In my campaign, going into it's final campaign session soon, Plugg is currently a dead peice of flesh shoved into a large barrell in the hold.
This same barrell (With HARRIGAN written on the side) is also stuffed with:
-Several other bodies worth of "parts" that have also been thrown in, including the husk of a giant wasp from the events at Squibb's all the way back in book 2.
-An Evil VooDoo Talisman. (Sandara warned the Captain's PC that no good would come of the item, and it must be thrown overboard. This warning was not headed. ::Evil GM Smile::)
-Gunpowder.
Apparently the plan is to catapult 'The Barrell' at Harrigan/his ship. Little does Captain Eastwood realize he's possibly brewing his own doom.
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For my group, we did go onto an island on the way to get some water barrels for the ship and upon returning found Plugg and Scourge waiting for us and ready to kill us.
One thing led to another and scourge ended up dead, Plugg abandoned ship and we followed him to make sure he died.
It didn't end well for him.
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When my players' characters finally had enough of Plugg and Scourge and went off, the attack was swift, efficient, and brutal.
Scourge lasted 3 rounds, Plugg lost both his eyes to a critical hit sword slash (I am using the Critical Hit Deck), and the party took him captive.
A couple of nights later, a very drunk Owlbear (who the party and befriended, and allowed to roam free) stumbled over to Plugg's sleeping, shackled form and beat him to death with his bare hands.
Group I was in rebelled the night we transfered ships. It was amazing as my falchion wielding cleric of Gorum critted Plugg into the deck while Scourge was beat to death by the rest of the crew.
Plugg's empty skull is now my drinking cup.
raises the skull in a toast
Empty skull KEG PARTY!!
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I actually had the unthinkable happen and my PCs cut a deal with the Grindylow Queen - they'd throw a weakened Plugg and Scourge overboard for her, AND they'd tell other pirates that Bonewrack Isle was a place full of treasure and send other weak wannabes there to get devoured whole by the Whale.
When they got dealt with in my game, I had Plugg, Scourge and 3 other Wormwood pirates face off against the party of 5 PCs while a 4th Wormwood pirate was in the rigging sniping them with a crossbow.
The fight was pathetically short. Scourge managed to disarm the gunslinger with his whip and then hit the rogue with his punching dagger (the poison didn't take affect). Plugg swung his sword once and missed then tried to retreat because of the HP he lost later in that round. The 3 pirates on the deck did minimal damage; one surrendered, one died and one jumped over board. The pirate in the rigging didn't get hit but surrendered when Plugg retreated, only managing to shoot the bard twice during the fight.
Overall, pretty unimpressive end for as much as I roleplayed up these NPCs. Too bad really because I hoped they'd go out with more style.
I'd be interested in reading if anyone actually got a good, climactic nail-biting fight out of this, and how it went down. It would seem most had a similar experience to mine.
My players didn't even wait until they got to the Man's Promise. During the Storm event the PCs managed to discreetly Push Plugg off deck when nobody was looking.
So when the new Ship came along I had Master Scrouge become the Captain instead. Thing is that by the time THAT happened the PCs had already either befriended OR murdered pretty much the entire crew. So they simply approached Scrouge and they had a bloodless Coup.