I'm looking at the Seeker affiliation description in Dragon 348. A seeker that "wrecks a ship" takes a -4 to their affiliation score. How strictly did you interpret that penalty? I hit my party's seeker with the penalty when the Sea Wyvern was wrecked, but I'm inclined to remove the penalty when they retrieve and repair the ship. What about ships that don't belong to the party? It seems really cruel to levy the penalty if the party sinks one of the Crimson Fleet ships at the end of Tides of Dread. I'm not entirely sure what the intention was, that penalty doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest of the affiliation modifiers.
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I think it's meant to be applied if the PC doesn't look after one of the organisation's own ships.
You don't get drummed out for defending yourself against bloodthirsty pirates.
And as for the Sea Wyvern, the penalty should only apply if the wreck becomes known to the superiors. If they can patch it up, and get it afloat again, no-one's any the wiser, right? Though you still have to explain the lost cargo...
(Thanks for the heads up on that article!)
I think it's meant to be applied if the PC doesn't look after one of the organisation's own ships.
That's a good point. The Seekers tend to fund expeditions, as in pay for your ship and crew in return for the spoils of your expedition, much like the Queen of Spain did for Colombus. They were the ones that funded the original sailing to the Isle of Dread by Rory Barbossa, and being that Larissa is a Seeker, probably had some funding for the second expedition.
So naturally if you provide your own boat or cargo, then you shouldn't have to worry about this penalty.
Bob
Hmmm... I think of more like the credit. If you miss a payment (wreck a ship) your interest (affiliation score) goes up (down).
Even if you later make the payment, you are still a credit 'risk'. However fixing the ship should be worth something to your score (imo +2), but the original mar is still there. (this fixing/capturing could apply to later ships as well from the later pirate encounters.)
Not reporting it however... well that is another story. Though it will be at least six months before anyone returns to Sasserine. They might just get away with it.