Cove of the Piratical Bureaucrats"I... er..."
Jackson wants to congratulate the captain on his successful decision making, hopefully prompting the captain in turn to congratulate Jackson's glorious lead of the charge, but he's busy.
Untie myself from the cannon.
((Also, I am going away from Saturday for nearly a week, with no internet: Please AI me sensibly and hopefully by my return I may be untied))
Bluff:
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You are as tied to the cannon as ever. Possibly more so, it's hard to tell.
That Bloody Cat was satisfied. Time for- oh wait!
That Bloody Cat sat down next to his Captain, and mewed happily. Tuna time!
It is! Yes! He promised! You heard him
very distinctly!
Remove the grapples with the gigantic scissors.
You cut away the ropes attaching the Gareth to the huge dark pirate galleon, and begni the tiring process of worming the grapples and bolts themselves out of the ship's side.
Devan wipes his brow. He settles once again behind cover, and counts the number of arrows hitting the ship.
None, right now. Arrows that had hit the ship? Several hundred, at a rough estimate.
Calmness +1.
Come out of my room begin going upstairs with the medical stuff and treat any injury's.
You run upstairs with the brine-soaked cloth and cloth-purified brine, and begin liberally applying both to the captain's injury.
Book-learning: 3
You manage the beginnings of a tourniquet/bandage thing.
"Well done, everyone! Jackson, why are you tied to the cannon? Get off there, we have a ship to loot! Devan, good shooting. that could have gone quite poorly had they fired whatever that was. Cat, you've earned that Tuna and more. Ow. Dammit, who put this paperclip in my arm. Ow! Octavius ... wow, just wow. Those are some large scissors. You'd make a mighty fine beaurocratic pirate yourself! Ahahahahahah. Hah. No but seriously, nice work."
Is that pirate ship seaworthy? Can we pilot both of them into our destination? Prize money for captured pirate ships is nice - we could pay off our debt easy peasey, if we chose to stick with the Gareth over the larger, more cumbersome thing. What's the situation with liekly pursuit at this point? Do we have time to at least do a quick snatch and grab?
If we can pilot both ships, and pursuit is unlikely, Captain Desmond will take the pirate ship and have Jackson run The Gareth. Otherwise, If we have time for looting, Captain Desmond heads to the pirates' Captain's quarters and loots what's there.
Otherwise, cut and run.
Oh, and do a quick bandage on the arm, removing the paper clip if reasonably possible.
It has a large hole in it, but you might be able to patch it up, if you weren't heading away from it rather fast. You might have been able to pilot both to your destination, but the ship is mysteriously receding from view. Pursuit... will be more likely if it looks like you're actually steering away, and haven't just been cut loose to float off and sink, but really the odds of the pirates bothering to come out of the cove are pretty poor. You might have time to loot, but the wind isn't really with you... it'd take a bit to get back there, and the thing might be sinking at an alarming rate by then. So you
could probably loot with impunity, but you'd better turn about sharpish if you want to... hey, who detached the two ships?
Your call. The pirate ship will be sinking by the time you get back to it, but the odds of interference are low.
Your calculations are interrupted by some maniac grabbing your arm and pouring seawater over the wound, before tying a strip of brine-soaked cloth round either side of it with, giving no warning or explanation at all.
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Topic: Maiden Voyage of the HMS Gareth, RTD, (Read 26663 times)