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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6428183" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[SBLOCK=Quests]</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-size: 15px">Current Quests</span></span></p><p>These are the current quests your party is aware of. Quests in <span style="color: DarkOrange">dark orange</span> have been completed. Many more quests are still undiscovered, particularly crew quests. Bear in mind that a sloop or schooner (like <em>The Coral Curse</em>) requires 50 men, a brigantine 120 men, and a brig or pinnace 180+ men.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ship Quests</strong></p><p>Get <em>The Coral Curse</em> from Blackbeard</p><p>Exorcise the dark spirit haunting <em>The Coral Curse</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Crew Quests</strong></p><p>Blundering pirates at tavern (12 cannon fodder)</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">Dwarven deserters (13 sailors)</span></p><p>Captain Piet Hien Van Djik's survivors of The Coral Curse (10 old salts)</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">Latvian mercenaries (9 pirates, armed)</span></p><p>French buccaneers (12 buccaneers, armed)</p><p></p><p><strong>Supply Quests</strong></p><p>Get supplies for your ocean voyage</p><p>Get pox medicine for the crew[/SBLOCK]</p><p>[SBLOCK=Nassau Bulletin Board: The Seahorse]</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-size: 15px">Nassau Bulletin Board: <em>The Seahorse</em></span></span></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Missing! Butcher Rolf Swinerton: Ms. Jane Swinerton is offering forty-five crowns (45 electrum pieces) for information regarding her husband Rolf who has been missing for three days.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Missing! 32 Plantation workers: Madame "Mambo" Asizwe is offering a livres tournois (1 electrum piece) per worker returned in a fair state to her tobacco plantation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Seeking! Competent physician's assistant: 8-month minimum commitment. Inquire with Dr. Jim Flichard at the Camory estate.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Seeking! Seasoned divers: Able seamen preferred. Inquire with Captain Read Wallace of the Winchelsea.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Help! Goblins stole my rum: Three goblins stole several crates of quality rum from my shop. Five pounds (5 gp) and a bottle to whoever gets my rum back! -Moray the provisioner.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Hire! Arnaud and his Buccaneers: Skilled buccaneers seek culinarily-inclined captain. Inquire at tents on Northwest Point Beach near Lake Killarney.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blacklisted! Kristups Gruendemann: Don't hire this gnome as ship shantyman! He'll try to convince you he knows of a treasure in the sea caves, but it's bollocks! More trouble than he's worth, matey! -Anonymous.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Public Execution! March 14: On the morning of the 14th nine Spanish navy men shall be hung by the neck until dead in the square for seditious acts while surrendr'd, by order of Blackbeard.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Contest! 7th Annual Tree Frog Licking: On the afternoon of the 17th. Register with Peachy Nobkins under the big palm tree on the hill. Volunteer healers also needed.</li> </ul><p>[/SBLOCK]</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=Current Characters & Ship Duties]</p><p>Katerina del Corazón (captain) [MENTION=8058]Queenie[/MENTION]</p><p>"Old Zef" (boatswain/carpenter) [MENTION=2820]Fenris[/MENTION]</p><p>Nia Steeleyes (sailing master) [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION]</p><p>Blaise Arceneau (gunner) [MENTION=20005]Matthan[/MENTION]</p><p>Flynn "The Firebrand" (surgeon) [MENTION=48394]pathfinderq1[/MENTION]</p><p>Etienne Rougeau (quartermaster) [MENTION=6787234]peterka99[/MENTION]</p><p>[/SBLOCK]</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=List of Estimated Expenses (~1,500 gp)]</p><p><em>The NPC pursuer Badouin provided you with this list is for outfitting a 1-month treasure-hunting voyage with a crew of about 50 men. It does not include a diving bell, which would be a huuuge expense probably close to 4,000 gp.