Pirate crewmate (SpliceHack)
| @ pirate crewmate / pirate brother / pirate sister (No tile) | |
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| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 10 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | -3 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | medium |
| Resistances | none |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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A pirate crewmate:
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- This article is about the monster in SpliceHack. For the monster in other variants, see pirate brother.
A pirate crewmate, @, is a Pirate quest guardian in SpliceHack. Pirate crewmates are strong and omnivorous humans that have "pirate brother" and "pirate sister" as gendered titles. They are chaotic, can be seen via infravision, and similar to thugs they are gold lovers that may collect items. Like other pirate monsters, pirate crewmates have a mutual grudge with mercenaries, and hostile ones will attack a Pirate hero or any other pirate monster that has The Treasury of Proteus in their open inventory (though in practice, almost all crewmates that are not made hostile by the hero will be doppelgangers). Pirate crewmates will quaff potions of booze that they pick up, which will cause them to gain 1 HP, become confused and render them no longer scared, though they will also pass out and fall asleep for several turns if the potion was cursed.
A pirate crewmate has two weapon attacks.
Generation
Pirate crewmates 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 crewmates are always generated with a scimitar, light armor and a pair of high boots. Like other pirate monsters, they have a 1⁄2 chance of generating with a frag grenade.
History
The pirate crewmate first appears in ChrisANG's Pirate role patch as the pirate brother. 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 crewmate 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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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.
