Good Vs. Evil (A Story Game)

[Dockwrecker The Privateer]

(Excellent story telling here,I like it when it get dangerous lol,I feel Captain Catalonia is in danger....It seems we are keeping to certain fleets at a time,that's good and makes it simpler for the time being)


Captain Catalonia of the El Cozerone could feel luck turning against him.Torquemada had almost certainly allied himself with the Corazon's Captain de la Casa and perhaps also with the Santa Maraianna.Phillip Catalonia had played countless dangerous games with his rival Vasco de la Casa in the past ,but stakes have been raised ,it seems.

However reviving, he has a friend in high places waiting for him in New Orleans....All Catalonia must do is get there in one piece,now a challenging enough objective.A new hope has been reborn in the Captain after a week's despair....And he knows there is someone following the four ships in his fleet,pirates or a non-Spainish privateer,he will strike an invaluble deal with the Utopia within the hour,Catalonia has leverage yet:for he has friends in high places waiting in Orleans....

The shift of power is stopped.
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The Score now stands at 46.
The French wait,we shall come to them in good time.

[swordshot]

spanish has gone to new orlwans and has to find our whats happening.Spanish raids candy shops in search for more world domination XD

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total 45... again

[william kid]

The Utopia sails along and alone in the moonless black ink that is the sea. The seas are calm and the helms man is chatting as he keeps the ship on course. His friend suddenly breaks from the conversation with a "tis something strange with the sea mate, I can't make it out tis just outside our light" the Captain steeps onto the deck and walks to the edge to have a look. "Aye the dark seems to be shifting" he opened his mouth again to comment on a flash but the thwak of the musket ball silenced the words on his tongue. The first mate looked down as his Captain slumped to the deck dead. "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK" he yelled as the cannons of the Merchants Misfortune's broadsides sent chain and grape shot across the deck.
The sails and rigging tear free and the wind that was driving the ship forward escapes. The grape has done its job as well as most on deck now lay still. "Prepare to board" Paul yells as he turn his ship into the light and his crew drops sails. "Tis gonna be a grand night for ol Davey Jones" he says with a smile.

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score 44

[The Skirata Clan]

Torquemada instructs the Captain of Corazon to aid the Utopia, saving them from their fate.

Torquemada sent the Merchant Misfortune to hunt them to begin with. He kills a man in the Merchant Misfortune that knew what was going on. Then found a French flag that he had placed there. "Kill them all, France prepares a trap leave no prisoners!"

The survivors of the Utopia have sworn to serve Torquemada and follow both the Corazon and the Santa Marianna. They will kill Catalonia and fight the French warships once they arrive at New Orleans.

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Score 43 or 44 Depending if Basil count post 122 by Swordshot as valid.

[Basil Dreadflint]

Hmmmm, It seems that evil is beginning to edge out good in the postings and the score. All this, and there are still ships that haven't even set sail yet.

I may have to revise the score a bit, but I'm not doing so just yet. I don't want to stop anyone from posting, but I also don't want to see the score hit 15 before all the ships and situations are in play.

I'll keep watching, for now!

BTW, nice story telling!

[The Skirata Clan]

A crew member of The Cozerone found letters addressed to Catalonia written in french. The crew mutinies against Catalonia and decide to hand him over to Torquemada for questioning.

All four ships have decided to ambush the French warships once they arrive at New Orleans.

Catalonia is now held prisoner of Torquemada and De la Casa.

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Score 42

[seafox]

Catalonia, as it happens, has smallpox(but dies of secondary infections), and , ironically,transmits it to Torquemada, who perishes in much agony....the natives are also decimated by the smallpox and low numbers and superstition of outsiders turn the remainders into gentle recluses...crews aboard all ships succumb to the smallpox, but there are survivors..however, evil takes a holiday for a while .....

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Score 43

[william kid]

Originally Posted by seafox

Catalonia, as it happens, has smallpox(but dies of secondary infections), and , ironically,transmits it to Torquemada, who perishes in much agony....the natives are also decimated by the smallpox and low numbers and superstition of outsiders turn the remainders into gentle recluses...crews aboard all ships succumb to the smallpox, but there are survivors..however, evil takes a holiday for a while

LOL
you made me laugh and I cant think, I'll post later

[Basil Dreadflint]

The captain of Merchant's Misfortune thought that he had a grand scheme in the placement and timing of this attack on the Utopia. But, fortune was not on his side that night. He had made not one, but two miscalculations in his plans.

