The voting continues and Baker is elected as the new captain. One failed save followed by the second and the mutiny/attempted mass murderin'is abruptly concluded.Ĭharlie attempts to tableflip, rages on for a few minutes and is uninvited from future games at the venue (Echo's home). It was used to good effect when the team was building their fleet.
You pass out, can't organically remember how to breathe and die in your sleep. The captain, he is stunned by this and does nothing, saying that he'll hold action and wait for the next move by Charlie again, readying his next shot.Ĭharlie's horse is then used to attack Able, prompting Baker and Echo to unload on him with a combination of Sleep and Undine's Curse, which is a rotten way to passively kill someone. Surrounded by people normally populating said community. Sitting in the bay of a pirate community.
Visualize the utility of a horse on a pirate ship. Goes for a spell of Summon Monster II: a horse.
The first shot is by the captain, who pops a flintlock round directly at the wand, knocking it from his hand and stating that the next wound drawn would be terminal.Įveryone agrees to hold fast, waiting for Charlie to make a smarter play. He's not dead-last, just behind every person in the crew. He refused to change his stated course of action, clarifying that he was aiming mostly for his former shipmates. So, I said that initiatives were in order and that what he was doing was likely going to see him with, at the minimum, a very unpleasant experience, and no crew of merit would follow someone that damned stupid further than the end of the docks once word got circulating about it. this), nothing that the players can't figure out on their own. I mean, sure, it's got internal power struggles and even mention made of a coup (first stated as being bloodless and a change of adventuring ideas, not. I thought that the group was a more coherent thing than this. Nobody saw this move coming, least of all myself. "I use my wand of fireball on the gathered crowd." He steps to the forecastle to start his sales pitch/speech, then suddenly turns to me and says his fatal words: The next lowest score was for Cutter's pet fire elemental monkey, Jasper, with 1/1/1/2.
They have a full two dozen NPCs gathered for the election, a few were likely candidates for the job, and not once did Charlie try to butter up, threaten or so much as bribe for votes - I kept the roster for the assorted plays for power and influence, assigning values for the individual efforts, rated 1 to 5 in four categories.Ĭharlie's tally stood at zero, zero, zero and negative one, respectively.
The other PCs are approached individually and asked if they were going to back his play, and each one of them, including an NPC being controlled by my significant other (a kobold "hostage" named Cutter used as a combination of scout, trap detector and cheap entertainment by dint of being forced to literally sing for his supper - chaotic good ain't chaotic nice, I tell you) all stated that they were not going to do anything like that and would be siding with their duly-elected captain, Able, and likely turn him in for attempted mutiny - a thing agreed upon as being a severe crime against the ship and its crew.Ĭue the day of days - the election for a new ship's captain and Charlie makes his big move. They have ideas about shutting down the war efforts and focusing on strictly raiding coastal villages and settlements, a practice long-since abandoned by the majority of other pirate crews as unprofitable and kind of lame, as those are not a likely place to score good quality loot and that shipping lanes is where it's at these days. So begins a very unpleasant exchange of in-game actions wherein Charlie is plotting to overthrow the captain and seize power. Given that exactly one of them had a background in piracy, helmed a ship, served as a ship's carpenter and took two traits regarding this, nobody else was confused - Able was in charge and had been a benevolent-ish dictator, as befitting a good captain and team leader. The game was five sessions deep when trouble was brewing: the resident Rogue and the Bard-flavored Rogue were butting heads about who constituted as the captain of the flagship of the fleet (at this point, they had commandeered a total of five ships) and who was second mate. Pirate campaign in the islands, mostly centric on establishing a few trading posts, a hideout and a covert shipyard for the manufacturing of a small fleet of warships in a planned deployment against a rival nation-state.īaker - Cleric (Devout Pilgrim - Gozreh ) 7