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A Pirate's Life For Me (OOC) (CLOSED)

Postby WaRtArIa » Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:02 pm

You are a pirate.

Yes, you. You’re a bloody damn pirate, with roguish charm and dashing looks included.

You were sailing with your crew in the small, swift, and sleek ship that is the Black Diamond. Like any other proper pirate, you and your crew were in search of loot and adventure. A criminal, you miraculously escaped being caught and killed by the Navy of the British Empire, but your luck won’t last for long. In fact, they’re already on your tail, and they’re tracking you down at this very moment.

After a storm, your ship crashed on a deserted island, one surrounded with mystery, adventure, and the infinitely-stretching seas.

You’re not sure how to put it, but something is wrong here. You don’t know it yet, but there are ghosts, witches, lost treasure, and a bloody past in this island. They're hidden. The blanks filled in by the imagination make them even more horrifying than the monsters already are.

Even worse, on the other side of the island, other pirates like to dock there to resupply their resources. Other pirates are bad news indeed.

Despite the inevitable horrors and bloodshed that are soon to come, you are unable to worry about that now. You just don’t have the time. At the moment, you need to worry about food, drink, shelter, and the prospect of living in general. The Navy’s at your tail, and you really want to get off this island. This tiny raft won’t do at all.

Well, I wish you jolly good luck, matey
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In case you don’t know the exact meanings and terms for the pirate ranks, here you go. This pirate ship is a bit different, so the definitions here may not be exactly the same. You’ll be using these in your application.

When electing a Captain, the crew looked for someone who was capable of commanding and navigating a ship. Also, it was crucial that captain has courage and skill in both, sword and pistol fighting. Captain had absolute control only in a battle. In everyday life, Captains did not have much more rights than any other crewmember. Although he may order punishment for other crewmates, only the quartermaster may administer it. On this pirate ship, almost everything is democratic. Even sail courses were determined by voting.

After Captain, the most authority on a pirate ship had Quartermaster. As a Captain's right hand, he was in charge when Captain was not around. He had the authority, and he could punish men for not obeying commands. The Quartermaster was also in charge of food and water supplies. He also distributed the treasure, but only with the crew’s supervision.

Sailing Masters were officers in charge of navigation and piloting. It was a very hard job because charts in those days were usually inaccurate or nonexistent.

Gunners operated on the artillery. They watched for the safety of their man and usually aimed the cannons themselves. It was difficult to be a Gunner on a pirate ship/ because pirates rarely wanted to destroy other ships but rather to disable them. Coordination with other gunners was required. The most experienced gunner was elected as a Master Gunner, and he commanded the Gunners.

The Powder Monkeys are young men who assisted gun crews. They must perform the most dangerous work on a ship. The SIX cannons on the Black Diamond can easily misfire, and it’s pretty hard to clean them artillery.

Boatswains were junior officers. They were people who supervised all activities on a ship. Depending on the size of the ship and crew, they could have one or several duties. Duties ranged from anchoring to naval provisions. They reported to the Quartermaster or the Captain.

A ship's carpenter was the man who kept the ship afloat. He made necessary repairs, filled holes if need be, and so on.

Most pirate crews, like us, don’t have a surgeon. On our ship, the surgeon typically refers to a person with a few medical skills. In cases of amputation, the carpenter would usually take his place. He was the first choice because he had necessary tools and knowledge in “cutting”. In rare cases, the cook would take the place of a surgeon.

Pirate ships did not have professional cooks. Usually, the cook was an ordinary crewmember like a Carpenter or a Surgeon.

These are the supernatural creatures that are playable. Almost all non-player supernatural creatures will be hostile.

Ghosts are transparent and generally creepy creatures that haunt the mortal realm, due to them being unable to reach the afterlife. They don't belong here, and thus grow more bitter and longing everyday. They are intangible, transparent, hovering, and usually vengeful or angry. Ghosts also have the ability to turn invisible and possess small non-sentient objects. Despite this, they can't directly touch anything, and can be banished. They abhor prayers, charms, and other holy things.

Most witches are nymphs that make deals with demons for the ability to use magic. If they don't consume the body material of humanoids, their bad look will automatically start piling up, they will look old and ugly, and they will have a high chance of dying. They are generally hated and thus hate in return. Most have an aversion to holy objects due to their dealings with demons. The majority of people in the world hate them and would probably burn them at the stake. To make things a bit better, they have semi-eternal youth, they are beautiful spirits of the ocean/river/forest, they can brew potions, and they can cast spells. Most spells are minor, like small fireballs, a so-called love enchantment (it's more like obsession), and five-minute invisibility. Obviously, they can be slain, or else they wouldn't be here.