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Melee Weapons - 365 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>50 handaxes 250 gp</p><p>20 boarding pikes 100 gp</p><p>25 marlinspikes (daggers) 15 gp</p><p></p><p><strong>Food & Drink - 302 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>Month’s provisions for sixty men (3 tons) (water, bouillon, oatmeal, flour, salted meat, hardtack, peas, beans, salt, etc) 150 gp</p><p>4 barrels of rum 120 gp</p><p>Barrel of assorted fruit (oranges, limes, pineapples, sopadillas, sour-sops) 15 gp</p><p>Chef’s cooking spices & culinary tools 12 gp</p><p>2 goats, some chickens, and a pig 5 gp</p><p>Month’s feed for two livestock 3 gp</p><p></p><p><strong>Naval Supplies - 296 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>Ship’s bell 60 gp</p><p>Bilge pump 50 gp</p><p>Five lanterns (four hooded, one beacon) 30 gp</p><p>Spare main sail and spars 25 gp</p><p>Hourglass 25 gp</p><p>Bunk cots and linens for sixty men 25 gp</p><p>Chest, lock, and key 15 gp</p><p>Lamp oil, pipe (105 gallons) 12 gp</p><p>Ship’s logbook, oversized waterproofed vellum 10 gp</p><p>Ink bottle (1 ounce) and pen, 10 gp</p><p>Scuttlebutt, 4 empty barrels, buckets and mops 10 gp</p><p>5 block and tackle 5 gp</p><p>Cordage, sounding lines, three lengths of 50-ft hempen rope 5 gp</p><p>Two sculling oars 4 gp</p><p>Captain’s chart table 4 gp</p><p>Two fishing nets and ocean fishing tackle 3 gp</p><p>20 square yards of patching canvas 2 gp</p><p>Signal flags 1 gp</p><p></p><p><strong>Firearms - 275 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>25 pistols 250 gp</p><p>600 bullets and powder 25 gp</p><p></p><p><strong>Auxiliry Craft - 157 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>One ship’s boat (1 ton) 150 gp</p><p>4 oars and a hand pump 7 gp</p><p></p><p><strong>Cannon Supplies - 105 gp</strong></p><p><strong></strong>400 shot and powder (4 tons) for culverins 80 gp</p><p>200 shot and powder (1 ton) for demi-culverins 20 gp</p><p>Cannon cleaning tools 5 gp</p><p>[/SBLOCK]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-size: 18px">1. The Coral Curse </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Nassau, 12th March 1712</em></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://oi42.tinypic.com/2wgr591.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>For a man of means, Claude du Tourbillon is dressed down. He wears neither wig nor hose, instead opting for a brushed grey jacket and slacks, a fine white silk handkerchief emerging from his vest betraying the man's affluence. Everything about setting up the meeting was discreet. No definitive statements were made, always thru a charming intermediary or messenger boy, and the meeting place changed at the last minute from the Colonial Hotel to Blackreef's Tavern. No one in Nassau knew of the man beyond his reputation as a wealthy gentleman in France with his fingers in several trading companies. After two days of giving you the runaround, here was the man in the flesh sitting at a table in Blackreef's that evening, an unassuming Frenchman obviously out of his element among the cacophony of drunk pirates, Latvian mercenaries, French buccaneers, and grumbling dwarves.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">"<em>Madames. Messieurs."</em></span> He stands up halfway and gives a curt bow before settling back down. