i put up this topic to show what i'll be up to in my game. i started in a gunboat (giving it it's silly name) and use realistic sailing. most of this will be in telegraph style to shorten it. actual book-like style could occur as well sometimes. i'll keep updating this post once in a while. feel free to post in this topic. note: everything you read here actually happened. no kidding or gloryfication.
19:00 - set sail from douwesen after finishing some business. dungeon crawl, fixing the ship, etc. heading: redmond island, north by east. noticed the cannonball can be seen sitting in the bow cannon.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0006.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
20:00 - leaving island behind. sighted war schooner off to port, sailing at roughly the same speed along with us. clowning around with the guns. discovered one port and starboard gun malfunctioning.
21:00 - sighted large british convoy off to starboard. included corvette and chebec. beautiful sunset. war schooner dissapearing off in the distance, as well as the island. noticed lateen yard is bent in the middle.
22:00 - nightfall. picked up 24 cwt of sailcloth disguised as logs.
23:00 - doing nothing. discovered what the shimmers around the boat where: fishes.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0017.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
00:00 - midnight. spent some time watching a sack of whatever it was bobbing past, being unable to pick it up due to full hold.
01:00 - spent most of the hour trying to find some bloody ship with my spyglass. turned out to be some almost invisible lugger on the horizon.
02:00 - got the scare of my life when a shark jumped out of the water to snatch one of the fish right next to my boat.
03:00 - sighted lugger CT off to starboard.
04:00 - wind speed of 1.5 knots. going nowhere. being annoyed by the stupid fish overtaking me and swimming circles around me. sharks seemed to have joined the party.
05:00 - good news and bad news. good news: wind now blowing 21 knots. bad news: it's a headwind.
06:00 - dawn breakes with a nasty surprise. first, there's this pea soup i'm sailing through. second, there are two very fast pirate brigs on my tail, closing in fast. wind blowing from the stern.
07:00 - fog cleared. dumped literally everything overboard. got very lucky: managed to increase the distance when pirates got at 500 yards distance. didn't open fire. phew!
08:00 - fog's back in force. land sighted, but god knows how. feeling a little giddy this morning: hoisted black sail. picked up 5 survivors in a boat. sighted spanish light caravel and lugger.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0020.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
09:00 - going nowhere again. fog didn't react to my blowing at it. sighted more cargo, but ignored it. bloody don nearly rammed me when i dozed off.
10:00 - breakers on redmond shore sighted at the beginning of the hour. fog cleared straight after, quite literally. adjusted course to ENE. long way to redmond port though.
11:00 - headwind. tacking. considering going for devil's throat. course east, north, and anything in between. quite satisfied that i didn't end up at hispaniola or cayman like the last times.
12:00 - perfect wind. doing just over 8 knots consistently. very happy with speed. raced a shark. going for devil's throat, being very nervous.
13:00 - cost me two attempts and a few nails, but made it through the teeth. made landfall and crossed the jungles to the city. voyage took 4 real hours, with the occasional use of speed-up. don't think i'll ever attempt a cross-sea voyage in realistic sailing mode unless i'm really bored, cos that's at least three times the length.
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just inside redmond city, day two. some guy named Robert Blewett (teehee <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
)" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> oi! ye blew it!) talked to me. usual yabber. chose to visit the dungeon.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/dungeon.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
discovered after my first fight that i was low on gunchowder. powder. either way, i soon ran out of it afterwards, but got more straight after the fight i used the last of it in. next, i got in a fight where i ran out again, and wen't up to level 3, training myself toughness, which was pretty handy, as i seemed to attracting swords like a magnet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" /> apart from that, i'd been shot twice, and hadn't used any potions yet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guns.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2guns" border="0" alt="guns.gif" />
my current stats are:
leadership 4, fully trained.
melee 4, base 3 (trained) +1 one point from a ruby.
sailing 2, trained.
accuracy and gunning 2, which is because i got it when i started a new game.
grappling, repair, defence, and commerce where all 1.
luck was 2 due to a lucky ring. goody.
now, you may wonder how i could have trained 6 points total. that's because i had 2 points you usually get from malcom to start off with. add the two points gained from the starting bonus and the two from the items and i have 10 points added at level 3. not bad eh? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
i kept running out of ammo and gunch...powder all the time, but usually had one shot ready for each fight. this was when something interesting happened: i met 4 grubby bandits. one of them tried to shoot me at the exact same time at which i shot him. we both got shot, but he died, and i didn't. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=")" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> the pistol was still in his hand when he was lying on the floor, but i couldn't loot it for some reason. in the last fight before i got out i found some grapeshot, which wasn't much use, but i kept it in case i found a second. those blunderbusses pack quite a punch, although it takes twice the food. ammo.
after that, i wen't to the store to sell me loot and restock the tub. bought:
40 grape.
300 gunpowder (don't think i'd need more for that. sure hope not)
4 wheat.
