Pirates are filthy and I do not want to fuck them.

ITT: Pirate Scum.

Gharrr, hand over yer booty.

>>9832252
you'll never catch me!

>>9832267
I swer to ye, sir, we aint got no booty in 'or ship
nought but salty pirates and saltier food!

BLACK BART

>>9832282

Well then!

Let's go find some!

>>9832295
adventure!

fuck, we need a /tg/ pirate rpg

>>9832320
"scan plz? request edition" This type?

I have no idea

>>9832320

Run Eberron?

'cause after all, what better pirates than SKY PIRATES?

...That reminds me. I always wanted to do a campaign in the Crimson Skies world, using Crimson Skies itself for any air conflicts...

>>9832355
I want a world fucking overrun with piracy
sea pirates, sky pirates, short space pirates (just within the solar system), deep sea pirates
fucking all the kinds of pirates you can think of

>>9832382
That would be a world without global warming.

>>9832382

Piratepunk!

The world runs on thieving!

Don't ask questions, it just does!

>>9832355
what is this, no picture?

I played a goblin pirate in Fantasy Craft. Shit was pretty cash.

>>9832398
fuck yes!
there would some flimsy corrupt government, but really every young boy and their grandma went out pirating one time or another.

>>9832402

Sometimes, my posts require no emotional context.

>>9832267
a booty pirate, eh.

>>9832434

Quite.

(FUCK, I HAVE NO DATASS.JPG PHOTO!

...added to the list.)

>>9832426
what would it be called?
"fucking pirates"

>>9832451
fucking. pirates.

I can see a world overrun with pirates
really, it'd just be earth during the golden age of piracy

http://s1.directupload.net/images/100515/umoyza5m.pdf
http://s3.directupload.net/images/100515/8y5idv5x.pdf

http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/CUT/index.asp
http://www.artizandesigns.com/list.php?man=1&page=1
http://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/index.php?cPath=27&osCsid=bc10c2ad19f3c5e3a10c1768124388b
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http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/list.php?cat=3&sub=7&page=1

Have fun, or get Legends of the High Seas instead.

>>9832493
awesome
/tg/ could never make anything good anyway

DAMN IT GUYS
THIS IS A PIRATE THREAD
FUCKING PIRATES, MAN
WHO'S THIS FUCK?
>>9832282

>>9832451
>>9832426

A world of mostly pirates, so many pirates of various varieties that their principal prey is... other pirates?

Let's see, how can we make this make sense...

...How about, it's a world where someone killed Death, and now no one can truly die? Maybe they reappear at their place of birth, maybe they just get back up, maybe they're all classical undead, who knows.

With death out of the picture, continual violence, sneakiness, and thievery as the primary means of competition makes sense, as the negative consequences can never be too dire, and a planet of pirates won't just kill itself off... just have a rollicking good time, forever.

The old, the stupid, and the solitary produce what little a deathless (nigh foodless?) society needs, and everyone else engages in the grand game to decide who's worthy of it... Much as we do currently with the majority of the population being white-collar or otherwise producing no tangibles from their work. Except, with swords and bad accents.

Or maybe I should just stick with "It runs on piracy! Don't ask questions!"

>>9832539
La Buse, sir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur
a pyrate rou'et out 'eh the books, if I says so meh'self

>>9832539
Somebody you are clearly gay for.

>>9832545
I think it should be implants and fucking medical advances that let people live nearly indefinitely. if they aren't killed. so pirates and shit. and there are "outpost lands" or neutral zones, which are run by a strict government. everything else is trashed and lawless

>>9832560
CLEARLY
READ THE ARTICLE ON THAT MOTHER FUCKER
BIGGEST HAUL IN PIRATE HISTORY, GOD DAMN

>>9832588

...so...

...now it's cyber-pirates?

>>9832588
>>9832545
I want to see death come out with a pirate fleet
that would be so bad ass
sunken ships full of soggy sailors
and when they kill a pirate, he becomes one of the dead

>>9832617
Y HELO THAR!

>>9832605
probably. but maybe there would be nations that are centuries behind, tucked away and not bothered because they don't have anything valuable. so the big nations trade and shit, so they have to pass through lawless areas
millennium of industry have rendered low earth atmosphere acrid and deadly, so no plains can fly up there.
or fuck I don't know
I kind of like your idea better

What if the reason for so much pirates is because the world is a vast scattering of mostly little islands and archipelagos, occasionally punctuated by truly empty oceans?

With the world's real-estate so shattered, transport would be everything. Even just getting everything together to make good beer would probably involve several trips by sea from various sources, all things told... yet policing the lifelines of industry would be more difficult than it is on unified land, because, well, ships don't leave much in the way of evidence.

Add in our death-less scenario and suddenly things make sense. You have a situation where the strongest and cleverest dominate an area and, mafia-style, are supported by the landlubbers in exchange for ensuring that shit gets where it needs to go... or put another way, they extort the landlubbers by threatening to make sure nothing goes anywhere (but their own holds).

>>9832672
alright
and maybe, you could burn the pirates to get rid of them?

>>9832672

FUND IT!

>>9832672
yea yea yea
and each island is really unique, one mass produces food, the others need; one is a giant ore refinery/mine, ect.
this way transport is necessary
and fucking legendary islands that arre told to exist, but aren't on any map!

>>9832686

...but then EVERYONE would burn their enemies, to prevent them from coming back to get revenge later, and were back to square one: the population weeds itself of violent individuals down to stable levels, setting becomes normal.

Utterly commonplace barbarism really only makes sense if there's no death, otherwise it eventually gets beat out and subsumed by more organized and production/defense oriented society.

>>9832716
alright, alright
but if everyone is immortal, is kind of takes out one of the incentives of piracy. especially, fantasy pirates who are often drawn in by the promise of immortality. But also the "you just want to do whatever you want while you're still alive" factor. if you don't die, why would you bother becoming a pirate?

>>9832686
>>9832716

UNLESS the reincarnation process / rising from the dead / etc removes all prior memories, so you didn't know who killed you...

...but that sort of erodes the point of the death-less scenario since then you'd have a bunch of memory-less people all having to learn their shit all over again, making it not really so different than just normal death and birth.

...UNLESS it's just your specific memories, not learned skills and so forth, like actual amnesia.

Still, in either case, it would move violence back towards something a society would greatly benefit from discouraging, making commonly accepted and widespread barbarism make less sense again as a sustainable state of events.

>>9832759
>>9832716
>>9832704
fuck, let's just do "it works on piracy, no questions asked"

A world that consists of only pirates can never be. Dastardly acts like piracy always spawn resistance in the form of lawmen and do-gooders.

>>9832767
how about an entire fucking pirate nation
of course
that kind of takes away from the word "pirate

>>9832759

Because who wants to live all eternity as the lowest guy on the totem pole? If you couldn't die, and no one else could either, wouldn't you do nearly ANYTHING you could to live as awesome and hedonistic an eternal life as you could?

Sack, plunder, and reap the rewards your cunning and strength bring you!

>>9832792

Well, of course they do! (Let's just ignore the fact that a death-less world pretty much upsets the entire morality apple-cart... people will still find ways to object to anything)

...And those people make fine opponents/targets!

Plus, I suspect there'd be a number of people that decide to do absolutely nothing with their eternity, and go meditate on their navels, or perfect calligraphy, or something.

