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- 2014-10-25 18:26:05 Ugolino: Witches at sea
- 2014-10-25 18:26:10 Ugolino: preying on ships
- 2014-10-25 18:26:18 SleepyCrasian: Mmm... your population is still reallllllllly small.
- 2014-10-25 18:26:26 Ugolino: Because why wouldn't Kyubey contract coastal girls?
- 2014-10-25 18:26:32 SleepyCrasian: Youma at Sea works better, especially if the Meguca are going to be in battle with said pirates.
- 2014-10-25 18:26:33 Ugolino: Well more competition :p
- 2014-10-25 18:26:35 Ugolino: Yes :P
- 2014-10-25 18:26:51 SleepyCrasian: The uh... other question would be, what happens to girls who are defeated in battle.
- 2014-10-25 18:27:10 SleepyCrasian: While on the one hand, I would *hope* that pirates are at least civilized enough to just kill them....
- 2014-10-25 18:27:12 CannonGerbil: umm, parley?
- 2014-10-25 18:27:16 Schwer-Muta: They get chucked overboard where do you think the Sea Witches come from :V
- 2014-10-25 18:27:18 EtchedSteel: ^^
- 2014-10-25 18:27:22 Ugolino: Go for Pirates of Carribean more than historical accuracy?
- 2014-10-25 18:27:40 Ugolino: Muta: Toss the gem overboard?
- 2014-10-25 18:27:47 Ugolino: Then toss the body later
- 2014-10-25 18:28:34 Ugolino: heh superstition about the meguca captains
- 2014-10-25 18:28:39 Ugolino: and sea witches has a nice ring to it
- 2014-10-25 18:29:21 SleepyCrasian: Yeah... we'd have to Caribbean that. Make it a little Lighter and Fluffier.
- 2014-10-25 18:29:32 Sightedjt: the meguca code
- 2014-10-25 18:29:40 SleepyCrasian: ^Hehehehe
- 2014-10-25 18:29:42 Ugolino: Yeah, Carribean it all the way
- 2014-10-25 18:30:17 Ugolino: But yeah >sirens and witches
- 2014-10-25 18:30:23 sdjsdj: He, you know that story that after Blackbeard got shot twenty times, and decapitated, and chucked overboard, he was still swimming? Obviously meguca. :V
- 2014-10-25 18:30:24 SleepyCrasian: Fair enough then
- 2014-10-25 18:30:39 Ugolino: MEGUCA BLACKBEARD. THE PRECURSOR TO MAMI HAIR LOOPIES.
- 2014-10-25 18:30:41 sdjsdj: *Hey
- 2014-10-25 18:30:46 Sightedjt: meguca blackbeard
- 2014-10-25 18:30:49 Sightedjt: glorious
- 2014-10-25 18:34:13 Ugolino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailors%27_superstitions#Klabautermann
- 2014-10-25 18:34:57 Ugolino: "In Trinidad and Tobago, sea-dwelling mer-men "were known to grant a wish, transform mediocrity into genius and confer wealth and power."[22]"
- 2014-10-25 18:35:01 Ugolino: Bunnycat. Stop that.
- 2014-10-25 18:35:40 Ugolino: Mermaids appear in British folklore as unlucky omens, both foretelling disaster and provoking it...Mermaids can also be a sign of approaching rough weather,[24] and some have been described as monstrous in size, up to 2,000 feet (610 m).[23]
- 2014-10-25 18:35:40 EtchedSteel: ^
- 2014-10-25 18:35:46 Ugolino: hehehehehehe
- 2014-10-25 18:36:05 EtchedSteel: @Schwer >:|
- 2014-10-25 18:36:35 EtchedSteel: So oktavia would do a cameo hehehee
- 2014-10-25 18:37:01 Sightedjt: heh
- 2014-10-25 18:37:07 Ugolino: What do you do with a drunken meguca~
- 2014-10-25 18:37:34 SleepyCrasian: @Schwer: And now it's "DOXX THE WITCHES" and "GAMERS ARE MURDERERS". Wut.
- 2014-10-25 18:38:04 SleepyCrasian: @Ugo: What do you do with a drunken meguca, what do you do with a drunken meguca, what do you do with a drunken meguca ER-LIE IN DA MORRRRNIN'
- 2014-10-25 18:38:08 Ugolino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urV8MIcLDFk :D
- 2014-10-25 18:38:28 Ugolino: TOSS HER GEM IN A BAG AND THROW IT OVERRRR
- 2014-10-25 18:38:41 Ugolino: TOSS HER GEM IN A BAG AND THROW IT OVERRRR EARLYY IN THE MORNINGGGGGG
- 2014-10-25 18:39:10 Ugolino: FEED HER TO THE HUNGRY WITCHES FOR DINNERRRRR EARLLY IN THE MORNINGGG
- 2014-10-25 18:39:45 Ugolino: heh...pirateguca would be one setting where compass would actually be a viable 'weapon'
- 2014-10-25 18:44:56 Ugolino: Hmmm. Witches in ports.
- 2014-10-25 18:45:30 SleepyCrasian: The Kraken is like the Megucabbean equivalent to Walpurgisnacht?
- 2014-10-25 18:45:53 EtchedSteel: >Walks into a bar
- 2014-10-25 18:45:57 SleepyCrasian: "Drink up, m'ladies, we've got a long fight ahead'a us, an' make no mistake!"
- 2014-10-25 18:45:58 EtchedSteel: >Adquire cheap rum
- 2014-10-25 18:45:59 Ugolino: All the girls who witched out at sea, drifting in the currents...eventually fusing when the tides bring their barriers together :D
- 2014-10-25 18:46:04 EtchedSteel: >Bar fight
- 2014-10-25 18:46:19 Ugolino: For ports and Witch kisses...I'm thinking fire.