The first mistake he had made was in the timing. By attacking under the cloak of darkness he was able to sneak in close and use chain and grapeshot on his target. The chain did tear through the sails, allowing him to approach even closer. The mistake he made though, was that by that time of night, the majority of the crew was below decks sleeping, playing games, or eating. The only hands topside were the bare minimum watch that is required to sail the ship through the calm seas and light winds. His grape shot may have maimed those few poor souls, but only a handful of crew were affected.

His firing on the vessel actually alerted the majority that they were under attack. This gave them ample time to gather weapons and stage themselves in the passageways in order to go topside to repel the invaders.

The second blunder the gallant casptain of Merchants Misfortune made was to not have spied upon the Utopia while she was in port and therefor have a better understanding of the ship and it's crew. You see, as a privately owned ship, possibly carrying treasures as well as goods from New Spain, the owners had bought a rather large insurance policy for this passage, from one of Spain's largest insurers. In the time period of which this story takes place, an insurer was more than likely to place a contiingent of "Insurance Agents" aboard any ship that they were covering.

The insurance company covering the Utopia and her cargo were particularly interested in making sure that they didn't have to make any payments due to the ship being lost or taken, so they had placed an extra 22 insurance agents aboard.
An insurance agent, in those days, was not someone who sold insurance. They were an agent of the insurance company whose job was to do everything in their power to insure that nothing happened that would cause their company to be forced to make reparation. In this case, the 22 agents were a highly skilled, fierce fighting unit.

The end result was, when the crew of the Merchant's Misfortune grappled and boarded the Utopia, they wre not met by a normal merchant crew, but also by a battle seasoned fighting group of 22 mercenaries that had only one thing on their minds. To destroy the invaders.

The infighting was fierce, but in the end, not a single pirate from the Merchant's Misfortune left the scene without some physical injury. A few lay dead or dying on the deck of the Utopia, and had to be left behind. Many were grieviously wounded and would take many months in order to heal. The only item of any value that anyone from Merchant's Misfortune c arried away was one small chest that contained the private jewelry of the two sisters. It may have been filled with emeralds and rubies set in gold, but at what price did it cost?


I give the crew of Merchant's Misfortune a treasure of gems and gold equal to 22,000 Rials for their capture of the jewelry from the Utopia. Good plunder, but by no means a fortune. At the same time, they took so much injury, that they must go off and lick their wounds in recovery for a period of at least 2 weeks.

(William Kid, you can still post, but you can't use the ship or crew of Merchant Misforune in your posts until the last week of February in our story line. 2 weeks from now (story time). I do hope to see some more of Paul and his brother sometime down the line, though. They can still play an important part here, especially since Roxanne is still aboard the Utopia.)

I'm neutral, so the score is still 43.

[The Skirata Clan]

The Mystic and Inquisitor Torquemada returns from the Beyond the grave. His power is greater than Jolly Roger and Davy Jones combined. Many considered him to be Immortal due to stories like these.

He makes sure that those who perish return and claims they won't be able to rest until the French warships are destroyed. Cursing all 4 of the Vera Cruz vessels.

It is said that Torquemada first died back in 1498.

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Score 42

[Dockwrecker The Privateer]

Corazon's Vasco De la Casa is in a fine mood after he heard his long time enemy Phillip Catalonia had died.He is also quite satisfied in Torquemada's grand return from the dead.

The Utopia ,after it's captain's death at the pirate attack is now in command by its first-mate.

The captian of the Santa Maraianna ,Carlos Sierra Verde Vezon , is seeing things in his dreams.He sees that he can pull out of this on top but he must be careful about someone in the fleet of four....Carlos Vezon sences a dark plot,he will try to avoid it.

The El Cozerone's cheating of fate was not yet extinguished.The vessel's new captain after the 'death' of Catalonia was a younger lad by the name Alberto Halverez.He had been the closest of allies with the late Captain Catalonia and kept the ship's secrets tight between the old captain and him.That included the fact they had a friend in common,one in high places.Torquemada would try to destroy them but Halverez knew that there was still a excellent chance of getting through the master of evil....and Captain De la Casa for that matter,he knew Utopia's crew was hard to sway to his side but Halverez can persuade its captain certainly....

