#The Party Sails

[ambassadorquark]

POV: you walked into the wrong alleyway

[wearefallensouls]

You are stuck in a time loop.

This Road by Poe / post by @janemorris / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), dir. Tom Stoppard / Circles by Marion Ethel Hamilton / Happy Death Day (2017), dir. Christopher Landon / Alan Wake II / Fatigue Empire by Cynthia Cruz / Black Sails episode XXXII

[hella1975]

noah kahan really said growing up in a small, bitter hometown is about the rage and the hatred that's been sung about many times before but it's also about love and devotion and the 'all three of us were drowning and we didn't know how to save each other but there was an understanding that we were all drowning together' of it all and knowing people so intimately yet not being able to help anyone and he's morally grey at best in a lot of his songs and objectively the bad guy in others and that's just how it is and it's about substance abuse and normalised crime and teen suicide and country roads and failed exams and leaving and being left and love and hate and love and hate and love and

[maraferaventi]

portrait of queen Madi for Black Sails' 10 years anniversary✨🖤

[serial-unaliver]

i'm actually looking forward to summer because winter barely exists anymore. at least be hot when it's supposed to.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Dungeon: The Narrow Out

Looking to slip past the imperial naval blockades, you and your fellow strangers have paid for passage aboard a smuggler’s ship. Something's gone wrong however, you were supposed to meet at the mouth of the old sea cave but the person who was to be your guide hasn’t shown. With no hope of turning back, your only chance of escape is to press onwards into the dark.

This adventure starter is intended as an intro for a group of newer players and provides an introduction to a campaign full of mysteries, hidden motives, and nautical swashbuckling.  It lets you get a group of unrelated characters together, give them a starting point to begin constructing their backstories (why they need to leave the land under blockade), and familiarize them with the game’s mechanics (whichever that game might be) before sending them out into the world for larger adventures. 

Challenges & Complications

After some brief introductions at the mouth of the cave (perhaps asking how everyone is dealing with the chill of the evening, and the stress of trying to slip past the military blockade), you can send the party into the mouth of the cave with the shared understanding that their contact is long overdue. Finding their way through the caves is essential to them obtaining their freedom, but solving the mystery of what happened to their contact will prevent the same from falling into a similar fate. 

The initial leg of the journey through the cave is full of darkness, dead ends, and the usual denizens of any low level dungeon. The idea here is to teach your party the basics of game mechanics ( combat, skill challenges etc) before they get into exploration proper. These early tunnels are little more than various natural caves that the smugglers use as a buffer between their hideout and the outside world, sometimes creating false trails that lead would be interlopers into traps. 

The interior of the smuggler’s lair is an old fortress built into the walls of the cave itself, a secret dock constructed during the Grey Duke’s Revolution (or whichever conflict fits your campaign backstory)  and lost in the subsequent shift of power.  Since then it’s become a place for the smugglers to store their ill gotten good while blocking off several sections for being too dangerous to utilize, which just may prove to have unclaimed valuables. 

The smuggler’s ship, the Singing Eel is awaiting the party at the dock, all decked out and ready to sail but with no one apparently on board.  It’s an eerie sight, made all the eerier by the discovery that several of the innocuous statues stashed away in the cargo hold are in fact former members of the crew, victims of the flock of cockatrices the smugglers were transporting at a noble’s behest who managed to escape their cages and now lurk in the ship. 

While the party’s contact is stone dead, the rest of the crew is hold up in one of the old fortifications, ordered to hide by their all too cautious captain who’s scared of the beasts attacking.  The cockatrices haven’t left yet because one of their number, the lone rare female is still stuck in her cage, kept alive by the males foraging for her and passing food. The smugglers are on the edge of mutiny, some want to bolt, some want to try and fight, some want to recover their deadly cargo for the rich payout they were promised, and the party can have a strong impact depending on which side they talk up. Alternatively, if enough of the party are proficient in sailing, the thought might occur to them to cut the smugglers out of the deal entirely and take the ship and/or the surviving cockatrices for themselves and risk the blockade. 

