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***Nitpick Incoming***
As a sailor, I find it hard to swallow that The Wormwood Mutiny describes the job of quartermaster as having something to do with maintaining and issuing supplies. In an army that would be an accurate description; however, aboard a ship the quartermaster is chiefly concerned with navigation. The men responsible for maintaining the ship's stores were called storekeepers.
Specifically aboard pirate ships, the quartermaster was the ship's second in command. He (or in a few rare instances she) typically led the boarding party to capture a prize.
Please triple-keelhaul the man responsible for this outrage.
Our first day in, this was noted too.
It was proffered that Grok's position should be the ship's Purser and not the Quartermaster, at least in traditional naval terms.
(Or even Piratical ones according to wikipedia)
The confusion comes from the term having two entirely different definitions depending on whether you're on land or at sea, and another altogether when talking about the golden age of piracy. It's a simple mistake...though a landlubber's mistake, to be sure.
It probably slipped through because Paizo favors ninjas over pirates.
What, do ninjas have quartermasters? :P
Sure. Who do you think they go to when they need more shuriken and pepper bombs for their next mission? Ninja-Mart?
Whoa, now you're telling me they don't have Ninja-Marts in Golarion? I thought everyone had Ninja-Marts! Can't drive down the feckin freeway without passing two or three...
Cheap knock-offs. If they were real Ninja-Marts, you wouldn't see them until you'd accidentally walked inside one, right before you were killed by ninjas. That you also didn't see.
That must play merry hell with UPS coding...poor guy probably has to drive around for hours just looking for the place. Before, of course, he notices that his shipment is gone and the paperwork has already been signed.
I am happy to play it in french, because I translate it with the description of the job and not the translation of the word, because I completly agree with you the quartermaster is not really the one in charge of the supply...