#The Party Sails

[zairaalbereo]

Captain James Flint — serval years late, but hopefully not too many doubloons short.

Or in other news, I finally watched Black Sails, predictably for anyone who ever knew me fell in love, and ever since, have been trying to do Flint’s vibe of “stoic while simultaneously looking pained, amused, exasperated and about three seconds from murderous” justice.

[ambassadorquark]

POV: you walked into the wrong alleyway

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2024: aro & ace books

of 97 aspec books I read, these are some of my favourites!

Don’t Let The Forest In

Pluralities

Fallen Thorns

Compound Fracture

Dear Wendy

Party of Fools

Someone You Can Build A Nest In

The Beast of Okeme (now published as Until The Last Petal Falls)

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

Sailing By Gemini’s Star

Moth To A Flame

How To Sell Your Blood And Fall In Love

Flooded Secrets

Small Gods of Calamity

At The Feet Of The Sun

[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

[maraferaventi]

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

[mohntilyet]

tearstone island is an ISLAND. THAT IS NEAR RIVAIN. and we don't even get to see the lords of fortune do anything. bioware i am in your fucking walls

[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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[expatesque]

It's Christmas Eve Eve and I've confit-ed twelve chicken legs and made enough bearnaise for an army. The only hard cooking that's left is the chocolate mousse which I'll do tomorrow morning, then it's smooth sailing.

[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.

[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

[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]

[sciderman]

Speaking of music blasphemy, I saw a tiktok a while ago asking what everyone’s most hated song was and so many people said Kokomo?!!??

literally who the fuck are these people

[six-improbable-things]

I had to open the ship combat rules doc I made for Rook's campaign the other day, and man, that thing was (and still is tbh) my fucking magnum opus. I put so much effort into creating rules for a type of combat that dnd doesn't naturally support, and it was SUCH a fun challenge. I'll admit it's not perfect, but it works for our campaign, and everyone seemed to like it during our one test so far, so that's good enough for me.

I think between the stat blocks, the rules themselves, and the maps of the ships, I spent easily 48 hours total on making this sailing arc happen. (No, I'm not the DM, I just like homebrewing shit, and also happen to be the one who decided to play a pirate and make that involved in the story.)

[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]

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