Those people make less fun targets, but they can be a good hiding place from time to time.

alright, alright, I got this
two giant warring continents have been at war for thousands of years and suddenly stopped, when each ran out of resources that the other has. pirates have taken advantage of this new trade across the grand ocean
they are separated by a giant sea (the world's flat ,you know) dotted with archipelagos and islands which provide a hive of piracy who attack boats and ships and stuff

>>9832809
well, it's sort of a theme of pirates to be impatient. wouldn't immortality make people a bit more willing to wait?

>>9832828
and ELDRITCH HORRORS SEEPING OUT OF EVERYWHERE

Yaaargh ye slimy silkworms!

Been looting the navy ships, argh, found me some fancy dabloons, aye.

a simple way to have a world based on stealing is pretty simple have a couple of haves and alot more of have nots
if you have a society that produces most of everything and a lot of society's that produce little to nothing/only produces things in abundance you easily create a environment where they only way to get something is to steal it and what better way then to steal it in route a la PIRACY! ARRRGG!

...Wait, wait, I got it.

No one *killed* Death, 'cause that makes no damn sense.

Two-Dagger Torriaeu, the legendary Laugher of Louisport and the Haverland Sacker, *stole* death.

Because the setting runs on fucking thievery, ok?

No one has seen Two-Dagger in a few hundred-years though... or at least, not that they know.

Some say he's holed up on some distant isle, some say he sailed off the edge of the earth, and taking Death with him, and others say he's been moving among the rest o' the seafolk for all these long centuries, keeping his identity secret... and wisely, too, for there's some folk out there who've made up their minds that they aren't too fond of this deathless existence thing, and would happily torture him forever if it could restore the right and proper order of things...

>>9832902
I like it super nation surrounded by micro nations

>>9832860

I suspect not as much as you'd think.

I mean, just because you have all the time in the world doesn't mean wasting it gets any less pleasant... why not pack your days with as much revelry as can be had, especially since it's pretty hard for the consequences to be too dire without mortality hanging over everyone's heads.

>>9832915
win, alright
this happened + super nation exports to micronations = world overrun with piracy

>>9832915

...torture him, that is, to find out where he's gone and hid Death.

>>9832915

I bet death was a babe....that's probably what caused all this.

>>9832924
i was thinking in line of something like 4 super nations(because they want to trade with each other) and 100s of micro nations but yeah that's the jist.

>>9832928
what if only the pirates were immortal?
so everyone wants to be a pirate and become immortal
cause whatshisface struck a deal with death that any man to not sail under the banner of soandso supernation would live forever
but there should be some terrible draw back

>>9832947

>>9832947
yea, he probably stole death and took her for his wife in reality
death, a fury which hell hath no!

>>9832947
I can see that
death actually took him on as a lover though the tale tells otherwise

Two-Dagger Torriaeu,
stole the death away
he picked her up
and carried her far
and now we're here to stay!

>>9833014

So much win!

Thank you anon!

>>9833014
a nice simple pirate's poem
this is starting to look awesome

I think immortality could be a sort of reward
a reward for being as piraty as possible, but a lot more awesome
or have you ever read "a secret atlas" I think it was called
where the better you are at your profession the longer your life is, until you become a master and are immortal
that would be awesome

Right, well.

I don't really have any objections to keeping some traditional continents/supernations around, though really its hard to imagine them sitting still while all the micronations and pirates feed off em instead of conquering and imposing order... And also it'd be tricky, I think, to think up a basic resource for each of them that the others can't have without things either being geographically ridiculous (Trees can't grow ANYWHERE else? REALLY?) or politically implausible (So... they've got all the food. Why don't they rule the world again?).

Anyone care to take a crack at either of these little hurdles?

What about children? Are there new births in this life bereft of death?

>>9833121

Guess that depends.

Do we want this to be a static, eternal font of barbaric action, or a ticking-time-bomb population explosion waiting to happen?

...Ok, third option. Potential for infinite people, yeah? Well, infinite world, then. The earth is flat, and not only that its boundless.

An eternal, infinite fractal of islands, forever.

Of course, no one really knows that, but there does always seem to be plenty of new land to explore. How convenient!

so hows this sounding.

however long ago a hole was torn in the fabric of our world and another plane flooded in, there is now two full worlds, only the other was completly water, as it happened oceans rose and destroyed all but one huge land mass but left plenty of smaller new zealand sized islands, the other plane also made everyone near immortal with the exception of really killing someone untill they're dead, decapitations take a week to heal, broken bones a nights sleep, severed heads? well your fucked...
the central island isn't big enough to hold civilization so instead we turned to pirating, rather than cars there is boats constantly ferrying everything, and scouring the new world...
soon after we got our shit together everyone who went into the new world went missing, after awhile it's revealed that the new plane being entirely underwater wasn't lifeless, whoever was living there had addapted and was invading us from the deeps...
now we have near immortal humans fighting an unknown foe that fights underwater apearing just as we get a grasp on the new world.

as they invaded more and more people took up fighting untill there was no civilization left, rather all of humanity was spent fighting back this unknown foe to contain it, now as we have reduced them to a managable size we have no more need of a unified front, and we flood the new world's newly uncovered land for anchient artifacts of a civilization either extinct or so pre-historic that they were almost like us allowing us to harness the powers.
the central land where most of our sustainabillity comes from has closed it's doors to everyone else, everyone has gone to war, across two worlds, and endless fight where gunshots are useless so gunpowder was never invented, and the steel reigns supreme...
all the while there is still the depths to be wary of.

>>9833118
um, they're religiously bound to their land?
"nought two steps east of the redding straight, nor a toe put west of the Roughlin Tomalt"
but that would make trade hard... perhaps the islands were all part of that "hive" island thing, an unchartable mass of islands where the natives dominate. so, if not war, then trade!
as for trees only grow here! it must be something to do with the climate. the islands are too far north/south to be able to grow crops most months of the year

>>9833163
islands forever
>I'm ok with this.jpg
of course, the maps cannot be finished ever
otherwise, monsters would have no where to hide

>>9833163

WE SAIL THE ENDLESS OCEANS
WE SAIL THE RAGING SEAS
THE QUEST IS NEVER ENDING
IT LEADS US TO DESTINY!

>>9833163

...However, due to the distance and travel times between islands, and the average size of em (small), no matter how many people are born true organized nations can never really form. It just takes too long to get anywhere; most landlubbers have only been to a few neighboring archipelagos.

So, humanity just keeps spreading further and further out, never quite building the massive population centers and agricultural zones needed to support traditional nations, instead being alternately protected, terrorized, and otherwise "ruled" loosely by whoever can make a name for themselves as the fiercest son-of-a-bitch in that scrap of wave.

>>9833171
just throwing it out there to try making some of these questions answerable...

>>9833194
>>9833233

Hmm.

I'm not sure it couldn't work, but it's just not my gut instinct. Feels iffy to me, somehow, like having big nations around in a deathless environment would inevitably lead to them dominating and going all Orwellian for some reason I can't put my finger on.

Or maybe I just like the ISLANDS EVERYWHERE, SEA/AIR TRAVEL ONLY idea too much, I dunno. Keep riffing.

>>9833214

Of course the maps can never be finished! How the hell do you make a *finished* map of an *infinite* place, barring that one book about the guy who finds a book with infinite pages and each one is a slightly-more-zoomed-out view of the infinite and unpopulated world it traps him in... FUCK I wish I could remember the title.

>>9833232
I like this
endless islands make for plenty of surprises
"in the beginning the land was dry and the world whole. Man could walk as far as he could see and knew nothing about the sea. In the beginning there was an emperor. he ruled the land and was a god to men. His cartographer's came to him one day and told him of an idea that had struck them:
'Land stretches forever in every direction,' they told him,' but above us the sky runs blue. what could be below?' they asked him,' sky, they told him.'
this sparked the emperor and he ordered the immediate beginning of mining, it was not long before they reached what was below their earth
'hail emperor, sky runs fluid below our lands!' and so the people saw water. It is said that a king rose from the water and said to the emperor
'why do you dig into my domain, I own the land that stretched in every direction! who are you to be digging it away?'
(cont.)

