Pirate/SlashTHEM

In SlashTHEM, the Pirate is a role available to the hero that is incorporated from the Pirate role patch by ChrisANG, which in turn is based on the preliminary Pirate patch by Nephi.

Pirates can be humans, elves, drow, or incantifiers, and can start as neutral or chaotic.

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Starting equipment

Each Pirate starts with the following equipment:

• 1-300 gold pieces
• a +0 scimitar (wielded)
• 2–3 uncursed +1 knives
• a +0 pistol
• 25–34 +0 bullets
• a +0 leather jacket
• a +0 pair of high boots
• 2-4 cram rations
• a snack item
  • 3-9 kelp fronds (¹⁄₄ chance or 25%); otherwise
  • 3-9 bananas
• 3 potions of booze
• a ring of adornment (¹⁄₂ chance or 50%); otherwise, a random ring
• an uncursed +0 grappling hook (¹⁄₂ chance or 50%); otherwise, an uncursed oilskin sack

Any ring that is generated with an enchantment of +0 or lower is given a random enchantment from +1 to +3.

Elven Pirates have their cram rations replaced with lembas wafers, while incantifier Pirates have their food replaced with scrolls of food detection and are given a robe in place of a leather jacket.

Pirates start the game with knowledge of the oilskin cloak, oilskin sack and grappling hook, as well as knowledge of any applicable racial equipment.

The Pirate's default starting pet will be either a parrot called Squawks or a monkey called Ugga-Ugga, with roughly equal probability for either one.

Intrinsics

Pirate gain the following intrinsic properties upon reaching the given experience levels:

• XL 1: Swimming
• XL 7: Stealth
• XL 11: Speed

Attributes

The Pirate's starting attributes are distributed as follows:

Attributes	Strength	Dexterity	Constitution	Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma	Remaining
Minimum attributes	8	8	8	7	7	7	30
Distribution percentages	20%	20%	25%	15%	10%	10%

Skills

Pirates have the following skills available to them:

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, firearms, whip Spells: body Combat: two weapon combat
Expert	Weapons: knife, broadsword, scimitar, saber, flail, trident, crossbow Combat: bare hands

Pirates start with Basic skill level in scimitars and knives. They use the intelligence stat for spellcasting, and their role's special spell is cause fear.

Techniques

Pirates can learn the disarm technique by reaching Skilled in any weapon, but do not gain any techniques from their role.

Rank titles

The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:

• 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

Gods

The Pirate pantheon is retained from the original Pirate patch. Their first sacrifice gift is the Marauder's Map.

• Lawful: Nereus
• Neutral: Neptune
• Chaotic: Proteus

All three deities have Reaver as their crowning gift, and a hero that is crowned by them will be given the title of "the Pirate King", regardless of the hero's actual role or gender.

Quest

The Pirate's quest sees them fight Blackbeard's Ghost for The Treasury of Proteus, an artifact chest. The Treasury of Proteus has ¹⁄₁₂ the weight of a regular chest at 50 aum, and grants magic resistance and acts as a luck item while carried. Invoking the artifact restores the hero's energy by an amount equal to half of the difference between their maximum power and current power: if this amount is less than ¹⁄₁₀ of their maximum, then it will restore up to 400 energy.

While the hero has The Treasury of Proteus in their open inventory, it has other effects that can significantly change gameplay:

• While a Pirate hero has The Treasury of Proteus on hand, they are considered "king of the hill", and monster generation will change accordingly. When randomly generating monsters, ¹⁄₅ of them will be groups other pirates who seek to steal the quest artifact and kill the hero (in no specific order)—skeletal pirates will be generated in the dungeon above Gehennom, while damned pirates will be generated within Gehennom, and githyanki pirates will be generated on the Elemental Planes and Astral Plane. These pirate monsters will attack the hero while they are "king of the hill", as well as sharing a mutual grudge with mercenaries.
• The Treasury of Proteus has a ¹⁹⁄₂₀ chance of absorbing and blocking curses while carried—it will then become uncursed if it is currently blessed, and otherwise becomes cursed.
• When a Pirate hero first picks up The Treasury of Proteus, a timer is set to count down each turn, and when the timer reaches 0 it will polymorph its contents, signified by a sea-related message being printed. Normal items inside the container at the time have a ¹⁄₂₀ chance of resisting this effect, while artifacts have a ¹⁹⁄₂₀ chance of resisting.

Losing possession of The Treasury of Proteus will disable these listed effects.

Strategy

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