- 2014-10-25 18:46:38 sdjsdj: Maybe a few different varieties of mishap, not necessarily /magical/, still result in supernatural badness? Like ... mutiny gone horribly wrong? Some asshole kills an albatross? Entire crew wiped out by disease? Rigging broken by a storm, can't be fixed before the water runs out? You get a haunting, a malevolent spirit, a full-blown ghost ship, something along those lines.
- 2014-10-25 18:47:00 Ugolino: ohhh ghost ships
- 2014-10-25 18:47:17 Ugolino: Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
- 2014-10-25 18:47:18 Ugolino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire
- 2014-10-25 18:48:25 EtchedSteel: Random thought: Bermuda triangle is where the skadi-level witches are.
- 2014-10-25 18:48:34 SleepyCrasian: The Oceans are just epic for this if you make some initial handwaving.
- 2014-10-25 18:48:49 Ugolino: Actually scarity of grief seeds is a self-solving problem for meguca
- 2014-10-25 18:49:04 Ugolino: >Girl miscalculates how many seeds she'll need for a long voyage
- 2014-10-25 18:49:07 SleepyCrasian: "We're out of seeds. Which one of us is gonna witch out?"
- 2014-10-25 18:49:19 SleepyCrasian: "We'll draw straws."
- 2014-10-25 18:49:29 Ugolino: >jumps overboard in despair
- 2014-10-25 18:49:34 Ugolino: >another oceanbound witch
- 2014-10-25 18:49:41 Sightedjt: RELEASE THE KRAKEN
- 2014-10-25 18:49:50 Sightedjt: (Aka release the wpn)
- 2014-10-25 18:49:54 Ugolino: Meguca ship crews are inadvertently witchbait.
- 2014-10-25 18:50:05 Ugolino: Since they're the only people around for miles and miles
- 2014-10-25 18:50:05 EtchedSteel: go to sleep krekian :P
- 2014-10-25 18:50:10 sdjsdj: Meguca Captain Ahab hunts WN. :V
- 2014-10-25 18:50:12 Ugolino: Their ships are going to be witch _magnets_
- 2014-10-25 18:50:15 Ugolino: Snrk.
- 2014-10-25 18:50:19 Ugolino: THE WHITE WITCH
- 2014-10-25 18:50:20 Sightedjt: where the sailors like
- 2014-10-25 18:50:21 Ugolino: THERE SHE IS
- 2014-10-25 18:50:29 Sightedjt: step overboard when becalmed
- 2014-10-25 18:50:31 SleepyCrasian: @Sdj: I SMILE AT THEE SMILING WHALEEEEE
- 2014-10-25 18:50:33 Sightedjt: the sorta sea madness
- 2014-10-25 18:50:35 Ugolino: HARD TO PORT, DAMN YE ALL FOR A PACK OF COWARDS!
- 2014-10-25 18:50:36 Sightedjt: - witch kiss
- 2014-10-25 18:51:05 EtchedSteel: "Ugolino: THE WHITE WITCH. THERE SHE IS"
- 2014-10-25 18:51:07 SleepyCrasian: But WITCH FIGHTS WITH ENTIRE BATTERIES OF ARTILLERY
- 2014-10-25 18:51:09 SleepyCrasian: OH MY GOD
- 2014-10-25 18:51:16 EtchedSteel: SPLIT YOUR LUNGS IN BLOOD AND THUNDER
- 2014-10-25 18:51:27 Sightedjt: FIRE BROADSIDE AT THE WITCH
- 2014-10-25 18:52:02 EtchedSteel: BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS GIRLS
- 2014-10-25 18:52:03 SleepyCrasian: "PREPARE TO BROADSIDE," shouted Captain Abigail over the spirit's howls, her hands flickering with magic as she jerked our galley out of a blow sure to have ripped us in two.
- 2014-10-25 18:52:13 Ugolino: There's a joke about a captain's daughter meguca using a cat'o'ninetails as her weapon
- 2014-10-25 18:52:15 Ugolino: snrk
- 2014-10-25 18:52:24 Ugolino: hmmm spyglass as meguca weapon...
- 2014-10-25 18:52:26 Sightedjt: wind, weather control, water control meguca
- 2014-10-25 18:52:28 Sightedjt: are the worst
- 2014-10-25 18:52:35 Sightedjt: call down a storm upon their enemies
- 2014-10-25 18:52:43 EtchedSteel: @Krekian Is about if June gonna stick together or try for a separate path.
- 2014-10-25 18:52:46 Ugolino: I could see a lot of PtV megucas
- 2014-10-25 18:52:52 Ugolino: who wished to never lose their way at sea...
- 2014-10-25 18:53:02 EtchedSteel: @Krek So far, all the sparklies agrees with stick together
- 2014-10-25 18:53:15 Ugolino: Or to help her Captain father track down the mysterious pirate he's been tasked with hunting...
- 2014-10-25 18:53:20 SleepyCrasian: "READYYYYYYYY." The crew stood by their guns, terrified but holding steady. With Captain Abigail at the helm, we could never fail. The ship rolled back towards the monster....
- 2014-10-25 18:53:22 SleepyCrasian: "FIRE!!"
- 2014-10-25 18:53:56 Krekian: pirategucas woo. cras. start a quest.
- 2014-10-25 18:53:57 EtchedSteel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw
- 2014-10-25 18:54:08 EtchedSteel: relevant for the discussion of pirateguca
- 2014-10-25 18:54:38 Sightedjt: each player is one part of the ships crew
- 2014-10-25 18:54:45 Sightedjt: or quest where we control the crew
- 2014-10-25 18:55:10 sdjsdj: What're we talking here? Pirate, privateer, navy?
- 2014-10-25 18:55:27 Ugolino: "The Captain's crazy and the less said about her dress the better, but who's going to argue with a witch with black magic?"
- 2014-10-25 18:55:35 Ugolino: Sdj: all of the above :V
- 2014-10-25 18:55:58 Sightedjt: ALL meguca crew or normals wity some magic?
