Team Ready, Aim, Fire! Round 4

[Ezlo]

Pirates please. I shall be known as.... Captain Meatloafbeard!

[Lord Magtok]

I'm in.
Whichever side is eviler is the side I want to be on.

[Xykon_Fan]

In, and either side's fine.

[Case]

I call Galley Cook on the side of Pirates.

[Lord Herman]

I've been thinking about organization within teams, and how it affects the game. And I've come to this conclusion: it's pointless.

Let's look at it from two situations:

Team A organizes, and they all perform the same action. Team B doesn't. Result: Roughly the same as when Team A doesn't organize - the 'random' actions of the members of Team B make the results equally random. No advantage to Team A or Team B.

Team A and Team B both organize, and each team picks one action to perform. This makes each team effectively one player, but the odds are still the same. The game takes shorter to resolve, but no team is at an advantage.

Just something to think about when planning your moves - organizing doesn't really help, except that it can make the game shorter. Unless I've overlooked something very important.

(okay, one thing - by organizing you can prevent multiple players from shooting a single enemy; that's the only advantage I can see)

[pingcode20]

In for the navy.

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Organising does have an important advantage. It creates a knowledge pool - I believe someone (PMs already deleted) correctly identified that Gezina would be suiciding, and so nobody shot her.

It also helps more experienced players or those who know their targets better to pass around strategies. If I had gotten at Kasz earlier, I would have told him not to suicide, because odds are he wouldn't be shot.

Etcetera.

[Lord Herman]

Alright, you win

This must be the only game in the world where 'let's all commit suicide' is a viable strategy...

[alec]

In the Navy, yes you can sail the seven seas!

Yep, I'm in on the navy side.

[pingcode20]

"Help! Everybody wants to kill me!"

"Just commit suicide. When they try to shoot you they'll get killed and you'll survive."

[Neodan282]

*Joins as a Pirate*

*WOO! LAST ONE!*

[Krursk]

I should be available for the navy.

[Lord Herman]

The sign-ups were officially closed, but we were one short on the navy team, so you're in. But I'm not accepting any further sign-ups after this.

[Lord Herman]

Staring into the fog, Admiral Gezina tries to catch a glimpse of the ship. The HMS Defenestrator has been chasing these pirates for days, but they know these waters, and the fog helps them evade the heavier navy ship. Gezina almost falls asleep as suddenly, a dark shape appears in the mist. “Squawk!” she cries, hopping up and down Captain Magtok’s shoulder. “Come, come, Gezina,” says the captain to his parrot, which the crew jokingly calls ‘Admiral’ Gezina. “It’s just a seagull.”

Captain Meatloafbeard is scrubbing the deck. “Blasted bilgerats,” he mutters to himself. “Ungrateful, scurvy-ridden…” “Watch that tone, ‘Captain’. Ye be lucky we didn’t throw ye overboard during the mutiny,” says first mate Moon Called. “Cap’n van der Decken should have fed ye to the sharks for what ye did.” “What I did? What I did was makin’ ye all filthy rich, that’s what I did!” “Meatloafbeard,” says Captain van der Decken, “makin’ us rich is what ye did. But bein’ a good cap’n be more than just leadin’ yer men into battle. Ye have to know when to use yer power, and when to let yer crew decide things fer themselves. Ye have become a tyrant, Meatloafbeard! Yer no better than the King!” “Name one thing, Van der Decken! One thing that makes me a tyrant!” As one, the crew shouts: “MEATLOAF DAY!”

“Lieutenant Fairchilde, a moment of your time, please,” says Captain Magtok as the young officer walks up on deck. “Map!” the captain says, hitting Krursk, his aide, with his cane. The boy holds up a map of the area, and Magtok uses his cane to point at a small bay. “Here is where will catch them, Lieutenant. Here we will capture the… what was the name of their ship again?” “The Kingisatwit, sir.” “Insulting the king is not acceptable conduct for an officer of the royal navy, Fairchilde.” “No, sir, that’s the name of their ship. The Kingisatwit.” “I see. So that is what passes for humour with these wretches.” “Your orders, sir?” “Set course for the bay. I suspect the pirates will await us there.”

