17th Century Fox - OOC

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:07 am

Oh dear, I hop the Three Stooges didn't hear Pinch and Gulley calling Tackle Tackle. Things could get awkward otherwise.

Earthquake or eruption anyone? The Caribbean is seismically active after all.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:35 am

Hey! Cedric's doing my schtick!

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:04 am

He's learnt from the best.

And I think you're in the wrong RP, Cinnamon. XD

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:14 am

*Argent starts applying duck tape to the fifth wall.*

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:45 am

Wait, 5th wall? How many walls are there?

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:05 pm

There's actually 8 walls. But we only talk about 4 because the other walls act as buffers so the experience is completely surrounded.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:12 pm

It's walls all the way down.

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:07 am

Ack! You fool! Don't change perception! It's turtles! Turtles I tell you!

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:39 am

Good eating on a turtle.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:57 am

walls to turtles......question!!!! can I eats one of the three stooges? historically the true curly died and was replaced after all.

and on another note we should introduce a character with voodoo

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:22 am

Argent wrote:Also, there's no magic in this neighborhood (other than talking birds of course).

You know I wouldn't be surprised to run into Cinnamon on the Impudence with the way this is going.

And ther are two possibel species for the Giant Rats, the Coypu which can weigh up to 9kg and grow to 60cm long (not counting the tail) and the Wooly Giant Rat which can grow to 30cm long with a tail 16cm long. Of the two, the Wooly Giant Rat is the only true rat, however I think the Coypu (also called river rat) is the most likely species which they have encountered. They also have orange teeth, oddly enough.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:02 am

Also agouti, pacas, and acouchi. South America is lousy with giant rodents.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:43 am

So which did the Stooges meet?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:53 am

agouti are the only ones I found with a native range including the Caribbean islands.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:16 am

I guess they were agouti then. Assuming the Stooges saw them at all.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:26 am

"In the wild, they are shy animals and flee from humans, while in captivity they may become trusting. In Trinidad, they are renowned for being very fast running and able to keep hunting dogs occupied with chasing them for hours."

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:29 am

Good ol' Wikipedia.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:02 pm

Volcano? What volcano?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:06 pm

Well the Caribbean is apparently seismically active. Ito wouldn't be unheard of for there to be a volcano on a random island.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:11 pm

Just to avoid confusion: The smoke on the island was from the castaway's camp. There's been no indication of a volcano. The cliffs are likely to have lots of lovely sea caves though.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:19 pm

I know. I was thinking the cliffs sloping up to a volcano or somesuch.
An eruption followed by a mad dash to the boats could be a lot of fun.

According to wikipedia there are 24 volcanoes in the Caribbean. I think we can take a bit of poetic licence and have one or two more.

It's up to you though, Argent. We can ditch the volcano if you like.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:07 pm

Almost all the volcanoes in the Caribbean are in the Lesser Antilles, which are basically the edge of the plate.

And most islands with active volcanoes *and* thick forest on them are pretty darn big.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:02 pm

And is this island that we're on very sizeable? And are we near the Antilles at all?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:53 am

No, it's a small island, and it's just off the coast.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:58 am

OK then. Edited.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:47 am

And now I'm looking for Caribbean eruptions in the 17th century.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:54 am

We can always make one up. We don't have to follow history exactly.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:28 am

And here I am checking on the reigns of the kings of Spain so I can be sure Eduardo's was claiming the island for the historically accurate monarch.

Oh, the jungle is full of small animals, rat-sized and smaller, as well as lizards, birds, snakes... all of which are terrified of Blacks, who's the biggest scariest thing that's been in this part of the jungle in decades.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 7:54 am

Sorry about taking an action for Christopher, but I wanted Dune to be able to act without waiting for Patrick.

The Moon Howler · Post by **The Moon Howler** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:06 am

From tomorrow to Wednesday I'll be off with minimal to no chance for connection to internet. I would like to ask Hotep the psychic to take command of Patrick once more for that time.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:49 am

It seems Cedric also has had a noodle incident.

xhunterko · Post by **xhunterko** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:05 am

Argent wrote:And here I am checking on the reigns of the kings of Spain so I can be sure Eduardo's was claiming the island for the historically accurate monarch. :)

May as well skip that. Pirates make stuff up all the time. :)

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:49 am

When you're a rat, there's good eating on an isopod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_bug

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:54 am

Hey everyone I may not be posting all that much due to a new job I got k?

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:00 am

Yummy.

Just post when you can, Hotep. GOod luck with the new job!

OK, I know it's cliched and historically inaccurate but what piratical adventure would be complete without a chest of treasure guarded by a skeleton?

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:50 am

Guys, rats are small animals, they don't make a lot of noise, there's no way someone at the beach or in the jungle could hear a rat squeaking or screaming at the cliffs. Heck, it would be hard to hear a rat at the edge of the jungle if you were at the edge of the water.

I promised a better description of the island yesterday, I didn't get it done, sorry, I've been busy.

The island is basically peanut shaped, with a ridge of rock that you wouldn't quite call mountains running down the length of the island, extending into cliffs at both ends. The southeast end of the ridge curves around, forming a cove with a long beach that extends all the way around the middle of the peanut. There are little streams and rivers all along the south side of the island, forming breaks in the beach, but they're fairly shallow as they cross the sand and won't stop a determined rat.

The ship is moored off the cliffs, about half a mile as I recall. The pirates landing spot is about half a mile (or half an hour for a rat) along the beach from the cliffs, on the bulgy part of the south-eastern "nut" of the peanut. The castaway's camp where Dune and Christopher were living is halfway up a shallow section of the ridge. The ruins are deep in a valley nearby.

Argent · Post by **Argent** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:00 pm

The sea caves:

The only people who know there are actually sea caves at the base of the cliffs, as opposed to speculating about it, are the four rats who got lost, and *maybe* Dune and Christopher if they explored around that end of the beach.

All the speculation about coves and volcanoes and caves and whatever else, earlier on, was just speculation. There's no cove. There's no volcano. And characters only know about things they've actually seen.

Gulley doesn't know about the caves.

Cedric doesn't know about the caves.

Pinch doesn't know about the caves.

Blacks doesn't know about the caves.

Patrick doesn't know about the caves.

Jin doesn't know about the caves.

Rhyme doesn't know about the caves.

James and Eduardo and the captain and their hearty sailors and bully boys don't know about the caves.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:27 pm

Also, snake scales are not like fish scales. You can't yank them off because they form a smooth skin. The only way to get them off would be to completely skin the snake or to wait for it to shed.

Hotep the psychic · Post by **Hotep the psychic** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:30 pm

remember were in tropics, snakes in the tropics or even in south America and Africa have some species where its a different skin due to heat, for this scales can be ripped off like fish, against its direction for separation, this allows some snakes to easily shed skin once the heat has basically caused sunburn over certain areas, a good species that does this would be the mamba or some species of cobra.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:34 pm

Well I'm in the tropics in Northern Australia and I've never heard of that before. If they do come off it's not going to be like fish scales anyway, it'll be like strips of skin. I've seen snakes with messy sheds before. You're unlikely to get individual scales coming off, even in the worst of them.