To Live in Infamy - a Skull and Shackles AP

Game Master Nayr Trebrot

You know guys, I wasn't trying to stop the posting prematurely. Is everything still going okay? I think this is the longest I've seen with no one posting.

Nope not waiting. Just busy for a bit I think.

i suppose we are all content to throw them in a boat and shoot arrows at them?

Rush is a man of his word, he'll happily let the island kill them.

But he does mind of both want to give up the boat, maybe let them row as far as a length of rope? That way we can haul the boat back to the ship.

here is the real thing. some things are hard in play by post. make a group decision is one of them. also, somethings end up taking a lot of time. i wanted to role play a bit. Set up a scenario with some pirate gambling to determine the exact terms of Plugg's departure; keelhaul Scourge, and if he survives, make him Master of the Privies; offer Scourge back his dried ball-sacks as partial recompense; an interrogation of Plugg and Scourge, for what they might know that we don't (we don't really even know why Harrigan sent us out this way on this ship).

for reference, a long time ago, Jack instigated a conflict with Scourge thusly:

If thou raise thy whip against me, I will cut off thy balls and stuff them up thy fat ugly nose.

After a sharp battle between him and Scourge, he ends it thus:

Jack looks down, panting. A feeling, deep inside, a roiling rising up inside his gut, a lump of shame and regret, satisfaction and fear. Jack vomits on the deck, and grabs the post, his chest heaving, gasping for air.

After a while, Jack looks up at the crew and wipes his dirty mouth with his sleeve. Then, crouching down over Scourge, he takes his dagger, and fulfills his promise.

http://paizo.com/campaigns/ToLiveInInfamyASkullAndShacklesAP/gamepl ay&page=18#894

I'm fine with whatever we end up doing. Rush has no history with these men, so he's just waiting to see what happens.

Either way, I hope they don't come back to us. So as a player, is prefer they die in the end, no matter what happens between now and then .

So only one is getting away, and is a fair trade for Tilly.
Scourge is Jack's.
The boat though...well that is well a loss I guess. Not my favorite thing to lose, but there are three more.

Group decision are hard in person too, but much slower over PbP.

Sorry Rush, that's my fault. I'm always optimistic about my posting rate while on business trips, but something always seems to hijack it. I'm on my way back home now, so all will be normal soon.

Thanks guys

Sorry Rush, that's my fault. I'm always optimistic about my posting rate while on business trips, but something always seems to hijack it. I'm on my way back home now, so all will be normal soon.

Thanks guys

No need to apologize about anything. I was just checking.

Also, since it seems that we officially have ourselves a new ship, I think we should rename it. What do you guys think? I'm going to think of a few.

i'll try to think of some names.

Tap should just go ahead and cast octopus, and y'all shoot some arrows too.

Jack will, I guess, go swim after Plugg and make sure of it.

Back into initiative then; Tap - you're diving in the water after Plugg, right?

Jumping into the boat. I assumed it was still next to the ship due the slip stream. If not, Tap would cast summon squid before jumping in the water at an area near where Plugg probably would be.

Nope, you're good - the boat is still there

Jack is following Tap.

Lol, no worries Rush; that's why I thought it was a pretty creative use of the spell. I dig it though, particularly in this instance, as I feel like this is just drawing out the inevitable.

Jack, I'm sorry, but you +12 to hit is a little hard to believe.

Pretty sure it should be +8; note that the Cat's Grace has worn off by now. Still a hit, though, so there's something.

just sounds like your'e jealous Tap. Well, i did asked if the potion had worn off.

sorry, Rush, missed that you did give us a push. is plugg still out moving us?

The potion would have been a +2 bonus I believe

Sorry Jack - you did, and I failed to answer. My bad on that one. Either way....you've got him now...he didn't have that much left in him

I might have made a mistake. Let's see:

Under normal conditions with my cutlass
BAB +4
Dex +4
Masterwork Cutlass + 1
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+9

When Tap is singing inspire courage
BAB +4
Dex +4
Masterwork Cutlass + 1
Inspire Courage +1
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+10

When Tap is singing inspire courage and I'm dexed up
BAB +4
Dex +6
Masterwork Cutlass + 1
Inspire Courage +1
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+12

Problem is, that in this case I'm using bow, and i'm not dexed up: so:

BAB +4
Dex +4
Inspire Courage +1 (you never stopped, did you?)
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+9

Of course, there is that -2 penalty here.

