Pirate
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| Pirate Role | |
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| Author | Chris |
| Download | link |
| 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.
In the original patch, only humans can be Pirates. They can be neutral or chaotic.
In dNetHack, Elves, Drow, and Incantifiers can also be Pirates; SlashTHEM allows them to be doppelgänger, drow, elves, human, or incantifiers.
Contents
Skills
| Pirate skills | |
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| Max | Skills |
| Basic |
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| Skilled |
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| Expert |
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The Pirate's special spell is cause fear. Spell success is determined by intelligence.
dNetHack also allows the pirate to advance firearms to Expert.
Starting equipment
- +0 cutlass (scimitar)
- Two +1 knives
- +0 leather jacket
- +0 high boots
- Two sea biscuits (cram ration)
- Three bananas
- Three potions of rum (potion of booze)
- A random ring
- +0 oilskin sack
- +0 pistol (SlashTHEM) or a +0 flintlock (dNetHack)
- Random quantity of +0 bullets (SlashTHEM and dNetHack)
Intrinsics
Pirates gain the following intrinsics at these experience levels:
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. It's described as so cursed, it sucks in lesser curses like a black hole (it blocks curses, similar to what Magicbane does).
Gods
- Lawful: the Lord
- Neutral: the deep blue sea
- Chaotic: the Devil
Rank titles
The status line shows you to be one of the following ranks when you reach the specified experience level:
- XL 1-2: Landlubber
- XL 3-5: Swabbie
- XL 6-9: Cutthroat
- XL 10-13: Bosun
- XL 14-17: Second Mate
- XL 18-21: First Mate
- XL 22-25: Captain
- XL 26-29: Pirate Lord
- XL 30: Dread Pirate
Artifact generation
In dNetHack and SpliceHack, artifacts generate 4 times as often as for other roles when you're a Pirate. Normally, each random item on the floor has a 5% chance of becoming an artifact if an artifact of that base type exists, but pirates increase that chance to 20%. However, they can only ever receive one sacrifice gift - the Marauder's Map.
Pirate names for items
Like the Samurai, the Pirate will know common items by special names, in this case, following a nautical theme:
| Standard | Pirate |
|---|---|
| potion of booze | potion of rum |
| cram ration | sea biscuit |
| scimitar | cutlass |
| sack | ditty bag |
| oilskin sack | oilskin 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
In dNetHack, the zorkmid and gold coin name substitutions are unused. Some specific messages are always written in a piratical style, but the general-purpose text filter is disabled. The item name substitutions can be disabled by disabling the role_obj_names option, which is enabled by default.
Encyclopedia entry
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle and even highjack.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char and inflame and ignite.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villians and knaves.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We're beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
