The Cannibal and the Sky Pirate

System: Fate 3.0

Date Run: 5/28/2011

Thumbnail: A bunch of pirates find the USS monitor in 1750 and use it to make a Booty call.

Players:

Sergey - Dr. Franklin - Ship's Surgeon who is secretly a cannibal.

Daniel - Oglethorp or "O" as he is known - Radical engineer/ship's carpenter who has stolen the design for an ornithoper and claimed it as his own.

The Roberts had been having a run of bad luck, so the Captain Ohara decided to take the long way around through the Devil's triangle. They are stuck in the mists for three days. When they come out the spot a strange Iron Island. The captain sends them to investigate.

O went to investigate first and lands, but smelled 'cooked meet' inside after opening the hatch, waiting for the long boat to arrive. O entered shortly before everyone else. Dr. Franklin discovered that the people were some cooked from the inside out. O discovered the engine room and with a bit of finagling manages to get it working. They figured out how to steer the ship. Dr. Franklin sampled a few of the dead.

There was a lot of discussion, with the Captain listening to input from the crew as to what to do. It was decided that they will go into the nearest Pirate haven to listen for rumors. They parked the Iron Clad near by and sailed the ship in. Most of the crew were kept on board the ship to maintain secrecy. They listened carefully and found out about a Spanish treasure ship in Cartagena.

They spent several days training with the Iron Clad to learn how to use it and then sailed in the dead of night, just before the ship was set to leave, only there was not just one ship but seven, plus four fully loaded gun ships. The pirates surprised one of the gunships, blowing it out of the water, and quickly sank the other three. Dr. Franklin treated the injured. O flew above them and dropped bombs. There was a tense moment with the admiral on one of the seven treasure ships but a deal was made in a secret note delivered by O. Right before they left, however, the Pirates made an offer to the Spanish soldiers to join them, and stole an extra ship worth of treasure, taking nearly 5 ship's worth of bullion.

Things got tense on the ship as the Captain and Boatswain and First Mate worked hard to keep the pirates who were now insanely wealthy in line. A plan was hatched to approach Port Royal and talk with the governor to essentially buy a pardon from the British. Whilst this was going on, O noticed several people going missing, and being bored, clever and a little bit unwise from time to time put together that they had all been to see Dr. Franklin about the subject...alone...in his room. Dr. Franklin quietly shut the door and convinced O to drink a drugged potion but as he collapsed, he shot a gun into the air. A short while later, the Boatswain entered to find out what had caused the ruckuss. At first the Doctor tried to explain that O had gone crazy but the Boatswain was having none of it. He ungagged O and O explained how Dr. Franklin was merely showing him an escape trick. The Boatswain rolled his eyes and left but muttered something about 'kinky.' O and Dr. Franklin came to an accord.

A short while later, the group went to meet the Governor and bought their pardons. Dr. Franklin and O both bought knightships as well. O established a mighty university in North America (as far away from O as possible) where he had agents scour the world for designs and inventions...so he could steal them and claim them as his own. Dr. Franklin bought a nice isolated island where he could hire many servants and entertain many guests. And occasionally eat them.