2 rum.
good for at least 14 days, i think. transfer took 7 hours. it's 23:00 now, so it's off to the tavern to get some sleep.
next morning, hired some crew. maxed now, although i think i should know better than to do that. heck, how often am i going to use those cannons? well, better just call it a meat shield then. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> i took the effort to go over my inventory:
average long pistol (equipped)
very shiny superior spyglass
even shinier ruby
5 small potions
thief knife
4 poison daggers (i really should start using them)
6 grenades (REALLY should have used those in the dungeon. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" /> no, not for blowing myself up, although i did once. in fact, i didn't use them in fear of killing myself with my low health)
1 etherbottle (better not sniff that)
4 stones (starts juggling)
1 stinkpot (accidentally drops it while juggling. yech. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" /> )
2 antidotes
3 blunderbusses (in case one of them explodes, which they tend to do. or more for the reason that you can't sell the bloody things)
1 unit of grapeshot
average dragon's tongue (equipped)(wonders which dragon they ripped it out of)
aye laddy, got da aver'ge highlander too!
5 bullets
3 gunpowder (really should find more of the stuff)
i found another potion in redmond, near the church. wen't to the docks to do the Rys Bloom mini-quest. hired him as an officer and gave him 3 potions (in addition to the one he had) as well as the highlander, taking his average schiavona to sell, which i didn't yet.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/rystalk.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
decided i should head back to the ship. excited the town, but got cought in a fight. Rys, the lazy bugger, didn't do anything, but nevermind. the fight gave me 2 mixtures, 2 elixers, a good sabre, and an average dagger. shot once, so that's two powder left. i can't help but wonder where the other two swords wen't. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> i'm sure i killed 4 of them. continued through the jungle. then i saw this:
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/shipgone.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
"mister Rys, any idea why my ship is gone?"
yep, you guessed it, wrong beach. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> all the worse considering that i specifically memorized the area where i entered the town from devil's throat, but ignored the memory all together. right, back we go. to top it all off, it started to rain. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" />
back in the jungle before the gates, i was robbed. killed the bastard. big mistake. all the others where after me now. well, let's just say that i shot once, got an average yataghan, 2 emerald pendants (one from the thief) a worn sabre and an avarage and good cutlass. shiney ones. checked my money afterwards. 32K. more than before the robbing, obviously, as i got my money back by killing the thief. i wondered what would have happened should i have done this in town.
found another antidote in the town and a potion. still raining when i got in the other jungle. finally arrived at the beach, where it stopped raining. jolly good.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/foundship.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
next stop, port au prince, hispaniola.
19:00 - set sail from douwesen after finishing some business. dungeon crawl, fixing the ship, etc. heading: redmond island, north by east. noticed the cannonball can be seen sitting in the bow cannon.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0006.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
20:00 - leaving island behind. sighted war schooner off to port, sailing at roughly the same speed along with us. clowning around with the guns. discovered one port and starboard gun malfunctioning.
21:00 - sighted large british convoy off to starboard. included corvette and chebec. beautiful sunset. war schooner dissapearing off in the distance, as well as the island. noticed lateen yard is bent in the middle.
22:00 - nightfall. picked up 24 cwt of sailcloth disguised as logs.
23:00 - doing nothing. discovered what the shimmers around the boat where: fishes.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0017.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
00:00 - midnight. spent some time watching a sack of whatever it was bobbing past, being unable to pick it up due to full hold.
01:00 - spent most of the hour trying to find some bloody ship with my spyglass. turned out to be some almost invisible lugger on the horizon.
02:00 - got the scare of my life when a shark jumped out of the water to snatch one of the fish right next to my boat.
03:00 - sighted lugger CT off to starboard.
04:00 - wind speed of 1.5 knots. going nowhere. being annoyed by the stupid fish overtaking me and swimming circles around me. sharks seemed to have joined the party.
05:00 - good news and bad news. good news: wind now blowing 21 knots. bad news: it's a headwind.
06:00 - dawn breakes with a nasty surprise. first, there's this pea soup i'm sailing through. second, there are two very fast pirate brigs on my tail, closing in fast. wind blowing from the stern.
07:00 - fog cleared. dumped literally everything overboard. got very lucky: managed to increase the distance when pirates got at 500 yards distance. didn't open fire. phew!
08:00 - fog's back in force. land sighted, but god knows how. feeling a little giddy this morning: hoisted black sail. picked up 5 survivors in a boat. sighted spanish light caravel and lugger.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/seadogs2_0020.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
09:00 - going nowhere again. fog didn't react to my blowing at it. sighted more cargo, but ignored it. bloody don nearly rammed me when i dozed off.
10:00 - breakers on redmond shore sighted at the beginning of the hour. fog cleared straight after, quite literally. adjusted course to ENE. long way to redmond port though.
