17th Century Fox - OOC

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:21 am

If he wasn't pulling the "Estuardo", Tiki could literally swim rings around Blacks. Multiple times his speed.

(and now I'm imagining Bowsprit hanging over the front of the boat with a roller-coaster face)

How did Blacks find out about this, anyway?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:30 am

Hotep the psychic wrote:"oooh a wreck....but the otter shouldnt be the only one, we should try to get the fox and the ocelot too that way if there be chests they can haul those up, ill try to get to the fox to help ive seen what hes got he holds onto gems and gold!" pinch said moving to a hole leading to patricks room he then moves through the wall and sees tack in the foxes paw, he scrambles across closer on the overhead railing.

Like that.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 10:53 am

I suspect a cat thinks "official bilgerat business" involves breakfast, lunch, or supper.

"Need is such a ... subjective term."

Foxes like cheese. Otters... not so much.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:36 pm

oh lord.. how many days did I miss?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:42 pm

It's the night of the first day.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Thu May 23, 2013 12:45 pm

God, It's still on the same day, but still this is getting a bit too fast even for me...

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:01 pm

I can cover for your character if youd like?

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:09 pm

I honestly have to check the two pages after my last post to see if it's even worth keeping my character as it is...

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:18 pm

Captain Palgrave thinks he's worth keeping, at least until the next visit to Havana!

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:33 pm

Tiki and Blacks - an old wreck like this won't have food, except maybe barrels of oil and bottles of wine, alas, and clothes and anything made of iron or steel will be corroded and worthless.

LovingCorgi · Post by **LovingCorgi** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:42 pm

lol oops sorry I thought that maybe an air tight chest might hold something like bread.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:47 pm

If it was a recent wreck, something like a wheel of cheese still in its wax might be OK, but they didn't do "airtight" back in the 1600s. And the captain's clothes would be rags by now.

LovingCorgi · Post by **LovingCorgi** » Thu May 23, 2013 1:50 pm

They did... watch pirates of the carribean on sttrager tides, and you'll understand

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:06 pm

The 1600s was when they finally began to be able to do airtight bottles and barrels, and barrels would be doing good to stay airtight under five fathoms of water. Bottles of wine and barrels of dense liquids (like oils) would be about it. Maybe a small snuffbox. An airtight chest, after years of submersion?

Thu May 23, 2013 2:12 pm

hey guys? I think you may be going a bit fast with this RP. you left Moon in the dust, and did a time skip before everyone had a chance to weigh in. and 3 times I've been left behind by the group my character was with, first when Patrick woke up and then with the group outside its door.

I'm not trying to say how this neighborhood should be run, but when someone has 2 pages of RP to catch up on since their last post, it's a bit of a problem.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:22 pm

I can cope through. I just need to read the last two pages to see where exactly is Patrick supposed to be.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:42 pm

Sorry, no more timeskips without a full day's meditation, and I'll try to drop a sea anchor now and then. The exception is when the ship is under weigh and nothing interesting happens for days... I'm not going to force people to role-play an ocean voyage in game-time.

Patrick is wherever Blacks left him when he want off to hunt for treasure, probably in the owner's cabin or on the deck, or where he wandered from there.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Thu May 23, 2013 2:44 pm

Patricks in his room languege journal on a small table with translation of words to help patrick learn english and spanish...an early dictionary if you will.

Thu May 23, 2013 2:52 pm

Argent wrote:Sorry, no more timeskips without a full day's meditation, and I'll try to drop a sea anchor now and then. The exception is when the ship is under weigh and nothing interesting happens for days... I'm not going to force people to role-play an ocean voyage in game-time.

yeah, that's fine to skip to interesting things when nothing interesting is going on, I meant between those skips, when two people in a three person group make 5 posts each before the third gets a chance to react (or similar situations), so that part was directed to everyone. and no one in this case seems to object to the timeskip, so no big deal here.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 3:12 pm

Hotep: it's unlikely that a native animal will be literate in any script, let alone a European one.

The classic Mayan civilization collapsed around 800-900 AD, by the way. The earliest good records we have on Nahautl are in Latin script.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Thu May 23, 2013 3:21 pm

aw ok.....

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 3:38 pm

It's a real bummer. The Aztecs had just about reinvented phonetics for names when they got conquered by the Spanish.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:06 pm

I am honestly out of ideas how to go on with Patrick right now...

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:28 pm

You can meditate, soliloquize, explore the ship, discover orange soda, try to make friends with the shipboard cats in sign language and the half dozen words you've learned already (friend, food, drink, head, fox, cat, rat, expletive deleted), climb the masts, see if the seagulls speak nahuatl, see if any more of the crew speak it for that matter.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Thu May 23, 2013 5:10 pm

go swimming, fishing, eat, sleep, drink, try alchohol for once, dance with the other animals and people.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Fri May 24, 2013 12:56 am

nah, I put him to sleep 'till the next day.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Fri May 24, 2013 11:53 am

BTW, "minion" is not an anachronism, first usage in the 1560s.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Fri May 24, 2013 7:46 pm

I can't help but think of little yellow guys with ridiculously large safety goggles and blue denim overalls whenever I hear that word.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Fri May 24, 2013 8:44 pm

I second the notion!!

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Sat May 25, 2013 9:12 pm

I think Tack secretly fancies Bowsprit.

But she's only got eyes for her captain!

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Sat May 25, 2013 9:46 pm

what happened to the wreck salvaging team?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Sat May 25, 2013 10:00 pm

Blacks and Tiki have both delivered one load of treasure, the ~~three~~ two stooges have done their opening act, and Bowsprit has suggested that they head back with what they have because they've a long way to go and it's getting ~~early~~ late.

Plus, it might be a full moon and Tiki might be an otter, but they're free-diving five fathoms at night. But Bowsprit has no idea that's dangerous, I mean these guys are strong as a dozen rats, easy!

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Sat May 25, 2013 10:08 pm

so wait for corgi or post leaving with two chests the bags of gold and a few old rifles on a powder keg raft?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Sun May 26, 2013 5:40 am

He could try and argue with the rat.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:21 am

The Estuardo is far too small to hold a chest that a rat could fit into.

LovingCorgi · Post by **LovingCorgi** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:26 am

I saved you a rat but I eated him

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon May 27, 2013 9:53 am

Surely it's not. You've got 4 or 5 rats in the boat as is, don't you? But then I suppose they fill it up which is why there's no room...

Hehe and actually, a male otter is called a dog!

Just because the rats aren't confused enough already.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:31 am

4 rats, they had to leave Moses behind when Pinch joined in. It's a toy boat, built to rat scale.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:39 am

Does it have a little miniature foot locker? Please tell me it has a little miniature foot locker!

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:57 am

No, it had a miniature basket full of food but the rats broke it up and threw it out when they discovered it was all made of china.

"Tally Ho" doesn't show up until the 1770s, but it's derived from a French expression so I used that.