A Warlock Alone, Island Empire solo game

[J. Alexander]

Dinner on the Retriubtion

Michael will arrive back at the ship and help guiesspee set up the Captains Cabin for dinner. He will take note of those sailors who have already come aboard and will ask the 5 guards he hired last night if they are agreeable to extend the contract for a week so as to allow his crew to devote theri full attention to the ships clenaing and painting.

He will then thank the two thieves for their agreement to stay on and will dismiss them with the agreed upon amount.

Shall we have dinner ?

 

[Scotley]

Mr. Boudreau shakes the extended hand, "I'll have my secretary draw up the papers today and have them sent to you dockside for your approval. You can make your deposit to the Farmer's Bank of Tregere. Shall I have my man take you back to the city now?"

OOC: I'll have to read up on the cargo stuff, but that is likely resonable.

 

[Scotley]

When you return to the ship 3rd officer Imparell comes to speak to you. "Captain, a moment of you time?" Assuming you agree he continues, "I would like to bring the potintial healer aboard for dinner so that you can meet her."

The smell of Bay and Cyanne is strong as you come aboard. Grumbar has a pair of kettles going, one for rice and the other containing a rich sauce of crayfish, sausage, local vegetables and mushrooms and plenty of spice. Sourdough bread is baking and one of the assistants is churning a mixture of butter fat and garlic.

 

[J. Alexander]

Dinner

"By all means, invite her to dinner, I will be happy to meet with her and thank you Lo'dasse for helping me find a potiential healer."

Michael will then briefly wander to the galley but stops at the door and will ask Grumbars permission to enter. Assuming it is giving he will step into the galley for a qucik look see and perhaps beg a taste from Grumbar and if it is not ready will ask that a small platter of cheese be made and sent to his cabin.

Before reteurining to the cabin he will make a brief tour of the ship and see if anyone else has settled in etc....

OCC: A cajun dwarf lol I love it

OCC: Here is a semi updated character sheet for Michael and Company. Please note that I have faitfully been marking off the money spent .....Michael should have just enought left to complete a small deal with the dye merchant, refurbish the ship and set sail with about 4 to 6 weeks expenses until he can trade his goods. He still has the goods taken from the Retribution but until he can convert them and the cargo into cash, they are nothing but goods....if at all possible could you give me a slight breakdown sometime of what he has in the 3500 gp so he can detail it in his cargo section

 

[Scotley]

Dockside on the Retribution

Grumbar welcomes you to the galley and encourages you to try the food, which is quite good. The dishes are wheelander style cooking with a slight dwarven touch. Normally, wheelanders wouldn't include mushrooms in the dish, but dwarves love them.

The ship is coming together, the new crew is progressing well. The officers are settling into their cabins.

OOC: Will part of the hold be converted to crew space for the Marines or were you going to make the crew double up? I'll try and get you details on the cargo and how much cargo you can carry tomorrow.

 

[J. Alexander]

Crew Space

Michael will indeed conver 1/4 of the hold say the right upper portion of the hold into a marine barracks. That would leave 75 tons of cargo space while using up 25 tons. Ideally I am hoping to keep 16 marines in there divided into three 5 man squads. It should be on the rough size perhaps sligtly larger than the two crew cabins comined. Each crew cabin will be confgured to hold 8 memebers instead of the 6 so maybe a little cramped but not that much so....

 

[J. Alexander]

Ships Equipment

Michael will go ahead and see to the equipping of his ship if that is okay, I will pay book price and if something is out of the ordinaray like wanting to purchase 500 suits of chainmail etc i will get your prior approval. Actually he will mos likely buy some heavy crossbows, some cutlassess etc as well as food provisons....

 

[J. Alexander]

Officer's Dinner

At the appointed time, Michael will receive all the officers into his cabin for dinner. He will ask them to formally introduce themselves to one another just on the off chance that they are not already familar with each other. He then will have Guiessppe introduce himself to the assembled crew. Grond will be concispious by his abscence and I will explain to him, that I wish him to contiune alond with the charade of just dumb lethal muscle on the off chance he may hear of things more interesting to us.

MIchael will try to keep the conversation general and pleseant during the meal itself and use it as the ice breaker. After the meal, he will open a box of the Supremo's and offer them to the assembled officers as well as pouring some heft snifters of brandy.

Gentlemen and Ladies,

I wish to welcome you aboard the Retribution and thank you for agreeing to sign on for her voyage. I sincerly hope that you gentlemen will find it agreeable to make it a permeant posting after we conclude our current agreement provididng we all are still comfortable with each other.

