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• Finding a contact should be one of the first ports of call, followed by a rather fun recruiting session where you might have to convince the best pirates to join you by doing something unspeakable. Meanwhile, your meeting point is filling up as a growing campsite.
  

• The player could take slightly more responsibility for finances, including agreeing wages, persuading some cantankerous (and possibly violent) characters and maybe even some sort of puzzle whereby you must work out from what a character says what piece of loot they want and then face a series of options as to what you're going to tempt them with.
  

• FAO Sandor & Black Marsh - Create an 'ST Turtle' and/or 'ST Pig' - any chance of this, sandor? Also, as regards fauna and flora, I was wondering if any 'Caribbean' airborne fauna such as hummingbirds and dragonflies were possible to implement, particularly for the swamplands of 'Black Marsh'...
  

• Create a few of 'supply and provision' missions before pirating begins including: turtle-hunting and pig rustling.
  

• Hire from a choice of hunters n' hounds. Deploy your men according to which ones you think are fit for the rough stuff (Nords!) and which are better at cleaning (Bretons?) with, if possible, some implications e.g. leave an Orc to repair the hull of the ship and he may get heavy-handed and punch a bloody big hole in it, thus delaying you and costing you more money.
  

• From my own knowledge of Dark Elves in books (I'm not an MW veteran!), ideas of law and justice are more like fashions and less like absolutes. Therefore, due to the decree of King Helseth which banishes slavery, it is this subject alone that could outlaw piracy. Maybe the renowned cunning of pirates is mainly celebrated in MW but more pressure has been put on them since King Helseth did what he did. As in 'Secret of Monkey Island' you might be able to 'woo the sexy female governor' , although this makes things tricky for female PCs who are uncomfortable with the idea of homosexuality...
  

• The player could be forced to return to the mainland once resources run low. If possible, you may be restricted as to which ports and coves you are able to reach in time, thus heightening the possibility of a clash with lots of militia if you turn up somewhere strict or where you are infamous.
  

• Comic cruelty against slaves!!!
  

• If disposition, morale or loot intake drops below a certain level, disagreements may break out between members and, depending on whether the PC has done something really stupid, they may even punish the PC themselves. This could include the possibility that the player misses the fact that they themselves have broken the agreement by taking too much food, on which basis they themselves spent time on (with the pact) whilst recruiting.
  

• Lots of juicy opportunities for cruelty and killing!!!
  

• FAO Black Marsh - Particularly near the coastal borders between Black Marsh and the Southern Marshes of MW, the divers are likely to be Argonian. If these Argonians aren't getting a good deal for their work, they may welcome the intrusion of these pirates and even give them tip-offs as long as they end up with a better return for their work. This might be another area where Anaster has the chance to forge even deeper bonds between his own voodoo-heavy culture and that of the Argonians, which will, in turn, assist the player. Anaster is a voodoo specialist, first and foremost, but is more likely a pirate PC's 'right-hand man' who will stick by him. But he should be difficult to recruit, preferably allowing the player to be drip-fed fragments from Anaster's diary along the way.
  

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