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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 7114411" data-attributes="member: 61026">Right. Removing "Recovery" from the list of Bonds. Also removing "Mending" from potential list of cantrips, to let Old Zef cover that business. It looks as though the ship duty of First Mate might be appropriate: not too highly ranked, still learning some of the complexities of operating a ship without being a total newbie at it.As for the connections, I thought I listed three potential Bonds to La Gloriosa, with the "Recovery" one now removed, leaving two. The Vengeance/Justice would have been the same as Bond #3 in the first post, to wit: "Vengeance or Justice." However, that would have required the character to be a citizen of Cartagena -- or else of a nationality such as French, so his family could have been (unfairly?) accused of helping Baron de Pointis raid the city, and whose names might possibly be cleared by finding that secret ledger of bucaneers who collaborated with Baron de Pointis, which ledger might or might not exist and might or might not have gone down with La Gloriosa. -- Unfortunately, the other potential Bond to the adventure that I listed was one I simply made up: Redemption of reputation due to having failed to find La Gloriosa once before. We can remove that one from the list too if it doesn't fit the setting. (I know Finding the White Whale was approved for Nia, though it's not on the official list. . . .)(My having mentioned Capt. Jacques Cassard was a reference to a potential Ill Fortune of "Enemy," not to a Bond to the adventure.)But if that's not a good enough Bond, then I might have to go with the generic Bond #10, "Gold, Glory, and Adventure.".As for connections to other PCs in the party are concerned, I think I would need to get buy-in from the respective players of the other PCs in order to establish any such connections. Here are the ideas I have along those lines right now: A connection to Old Zef would be easy if they have a mutual friend, or if they both served under Blackheart. (Hmm. Blackheart was Spanish. That might be difficult to arrange if my guy is English -- which he doesn't need to be.) -- or maybe Blackheart sank enough English ships, and mercifully saved (or took as galley slaves) enough floating survivors of those sinkings that this guy met Old Zef then. I'm open to suggestions.-- or maybe Blackheart didn't always sink the ships immediately: maybe he first incapacitated them and boarded them, taking the crew as prisoners or replacement crew, and looted the ships before sinking them. . . .A connection to Katarina would be harder due to her having grown up to adulthood so recently: my guy would have had to be very close to her family, or her childhood, to have known her except by reputation. (However, a connection to Old Zef might substitute for that.) Since Etienne is new to the area, I don't see much there: he's just arrived in the Caribbean (?), so we would have to work something out. Or -- check that. Etienne has Contacts among the natives. Is my guy a native, or a half-breed living among them? (I think this may depend on whether other connections can be defined.)A connection to Blaise? Maybe this guy got rather intensely interviewed by Blaise about having crewed on a ship that ran slaves, before this guy gave that work up as a bad job? (Maybe the reason he gave up crewing for such voyages?)A connection to Nia? I would need a lot of help on that one, since she's apparently arrived in the Antilles very recently, so their paths might not have crossed before. (I doubt this character is "The White Whale.") Or else my guy needs some connection to Voodoo or Loa or Druidry, so they have something in common? (Not the Druidic language, unless it can come from the "extra language" available from the setting.) (?)</blockquote>

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