Pirate Persona creation/ equipment: Part 2 San Zanita game

[Obadiah Jib]

Starting Equipment

Every pirate starts the story with a set of clothes, a bandana of cotton fabric, a hat of some type, a pair of shoes, a small folding boat knife (that can be used as a weapon) and a purse with 4 silver coins (pieces of eight).  In addition to these items choose 3 from the list below.  You can only choose an item once.

A set of fine clothes fit for a lesser noble or wealthy merchant
Dutch made Cutlass
Leather canteen
Compass
Boarding axe balanced for throwing
English Doglock Pistol along with powder and shot for 10 rounds
Heavy single edged fighting knife
4 steel fish hooks and line
Clay pipe and tobacco
Leather bound book of Common Prayer
Lock pick
Onion bottle or rum or whiskey (your choice)
Small piece of cheap jewelry such as a cameo, earring or necklace
Whig of human hair (fashionable!)
Oak cane topped with a bronze orb (can be used as a cudgel)
Parasol of Chinese silk
A hand held musical instrument of your choice (tin whistle, mandolin, drum, etc.)
Tradesman tools in a small wooden travel case (items like chisels, saws and hammer for a Carpenter or medicines, salves, and small knives for a Doctor, books of law for a Lawyer).  Be reasonable as it has to be carried by you.  A blacksmith can not have a portable forge but could have a set of files and a hammer.

Next briefly describe your pirate persona/ character.  This allows others to enjoy your posts and get to know your character too!

Lastly let us speak a little bit about "The Pirate Code".  The Code is a measure of how "Pirate" your persona is.  Think of it as a rating of success that you have achieved among your fellow buccaneers.  A rating based upon skill, reputation, success, and rumor.  Things that can increase your Code score is respect, support, and defense of the crew.  A focus on the voyage you are currently engaged in can raise your Code.  Bravery, daring, and no mercy for the enemy also increase your Pirate Code. 

Things that can drop your Pirate Code score include cowardice, theft from a fellow pirate, a waste of shipboard resources, and not keeping your arms clean and ready for battle. 

Everyone starts with a Pirate Code of 5.  A successful pirate is anywhere from 5 to 10.  A legendary pirate is 15+!  Henry Morgan had a Code score of 25 when he died and he didn't consider himself a pirate!  You can gain a negative score to you Pirate Code score.  Keep to the Code mates!

EXAMPLE:

My Captain, Wycked Jack Bastard!  Also known as Redbeard, Captain Barbarossa, and Seamus the shameless.  Come meet him at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival!

Wycked Jack chooses to take a Doglock pistol (his weapon of preference), Oak cane (he has a bad back), and a set of set of fine clothes (to meet his patrons in so he doesn't come off so scruffy).  His score in "The Pirate Code" is 5.

To describe Wycked Jack is to mention three of his most prominent features.  First he is a tall man, standing at six foot and four inches.  Next he is a man of great girth, built like a barrel.  Lastly he has a red beard, part of his Scottish heritage.  Jack was born of Irish mother and Scottish father.  He took to the sea as young man and never looked back.  He is very sarcastic and that is why is he is known as "Wycked" Jack Bastard.  Honestly he would rather be a famous vocalist than sail the seven seas but for now he enjoys a life of crime.

Now let's see what you have created to describe yourself!

next week the adventure begins!

[Welsh Wench]

Captain Wench chooses--

A Dutch cutlass--even though it is Dutch.

A compass.

Tradesman's tool chest as long as it has nice handles and can contain a place for an extra boot heel or two. They break so easily.

To describe Captain Wench--she is the former reluctant captain of the Knight Hammer until her former lover Captain Cade Jennings borrowed it without permission.
She is Welsh through and through but keeps her name secret because of an 'unfortunate incident'.

She is 5'2", long blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Slender except for an amply filled bodice. She has a penchant for big hats with lots of feathers and boots with stiletto heels.
She is prone to smart-arse comments but quick to laugh and love.

[Charlotte Rowan]

Charlotte Rowan chooses a Dutch made Cutlass, leather canteen and wooden flute. She is the daughter of an English noblewoman and a French pirate. When she was 16, she ran away from her mother and stepfather's manor to join her father on the high seas. Her gentle manner and bookish pursuits gave the crew pause at first, but she soon proved that when it came time for battle or pillaging, she could hold her own. She is tall and slim with long dark hair and brown eyes.

[Gibbet Jones]

Dutch made Cutlass.

Leather Canteen.

Four steel fish hooks and line.

No one really knows the real first name of Gibbet Jones. Or in some ports known as Crow Cage Jones or Cousin Crow Cage.  The mongrel bastard son of Scottish father and a native mother. 6' tall, Black hair, dark brown eyes, fit with broad shoulders and skin tan from the Caribbean sun. Gibbet was a cantankerous young lad with a strong distaste for authority. Such actions would eventually land him in some pretty hot water and soon acquainted him with the dredges of society and a life piracy.

[Lady Amy of York]

 Being of part Dutch descent , Captain  Amy   chose the Dutch cutlass.
Captain Amy   also always  travel with   her handy  compass.
Captain Amy   also  carries  an English Doglock pistol along with enough powder and  shot  for  10 rounds.

