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Caught up in the heat of the moment, our heroes decide that it's a Pirate Life for Them!

Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to Attackers anOpportunity. This is your DM Michael.
I'm sitting around a virtual table withsome of my friends and oh oh yes,
we're gonna play some d and doh. Yeah, we have our
heroes currently on a ship. LittleDicky on a ship, Dicky in a
box on a ship. I thoughtyou were making a dinghy joke. That's

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good. Sorry, I was tryingto booy all your spirits. Oh boo
yee. This is what happened.This is what happened. We spent six
weeks doing renfare together. Now it'sthis that's just jo. What can I
say except you're welcome. So theheroes had made their way onto Black Things

(01:10):
fist one did what now did one? Sorry? My brain jumped over to
Dragon Ball reference to Wolffing Fixed fistYancha's special move in the early seasons of
dragon Ball. Sorry, we're onBlack Things fist Okay, yeah, Aftain

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Black Fings ship and you all wereheaded to Turtle Dragon Island, hoping to
perhaps get some information and move alongin your adventure a bit on the way.
They're on about day seven of yourtravels of an estimated eight or nine
day trip to the Turtle Dragon Island. You noticed in the distance a trio
of ships. A bit of reconnaissancewas done and it was identified that one

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of the ships was another quote unquoteformer pirate ship called the Fires of the
Run. The opportunity to perhaps boardtheir ship to either discuss with them or
take out their command structure was proposed. People began to settle up to Valak
so he could use his teleprotation hometo get you all over to the ship,
and in the last moment, withMoonbeams sitting on his shoulder, Valak

(02:13):
released his hands from all of you, teleporting just himself and Moonbeam ideally to
the Flames of the Wrung a littlebit of teleprotation, Mishap landed on one
of the other ships, bounced backover to the Virung and had a conversation
with the group of pirates there,trying to convince them that oh, hey,
we can all be friends. Wedon't have to attack here. The
pirates of the Vrung were less thanentirely convinced, and v teleported away back

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to Black Fang's ship. With that, the potential for some naval combat came
into play. As you all areon Black Fang's ship. The trio of
other ships, the little flotilla ison the move as well as you are
all seemingly headed at least in thegeneral direction of the Turtle Dragon aisles.
I have a handout that I'm goingto be showing to all of you,

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just to give you a quick ideaof the three other ships, and as
far as distances, there will beseveral hours of transit time between you and
this other fleet of ships you allare. Probably if you sailed an intercept
course directly for them, it wouldprobably be about a four hour journey.
Sorry, not a three hour cruise. A four hour journey? What about

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a three hour tour? Yeah,that's what these ships thought they were on.
But we have other plans. Soat present, there is not immediate
danger to the ship that you allare on. However, if you choose
to pirate to the other pirates,this would be a wonderful opportunity to do
so. Blackfang is very much nota fan of the leaders of the Vung,

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so if you all engaged in combator tried to convince him to engage
in combat, he would absolutely joinin willingly in that battle. You also
the opportunity to completely avoid them,if that's which you so choose. Certainly,
Valak seemed to want to take apeaceful approach. However, we do
not have Michael Cold with us today, so val is just kind of like
boost into plasma on the side anddoesn't have a voice right now, my

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slightly more bloodthirsty Platinum Ring members,what all would you like to do?
Would you like to ready for combat? Well, I say, on the
way? Are they on the wayor do we even need to? You
don't need to. They aren't completelyout of your way. If you were
driving from say Burbank, California toLax Airport, would be like swinging by

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downtown LA. The distance is notthat much more. Okay, So yeah,
real quick. The town that we'regoing to, or the Turtle Dragon
aff the aisle that we are goingto, it moves right correct, and
so in order to get to ityou have to somehow have some kind of
contact that tells you exactly where itis. The Turtle Dragon aisles moves,

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at least for the pirates on assort of rendezvous points where pirates are where
it knows that hey, on thethird week of the fourth month of summer,
the Child Dragon ailes are usually inthis area, some of them.
Man also, have you know magicalcompasses that always point trill Dragon ails.
You all have not investigated that point. You've trusted that Black Fame is taking
you to the tril Dragon Aisles,and clearly he got you there previously because

