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It Belongs to a Museum

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Boney said:
Making copies of all the codes of the current ships would be a valid action.
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Might even be comforting to the crews in question it's a bit like having your rules notarized and made 'official'. When you are working together acting outside the law the laws you make for yourself need every bit of legitimacy you can squeeze into them to help smooth functioning.
 
picklepikkl said:
"But Pickle!" you may cry out. "This is so boring! Where is the action? I don't want to just do a turn on prep work!"

Don't fret, my friend. You see, I have already thought of that. Do you see the plan name? If you are unfamiliar with Divided Loyalties, allow me the pleasure of informing you that this plan name is under a dread curse. Twice we've called a plan that or something like that (T25 and T36) and both times the turn got extremely dramatic on us out of fucking nowhere and we added a hundred pages every day. So, you see, there is nothing to fear, because this is the plan naming equivalent of standing on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All gods are bastards!" -- something exciting is bound to happen. And this is a spooky pirate quest, so let's get started on the dread curses good and early.
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Well now I wanna steal the name for my plan.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
why are you bringing this curse upon us?
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I thought that it would be rather in the spirit of our viewpoint character to cause problems on purpose.
Sinsystems said:
Although I am unsure if we can research the relics before we acquire them. I think we'd need to save that until next turn.
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This is a good question and I should check it -- Boney, is it valid to include an acquisition vote for X and a research vote for X in the same turnplan, or does X need to be in your inventory at the start of the turn to be a valid subject for research?
 
picklepikkl said:
So, you see, there is nothing to fear, because this is the plan naming equivalent of standing on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All gods are bastards!" -- something exciting is bound to happen. And this is a spooky pirate quest, so let's get started on the dread curses good and early.
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Inbefore this one turns out to be a quest equivalent of Constable Dorfl and just shrugs the exciting thing off like it is nothing. :V
 
Boney said:
In this era the focus is a lot more about prestige, which means the value of getting the genuine article is a lot higher.
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Makes sense.

Would accurate portaits of famous historical people he personally met and remembers how they look be valuable for an exhibit? Or it falls under the same "educational but not prestigious" umbrella?
 
Valmond said:
While these are very intteresting to us.
I am not sure they would be all that interesting to the people likely to visit our museum.
They are like making a museum of local corporate manuals/contracts.
Worthy thing to preserve, and of interest to some, but not likely to create much draw.
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The whole point of this museum is organized bragging. I expect that we are going to make an exhibit hall for every crew that is more successful than the average.
 
picklepikkl said:
This is a good question and I should check it -- Boney, is it valid to include an acquisition vote for X and a research vote for X in the same turnplan, or does X need to be in your inventory at the start of the turn to be a valid subject for research?
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Invalid. You might be getting a big pile of relics and you'd want to be deciding which one gets the big research bop specifically, and there's no disadvantage to delaying your research. You will always get the same benefit from something being fully researched if you do it later as if you did it earlier. You can put out an exhibit with something that has the label '??? nfi lol, check out this shit' and later come back and fill in some of the missing details no sweat. The vibe of having an enormous pile of wild shit you barely understand is dead on and I will not penalize it.

Aule said:
Would accurate portaits of famous historical people he personally met and remembers how they look be valuable for an exhibit? Or it falls under the same "educational but not prestigious" umbrella?
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Such portraits are rare enough to be valuable, as long as there's a context to give people a reason to be interested in that person.
 
Boney said:
You can put out an exhibit with something that has the label '??? nfi lol, check out this shit' and later come back and fill in some of the missing details no sweat. The vibe of having an enormous pile of wild shit you barely understand is dead on and I will not penalize it.
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I love it. We need a pile of busted old one gadgets so people can marvel at all the broken toasters and uselss knick knacks we dug up and fought a war with a slann over :V
 
thamuzz said:
I mean, I'm all for expanding the museum into a labrynthian Winchester House abomination, but having a hall for every crew seems excessive.
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How many pirate crews are there in the fleet? Surely local sea commerce can't support more than a dozen or 2?

Obviously only counting long term pirates. Not counting single job pick up crews.
 
fictionfan said:
The whole point of this museum is organized bragging. I expect that we are going to make an exhibit hall for every crew that is more successful than the average.
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Eventually, maybe.
But mostly is Luthor Harkon bragging, not every random pirate crew.
Now, i am not opposed to the pirate code gathering.
But it feels more like a "we've got all the basic necessities done, what kind of niche exhibits can we get?" move to me.
Eventually a thing to do.
Might make it a thing to compete on where your code is displayed in relation to Harkons (assuming he has one).
Closer to the (pirate) king you sit, greater your honor (among thieves).
 
fictionfan said:
How many pirate crews are there in the fleet? Surely local sea commerce can't support more than a dozen or 2?

Obviously only counting long term pirates. Not counting single job pick up crews.
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There's enough piracy to support two competing pirate kings.
I would expect there to be tons of trade going on, like, ludicrous amounts, relatively speaking.
Also maybe they feed on other pirates (either as punishment or for pay).
 
I'm not too worried about space—part of the reason we went with the island is that it has tons of room to expand, where that's building new wings on the fort, or digging tunnels into the side of the volcano.
 
Boney said:
Such portraits are rare enough to be valuable, as long as there's a context to give people a reason to be interested in that person.
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My idea was to find an artist in the Awakening (there got to be some among the drowned at least) and work with them to, for example, create portraits of various Vampire Bloodline progenitors, including Lutr, as Paht remembers them.
 
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