New Arrivals [text] (Actually updating regularly this time, I swear to god)

[red pharoah]

>Go for a one-handed scythe (A sickle?)

>Decide that your weapon of choice should be "sharp", that way anythign sharp will do.

[Seanorib]

> Take something that you have some experience with. You will always be able to change later, so it's best to try out as many as you can to find a weapon that you are comfortable with.

[Sparks]

>Very light armour, I'm talking maybe a shoulder pad or something.

The lightest armour you can find is pretty much a padded coat, similar to what the Captain and a few others are wearing, but obviously not quite as grand as his one is. You'll grab it when you've had a look at the rest of the clothes.

> Take something that you have some experience with. You will always be able to change later, so it's best to try out as many as you can to find a weapon that you are comfortable with.

>Go for a one-handed scythe (A sickle?)

>Decide that your weapon of choice should be "sharp", that way anythign sharp will do.

>Pick a weapon with a long reach like a spear or something.

You look over the weapons, and the closest you can find to a one-handed scythe is a sickle. A scythe really isn't a very good weapon anyway, but this sickle works for slashing at least, since it's less of a half-circle blade and more of a rounded, more oval-curved blade, which is much more practical in battle than the crop-harvesting version. You've always got your cutlass to fall back on if this doesn't work out.

Trying out a few things before setting on a weapon to stick with seems like a good idea to you, and you think you'll try out a spear next if the sickle works out. It at least means you won't be stuck with something stupid like a stick or shield or something as a primary weapon.

What will you do now?

[Seanorib]

> Find other, secondary weapons just in case... Like you know, strapping knives to your leg, hidden daggers, throwing knives...

[Jetroid]

^Seconding this.

>Pirates have guns right?

>You need guns. Lots of them.

>Smuggle them out if you have to.

[red pharoah]

>Hide the gun under your palm, and strap it with two strips of leather, that way you have a HIDDEN GUN!

[Sparks]

> Find other, secondary weapons just in case... Like you know, strapping knives to your leg, hidden daggers, throwing knives...

>Pirates have guns right?

>You need guns. Lots of them.

>Smuggle them out if you have to.

YOu look around, and hidden in a crate in the corner of the room is a pile of flintlock pistols and ammunition for thme, plus some black powder for reloading them. You fish one out, and test your grip on it.

>Hide the gun under your palm, and strap it with two strips of leather, that way you have a HIDDEN GUN!

What? That's stupid, it's like the size of a dirk or something, you can't hide something like this, besides, the weight would put your aim off and

"A gun? Yeah, real intimidating, you're going to be the terror of the high seas with one of those."

Oh, right, Jack. You had almost forgotten that he was there, making sure you didn't try anything.

"I'm just looking at them, jackass. What's so bad about these things, anyway?"

"You want me to write you a list? Takes long as hell to reload, inaccurate as hell so you can't hit shit, pitiful damage with that dinky little bullet, no stopping power... You're better off throwing the damn things at them or using the black powder to blow something up. If you want something with range, get a bow. You want something as a backup, just stick more weapons on your keyring.

Noted. You briefly consider loading up and shooting him in an act of irony. You decide against it due to that being a godawful idea in every sense of the word.

What will you do?

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Now here's the thing. In real life, a single bullet can be a crippling thing, and is more than enough to put someone down, given time depending on the calibre and type of gun used. In real life, guns are the deadliest things short of an explosion that we've got.

However, in vidja games, the things are always useless compared to guns, particularly in rpgs, where they're instantly outclassed by swords for no good reason. While I really wanted the pirates to have classic flintlocks, I decided otherwise due to the setting, but with all the alchemy, the subject was going to come up eventually, so here's the justification for them being not particularly helpful, using dodgy physics and presumably incorrect statistics.

Now, when a bullet hits someone, it depends on that bullet putting them down immediately or at least crippling them, damaging vital organs and such, as well as the other nasty effects that come with being shot. However, in a 'numbers flash above head when hit' game, or this universe's system of damage, those factors have essentially been removed, meaning its damage is going to depend on raw physical size and impact, which an arrow or sword stab is going to have more of.

Factoring in the low accuracy and terrible reload times of flintlocks, matched with unreliability, and the fact that you need to go to an alchemist for the necessary gunpowder, they're going to be outclassed very quickly.

That's my justification. It's probably crap and I could have just rolled with them being useless, but there you go.

[Jetroid]

>Use the gun anyway.

>Invent poison bullets which do 'Perm' damage (Damage which only heals when the Skirmish is over naturally. IE: No magic potion healing with these babies.)

>Be the Fantasy Pirate!

>It's you!

[Askia]

guns sucks

get some grog on your cutlass that should show em

[red pharoah]

>Acquire Some wood, and nails.

>Use with couple of flintlocks, couple with some fancy thinking.

>Behold: GUNGORG!!!

[Xindaris]

As far as I can tell the reason a gun is so good is because of the sheer amount of force it puts into the injury it creates. Force is something like mass times velocity, so a bullet traveling really fast due to being shot out of a gun should still be capable of doing at least as much damage in this numbery system as a decent blow with a sword. However, you don't even have to worry about nerfing guns the way you've described when (A) gun tech is not up to par with modern technology and (B) a number of possible magic spells, such as magnetic electricity magic, time stopping magic, etc., can prevent one from getting hit by a bullet in the first place.

