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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pagan priest" data-source="post: 1178195" data-attributes="member: 7650">First off, sorry, but I've never done play-by-post, wouldn't know where to begin.Second, perhaps I should expand a bit.  Sky Pirates of the South Pacific was inspired by the anime movie Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miazaki.  My son loves that movie and has watched it numerous times.  In it, there are aetherium crystals that allow great flying vessels, stuff like aerodreadnaughts.  The main pirate band flew a sort of combination dirigable/ rotor lift aircraft and used small ornithopter-like vehicles (with rocket assist) to land on other airships.  Between that, and vague memories of a cartoon called (I think) Talespin, I intend to have a party of adventurers in a tramp aero-freighter wandering back and forth from San Diego to Diego Garcia, Aukland to the Aleutions, fighting off sky pirates and thwarting the perfidious Imperial Japanese Aeronavy.  I've been reading Dr. Fu Manchu novels to warm up and for inspiration.At the beginning of the campaign, only the Chinese and the Japanese (thanks to Manchuria) know the secret of growing the aetherium crystals.(Okay, here's the PC aside:  I do not want to in any way imply that there is anything wrong with the Japanese people, government, or culture today.  Unfortunately, in the 20's and 30's, the military was generally controling the country.  Without adequate checks and balances, they ran amuck.  Subversion and invasion of Manchuria, the Rape of Nanking, smuggling opium, heroin and morphine as well as regular goods into China to destroy the economy.  The Japanese Army and Navy make villains as good or better than the Nazis.)</blockquote>

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