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[seawarden]

CREWS & SHIPS

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This entry serves as a "Crews & Ships" ledger where we keep track and document all the player made crews. Island bases are also noted if they exist. Please note, we're only keeping up with the basic information. For more information about how crews work, refer to the Crews & Ships section of the Game Info. Here are the requirements to register for a crew:

• Limited to 5 player-made crews per armada. To keep from having too many from the start, we are limiting the number of player-made crews to 5 per armada for now. We will increase this once the game is more settled.
  
  
• Must have at least 3 members. To register for a ship and crew, there must already be 3 members part of the group. This is to prevent too many small crews to keep up with.
  
  
• Acquire a ship. Traditionally a ship can be obtained by collecting certain materials and offering them to their armada's leviathan to create their ship, but other methods in acquiring a ship can be done as well. Please comment here.
  
  
• Have basic information available. There will be a form on the Crew Application page that will need to be filled, and once accepted there will be a profile template players will need to fill and post in their character's journals.
  
  
• Help us keep information updates. While we will maintain a reference page for all crews, we will need the group to help us keep it updated by notifying us if there are any changes. We will ask for updates every Activity Check.

To acquire an Island Base, just comment with the request and have a doc or entry ready with information on what you'd like your island to be like. We'll look it over and once approved you can either create your own crew log for it or we can design one based on the information provided. Threads for this log will count 12pts each, but anyone not affiliated with the crew helping will only receive 4pts. Crews are also allowed to create their own quests that will be worth the same as General quests (4pts) for both crew and non-crew members helping them.

Players must register their crews on this page for it to be official and they must help us update it when possible.

To register your crew, fill out the following form and create a designated toplevel. This toplevel will be used for all updates regarding the crew. It is preferred that the player who is the "leader" of the group comments, but anyone can do so.

<b>Player:</b> <b>Name of the Crew:</b> <b>Ship Name:</b> <b>Faction:</b> Corsairs or Paladins. Even if the crew has members of both factions, must choose one to be under. <b>Characters in the Crew:</b> Include who is the captain and journalnames for all characters <b>Blurb:</b> Brief blurb about the crew, such as what they do, the kind of vibe they try to maintain, etc. INCLUDE LINK TO DW ENTRY IF HAVE ONE. <b>Items:</b> List of items given to the leviathan. If threaded, provide link(s) here. <b>Open to Join?</b> Indicate if the crew is open for joining or if it would need an invitation from the crew members. <b>Island base?</b> Does the crew currently have or will aim for an island base? <b>Optional:</b> Can include an image of the ship and note any other unique features of either the crew or the ship.

CORSAIRS

The Hideaway (The Enterprise II)

Captain: Cidolfus Telamon
Crew: Clive Rosfield, Jill Warrick, Joshua Rosfield, Dion Lesage, Eizen, Kaveh, Sorey, Benedikta Harman, Alhaitham, Midadol Telamon, Enterprise, Gale Dekarios, Rem Tokimiya, Alfyn Greengrass
Blurb: Adventuring the high seas, look for that relic that is involved with the rifts, kind of like a "robin hood" where they'll target bad guys and help others while willing to break laws.
Open to Join: Open
Island: The Roost
Etc:Crew post

The Raiders of the Lost Arts (Phantom Moon | 月幻影)

Captain: Dongfang Qingcang
Crew: Emet-Selch, Professor Turo, Ryotaro Dojima, G'raha Tia, Orchid, Reno, Karlach Cliffgate, Daria Morgendorffer
Blurb: Magic, Science, and all the ways they mix Research Team! There are a lot of forgotten relics, forsaken lands, and forbidden arts lost to the waves and time. The Raiders of the Lost Arts are dedicated to finding, researching, and potentially utilizing whatever they can find. Legal methods of acquiring information and research materials may or may not be followed.
Open to Join: Open
Island: No
Etc:Crew post

The Scourge (The Desert Wind)

Captain: Ganondorf
Crew: Reaper, Sidestep
Blurb: 'Traditional' powerhungry ruthless pirates. Skull and crossbones, boarding and raiding (and Dealing with resistance), they do the do that others don't do.
Open to Join: ICly, invitation/recommendation required. OOCly, give a prod!
Island: Eventually
Etc:Crew post

PALADINS

Avalanche (Seventh Heaven)

Captain: Cloud Strife
Crew: Tifa Lockhart, Zack Fair, Nanaki, Nimona, Lyney, Freminet, Kotori Iida, Denji, Miriam
Blurb: Look, this wasn't Cloud's idea. Tifa, Nimona, and Zack had all been messaging him about it. So now here they are. Just a silly crew that's more like family.
Open to Join: Invite
Island: N
Etc:Crew post

PLUS ULTRA! (Mighty Explosion God Ship Bomb!!)

Captain: Izuku Midoriya
Crew: Katsuki Bakugou, Shoto Todoroki, Rody Soul, Roxas, Ranma Saotome, Toge Inumaki, Son Gohan
Blurb: They are HEROES and want to go on quests that help people or take down giant beasts.
Open to Join: Invite
Island: The crew currently has a small homely cottage on Elah. (so, N)
Etc:Crew post

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ISLAND REQUEST

[yuezun]

The Raiders of the Lost Arts are looking for an island to make their safe harbor come June!

We would like it if you would come up with an interesting quest for us to conquer the island!

