If you haven't been PMed a role, please PM either Orange or myself. Likewise if you have any questions about gameplay. Night is closing in, so for now just get to know one another.
Dusk, on the Good Ship Eyebrows. Of course, the crew of that ship aren’t so terribly good. Some of them lie rum-sodden and snoring amongst bundles of canvas, other engage in half-hearted duels with blunt cutlasses, too drunk to really want to kill each other but stabbing in a desultory way out of habit.
Then a cannon sounds from off the starboard bow! It’s the Gray Stone, a ship captained by that fearsome scourge of the seven seas and Lord Orange Beard’s sworn enemy, Phighthook. Orange Beard’s crew leap to their feet, brandishing their cutlasses. Here, in sight of the pirate town of Tortuga, the appearance of her nemesis means war. On board the Gray Stone, Phighthook looks out over his crew with a smile. With a wave of his left hook, they begin to fire on the Good Ship Eyebrows.
Piercing rounds shake the Good Ship Eyebrows and the crew to their feet. Cannonballs begin to fly as Phighthook shouts out, "Surrender Tortuga!" With the shouting of the word "Never!", Orange Beard commands her ship to open fire. Cannonballs ring out into the night, but the situation isn't solved as the battle rages on into the early hours. Before morning can properly come, both ships are littered with holes and filled with water. They both begin to sink into the ocean as the crews abandon ship. While their ships have been destroyed and their first battle may be a draw, Tortuga will never be the same, as the crews head towards shore. In town, the Commodore, C'aarrpelton, The "Cannoneer", loads his musket and waits.
I'll want night orders soon enough, but for now, it is just night in Tortuga. There's no lynching/night ordering right now, but here's the time to get to know each other a bit.
The special roles are as follows:
Converter: There will be one of these on each of the pirate teams. The person with this role can convert one player to their team ONCE ONLY during the course of the game.
Scanner: This is a Tortugan role. You can scan your fellow players and find out what their allegiance is.
Lovers: Sod convention! This is a pirate town! The two of you are in love. If your lover dies, so do you.
Rivals: He stole your dubloons and you widdled in his rum. The point is that you hate each other. Regardless of whether your team wins, YOUR win condition is that your rival be dead at the end of the game.
The Commodore: This is a Tortugan role. The Commodore cannot be killed by the pirates at night, though he can be lynched during the day. He is absolutely, 100% not a pirate. His name will be revealed before the start of play.
Messengers: There will be a messenger on each of the three teams.
The Tortugans will not know who the pirates are. The pirates will only know who is on their own team, not on the other. Phighthook and Orange Beard are immune from lynching because we’re the GMs, dummy. We won't be helping the teams, just picking them.
Pirates will kill during the night, by consensus, each team killing on alternate nights. Tortugans will vote to keel-haul during the day.