- 2014-10-25 18:55:59 sdjsdj: "If we don't get caught, it's legal, right?" :V
- 2014-10-25 18:56:07 Ugolino: Pirates who use magic to get the crew to do whatever she wants, privateer who has a puppet captain for appearances, and the Navy to deal with the first
- 2014-10-25 18:56:12 Sightedjt: some magical girls
- 2014-10-25 18:56:22 Sightedjt: Hell
- 2014-10-25 18:56:24 Ugolino: Sighted: megucas effectively in charge
- 2014-10-25 18:56:26 Sightedjt: ooh
- 2014-10-25 18:56:31 Sightedjt: Idea
- 2014-10-25 18:56:36 Ugolino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy
- 2014-10-25 18:56:52 SleepyCrasian: "While it is typically not in the tradition of Her Majesty's Royal Navy to accept female sailors into the crew, it cannot be denied that Ms. Portman's unique ability are an asset to this vessel of extreme importance."
- 2014-10-25 18:56:56 Sightedjt: blackbeards ship or whatever, or like
- 2014-10-25 18:56:59 Sightedjt: uhhhh
- 2014-10-25 18:57:11 Sightedjt: the flying dutchman
- 2014-10-25 18:57:20 Ugolino: There is no historical record of Bonny's release or of her execution. This has fed speculation that her father ransomed her; that she might have returned to her husband, or even that she resumed a life of piracy under a new identity.[13]
- 2014-10-25 18:57:21 Sightedjt: is just a ship with a handful of crew megucas
- 2014-10-25 18:57:31 Sightedjt: as the only crew
- 2014-10-25 18:57:35 Ugolino: "...HOW DID SHE GET OUT OF A LOCKED CELL?"
- 2014-10-25 18:58:01 Sightedjt: so like, 5-6 meguca's as the only crew on a ship using magic to control it
- 2014-10-25 18:58:11 Sightedjt: blackbeard with weather control as her power
- 2014-10-25 18:58:18 Sightedjt: call down a storm on her prey
- 2014-10-25 18:58:24 SleepyCrasian: "Magic, yah floppy sausages." *drops from ceiling* *kills everyone*
- 2014-10-25 18:58:33 Sightedjt: fire powers guca controlling the cannons
- 2014-10-25 18:59:02 sdjsdj: Weather control would be a gamechanger. Never get becalmed, never suffer a storm, always attack with a favorable wind.
- 2014-10-25 18:59:03 Ugolino: Blackbeard tying flaming candles into her braids?
- 2014-10-25 18:59:09 SleepyCrasian: @Sighted: Well, the sails are some hella complex shit that you want more than one person on purely because of scale.
- 2014-10-25 18:59:27 SleepyCrasian: I'd get a dozen men for the sails and two meguca.
- 2014-10-25 18:59:53 Sightedjt: MAGIC
- 2014-10-25 19:00:00 Sightedjt: I like the idea of the proper mythical ships
- 2014-10-25 19:00:05 Sightedjt: being ALL meguca
- 2014-10-25 19:00:11 Ugolino: Or a more powerful meguca might be the only one aboard and strongarming the meatshields/crew into doing her bidding.
- 2014-10-25 19:00:14 Ugolino: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:00:16 SleepyCrasian: You need three men to a cannon and each galley had about 24, so I would get 2 meguca (one for each side) and 36 gunners
- 2014-10-25 19:00:22 Ugolino: >Cannons
- 2014-10-25 19:00:24 Ugolino: >Not just magic
- 2014-10-25 19:00:26 Sightedjt: yeah
- 2014-10-25 19:00:33 Sightedjt: gears- MAGIC
- 2014-10-25 19:00:42 SleepyCrasian: And then command crew of a meguca and 8 mortals.
- 2014-10-25 19:00:43 Sightedjt: we can throw realism partly out the way
- 2014-10-25 19:00:54 SleepyCrasian: Well fair fair, I tend to nerf me megucas
- 2014-10-25 19:00:54 EtchedSteel: ^
- 2014-10-25 19:00:55 Ugolino: >Stash of grief seeds on a remote island
- 2014-10-25 19:00:56 Ugolino: :D
- 2014-10-25 19:01:03 EtchedSteel: snrk.
- 2014-10-25 19:01:09 SleepyCrasian: Oh oh oh
- 2014-10-25 19:01:16 EtchedSteel: turtles
- 2014-10-25 19:01:28 Sightedjt: Gears- we're pirates of the carribeaning it up already
- 2014-10-25 19:01:31 Ugolino: MAGICAL SUBMARINESSSSSSSSSSS
- 2014-10-25 19:01:40 Sightedjt: theres no meguca nerfing going on here
- 2014-10-25 19:01:42 sdjsdj: > Massive race to retrieve them before they go from 'valuable' to 'oh god no' :V
- 2014-10-25 19:01:47 Sightedjt: we're going full on stronkgucas
- 2014-10-25 19:01:53 Ugolino: >The joke is that it's been years already
- 2014-10-25 19:01:57 SleepyCrasian: "You sacked Nassau Port without firing a shot!" shouted Elizabeth Swann, waving her arms at Jacquelyn Sparrow in animated frustration. "Are you the Pirate Queen I've read about or not?! What did you do when you were here last?!"
- 2014-10-25 19:02:07 EtchedSteel: "PART OF THE CREW"
- 2014-10-25 19:02:08 Krekian: well there's your plot
- 2014-10-25 19:02:11 EtchedSteel: "PART OF THE SHIP"
- 2014-10-25 19:02:12 SleepyCrasian: Jacquelyn turned a tired and annoyed eye to Elizabeth.
- 2014-10-25 19:02:18 Ugolino: hehehehe
- 2014-10-25 19:02:31 Krekian: adventure to find a mythical cache of grif sids.
- 2014-10-25 19:02:38 Sightedjt: the flying dutchman and blackdrills ships are just megucas
- 2014-10-25 19:02:41 Sightedjt: no mundanes
- 2014-10-25 19:03:06 Ugolino: Kyubey'd probably get referring to as a "familiar", maybe?