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you have spent a night and gotteninto a barbrawl on the Tritle Dragon Aisles
in the past. See about episodeone fifteen is show I want to say,
and then I don't know we aregoing to I want to get some
more details before we decide. It'skind of like Tortuga e right, It's
it's a place where they see whatyou did there tug Dragon Island. Why

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I was having difficulties hang it.It is the hive of scum and villainy.
It is the pirate hangout. Itis solely built upon, you know,
the loot of pirates over the yearsin their association with the Turtle Dragon
two Russians, the folks that wejust talked to with the three ships.
Yes, you used to be piratesand are now basically privateers of their own

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world. Right, They are claimingthat they are now in the service of
a duke who has some territory onthe eastern shore of the western continent.
It's the kind of the country overfrom Tavahia northeast of Zixa. So these
privateers are going to Turtle Dragon Ill, the mecca of pirates are okay,

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that was the next thing. They'rejust doing their own thing. They're doing
their own thing. We were intercepting. Well, they seem to be headed
in generally the same direction you are. If these guys were absolutely unequivocally pirates
in the past. Now they claimto have some legitimacy. Whether that claim
is legit or not it is perhapsopen for debate, and depending on which
policing force or other country you wantto speak to. But they do seem

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to be headed in the same direction. You all are on sort of converging
courses, and there's no sort ofpirated code of ethics that says don't attack
each other while trying to get intoour bay. Right. Actually, because
of maive slash phrase history, youcould roll me a history or just straight
intelligence to see what you remember aboutthat. Let's see here you do which

(07:15):
is better history and are exactly thosesame? Oh but I'm not yes,
yes, yeah, my duck dieOkay, Oh, it's my fun guy.
Yeah, that's that fun guys,A fun guy, all right.
Yeah, you know that pirates aresort of a loose confederation. It's not

(07:39):
exactly built on trust. But ifone group of pirates screws over another group
of pirates, the word gets aroundright now, if there's a group that's
already an outsider group that everybody's kindof okay with you fucking with them,
you can screw you can screw themover and no one will care. The
pirate code is more of a setof guideline guidelines. It is something where

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Captain Blackfang seems to be a piratein quote unquote goods standing amongst the other
pirates, it's unlikely that other pirategroups would try to screw him over.
The varrung is sort of in aquestionable state. They've said to some parts
of the world, oh, we'veturned our backs on our pirrating way and
others just kidding. And we didn'tget any kind of inforration as to why

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they were heading in this direction,right, No, there was no piece
of that conversation. Well, theydid say to Valik that they are sometimes
hired to carry cargoes or peoples.It wasn't exactly that phrasing, but it
was in that vein. Unfortunately,the opportunity to find out information was stolen
from us a little bit five Valida. What did Valiq say moonding when he

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was over there? Not much,but he found out that he didn't like
what they were doing, and theywould be better for the larger population if
we took them down. You didn'tlike what they were doing? What does
that mean? They seemed to pirate, even though they think they're not pirate,
but they definitely so pirate, andthey take over ships. But then
they'd shippen. I don't know,how do you find all that house?
So they were very open about it, really, they said, hey,
we're pirrating. Interesting. Yeah,they weren't very shy. I would like

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to ask a clarifying question in thesecall it eighteen seconds of conversation, So
about three rounds while Moonbeam is talkingto people, is she doing anything else
with her flame spirit that is offnear the other little fleet of ships.
Is she just having it move alongwith them? Or is she casting her
spells through it while she's talking therest of the party. I want to
cast a spell through it because Ifeel like they were already amassing their men

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to start attacking, and I wantto burn some sales. Okay, so
right as right as this information ishappening, we can see we can see
the ships all ways away. Butwe can see them right. You can't
see them very clearly unless you hada spyglass or perhaps glasses of minute seeing
and rolled a good perception check.So here, I'll let you decide if

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this is possible. But I thinkthat would be a great but to just
turn me like well black fang it. It's up to you. What do
you want to do? And thensuddenly we just see flames. Let me
have a look here. Oh yes, all right, Dorian. What was
your number on your protection? Ohyou hadn't asked for it yet, but

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here it's on the way seventeen.Yeah, with seventeen with the glasses of
my nute seeing. Yeah, you'rekind of looking over there at the moment
the spell erupts, Moonbean, tellme what spell it is that you cast
and what you're going for with it. I'm going to do scorching ray right
for the main mask. You knowhow the sales connect on that? Like