How about some music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99a6DaheLqs

Aye an ancient blood magic this, Spill ye blood unto the sea an' recite an' the deal twas made. Das how ye become one of de eternal pirates. Tis said Two-Dagger Torriaeu was not only could 'teal treasure but could 'teal a heart as well. An his greatest hist was ol 'lady deaths. It's said he made a deal for es love . An eternal life for all that swear by de code and go through de ritual. While dat may sound good to ye youngin de magic is not without its....drawbacks. When you "die" from the effects of your sailing be it food or sea or sword ye return from your rest as an shadow of ye formal self and ye must feed on da flesh of man, until ye become whole again. - Blackbones, old pirate shaman aboard the Clarice St. Donald's

>>9833338

Hell, that'd make a pretty fitting name, wouldn't you say?

Endless Isles.

...maybe not bloodthirsty enough? Could be fixed with a suitably swarthy-looking logo job. You know, skulls, cutlasses.

Anyway, do go on!

>>9833364
>Pirate zombies
>Pirate blood magic
>Pirate shamans
I fucking like it

>>9833380

Bonus: "endless" refers both to the geography AND the population of the setting.

>>9833354
>Alestorm

BEST
NAME
FOR
A
BAND
EVER

>>9833354

I knew I wasn't the only one listening to Alestorm while browsing this thread!

>>9833317
i just thought it was a way to close the random questions...
removes the problem of everyone being immortal with godlike survivabillity, the depth dwellers replace death and her undead as the threat without taking away from the piratin.
the new world explains how we're suddenly only having one island big enough to be called land.
because we were still adjusting to the new world when we were attacked all the old laws were gone.
and while it's not ENDLESS, it's an entire new world...
throw in the main land refusing to supply for us and you have a reason to go pirating at home instead of just in the new world...
and to be honest whats more awesome, endless traditional battles due to immortality or endless battles where losing your head, being sliced fine enough to be on a sandwich, or being sliced straight down the middle are the only ways to die...
people who loose arms and can't fight are now taken as slaves, people still need food to stay "alive" though it takes months now a week to starve or dehydrate...
and how can you map a world when everyone who trys gets slaughtered by everyone else trying?

>>9833354
>>9833420
>>9833437

I can deal with the punk influences, but...

>crappy keytaur instead of actual fiddle

...ugh.

>They still buy their miniatures!

>>9833338
"'I am the emperor,' he said to the king,' ruler of the land that stretches in every direction. Now the ruler of the land below.'
then the emperor stuck down the king. The emperor would not share his land with anyone. But the world was not one to be governed, so the earth shook and tore itself apart. the land ripped to pieces and rock was strew around and mixed with sky. the sky of below flooded the emperor's land and the world was formed. Islands as far as the eye can see."

..I think the details need work.

What would determine how old someone is? Apparently new people are born.. but what about aging? What determines how old you get?

>>9833911
>>9833338
so in short, one world was all land and ruled by one dude
crazy scientists got the idea that there must be something below their land so they dug down
underneath it turns out that there's another empire down there, filled with water, "sky" as they have never seen water before. this is supposed to represent seeing your reflection in water. emperor attempts to tame the sea and the world tears itself apart, letting the water seep up and make the island world that there is now.
how is that for a piratey creation story?

>>9833953
Pretty damn weird!

But weird makes for good creation myth. Creation myth shouldn't ever make a lick of sense.

But seriously. The details of immortality need work. I think an entire existence of people with immortality isn't going to work.

>>9833923
well, i don't think anything is set in stone yet
we may not even have immortality, just labyrinthine islands where no nation can truly exist, full of pirates who seek eldritch horrors and forgotten treasures
we need this story so we can scatter treasures around islands and make ruins and shit

>>9834014
that's not really... piracy, though
that's just adventure

>>9834141
hmmm
I don't know
maybe there are many many small nations that attempt to trade with each other

this is all fine and dandy in theory, but no one's gonna do it!

>>9834250
i'm happy to write up the story for whatever we decide on as long as it doesnt have any xbawks huge holes in it

How about... SUBTERRANEAN PIRATES?

>>9834003
or something more love oriented, if you want
when he looked down he saw a beautiful queen
and when he reached down to her, she disappeared
he ordered his men to keep digging up the land until he saw her again. so, they dug. thousands of years and they continue to dig, far past any known map's eye and they continue to look for the emperor's queen."
so in this one, the emperor's men actually dig out all the land between the islands, making them infinite, like the land. again, a more love oriented story

>>9834409
I don't know about this
I still like Two-Dagger Torriaeu (how do you pronounce that, by the way?)

Two-Dagger Torriaeu
stole the death away
bound her to his ship
and made a deal with her

'we pirates will rule' said he
'we men of ship and sea
see that we shall never fall
and I will let ye be!'

and so death saw
that a pirate true
should never die
but never live true

I feel like this thread has died now that golden neck beard has left :(

>>9834690
it has
where does he live anyways?
it's 4am over here in ausfalia and i just started cookin lunch...

>>9834690
well, now that this thread is dead
let's start TALKING ABOUT GOD DAMN PIRATES AGAIN
FUCKING GLOBAL WARMING, MAN

>>9834812
oh
my
god

IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

god damn it guys
with your fucking punk music
anything that's not a fucking sea shanty is not pirate music, no matter what label you put on it
and you scared away the only good contributor to this thread :(

>>9834812
PIRATES HAVE BEEN FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING

THEY'RE ACTUALLY HEROES!

not /tg/ related

>>>/new/

>>9834812

>>9834957
go away

>>9834939
that's because global warming is actually caused by a horrific monstrosity which heats up the world
now there are no pirates to combat this otherworldly creature. As we have seen in the movies, pirates are like the ghost busters of the eldritch horror department

<-- Awesome pirate game

>>9835015
Someone needs to make the movie

Pirates versus Cthulhu

>>9835027
is it really?
I seem to remember being told it sucked

SHINIES 'N' TEEFZ!

>>9835043
Its pretty fun if you play on highest difficulty. Lowest is kinda boring cause you can capture almost any ship without losses what so ever.

Gets a bit repetitive in the end...But beating Blackbeard in a swordfight on the burning decks of my ship, taking his ship as a prize and then using it to ransack Havana with a prize of 10.000 pieces of gold...

Thats pirate life for you

PIRATE MUSIC yarharhh
tom waits - singapore
Nick Cave - fire down below

>>9835027
Enjoy the fact that you can kill any man you meet and become the most feared pirate ever.

And you still can't dance.

>>9835154
what?!
I don't want to be a pirate who can't dance.
that's worse then the pirates that don't do anything (another pirate song, look it up)

>>9835154
Diamond necklace and dancing boots: Got meself the beautifull daughter off the English Govenor off Maracaibo

(worked for the english later in the game, gotta think about yer retirement plan)

pirates don't work for anyone.

fucking pirates
I'm stealing that god damn creation story

>>9832545
I like the idea that all the immortal people are pirates because theyre just bored
fuck its what i'd do if i couldnt die

I am so using this. Bravo.

pirate world!
fuck yea

you guys know the commando's prayer?
there should be a pirate prayer, let me get it, we'll go line by line
Give me, my God, what you still have;
give me what no one asks for.
I do not ask for wealth, nor success,
nor even health.

