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Blackreef's Tavern had seen many salts come thru its raucous doors, to plan and scheme by candlelight, crude window shades rattling against the warm Caribbean winds. Some said those winds were Agwé's hand, parting the clouds after a storm. Already, in just 24 hours, Katerina and her compatriots Fenris and Nia Steeleyes has seen several promising crew members come and go, but such was the way of pirates and scallywags...
There was the inimitable dwarven cook Hugo Van Haan, who several old salts reported had been press-ganged by an English naval captain who developed a taste for appleflappen...
And the insidious Dr. Hawken Varlok too, who'd been recruited by none other Captain Read Wallace of the Winchelsea, the privateer organizing a rival mission for La Gloriosa...
The strange vodounista known as The Tengu King seemed to have flown away after the scuffle at the house on the hill, and what his disappearance presages only Nia Steeleyes can guess...
Strong-willed gentleman James Barrington secured guns for Captain Katerina's crew from the smuggler Komodo Roy, but irreconcilable differences between him and the captain led to Barrington dropping from the venture. Now, all Fenris needs to do is pick up the demi-culverins from the smuggler's hideout...
Kid, for his part, was nowhere to be found. Though this was nothing unusual for Kid, as he was likely to be found drunk in a pickle barrel come morning...
Now, to make matters more interesting, the French American fur trader Etienne who'd performed admirably acquiring a pearl for the mage-financier du Tourbillon earlier, had found another Frenchman. From the Old Country. True, the war was not yet over and there were those in Nassau who carried prejudices against the French, but the bottom line was that Captain Katerina needed reliable men on her crew. A mere mention of The Seahorse posted outside Blackreef's was enough to jog their memories of the ad regarding goblins...
There was the inimitable dwarven cook Hugo Van Haan, who several old salts reported had been press-ganged by an English naval captain who developed a taste for appleflappen...
And the insidious Dr. Hawken Varlok too, who'd been recruited by none other Captain Read Wallace of the Winchelsea, the privateer organizing a rival mission for La Gloriosa...
The strange vodounista known as The Tengu King seemed to have flown away after the scuffle at the house on the hill, and what his disappearance presages only Nia Steeleyes can guess...
Strong-willed gentleman James Barrington secured guns for Captain Katerina's crew from the smuggler Komodo Roy, but irreconcilable differences between him and the captain led to Barrington dropping from the venture. Now, all Fenris needs to do is pick up the demi-culverins from the smuggler's hideout...
Kid, for his part, was nowhere to be found. Though this was nothing unusual for Kid, as he was likely to be found drunk in a pickle barrel come morning...
Now, to make matters more interesting, the French American fur trader Etienne who'd performed admirably acquiring a pearl for the mage-financier du Tourbillon earlier, had found another Frenchman. From the Old Country. True, the war was not yet over and there were those in Nassau who carried prejudices against the French, but the bottom line was that Captain Katerina needed reliable men on her crew. A mere mention of The Seahorse posted outside Blackreef's was enough to jog their memories of the ad regarding goblins...
The ad on the Seahorse said:
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