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HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

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HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

@sassy1085@Sirkaithethird

It would be rare a boy that age, even a Midshipman /Cabin boy be allowed on a Naval vessel and only then if they were related to the Captain or higher rank aboard. Powder monkey's were sometimes as young as 10 but taken only if they had the strength and stamina to do the task.

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Oh and if I may Ask Captain; "Is it permissible that I know a bit of our Orders"

Stand taller fingers almost on my buttons; "I ask as knowing our sailing orders allows me to prepare for regional malady's"

@RumikoOhara

We probably will be assigned to the Channel fleet, or a squadron in the north Atlantic

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

WIP

My Hider

Name:
Age: 11
Personality:
Role: Little Stowaway "I'm a poor young girl who thought this was my father ship"
How you got into the Navy: (Did a Recruiter get you drunk and fill you with tales? Did your family require you to join? Maybe it was a press gang that got to you.)
Experience with the navy:
Skills:
Shortcomings:
Tools/Weapons:
Anything Extra:

@sassy1085

Uhh... The moment you get found out you'll be taken to port...

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

@SirkaithethirdWould a single rapier be alright then? No pistol or anything else? Or should it be the clothes on their back?

@Red Mage

A rapier is probably very expensive, a simple Dirk is more of the seaman's style

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CPT. John White

Captain John White

Image/Description:

Age:41

Personality: The Captain is a very logical thinker, and a hard realist.

Role: Captain

How you got into the Navy: Cpt. White comes from a long line of politicians, and Gentlemen, so when White Felt the calling of the Sea a role on a merchant vessel wouldn't do. Instead his family got him a commission, to the rank of midshipman, that was twenty-eight years ago. From there he lived a standard life, slowly making his way up the ranks. Six months ago White had taken his Captain Examination in the Flagship, and made the step from Post-Captain to Captain. From there White was kept on half pay with out a ship. But he longed for the sea, although he was hesitant to use his power he used his family's connections and landed himself a Ship... A new Sixth rate at that.

Skills: Commanding, Manners, Fiddle.

Shortcomings: White can over think things, to the point that they often need another person to correct.

Tools/Weapons: A Sea Chest with 2 sets of fine civilian clothes, 1 telescope, a Pocket watch, 3 sets of Uniforms, 1 pair of leather Boots.
Weapons, Officers Sword, Flintlock Pistol
Anything Extra:(not yet)

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

When your realize that you need a CS

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

Also, do we want discord to be a part of the RP? I don't care either way, but a server is simple. So up to the players

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

Rowan Blackwell

Name: Rowan Blackwell

Image, or Description... or both!: (since I can't find a good picture I'll describe it) Rowan is on the shorter side of men standing at only about 5'6. He has a girlish face and doesn't seem capable of growing a beard. He has dark brown hair and green eyes. He is slender again for a soldier and is slight in the shoulders. His feminine appearance is actually because he is a woman. Sneaking her way into the military as a man.

Age: 16

Personality: Given her disposition as someone who is hiding her identity she is very secretive and tries to make sure to keep her distance physically from many of the men. She comes off as someone very shy about his body since he never bathes or uses the restroom in front of the others. Her real personality that most likely none have seen is that she is cunning and manipulative. She has her reasons for what she does and she will do whatever it takes to meet those ends.

Role: She is the new recruit cabin boy setting sail for the first time.

How you got into the Navy: She forged documents (but kept he real name since it was a unisex name) that she had already attended training and was sent to this ship.

Experience with the navy: Since she is half step from a stowaway she only has second hand experience with the navy. However prior to this she had studied extensively the knowledge she would need. How you ask? By visiting the local pubs and taverns around ports and getting stories from the drunk men. Will this lead to gaps in her knowledge. Perhaps.

Skills: She is handy with both the pistol and the rapier but she is especially gifted with navigating by the stars.

Shortcomings: Obviously her secret is her biggest burden. She is weaker physically than the other men which is why she has to rely on finesse in combat.

Tools/Weapons:
1 Rapier
2 Flintlock Pistols
1 Ramsden Sextant

Anything Extra: She only gets seasick during that time of the month so she has to keep making different excuses as to why she is sick.

@Red Mage

For a cabin boy Rowan has some kit... You may want to tone it down to something that the ship would provide.

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

@Sirkaithethird

Doctor Bright Began with the Navy and his Family is Navy which is my explanation of how an actual Doctor found himself aboard; his Grandfather and father served under Admiral Baron Hawke at Quiberon Bay against the Royal French Navy as the Second in command of the Third Rate HMS Resolution an action that saw him receive commendations and his own command of the same ship his own Captain beached for his injuries.

"Tradition"
"Service"
"Duty"

Arthur's family has had men before the Mast at least 6 generations

@RumikoOhara

That's some serious background, and definitely helpful...

HMS Plymouth - A Naval RP, recruiting

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Age: 26

Personality:

Role:Ship’s Surgeon

How Arthur got into the Navy: A King’s letter Boy Arthur entered the service of the crown at 12 years of age handed over by his aging grandfather a former Ship’s Master and Knight of the Bath his only support forced to part with the lad as his health fell.

Experience with the navy: Doctor Bright began his career as many such a young man of letters aspiring to become a ships officer learning the trade of sail till at age 14 he was found to have a knack as a Loblolly Boy and was given as an Apprentice to the Ships Surgeon.
At age 17 Arthur’s time before the mast saw a two year hiatus while he attended college at Oxford using a portion of his Inheritance and a letter from the Navy Board Barber-Surgeons' Company and Admiralty’s blessing. Advanced in his studies compared to the other’s attending school Arthur was quick to graduate at 19 after which he returned to the Mast prepared to continue his service.
Assigned as a Junior Surgeon aboard a First Rate He was quickly advanced to Chief Surgeon only 20 when his former mentor died after he had a leg carried away in a fierce exchange.
Recently assigned to HMS Courageux (3rd Rate 74) his tenure was cut short by the new Captain’s preference for a surgeon with as he put it “A face of weathered Experience and not of a young Choirboy”
Beached he was able to find a berth aboard the HMS Plymouth trough a friend at the Board Barber-Surgeons
Fresh off the Dock he begins this as his first voyage aboard

Skills:Surgeon, Apothecary, Navigation, and Fencing

Shortcomings:Arthur’s greatest Shortcoming is his Baby face which means many have doubts of his skills and some many jealous of his attraction of women. (Either women the other officer had their eye on or a relative such as sisters and worst daughters)

He also carries the mark of helping support the Spithead Mutiny Sailors only protested by his title and the fact he was only active as a Doctor seeing to the health of the men who were on strike. (As a doctor he agreed with their plea for more sanitary conditions along with more palatable rations.

Tools/Weapons: Tool Sample Doctor’s Kit Link
1 Prussian Fencing Saber

Extra: 4 uniform
2 Boots
43 Books cluttering his bunk and spaces many on medicine and others of science, 7 poetry
1 Simple Silver Tea Set (Prize of war Dutch made)

Oh and not sure if it is a short coming or asset but Arthur has a beautiful singing voice

Oh and anyone who checks on Doc Bright's rep will hear he's a fast amputation expert and many men are alive because he cares about those under his charge and is an able bodied seaman's friend his patients surviving more often than not.

@Sirkaithethird

@RumikoOhara

Although rare, actual studied doctors did find their way into the navy so I'll take it.