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"My name is Claude du Tourbillon. I apologize for the smoke and mirrors. Given the current political climate you can understand why I should take precautions." </span>Two burly bodyguards stand nearby, relaxed but at the ready, their faces marked with geometric tattoos you don't recognize from the Caribbean. Clearly Claude du Tourbillon did some digging on you as well, though if he'd dug a bit deeper he would surely have brought more than just two bodyguards. Clearing his throat into his handkerchief, he adjusts a sealed bottle of <em>calvados</em> and fidgets with several glasses on the table. Your impression of the middle-aged man is that he may be something of a hermit accustomed to working thru intermediaries.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">"I confess, this is my first time to the West Indies," </span>he explains in his thick accent. Those of you familiar with France and its language recognize his brogue as Northern French, though his surname is peculiar. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Having read the accounts of the Baron du Pointis' raid on Cartagena, and having sponsored other trading companies in these parts, I have thus far found your islands <em>tout à fait fascinant</em>. However, one thing interests me above all. Lè Gloriosa du Mere." </span>At the mention of the name, several drunk sailors glance over from their eternal vigil over their cups and make warding signs. Noticing this, Claude leans in closer speaking in a hushed voice. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"I recently learned that a close confidante of du Pointis, a woman named Clarice Chedreu, has retired on a small island where she lives a life of luxury and is served on hand and foot by...how do you say...pygmies?"</span> His pronunciation of the unfamiliar word is horrendously nasal. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Judging by her wealth, it is transparent Madame Chedreu recieved a share of the treasure taken from Cartagena. What is notable is that Madame Chedreu maintained contact with a spy in Cartagena thru a magic lantern, a fact I gleaned from du Pointis himself boasting over cognac one evening. The spy has not been seen or heard from in 15 years...trust me, I spared no expense hiring diviners...I believe the spy went down with Lè Gloriosa and communicated the fate of the ship to Madame Chedreu before his death." </span></p><p></p><p>The financier before you pauses to let the weight of what he has just shared sink in. La Gloriosa del Mar. At last a fresh lead no one else knows about. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"My previous enterprises allow me to fund an expedition to find Lè Gloriosa. However, I am no seaman, and I need skilled and cunning minds to represent my interests, acquire a ship and crew, manage logistics, <em>et ansi de suite.</em>"</span> He gestures to you. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"I trust I've piqued your interest? Shall we discuss terms?"</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>[OOC]</p><p><em>Madames. Messieurs.</em> = ladies, gentlemen</p><p><em>calvados</em> = apple brandy from Normandy</p><p><em>tout à fait fascinant</em> = quite fascinating</p><p><em>et ansi de suite</em> = and so forth[/OOC]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6428183, member: 20323"] [SBLOCK=Quests] [color=DarkOrange][size=4]Current Quests[/size][/color] These are the current quests your party is aware of. Quests in [color=DarkOrange]dark orange[/color] have been completed. Many more quests are still undiscovered, particularly crew quests. Bear in mind that a sloop or schooner (like [i]The Coral Curse[/i]) requires 50 men, a brigantine 120 men, and a brig or pinnace 180+ men. [b]Ship Quests[/b] Get [i]The Coral Curse[/i] from Blackbeard Exorcise the dark spirit haunting [i]The Coral Curse[/i] [b]Crew Quests[/b] Blundering pirates at tavern (12 cannon fodder) [color=DarkOrange]Dwarven deserters (13 sailors)[/color] Captain Piet Hien Van Djik's survivors of The Coral Curse (10 old salts) [color=DarkOrange]Latvian mercenaries (9 pirates, armed)[/color] French buccaneers (12 buccaneers, armed) [b]Supply Quests[/b] Get supplies for your ocean voyage Get pox medicine for the crew[/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=Nassau Bulletin Board: The Seahorse] [color=DarkOrange][size=4]Nassau Bulletin Board: [i]The Seahorse[/i][/size][/color] [list][*]Missing! Butcher Rolf Swinerton: Ms. Jane Swinerton is offering forty-five crowns (45 electrum pieces) for information regarding her husband Rolf who has been missing for three days. [*]Missing! 