OP: I, Wartaria (also known as War), am the benevolent leader of ye all.
Co-OP: That guy, Brusia.

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RULES:

  • The OP and the Co-OPS are gods. Unimpressive gods, but GODS, mind you, you puny mortals!
  • No flaming or excessive rudeness to each other. If your character has a problem, go sort it out with the Quartermaster or the captain.
  • If your character is inactive for more three two days, and is hindering another person’s posts, your character will become a useless bum and thus we’ll brutally kill you.
  • Keep it PG-13, guys. Don’t overdo it with the sexy stuff. Just FADE to black, or something. Violence is fine, because we’re fucking pirates, for God’s sake. [insert punblocker]
  • No godmodding.
  • Use proper English. Each post will have at least FIVE lines.
  • The first post you make will about you doing your jobs on the ship or whatever. The second post will be about the crash. You can combine them if you like.
  • Have fun or else you’ll make me cry.
  • Until we have one of every pirate rank (minus cook and powder monkey), we're not likely to start up anything.


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Postby Zhaas123 » Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:20 pm

Name: Emmitt Wilcox
Age: 38
Gender and Sexuality: Male, Homosexual

Appearance:
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Ranking: Surgeon

Personality: Quick tempered man, likes to joke to men going under the knife, A bit of a coward.

Biography:
Emmitt Wilcox was born to a middle class family in london, going to school till the age of 12. At the age of 12 his father died and instead of staying he joined a ship that made trips to and from the Caribbean. over the next 21 years either abound the ship or waiting for the ship to sail, Emmitt would eventually train under the ships Surgeon to be his helper. This would continue till the Black Diamond attacked the ship he was on. With the Doctor killed and finding him to be the man onboard the ship with the most medical experience, gave the man an offer that he truly could not refuse. It all turned out fine onboard the ship, he made more money than on his previous ship, was allowed to drink more often, and was too important to risk in direct combat. All fine by him.


Likes: Drinking, Card games, Singing, Reading.
Dislikes: Being cheated, Drunks refusing to listening to him during fixing, Being told to stop singing.

Number of Cannons on the Black Diamond: Six

DO NOT DELETE: #69
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Postby WaRtArIa » Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:21 pm

Accepted.
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Postby Zhaas123 » Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:29 pm

Added the bio

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Postby FORMER HATOOTELAND » Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:08 am

Appearance:
Imagesorry if the pic ain't from the navy but the army, I hope you understand though.


Ranking:Gunner

Personality: Very posh, strict and intelligent but he can be picky.

Biography: An ex royal navy soldier, he was taken as prisoner by a pirate crew and they found out about his precision out of being a gunner and they mercifully set him free but if he were to go off the pirate side Hatooteh would get a bullet to his head. Hatooteh hopes for more treasure and plunder than he can imagine! As he was from he royal navy he had a slight charm to him and because he was from a rich family he likes to offer proper English language lessons in the lower deck. He is not the only gunner but he is sure good at his job!

Likes: cannons, friends, ships, eating, food, plunder and gold and seeing ships crumble to pieces from his cannon
Dislikes: Jams, running out of ammo, death of comrades, scrubbing decks and being raided by enemies

Number of Cannons on the Black Diamond: 6

DO NOT DELETE:  #69
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THE FOLLOWING POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Name:
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Number of Cannons on the Black Diamond:

DO NOT DELETE: #69
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Better version.

Really, pretty much any song by Alestorm would be appropriate. Not surprising, considering they're a Scottish pirate metal band, but still. :p
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Postby Nuridia » Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:06 am

Name: Pearl Esther Heart, called the Black Pearl
Age: 27
Gender and Sexuality: Female, Heterosexual

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Ranking: Sailing Master

Personality: She's a serious and no nonsense woman who is very intelligent and takes her job seriously. However that doesn't mean that she can't fight, she can defend herself just as well as the other men and does like to have fun and drink with the boys on occassion.

Biography: Born in Nassau to Esther Heart, a free black woman, and a pirate father of unknown name or crew, Pearl was the second child of her mother who was a barmaid working in one of the many taverns of the pirate run town. She has an older half brother named Zende who is plotting on becoming a captain of his own one day and Pearl hopes to one day join his crew. Despite it being a very rare skill, Esther had learned how to read and write before coming to Nassau and taught it to her children, the already artistic Pearl stopped drawing kittens and started drawing maps. She read all the books that she could get her hands on and hung around the docks, listening to all the pirates talk about their grand adventures and describing the faraway places they had sailed to. She made up her mind young in life that she wanted to be a pirate and served on smaller crews before joining the Black Diamond, who had recruited her because of her rare skill of making and reading maps. She's steered them out of many a storm and although there was that old rumor that women on ships are unlucky, she's quickly proved that she's anything but.
Likes: Pirating, her crew, traveling, plunder, fine clothes, maps, good liquor, books and jewelry
Dislikes: Distractions when she's working, perverts, getting her maps ruined, the crown

Number of Cannons on the Black Diamond:

DO NOT DELETE: #69
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Postby Sindrya » Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:21 am

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Postby Sindrya » Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:37 am

Question(s): Is it okay if I make a Master Gunner character who have the capability to aim the shots using mathematical skills?