People ask you so often, God, for all that,
that you cannot have any left.
Give me, my God, what you still have.
Give me what people refuse to accept from you.
I want insecurity and disquietude;
I want turmoil and brawl.

And if you should give them to me,
my God, once and for all,
let me be sure to have them always,
for I will not always
have the courage to ask for them.

>>9835922
give me, my god, what you've given no other
give me what they all ask for
I do not ask for wealth or success
but I ask for life beyond measure

How do you know if youre really a pirate?

you just AARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH

>>9835956
People ask you so often, God, for all that,
but you've hoarded it for yourself
Give me, my God, what you keep locked away.
Give me what people would kill for.
I want to escape your infernal clock
I want turmoil and brawl without a wound

>>9836040
I read this as
>I want to escape your infernal cock
we should stop there

>>9836049
I lol'd
ok, we'll stop

I torrented and am watching "captain blood"
will tell you how it is soon

>>9836293
pretty awesome so far

>>9836506
although I have noticed that there are no black people in this movie so far

>>9836571
nevermind
there's a little black boy who walks around with an umbrella

>>9837060
awesome!

>>9837282
Found it on /co/ in a deadpool thread.

>>9833317
>Of course the maps can never be finished! How the hell do you make a *finished* map of an *infinite* place.

run with this:
>>9833163

If it's actually a fractal, someone might eventually create a map of, at least, where land WILL be.

>>9837612
eh
these ideas come and go
I doubt this would go anywhere

>>9836721
>>9836571
>>9836506
>>9836293
holy fuck awesome movie

god damn it, /tg/
why can't you commit to anything?

>>9837935
I'm so confused by this picture

>>9837935

Luffy is not a pirate.

>>9838074
ah, yes
I see

GOD DAMN IT, PIRATE THREAD
LIIIIIIIIVE

fucking pirates
WHAT ARE SOME PIRATE BOOKS?

>>9838613
FUCKING CAPTAIN BLOOD

ALRIGHT, LET'S GET SOME PIRATE MUSIC
YOU GUYS LIKE MUSIC, EH?

bump

>>9838706
FUCKING CAPTAIN BLOOD WAS A MORALFAG CORSAIR, NOT A TRUE PIRATE

AND I IN NO WAY RESENT THE WAY THAT BOOK DEPICTED MY FELLOW SPANIARD COUNTRYMEN

ARRRRRGGGG

>>9839031
HE WAS A TRUE PIRATE FOR A WHILE

>>9833953
I like this creation for an island world
it's very.. well, it sounds like a creation story

>>9839180
not really pirate lore, though
more like civilization lore

>>9839332
and what would pirates be without civilization to rebel against?

i'll just go ahead and bump this

lolpirates

>go to bed
>get up
>Pirate thread still alive

Fuck yeah.

Ok, brace for responses...

>>9839900
woo!
we thought you abandoned :D
good morning, sir

>>9833911

"Whoah. Good myth."

Also makes for a good apocalypse scenario... who knows what might happen if anyone ever conquered all the (inhabited) land AND ocean once again?

>>9839941
why thank you
it could use a bit of refining, though
I'll work on a complete write up that makes sense

>>9839956
or, well
a bit more sense

>>9833923

Personally, I think I'd go with "people age normally, or maybe slower than normal but still at a regular pace. You look exactly as old as you are."

So, people who haven't been "killed" in a very long time look like zombie pirates, because zombie pirates are awesome.

It also means some of the more vain might continually be casually committing suicide to maintain youth.

Now, I know, I know your next question: "Then how old are you when you come back?"

Well, that depends:

1. If there's no birth, I'd say "the age you were when the world went immortal.

2. If there IS birth, I'd say "It defaults to option 1 if you were around at that time, and 'newborn babe' if you weren't... but one of the most common tools in that pirate-bloood-magic arsenal is a simple little rite that can set your starting age to your current age, or re-set it entirely. Most people use 15 or so, because people still find babies that cuss people out to be disturbing."

>>9834190

That would certainly make sense, but I thought the goal here was to figure out how to make a setting of GODDAMN PIRATES FUCKING *EVERYWHERE,* everyone and their grandmother is a pirate or at least gave it a try at some point.

So, while having some nations and more centralized industry certainly makes things easier, it feels like a cop-out to me. Just sayin'.

>>9834250

I might. I do have a bro who is going to want me to run a long-term regular game here in a few months...

>>9834356

Ok, I like that even better. Fits better with the "infinite" theme, as well as the romantic tropes associated with pirates.

"Some say he's still out there, past the Fringe, past nowhere, still digging, still making these Endless Isles..."

>>9834626

"torr-ee-O"

Like Thoreau but even more pretentious and adventuresome sounding.

>>9840178
>>9836040
>>9835956
>>9835922

...Also all you song-and-poetry-writin bros are fucking awesome, just so you know.

>>9839393

...it makes sense from a practical standpoint, though.

Because then you can have players discover ancient ruins under the ocean, and it immediately makes sense where they're from.

I don't think I'd outright state these as existing in the player-material, though. The relative real-ness of myths and prophecies should be up to the individual GM, and therefore true mysteries to the players in every game.

Had mantis shrimp atlanteans in a setting of my own, once.

Similar, but the world wasn't infinite and the sea wasn't mined out, but the land was broken by a leviathan that devoured the gods. Moby Dick was one of the new gods.

Actually, we wanted the sun to slowly move across the sky so an infinite world suits that better.

...OK, so. I've got some more ideas.

1. I dunno about the suggestion of only pirates, or at least, people who've used some crazy voodoo, being immortal. Been mulling that one over, and while I was initially not keen on it it's just too flavorful. Still, since the whole point of the setting is that almost everyone has tried their hand at piracy, that winds up meaning almost everyone is immortal anyway (as befits a place that's been without death for a few hundred years at least), so I guess it'd work out fine.

Plus, it'd make for a fine conflict for coming-of-age stories... No loving parent, even immortal ones, wants their children to die, but most don't want them bearing the same bloody curse they do (need a good downside, don't want this becoming "lol being a vampire makes you DEPRESSED") either.

2. How's this for the protocol after someone's body is reduced to non-function:

"When an immortal is killed, his shadow lives on. How do you catch or kill a shadow? Well, I've met a few witch-doctors who claim to know how, and a few that claim that if you kill a man suspended in the midst of eight torches over a pool of blood, so he HAS no shadow, that he can die a-true, but I'm not to keen on testin' that.

In any case, kid, once your a shadow, there's only one place to go. You can feel the pull in your... well, where your bones should be. Home. Place o' birth. Every minute ye spend not speedin' a-cross the waves toward yer birthplace feels like tryin' to quit the sauce when you've just had one too many.

Anyway, once you find the nearest safe, flat, and dry place, you can grow a new you. Whoever did ya in is gonna know, 'cause at that point yer body burns, if it ain't already, and leaves no ashes.

Now, growin' a new body is even less pleasant than hangin' around as a shadow, but it's like cuttin' off a bad finger, like. If you do it quick enough, it'll all be over before you can have time to discover real agony."

