[5e] Spell & Crossbones

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Sorry, I am referring to the encounters section on the first page, not the characters list...

Gotcha. Also, I just saw your character sheet on the 2nd page of the Rogues' Gallery thread! So disregard my other comment. I'll add the link to your sheet now.

 

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[MENTION=6787234]peterka99[/MENTION] I see you're referring to the Encounter Tables. It's going to be tricky to involve the Hudson's Bay Company (Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) in affairs in the Caribbean. I mean, I'll put on my imagination cap, but I'm pretty sure I'll need to deviate wildly from history in order to have the HBC involved in the Caribbean.

EDIT: Here's what I came up with...

Crippled by French occupation of Hudson's Bay, but anticipating an end to the war soon, the HBC sent out an agent to the Caribbean to gain leverage for treaty negotiations that would ensure the Bay returned to British control. This agent is Thomas Paine (CR ?), an aging colonial American privateer, who the HBC somehow convinced out of retirement. He is served by Scouts (CR 1) loyal to the HBC as well as his own crew of Old Salts (CR 1/4).

Thomas Paine based on the historical figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine_(privateer)

 

[Queenie]

Totally off topic.

I'm OBSESSED with the live cams on explore.org. I started watching for wild orcs in California. Haven't seen one yet but I have seen humpbacks, seals and sea lions. I started watching other cams and have been watching the bears - Mama and 4 cubs, have all kind of adventures in Alaska. There are shark cams off Cape Fear, NC and even some cams in other countries with polar bears, panda bears, different sea life, and my daughter's favorites - the puppy and kitten cams!

The reason I post this here is because one of my favorite things I have been doing is leaving up this gorgeous beach and watching the amazing sunrises and sunsets. Waimea Bay Have you been there?


Here's another favorite, for the heck of it. If you check it right now you'll see something cool: Brown Bear waits for dinner!!

 

[Quickleaf]

That's some serious bear medicine! Beautiful bears.

Yeah, I live on the south shore, but I've been to Waimea a bunch of times. Nice jumping rock. When weather is good it's gorgeous there, but when it's bad it's really really scary. Giant waves, insane swell, and sucking riptides; big wave surfer Donnie Solomon drowned there back in 95.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Waimea! I lived in Waialua (north shore Oahu) for four years. Super awesome for tidepools, swimming, and whale watching.

Lucky you live Hawaii!

 

[Kobold Stew]

[MENTION=6787234]peterka99[/MENTION] I see you're referring to the Encounter Tables. It's going to be tricky to involve the Hudson's Bay Company (Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) in affairs in the Caribbean. I mean, I'll put on my imagination cap, but I'm pretty sure I'll need to deviate wildly from history in order to have the HBC involved in the Caribbean.

EDIT: Here's what I came up with...

Crippled by French occupation of Hudson's Bay, but anticipating an end to the war soon, the HBC sent out an agent to the Caribbean to gain leverage for treaty negotiations that would ensure the Bay returned to British control. This agent is Thomas Paine (CR ?), an aging colonial American privateer, who the HBC somehow convinced out of retirement. He is served by Scouts (CR 1) loyal to the HBC as well as his own crew of Old Salts (CR 1/4).

Thomas Paine based on the historical figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine_(privateer)

Awesome. I think you'll also find that beavers have in fact been extinct for several decades now, and so agents have been importing ogre pelts, harvested in the Caribbean, and passing them off as beavers in the north. (Don't ask what they are using for Castor oil these days).

I also think that enchanted self-guiding canoes made by the Haitian loas are more efficient (though they are smaller) than the Kwakiutl canoes used by the HBC.

Those might just be rumours, of course.

 

[Quickleaf]

Nice.

It's funny I was just looking back over this game, which started in like November a year ago?

And we're still on day 2 in-game!

I don't know if that's a bad sign or a good one

 

[peterka99]

It is twice faster that the 24h TV show...

 

[Queenie]

Nice.

It's funny I was just looking back over this game, which started in like November a year ago?

And we're still on day 2 in-game!

I don't know if that's a bad sign or a good one

Longest. Day. Ever.





Seriously, the longest PBP game I've ever played was over 10 years. And we managed to finish 5 months of time. And that's with a few huge chunks of time removed. It's very hard to remember what your character did at the beginning of a day that you played a year ago lol. I cannot believe this game is almost a year old!!


Jon told me that Waimea Beach is famous for surfing. Every time I've watched it's been almost flat! I'd like to see people surfing, one of the cams is a "pipeline cam" which I assume is like a GoPro on a surfer. I hope to see some waves, definitely. Even without them, it's so beautiful. I'd love to get to Hawaii one day. I imagine it feels different to live there than what the rest of us think it would feel like. I live in an area people visit, close to areas that are touristy but it's just home to me.

 

[Fenris]

Barrington looks at Katerina and smiles. There might be a sadness in his eyes, or else he is squinting against he declining sun. "Do you mean Captain Wallace?" he asks. "As I told you I have only met the man once. This morning, in fact, after I had finished assisting you in your fight with the one who is now your captive. I also told you, not an hour ago, that Captain Wallace was our competition. You knew this, I presume, but you at least affected to be surprised at learning the news. When I asked you about him, even though you knew he poses a threat to this crew, you declined to answer, claiming your stories were personal."

Barrington removes his hat and begins to fan himself with it.

"Permission to speak freely, Captain?" he asks. He pauses to give her a chance to nod approval. "That was distrustful. We all have personal reasons for being here. I have told you mine. You continue to exhibit suspicion and mistrust, and to grit your teeth at news you already know. Either you trust your officers and will let us do our jobs properly, or you do not. Either you assign us clear duties, including our titles and the shares you mean to offer, which will be set in a binding constitution, or you continue to play games with those you should be least suspicious of, squandering the energies of us all. You have us now, but we will not be able to be an efficient crew for you until you begin to assume that we all are working for a shared success."

He checks the time. "So tell me, Captain, and tell me true, for I only will ask this once. Am I your enemy or am I your friend?"

KS,
First of all; this post is in very bad form for a PbP, you don't call out people on their exact words in a passive-aggressive diatribe.

Secondly, please do remember that it was YOU who started the problems having Barrington storm off when he wasn't elected Captain. Why in the world would in ONE day you expect total and complete forgiveness from a PIRATE (or hell, anyone for that manner).

Look, I understand you are trying to re-integrate with the party, but you are having Barrington be a pretentious ass about it. You have to respect the chain of command in the game, and you have to not jump your actions so far ahead as to marginalize other players. The manner in which you have portrayed Barrington, especially the sidebars of facial expressions and thoughts, gives off an air of arrogance (by you or Barrington) and makes absolutely no attempt at contrition, reconciliation or negotiation. You don't make Barrington a sympathetic character. You came back and said "I did this for you so you should take me back" with no questions about my absence or motives. If you want to be accepted more easily, you should consider toning down your character's appearance of pompous presumptuousness and I am sure things will go better. There in no in-game reason to actually trust each other, we may all have convergent goals, but that doesn't, as of yet, make them allies. Act like an ally, but also speak like an ally with out absolute ultimatums.

WWBD*

*What Would Barbossa Do?