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The Score now stands at 43.
"The game is afoot."

[The Skirata Clan]

Most Officers and crews of the Vera Cruz 4 have sworn their lives and souls to Torquemada. Catalonia died with the stigma of being a traitor and the crew of the Cozerone don't trust the new Captain. A captain they didn't pick, but one that was appointed by rank.

Captain Sierra decides to talk to Torquemada in private about his dream. He trusts Torquemada with his soul after he was saved from the pox infection. Torquemada says that the French have invaded the convoy's ranks and that the evil plot he senses comes from Catalonia's circle.

Torquemada now owned the souls of the Officers and crews of Corazon, Santa Marianna, as well as the majority of Officers and crew aboard Utopia, and some Officers and all of the crew of Cozerone.

And they will obey his command and there is nothing they can do to prevent it.

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Score 42

[william kid]

Meanwhile in Venezuela. The Wayuu (native indians) upset by the spanish treatment of it people and made bolder by the defeat of Jose' Sierra just a few year before now fear the papers on the Ribeira Grande are a call for reinforcements to squash the wayuu uprising. This simple can't be allowed to happen. With weapons acquired from english smugglers and their own small boats they sneak to the dock in the dark of night. All who stand in the way of their plan are cut down and the ship is set ablaze.

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score 41

[The Skirata Clan]

During night Captain Sierra decides to enlist the aid of an Officer by the name Lorenzo Cabeza de Vaca, who is aboard Cozerone. Both men gather the crew of that ship and capture and eventually murdering the Officers that don't give their souls to Torquemada. Alberto Halverez is the only one to decline the offer.

At seeing this the young captain of Utopia decides to join Torquemada and shoots Halvarez in the heart. Then the crew of the Utopia board the Cozerone and tie Halvare by the feet to a cannon and toss he cannon overboard dragging his body to the bottom of the sea.

Everyone cheers as Torquemada's control of the Vera Cruz 4 vessels is now complete.

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Score 40

[Basil Dreadflint]

The Third week in February!

THe 4 ships from Vera Cruz have now been at sea for slightly over 2 weeks. The 3 Spanish ships are going through their trials and tribulations with Torqemada. The fourth, the Utopia, has fallen behind due to the damage from the attack by the Merchant's Misfortune.

The 3 lead ships are now fairly well north along the coast of Padre Island, The Utopia is just within sight of the very southern end of same island.

The French warships in New Orleans are preparing to greet the Spanish ships from Vera Cruz, not knowing what has been happening there. They expect to see the Spanish in another two weeks, give or take.

The Mechant's Misfortune took almost no physical damage in it's attack on Utopia, But the crew was badly hurt by the Insurance Agents counterattack. The MM has ported in a small town well south of Padres Island for medical reasons. It will take another week before they can set sail to give chase and seek their revenge. Meanwhile, the small chest of jewelry has proven invaluable, 22,000 Rials has helped a lot in getting supplies and medical attention.


The Wayuu indian attack in Venezuela was a day too late for the Ribiera Grande. They had already set sail. The ship the indians had burned was the Madre Maria, which had ported the previous night as the replacement to the Ribiera. The destruction of the supplies that the Madre Maria was carrying has left the port town critically low. The townspeople retaliate against the indian tribe by hanging their chief in the town square.

The Ribiera Grqande has now cleared Aruba, and is making it's way north west toard the West Indie island route that will take it around toward Cuba.

The Capitans and crews of the San Sabastian and the Espadarte are preparing to leave Columbia. They plan to set sail in two days, but they are also watching the skies. They need to head almost due north, and the prevailing winds are strong out of the west. The cargo holds of both ships are full, and their final food and water supplies are about to be taken aboard. The crews of both of these ships are sad as the departure time is nearing. They have all made excellent friendships and some are even married to locals that they will be forced to leave behind. Their journey to Europe and back could separate them from family for more than 2 years.



There is still 5 or 6 weeks beore the ships all reach Havana to meet up with the Spanich ships there. The Spanish warship in Havana receives orders to set sail to clear the area north of Cuba from Pirates. They are going to make sure that the route from Havana to the Florida coast is open.
Score holds at 40.