About it:
An island shrouded in mist and volcanic smoke where something floats just above the volcano and glows unnaturally through the cover. It is often avoided by sailors because of the eerie feeling it gives many. The seas it lay in are also avoided due to the underwater volcanoes that erupt without a warning and super-heat the waters, sometimes even forcing sea water to burst skyward like a geyser.

The island is actively volcanic with the volcano being the remains of a much larger (now underwater) volcano, of which the above-sea level caldera edge forms the majority of the island. If looked at from above/the highest point on the island, it looks crescent moon shaped due to the much higher volcano mountain side vs the much, much much lower bay entrance side. There is only one easily accessible beach along one of the crescent ends while the rest of the island drops into the water with sheer cliffs. Because it is volcanic and on the remains of an older volcano, there are lots of old lava tunnels along the inner rim that create various hidden grottos. The largest of which was once used by the long-dead/abandoned civilization that used to be on the island before the ~catastrophe~.

Above the broken mountain that remains of the former height of the civilization is a strange magical calamity that looks like a black sun, around which broken pieces of one half of the broken mountain float unnaturally in the sky. Whatever caused this to occur was the ~catastrophe~ and how it occurred has been lost to time. When this catastrophe occurred is also in question - be it before the flooding of the world or in the centuries after.

On the broken mountain - on both sides, climbing up the outer face of it and burrowed a bit into them - are the ruins of the former civilization waiting to be explored and eventually renovated into a working base/palace. This could possibly have the crumbling remains of an old library from which only a few texts might be saved, or perhaps some old and forgotten magitech that is barely functional (if at) that may give a clue about the former inhabitants of the island. At the juncture of the mountains remains a great bridge that crossed the expanse of the only lake on the island that then cascades down in a great waterfall into the bay, further adding to the smoke and mist with it's thunderous spray.

The 'island's floating around the magical confluence in the sky are uninhabited, not connected, and largely empty of anything but the now verdant plant growth and occasional stream that falls off their edges. Birds and some animal life exist there, but mostly it's the plants.

The island is a deciduous and very verdant - it sits in an eternal spring/summer due to the heat of the volcano and the seas. Most of the fauna of the island are strangely mixed with flora - hearkening back to the catastrophe that they have since evolved from. Birds have petal- or grass- 'feathers'. Small rodents have fur that ranges from yellow to green and grows baby's breath or dandelions or other small bursts of color. Larger mammals have grass for fur and brightly colored flowers, while predators might have thorns hidden in their coats. Bugs might look like tiny seeds and sticks or mushrooms that burrow quite well into the ground. Some animals may be smaller than their non-plant counterparts due to their plant influence, while others might be much, much larger.


Visuals/Inspiration for island idea: <href="https://yuezun.dreamwidth.org/5405.html">HERE

We don't have a name for it yet, but we'll get there!

Re: ISLAND REQUEST

[seawarden]

All this info looks great!! For the quest, that is actually an oversight and we meant to remove it from the Game Info, sorry! We realized it would be easier if we let players come up with their own logs so they can cater it for their own group much more easily.

However, we are happy to help to give ideas for direction! What are some things you'd like the crew to do with the island? Did they learn about it through research and is there a special treasure or item that could be found there? How difficult will it be to take the island? You can incorporate cool creatures here if you want!

Re: ISLAND REQUEST

[yuezun]

First Thing: Can you link me to a code source for what you use for the logs so I can set it up all pretty?

Brainstorming but input for ideas would be welcome:
I think it should start out as a tip and/or notation in some of the older port-records about the island being difficult to get to because of being in the middle of the 'fever sea' (superheated and occasionally boiling sea due to the underwater volcanic activity around it) but that more than an incidental amount of ships who managed to get close to it noted that it had an eerie and unnatural feel to it where it sat covered by smoke and fog. Getting to it will require following the miniature seaweed-whales because they live in and around the waters of the bay and can navigate the underwater thermals successfully. And once they get there, they'll decide that it's worth settling in for the long-term to explore and study at length. Probably even getting a small port-village set up to allow for resupply and news every few months for whatever team stays 'on the ground' at the island to help clear out the ruins.

Dongfang Qingcang will be looking to eventually 'bind' the volcano to his primordial spirit so that he can draw on it's power to augment his own, but also so he can treat the volcano and any of the network of underwater volcanos it's connected to as an extension of himself should he need to defend his new home. Making it so he can 'see' or sense goings-ons through them to a limited extent and potentially channel his own power through them to trigger eruptions on his command.

Orchid's primordial spirit is naturally inclined to start integrating with any plants she cares for and eventually any structures they renovate or restore will be covered with a garden that reacts to her emotions in much the same way fire reacts to Daqiang's.

Turo has expressed interest in having lots of variety for studying things and exploring ruins so maybe something to do with finding clues to the calamity that caused the island to become the way it is?


BRB; double-checking notes from discussions and talking to players

Re: ISLAND REQUEST

[seawarden]

We have sent over the code, and if you have any issues with it let us know!

As for what you've written, we think everything looks okay except for Dongfang's ability to control the volcano as it would be too unreasonable for one individual to be able to harness that much power on their own. He can definitely try, but it will be unsuccessful.

Perhaps some alternatives in using the volcano for defense could be eventually developing megitech weaponry that could draw from the lava (such as lava cannons), creating underwater sensors or even befriending/allying with the whales around the island for a warning system, or other means.