I don't have too much on my plate, I'll try to get this going again ASAP, after all this is the game I want to keep going with...

It happens man

We can wait

I will away at Pennsic War 46 for the next 2 weeks. I will be able to post but my post will be short as my data plan will take a hit being in a campground with 12,000 other people. No free WiFi in the area...

No problem, I'm having simular issues....

Can we get a recap as to where we are and what has happened...

Recap From Murat's PoV:

Went drinkin', met a fine lass, got drugged, new ship.

Rigging work, newbies mostly got grunt work.

Vel has made some special friends.

Passed out early from working too hard.

Basically, we've spent two full days on the ship, we've seen one keelhauling, and have seen a pirate game in play.

That's about it from a storyline perspective.

Vel has it down, update later, I'm at work right now and don't have the time to put out a detailed post.

Well it has been almost 2 weeks since we have heard from the DM. Is this one to put in the book of Inactive PBP Games? Do players want to try and find a new DM or stick this out in hopes that we will get to play this AP with DM waz up?

It wouldn't affect me to wait a little, but that's just me. Murat is an interesting character, and I'd like to see how he handles the inevitable mutiny. As a player, I want to see who ends up Captain, lol. Some good headstrong egos here ready to get into a pissing contest...:D

I'm really interested in seeing where this character goes too.

I was hoping he would get back on track after his move. With PbP Gameday 6 coming up, it may be difficult to find a replacement GM right now. I'm ok with waiting a little while longer.

Has anyone tried to PM him? Stalking his aliases, I see a handful of posts over the last week.

Ah, I apologise, it's just life has been very hectic for me this last month, I'm considering dropping some games, but I am Indeed here...

However with the release of Starfinder I'm gonna do my best to stick around (that game interested me alot and I'm opening recruitment for a test run)

So what does that mean for this game. Are you planning on dropping this game or are we continuing?

Well if you'd like to continue I can do that. Responses will be delayed, and we will be on a slow burn for a little, but I could more than continue this game

Well I'm interested in continuing. Can we get a roll call for who's still around?

Present.

Yep.

I could be bribed into staying if I get my spell book XD

So it just appears we don't have the Kobold :P

I am here as well...

Looks like we are just missing the barbarian now.

I think I would recommend trying to accelerate the events of book one a little bit. Once the characters have their own vessel, you can leave us to our own devices more. We will need to discuss things like targets, modifications to the ship, and other minutia. Gives us a way to occupy ourselves and take some pressure off posting from you.

I want to animate the ship eventually

I'd settle for just crewing it with skeletons, and having the warriors be all manner of bound fiends.

Yes, but if you stuffed the souls of wind elementals into the sails and water elementals into the ship itself, you would have a ship of unmatched agility!

Ha, seems you all have your own ideas for the ship ^-^ well I can accelerate if it's needed. Although alot of this is lead-up to make allies for later.

One possibility is that we handwave a lot of the RP, assuming it happens over time, and just tackle several days' worth of rolls at a time? You know, like, if nothing special happens for a week, just say, "Okay, post your weeks' worth of job checks, and say what you did with your free time."
That would speed it up while still not losing the aspect of befriending the crew.

That is a pretty good idea. Bundle the mundane stuff, set some guidelines, but otherwise let us run rampant.

On that note: Murat is moving beyond the "just keep your head down" stage and on to, "discipline is fine, but vendettas against crew puts the whole unit at risk!" stage. Some bullying of Vel Murat does not mind, but purposefully attacking a fellow crewmate, thereby weakening the team as a whole? No, sir. He would be open to listening (though not commenting on) alternatives to ensure a proper officer is in charge. I cannot guess how far he is from the "just kill the deadweight so the crew can move forward" stage...

He isn't really interested in making friends, but if a battle seems imminent, he might go looking for Besmaran faithfuls to offer a little prayer for some solid booty.

Well, seeing that this is not going anywhere...I think I am going to jump ship.
Good luck everyone and if anyone wants to start this up with a new DM or if the DM does decide to come back someone let me know.

Is everyone here good with me taking over? I'm looking through characters and trying to wrap my mind around the group.If you could give me some insight into how you would want your character's story to play out, that would be great. Any personal or professional goals. If you want to be a free spirit and take what comes, that is fine. But if someone has a clear vision of being a certain kind of pirate or whatever, I would want to make that path available, at least.

Also, I think we are ok as far as party balance. There are a bunch of NPC's who can fill in for missing roles if need be. I'll certainly reach out to Murat and see if he is interested in coming back. I was enjoying the goblin/hobgoblin dynamic.

Also, do you want to just start a new campaign thread? Or have me take over this one. There isn't a whole lot here that we need to keep, I think.