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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6869976" data-attributes="member: 20323">Blackbeard levels a brooding gaze at Katerina, his eye twitching slightly when she mentions the word 'disgrace.' A smug smile creeps along the old pirate's craggy face. He turns motioning to your party to take a seat, but then glances back at Katerina trying to size her up. His steely gaze and bearish frame feed right into the stories that have spread through Nassau of the man. However, his beard doesn't smoke like a demon and his home seems more welcoming than fearsome. "You know the stories about The Coral Curse and still you're undaunted? I'll give it to you, girl, you have your father's spirit. Most men hear talk of djab (dark spirits) and they run the other way." Pulling a bottle of rum off the shelf, Blackbeard uncorks it and begins filling seven clay cups. "They say you can tell the measure of a man by what he runs toward as much as by what he runs away from..."As he speaks, Blackbeard catches Blaise's eyes trailing over the room. Only when Blaise's gaze turns to the parlor-style stairs or a narrow door leading to what might be a library, does Blackbeard squint his eyes suspiciously. Whatever lies on the second floor or behind the library door, Blackbeard clearly doesn't want prying eyes looking there.Raising his cup, the old pirate offers a toast, "To what we run toward." Downing the rum, and wiping his beard, Blackbeard takes a seat in an old leather chair. "I would consider chartering The Coral Curse to you, not because of your father's name, but because I like your spirit. I'll give you a choice. You can play me for it..." he gestures to the silver and bone dice poker set on the table."Or we can negotiate like...civilized men. There are two things I want..."The first... Captain Piet Hien Van Djik has a secret he's kept from me from during his captaincy of The Coral Curse, and whatever it is, I need to learn it before Piet Hien dies to his illness. Some lingering malady from the yellow fever, they say."The second... there's a treasure L'Ollonais is said to have buried somewhere on New Providence Island, and I want it found before The Seawolf comes hunting for it. Deliver me either of these, and then I'll consider chartering the ship to you." He speaks in a gravely voice, confident he has the upper hand in the negotiations."And of course, you'll need to exorcise whatever evil haunts the ship." He refills his cup with rum, glancing at Nia Steeleyes meaningfully.[GM]To remind everyone of some details, and to make the info easy for newcomers to find... These are details some members of your party knows... I'm assuming you're sharing information "off camera" to speed things up...Captain Piet Hien Van Djik is a famous Dutch dwarven pirate, the former captain of The Coral Curse. During a maritime conflict with French captain Jacques Cassard, a slave ship was caught in the crossfire and somehow The Coral Curse ended up afflicted with yellow fever. Most of the crew perished horribly, and only a few survivors (including Captain Piet Hien) remain, scarred by their experience.Francois L'Ollonais was a notoriously barbaric pirate who men claim sold his soul. Though common knowledge is that he's long since dead, killed by Caribbean tribespeople, the party discovered he is alive and captains a ship of seawolves known creatively as The Seawolf.[/GM]</blockquote>

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