tomboys and troublemakers part 4: the doom that is to come

[wilphe]

Worst comes to worst we can press-gang the urchins

I thought you were going full-on Fagin with them anyway...

Brute labour is fine, but IRC Age of Sail rule of thumb is:

1/3 Able Seamen (more than two years experience)

1/3 Ordinary (less than two years experience)

1/3 Landmen

As for us:

Wighard and Siobhan can channel the magic so wind and current go where we want
- Kwolf might be persuaded to pretend to be a parrot

Bertelis and Bruno can Navigate and do Sea Shanties - and Bruno has Consume Alcohol covered

Meloth can Navigate and also tell Tall Tales

Regine can climb stuff

Jasmine is the only one who knows how a ship works and what rope does what - she is going to be doing a lot of teaching


I did have the idea of offering it to the church of Manaan if they provide a crew (giving it to the Duke of Bourdeleaux might not be politic right now)

[wilphe]

Should also point out that whilst the ship can ride out the worst storms without issue; no such protection extends to anybody aboard it.

Like from seasickness; being cold, wet and miserable; not being able to cook food or being washed overboard.

[BananaPhone]

Regine can be your private intelligence officer on the ship and enforcer. With her skills, you'll know everything that's going on among the men and potential mutinies will be "neutralised" before they even gain traction.

She can also run the games/numbers on the ship that keeps the men entertained (and spending their money).

With her career trajectory as well she'll be an outstanding sharpshooter.

[wilphe]

Marking off 20gc for the flags and 1gc for the limner and other sundries

[dojango]

Should also point out that whilst the ship can ride out the worst storms without issue; no such protection extends to anybody aboard it.

Like from seasickness; being cold, wet and miserable; not being able to cook food or being washed overboard.

No, we shouldn't point that out as it might discourage them from signing up! Probably need a crew of about 20-30 or so. Urchins, the Q dudes, and the PC and NPCs are getting us pretty close to that.

[wilphe]

Aye aye Capn Jasmine

I'm pointing that out for us - so we don't get too confident

[wilphe]

Well Citoyen Bertelis has renounced his parasitic existence and embraced the church of Manaan to earn an honest living as a sailor - so maybe they send a mentor along with him and this is his training

[MrAbdiel]

Worst comes to worst we can press-gang the urchins

Jasmine Solve a Problem Without using Orphans Challenge: Impossible >:)

Also… Bertelis’s Seneshal? This irrepressible scamp…

Also Wighard, all good. I appreciate your writing and thoroughness. I might just be a patriot for my Bretonni.

I would suggest we have Wighard and Bertelis start collecting miniatures for sand table battles but we definitely cannot afford it.

[wilphe]

Maybe then we keep title, but hand it over to that motley crew to be the trading vessel for Saulx and La Discutable Nouvelle and its on call if we need it

[wilphe]

Jasmine Solve a Problem Without using Orphans Challenge: Impossible >:)

[MrAbdiel]

I’m about to go to sleep but the Quinsberry team are not likely to go with! Just Bully, to carry Jasmine’s rifle and reload for her (and to do general man-Friday work). The others are bugging out of L’Anguille; perhaps they will turn up again, but they are heading out by their own clandestine avenues.

[BananaPhone]

That 3,000gc rifle is real shiny...

[MrAbdiel]

It is cartoonishly overpriced but that’s how Best quality works in this system!

[dojango]

I’m about to go to sleep but the Quinsberry team are not likely to go with! Just Bully, to carry Jasmine’s rifle and reload for her (and to do general man-Friday work). The others are bugging out of L’Anguille; perhaps they will turn up again, but they are heading out by their own clandestine avenues.

They said they wanted to go to Mousillon so Jasmine thinks they're bribing her to get a spot in Bert's new fief.

[BananaPhone]

Hey Bramble, how much money was there in the captains pouch that Regine swiped?

[bramblefoot]

call it the equivelant of 20 GC

[BananaPhone]

20gc?!

Holy fu - [expletives redacted].


Ahem, yes, very good, thank you Mr GM. I guess that's why she's a Master Thief lol.

[wilphe]

T
Furthermore, I think we have good reason to hope the merchant cartels have overplayed their hand. It's one thing to expect the burghers in L'Anguille to agree that the Duke is distant and the loyalty they owe him is questionable; it's another thing to expect those same burghers to settle in and endure a seige for any length of time. Even with mercenary captains and merchant negotiators pointing at graphs and explaining how financially ruinous it will be for the crown if the kingdom try to sustain this for years on end, I am not convinced this will be more compelling to the L'anguillians, the sailors, the fishermen, the able seamen, than the trebuchets flinging stones into the city from the hills, and seeing rows of their countrymen arrayed on the hills around them.