11:00 - headwind. tacking. considering going for devil's throat. course east, north, and anything in between. quite satisfied that i didn't end up at hispaniola or cayman like the last times.
12:00 - perfect wind. doing just over 8 knots consistently. very happy with speed. raced a shark. going for devil's throat, being very nervous.
13:00 - cost me two attempts and a few nails, but made it through the teeth. made landfall and crossed the jungles to the city. voyage took 4 real hours, with the occasional use of speed-up. don't think i'll ever attempt a cross-sea voyage in realistic sailing mode unless i'm really bored, cos that's at least three times the length.
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just inside redmond city, day two. some guy named Robert Blewett (teehee <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
)" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> oi! ye blew it!) talked to me. usual yabber. chose to visit the dungeon.<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/dungeon.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
discovered after my first fight that i was low on gunchowder. powder. either way, i soon ran out of it afterwards, but got more straight after the fight i used the last of it in. next, i got in a fight where i ran out again, and wen't up to level 3, training myself toughness, which was pretty handy, as i seemed to attracting swords like a magnet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" /> apart from that, i'd been shot twice, and hadn't used any potions yet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guns.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2guns" border="0" alt="guns.gif" />
my current stats are:
leadership 4, fully trained.
melee 4, base 3 (trained) +1 one point from a ruby.
sailing 2, trained.
accuracy and gunning 2, which is because i got it when i started a new game.
grappling, repair, defence, and commerce where all 1.
luck was 2 due to a lucky ring. goody.
now, you may wonder how i could have trained 6 points total. that's because i had 2 points you usually get from malcom to start off with. add the two points gained from the starting bonus and the two from the items and i have 10 points added at level 3. not bad eh? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />i kept running out of ammo and gunch...powder all the time, but usually had one shot ready for each fight. this was when something interesting happened: i met 4 grubby bandits. one of them tried to shoot me at the exact same time at which i shot him. we both got shot, but he died, and i didn't. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
)" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> the pistol was still in his hand when he was lying on the floor, but i couldn't loot it for some reason. in the last fight before i got out i found some grapeshot, which wasn't much use, but i kept it in case i found a second. those blunderbusses pack quite a punch, although it takes twice the food. ammo.after that, i wen't to the store to sell me loot and restock the tub. bought:
40 grape.
300 gunpowder (don't think i'd need more for that. sure hope not)
4 wheat.
2 rum.
good for at least 14 days, i think. transfer took 7 hours. it's 23:00 now, so it's off to the tavern to get some sleep.
next morning, hired some crew. maxed now, although i think i should know better than to do that. heck, how often am i going to use those cannons? well, better just call it a meat shield then. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> i took the effort to go over my inventory:average long pistol (equipped)
very shiny superior spyglass
even shinier ruby
5 small potions
thief knife
4 poison daggers (i really should start using them)
6 grenades (REALLY should have used those in the dungeon. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" /> no, not for blowing myself up, although i did once. in fact, i didn't use them in fear of killing myself with my low health)
1 etherbottle (better not sniff that)
4 stones (starts juggling)
1 stinkpot (accidentally drops it while juggling. yech. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" /> )
2 antidotes
3 blunderbusses (in case one of them explodes, which they tend to do. or more for the reason that you can't sell the bloody things)
1 unit of grapeshot
average dragon's tongue (equipped)(wonders which dragon they ripped it out of)
aye laddy, got da aver'ge highlander too!
5 bullets
3 gunpowder (really should find more of the stuff)
i found another potion in redmond, near the church. wen't to the docks to do the Rys Bloom mini-quest. hired him as an officer and gave him 3 potions (in addition to the one he had) as well as the highlander, taking his average schiavona to sell, which i didn't yet.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/rystalk.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
decided i should head back to the ship. excited the town, but got cought in a fight. Rys, the lazy bugger, didn't do anything, but nevermind. the fight gave me 2 mixtures, 2 elixers, a good sabre, and an average dagger. shot once, so that's two powder left. i can't help but wonder where the other two swords wen't. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> i'm sure i killed 4 of them. continued through the jungle. then i saw this:
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/shipgone.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
"mister Rys, any idea why my ship is gone?"
yep, you guessed it, wrong beach. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> all the worse considering that i specifically memorized the area where i entered the town from devil's throat, but ignored the memory all together. right, back we go. to top it all off, it started to rain. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" />back in the jungle before the gates, i was robbed. killed the bastard. big mistake. all the others where after me now. well, let's just say that i shot once, got an average yataghan, 2 emerald pendants (one from the thief) a worn sabre and an avarage and good cutlass. shiney ones. checked my money afterwards. 32K. more than before the robbing, obviously, as i got my money back by killing the thief. i wondered what would have happened should i have done this in town.
found another antidote in the town and a potion. still raining when i got in the other jungle. finally arrived at the beach, where it stopped raining. jolly good.
<img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/morgan_terror/foundship.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
next stop, port au prince, hispaniola.
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