The Seas of Blood - The Price of Fame (Chapter One)

[Phoenix]

Ramses smiles as the port official sticks his foot in his mouth. 'This'll be a fun mousy for old Swoops' he thought. And keeping an ear on the conversation below in case there was trouble Ramses scans the rest of the port looking for likely targets and likely trouble.

Rameses:
[sblock]Spot check (DC 17) +19 - Success

Along the docks of Loridunne Rameses notices that there are an unusual number of ships in port. From the highest of buildings fly personal pennents, national flags, and the occassional windsock for decoration. The streets are being decorated by workers and people seem to be building a small village of sorts in the main square near the docks.[/sblock]

 

[Bront]

"Pirate is such a negitive name. I perfer the the term Privateer myself." Swoops says. "And indeed, I must do what I can to keep coin in my crew's pockets. See, the Waverunner met with a bit of misfortune and was unable to bring in her wares, which were due to be sold here. And, seeing a lovely young captain in distress, I offered my honorable services to transport and sell the goods, for a modest fee of course. So, if you must, check the ship, for you'll find the appropriate cargo on board. But please, we have some pressing business in town, and you know how some nobles hate to be inconvienenced so."

OOC: Diplomacy +18, and Bluff +11

 

[Phoenix]

"Pirate is such a negitive name. I perfer the the term Privateer myself." Swoops says. "And indeed, I must do what I can to keep coin in my crew's pockets. See, the Waverunner met with a bit of misfortune and was unable to bring in her wares, which were due to be sold here. And, seeing a lovely young captain in distress, I offered my honorable services to transport and sell the goods, for a modest fee of course. So, if you must, check the ship, for you'll find the appropriate cargo on board. But please, we have some pressing business in town, and you know how some nobles hate to be inconvienenced so."

OOC: Diplomacy +18, and Bluff +11

[sblock]Diplomacy check (DC 17) +25 - Success
Bluff check (DC 29) +30 - Success[/sblock]

Udain looked into the eyes of Swoops, then across at the rest of the crew that sat innocently on the decks like they were butter in his mouth. Shaking his head he lifted his papers and began filling them out.

"Fine," he began. "Just...please don't cause any trouble in town, it...it is the festival of Matrice* tonight and, and the last thing we need is trouble. It will cost you 300 gold pieces to dock in the town tonight, there is barely any room for you."

[sblock]*Matrice is the regional goddess of art, revelry, beauty and craftmanship.[/sblock]

 

[Bront]

"Of course sir. I wouldn't dream of causing you any trouble."

Swoops settles the 300 gold, and escorts the man off the ship. "A pleasure my friend. I know you're doing your job. Keep up the good work."

Once he's off the ship, "Well men, it looks like we may have caught a break. There's a party tonight, and we can perhaps take advantage of that."

 

[Fenris]

Once the longboat is out of earshot, Ramses calls down "That's right captain! The port is full of ships and they're building half a town for the fair! Rich pickin's by the looks o' the pennants"

 

[Hypersmurf]

Once he's off the ship, "Well men, it looks like we may have caught a break. There's a party tonight, and we can perhaps take advantage of that."

"A party? A festival?" Lukda almost squeals with delight. "And for a goddess of beauty? Ooh, I have the just the dress...!"

 

[IcyCool]

"Well men, it looks like we may have caught a break. There's a party tonight, and we can perhaps take advantage of that."

"Aye Cap'n, did ye have sumthin' par-teek-ular in mind, or should we be gettin' to th' minglin'?" Bart scratches his stubbly chin for a moment before he says, "Maybe we should find wot's on those ships 'at are so tightly packed in the 'arbor? I'm bettin' th' dockmaster's got one o' them manifests fer all o' them. We should see if'n we can find ourselfs some good cargo."

His eyes scan the ships in the harbor. Then he squints at Captain Swoops and says, "Well Cap'n, what be yer orders?"

 

[Bront]

"Well, let's make port and see where we can go from there. If we can find some profitable way to unload our cagro, that'd be great. Perhaps we can make a 'trade' with some of the other docked merchants."

 

[Phoenix]

OOC:
[sblock]Could everyone please make a post determining their actions for when they get in the city. It'll make my job a lot easier and we can get this underway. Thanks.[/sblock]

 

[IcyCool]

[sblock]Bart is going to find out what he can about the current or reasonably soon (within 2 days) cargo manifests for the docked ships. Captain Smith will see some use in this. He's going to ask one of the crew to go with him, and see if he can't start a little party near the harbormaster's office. The idea here being that he wants to distract the harbormaster and crowd long enough for Captain Smith to slip in, check over the manifests and see which ships would be worth stealin' from.

I know he's just a monkey, but he's a monkey with a 9 Int, an empathic link to Bart, an ability to speak to Bart, and I'm assuming he can read and write the languages that Bart can. If not, I'll come up with a different plan.

Also, Bart will rack his brains in an attempt to recognize anything notable about the vessels he sees in the harbor. (Bardic Knowledge check).[/sblock]