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t bar, I want to havethe scorching ray, go directly towards that,
all three of them. Okay,get me to do a D twenty
two hit. Yes, please,you got it? Um that is it's
nice a flame being walks onto apirate ship, right, yeah, it
just starts burning it. That isa fourteen to the shop fourteen Yes,
that connects to the wooden poles thatare tied to each other. Wait to

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get are like ship people being likeyou didn't know the names of many of
these things. It's a boat justto make people angry. Yeah. Fifteen
damage? Okay, yes, youhit rather than the main mast, do
you actually hit the mizzen mast onthe ship, which is sort of the
the rear set of masks. Youhit it at the housers. There's some
word that actually is the connecting rodof it. Yeah, it makes sense.

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So you throw the flame directly atthat. How much damage was fifteen?
Yeah. Some of the ropes thatthey use begin to burn away at
that. The wood itself is treatedso as to resist some of this,
because you don't. Fire is ahazard on ships. So the wood resists
some of the flame, but theropes begin to burn away, and one
of the ropes swings down as it'son flame and connects with the sail itself,

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and the sail slowly begins to startto char. It doesn't immediately engulf
in flame. It does causts themto stop moving, but it does begin
to eat away at one of theirsails. I'm assuming that you are attacking
the fires of the rung here orwere you hitting one of the two escort
ships that seem to be cargo ships. No, one of the fires,

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the fires are okay, the actualother pirate ship cool. So yes,
it begins, and Dorian, yousee all the flame happen. You see
the burning rope come down and swingand connect with the sails, and you
can see with your seventeen perception andglasses of minute scene that arms are called
on their ship and three sailors startclimbing up the shrouds the rope netting on

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the side, and they are runningup the masts as quickly as they can
to try to get the burning ropeaway from the sails and or furl the
sails to make it a little lesssusceptible to flame. Well, that's interesting.
The sails are on fire, they'retrying to put them out. So
black fin looks at Freya and goes, well, I guess that sort of

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answers the questions. Arms boys,Arms, as he shouts to the rest
of the ship, anything really realquick? Did you still want to keep
the ships for yourself? If we'reable to capture the ships, the prize
payments on those would be a significantto we're able to capture all three,

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especially we're able to capture it,we'd all live there. He'll be gotten
loot and cargo on board. Great, And then she raises her own voice,
turns this down. De bis atarms, and don't ruin the ships.
The sales are replaceable, right,Roll a persuasion or just straight charisma.
Roll on that. Because she's apirate princess. You need to die.

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Every pirate princess needs a little murderpixie. And that's tway five.
First fusion for persuasion. Yeah,okay, yeah, you shout that out.
Captain black Thing Green is broadly.You see his gun metal gray tusk
in clear light. His grin isso large you can see it down to

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its base. And some of theother pirates that are around you as to
hear get a grin on their facebecause they also recognize that their share of
the price claim would definitely be morethan a few clans. So movie,
you have cast a spell, DickyWall, this is going on? Is
there anything particularly you're trying to?Are you just going to kind of hang

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out and let the fighter people dothe fightery thing. I'm currently thinking of
how to rid the people of aboat without burning the boat. It's tough
because we just finished playing a pirategame that lasted like a year. Turn
into Culu like three. I lovethat, loved Eltritch being. So how

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how far away until we make contact? You're at one hundred and fifty miles
like, you're four hours at leastbefore where you can get into sword fighting
range. Yeah, all the salesburn, wouldn't it. Perhaps we don't
do that. The ship's going tobe gone by the time we can.
I mean at this point, Ijust walk. Okay, Well you could

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maybe you could also try to inspirethe crew. You could think about naval
tactics and maybe something too. Youcould if you had spells of prep or
protection or anything like that that youwanted to do away. Man right,
I'm just saying you have time toprep and already inspiring the pirates as they
prep also predential the usual if you'rehanging out and waiting, you are lying

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in wait, as Aaron Burr woulddo in the musical Hamilton. Totally cool,
I smile more a you're willing towait for it for us? Yes,
excellent, And Dorian, you watchsome of the sales start to burn.
It's a little outside the range ofEldrit's blast. But anything you'd like
to do or even in the fourhours as you begin to as the ships