“Perfect,” says Captain van der Decken. “This bay be the perfect place to hide. We just wait here fer a week or two, and when they think we be gone, we sneak out and set sail fer Singapore. Now, where be the rum?”

“Guys! Guys! I see a ship!” “Blimey,” says the captain, “how long has Peter be sittin’ in the crow’s nest?” “Uhm… ye told him to watch fer ships just after the mutiny,” says Moon Called. “That be three weeks ago! What has he been eatin’?” Zar Peter takes another bite from the mast, and shouts again: “Guys, come on, there’s a ship! Right outside the bay!” “Peter! How many times do I have to tell ye – pirate talk! Nobody listens to ye if ye be talkin’ like a landlubber!” “Alright… a-hem… ARR! Thar be a ship, cap’n!” “A ship? Avast! It be Cap’n Magtok! Load the cannons! Grab yer pistols and cutlasses! Shiver yer timbers!”

[Lord Herman]

Pirates
Alarra
Baboon Army - Pirate monkey
Captain van der Decken - Pirate cap'n
Case - Galley cook
DarkLightDragon
Destro Yersul
dun-dun-DUUN
Ezlo - Ex-captain
firepup
Fredricus
Funkyodor - Robot-ninja-pirate-zombie
Ink
Khaldan
Moon Called - First mate
Neodan282
radikalskippy
Raiser B1ade
Zar Peter - 'Land ho' guy

Navy
Akaziel
alec - Navy monkey
Andre Fairchilde - Dashing swordsman
Atreyu - Ship's llama
Castaras - Fluffy white cat
Draken
evnafets
Fleeing Coward
Gezina - Parrot
HyramGraff
Indurain
Krursk
Lord Fullbladder - Generic Naval Officer #275
Lord Magtok - Captain
pingcode20
Pwenet
RocketBard
Xykon Fan


Please submit your actions before Thursday, 18:00 GMT.

[Zar Peter]

Arrrrh, those seaguls arr tasty, too!

((Thank you, Herman, that was great!))

[Castaras]

Meow.

*Does generic evil villain's cat stuff*

[Skippy]

Shiver me timbers!!! This has already started!!!

Someone, hurry up and pass the rum!!!

[Draken]

*Peting Castaras, the kitten*

"For the glory of the kingdon, we shall have these seadogs hanged by their toes in the deephs of the dungeons for the rest of their miserable lives!"

[Andre Fairchilde]

Andre draws his rapier - "For the Queen! And Country! ...'We have a queen, right? No? For the King!"

[Destro_Yersul]

Hey, no one has taken boatswain yet! *calls it*

[Neodan282]

I'm the pirate mapmaker! Yar!

[Draken]

Call me Artillery Engineer Draken, ready to shoot the cannons in your bloody faces you seadogs.

[Destro_Yersul]

Call me Artillery Engineer Draken, ready to shoot the cannons in your bloody faces you seadogs.

Not if yer missin' yer face, ye won't. *brandishes cat o' nine tails*

[Raiser Blade]

Aye ill be swabbing the poop deck if anyone needs me

im the pirates first "swabber" if that is an actual position

p.s. im shooting gezina



or am i

[Akaziel]

Yeah, I'll reprise my role from Round 2: The legendary hero... who oversleeps, and misses the entire battle.

[pingcode20]

I shall be... *drum roll*

Pingcode the Powder Monkey!

Bravely ferrying explosives to and from the cannons, daringly dodging wayward sparks and matches with buckets of precious gunpowder in my hands!

[Fleeing Coward]

I call ship's cook. Of course, I broke all the cooking equipment on the ship, I've never cooked in my life and only got hired on a fake resume so I expect to be tossed overboard soon

[Castaras]

Not if yer missin' yer face, ye won't. *brandishes cat o' nine tails*

*Brandishes cat o' one tail*

[InaVegt]

Kill the pirates, kill the pirates, hang them, sink their ships, sink their ships.

[Lord Herman]

Behold, some stats:

Round 1:
21 players
21 new

Round 2:
30 players
17 old
14 new
4 gone

Round 3:
30 players
21 old
7 new
2 back
9 gone

Round 4:
36 players
27 old
6 new
3 back
3 gone