"in the beginning the land was dry and the world was whole.
Man could walk as far as he could see and mountains grew into the sky.
In the beginning there was an emperor. he ruled the land and was a god to men.
His cartographer's came to him one day and told him that they had mapped the world and all that was in it. The emperor was proud of his men and asked them what more could he add to his domain.
'We have mapped all the land in almost every direction,' they told him,' We have seen the edge of the world, and further. But we wonder now, what could be below?' they asked him.
'Sky,' they told him,' Sky. The sun leaves your empire for the night, it must rise in another. The moon and stars walk from one land to another'
The emperor did not wait for another word. He set his men to dig, and so they did.
It was not long before their spades broke through, into the world below. The bright sun shone through the breach from the depths of a surreal world. The world moved as flames rise from a fire. And the good emperor looked down and saw in a flash, a beautiful queen. she looked at him from the rippling world and he reached down to her. And in another flash she was gone. The emperor had never seen a woman so gorgeous, and wished for her to be his. He would not stop until her took her under her control.
'Men,' he said to them,' dig! Dig into this world, make it mine!'
And they dug and he searched for his queen. Some say he's still out there, digging. Past the fringe, on the edge of nothing, carving these endless isles..."

how's this?

>>9840452

...Note that this would make the central areas where people have been living this entire time naturally tend to be overcrowded with reanimating people, leading to an eternal emigration outward, ever outward to the Fringe, even as it moves due to population growth.

This is probably the quickest way for people to pick up new crew... you cruise the Core, fend off or bribe the Sea Barons there, and pick up whatever wretched re-born bastards each island is just dying to get rid of.

>>9840452
as for the rebirth, once returned to your place of birth, would you be the same age?
also, if we're going to go this way, we need nations which forbid the practice.

>>9840877

See:

>>9840049

>>9840877
or perhaps villages undiscovered which have not found the secret

>>9840915
>>9840877

I dunno, I sort of like the idea of pretty much ALL landlubbers hating it (otherwise, why would they be landlubbers?) and trying to instill in their children: "Do not take the Final Oath, boy. Life without end is abomination, a pestilence! Sail not beneath a black flag, and spill no blood for the Sea-Queen!"

...but of course, the lure of adventure AND immortality is almost always too much for even the strongest parent to keep barred... especially since many of them have dark histories and immortality themselves.

As for that downside...

The first thing that jumped out at me was "constant and truly horriffic nightmares, the stuff of pure torment."

But on second thought, I'm not sure the setting should be that grimdark...

>>9840907
I'd say that sounds great, then
though it still sounds a little shaky
there are several pirate verbs that don't seem to fit in our world. "pillage" and "plunder" are two. in such an anarchistic world, what trade ships would be going around or large port towns to be raided?

>>9841026
I'd go with just stealing from a pirate movie
pirates of the caribbean's unquenchable thirst
tantalus torture, you know

>>9841029

No, see, that's the whole point of the world... Such ships are everywhere, by necessity, but can't be organized and protected due to the geography.

Like I mentioned earlier, most of the trade ships are going to be either freelancers barely above pirates themselves, or literally just MOAR PIRATES.

Due to the fact that industry is this web stretched across all these little chunks of land, and goods and things have got to get transported or no one gets fed and we run out of bullets, everyone is interested in almost every cargo... you pillage some bastard trying to take goods back to islands where he can get the landlubbers to use 'em up and give him some of the results in return, and then you do likewise... and hope you fare better than that poor bastard.

Unless, of course, he's got gold. Everyone loves gold!

>>9841064
I like this idea

>>9841064

...Fuck, you're telling me that movie had undead pirates with an unquenchable thirst?

DAMNIT.

I totally just did that in one of my RPG's. Sort of.

No wonder someone brought it up, hinting that I stole from the movie. I thought it was just "lol undead pirates," which is way older than that movie.

>>9841125
I see, I see
so stealing from pirates, eh?
I was going to suggest a sort of fantasy "pirate gathering"
of course, we can still do that, but it would need a bit of buttering up to be fit in

I was lead to believe that there would be fucking pirates in this thread.

>>9841186
Here you go.

>>9841175
the curse was that they were consumed by greed because of stealing the gold and drink was no longer able to quench their thirst, food was no longer able to satisfy their hunger.

>>9841199

>>9841178

Oh, I'm sure there's orders and leagues and neutral ground and all sorts of interaction between the fellas of the wave beyond just constantly stealing from each other and everyone else.

But the essence of the matter is that nothing gets done without going over the waves, and the oceans are in the end one giant bloody deathless struggle where the strong and clever get their riches, their debauchery, and the exhilaration of battle... while the slow and weak get a one-way ticket back to whatever rock they were birthed on... More than likely, now, an overcrowded hovel chocked with other poor wretches of other generations who also couldn't make it out on the waves... or at least, not that time.

>>9841199
That's one strange nutsack.

>>9841242
Meh. With the competition in the field of gay pirate rimming pictures being thin as it is, I'm not overly critical.

Now, is there more?

>>9841237
right, right, this is coming together nicely
-endless islands
-immortality
-every growing population
-pirates
-creation story

this is coming together well
now what?

>>9841292
let's keep this thread on track
seriously

>>9841298
well
first you need a name
it needs to be something piratey
something respectable

>>9841348
um
I dunno
um... something to do with "dead men"
because, you know... immortality

>>9841382
>>9841348
Dead Man's Box

>>9841298

Personally, the priorities I'd choose next would be:

1. Further brainstorming on the downside of immortality, or if we even need one

2. Start nailing down the common philosophies or types of people unique to this world.

For example, heres one I see immediately, name temporary:

Horizon Reachers - People who view the constant flow of the living away from the core and towards the fringe (due to the constant flow of the shadow'd in the other direction, generally) as more than just a natural consequence of deathlessness... or maybe they're just sick of all these people and want to be out there, alone, out of the core, out of the fringe, off the maps. Alone.

You can always tell a Reacher from anyone else. They don't care where they're going, but yet they always sail the same heading... away.

Still, you can't go forever, though that doesn't stop em from trying. Sooner or later, bad weather, local wildlife, or even other Reachers, maybe settled down from centuries ago, panicked that civilization might be finally catching up with them... one way or another, some time they get done in and show up back here, to start their journey all over again.

Sandokan was here. Blackbeard is a faggot.

>>9841348
>>9841382
>>9841410

I still like "Endless Isles," for the subtlety. (see: >>9833403 >>9833380 >>9833338 )

>>9841410
Pirates (something something): A Dead Man's Tale

suddenly, space pirates-

wait, didn't we do this already?

>>9841454
well, you're a bit late to the party today
friday's pirate thread wasn't nearly as exciting

>>9841436
actually, yea
"Endless Isles"
simple, mysterious
let's go with that.

>>9841417

Here's another:

Crusaders.

"Look, kid, I know you've only been sailin' for a year now, so let me break it down fer ya.

Now, as ye know, most landlubbers aren't too keen on the Final Oath. But, well... 'tis bad luck to talk about em, but not all the True Living are content to sit on their scraps of land, doing the real work while the Deathless go about the Grand Game. Sometimes, for any of a thousand reasons, things work out so a spiteful Living fellow gets ahold of a ship and crew.

When that happens, we call em Crusaders, 'for the result is inevitable... for the rest o' their short lives, they go about tryin' to set things back to their precious 'natural order.'

What does that mean? Well, I'll tell you. Eternal imprisonment. They can't kill you, but they certainly can slap you in their hold, and eventually a nice cold jail... careful-like, so you can't do yourself in and go a-shadow.

It's ludicrous, 'tis. Madmen. Even if every True Living got together at once they couldn't imprison all of us. They're nostalgic fools, longing for a 'balance of life' that hasn't existed in centuries, and if you ever meet one of the crazy bastards, gut him and then run fer yer unlife."

