One of my players is considering a character who briefly joined a pirate crew, before realizing the life wasn't for him and deserting. To help tie him in to the adventure path, I'm planning to make him a former Crimson Fleet crewmember. (Ideally, he'd be with the ship that's involved in adventure #2, issue #140.)
Does the Crimson Fleet have any initiation rites for basic crewmembers ("able seamen", or perhaps not even able yet) that I should know about? He certainly shouldn't know about the secret activities of the fleet, but I imagine nobody but the captains really know what's going on (and maybe not even them).
Does the Crimson Fleet have any initiation rites for basic crewmembers ("able seamen", or perhaps not even able yet) that I should know about? He certainly shouldn't know about the secret activities of the fleet, but I imagine nobody but the captains really know what's going on (and maybe not even them).
Actually, yes. Most of the Crimson Fleet's members are pretty damned vile. To be a Crimson Fleet pirate is to consort with demons, sell your soul so to speak, and basically give up humanity in aspiring to the rites of a full-blown demon-worshipping fleet of the worst pirates imaginable. These are murderers, rapists, serial killers, and sadists. They are really, REALLY bad people.
I would suggest you and your player take the approach of not knowing what the character was getting into and when the discovery that nearly every exagerrated sailor's tale didn't even come close to the true horror of the Crimson Fleet was made, he jumped ship or some such.
When the character faces them again, it can add some really cool drama as he comes face to face once again with the beings that have haunted his sleep ever since.
Does the Crimson Fleet have any initiation rites for basic crewmembers ("able seamen", or perhaps not even able yet) that I should know about?Actually, yes. Most of the Crimson Fleet's members are pretty damned vile. To be a Crimson Fleet pirate is to consort with demons, sell your soul so to speak, and basically give up humanity in aspiring to the rites of a full-blown demon-worshipping fleet of the worst pirates imaginable. These are murderers, rapists, serial killers, and sadists. They are really, REALLY bad people.
Yikes! They're worse than I was expecting -- sounds excellent.
Thanks for the sketch.
Yikes! They're worse than I was expecting -- sounds excellent.
Thanks for the sketch.
Arrr! Not a problem, matey! (It be ITLAPD today) Them scallywags, James "Pegleg" Jacobs be refarrrrrrrrrin to, be the exception t'the above, but them lilly-livered land-lubbers do exist... until they're keelhauled fer bein' a bunch o'Nancies.