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Fa/tg/uys! I need some advice
Ship's bout to get boarded by pirates.
We discussed after the session that we actually want to find a nonviolent solution. The party face is a high charisma paladin of a goddess of peace and the DM wanks over good RP (We get cool shit and xp for unconventional resolutions).
The paladin, obviously, we want spearheading the operation because he's a fast talker and is, duh, a paladin of peace.
So, any interesting ideas for convincing the approaching pirates to leave us the fuck be? We didn't get close enough to see what race they are but they're probably all humans and fishfolk
pic semi related, lot of undead in this setting, otherwise low magic.
We dont expect undead on the boat
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>>55192312
Totally depends on what your DM thinks about pirates. Bribery should work, though.
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Common naval practice for avoiding pirates was to put up plague colours on the flag to signal other ships to stay away.
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>>55192312
How are you going to talk down pirates? They're literally only there for your gold and your assholes. I guess you could offer either or both of those for free, in exchange for your lives. Maybe threats might work, if you can make them think it's not worth the risk to attack you. Or you could offer to aid them against some rival pirate I guess. Maybe you could pretend to be an agent of the crown and suggest giving them a Marque to become privateers.
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>>55192353
DM doesn't use them much, they apparently came off a random table because he wasn't fully prepared for us to say fuck it and embark for the land of undead.
I hope we don't have to bribe them though, cause we're all poor as fuck. The monk has jars of pickles, thats about it
>>55192371
Oh fuck I like this one
>>55192382
None of us are too good to be filthy liars. I like these ideas too.
We are fully prepared to fight the pirates, but we voted that it would be interesting to talk them down or avoid them.
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>>55192406
> adventuring at sea.
>not knowing maritime customs.
Yeah you're fucked. It's like going on an epic quest to destroy a macguffin crystal having never seen lord of the rings.
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Join the crew and over the course of several months, cunningly sow dissent and lead a mutiny
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>>55192371
Fuck, this is clever. What colors are those, to be specific?
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>>55192525
Yellow, as it turns out, and the monk has a jar of pickled carrots we could fucking dye a flag yellow with.
>>55192449
Nope, we got an undead menace to solve
>>55192441
Sorry, no time, busy with undead
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>>55192312
I take it, since it is a low magic setting, the highest amount of magic in the party is the paladin?
Otherwise, I would suggest some kind of magical show of force, I'd doubt pirates will step down from a physical threat, especially if they outnumber you, but a display of magic might get them to fuck right off.
That said, you may be able to offer them healing or something in exchange for safe passage.
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>>55192312
Sink your own ship, they can't board you then
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