So, Endless Isles
"ye think yer a pirate, do yah, saplin'? Arharhar, well I know a thing'r two 'bout pirates 'nd it aint but just a laymn's term, but a wurd 'ny man cn' take. Tuh be a real pirate, yah gotta be a pirate. Yeh gotta give yur heart to the sea, you gotta swer tuh her you'll nevah leave 'er. You gotta know yer ship good, treat' 'er like the fin'est er women. Ye gotta be'uh pirate, a'corse, before you cn be'uh pirate. So wind tuh the sails, laddy... and yu'll be a pirate yet."

>>9841623

I like you a million times more without avatarfagging.

This is not a request to start again; I am quite honestly applauding this improvement.

>>9841744

Heh.

Normally I'd use this an excuse to use lolitrolu.jpg, but this thread is just too cool for me to egg someone even that small bit.

Still not gonna stop, though, in general.

>>9841623
I like it, good
that's a real good opposition to pirates
so how about "Un' in a mill'yon men'll find fortune in 'is scrap'uh land. 'Nd ee'l do anythin' tuh protect it. Now, us pirates 'er quite fond 'uh gold, ye'see, 'nd these men gotta lot o'it. Barons, we calls 'em. Thuh' kind with thu'h currency to keep ther' loot in check. Why, I ever ser' one wall in 'is island, ah! 'eh taut eh was thuh' clever'st uh dogs, eh did. But meh cap'n, ol' Torn-'Ook Tommy, 'eh knew wut tuh do. 'Eh gathered tugether e'ery anchor 'eh could git 'is derty li'l mits on 'nd sailed straight 'nder the wall! Ahaha! Whin we knocked on 'is door *knock knock*, 'eh ne'rly keeled ov'r! Cap'n never t'ld 'im how 'eh did it, neither."

>>9841833
>>9841660
this is a real piratey dialect
I don't care if it's hard to read, keep writing in it!

>>9841833

Cool.

Let's make it Gold Barons, though, 'cause Baron is too fucking awesome a word to be just one thing. I want Sea Barons who've been lording it over the same scrap of Core wave for two hundred years.

>>9841896
alright, gold barons
as for the creation myth, I was thinking
what if the world was once mostly sand, so that "and they dug and dug, through the night and day, until the sand lay only at the bottom of the sea and only the hardest of stone was left standing." just to justify the fact that they left islands there
what do you think? also, I will translate the myth into dialect

Wait if Two-Daggers stole death either by heart, or voodoo of by good old fashioned kidnappin' where is that most infamous of pirate legends, Davy Jones?

>>9841970
he's here with us
honestly, I can't wait to be naming pirates silly and outrageous names, as there are so many pirates
it comes to reason they want a unique name

>>9842003
I choose Mad Bonny Flint, been dead so many times she's become a bit, touched as it were.

>>9842039
there we go
also, a pirate's ship will be the most important thing to them, even if it means strapping their men to the side to soften the blow from cannons. He may be immortal, but the ship is not.

>>9841970

Why, old Davy was the very Last Pirate to Die!

You see, though he had a crew of his own, he was travelin' with Two-Dagger while his own ship was in for some serious rebuilding, when the fateful day came...


...and on that note, I have to shave and clean up for a little debauchery tonight myself.

I'll be back to spin more tales of the Endless Isles before you know it, though!

how about some more pirate names while I try and draw up a graphic for this

>>9842086
The men, ladies? The men are useful for only two things, one is to provide us with merriment, and th'other, well th'other requires them to be tied down, preferably to the masts and sides, something has to keep the ship afloat, I didnae... aquire it from Davy Jones to just have it sink 'nywhere..

>>9842151
Eh I used to have a million of them, but Mad Bonny Flint and Camille "Raven Eye" Blaque are the only ones I remember.

>>9832385
no global warming? we'd be on the verge of a glacial age!!!!

bump
or are we autosaging yet?

>>9842296
>219 posts and 45 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.
not yet, but close.

This is now Warhammer Fantasy related.

>>9842321
don't fool yourself
still working on that graphic

>>9842428
Who said anything about graphics? I was just posting Long Drong's Pirates.

alright, I've got 3 examples so far
here is the first

why do I wish to see this become a reality, another game/setting from /tg/ that interests me.

#2

and a third
not sure how well this came out
just experimenting with GIMP

>>9833923
it's a deathless world, not an eternal youth world, you still age normally, but never die of old age.

Thomas 'The Hatter' Gattler, spend a while in one of them monestaries, learnin' some. An Alchemist who has inhaled too many chemicals for his own sanity, but a captain none dare cross. He doesn't sleep, and only drinks a foul brew of his own concoction. Throws vials of burning dust, and charges through the corrosive smoke, cutlass in hand. His face is covered in scars from burns old and new, but he doesn't feel pain anymore either. He captains the Wyvern, and takes on cabin boys to learn his alchemical arts. However he's found in his chemicals a way to burn you from the inside out, glowing so that there are no shadows within you or without. And he uses it on his apprentices at a whim.

Jack "Ages" Hangrope
An old man, who swore the final oath on his deathbed, mere moments after death was stolen. This ancient captain has still yet to die once, his old frame bent over the wheel as he steers the good ship Chronos, the oldest man still living. Each of his teeth have been replaced with a different metal, one of gold, one of iron, one of silver, one of copper, and so on so that his smile coming out of his gaunt face is a most fearsome sight. He runs the jolly roger with his trademark teeth of colour.

Many have tried to upheave him, thinking that he is an old man, and will be quick to die, but his skill with the sword has been practised longer then any other and his rheumy eyes are still as sharp as an eagles when he has a gun in hand. His body is rotting with age, but even this won't seem to kill him, his pickled skin stitched together like his sails, flags and his ship.

The Chronos is an ancient ship, with rigging from another age and it still has a balistae mounted on the prow. However it keeps pace with newer ships, it's barnacled and rotting hull not slowing it down, for who can outrun age itself?

how about this?

or what about a combination?

+1 votes for this.

>>9842858
this sorry. Forgot mah linky

Mad Bonny Flint

There are many tales about this lass, an' believe me 'earties each is true.

It's said that she took the final oath when she was just a lass of 16, and the years have not been kind to her.

Just as some of you might, she's danced the hempen jig, a few too many times for anyone to be comfortable. Her ship the Bloody Mary is a fearsome sight, the whole ship is the color of blood, some say it's from the blood of innocent men she's tied to it to keep it afloat, and yet others say she works her crew until they bleed, the truth me 'earties is even more dire, she slits the throats of her crew, a mad ritual to Davy Jones. Just to keep the first Crusader off her back she kills her men. Beware the the Madwoman with the knife, for even the Albatrosses wont go near her ship. Take this tale to heart lads, never get caught at what ye do, or Mad Bonny's fate might be yer own.

>>9842711

Fucking. Awesome.

>>9842858

Pretty good, I'd say, but feels a bit too... elegant?

I think the typeface needs to be have a more, uh, brutal stroke to it, for starters, and tradition demands at least one skull and/or cutlass somewhere.

Hell, were I going to design a logo, I'd probably start with trying to figure out if there's a clever way I could work out a simplified image of either that, or better yet Two Dagger charming Death directly into the typeface.

>>9842858
I rather like this one.

>>9842934
I was looking to see if I could find a good combination of skins to get a rusty metal look for the type, and add a compass to the side
what if I just put a strike through the whole thing?

>>9842986

Strikethroughs just reduce readability without really adding much in my opinion, unless the letters naturally lend themselves to it.

Rest of it I'd be glad to see.

I don't really like this rust
keep trying?

>>9843224
alright, I'm definitely going for something else

I'm sort of stuck
I have, regrettably, no artistic talent
I don't know how I could get this compass in here
also, autosaging yet?

