[OOC] Golden Age of Piracy: Caribbean 1655 (OOC)

[Assallya]

I wouldn't think Letters of Marque wouldn't be all that difficult to acquire. It's a "Win-win" situation for both parties. The local governor doesn't have to worry about that particular ship ever attacking his nation's vessels. (If the pirate was crazy enough to do so he'd be quite readily marked for a particular nasty vengeance and she'd never be able to acquire a letter of marque from anyone else. Who would trust her?) In return, you cause trouble with another rival nation.

Yes, decidedly "win-win".

[Kho]

It appears we have a spammer...
Oh well, nothing better to start the IC off with.

[TheyMostlyComeAtNight]

I just bought the Kindle Version, I'd prefer the hardcopy but the Kindleversion is only £5 so... :P

[Kho]

TheyMostlyComeAtNight said
I just bought the Kindle Version, I'd prefer the hardcopy but the Kindleversion is only £5 so... :P

Great, you can be our point of reference, along with Click This, on all manner of ship facts.

[Kho]

We have a new addition to the summaries. Once the two last remaining players give me the 'aye' I'll post the firs...second IC post.

[Click This]

Nice! Tell me how you find the book.

I just realized the new board doesn't have a report button. That... Kinda sucks.

[DAWNSTAR]

It'll appear sooner or later.

[Joegreenbeen]

Kho said
We have a new addition to the summaries. Once the two last remaining players give me the 'aye' I'll post the firs...second IC post.

What did they post? (I think the post has been deleted.) I know it doesn't really matter, but I am curious.

[Click This]

Some incomprehensible gibberish and a shameless ad for fifa coins.

[Vantas]

i just got online whoa
i think the summery for my character is fantastic kho~
aye!

[Kho]

And Assallya can aye or nay when she comes on next. First (yes, first T-T) IC post will be up 'in a jiffy*.'
*Whenever I'm feeling like writing.

[Jangel13]

I almost forgot to ask, can I write in the first person?

[Click This]

RPs sound kinda awkward in first person, more so when everybody else is in third. :/

[Jangel13]

I'm just a lot better with first person is all. I can write more in first person

[Kho]

Jangel13 said
I almost forgot to ask, can I write in the first person?

I personally don't like it, but if it's the style you like and suits you best, then go for it. What's the point in this if you don't get to do what you like, the way you like?

[Jangel13]

thank you, you have no idea how inflexible people are on that point

[Kho]

No worries, so long as the content is good am sure we'll all bear it haha.

Just a quick update, I AM working on the IC post at the moment. It's taking a bit longer than I anticipated, but it should be up within the hour.

[Kho]

That's the best I could do in my half asleep state. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a wall of nonsensical rambling when I come to read it later, but that's all that's coming out of me for that.
Just two notes:
1) Tavern keepers will have valuable information about where there is the highest demand for what goods and where there is the most supply (i.e. where you can sell highest and buy lowest) as well as other pieces of information they'd be more than happy to part with if you have a smooth enough tongue or enough gold.
2) Pirates die. People, in general, tend to die. If this RP goes on, your character could die, in combat or of old age (if this goes on long enough.) But as Assallya pointed out to me earlier, a big part of any gang/crew based RP in general is that intimidation and acting big was an important part. A lot of the time it was about who could go the furthest, short of actual combat. Pirates usually preferred their targets to surrender due to intimidation rather than actually overpowering them. So really play on that.

That's my two cents, now go wild.

[Click This]

Oh man, that governor is in way over his head if he thinks a single frigate can take a port.

This is going to be interesting.

[Kho]

Quick heads up, I've added a bit more to the IC post. Some characters do feature in it (four by my count) some more than others. If your character doesn't feature, it's just because I didn't want to force anything. If it's a bad starting post and you're just left thinking, 'I dunno what to do' then tell me.