32 Plantation workers: Madame "Mambo" Asizwe is offering a livres tournois (1 electrum piece) per worker returned in a fair state to her tobacco plantation. [*]Seeking! Competent physician's assistant: 8-month minimum commitment. Inquire with Dr. Jim Flichard at the Camory estate. [*]Seeking! Seasoned divers: Able seamen preferred. Inquire with Captain Read Wallace of the Winchelsea. [*]Help! Goblins stole my rum: Three goblins stole several crates of quality rum from my shop. Five pounds (5 gp) and a bottle to whoever gets my rum back! -Moray the provisioner. [*]For Hire! Arnaud and his Buccaneers: Skilled buccaneers seek culinarily-inclined captain. Inquire at tents on Northwest Point Beach near Lake Killarney. [*]Blacklisted! Kristups Gruendemann: Don't hire this gnome as ship shantyman! He'll try to convince you he knows of a treasure in the sea caves, but it's bollocks! More trouble than he's worth, matey! -Anonymous. [*]Public Execution! March 14: On the morning of the 14th nine Spanish navy men shall be hung by the neck until dead in the square for seditious acts while surrendr'd, by order of Blackbeard. [*]Contest! 7th Annual Tree Frog Licking: On the afternoon of the 17th. Register with Peachy Nobkins under the big palm tree on the hill. Volunteer healers also needed.[/list][/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=Current Characters & Ship Duties] Katerina del Corazón (captain) [MENTION=8058]Queenie[/MENTION] "Old Zef" (boatswain/carpenter) [MENTION=2820]Fenris[/MENTION] Nia Steeleyes (sailing master) [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] Blaise Arceneau (gunner) [MENTION=20005]Matthan[/MENTION] Flynn "The Firebrand" (surgeon) [MENTION=48394]pathfinderq1[/MENTION] Etienne Rougeau (quartermaster) [MENTION=6787234]peterka99[/MENTION] [/SBLOCK] [SBLOCK=List of Estimated Expenses (~1,500 gp)] [i]The NPC pursuer Badouin provided you with this list is for outfitting a 1-month treasure-hunting voyage with a crew of about 50 men. It does not include a diving bell, which would be a huuuge expense probably close to 4,000 gp.[/i] [B]Melee Weapons - 365 gp [/B]50 handaxes 250 gp 20 boarding pikes 100 gp 25 marlinspikes (daggers) 15 gp [B]Food & Drink - 302 gp [/B]Month’s provisions for sixty men (3 tons) (water, bouillon, oatmeal, flour, salted meat, hardtack, peas, beans, salt, etc) 150 gp 4 barrels of rum 120 gp Barrel of assorted fruit (oranges, limes, pineapples, sopadillas, sour-sops) 15 gp Chef’s cooking spices & culinary tools 12 gp 2 goats, some chickens, and a pig 5 gp Month’s feed for two livestock 3 gp [B]Naval Supplies - 296 gp [/B]Ship’s bell 60 gp Bilge pump 50 gp Five lanterns (four hooded, one beacon) 30 gp Spare main sail and spars 25 gp Hourglass 25 gp Bunk cots and linens for sixty men 25 gp Chest, lock, and key 15 gp Lamp oil, pipe (105 gallons) 12 gp Ship’s logbook, oversized waterproofed vellum 10 gp Ink bottle (1 ounce) and pen, 10 gp Scuttlebutt, 4 empty barrels, buckets and mops 10 gp 5 block and tackle 5 gp Cordage, sounding lines, three lengths of 50-ft hempen rope 5 gp Two sculling oars 4 gp Captain’s chart table 4 gp Two fishing nets and ocean fishing tackle 3 gp 20 square yards of patching canvas 2 gp Signal flags 1 gp [B]Firearms - 275 gp [/B]25 pistols 250 gp 600 bullets and powder 25 gp [B]Auxiliry Craft - 157 gp [/B]One ship’s boat (1 ton) 150 gp 4 oars and a hand pump 7 gp [B]Cannon Supplies - 105 gp [/B]400 shot and powder (4 tons) for culverins 80 gp 200 shot and powder (1 ton) for demi-culverins 20 gp Cannon cleaning tools 5 gp [/SBLOCK] [center][color=DarkOrange][size=5]1. The Coral Curse [/size][/color] [size=4][i]Nassau, 12th March 1712[/i][/size][/center] [IMG]http://oi42.tinypic.com/2wgr591.jpg[/IMG] For a man of