Pirate brother (dNetHack)
@ pirate brother 
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| Difficulty | 11 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d6 physical, offhand weapon 1d6 physical |
| Base level | 9 |
| Base experience | 230 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | -3 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | medium
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- This article is about the monster in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. For the monster in other variants, see pirate brother.
A pirate brother, @, is a Pirate quest guardian in dNetHack, notdNetHack, and notnotdNetHack. Pirate brothers are strong and omnivorous humans that are chaotic, can be seen via infravision, and similar to thugs they are gold lovers that may collect items—despite their name, they can be either male or female. Pirate brothers can reach level 30.
A pirate crewmate has two weapon attacks, with the second attack using any offhand weapons they have available. Like Pirate heroes and other 'pirate' monsters, they will gain intrinsic stealth at a minimum of level 7 and gain intrinsic speed at a minimum of level 11. Pirate brothers boast skilled prowess in martial combat and have a full base attack bonus of +1 per monster level.
Generation
Pirate brothers are not randomly generated, and are always created peaceful. They are not a valid genocide target, and are not a valid polymorph form except for doppelgangers encountered by roles other than Pirates.
Eight pirate brothers are generated within the ship of the Pirate quest home level during level creation: five are placed in each of the 2x2 quarters on the north side, while three are placed within the room where Mayor Cummerbund awaits.
Pirate brothers can appear among the group of hostile quest guardians that collectively constitute the first quest monster slot for Binders and make up 72⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Binder quest.
Pirate brothers are always generated with a cutlass, leather armor, a pair of high boots, a flintlock, and a stack of bullets that will have 10 more added to their initial quantity.
History
The pirate brother first appears in ChrisANG's Pirate role patch—ChrisANG is the primary developer of dNetHack. A similar monster, the buccaneer, appears in Nephi's original Pirate role patch that ChrisANG's version is based on and serves the same role of quest guardian.
Origin
The pirate brother monsters are based on the Brethren of the Coast (or simply the Brethren), a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers that were active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They mostly operated in two locations: the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica. The Brethren were a syndicate of captains with letters of marque and reprisal who regulated their privateering enterprises within the community of privateers and with their outside benefactors. They were primarily private individual merchant mariners of Protestant background, usually of English and French origin.
The brethren were originally refugees who settled in Hispaniola, mostly French Huguenots and British Protestants. They would supply wares to visiting ships in exchange for guns and ammunition, an activity which led to the Spanish driving them out. These former refugees lived in something akin to a republic. Despite their origins their ranks swelled as they were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities, including Spaniards and African sailors as well as escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns. The English had their heyday around the 1650s, when they seized Tortuga from the Spanish, and these privateers were issued letters of marque to defend the island from the Spanish and raid Catholic French and Spanish shipping.
Their decline can be attributed to various factors: The peace between William of Orange and Spain decreased the incentive in privateering, and The Treaty of Madrid in 1670 resulted in the English renouncing privateering in the Caribbean and Jamaica being recognised as an English possession by the Spanish crown—in addition, the demographic changes which featured a rise in slave labor in the Caribbean islands was a compounding factor. Most maritime families moved to the mainland colonies of the future United States or to their home countries, while a few–unable to compete effectively with slave labor, enamored of easy riches, or acting out of angst–continued to maintain the Brethren of the Coasts as a purely criminal organization which preyed upon all civilian maritime shipping without the legal endorsement of any government.
This second era of the Brethren began the so-called Golden Age of Piracy and brigandage which affected the Caribbean until socioeconomic and military changes of the late 17th and early 18th century finally caused its decline. Many pirates made their journeys there, and one of the most famous was Alexandre Exquemelin. In keeping with their Protestant and mostly common-law heritage, the Brethren were governed by codes of conduct that favored legislative decision-making, hierarchical command authority, individual rights, and equitable division of revenues. Henry Morgan, one of the most well-known Brethren, is usually credited with codifying its organization.
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Encyclopedia entry
The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Based primarily on the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica, the original Brethren were mostly French Huguenot and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards, and even African sailors, as well as escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns.
In keeping with their Protestant and mostly Common Law heritage the Brethren were governed by codes of conduct that favored legislative decision-making, hierarchical command authority, individual rights, and equitable division of revenues.