Over the next few days, we will be cleaning and repairing and refurbishing this ship. I wish to have the entire ship sanded and repainted both interior and exterior. Additionaly, I wish for those of our crew who are at home in the water, to inspect the hull, and clean it as throughly as possible or any growths or attachements. Also during the week provisions will be arriving as well as our first cargo. Are there any questions?

Next, I iwsh to get your thoughts on a potiential venture that will deeply concern the officers and crew of the Retribution before we make a decsion regarding it one way or another. I currently have the location of a shark man village that has recently lost it's premier stike crew and it's leader. That should leave it being defended by second line fighters and their shark allies and in order to comabat this, we would be recruiting local mercaniers to do the actual fighting, while the ship's crew and marines would remain aboard for defense.
Captain Sweetwater of our Marines has informed me he could be of assistance in recruiting the local mercanries should we decide to pursue this course of action. As to the division of potiential spoils, we could just hire them out right at a premiume cost and keep the spoils for ourself or pay them a lesser rate and agree to divide the spoils 60/40. Your thoughts gentlemen?

 

[Scotley]

Dinner with the officers

Priestess Nac'Losin Nabrill is introduced to the company. The toadmen present rise and bow to her. You gather that she is a holy woman of some respect if not high official standing. Her gaze is very intense and she seems to be sizing you up. She says little, but does offer a simple blessing as the food is served. The food is excellent as the Captain already knew having sampled it, but first officer Mangram speaks up to say that if this is typical of the food on this ship he is going to have to buy larger clothes before you sail.

There are a few questions about the work to be done on the ship and some concern that there isn't a skilled carpenter among the crew. Converting part of the hold to Marine baracks is going to require some skill and planning. They address colors to be used and division of labor. Third officer Lo'dasse Imparell reports that the hull is pretty clean and should only require a couple of days to make it spotless.

The officers are initially in favor of a raid on the Sahaugin, especially since someone else will be doing the work. They think that giving the raiders a share of the spoils is best since they will likely take things either way and it minimizes losses if there is little recovered. Nac'Losin speaks up bringing the group discussion to a halt. "What is the motivation for attacking the non-combatants of these people. Merely profit? It is an honorable thing to fight warriors, but quite another to slay women and children even those of a race such as this. Can you justify such an act in your heart? I'm not saying that recovering the goods taken by these raiders is wrong, but would only council that you consider who will be hurt and weigh that against the benefits to be gained before you act."

 

[J. Alexander]

Dinner

Michael will inform them of his intent to use a cherry stain marin varnish to give the ship that rich reddish brown look with an interior stain of say light oak varnish to keep things airy and help keep it light to the eye instead of dark and gloomy. They will discuss the division of labor and Michael will leave it to the first officer to assing messes but i do prefer 6 men to a mess with one petty officer to assit , but will leave the assignemnt up to the officers. Michael will tell them in the back of his mind he has an idea of 2 10 hour watches with the say from 7 to 5pm and from 9 pm to 7am. This will leave afour hour strecht from 5 to 9 in which most people will be eating supper and awake on deck, thus allowing for no decrease in ship performance and security, but he is open to other suggestions.

As the Priestess turns our attention to her with her insight, Michael will be literially struck dumb. Looking at her he will say "I had not thought of that Madame, Greed and the need for additional reveue blinded me to that consideration" "We know not how many innocnets there are involved and in such a raid as I had planned many would have surely persih."

Motioning for the new cabin boy to refill our wine glassess, Michael will contiue. "The lady is right, we can not justify this other than by greed therfore unless we can come up with an alternative, then the raid is off and we shall just make plans to pick up my friend Ambar of Kotu in Mermaids Rest before we sail Northward. I would appreciate it if you gentleme who are faimialr with the area would work on updating the Retributions Charts with infomration you have gathered in your sailing, and if necessary purchase new ones that have the space necessary for your notations. Also, I would ask that you take a thorough look at our potientail ports of call as we head North and make notation on our sailing charts about those also as well as typical products we could buy there and what may be in demand there so we can make it a very profitable venture for all.

Next we are in sore need of a ship's carpenter as well as a supply of decent lumber to refit our hold, so if you know of one or even a master carpenter who would be willing to do it as a one time job thenplease let me know.

Finally, I wish to invite Priestess Nac'Losin to join our crew and stand ready to negiotate her contract if she is so willing and if the officers present agree.