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Age of Sail Meme

Welcome to the high seas and the Caribbean, in the Golden Age of Sail—and Piracy! Hoist anchors and set sail, because there’s adventure—and treasure—on the horizon.
Roles:
Piracy
A. Ship captain, of course, would you be found anywhere else? Command and the sea, those are your callings. Along with, of course, plunder.
B. Quartermaster, elected representative of the crew’s interests, and with power to veto the Captain’s decisions whenever the ship is not engaged in battle.
C. Crew. You’re in it for the plunder, and can’t be bothered with those pesky decisions. Unless, just maybe, you’ve got a mutiny in mind.
D. Cabin boy. Lowest in rank and newest on the ship, without any sailing experience of your own, but you’ll work your way up.
E. Stowaway. Whatever ship you’re on, whatever reason you have for running, you’d better hope you aren’t found.

The Law
F. Pirate-hunter. Maybe you’re working freelance, taking bounties where you find them, or maybe you are an officer of a royal navy, but either way, you’re tasked with bringing those lawless pirates to justice. There’s money in it, and glory for you.
G. Governor. You are the law, in your little corner of the Caribbean. Troops from the homeland, money and resources are yours, but anarchy is just one mistake away, and the pirates are always threatening your ships and those of your traders.
H. Honest sailor. You follow orders and don’t ask too many questions about them. Or the cargo.
I. Innocent Passenger. Honestly, you were just trying to get home, or to your new home in the new world. But now? Pirates.

Land-Lubbers
J. Innkeeper or Brothel Madam. When the pirates and sailors come into town, they’re going to need food, drink, and companionship. You’re here to provide that.
K. Shipwright. Ships and repairs, it’s all your business. You’re willing to serve any customer, and you don’t ask too many questions.

L. Wildcard! Who would your character be in the Golden Age of Sail?

Mix and match, pirates and pirate hunters, raid a ship or follow a map to treasure. Go get that horizon!

Comments

Luka -OC- OtA

[forrestertailor]

[[I did NOT read the Aubreaid to not participate here. Come one come all to the rp of a land lubber who read 1000 pages about boats. Do I know what a windlass is? Kinda. Do I know what a ratline is? You better believe it!

Don’t know anything about boats and just want a big vampire to rail you? I got you. Want to reenact the wreck of the Demeter from Dracula? I got you even more. Hmu, OtA, open to anything!]]

Anne Bonney | Pirate of Legend & Lore (sort of) | OTA

[foughtlikeaman]

[I can't not put her on the meme, right?
Anyway, something demi-historical works, something modern-ish works, and even something in the future when the ice caps have melted and the world has set sail once more is also possible.
And sometimes she looks like a dude, that's when she goes by Arthur and it's best not to mention otherwise.]

Eddie + Stranger Things + OTA

[jukebox_hero]

[Edward the Banished, captain of a small crew and the ship the Dragonslayer. Where was he banished from? And by who? Best not to ask. He and the crew like to encourage the stories that make them out to be ruthless and bloodthirsty, gives them a leg up on raiding larger ships than their own.]

Gabreel King + OC + OTA

[malecompanion]

[Was press-ganged into the Navy, got out because Queen and Country think he's dead, has been having a great time being tavern-wench and courtesan in a pirate port since.]

[forrestertailor]

[[Hey there! I think we’ve threaded before with one of your alts, want to spin up something to play pirates with? I love Age of Sail as a setting and I can see Luka being the kind of sea captain (with a dark secret) that Gabreel would want to attach himself to! Hmu!]]

[malecompanion]

[He's not really into attaching himself to anyone, since he had to fake his death to get out of that before.]

[forrestertailor]

[[I see you… what is he into? Especially in the pirate port?]]

[malecompanion]

[I had to go and look up our prior thread. Unfortunately I think our play styles just don't mesh, but thanks for the interest!]

[forrestertailor]

[[Aw well! Have a good one]]

Darcy Flotsam - Vampirates series - OTA

[sed_en_ta_ry]

[Ship's figurehead by day and 'figure of fun' by night - she's from an apparently post-apocalyptic future where the world is primarily ocean, and while she is a vampire, she doesn't burn up in the sun, she just turns into wood. Some snafu with a ship's figurehead and a bolt of lightning, she doesn't like to talk about it (except for the times when she does).
She's been serving as figurehead and bell-ringer (to let the rest of the crew know when it's safe to come on deck) as well as occasional pre-dinner entertainment (she's quite a singer) on a pirate vessel for ages now, and she's having a great time. Much better than being stuck in some stuffy museum.]

Malachi Blackwood | Vampire | Original character

[nightreaper]

[Shipping magnate. High-grade licensed mariner. Also has shady dealings with mafia connections as a friend of ours through using his company to ship out contraband. Also known to transport vampires.
Formerly Knights Templar and trained as one of their sea captains.]

Sanji | One Piece (live action)

[chibinasu]

[Anyone call for a ship's cook?]

