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Re: Australia Day weekend LUGfest?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:15:43 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
> > <waking up suddenly> Who me?!?
> >
> > Well, if you want to play, sure. Pirates? Can do. Are we playing with ships
> > or not?
> I vote "yes".
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> > My personal preferance is to play with ships but treat the hulls as
> > Virtually Indestructable (TM).
> Also:let's not worry about wind direction or any of that sailing stuff.
> Ships can move any direction.
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> > If we're playing pirates can everybody bring two (or more) islands (doesn't
> > have to be a fancy printed baseplate, just a green baseplate will do) with
> > some stuff on them (trees, rocks, parrots, skelys, lost world dinos...
> > whatever) plus at least a "Captain" fig. If you're blessed with an abundance
> > of Pirate figs, bring some to lend the less fortunate, we'll sort out
> > roughly equal groups on the day, don't worry about bringing too much.
> > Ships... bring 'em if ya got 'em!
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> Cool! How about limiting each player to one ship & crew? That could speed up
> play somewhat, enable many people to bring a spare ship and crew (to lend to
> the less piratical), and test the limits of how many pirates will fit on a
> single ship!
>
> >
> > The Plot!
> >
> > A long long time ago, in an ocean... just over there, there were pirates.
> >
> > And being pirates they did piratey stuff, like drinking, fighting, drinking,
> > stealing treasure, drinking, burying treasure, wenching, nicking other
> > pirates' buried treasure, drinking and fighting.
> > With all this going on, who needed a plot? Just a long memory for grudges
> > and a short temper (a sharp cutlass and a handy pistol helps too). A receipe
> > for chaos if ever there was one.
> >
> > The scenario.
> >
> > Grab treasure, kill others. Bonus points for acting really piratey (see above).
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> Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
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> > James (who will definatly need a good lie-down after this one...)
> ...but who can always be relied on to come up with a good Plot and Scenario.
>
> Richie
> (Who's planning to stretch the System Maria and load it up with Inquisitors
> to supplement the contingent of Conquistadors already aboard, and has no
> particular concern for historical accuracy. Also, I realise that
> Conquistadors and Inquisitors aren't actually *pirates*, but these are
> Conquistadors and Inquisitors who Went Bad(tm)).
I have 4 medieval cogs I can bring.....and can prob whip up a couple of
Islands with some surprises on them. maybe hidden treasure..... or a cave or two
I'll leave it as a surprise...
Kev...: )
andrastavia@ozbricks.com
www.ozbricks.com/andrastavia
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