Entering Nevis Pirate Settlement, I got the usual encounter with Artois Voysey and Nigel Blythe, and as usual chose to intervene. Blythe didn't live long. As sometimes happens in other fights, one of my officers fired a pistol a bit too late, when Blythe was already dead. On this occasion he missed Blythe and hit Voysey, killing him. That should have messed up the side quest, except that Voysey had already started his dialog and kept going despite being slightly dead.
The dialog ends with him offering to join you as an officer, and if you accept, he goes straight into your number 3 slot, displacing any officer who might have already been there. So he was lying on the ground and also showing up both as a small icon in the main display and as an entry in the F2 "Characters" list, with 0 HP.
When I left the settlement and went out into the clearing, Voysey was back on his feet and restored to full HP. I've yet to see if there are any long term side-effects of him being undead, e.g. if there's any weirdness when he's put in command of a prize ship.
The dialog ends with him offering to join you as an officer, and if you accept, he goes straight into your number 3 slot, displacing any officer who might have already been there. So he was lying on the ground and also showing up both as a small icon in the main display and as an entry in the F2 "Characters" list, with 0 HP.
When I left the settlement and went out into the clearing, Voysey was back on his feet and restored to full HP. I've yet to see if there are any long term side-effects of him being undead, e.g. if there's any weirdness when he's put in command of a prize ship.