User Guide

In Town
Ports of Call
By the seventeenth century there are dozens of European settle-
ments on the islands and continents bordering the Caribbean. Some
are old, established cities boasting thousands of citizens. Others are
tiny settlements clinging to a precarious existence in the face of hos-
tile natives, predacious pirates, and enemy religious fanatics - not to
mention the many deadly perils that nature herself provides. Some
are temporary hideouts where buccaneers come to plan their next
exploits; others are religious establishments where dedicated mis-
sionaries seek to convert the natives to Christianity. And in addition
to the European settlements, some few native villages still cling to
survival here and there, despite the odds.
Your pirate will spend much of his time in one or another of these
ports - buying and selling goods, repairing his vessel, recruiting crew-
men, purchasing treasure maps from shady characters, taking assign-
ments from desperate governors, putting the moves on those gover-
nors’ daughters, fighting evil foreigners, and the like.
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Victory or Defeat
The duel ends when one dueller is pushed overboard (or up against
a wall) or when a dueller surrenders.
Nowhere to Run
When the battle begins, both duellers are in the middle of the
duelling “stage” (typically in the middle of a ship’s main deck). Each
dueller is pushed back by his enemy’s successful hits; if hit enough,
a dueller is pushed back to the very edge of the stage. If he is hit
again, he loses the duel and must surrender (or fall overboard).
Losing the Crew Battle
When a dueller’s crew has been knocked down to one man, he auto-
matically surrenders the very next time he is hit in the duel. (Note:
You can still win a duel even if your crew has been reduced to one
man: you just have to avoid all enemy attacks until you’ve pushed
your opponent off the stage.)
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Book Three
The Memoirs of Captain Sydney
I think I loved Tortuga the best o’ all cities in the Caribbean. The
shipwright was fast ‘n’ mostly honest; the merchants never asked ye where
ye got the cargo from; and the tavern was always crawlin’ with bucca-
neers lookin’ fer work.
I remembers I had me a good relationship with the governor, too,
even though Tortuga was a French city and I was an English cap’n, and
France ‘n’ England was pretty nearly always at war with each other.
See, France was usually fightin’ Spain at the same time, and as long
as I kept capturin’ Spanish ships ‘n’ leavin’ the Frenchies alone, he didn’t
care where I came from.
Do ye know that man promoted me to admiral? Me, an admiral in
the bloomin’ French navy! I nearly busted out laughin’ when he told me!
The governor also introduced me to his daughter, which was right
polite o’ him, if ye asks me. Nothin’ ever came o’ it, though: she was
kinda plain-lookin’ and I already had me heart set on this beautiful lass
in Saint Kitts.
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