- 2014-10-25 19:03:10 Ugolino: *referred
- 2014-10-25 19:03:11 Sightedjt: just really powerful meguca teams controlling the entire ship
- 2014-10-25 19:03:14 Krekian: she who finds the cache need not worry about grief ever again.
- 2014-10-25 19:03:17 Ugolino: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:03:18 EtchedSteel: like the parrot, aye
- 2014-10-25 19:03:26 Ugolino: parrotbey :V
- 2014-10-25 19:03:27 SleepyCrasian: "Lass, the last time I was here, the rumrunners were usin' this island as a stash for their merchandise. I bargained with them when they showed up next for safe passage to the nearest port, and, from the looks of things, they have been out of business for a while now. Probably have your bloody friend Norrin'ton to thank for that."
- 2014-10-25 19:03:29 Sightedjt: peg leg meguca
- 2014-10-25 19:03:37 Sightedjt: Sea turtles
- 2014-10-25 19:03:55 Ugolino: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:04:02 Ugolino: >ship runs aground
- 2014-10-25 19:04:05 Ugolino: >in the middle of the ocean
- 2014-10-25 19:04:06 Sightedjt: Of course, if its the adventure to find where blackdrills has stashed her seed stockpile
- 2014-10-25 19:04:10 Ugolino: "Prepare for boarders!"
- 2014-10-25 19:04:19 SleepyCrasian: "...so the Great Pirate Queen Jacquelyn Sparrow spent three days, lying on a beach, drinking rum, before being accidentally rescued."
- 2014-10-25 19:04:29 Sightedjt: then the problem comes
- 2014-10-25 19:04:36 sdjsdj: Setting'd probably be unfriendly enough without a hostile QB, TBH
- 2014-10-25 19:04:46 Ugolino: ...Magically enchanted treasure chests?
- 2014-10-25 19:04:51 Sightedjt: what happens when blackdrills herself hears youre after her loot
- 2014-10-25 19:04:57 SleepyCrasian: Jacquelyn paused as she carried an armful of bottles out of a hidden cellar. "...Yup!" she said cheerfully. She held out a bottle. "Rum?"
- 2014-10-25 19:04:59 Ugolino: ...So we're talking post-series with grief cubes? But then we lose the FUN of Witches
- 2014-10-25 19:05:20 Ugolino: Pirategucas
- 2014-10-25 19:05:22 SleepyCrasian: @Ugo: But at the same time, FULL BROADSIDE
- 2014-10-25 19:05:39 Winged Knight: If pirateguca, then how to they get witches?
- 2014-10-25 19:05:39 SleepyCrasian: We can never lose fun if we can access FULL BROADSIDE
- 2014-10-25 19:05:45 SleepyCrasian: Heya Winged
- 2014-10-25 19:05:45 Winged Knight: Seawitchs?
- 2014-10-25 19:05:46 Krekian: AHOY WK.
- 2014-10-25 19:05:48 Winged Knight: Are they salty?
- 2014-10-25 19:05:49 EtchedSteel: yup
- 2014-10-25 19:05:51 CannonGerbil: tell me if you need more to work with, sighted
- 2014-10-25 19:05:51 Ugolino: Winged: yeah
- 2014-10-25 19:05:58 Ugolino: Any girl that doesn't set sail with enough seeds
- 2014-10-25 19:06:00 SleepyCrasian: @Winged: Salty Witches?
- 2014-10-25 19:06:01 Ugolino: wastes magic
- 2014-10-25 19:06:07 Ugolino: or just gets her gem tossed overboard
- 2014-10-25 19:06:10 Ugolino: is another sea witch
- 2014-10-25 19:06:25 Ugolino: and the unique thing about sea witches is that ships are going to be witch magnets
- 2014-10-25 19:06:32 Ugolino: as the only people around for miles
- 2014-10-25 19:06:38 SleepyCrasian: I propose that a crew of megucas draws straws to see who has to drown herself for the good of the ship.
- 2014-10-25 19:06:42 Ugolino: Snrk.
- 2014-10-25 19:06:53 SleepyCrasian: "...I'm sorry Mary."
- 2014-10-25 19:07:08 SleepyCrasian: "N-no... No it's... it's too soon. I haven't seen everything I wanted to see...."
- 2014-10-25 19:07:13 sdjsdj: Ships that've had someone witch aboard them? Caught up in the barrier, their crew all kissed or dead? That's where ghost ships come in ...
- 2014-10-25 19:07:19 Sightedjt: WALK THE PLANK
- 2014-10-25 19:07:26 Ugolino: *splash*
- 2014-10-25 19:07:30 Krekian: witch ships?
- 2014-10-25 19:07:33 SleepyCrasian: "Mary... I... what do you want for your last meal? We still have plenty of food for the crew, we can make you something special."
- 2014-10-25 19:07:34 Ugolino: ayuppp
- 2014-10-25 19:07:39 Krekian: barrier ships.
- 2014-10-25 19:07:55 Sightedjt: oooh
- 2014-10-25 19:07:59 Ugolino: Meguca uses magic to sail her ship underwater :V
- 2014-10-25 19:07:59 Sightedjt: the flying dutchman
- 2014-10-25 19:08:07 Sightedjt: is like
- 2014-10-25 19:08:18 Sightedjt: the flagship of a navy that became a witch ship
- 2014-10-25 19:08:23 sdjsdj: Heh. On the other hand, on a meguca pirate ship, keelhauling is a lot less deadly. :V
- 2014-10-25 19:08:25 Sightedjt: and its got a wpn class
- 2014-10-25 19:08:38 SleepyCrasian: So the interesting thing would be
- 2014-10-25 19:08:39 Sightedjt: as the thats taken it
- 2014-10-25 19:08:45 SleepyCrasian: Megucas probably make hella bank
- 2014-10-25 19:08:57 Ugolino: SDJ: Put the gem between the girl and the ship
- 2014-10-25 19:08:58 SleepyCrasian: But there are obviously risks that come with joining a Meguca Crew
- 2014-10-25 19:09:03 Krekian: solved the lack of witch problem. Abandoned ghost ships, just floating in the sea. Rescuers get pulled in to the barrier and eaten.