Actually, it looks like I've been giving myself only a +3 BAB in game and on my char sheet. Bah! Need to fix that.

Nayr, not your fault. i just put it in as a caveat to my roll. i stilll didn't add the bonuses right. when i'm in a hurry i just copy whatever i did before.

Fair to say Tap isn't singing at the moment

Note the new info added under the game name above

cool. will review.

Not to change the subject, but I wanted to mention some potential names for our new ship:

The Oncoming Storm (this one is my favorite)
Little Ship that Could
No Man's Bindings

The Oncoming Storm is nice.

Ship combat here sounds like the ship combat in Starfinder. Note that I haven't played enough Starfinder to have done ship combat yet, just sounds like what I've heard. I'm looking forward to the freedom that I feel is coming in part 2. Also the chance to go be evil.

So, what does a pirate contract go like? What percentage of loot goes to officers, how much goes to swabs, and so forth?

How 'bout these?

The Fare Thee Well
The Kindwind
Wave Cutter
Rosie's Psealms
Grindylow's Grandma
TapTap's Water Monkey
Rush's Collusion
Kerruk's Delusion
Cross Eye's Protrusion
Belliot's Confusion
Rosie's Lost Fiddle
The Middle Finger
The Captain Harrigan

Good question Tap; no clue. The AP isn't much help on that either, so feel free to institute whatever you like. The crew (particularly Kroop and Sandara) will no doubt tell you if unfair.

I'm curious to see how this goes. On one hand part of me wants a full inventory of ship resources, salted fish, water, coin, trade goods. Space in the hold to store cargo, have Jack record it into the ships logs, navigation tools, maps, so we may begin sailing the seas as a legitimate transport for legal trade, dirty smuggler for elicit items and rare items, and a wicked pirate who takes ships, builds a pirate fleet, and a bit of all that..

Ain't going to lie, I like the idea of "Take whatever job we can get, legal or illegal". Smuggle when we can, ship legit if we can, full Firely sort of thing.

I hear ya, that would be tough for me too. Don't worry, the AP will find you wherever you go, but if you want to just be pirates for a while too...and after the AP of course, then I'm game. I'm going to look for some additional books about the shackles for more depth; I know there's one out there somewhere just can't remember the title. I'll add a map of the shackles for easy reference too.

Do you guys like having the important materials right up top like that; is that easier?

man, maybe we should call the ship Firefly. ha

Apparently, I had the Islands of the Shackles campaign setting book that I bought in 2012 and never read...need a secretary for my Paizo.

Sunyata - got your sheet and reviewing! I should be able to bring you into the game thread soon...hopefully this weekend:)

yes, we like. cool.

let's just pirate a while. see what we see. I'm sure Harrigan will find us out soon enough.

i need to catch up on reading all that material though. am pretty busy right now

I'm down for that. If we get some cool finds, all the better. Let's see what's out there.

Well a couple of things.

We still have Scourge. He says he can get our ship refitted. This might be important so that we can land in ports without getting arrested for stealing the Man's Promise and it's booty, or other problems associated with that. Do we need Scourge for that? Maybe. Should it be our first priority? Maybe.

Second, navigating means locating us on the map. Where are we?

See the arrow at the bottom that says "To Bonewrack Isle?" That's the island you're parked next to.

Kroop indicated before that he knew of this "refitter" - a place called Rickety Squibs, in a remote estuary on the Slithering coast. It's only a few days from your current position.

Nice, I like it Rush!

Sunyata, you're up! Please put your responses in a spoiler

Just wanted to let you know guys - we're not waiting for sunyata or anything; she's a different timeline. So, ready to move along whenever you are.

So far, these are all the suggestions for ship names:

The Fare Thee Well
The Kindwind
Wave Cutter
Rosie's Psealms
Grindylow's Grandma
TapTap's Water Monkey
Rush's Collusion
Kerruk's Delusion
Cross Eye's Protrusion
Belliot's Confusion
Rosie's Lost Fiddle
The Middle Finger
The Captain Harrigan
The Oncoming Storm
Little Ship that Could
No Man's Bindings

Can we do an official vote? Sunyata included, since she'll be joining the crew soon. If we can't decide on one, hopefully we can at least narrow down the list.

I still vote for THE ONCOMING STORM

Lots to like here, but I think I'll vote The Oncoming Storm