RECRUITMENT: YARR!, High seas adventure seeking crew Options

[RangerJoe]

Avast ye scurvy dogs!

I’m looking to run a smuggling campaign, but not the customary 2060s T-bird jamming type. I’m looking for a crew for the F.S. (Free Ship) Albacore, a sea-going catamaran captained by the dashing and daring Captain Slosh. This will be more of a peanuts and beer kind of game, which will require consistent, but less paranoid posting.

The Set-Up: Captain Slosh is looking for a crew. His last crew… well, never mind. He’s a Neo-anarchist, though, so don’t worry about him pulling rank. Everyone’s in the same boat…as it were. The vessel itself is a sailing cat, screened from prying eyes by magic and technology, and defended by a big gun. The Albacore has limited smuggling compartments, so you’re looking for high-profit/small-volume items which need to be slipped ashore quietly.

My hope is that this adventure will combine excitement on the high seas, exotic ports of call, funny-talkin’ cyberpirates, and critters with inordinately large tentacles. Sound like a good time? I think so.

The Crew: I’m looking for about 3 players to join Slosh (NPC), as the Albacore has only four berths (and two of them are really smuggling compartments, so the beds ain’t too comfy). There won’t be too much need for a decker on the high seas, but if you can make a good case for it, and can bring a sat-link along, I’ll consider the offer seriously. Surprisingly, riggers might be right out. The Albacore’s only electronics are a radio and a NavDat GPS unit. The goal is to be subtle in that grand age of piracy kind of way. That being said, sailing or nautical skills would be a plus, as would the ability to be handy in a fight (just in case…and there is a ring mounted MMG on the prow…) Magic is encouraged, as a quick assensing will point out that Slosh is a Sea King shaman himself. A hermetic might turn our little Show Boat into an episode of the Odd Coven, which could be fun. A negotiator might be good to have on hand, given that smuggling and money making will be going on, as well as a smart-talking ship’s surgeon (no, there’s no room for a Valkyrie module, so it’s just going to be you and your medkit). An interpreter would be…original.

Bottom line on Crew: I’m looking for a crew that’s scurvy, but not ill, and salty, but not completely whacked. Savvy?

Details: Sum-to-10, Priority, or 123-build points. Starting avail 8 or less. Don’t look to make a grand high initiate or somesuch—think Pirates of Dark Water if you need inspiration. Raygun’s firearms are cool, but consider adding floatation devices to anything you don’t want to risk losing to David Jones. SURGEd gills, webbed fingers toes, whatever are okay—the more colorful the crew the better. Please no shapeshifters, though, as eating the rest of the crew would end the game. Books: BBB, SR Comp, MitS, CC, SOTA63, R3 (if you have a really really really good idea), M&M, VR2, anything else, just ask.

Everyone gets the free language skill Tongue of the Sea/Talk like a pirate: 2/4, which is to say, you can sound threatening in the argot of the waters, but you may have problems communicating if you don’t speak the local lingo.

I’d like to see character thumbnails as soon as possible, say, by Thursday at 1700 EST, with full characters by Monday 8/2 at 0900 EST. Full characters sooner will give me a better idea about your character’s seaworthiness, and might give a better shot at being on the boat. Like I said, there’s only 3 berths, so we’ll keep this game small, fast, and fun.

Yarr?