- 2014-10-25 19:09:10 Ugolino: Ehh krek
- 2014-10-25 19:09:11 SleepyCrasian: How does Pirate Lore change to reflect this?
- 2014-10-25 19:09:16 Ugolino: That too
- 2014-10-25 19:09:27 Krekian: hm?
- 2014-10-25 19:09:31 Ugolino: Crasian: even more legends of women pirates, superstitions...
- 2014-10-25 19:09:47 Sightedjt: people are fucking terrified of sirens and mermaids
- 2014-10-25 19:09:51 Ugolino: The thing I realized was that witch scarcity matters a bit less when your ship is literally a Witch magnet
- 2014-10-25 19:09:53 Sightedjt: as you dont know if its a meguca
- 2014-10-25 19:09:55 Sightedjt: or a witch
- 2014-10-25 19:09:59 Ugolino: as the only people around
- 2014-10-25 19:09:59 Ugolino: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:10:20 Ugolino: Well the legends'd be of witches probably, while most megucas get their own set of rumors
- 2014-10-25 19:10:28 Krekian: yeah, but witches are inside barriers
- 2014-10-25 19:10:49 Ugolino: Rescued survivors spreading rumors?
- 2014-10-25 19:11:01 EtchedSteel: mhmm
- 2014-10-25 19:11:02 Ugolino: People finding the aftermath of witches on ghost ships?
- 2014-10-25 19:11:15 Krekian: also etched you are shinji now.
- 2014-10-25 19:11:20 Winged Knight: You could have some people with just enough spiritual sensitivity to get an impression of what is inside the Barriers.
- 2014-10-25 19:11:29 Winged Knight: So they see shapes and impressions within terrible forms.
- 2014-10-25 19:11:32 Winged Knight: *Storms
- 2014-10-25 19:11:36 EtchedSteel: @Krek yes
- 2014-10-25 19:11:45 Sightedjt: nice WK
- 2014-10-25 19:11:52 Ugolino: "Aye, we found her. A ship of the line, every sail and flag still in place. The crew, though...Every last man of them was gone. We didn't stick around, but from what we saw they just...got up. Went up topside, and stepped overboard.
- 2014-10-25 19:11:58 Winged Knight: These people spread rumors, and these rumors are taken as fact after a while.
- 2014-10-25 19:12:08 Ugolino: The work of the Devil himself, most like."
- 2014-10-25 19:12:22 Ugolino: Or even just a sense of despair?
- 2014-10-25 19:12:28 Ugolino: ohhhh witches causing storms :D
- 2014-10-25 19:12:33 Winged Knight: That could work too, Ugo.
- 2014-10-25 19:12:41 Ugolino: charybdis :V
- 2014-10-25 19:12:44 Winged Knight: I figure storms are what barriers will look like on the outside.
- 2014-10-25 19:12:46 EtchedSteel: *nodsnods*
- 2014-10-25 19:13:09 Winged Knight: For the more powerful witches, at least.
- 2014-10-25 19:13:23 Ugolino: "Twas a clear, sunny day. Then the wind *stopped*. Been sailing twenty years, never seen the like. Then the screaming started..."
- 2014-10-25 19:14:02 SleepyCrasian: ...
- 2014-10-25 19:14:06 SleepyCrasian: Man that's just unsettling.
- 2014-10-25 19:14:06 Ugolino: So I'm guessing lots of witches in coastal areas
- 2014-10-25 19:14:17 Ugolino: Fewer, but much more powerful ones further out at sea
- 2014-10-25 19:14:25 EtchedSteel: The kraken!witch wil always have a massive storm announcing its presence.
- 2014-10-25 19:14:33 Krekian: witch shipsss.
- 2014-10-25 19:14:38 Ugolino: with the local kraken/walpgurgis lurking in the depths, growing stronger every time a witch is swept out to sea....
- 2014-10-25 19:15:02 Ugolino: I see the kraken as literally just made of witches swept out to the open sea
- 2014-10-25 19:15:20 EtchedSteel: If this is caribbean style, then there *must* be a world's end :P
- 2014-10-25 19:15:25 sdjsdj: If you get 'unlucky' ships, lots of accidents, lots of suicides, maybe they've got a familiar aboard, left over from a near miss with something much worse, slowly maturing into full-blown witchhood?
- 2014-10-25 19:15:27 Winged Knight: Towns wiki, of course, have the weakest witches.
- 2014-10-25 19:15:28 SleepyCrasian: At which point, tentacles are the least of your worries...
- 2014-10-25 19:15:29 Krekian: and when the barrier ships eventually collide, they coalesce into barrier-less sea borne monsters
- 2014-10-25 19:15:32 Ugolino: Well yeah
- 2014-10-25 19:15:45 Winged Knight: *Wiki? the fuck did that come from?
- 2014-10-25 19:15:46 Ugolino: that'd probably be an early witch in port
- 2014-10-25 19:15:56 Ugolino: Driving crews to murder and arson
- 2014-10-25 19:16:00 SleepyCrasian: Ugo...
- 2014-10-25 19:16:01 Ugolino: setting ships aflame
- 2014-10-25 19:16:03 SleepyCrasian: Ugoooooooo....
- 2014-10-25 19:16:04 EtchedSteel: @WK *shrugs*
- 2014-10-25 19:16:07 Ugolino: noooooooooooo
- 2014-10-25 19:16:07 Winged Knight: *Town witches
- 2014-10-25 19:16:36 Winged Knight: Would there be normals on a ship?