Charles Vane | Black Sails

[turnferal]

[You know what it says on the tin]

Gorgon (Medusa) 🐍 fate/ 🐍 ota

[gorgantic]

[Here be monsters. Either your ship got too close to her island or she's playing at being a sea serpent, but either way, you've gotten yourself into trouble.]

Claire Bennet ∞ Heroes ∞ OTA

[infinite1ups]

( YEAH okay I've been watching Black Sails - I'm on season 3? I think? - so now this is part of my brainrot. I have a few ideas for Claire. Straight-laced, treasured young lass, adopted by a well-to-do merchant. Then she runs off to do piracy, or is perhaps kidnapped by pirates. Her bio-dad is a privateer and a total jerk so she probably wants to stick it to him, idk. LFG! )

Tyrion Lannister | ASOIAF/GoT | OTA

[largeshadow]

( there are pirates in his canon sooo. def open to crosscanon and putting him in similar old-timey settings for this one. )

[harrowment]

[ hello! i would love to do some kind of dnd/got mashup. super simple to just have them as passengers on a ship waylaid by pirates and go from there (hiding below decks? marooned??), unless you have a hankering for a deeper au backstory. lmk! ]

Horatio Hornblower | Hornblower

[whisted]

[summoned to punch the enemies of the crown in the face (unless it's time for a pirate au)]

[astrogator]

[if you're okay with OCs, Tayrey here has some Age of Sail-inspired worldbuilding and i'd love to either AU her into the past or have her time travel - and have them work together and do that punching. let me know if either idea appeals!]

[whisted]

[heck yes! come punch the french with him, buddy! au or time travel works for me.]

[astrogator]

[brilliant! came up with this to start with, happy to edit if anything doesn't work for you, just pm to let me know! <3 feel free to switch to brackets if preferred, i can do either. can also either play it as slight AU where her being female is not weird, or that it *is* but her nicer shipmates accept her anyway.]

Simulations do nothing to prepare one for the culture shock.

It's still affecting young Lieutenant Tayrey now, even though she's used to the ship's routines, to the sights and sounds and smells - no simulation will ever get the smells right - and to her own duties, steady as she is at them. Yet it's still all alien, and she frets still that someone will see right through her, know that she's only feigning familiarity. Acting the competent lieutenant, not as if she's an apprentice-girl gawking at everything on her first day shipside.

She hadn't wanted an experimental assignment. No, she'd been very happy aboard the Prosperity, but she'd been picked out for this. Offered a lucrative payment for herself, and another for the ship, which meant profit-share for everyone. Of course they were going to encourage her. She'd tried the political deferral: surely a lieutenant with more than my scrap of seniority should have the opportunity, but they hadn't wanted some long-time careerist set in their ways. Tayrey was young and ambitious and adaptable, the perfect candidate. Still, she could have turned it down. Probably would have, if not for Captain Kavarai's prodding. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to disappoint him.

The training had been something else. She'd never been so wet and cold, and the ticking of a box saying her background meant she had no fear of heights meant nothing. The high Tower walkways she'd grown up with didn't sway. Tayrey had been disheartened, but the scientists overseeing it all had briskly assured her that someone like her, someone qualified as pilot and astrogator, passed and certified lieutenant at only sixteen standard years? She should be able to handle it. No trouble. So she did her best, hoping it was enough. Some things were easy. Savitskaya had taught her thoroughly; she was already competent with sextant and slide rule, a skilled chartist, lightning-fast in her mental calculations. She knew how to hold her nerve under fire, act without hesitation. She knew how to give orders to spacers twice her age. Transferable skills, they'd said.

Then she'd been dropped in the deep end, through the portal and onto a sailing ship on a planet with unimaginably distant spatiotemporal co-ordinates. With her cover story, and her critical and secret mission, which she would be able to fulfil at some point. Allegedly. Until then, she was told, fit in. Not so easy as it sounded. She's on deck now, looking out at the horizon, taking in the wind and weather and-

'Look there!'

She grabs the arm of the man next to her, pointing out into the distance. Very faint, could have been a trick of the light, but you don't ignore unusual scanner blips when you're on watch. Her second year, she'd averted disaster on the Prosperity by raising the alarm over a maybe. This, she figures, is no different. If that's a ship out there, probability says it's French.

John Blackthorne | Shōgun

[anjin]

gabrielle de lioncourt | the vampire chronicles

[selvatico]

[ it makes logical sense that she'd be a stowaway given how her kind usually traverse the sea, but she's also sensible enough to be a regular passenger.

though she probably will go swimming in the ocean to catch a few sharks when everyone is asleep. ]

Cassandra de Rolo | Critical Role

[ofwovenstone]

[Young woman of noble blood, probably either stowing away or an innocent passenger. Potentially landlubber-adjacent and working in a tavern. (After having done one of the aforementioned stowing away/innocent passengering.]