While they’re exploring the old dock ruins, the party can come across a number of documents which might include maps of the dungeon, clues to hidden treasure, backstory on the cockatrices, blackmail information on the crew, as well as a hint of treasure in the location they’re headed off to. 

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[winterline13-art]

Sonic Prime Doodles

I love them your honor

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

New booktok from Luke Arnold! He's reading Peter Pan by JM Barrie for his The First Page of Pajama Party.

[kennyomegasweave]

Beer and Wan kissed! And it was a good ass kiss!

Then Tan showed up.

And then they kissed again! And Beer told Wan he wanted him to be his boyfriend!

Then Wan said "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear any of this cause it'll change our friendship" while Beer's face broke my heart.

These two took me on a JOURNEY this episode.

[etirabys]

so I see on AO3 that flint/silver is the biggest ship for Black Sails, which I (1 episode into season 2) frankly don't understand

silver: desperately wants to appease middle management in a context where that doesn't much exist

flint: not middle management

something's not connecting for me I gotta say

[cashmere-caveman]

it has been said before by many others and myself too but every time i think about the decision to age the kids in agot up for the show i get so mad you are missing the point!!!!!!!!!! they are kids!!!!! they're CHILDREN!!!!!

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Fitzjames & Irving

May 1833: James Fitzjames doesn't mind partying hard on a Sunday. Guess who was a Midshipman on the Belvidera at that time? John Irving! Wonder if Irving was taking part in the festivities and if Fitzjames and Irving met each other then.

Sir Richard Saunders Dundas was the Captain of HMS Belvidera 1830-1833:

Years later, on 27 January 1844, Irving wrote to his friend & Belvidera shipmate William Elphinstone Malcolm about a meeting with Dundas: “I met Captain Dundas in London; he was very kind. I have never met his equal since. He was in all respects a perfect officer and gentleman."

[Lieut. John Irving, A Memorial Sketch With Letters, p. 97]

[karamell-sweetz]

this is suuuch a stretch but now that the wonderland sekai has a confirmed ocean and islands i ALMOST want them to accidentally sail into the empty sekai’s body of water and freak out.

if that’s even possible in the lore. idk i haven’t read a good portion of the vsinger events where they talk about the lore soooo

but like… think about it. after they finish the first round of world link events for all the units i have NO idea what they’re going to do with that event type. coincidentally the vsinger wl (estimated for august) is in line with the 4th anni, and it sort of makes sense that the sekais could potentially connect and lots of stuff happens before 5th anni (usually a good milestone if i’m going off bandori). the only good scenario i have in mind is yk… GROUP SHUFFLES! SEKAI COLLISIONS OR SOME SHIT!! MULTI GROUP COVERS which i know they said they weren’t going to do unless for special occasions but like??

and also im aware that pjsk as it is is actually doing pretty well without doing group shuffle covers and stuff like bandori (by this i mean like the general election special songs like catastrophe banquet) and each of the groups don’t actually NEED that connection with the other groups… but come on. it’d be neat.

*noclips through the floor*

[lifepro-tips]

Top 10 Celebrity Yacht

[clove-pinks]

The Erie Maritime Museum shared this today, commemorating the 211th anniversary of Oliver Hazard Perry's squadron reaching Put-in-Bay, but the choice of pictures makes it look like Perry headed there on vacation for a little R&R.

[feellikeatraveller]

Just finish watching Black Sails for the first time and I am not alright and I don't think I can ever move on from the fact that in 4×10 Silver said those words "I'll stay for a day, a month even a year until you accept it" or something like that to Madi practically RIGHT AFTER he said the same to Flint.

The fact that Silver compares himself to Flint's three former partners, two of which were also his lovers and the both of them think it's completely *normal* that Silver considers himself as the forth one.

The fact that in a lot of scenes where Silver and Madi are together they are constantly talking about Flint more specifically about Silver's relationship with Flint. Even when they were naked. In Bed. After they had sex.

wtf?????