Pirate

Pirate Role
Author	Chris
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NetHack PatchDB	pending

The Pirate is a role added in the Pirate Role patch, which was developed using Nephi's preliminary Pirate patch as a base.

Pirates are a melee focused class that may have trouble finding a good weapon. Their first sacrifice gift is the Marauder's Map, and their crowning gift is an artifact cutlass (scimitar), Reaver. Their default pet is either a parrot or a monkey.

Skills

Pirate skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: short sword, long sword, club, unicorn horn Spells: attack, divination, enchantment
Skilled	Weapons: dagger, axe, morning star, spear, javelin, dart, whip Combat: two weapon combat Spells: escape
Expert	Weapons: knife, broadsword, scimitar, saber, flail, trident, crossbow Combat: bare handed

In Slash'EM Extended, the pirate can also advance firearms to Expert, and starts with a pistol and a random quantity of bullets.

Quest

The pirate quest sees the Pirate traveling from the pirate stronghold of Tortuga to Shipwreck Island to retrieve the Treasury of Proteus from Blackbeard's Ghost. The Treasury will periodically polymorph its contents while carried. In addition, it grants magic resistance and is so cursed it sucks in lesser curses like a black hole, blocking curses much like Magicbane does.

Pirate names for items

Like the Samurai, the Pirate will know common items by special nautical-themed names:

Standard	Pirate
potion of booze	potion of rum
cram ration	sea biscuit
scimitar	cutlass
small shield	buckler
sack	ditty bag
large box	foot locker
club	belaying pin
zorkmid	doubloon
gold coin	piece of eight

The patch treats the cutlass as a kind of scimitar. In real life, the cutlass is usually a much shorter sword than the scimitar, though both usually have conspicuously curved blades. Both are also related to the saber--the scimitar through the Persian shamshir and Turkish kilij, which were probably influenced by cavalry sabers used by the Byzantine Empire--but NetHack treats the scimitar/cutlass and saber as distinct weapons. NetHack is not real life.

Reference: Chris's Pirate Patch