((GM, I work nights and sleep days. It has been ... fifteen hours since I posted last, and eight since you posted the options for cargo etc. Please update only once or twice a day on matters that affect the whole crew, like cargo purchase.))
Captain Arc mutters to the Cat: "I hope you don't end up having to kill one of them. I wonder how many of us will survive this maiden voyage. Ah well, it sure will be entertaining, either way." ((This was quiet and unless you have very fine hearing you shouldn't respond unless you are the cat))
Out loud (at a point after the boy makes the purchase and before he wanders off again):
"Gold and Peacocks? Well done, lad, though the peacocks make me a tad nervous. Dead Peacocks are a less valuable cargo after all, and with this rowdy bunch, who knows what may happen?" Arc laughs heartily, and strokes his chin. Or rather, he strokes the air below his chin, as if there were a long luxurious beard there.
"Our first stop is obvious, my fellows. The city across the bay. It is on the way to any other destination. Let us sail there, and decide again upon a further destination at that point."
What are our finances like at this point? Do the peacocks come with feed? if not and we have the money, buy some birdseed or whatever. ((I guess someone took care of this)) I use my Sphere of Sky and Sea to check for favorable weather conditions
((Sorry, I'll wait for the crew to have time to discuss it next time.))
Finances... nope, ships are expensive, you spent all those. The peacocks will have the unenviable choice of hard tack or candy. No worse than what you're getting, at least.
Techiness/Seamanship: [5]
Clear skies await. Probably. It's not stormy nearby at the moment anywhere nearby, anway. High atmospheric pressure, but that's it.
Given that everything people had was spent on the ship and cargo, anyone who tried to purchase something is going to the dump.
"The first time she falls asleep she's totally dead. In the meantime..."
Devan searches the ports for raw metals, gunpowder, and smithing tools. He also keeps an eye out for food-stuffs, as he probably won't be getting very much.
Plenty of scrap metal, no gunpowder, and a massive flat stone useable as an anvil. Inventories in character sheet in OP.
Head about to buy assorted cogs, mechanisms, dials, tubes, metal piping and pieces, gun parts, tools, and replacement tools.
Scrap metal and piping, glass bottles, halfbricks.
Search marketplace for books,and food and spices and locks and containers and finally look for a weapon and something that the kid might like get peacock feed.
A bunch of sturdy crates with the locks broken, bottles, boxes, a menacing length of copper pipe, a collection of yellowing rags, and a cart full of rotten apples.
"This is where I get to say aye aye captain, right? Yes sir! Right away sir!"
Jackson scampers away below decks to pore over the charts.
Equip Monocle and plot the safest course to our destination. Wonder if anyone bought any birdfeed. Tell captain when I've worked out what direction to go.
Bluff:6+1(Monocle)-1(Bluffing) =6
"Hmmm... over the Belgrafian Megafunnel rocks in order to pick up a bit of speed, past the Cove of the Piratical Bureaucrats in order to get the good winds, look's like there'll be a bit of congestion in Belgrafia's Bathtub, so might want to skirt around near Great Leech Bay... brings us near the Perpetual Thundercloud of Odin, sounds like an interesting rock formation... cut a corner through there and a take a shortcut up to the river docks, we'll be there in a day. Much better than trying to sail against the tide in a well-frequented shipping lane, that'd take
forever... and there'd be a high chance of crashing, as well as damaging the ship in that notoriously crowded port..."
After a modicum of thought, you manage to plot a route that not only takes you through a rich but novelty-starved bit of land, but that is five times as fast as most routes, with no chance
at all of colliding with another ship. Nothing to it.
You trot along to the captain, salute smartly, then hand him the directions.
There are overshoots in this, by the way.
That Bloody Cat wakes up again, slightly annoyed. Then he saw the peacocks. They weren't crew, right?
That Bloody Cat jumps down from his perch and starts stalking the peacocks.
They don't see the cat. That Bloody Cat sees them, though. It could kill them. They'd never even realise, up until the last moment, no terror, no defiance, just a very small cut and a deep, deep sleep...
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