WARNING

 This game contains mature themes (like slavery) and your ability to influence certain events in the way you wish may be limited by your immediate circumstances.

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 The Basalisk is a pirate starship of advanced design, manned by a crew of powerful adventurers and fearsome pirates.

 You are neither. It doesn't matter how you got here. Maybe you got drunk in the wrong part of town. Maybe you were an unfortunate evacuee that didn't make it to the escape ship. However it happened, you wound up in chains aboard the Basalisk.

 Fortunately, (or perhaps unfortunately), someone noticed you had potential and pressganged you into the crew. Now you tend the crawlspaces and scrape aberrations off the hull of the ship.

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Note: A significant part of this game will be subterfuge and sabotage. Your character is effectively a slave and the pirates aboard are significantly more powerful than you are. Any direct moves against them will result in death.

 Your goal is to escape or take over the ship and buck the pirate crew... but you MUST NOT get caught. You can and possibly will die through no fault of your own if the Barbarian decides to use you to set off the traps in the dungeon you're exploring, so have a secondary character on the backburner.

 Different characters will have things you can and cannot get by with. It is your job to figure that out (I generally will not be rolling during your sabotage/subterfuge attempts because high level character rolls vs low level character rolls are inherently unfair) so these attempts will succeed or fail mostly based on which characters you're trying to sabotage and how you go about it.