Also, what will we do about one of the pirate superstitions that said "having women on board brings bad luck"?
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Sindrya wrote:
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Postby Nuridia » Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:22 am

Sindrya wrote:Question(s): Is it okay if I make a Master Gunner character who have the capability to aim the shots using mathematical skills?

Also, what will we do about one of the pirate superstitions that said "having women on board brings bad luck"?

I mean they had women pirates before, Mary Read and Anne Bonny for starters.
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Postby Sindrya » Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:50 am

Nuridia wrote:
Sindrya wrote:Question(s): Is it okay if I make a Master Gunner character who have the capability to aim the shots using mathematical skills?

Also, what will we do about one of the pirate superstitions that said "having women on board brings bad luck"?

I mean they had women pirates before, Mary Read and Anne Bonny for starters.


Yeah, that pirate superstition seems kind of stupid when you realize there are female pirate captains. But I think there was a logical reasoning behind that, since in a crew where only males are on board, having one woman can make the crew crack. I won't have to explain the reason. But if said woman was also their captain (though at the time if a pirate from another crew knew that an officer or a captain of the crew was a female they'd question it), then the crew won't be able to go after the woman.

In short, unless said woman has a certain reputation for being a part of the crew, the superstition took effect.
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Sindrya wrote:
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Postby WaRtArIa » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:05 pm

Sindrya wrote:Question(s): Is it okay if I make a Master Gunner character who have the capability to aim the shots using mathematical skills?

Also, what will we do about one of the pirate superstitions that said "having women on board brings bad luck"?

Oh, sorry I couldn't respond. I had class today.

Anyways, Nuridia's app is accepted, and yes, the superstition will still be there.

The captain of this ship, who is yet to be apped, does not accept nonsense such as this. He or she judges on usefulness, not stupid superstition. The rest of the crew is a different story.

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Postby Beruka » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:08 pm

Do we have to exclusively be pirate crew, or can we be some of the supernatural stuff?

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Postby WaRtArIa » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:13 pm

Beruka wrote:Do we have to exclusively be pirate crew, or can we be some of the supernatural stuff?

I would prefer if the crew was mainly made human, but there are exceptions. Well, I won't accept demons or unicorns.

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Postby Beruka » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:19 pm

Wartaria wrote:
Beruka wrote:Do we have to exclusively be pirate crew, or can we be some of the supernatural stuff?

I would prefer if the crew was mainly made human, but there are exceptions. Well, I won't accept demons or unicorns.


I was thinking of being one of the ghosts.

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Postby WaRtArIa » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:21 pm

Beruka wrote:
Wartaria wrote:I would prefer if the crew was mainly made human, but there are exceptions. Well, I won't accept demons or unicorns.


I was thinking of being one of the ghosts.

Sure. You can possess most small non-sentient things, you hover above the ground, you look creepy, and you can't directly touch or be touched. Prayers and things like that hurt you.

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Postby Beruka » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:24 pm

Wartaria wrote:
Beruka wrote:
I was thinking of being one of the ghosts.

Sure. You can possess most small non-sentient things, you hover above the ground, you look creepy, and you can't directly touch or be touched. Prayers and things like that hurt you.


We talking scary creepy or cute creepy?

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Postby Sindrya » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:28 pm

Wartaria wrote:
Sindrya wrote:Question(s): Is it okay if I make a Master Gunner character who have the capability to aim the shots using mathematical skills?

Also, what will we do about one of the pirate superstitions that said "having women on board brings bad luck"?

Oh, sorry I couldn't respond. I had class today.

Anyways, Nuridia's app is accepted, and yes, the superstition will still be there.

The captain of this ship, who is yet to be apped, does not accept nonsense such as this. He or she judges on usefulness, not stupid superstition. The rest of the crew is a different story.


Ah. Alright.

By the way it's too damn hard looking for an anime-esque pirate picture that matches my character's ideal appearance so it might be a while before I launch an app.
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Sindrya wrote:
*muffled drums and cymbals in the distance*

Who has to change the light bulbs in 221b?
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Postby Brusia » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:28 pm

Tag. Is the position of Captain or First Mate still available?

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