>>9842934
Cheers mate. Always good to get some approval.

"Dancing Blades" Joe
There are many tales of mutiny, but Joseph has taken part in more then most. A sly bastard son of Torriaeu (or so he claims) most of the most famous Captains in the seas have had a ship stolen by Johnny. A glib and charming young man, he goes by a new name each time he comes forth, a young landlubber taking to the sea. He takes to the life at sea too well, winning debts from captain and crew, but discharging them at a moments notice. Once they're at sea for a while, he builds resentment against the captain, playing every crewman against eachother at dice and cards, until the most loyal ot the captain are owed debts tenfold what the others can pay, and then takes over the ship one night when the captain's loyal crew come down with a bout of sharp steel, and the captain catches it in plain sight of the crew later, blade in hand so none can doubt Dancing Blades skill with daggers.

He never captains the same ship twice, but instead builds up and amasses treasure in a hiding spot only he knows about. After offloading a lot of his gold he steers his ship into the Worlds Maw, a tidal maelstrom which is over a jagged reef. It's said that the world devours your shadow if you fall in, and no-one save Johnny even claims to have fallen in. They say that the Devil don't trust him not to take over Hell, so he spits him back into life, shadow eaten or not.

ug
everything I've made is really bad
unfortunately, out of the 312 fonts I have, not one (I feel) is more piratey then that

Camille "Raven Eye" Black

Od that such a fine young lass would sully herself with piracy, but the final oath does strang things to people. He Ship the blackbird is said to have sailed all over these endles seas, never touching the same port twice, why it's even claimed that she's met Two Daggers Torriaeu. I say that old grog is easier to swallow than most of her legend, however I do know this much to be true, it's said that after her final oath, she sought out one of those Voodoo women, wanted the eye of a rave see, so she could aim her pistols as well as a cannon, however she has to keep it covered up most times as it's a little strange, some even say she met some old witch on an island somewhere that cursed her good eye, the one she was born with to drain of it's color, to show that she was twice damned, first for taking the final oath, and the second for making a deal with the voodoo woman. Now some tales say that the voodoo woman and the witch are the same person, we'll never know, last time she was in this port was four years ago, and we know she'll never be back, beware a white flag when it bears two cutlasses and a bird boyos, let ye be... conscripted onto her wandering ship, to ever sail these isles.

ok then, I'll go back to writefagging
so we have pirates, crusaders, gold barons
should we have mercs?
people who will be sold to the highest bidder..
and what about a prison, nigh impenetrable, in which they hold pirates, not executing them.
and what of that "final step"?
anyway, can we archive this thread?

>>9843816
Well the prisons would have to be holding cells now, but early on after Torriaeu I can imagine there was plenty of hanging... and yes we should ARRRRRRRRchive this.

>>9843847
lol, "Dead May Prison! Scourge of pirate kind. Aye, you've 'eard oh her. The walls 'uh that enfernal 'ell 'ole seep wit' the blood of hundr'ds 'uh pirates, pray'in for death. But the keepahs won' let 'em die, no sir. A dead pirate is'uh free pirate. 'Nd they don' want that. Now keep your arse ou' uh ther', you hear me? Is not a place you wan' to spend the res' o' your forevuh'."

>>9843816
Mercenery Pirates makes sense some, I like that.

As for the prison, what about a Crusaders HQ. Call it The Rock or Fort Cross and only Mad Bonny Flint and Black James have ever escaped.

Mad bonny managed to shadow out of there somehow, despite every prisoner having eight torches in a ring to eliminate all shadow. Some say she burnt herself to death on those very torches, others say she tricked a crusader into torturing her too far for her own body to take.

And as for Black Jimmy, well, his skin isn't half as dark as his soul. If there be such a thing as true evil, Black James is it, does evil for it's own sake, not even with the joy of a madman, nor the hatred of an outcast. He just does it, cold like his eyes, ruthless as the devil and twice as scary. I've heard tell that only the worst of the damnned dare crew with him, and that his ship is possessed. The Lucifer is a rare ship, built from bone and sails darker then night, that seem to be burning eternal, without fire. Sonny, if you be seeing the jolly rodger penticled, you best be running. He never flies the black, only the red, for although he takes survivors, it isn't mercy.

>>9843816
>>9844003
>Mercenary pirates
You mean Privateers?

>>9844025
privateers are employed by a country or nation
one man could have a thousand mercs if he had the gold

Had it in my head to run a Pirate Quest of some sort a few weeks back. Problem being that the quest ran almost exclusively on rule of cool, and was a bit too heavily influenced by One Piece for my liking. Still, I think I have the plotlines for the first few islands lying around if I'm ever in the mood to give it a go.

>>9844003
yea, I like it
but I don't know about the name
it should be dead something, originally named to strike fear, now only irony!
dead... mary? (keeping with crusader theme)
dead water
I dunno

>>9844025
Bingo, knew there was a word for it.

Also, expanding on >>9843985

The keepers, well, they took the oath too. Or something much like it. They don't sail seas endlessly, no, they are bound only to the duty. The guard, the duty, no sleep, no rest, no need. Just the guard and the duty. You know the dedication needed to swear away everything, life and it's plesures, and even the afterlife, just to guard humanity. They swore their humanity away, they're just husks full of lust for vengence and hatred.

>>9844056
I suppose we could have a few islands, but they need to be important
like big port cities, event places, battle sites, ect.

>>9844042
Well, the nations that do exist hire crews, to clear the waters nearby of real pirates. Some of these crews have taken the oath, some have not, but they all serve their nations for glory and riches.

>>9844090
I thought the point of the crusaders was to be against immortality?

>>9844003
As said in her tale, mad Bonny has danced the hempen jig a few too many times, perhaps her escape from Fort Cross is why they no longer do hangins,

>>9844088
Dead Wind
Dead Sail

>>9844151
Dead Wind Prison
Dead Sail Prison
Dead Wind Keep
Dead Wind Correctional Facility
Dead Wind Center for the Mortally Challenged (lol)

>>9844003
Black Jimmy vs Raven Eye Blaque for blackest ship on these seas.

>>9844173
>Dead Wind Keep
Ooh, like the sound of that

>>9844197
If ye'r sailing and the wind stops blowin' with no reason, even Twin Daggers couldn't get you out of your predicament. Boyos you've just sailed into Deadwind Keep's little island, a hellhole only two have escaped from. One lost his soul, the other her mind, best keep an eye out, lest ye become the damned of the damned.

>>9844143
Not sure these are the same as the Crusders. I'm just throwing ideas around at the moment.

>>9844149
Maybe. She's danced that jig many a time, but that might not be what broke her in the head. Maybe it was what she went through at Fort Cross.

>>9844267
Hmmm Fort Cross or Deadwind Keep, a little of both actually, think they might be the supermax of the seas, places where you either go mad, or you lose your soul.

>>9844247
It's said the dirt of the place can stop the wind. Tales of ships killing the wind by emptying a jar of earth into the air as they close on the now stranded pirates. There's a reason they still use oars in this age of sail. . .

>>9844197
yea, alright
"Dead Wind Keep" (scourge of pirate kind)
a stark white citadel, perched on a cliff
it burns day and night, great flames lighting the sky
the keepers wear bleached white robes

alright, alright
wind dies when you get too close
also >>9832252
I lol'd

>>9844351
>>9844323
>>9844247
At the top of the island is an ominous, ancient windmill. It hasn't turned since some catastrophic event, and until the event is corrected, the wind shall never blow around Deadwind Keep

>>9844351
Even though it's not real I want my mommy.

methinks this will be a grand adventure.