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begin to move closer, is thereanything you're trying to do? There's there's
not much I can do. I'mjust and that's fair. You guys are
your characters are not trained to beon ships other than May've, so there's
not a whole lot of tasks.You are enthusiastic if unskilled labor Captain black
Fang, if I may, yes, what is it, Dorian? So

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if say some of their personnel wereto unfortunately fly overboard, which would be
the worst ones for them to lose, any of their captains, any of
their first officers, anyone that hada quarter staff or halberd because they could
protect a lot of deck space witha weapon like that, which makes it
harder to get in and fight totake over all the other ships, right,

(16:41):
right, Who should I target first? When we can, I'd go
for their captains. Yeah, likeagain, I refreshed my memory. Looked
for their biggest hat like cyborgish likemetal guy. Oh the crew that were
wrong. Yeah, I know.There's like three guys. I don't know,
at least three of them. Ofthem had an artificer built him in

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arm at one point, like allthe way up to his shoulder, all
all metal. And then he hadanother artificer like do some kind of enchantment
around his eyes and it allowed himto see all the way around him so
you could never be surprised. Good, Yes, I'll target him. One
of the other guys, the guywho truly seemed to be in charge.
People just called him the baron,uh you know, leather coat dueling sword.

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He was the kind who could sella snail the shellow was already wearing.
And then they had a smart wizardfellow. I'm planking on the name,
but a smart wizard fellow. Hehad a little ogre blood I think
in him, but some but mostlyhuman, and he was sort of their

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their wizard there, their super smartypats. Right, can maybe take out
his wizard. Yes, talk aboutgood Thank you, You've been most helpful,
and I will wreak hathoc upon them. Ah, I love it.
I see why Freyer likes you.Now, Murder Fixie, do some more,

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Moonbeam. Is there another struedge youlike to cast out of your flame
Spirit? I would also. Iam curious my flame spirit gets its own
turn too. Do we want tonegate that since I'm casting from it?
I think it would be safe toassume that your flame Spirit is using it's
turn to keep moving apace with theships. Yeah, true, are true.
Yeah, it also can teleport thirtyfeet too, if it needs to
catch up at any point. Havingheard what Captain black Pang just said,

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a lot of people aren't gonna likethis. It's gonna happen, though,
and she saw I think she sawall the people that he had just mentioned,
correct when she was there without Yes, perfect, She's gonna cast qualifier
on the entire deck of the Mansion. And because the ship itself is moving
through all of this, it's goingto force the deck of the ship through

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the wall of fire. Thus anyoneon the deck will have to face the
penalty of this. Yeah, okay, wall of fire. It's a deck
save. It's sixty feet long,twenty feet high, and a foot thick
twenty feet high. I think thatwill hit the sales. Yeah, and
it's a dexterity save, Dick save. And what is the DC great question?
I think it's sixteen? Yeah,sixteen. I like to imagine your

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fire spirit is like that little blueguy from Oh my God. Yes,
going with some actual nights here,but once Yeah, i's that rope netting.
Oh okay, two sixes of fourand a eight, gotcha? Okay,

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cool, So anyone who passes gonnado half damage, but the other
ones, oh yes, that's goingto be ugly. And that's not all
of the people. I just kindof rolled that as a representative set of
generally, how well do they do? Gotcha? Yeah, that's great.
So it's thirty total damage for thisfor this one, for this one,

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Yeah, because I can I keepit up for a minute at least.
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna haveto start jotting notes here. Oh and
the ship itself is going to failthat so the ship itself is going to
burn a bit. Yeah all right, So Dorian, keeping your eye on
this with the minute scene that's theminute seeing you see Adar, who's the
guy with a mechanical arm almost kindof like reach out as the flame gets

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to him, and he almost batsaway part of the flame wall and it
splits the flame a little bit aroundhim, so he gets scorched much less.
You also see their wizard, theguy that's part Ogre. He reaches
up and his hand and it's anarchaean gesture that you've seen before, and
energy flows around in front of himand he is protected from the majority of

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the flame damage coming at him.I will say that those are the two
successful roles on that, so I'lltake the half. But the baron,
sitting there in his leather coat,hunkers down for a moment, like draws
the leather coat in front of hisface so that his face at least does
not burned as the flames wash overhim. But after the ship passes through
the wall of flame, you seehim come up and shake himself off a

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little bit, and bits of hiscoat are burned as he has taken the
full brunt of the wall of flame. Move meames maniacally laughing, and I
feel like her fire spirit is absolutelymirroring it. Yeah. Oh, oh
they didn't like that. Good keepon it, don't ruin the ship.