- 2014-10-25 19:16:46 Ugolino: Most crews are probably one or two megucas
- 2014-10-25 19:16:47 Sightedjt: NOOOOOOW
- 2014-10-25 19:16:54 Ugolino: strongarming the mortals to do their bidding
- 2014-10-25 19:16:57 Winged Knight: I figure there would be, in order to help run the ship while the guca fight. Especially if there are storms.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:07 Ugolino: Or in the case of Navy ones, the ship "mascot" is actually running the show.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:10 Sightedjt: and the most famed ones like blackdrills' crew is just like 6 meguca
- 2014-10-25 19:17:18 Sightedjt: controlling the entire ship by magic
- 2014-10-25 19:17:21 Krekian: roll for rp/quest
- 2014-10-25 19:17:29 Winged Knight: This way you could make guca kind of like a big, open secret amongst the seafaring folk.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:30 SleepyCrasian: Ugo/Winged: Well, or you get the High Risk High Reward types who want to make bank and are okay with potential of Horrible Death by joining a meguca crew.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:42 Winged Knight: You can travel the seas without a magic woman if you want, but it's risky.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:52 Krekian: aslo, cyber post.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:54 SleepyCrasian: Oooooh, yeah, that could be a thing.
- 2014-10-25 19:17:58 Ugolino: Crasian: yeah
- 2014-10-25 19:17:59 EtchedSteel: Ships = witch magnets
- 2014-10-25 19:18:04 Ugolino: this setting's tailor-made for ruthless megucas
- 2014-10-25 19:18:05 SleepyCrasian: Meguca who rent their services to civilian crews
- 2014-10-25 19:18:10 Sightedjt: are you writing this odwn ugo
- 2014-10-25 19:18:16 Sightedjt: DO IT UGO
- 2014-10-25 19:18:21 Ugolino: I'll write it down laterrrrrrrr
- 2014-10-25 19:18:28 Sightedjt: NOOOOW
- 2014-10-25 19:18:30 Winged Knight: You can also have some in the navy, doing their duty for king/Queen and country.
- 2014-10-25 19:18:33 SleepyCrasian: "Aye, I'll come along with ya from Jamaica to Carolina, but it's a long voyage, so it'll cost ya'."
- 2014-10-25 19:18:36 Sightedjt: Its more work if you do it later
- 2014-10-25 19:18:41 Ugolino: Of course we HAVE to get polly olivers
- 2014-10-25 19:19:14 SleepyCrasian: No more talking until Ugo gets this shit writanned
- 2014-10-25 19:19:20 SleepyCrasian: I hereby declare it.
- 2014-10-25 19:19:20 Ugolino: :(
- 2014-10-25 19:19:21 sdjsdj: Meguca status probably varies with crew. Status might be 'captain' or 'good-luck charm' or 'hired mission specialist' or just 'preternaturally brilliant [navigator/boarder/doctor]'
- 2014-10-25 19:19:22 SleepyCrasian: Go Ugo.
- 2014-10-25 19:19:31 Winged Knight: Glad I could help a bit. World building is fun!
- 2014-10-25 19:19:34 Ugolino: hehehe
- 2014-10-25 19:21:20 Winged Knight: So, would landlubbers know much about this beyond vague rumor? Or would they know as much as the sailors? I figure the sailors would know more.
- 2014-10-25 19:21:29 Ugolino: Officially, they know nothing.
- 2014-10-25 19:21:42 Sightedjt: the sailors, they have their rumors
- 2014-10-25 19:22:01 Ugolino: Unofficially, there are certain girls you don't want to cross, the Navy crews don't like being on ships without a "mascot"...
- 2014-10-25 19:22:21 Winged Knight: "All those men… They just walked off their ships and into the ocean. Why?"
- 2014-10-25 19:22:35 Sightedjt: madness of the sea
- 2014-10-25 19:23:03 Winged Knight: "Because they didn't have someone like me. Probably didn't want to, or couldn't, pay the cost. A risk, that is. You can get by for years without one of us, maybe even your whole life, but every time you go out to see you're playing dice with the devil."
- 2014-10-25 19:23:18 Winged Knight: *sea
- 2014-10-25 19:23:36 SleepyCrasian: Ugo
- 2014-10-25 19:23:39 Ugolino: Black spot=witches kiss
- 2014-10-25 19:23:39 SleepyCrasian: If you refuse to develop this
- 2014-10-25 19:23:49 SleepyCrasian: Then you should declare it Rolz Property
- 2014-10-25 19:23:51 Sightedjt: oooh nice ugo
- 2014-10-25 19:25:08 Ugolino: "A ghost of the sea. The word usually refers to disembodied spirit, a ghost; a supernatural being, goblin or fairy. They haunt ships that have troubled pasts, such as mutinies or perhaps a ship that had a cruel master who was murdered or was beleived to be in league with the Devil."
- 2014-10-25 19:25:16 Winged Knight: The quote I made is to empathize that not every ship without a Meguca is doomed. Some can last quite a while, or their whole career, without one. After all, the sea is HUGE even with ships being witch magnets.
- 2014-10-25 19:25:28 Ugolino: " If the person's soul did not find rest, it was feared they would return from Davy Jones as a sea spright. This was a reason why some ships would not return to islands where men had been marooned or to waters where murderous mutinies occurred or men were thrown overboard."
- 2014-10-25 19:25:39 Ugolino: Yeah ships with megucas aren't a majority or even common
- 2014-10-25 19:25:48 Ugolino: Just enough for rumors, myths, and to be in demand
- 2014-10-25 19:25:54 Winged Knight: But they are the safest.
- 2014-10-25 19:26:00 EtchedSteel: @WK lady fortune must smile at you for that. But fortune doesn't favor fools.
- 2014-10-25 19:26:05 Ugolino: Big ocean after all
- 2014-10-25 19:26:13 Ugolino: and not all Witches are actively murderhunting ships
- 2014-10-25 19:26:20 Ugolino: Probably plenty in the depths
- 2014-10-25 19:26:24 Schwer-Muta: Being on a ship without a meguca is bad luck. Being on a ship with a meguca captain is the worst luck.
