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Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby Phighter » Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:45 pm

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.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby CarrieVS » Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:07 am

Cat-Eye Carrie (thanks Moo) sat alone on the porch of the Cursin' Polly, one of Tortuga's many dockside taverns, with a rum and coke, watching the activity around the dark harbour, his face as inscrutably feline as ever. He sipped his rum - you could keep your nasty grog - and chewed a coca leaf thoughtfully, until someone - night-blind fool - groped their way clumsily onto the porch...
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby Cullenmcpimpin » Sun Jun 23, 2013 1:58 am

Hook-Hand Peg-Penis floated to the Tortuga shore. He wasn't a good swimmer but his Wooden genitalia allowed him stay above the water. When he got to shore he checked and found that he still had his sword. He needed some grog He also needed to find his fellow crewmates and his captain. He decided to kill 2 knaves with one cannonball and find a tavern.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby sunglasses » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:05 am

Moon Goggles pushed her damp hair off her brow. It was packed in the tavern she where she was working. The place smelled of dirt, beer, and sweat. Men loudly were laughing and enjoying their drinks. A few were even daring to try the tavern food. It wasn't bad...it just looked scary. The cook was never one for presentation. He'd growl, "It dun matter whatit looks like, what matters is the taste."

A gruff looking man with a scruffy beard in the corner waved her over. He wanted a bowl of stew, a hunk of bread, and a pint of dark beer. As she brought him back his food and drink, a frisky patron at the table behind him reached up her skirt and squeezed her bottom. She focused on the gent in front of her and laid out his meal. She then turned on her toes, grabbed the frisky patron's remaining beer, and dumped it upon his head.

"Cool yer head," she demanded as the rest of his table hooted and hollared with mirth. This was not a bad tavern to work at after all.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby Overlord Moo » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:22 am

"Ow! Damn to the depths these infernal blades!"

Flank Steak put the now bleeding appendage in his mug of grog. It was an old trick the butcher learned from mum, back in the days of yore. And besides, the blood gave the grog an extra kick. As he let the healing grog course through his vens, Flank Steak returned to carving up the swine. With three swift cuts, he deftly separated the skin from the rest of the carcass. The Butcher of Barbados knew his work well; after all, he had been carving both beast and man since time immemorial. Argh, but those days be long past. That blitherin' squid Dandelion had seen to that. Flank Steak reached down had knocked the termites out of his peg leg. Taking a swig of his "Bloody Mary," he finished his work in the shop and went to the local brothel.

"What's the bleedin' point of livin' in Tortuga if'n ya can't enjoy life's... finer points?" Flank Steak muttered as he left his shop.

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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby julyjack73 » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:37 am

As the owner of "Swords in Accord", Mr. Sevree has found a silver lining in the recent pirate invasion. Many people, worried about being the rogues' next victim, are arming themselves in an attempt to stay safe. As such, people are flocking to his store to purchase a sword, some even going so far ask to him for training. This recent influx has given him a generous increase in profit, as well as plenty of chances to show off his skill.

He finishes his business with the last of his customers, sending him off with a shiny new cutlass. He closes shop for the night, puts on his red cloak, and heads to the town square, hoping to see what some of the other people are up to.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:45 am

Erich Silbermann sat on a bar stool of the Cursin' Polly, pint o' ale in hand, trying to ignore the ruckus around him. "Goddamn savages!", he muttered to himself before taking a sip. Erich was especially nervous about a new shipping route he was assigned, particularly due to two reasons --technically three: not only did the map say "Here there be dragons!" (He was a bit literal minded), but there was also the matter of two notorious pirates - Orange Beard and Phighthook. Thankfully, the seas were supposedly currently slow and calm for the next ten days, and he was to set out in seven. It's not as though he couldn't handle a few pirates, though. There's a reason he's often called "Erich the Mauler"
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:47 am

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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby CleverDick » Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:55 am

CunningRick sat at the piano, barely there as she belted out rhythmic, empty music for the pleasure of the brothel goers. She was a skilled, clever lass; playing piano at a whorehouse was no place to her. She couldn't leave now, though. It had been a slow year for the brothel, but the invasion would bring in swaths of men looking to wet their whistles-and have a drink as well-before a pirate gets the chance to kill them. No Tortugan could be expected to enjoy a hooker without some nice music for the mood. The kindly pimp had been good to CunningRick, and she couldn't bail on him now.
CunningRick headed off for the night to town square, looking for somebody that may have a day job for a brothel pianist.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby sunglasses » Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:14 am

Moon Goggles eyed over the scrawny fella and fished out a coin from the pouch she kept in her bosom.

"We'll try it tonight and see how it goes. Keep the troublemakers in check but no cuttin off fingers. If things get bad, there's a shovel behind the bar. We call it 'The Silencer.' The owner might want'cha to help with some other odds and ends as well," she paused and leaned closer to the unkempt young man, "but don't offer to help him 'find the weasel.' It's not what it sounds like. Then again, it might be right what it sounds like."

She straightened up and fetched some fresh mugs of brew for the group of laborers in the front of the tavern. The young man took up position leaning in the door.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:26 am

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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby Phighter » Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:54 am

I love your work already, me hearties. It is now night in Tortuga, which means I'll be needing night orders. Team Phighthook, and messengers, you know what to do. You have 24 hours. After that point I count votes without ye. As for the rest of you, you can still talk and chat, just remember that the sun won't come up until I write it up.

"No Tortugan could be expected to enjoy a hooker without some nice music for the mood." - That was really, really funny.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby SryimHi » Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:59 am

Having just left Swords in Accord with a sword in hand, Meknot Sryimhi found his way to the Cursin' Polly. Paying no mind to the peeping tom at the window, Meknot entered the tavern and was quickly greeted with dank, dirty air, and loud, boisterous men. 'Soon enough' he thought to himself as he pushed his way to the bar. In need of some mead, and some grub, he took a seat next to a man who had with him a map in hand. "Goddamn savages!" muttled the man as he gave Meknot a suspicious once over. It wasn't long before the waitress brought Meknot his drink and his um...food. And it wasn't long after that, that Meknot was drunk and in front of a group of gents, telling them his favorite tavern joke.

"Oye! All ye scallywags gather round. What be a pirates favorite letter?"

"ARRR!!!" they all yelled back to him.

"Aye, ye be thinking that's true, but really....it'll be the sea that shivers me timbers"

I apologize for the corniness of that joke. I thought it was best I got that out of my system right away
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby OrangeEyebrows » Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:21 am

Pirates on Orange Beard's scurvy crew! I be needin' to know your night orders! Tortugans, ye can be sending me your messages too.
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Re: Pirate Elimination Game: The Battle of Tortuga

Postby CarrieVS » Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:26 am

Cat-eye tensed as he saw that the newcomer had his sword in his hand, but the man was only trying to find the front door, and he took not the slightest notice of Cat-eye, if indeed he saw him in the shadows.

Perhaps now would not be a good time to go in for another drink, he thought, but a few minutes later laughter roared out. He stretched and stood up, going to peer round the door. His eyes narrowed to slits against the sudden change of light. He could see the man who'd stumbled past him, though he didn't know him. The cutlass was lying unused on the floor and the man was surrounded by cheerful regulars, sharing jokes. Perhaps he'd just bought it or something.

Carrie bought himself another glass of rum and found a seat, inside this time. There wasn't much to see out there tonight. He sat in a corner where he could see the whole room, and watched.
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