@Haeo Darse is accepted! Post him up in CS tab! <3

I, for one, welcome our new leather daddy.

Name: Pisco Salji

Age: 28

Race: Human

Occupation: Privateer/smuggler and scavenger

Personality: Pisco in unsurprisingly somewhat of an asshole or at least possesses the requisite amount of callousness for someone in his profession. That being said, he's also not a complete monster either. Despite his piracy, he has a distaste for the slaves and slavers for a reason he can't quite articulate fully. He refuses to take people for slaves, although hostages for ransoming he'll do, which just justifies it as preferring to being efficient with objects as they don't need food and water,you can have more, and can be plenty valuable.

As a Captain he's a firm one who can bust asses if needed. After all, the sailors can be rowdy and lazy and without order nothing is done but time and profits being wasted. However he's never cruel as that creates mutiny and a mutinous crew is a ticking time-bomb no one wants to face. Sure you can try and squelch dissent with force, but you'll slip up and you're more or less dead. He'll readily cycle out the more weary looking crew members in exchange for fresher ones. Still it's not too bad, he has some loyal crew that's stayed with him for several voyages.

His strategy for raiding is basically the play style in Sid Meier's Pirates where you ram a smaller ship to quickly capture the boat and loot it. In other words, he favors efficient get in/get out smash and grab type attacks where they can get the other crew surrender quickly. That way they can grab whatever is valuable and leave while maintaining as little injury on themselves as possible. However, this isn't the sole source of income for him and the crew. They also do other various works of equally varying of legitimacy.

Currently he's eyeing on upgrading himself to a larger boat that can be used more for salvaging operations. He desires to acquire resources for some projects that in his mind will give him tools to be more successful.

Religion: Doesn't care

Skills: He has all the relevant skills pertaining to being a sailor, a thief, and smuggler. He knows all the intimate details of his "home waters".

He has a competency in repairing and cobbling machinery together, although he lacks a proper space and tools so there's a certain roughness.

Pici is fluent in Geanish, pirate cant, and knows some pidgins.

Is actually an insanely talented cook, but unfortunately the world is in no state to host fine dining establishments

Weapons:
Stick/staff
A "salvaged" revolver which he has amassed some scrap for the purpose of creating ammunition for.
Utility knife

Items:

• Aforementioned weapons
• Rations of food and drink
• Stimulant herbs
• handful of scrap
• Tools for repairing
• Flint & iron
• Ancient incomplete box set of "Matlock" on Violet-ray

Boat/Home:




Description: A man of average height and athletic build. His skin tone is like coffee with milk, but due to sun experience is darker. His hair color is a reddish-brown with slight waves and of medium length. He has light brown eyes that never seem to be fully open. For clothing he tends to keep it simple and utilitarian. Pants and what amounts to a jerkin are what he wears most of the time.

Background: Pisco was born a landlubber on what would be arguably one of the better areas to be one. Within the high elevation remains of South America. His name is an odd reminder of the Old World. The world where once continents shared space with the ocean as opposed where it's just all islands as solid land now.

His first job and by extension connection to the sea would be as a hunter of seals and penguins that resided on both the coastline and small islands. He and many others hunted these animals and then dump the bodies in giant boilers to create valuable oil from their fat . Of course, these animals aren't infinite and the local government has an incentive to balance out the the hunting with letting the population breed lest they run out of a source of oil.

This meant downtime as he wouldn't always be hunting. In the meantime he'd learn other things including how to get away with a bit of extra hunting and other shady activities. From there on out he'd shift to working as a privateer's crew member. While there was danger, it also meant pay. He'd part ways and spend some time on extended shore leave.

Time would pass and he decided that why do the same thing, but this time as captain. Luck and some good contacts would allow him to earn his ship. From there the assembled a crew and off they went. His first job was to raid a vessel carrying goods to Zoloto. It was a success and he spent some time bullying the ship by intercepting more ships carrying things for them. At least until they started getting serious about security and then he had to stop.

@JerkchickenPisco is accepted.

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IC will now officially be starting this week!

share him face !

Happy Friday...

If everything goes as planned for me today, the IC should be up tonight!

Ok I’ve just gotten home. It’s about 9:00 so the IC should be finished and up within the next few hours.

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EDIT:: Just FYI I don't have full on writers block, but I am lacking inspiration at the moment, so the opening post to the IC is going to be short, and shit. <3

Inspiration is always a fickle thing. I'm working with scraps of a scene at the moment. But... I'm questioning the feel of what I want.

If nothing goes wrong, I should be able to get my first post up sometime tonight or tomorrow morning.

... Things went wrong. But, I've got a good fix on what I want to do and notes about the particulars. It's just a matter of being able to find the alert time to write it. Split shifts devour days...

We deserve a bard. Someone make a bard. Gimme them fat beats.

Mongolian throat metal with a bone instrument!

Y'all may have noticed my absence and lack of writing! I just wanted to explain myself, though I shouldn't be forgiven because I'm the GM and this RP is my responsibility. I've been happily preoccupied with a different RP that has me inspired to write, and create. Unfortunately every time I come back to this RP, to make a new post, and reply within the IC, I feel completely unmotivated and blocked. The issue is I lost most of my interest in this RP before the IC even started. I really liked the characters I saw being created for this RP, and I was thankful anyone even chose to sign up, as I know this setting requires a certain niche. So I just wanted to thank you guys for sticking around. This is selfish of me, but I wanted to take a vote.

1. Should I close this RP, and we disband?
2. Should I turn over the GM position to one of you guys (who wants it?)?
3. Should I put the IC on hiatus until I find the inspiration to come back to this?

I understand, that kinda feel is deffo familiar to me lmao

I think I'd prefer option 3, and then if it never comes off hiatus oh well.

Given the available options... and my inability to take the GM role... I take option 3.