means, Claude du Tourbillon is dressed down. He wears neither wig nor hose, instead opting for a brushed grey jacket and slacks, a fine white silk handkerchief emerging from his vest betraying the man's affluence. Everything about setting up the meeting was discreet. No definitive statements were made, always thru a charming intermediary or messenger boy, and the meeting place changed at the last minute from the Colonial Hotel to Blackreef's Tavern. No one in Nassau knew of the man beyond his reputation as a wealthy gentleman in France with his fingers in several trading companies. After two days of giving you the runaround, here was the man in the flesh sitting at a table in Blackreef's that evening, an unassuming Frenchman obviously out of his element among the cacophony of drunk pirates, Latvian mercenaries, French buccaneers, and grumbling dwarves. [color=DarkOrange]"[i]Madames. Messieurs."[/i][/color] He stands up halfway and gives a curt bow before settling back down. [color=DarkOrange]"My name is Claude du Tourbillon. I apologize for the smoke and mirrors. Given the current political climate you can understand why I should take precautions." [/color]Two burly bodyguards stand nearby, relaxed but at the ready, their faces marked with geometric tattoos you don't recognize from the Caribbean. Clearly Claude du Tourbillon did some digging on you as well, though if he'd dug a bit deeper he would surely have brought more than just two bodyguards. Clearing his throat into his handkerchief, he adjusts a sealed bottle of [i]calvados[/i] and fidgets with several glasses on the table. Your impression of the middle-aged man is that he may be something of a hermit accustomed to working thru intermediaries. [color=DarkOrange]"I confess, this is my first time to the West Indies," [/color]he explains in his thick accent. Those of you familiar with France and its language recognize his brogue as Northern French, though his surname is peculiar. [color=DarkOrange]"Having read the accounts of the Baron du Pointis' raid on Cartagena, and having sponsored other trading companies in these parts, I have thus far found your islands [i]tout à fait fascinant[/i]. However, one thing interests me above all. Lè Gloriosa du Mere." [/color]At the mention of the name, several drunk sailors glance over from their eternal vigil over their cups and make warding signs. Noticing this, Claude leans in closer speaking in a hushed voice. [color=DarkOrange]"I recently learned that a close confidante of du Pointis, a woman named Clarice Chedreu, has retired on a small island where she lives a life of luxury and is served on hand and foot by...how do you say...pygmies?"[/color] His pronunciation of the unfamiliar word is horrendously nasal. [color=DarkOrange]"Judging by her wealth, it is transparent Madame Chedreu recieved a share of the treasure taken from Cartagena. What is notable is that Madame Chedreu maintained contact with a spy in Cartagena thru a magic lantern, a fact I gleaned from du Pointis himself boasting over cognac one evening. The spy has not been seen or heard from in 15 years...trust me, I spared no expense hiring diviners...I believe the spy went down with Lè Gloriosa and communicated the fate of the ship to Madame Chedreu before his death." [/color] The financier before you pauses to let the weight of what he has just shared sink in. La Gloriosa del Mar. At last a fresh lead no one else knows about. [color=DarkOrange]"My previous enterprises allow me to fund an expedition to find Lè Gloriosa. However, I am no seaman, and I need skilled and cunning minds to represent my interests, acquire a ship and crew, manage logistics, [i]et ansi de suite.[/i]"[/color] He gestures to you. [color=DarkOrange]"I trust I've piqued your interest? Shall we discuss terms?"[/color] [OOC] [i]Madames. Messieurs.[/i] = ladies, gentlemen [i]calvados[/i] = apple brandy from Normandy [i]tout à fait fascinant[/i] = quite fascinating [i]et ansi de suite[/i] = and so forth[/OOC] [/QUOTE]
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