- 2014-10-25 19:26:24 Ugolino: Lurking~
- 2014-10-25 19:26:24 Winged Knight: Some are just wallowing in misery.
- 2014-10-25 19:26:45 Ugolino: heh fishing for Witches
- 2014-10-25 19:26:45 Ugolino: xD
- 2014-10-25 19:26:49 EtchedSteel: xD
- 2014-10-25 19:27:11 Winged Knight: However, the attacks should be common enough for there to be a steady demand for meguca.
- 2014-10-25 19:27:14 Ugolino: SEA SERPENT WITCH
- 2014-10-25 19:27:21 Ugolino: Well they don't need to be THAT common
- 2014-10-25 19:27:33 Ugolino: one ship disappearing every once in a while, the occasional ghost ship
- 2014-10-25 19:27:35 Schwer-Muta: It only takes one.
- 2014-10-25 19:27:43 Ugolino: that'd be plenty motivation for superstitious ship crews
- 2014-10-25 19:27:51 Winged Knight: I figure maybe one ship in twenty?
- 2014-10-25 19:28:14 Ugolino: One ship in every twenty lost at sea, even
- 2014-10-25 19:28:14 Winged Knight: After all, the seas are rough and many ships are lost even without witches during the age of sail.
- 2014-10-25 19:28:21 Ugolino: mhmm
- 2014-10-25 19:28:21 EtchedSteel: I say one in fifteen.
- 2014-10-25 19:28:26 Ugolino: Eh.
- 2014-10-25 19:28:44 Ugolino: They need to be infrequent enough not to make setting sail a death warrant or we're talking a shift in setting
- 2014-10-25 19:28:48 Winged Knight: So one in twenty, or fifteen, being attacked by witches isn't something captains are going to want to risk on a regular basis if they can afford it.
- 2014-10-25 19:28:54 Schwer-Muta: It's not like she wouldn't be an asset in mundane combat
- 2014-10-25 19:28:55 Ugolino: Just "every once in a while" would be enough
- 2014-10-25 19:29:30 Ugolino: Kyubey as ship's cat :V
- 2014-10-25 19:29:45 EtchedSteel: enough to make it a rumor, and the most paranoid captains takes the bet on getting pirate gucas.
- 2014-10-25 19:29:45 Ugolino: feed kyubey grief seeds and no harm will come to the ship
- 2014-10-25 19:29:45 Sightedjt: kek
- 2014-10-25 19:29:55 EtchedSteel: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:30:12 Winged Knight: I think we've got ourselves a game setting, folks.
- 2014-10-25 19:30:17 Ugolino: yay
- 2014-10-25 19:30:40 Winged Knight: Would all supernaturalness be the witches and guca, or would the depths hold other wonders and horrors?
- 2014-10-25 19:31:10 Winged Knight: Perhaps sea life that isn't supernatural in and of itself, but tainted and mutated from the ambient despair leaking off witches?
- 2014-10-25 19:31:24 Ugolino: Well, the pirate setting itself's >you're at sea and not sure where you're going
- 2014-10-25 19:31:28 Winged Knight: They're only faintly magical, but mostly physical and wracked with pain.
- 2014-10-25 19:31:40 Ugolino: ...Witch kissed whale.
- 2014-10-25 19:31:41 Ugolino: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- 2014-10-25 19:31:41 Winged Knight: And, in pain, attack.
- 2014-10-25 19:31:58 Sightedjt: Ugo- moby dick
- 2014-10-25 19:32:05 Winged Knight: I wasn't talking witch kissed, more like they're just changed thanks to exposure to Grief.
- 2014-10-25 19:32:06 Sightedjt: SPLIT YOUR LUNGS etc etc
- 2014-10-25 19:32:08 Krekian: heh
- 2014-10-25 19:32:11 Ugolino: >Areas with dead sea life, sea birds flying in strange patterns....
- 2014-10-25 19:32:12 Ugolino: ah
- 2014-10-25 19:32:12 Ugolino: eh
- 2014-10-25 19:32:40 Ugolino: "Did that bird have two heads?"
- 2014-10-25 19:32:59 Ugolino: "I didn't tell you to shoot at it, you blind drunken fool!"
- 2014-10-25 19:33:09 Winged Knight: Something like that, though some would be dangerous.
- 2014-10-25 19:33:13 Ugolino: "Well, just fine and dandy, you've killed the...albatross?"
- 2014-10-25 19:33:35 Schwer-Muta: >Blinky
- 2014-10-25 19:33:46 Ugolino: Hmmm.
- 2014-10-25 19:33:52 tg: in Unsounded, the open sea is considered Hell because the Khert doesn't extend over it. Because the Khert is essentially made from the memories of everyone that's died, dying at sea is considered the worst fate possible because your soul just sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Forever.
- 2014-10-25 19:33:55 Ugolino: >meguca has to dive overboard to fight the Witch
- 2014-10-25 19:34:05 Winged Knight: Island witches. Witches resting on islands that ships frequently water at, picking off just a few crew with a kiss.
- 2014-10-25 19:34:14 Ugolino: mhmm
- 2014-10-25 19:34:20 Ugolino: Sounds like one of the early witches
- 2014-10-25 19:34:24 Ugolino: probably after the port witch
- 2014-10-25 19:34:48 Ugolino: heh tg sailor superstition?
- 2014-10-25 19:34:49 tg: Unsounded starts back up on Nov. 10 so excite
- 2014-10-25 19:34:50 Sightedjt: unrelated
- 2014-10-25 19:34:56 Sightedjt: ES- I find iy kinda funny
- 2014-10-25 19:34:59 Winged Knight: Island witches would be of the weaker variety, since they only take one or two from the ships.
- 2014-10-25 19:35:02 tg: No, it's actually a thing in-universe.