Captain Amy   is of  Irish/Dutch/English descent.   She was born into a noble family  .  Her father owned a fleet of Merchant ships, and often as a young girl she  would  tag along with her father  when he  went  to check on  his  ships.   It was on one of  those visits  that  she  caught  the eye of a handsome  young male  pirate captain,   who intrigued  her  with his  tales of  pirate  adventures.  She soon joined his crew  and  set off on  a life of pirate adventure.
Unfortunately, the young handsome male pirate liked to drink abit two much, and  after loosing  the crew's  share of  the gold one  too many  times,  the crew  decided it was  time  to pick  anew  captain.
The crew  was very  fond  of Amy.  She  had a wonderful personality hard worker, loyal friend, great leadership skills, and was very intelligent,  and knew her way around  a ship.   She  was  soon made Captain of  the  ship.  She has made quite  the name for  herself  as female  pirate captain,   and is well known in  the Spanish ports  for  raiding  several  Spanish treasure  ships.

Looks  wise, Captain Amy is 6 feet tall, slender, with  long legs. Despite  being slender she has  a very ample bosom. She has long  dark auburn  color  hair, hazel eyes, and  is  very fair  skinned.

[Lady Amy of York]

Some great pirate persona's  so far. This looks like it is  going  to be  lots  of  fun . Can't wait  to  get to know  some  of  you better  and  play  the  game  !

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Capt. Jack Wolfe chooses:

• Dutch made Cutlass
• English Doglock pistol along with enough powder and  shot  for  10 rounds
• Lock pick

Jack Wolfe was born near Portsmouth, England, the son of a master shipwright.  When his father died unexpectedly of consumption, he quit his studies at Oxford and signed on to a merchant ship, the Laura Ann, in order to send money back home.  Two years later, the ship was taken as a prize by the notorious pirate William "Iron Will" Harkness.  Harkness saw potential in Jack, and took him on as his apprentice and eventual successor.  Despite his initial reluctance to become a pirate, Jack took to the life and has never looked back.

Jack is average height and build, with hazel eyes and long brown hair.  He has a mercurial temperament, and is known for his use of unconventional tactics to gain and keep the upper hand in virtually any situation.

[Blue66669]

Amunet "Brimstone Blue" Bahiti chooses:

• Boarding Axe
• Leather canteen
• Djembe drum

Amunet was a warrior empress from Luxor, Egypt. She was drugged and kidnapped by a neighboring country, and held captive aboard their pirate ships. As the months wore on, she wound up falling in love with her captor, notorious pirate Erik the Green. She took to a life of piracy and adventure, sailing to places that are practically unknown to the English pirates of the time. She has made extensive strides to get to know and understand the world around her, but is quick to set someone on fire when it becomes necessary. She is especially interested in the dress and customs of other cultures. She fancies herself a polished and persuasive diplomat when needed.

Physically, she is very tanned, stands about 5'5", and is always dressed in different cultural fashions. Her features are very exotic, and always set off by an extreme hairstyle and dark khol eyes. She has a long fuse, but when it's lit, look out.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Redbird Annie Cardinal chooses a parasol, and two things not on the list.  Birdseed and a parrot, as her title onboard The Ocean Motion is Keeper of the Parrot.

She was born a noble's daughter at Pennyhill Park, a manor in Bagshot, Surrey, England.  Her father was an Earl, and her mother was a beautiful woman who had 3 children, the Lady Anne being the oldest. Another nobleman wanted her mother, who of course, rejected him, as she was happily married to the Earl.  The nobleman caught the ear of the Queen and spread false reports of the Earl being involved in treason.  The Queen believed this, had the Earl beheaded, and granted Pennyhill Park to the nobleman.

This nobleman tried to get Lady Anne's mother to marry him, but she refused.  As a widow, the family was then kicked out of their estate and made their way to London.  The mother began taking in sewing, and Lady Anne was the delivery girl.  Her routes sometimes took her past the river, where she was enthralled by the ships.  One day, she met a cabin boy as she was delivering the sewing.  He told her how much he earned onboard the ship, three times what she made.

So she decided to disguise herself as a boy and went to sea as a cabin boy and sent all of her wages back home to her family.  Unbelievingly, she worked onboard for three years without her disguise ever being discovered.  And by the time she was discovered, she was an accepted part of the crew, so it wasn't a big deal. 

However, her duties were changed by the captain.  He no longer wanted her to fight, so he put her in charge of the parrot, and that's how she became the Keeper of the Parrot.

[Capt Spleen]

CaptDungeonSpleen is proficient at steel and fisticuffs.

His prize item is a Toledo Spanish smithed steel Rapier (instead of a cutlass)
asssiting this prize is a heavy  single edged fighting knife.
and a lock pick.

Capt Spleen is an orphan of nobles obtained in a castle coup attack stolen by the Danish Skeens Clan as his mother was in birthing in the castle dungeon hiding from the marauders. His twin brother was born and whisked away before Dungeon could escape along with his brother.

He was called the "dungeon dink" for his small size growing up.
He couldn't say the word Skeen, but instead it sounded like "spleen" and was made fun of..... (He fought alot with the other kids and sharpened his fighting dexterity because of this) thus he was named Dungeon Spleen.....

He is of slight wiry build, 5' 9" and scruffy, w/one bright blue eye and the other a dark gray. Long blonde hair and ruddy face.

He was relieved of his ship the C.O.D. (Crude Organ Donor) as it was recently sunk by the last capt of the Knight Hammer - Capt Wench!

He searches for his brother to this day as well as the capt BIT....er, the last capt of the knight hammer..... Ersponzible fer sinking 'is prize vezzel.
 

[Welsh Wench]

HOLY CRAP!!!




Umm...it wasn't me! It was upright when I got there.

[Capt Spleen]

Lez juz zay....... parkin a vezzel (Navagazunal skillz) would NOT be wun a yur master OR exzepzunal tributes!

[Obadiah Jib]

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