This is without considering that the peasants have their own rebellion plan that does not involve being ruled over by caviar-snorting fatcats. The merchants may very quickly that their example of defiant to the crown is inspiring to mobs of urban herrimaults who beleive in the total liquidation of the merchant class.

I don't disagree with you on this.

Their best hope is to be let go without a fight and if there is a conflict they will lose control of their revolution

Their worst case scenario is for the revolution to get extreme and bloody and for trade flow to be permanently redirected (like say by diverting the Sannez...)

A wargame has only shown that there isn't a pure military solution (of course pure military solutions are what most Bretonnian nobles think of)

[MrAbdiel]

They said they wanted to go to Mousillon so Jasmine thinks they're bribing her to get a spot in Bert's new fief.

She is too humble to believe they really want her as a halfling folk hero raising awareness of halflings in Bretonnia, huh? :). Well, either way; she can have herself a gun and gun caddy.

Jasmine has for a while been without a real bite of the “cool treasure” cookie; no magic swords or full plate or wands or gromril helms; just brief ownership of an extremely sketchy jezzail. Hopefully she’ll have better luck hitting with a freshly gun, too.

I don't disagree with you on this.

Their best hope is to be let go without a fight and if there is a conflict they will lose control of their revolution

Their worst case scenario is for the revolution to get extreme and bloody and for trade flow to be permanently redirected (like say by diverting the Sannez...)

A wargame has only shown that there isn't a pure military solution (of course pure military solutions are what most Bretonnian nobles think of)

Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out; but unless they call all banners to war, Bertelis is unlikely to be there to find out directly!

Oh, I almost forgot - the L’anguillians might not appreciate the value of allies. Karl Franz owes Louen Leoncour big time right now because Bretonnia rode out to lift the siege of middenheim. It would be ironic for Louen to make his blockade more possible by adding the Altdorf fleet to the recipe. Perhaps in exchange for relinquishing claim on the Wasteland..?

[farothel]

I'll do my perception check in here, as I'm not sure what it's for: (1d100)[14] vs 69

EDIT: I don't know what I see and/or hear, but I guess I will see and/or hear it.

[BananaPhone]

Perception check: (1d100)[97] vs TN 67

String of good rolls had to end eventually, I guess.

[dojango]

There's a bit of an inconsistency; Bramble has him say 'Miss Featherbottom' while MrAbdiel has him say 'Mrs Featherblossom' which is funny because I was just going to have Jasmine give him a dressing-down for getting it incorrect on his first line of dialogue! Whichever is canon doesn't matter so much, it just colors the interaction differently.

[wilphe]

I think I've been doing Featherbottom so I apologise for Wighard's inadvertent microaggressions

I don't think her being married has ever come up before and we aren't sure whether to believer her or not

[MrAbdiel]

There's a bit of an inconsistency; Bramble has him say 'Miss Featherbottom' while MrAbdiel has him say 'Mrs Featherblossom' which is funny because I was just going to have Jasmine give him a dressing-down for getting it incorrect on his first line of dialogue! Whichever is canon doesn't matter so much, it just colors the interaction differently.

How about we split the difference and he will be sure he said “Featherblossom” but infact said “Featherbottom”?

[wilphe]

Wighard on himself in the new morning

(1d100)[3] Heal 86
(1d10)[4]

[dojango]

I think I've been doing Featherbottom so I apologise for Wighard's inadvertent microaggressions

I don't think her being married has ever come up before and we aren't sure whether to believer her or not

Honestly I didn't notice until MrAbdiel pointed it out, they look very similar. Also going to roll to convince orphans to join our crew. I feel somewhat responsible for them, having conjured them out of thin air, and they may come to a bad end left in the revolutionary city. (1d100)[25] charm.

[wilphe]

You know when Wighard explained the concept of a Liveship and that their abilities frequently enabled people to get themselves into a lot of trouble in various variations upon the theme of "Doomed Voyage" that was not intended to be adopted as a template...

[MrAbdiel]

Ooh boy, all aboard the orphan and refugee ship, sailing out into some of the most dangerous waters in the old world; what could possibly go wrong? lol. I still think we can nab our Couronnan captain and some of his lads, that might be enough.

[bramblefoot]

Ooh boy, all aboard the orphan and refugee ship, sailing out into some of the most dangerous waters in the old world; what could possibly go wrong? lol. I still think we can nab our Couronnan captain and some of his lads, that might be enough.

is that what your planning on doing?

[wilphe]

We are on kinda floating timeline here, but pretty much everyone except Jasmine could come with Wighard because she isn't showing up until after the Lodge meeting and everyone else has the opportunity to get aboard

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He'd like to take Meloth because it is Elven construction he is checking out first and I think anyone else might be available - like say Regine?

Bertelis might be busy doing Manaan stuff however