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The ship does take some damage onthat. A lot of the ropes burn
away. The bottoms of the sailsbegin to char as well. But you
see in response that the couple ofguys that were up on the rigging start
to furl up the sails, makesit more difficult for them to burn from
the fire attacks. And with thatthough, their speed slows, and the

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other two ships in response start tofurl their sails a bit, and they
be in slow as well, tryingto all keep them at least somewhat groups
together them down all right out.That's great, that's perfect. I need
to look at a spell text tosee if it actually does what I want
it to do. Also, I'mjust a missioning moon name's eyes just like

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flaming as well the flame spirit itself. What level spell did you cast that
at? That's a fourth level asa fourth level okay, So you see
their wizard concentrate for a moment afterthe wall of flame passes over him,
and his hand reaches out and hepoints towards your flame spirit and he will
attempt to dispel magic on it.It is DC equals ten plus the spells

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level, so fourteen. His bonusis his spell casting modifier. That's a
seventeen on the die. So afterthe two spells, did you get off
with your flame spirit? He reachesout and dispels the flame spirit. Gotcha?
That didn't damish? Yes, andDorian. In the seconds after that,
you see a couple of the guysthat were really badly burned. They're

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getting their flames put out. Bucketsof slightly damp sand get thrown on them
to help smother the flames on theirclothes, and sort of almost fire brigade
starts on the ship trying to putout the remaining fires that exist. Question
about that, did he dispell justmy flame spirit or the wall of fire
too? Because it's concentration based onme, I think, but I think

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the wall of fire might still beup. Yes, I think the wall
of fire is still up. Gotchagone? Yeah, So you're you're just
new spells out of it? Now? Can you relocate the wall of fire?
No? But it stays up fora minute as long as I'm concentrating
on it. So I'm gonna guessmore of the ship and set passing through
it or something gotcha. Well,I sorry. In that set of rules,

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I envisioned that was the ship movingthrough the wall of fire, because
it would have been moving with theweek. It would have been moving,
yeah, twenty nine and probably wouldhave cleared its distance in one maybe two
turns. That just means that theocean is on fire. Yeah, well
already feet up from the ocean ison fire. Yeah. Loading fire not

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not weird at all. I meanno, no, I like it.
So while this is happening, I'mgonna run down to Blackfang's office because I
know where he stores the pretty gunsquarters, the Captain's quarters, and I'm
going to take two of them,two really nice firearms. Excellent, you

(24:33):
can have them back, But thenI'm taking a bunch of ammo as well.
Gotcha. So it in opening oneof the storage chests or weapons lockers
in the Captain's quarters, you dosee that there are three very ornate guns.
Two of them look like dueling pistolsand the others almost a rifle size.
You know that it is some ofthese weapons can do pretty cool effects,

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but it takes a while to loadthem. That's their kind of drawback
in this world. They're they're hardto make, and they they're hard to
load. But the emma itself isactually like expelled wands cut up to form
the weapon core or the core ofthe bullet, so that as you're firing,
you're firing almost spells out of them. Cool. Plus, don't forget

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you also have the wand of magicmissile. Oh, I know, they've
just never seen me with guns.Yes, every element that you picture a
normal pirate having the hat, theguns, the swire, bla blah blah
blah. She has hid this entiretime. Now you get to see all
of it. The guns dicky onthe deck as this is going, and

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the Black Fangs ship which I don'tbelieve you guys have ever asked the name
of Black fan ship. But decasyou are seeing kind of the evolutionists,
they are preparing for battle. Yousee these sections of the deck actually be
lifted out, the timbers themselves liftedout in like ten foot by ten foot
sections. And as they're lifted outand moved away, a platform that is

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under the deck begins to rise upand two very large our airbalists, airbalists,
our blists, yes, our blisseverything are raids from the lower deck
and you have these two you know, mammoth crossbow mounts come up and effectively,
gun crews begin to prepare to firethose Thank you for listening to Attackers

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