[Sparks]

>Invent poison bullets which do 'Perm' damage (Damage which only heals when the Skirmish is over naturally. IE: No magic potion healing with these babies.)

You have absolutely no idea how to make that. At all. You're pretty sure that you can't poison bullets either.

guns sucks

get some grog on your cutlass that should show em

The only thing that needs grog right now is you. All the alcohol's going to do is make that cutlass rust and smell worse.

>Acquire Some wood, and nails.

>Use with couple of flintlocks, couple with some fancy thinking.

>Behold: GUNGORG!!!

Your fanciest thinking results in a random pile of shit that manages to fall apart after it's already fallen apart. The only moving parts of it are the ones that aren't attached to the rest of your body. You can't believe you thought this was worth investing time into. You need rum. Lots of rum.

What will you do now?

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As far as I can tell the reason a gun is so good is because of the sheer amount of force it puts into the injury it creates. Force is something like mass times velocity, so a bullet traveling really fast due to being shot out of a gun should still be capable of doing at least as much damage in this numbery system as a decent blow with a sword. However, you don't even have to worry about nerfing guns the way you've described when (A) gun tech is not up to par with modern technology and (B) a number of possible magic spells, such as magnetic electricity magic, time stopping magic, etc., can prevent one from getting hit by a bullet in the first place.

And this is why I shouldn't have bothered to justify it past the historical problems with flintlocks, because my justification was built on a poor and unchecked understanding of how bullets work. Thanks for the explanation.

[Seanorib]

> Ask where the rum is.
> Ask why it is gone, if it is.

[Sparks]

> Ask where the rum is.

Jack says that it's in the storeroom with the rest of the food. In a vault. Inside a bigger vault.

What will you do now?

[Xindaris]

>You have a skirmish to arrange and a class to pick, unless you want to get drunk and end up in a drunken pirate brawl while still at level 0.

[Sparks]

>You have a skirmish to arrange and a class to pick, unless you want to get drunk and end up in a drunken pirate brawl while still at level 0.

Right, that. Due to your earlier point of nobody knowing that you're actually in the crew, picking a fight isn't the best idea. You need to figure out a way of doing this that doesn't involve you instantly getting skewered.

What will you do?

[Seanorib]

Find a training dummy.

[Jetroid]

>Pirate Ship: Encounter a Merchant Ship.

>Terra: Board.

[red pharoah]

>Establish membership to the crew by climbing to a high enough place, getting their attention (i.e. FREE RUM), then YYYYYEAAAARRRGH

[Xindaris]

I support looking for a training dummy.

[Sparks]

>Pirate Ship: Encounter a Merchant Ship.

"If you're done, head upstairs and try not to do anything stupid, ok?"

Well, this relationship is getting off to a great start. You grab one of the older coats and throw it on, before grabbing an Inventory Ring, which you're mostly sure you know how to use, and take a belt, put it on, and secure your cutlass to it, in case you don't know how to get your other stuff off the keyring, and most of the pirates keep theirs on their belts for quick access anyway. The coat is old, brown, and short, rather than the longer and more impressive ones that the Captain and a couple of others are wearing, but at least you look a bit more piratey and less likely to be stabbed.

Find a training dummy.

You ask Jack if there's one lying around to practice murdering on. He tells you that they don't have any readily available, due to the much higher density of living dummies to practice on. Well, there goes your stress relief for today.

>Establish membership to the crew by climbing to a high enough place, getting their attention (i.e. FREE RUM), then YYYYYEAAAARRRGH

You head upstairs and start climbing the crows nest, despite this being a terrible idea. When you get up there, you prepare to execute your terrible idea, and

"Who the fuck are you, and what the hell are you doing up 'ere?"

"This was a terrible idea."

"Weren't you our hostage five minutes ago?"

"Not anymore, apparently. Try to relay that if anyone asks."

"You didn't answer my question. What the hell are you doing up 'ere in my post?"

"That is a very good question, and would best be answered in the form of"

"Nice try, smartarse. Now stay out of my way, get your arse down, or make yourself useful."

With that, she turns around and starts ignoring you. This was such a terrible idea.

What will you do now?

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Sorry for the delays in updating.

[Jetroid]

>Pirate Ship: Encounter a Merchant Ship.

OR

>Be the other guy.

[red pharoah]

>You still didn't YYYYYEAAARRGHH though

[Sparks]

>You still didn't YYYYYEAAARRGHH though

You don't think that YYYYYEAAARRGHH is a very good idea right now. It is one that would get you stabbed repeatedly, burnt, and scattered to the winds.

What will you do now?

[Sparks]

>Be the other guy.

You are now the other guy, walking down the road. You have plenty of time to reflect on the last day of your life, and just what's happened. You're pretty sure most people don't have this much shit happen to them in their whole lives. Well, some people in this wacky universe. Lucky bastards.

Either way, you're still walking, and you'll keep walking until you see the capitol ahead of you. While it's really only been a few hours, it feels like it's taken a hell of a lot longer to do anything. Probably the time travel. And upon reflection, you can conclude that you really, really hate time travel. And that's all there really is to say on the matter.

END CHAPTER 2

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Not the best way to end the chapter, but there we go. Almost all of the time loops have been made stable, and we won't be dealing with time travel anymore, at least for now. More importantly, though, I'm going to be away from the series of tubes that is the internet for the next five days, so there unfortunately won't be any updates until at least Saturday. Or Friday, depending on the time zone. Either way, see you then.