- 2014-10-25 19:35:04 Sightedjt: as val thinks that the groups a time bomb
- 2014-10-25 19:35:10 Ugolino: dying at sea by suicide means your soul gets eaten in sailor lore
- 2014-10-25 19:35:19 Sightedjt: when its actually somewhat stabilized
- 2014-10-25 19:35:27 Ugolino: tg yeah but I mean stealing that for the idea
- 2014-10-25 19:35:32 tg: yes
- 2014-10-25 19:35:33 Winged Knight: I'm looking forward to Unsounded as well.
- 2014-10-25 19:36:08 tg: A lot of countries in Unsounded think the ocean is understandably bad juju. Sailors are held in the lowest regard in Alderode, for example
- 2014-10-25 19:38:29 Ugolino: Also " stabbing a servant girl with a table knife" sounds like meguca material
- 2014-10-25 19:38:57 Ugolino: "Clisson butchered the crew of the ships she captured, leaving only a few sailors alive to tell the King that the Lioness of Brittany had struck again."
- 2014-10-25 19:40:13 Ugolino: Ann Bonny and Mary Read :V
- 2014-10-25 19:41:20 Winged Knight: So would this be a Quest, then?
- 2014-10-25 19:41:25 Winged Knight: Or an RP?
- 2014-10-25 19:41:28 Ugolino: I have no idea.
- 2014-10-25 19:41:34 Ugolino: It could work for either really
- 2014-10-25 19:41:36 Krekian: roll for rp/quest
- 2014-10-25 19:41:41 Ugolino: 1D2 => 2
- 2014-10-25 19:41:41 Winged Knight: Or maybe even just an original story.
- 2014-10-25 19:41:55 Krekian: ahhhh
- 2014-10-25 19:41:59 SleepyCrasian: mmmm
- 2014-10-25 19:42:04 Ugolino: Yeah RP runs into issues with "you're scattered all over the ocean"
- 2014-10-25 19:42:07 SleepyCrasian: As a fanfiction it would be difficult
- 2014-10-25 19:42:18 Krekian: stick em in the same boat.
- 2014-10-25 19:42:20 tg: nah it'd be easier as a fanfiction
- 2014-10-25 19:42:20 SleepyCrasian: It's got a lot of worldbuilding you need to do in a very short amount of time.
- 2014-10-25 19:42:27 SleepyCrasian: RP has scattering issues
- 2014-10-25 19:42:29 Krekian: well, wouldn't work.
- 2014-10-25 19:42:37 SleepyCrasian: It's best to do this for a Quest, unless the RP has everyone on the same crew.
- 2014-10-25 19:44:05 Ugolino: "Hornigold overtook a merchant ship in Honduras and the only thing he demanded was everyone's hat."
- 2014-10-25 19:44:08 Ugolino: Hmmmm.
- 2014-10-25 19:44:56 EtchedSteel: bbiab relocating
- 2014-10-25 19:45:19 Schwer-Muta: Oriko's distant ancestor.
- 2014-10-25 19:45:41 Ugolino: >Meguca with a truly absurd captain's hat
- 2014-10-25 19:46:05 Sightedjt: Meguca with obsession for microwaving tea
- 2014-10-25 19:46:10 Sightedjt: or just reheating it
- 2014-10-25 19:46:26 Ugolino: >her crew just stares
- 2014-10-25 19:46:37 Ugolino: GRIEF CANNONBALLS
- 2014-10-25 19:46:46 Winged Knight: Church opinion on Guca? After all, missionaries going to distant lands on ships was a thing.
- 2014-10-25 19:46:56 SleepyCrasian: OOohhhhhhhhh
- 2014-10-25 19:46:58 tg: "man, this attack is really bummin' me out."
- 2014-10-25 19:47:01 SleepyCrasian: OHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- 2014-10-25 19:47:10 SleepyCrasian: Winged you have hit upon an EPIC thing.
- 2014-10-25 19:47:18 Winged Knight: Thanks?
- 2014-10-25 19:47:19 SleepyCrasian: Oh man.
- 2014-10-25 19:47:26 SleepyCrasian: No no think about it
- 2014-10-25 19:47:27 SleepyCrasian: Like
- 2014-10-25 19:47:40 SleepyCrasian: This is going to cause existential crises for the Church
- 2014-10-25 19:47:50 SleepyCrasian: You NEED megucas to make the voyage
- 2014-10-25 19:47:58 SleepyCrasian: But they're also Damned.
- 2014-10-25 19:48:01 SleepyCrasian: Like
- 2014-10-25 19:48:05 SleepyCrasian: What do you do with this?!
- 2014-10-25 19:56:23 Ugolino: Also...starting paths
- 2014-10-25 19:56:26 Ugolino: [x]Marooned
- 2014-10-25 19:56:29 Winged Knight: Hence, the Church is very uncomfortable with the concept.
- 2014-10-25 19:56:29 Ugolino: [x]Walking the plank
- 2014-10-25 19:56:33 Krekian: magical girl illuminati inside the church.
- 2014-10-25 19:56:33 Ugolino: [x]In port
- 2014-10-25 19:56:36 Schwer-Muta: They have to interact with sinners all the time what's the issue :V
- 2014-10-25 19:56:41 Krekian: secret society of nuns
- 2014-10-25 19:56:42 Schwer-Muta: That's sarcasm.
- 2014-10-25 19:56:44 Ugolino: Snrk.
- 2014-10-25 19:56:47 EtchedSteel: @Crasian Those gucas will be in denial with their beliefs. They had a reason to trade their souls for power, after all
- 2014-10-25 19:56:49 Sightedjt: I dont see how you get out of walking the plank end
- 2014-10-25 19:56:53 Krekian: magical gurl nuns.
- 2014-10-25 19:57:02 Ugolino: Sighted: fast talk
- 2014-10-25 19:57:07 Ugolino: Or swimming for it :V
- 2014-10-25 19:57:33 Sightedjt: [x] Marooned. [x] Look for sea turtles
- 2014-10-25 19:57:48 Sightedjt: [x] drink rum
- 2014-10-25 19:57:54 Ugolino: Or [x]Aboard ship
- 2014-10-25 19:57:57 Ugolino: uncontracted
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