>>9844351
We've got the stuff about people getting older and older and looking it. So how about the oldest keepers are just bleached skeletons, forever patrolling the white corridors of Dead Wind Keep?

>>9844461
So deadwind Keep belongs to Keepers who take the oath?

And Fort Cross is a different setup, elsewhere, run by the crusaders, who hate the oath and immortality?

>>9844461
White is pure, white is pure, WHITE IS PURE! Red is dead red is dead RED IS DEAD!

-Mad Bonny Flint Recorded after her 5th hanging.

>>9844501
Like the sounds of it.

Hmmm, maybe the Oath is rare enough that people still try hangings from time to time, but because of the nature of the oath, enough peaople have taken it for it to bea well known thing?

>>9844351
>>9844416
sounds like an asylum
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rewriting this:

"Dead Wind Keep! Scourge of pirate kind, it is. Aye, you've 'eard oh her. Stark white, she is, a 'orrid place. Perch'd on a cliff, tha builders thot they coul' catch that wind 'nd a great mill, bu' there's no wind tuh be caught, not ev'n a breeze. 'Nd the walls 'uh that enfernal 'ell 'ole seep wit' the blood of hundr'ds 'uh pirates, pray'in for death, 'nd eve'y day thuh keepahs swab tha walls and wash tha blood into tha sea. But the keepahs won' let 'em die, no sir. A dead pirate is'uh free pirate. 'Nd they don' want that. On'y two pirates manag'd to squeel ther way outta that'un, but you're not ev'n a pirate yet, boy. Jus' keep your arse ou' uh ther', you hear me? Is not a place you wan' to spend the res' o' your forevuh'."

>>9844577
This I like.

>>9844577
Oi what two pirates made their way out sir?

>>9844601
I've been writing as a sort of "been there, done that, pirate mentor", glad you like it

>>9844637
I love it.and yes as the anon for Mad Bonny and raven Eye, I give you guys full permission to do what you wish with them.

>>9844577
not even... a breeze?

>>9844461
"Many a pirate, daring and bold
Fell prey to that island where the sun goes cold
Where no wind blooms in the silky fold
They'd give anything, any amount of gold
To escape that place of which the stories are told
Where the living are kept by those who never grow old..."

>>9844670
One lost her mind,
the other his soul,
upon that isle where the wind wont blow
and the sun grows cold.

>>9844624
see
>>9844514
>>9844247
>>9844149
>>9844003

If they escaped from Deadwind, lets give Fort Cross a different way of dealing with prisoners. Maybe they have a way to kill you forever, burning to death in a room with no roof, under the midday sun, with torches all around. No shade, no shadow, no escape from the judgement.

>>9844717
Good idea, Want to make Deadwind a dread place, but Ft, Cross a place where--only the truely damned could ever dream of escaping.

>>9844717
BTW I know which two, was trying to ask to get some more of that pirate mentor talk.

>>9844650
In a similar vain go to town on Black Jimmy, Dancing Blades Joe, Jack "Ages" Hang-rope and Tommy "The Hatter" Gattler.

I think once you bring something up in threads like these, you should expect people to use and bend them a bit to make them fit the setting better.

>>9844670
>>9844710
YES.

>>9844751
Well, it's less a case of inescapable and more being put to death, in a way that makes you stay dead.

>>9844650
"Aye, aye, one 'uh the greatest pirates ta' ev'r sail. Mad Bonny Flint, a mad lass, indeed. She di' this dance, yehsee, a dance like non' you ev'r saw. 'Nd she'd dance inta' tha nigh'. A li'le bonked in the head, yah see. Some say all tha' dancin' 'as left 'er head knock'd about a peg'r two. But I know wha' really gotta 'er, 'er trip ta' Dead Wind Keep. Yea', saplin', she took er fare share o' death, bu' she made itout, she did. Nev'r tha same aft'r, I hear. O'corse, I nev'r wint near 'er, a demon of a wom'n, but a wom'n all tha same."

>>9844803
True makes me wish I could remember the other ones.

>>9844850
As I said only the truely damned could ever dream of escaping there, people who even the devil wouldn't keep.

>>9844885
woah, hey
the devil is on the PIRATE'S side

>>9844922
Just tales lad, nothing but tales, ev'ryone knows nobody comes back from Fort Cross.

Then there's the story of Blind Johnny, most daring son of a gun you've ever seen. He has both his eyes, but it's not like he needs them. I've seen him unload a brace of pistols, eyes closed the whole time, and only a single hole in target. Six holes in the wall directly behind it though, not a single miss. Was a wild captain to serve under, I danced the shades twice with him, and I'd follow him anywhere. Well, near anywhere. Left him for the sea floor after I heard where he was heading last. Wants to raid Deadwind Keep, soon as he can find a crew. Mad he is, but if there was a son of a woman who could do it, he'd be the one. He got cannonballs betwixt his legs he does.

His raid on Fort Cross though, that was brilliance. First trip to sea after swearing my oath, had a crew of us yung'ns who didn't know a bit better. Gave us all vials, said they'd explode if we mixed the red and the green. Told us to hide them in our mouths, and the moment we were captured to bite down hard. Me an him were the only ones to escape alive, a few more rejoined us later, the others either were captured or didn't want to have anything to do with Johnny Boy ever again. But we got us fame enough that for ale in every port, and two or three women apiece. And he got what he was after - he put a shot straight through his old mates eyes, t'save him from the burning what no man comes back from. Now I don't mess with crusaders, an there's a reason I don't use my real name, or tell this tale on any night but the last in any port, becuase I don't have the balls of that man. And I've saved my red'n'green, slept with them close my whole life, becuase the only thing worse then the final death, well. . . we don't speak about deadwind.

>>9845098
An who was the mate. We don't talk about him either. After escaping from the cross, he got himself caught by the Keepers. Now, Johhny boy thinks he can save him again, but even if he does, that'd put him in dark company, and I'm not sure it's a mercy.

>>9845011
"Aye, son. Fort Cross is tha' end a'tha road fur us pirates. Tha Crusaders run't like a slaughta 'ouse. A dead place, like none ya' ev'r see. They know, ther', bout 'ow ta keep tha shade away frum a pirate. O'corse, som'r tha pirates go ther' willingly, ya'know. Life rea'y ca'ches up ta ya... You end up thinkin' 'bout yourself...'nd ya gotta tell yurself... ya jus' gotta git past it, ya know. But som'o 'em ne'er do. Som'o 'em jus' waltz up ta tha gates 'nd.. 'nd.. well, they don' walk out. Nothin' like Dead Wind Keep, nothin' atall. they know, yesee. 'Nd they don' take no prison'rs."

>>9845160
Get this sea dog 'noth'r round of grog, his tales have made me want t'take the oath.

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>>9845160
>>9845157
Campaign Idea: Rescue Johhny's mate, and help him get to Fort Cross before the Keepers catch you.

>>9845219
Shit new thread?

>>9845259
yea
is this shit archived yet?

>>9845296

>>9845218
Weary eyes here, I havn't walked the Cross Road yet, but I might before the end. Even hell for all it's tortures beats the other place. Don't go taking the oath sonny, sail mortal, life fast, die young or old with a life well spent, that will only give you a short stay in the pits. We who take the oath, when we're caught up to one way or another, we have to stay eternal. Now, some of us go searching for a way to stave that of further, others hide, living away form the world, so that they never have to pay their debt. Others, we're looking for a way to pay the debt here, so we can move on with a clean slate. It's no life for a kid who has a chance at the next one.

To the new thread!
>>9845296

archive requested