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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7116564" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>That's a great starting point!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lol <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good things to think about! Definitely, as DM, I appreciate hearing your ideas for your PC's character arcs and development.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, it presumably sank. So far, nobody has been found to confirm that visually. There's a lot of details that haven't been explored in the game yet - clues that are part of the trail to finding <em>La Gloriosa</em>. Basically, it's a legend. There are truths, half-truths, and outright lies to fill the mystery of what happened.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sounds like you're going with #2, so this is moot.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Correct, 1697 was the very tail end of the Nine Years War between French Jacobites led by Louis XIV and a European coalition (including the Spanish). It was a very tumultuous time, all these colonial powers fighting each other for scraps of the New World, only to turn around and become allies when the promise of profits outweighed their previous animosities. At least, that's how I'd describe it with my slightly jaded view.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually deliberately left vague the timeline with <em>The Coral Curse.</em> That age range for 'Beck' sounds about right to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well...you're reading like an engineer, looking for limitations rather than for possibilities. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> No offense to engineers, my best and most brilliant friend is one.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah Van Djik ordered the slaves below at gunpoint. What exactly was Beck's role in that (if your PC = Beck)? What exactly was your PC's role in that (if your PC is different than Beck)? That's 100% up to you to decide. Maybe you dissented? Maybe you cast a charm spell?</p><p></p><p>Instead of looking for all these limits – most of which seem self-imposed rather than anything I'd actually be enforcing – I'd ask: What sort of character do I *want* to play? And how would that sort of character respond in such a situation with the slaves and Van Djik?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure! Pistol proficiency seems in keeping with the sort of character you're creating.</p><p></p><p></p><p>History texts make the distinction seem clear because the delineation between combat & everything else is clearly articulated in pirate charters. In the actual chaos of the situation...combat was imminent, Van Djik asked slaves to man the galley, Sambo the bokor refused on behalf of the slaves, <em>Achéron</em> fired a lucky shot killing half the galley, combat had begun, Van Djik (who historically was very progressive regarding natives & slavery for the era, due to his own experiences aboard a slave galley) made controversial decision to have slaves chained to galley and made to row at gunpoint to replace those killed by the <em>Achéron</em>. In the battle, he left other slaves on the sinking ship to drown.</p><p></p><p>The party just heard Van Djik's view of what happened. There are other views however.</p><p></p><p></p><p>OK then. Then you have a starting point for your character. Beck is an NPC. Were you the ship mage aboard <em>The Coral Curse</em>?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7116564, member: 20323"] That's a great starting point! Lol :D Good things to think about! Definitely, as DM, I appreciate hearing your ideas for your PC's character arcs and development. So, it presumably sank. So far, nobody has been found to confirm that visually. There's a lot of details that haven't been explored in the game yet - clues that are part of the trail to finding [I]La Gloriosa[/I]. Basically, it's a legend. There are truths, half-truths, and outright lies to fill the mystery of what happened. Sounds like you're going with #2, so this is moot. Correct, 1697 was the very tail end of the Nine Years War between French Jacobites led by Louis XIV and a European coalition (including the Spanish). It was a very tumultuous time, all these colonial powers fighting each other for scraps of the New World, only to turn around and become allies when the promise of profits outweighed their previous animosities. At least, that's how I'd describe it with my slightly jaded view. I actually deliberately left vague the timeline with [I]The Coral Curse.[/I] That age range for 'Beck' sounds about right to me. Well...you're reading like an engineer, looking for limitations rather than for possibilities. ;) No offense to engineers, my best and most brilliant friend is one. So, yeah Van Djik ordered the slaves below at gunpoint. What exactly was Beck's role in that (if your PC = Beck)? What exactly was your PC's role in that (if your PC is different than Beck)? That's 100% up to you to decide. Maybe you dissented? Maybe you cast a charm spell? Instead of looking for all these limits – most of which seem self-imposed rather than anything I'd actually be enforcing – I'd ask: What sort of character do I *want* to play? And how would that sort of character respond in such a situation with the slaves and Van Djik? Sure! Pistol proficiency seems in keeping with the sort of character you're creating. History texts make the distinction seem clear because the delineation between combat & everything else is clearly articulated in pirate charters. In the actual chaos of the situation...combat was imminent, Van Djik asked slaves to man the galley, Sambo the bokor refused on behalf of the slaves, [I]Achéron[/I] fired a lucky shot killing half the galley, combat had begun, Van Djik (who historically was very progressive regarding natives & slavery for the era, due to his own experiences aboard a slave galley) made controversial decision to have slaves chained to galley and made to row at gunpoint to replace those killed by the [I]Achéron[/I]. In the battle, he left other slaves on the sinking ship to drown. The party just heard Van Djik's view of what happened. There are other views however. OK then. Then you have a starting point for your character. Beck is an NPC. Were you the ship mage aboard [I]The Coral Curse[/I]? [/QUOTE]
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