Guys, I want you to know that I'm totally fine with you guys making NPC's and RPing with them - a rich man stuck in Tortuga trying to get somewhere and willing to pay a pretty penny, a leader of some underground guild offering money for the head of some traitor, a merchant wanting to sabotage rivals asking you to loot a certain ship, a poor man wanting revenge and willing to sell even himself to you if you can secure it for him, whatever, I don't mind. You could quite easily build yourself up without interacting with any other player for a while, and then when you do meet, there could be some interesting stuff going on :P just don't be shy, go all out. In fact, if you want me to set you some kind of mission because you're not able to or something, just tell me, though I really want this to be a non-GM dependent RP so that if I suddenly disappear or am too busy things don't just freeze up (also, if I do disappear for a bit, feel free to control NPC characters to advance the story)