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You are Redbeard the Cleanshaven. You and your crew are in Newport, for supplies and repairs. You have bought a number of upgrades to your ship and likely will have to remain here while they are fitted, for another two days at least.

You are currently sitting in the lounge area of a moderately expensive steakhouse. Your meal with Safiya ended well, after a few minor issues involving the raven-haired serving girl and getting your food on time. You've had a drink and she's finished the bottle, then started on a second. A few minutes ago her tail wrapped itself around your leg, and she is beginning to get rather touchy.

You should probably end this before it goes somewhere you really can't afford to let it go.

You toss the last of your drink back and turn to the lamia.
"Let's go back to the ship Charles," she says with a lustful look in her eyes, "I want to show you something."

Well shit. Did you mention you're actually a girl? Well you are, and if your crew were to find out your life will start to fall apart again. Your harpies will be the first to leave, probably as soon as they can take to the air. Your catgirls will thin out soon after, only the uninformed and particularly dim ones remain. Without a crew you'd have nobody to run the ship, Emma would have to look for work elsewhere. Illandra would leave the moment she thought there wouldn't be any more gold. Within a week it would be just you and Lasciel, if she hasn't murdered you for wasting all she's done.

"Charles." Safiya's face is only inches away from yours now.

Oh snap, think fast.

[ ]"I've got to start this recruiting thing before it gets too late, sorry."
[ ]"Oh shit, look at the time. I'm late for that meeting about where we're going to earn out next meal." <Emergency call to Illandra to organise said meeting.>
[ ]"Oh, is that Lasciel walking past just outside?" <Sprint for the door like you're running from a short fuse.>
[ ]Other.

>[x]"I've got to start this recruiting thing before it gets too late, sorry."

>>21063078
[X]Other.

"Not that I'm not interested, because I'd love to. But Lasciel has literally cursed me so that it'll shrivel and fall off if I sleep around on her."

>>21063094
>Seconded

>>21063078
Kiss her on the forehead.

"Saf, you know how much I care for Lasciel and the potential fallout if anything actually happened between us. I'm sorry but this isn't going to happen.

I'm glad I was able to show you a good time, and I care about your happiness, and I know that you won't be able to be happy with me. I'm sorry.

Now I've got to do some recruiting, but I'll happily escort a fine lady like yourself back to the ship."

>>21063153
Oh this actually sounds mature. Voting for this.

>>21063153
Changing my vote to this

from this >>21063127

>>21063153
>Are you sure?
>How much a 'girl has fallen to you is how loyal they are.
>If you let her down you will undo most of the work done yesterday in romancing her.

>>21063078
[x]Other.
"I'd love to, but responsibilities call, I'm afraid. And Lasciel will need to be properly placated first."

>>21063153
>>21063193
>>21063222
No, this is bad, because it fucks up all of the work we've done in doing this loyalty mission.
Fuck, even running as if Lasciel is after us would be better.

>>21063153
This seems quite well thought out. Also a terrible idea. So let's do >>21063127

>>21063078
[x]Other.
"Come now, Safiya, let's not rush things.
Besides, I'll need to work on Lasciel. She might get... possessive. Of my soul. For eternity.
Succubus and all that, you know?"

>>21063253
"oh my god look at my wrist gotta go recruiting" is also valid. So whichever works better, or something.

"Not that I'm not interested, because I'd love to. But Lasciel has literally cursed me so that it'll shrivel and fall off if I sleep around on her."
"Nonsense Charles, I don't know much about magic, but I do know that curses don't work that way. If they did then this plague wouldn't be such an issue, would it?"

"Look, I'd love to, but responsibilities call, I'm afraid. I've got to start this recruiting thing before it gets too late."
"Oh but I thought-, Oh." Her eyes start to tear up a little and you manage to extricate your leg as her tail loosens.
"I'll meet you back on the ship."
As you leave you see her slink up to the bar.

When you get back to the ship you find Illandra waiting. "Ah, Captain, I've had the catgirls out posting flyers and spreading the word. I even managed to find us a bar that'll give us a free drink for every 4 that our recruits end up buying. We should be able to get mighty smashed!"

>>21063357
We have seriously got to figure out a way with Lasciel that we can get around this 'being a girl' thing without losing our crew.

>>21063357
"Excellent! Lead the way."

>>21063416
a very convincing strap-on?

Getting the so blasted they just dont give a fuck?

>>21063416
I think the optimal course of action is 'be an amazing badass and save everyone on board a bunch of times, then reveal the truth to a select few' or something like that.

>>21063357
Catgirls pasting up flyers?
So how many of them have managed to stick themselves to the walls or other solid objects?

>>21063522
There's one currently stuck upside down to the bell tower of the cathedral.

>>21063540
Ask her if she'd like some help.

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The bar is on the other side of town, a huge re-purposed warehouse that often hosts functions like this. You take Illandra and Emma with you and head there. On the way Emma goes over the current roster and supply counts. 30 days until you start running short, but you do have a bit of spare money, if you wanted to pay out of pocket.

As you pass the market district you catch sight of Lasciel through a crowd. She is wandering away from you with a small sack in one hand and a dagger in the other.

"What sort of crew were we looking for today?" Emma asks.

>More 'girls means more shares of the plunder, and hence less loot per mission you take for yourself.

>Mechanics:
>Roll a die, if you get 4 or above, it's a success.
>Different monstergirls roll different dice, ranging from the dragon's mighty d20 to a catgirl's pitiful >d4.
>Most girls will have specialities, and roll better dice when they stick to what they know.
>Rolling a 1 is bad. 'girls may get injured, killed, desert from your crew, or simply be distracted by a ball of yarn if they roll a 1.
>Any named girl rolls 2 dice, and is generally a lot more resistant to injury or desertion.

>>21063619
We needed an Engineer, IIRC.
What Monstergirl would be suited to that task?

>>21063619
Engineering help to start with, anything that is better than the catgirls we currently have

>>21063619
Engineering is the highest priority. We need someone to take the load off of Kie.

Some more specialists and troops would be useful as well.

>>21063619
We need a competent engineer, and perhaps some assistants to go with.
Also, can we browse? I'd like to see what other types of 'girls are around.

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"Engineering is the highest priority. We need someone to take the load off of Kie. "
"Yes, that's probably for the best, we can save on some maintance costs that way." Illandra chimes in.
"It wouldn't hurt to get some competent gunners too, even just one for each cannon, to ensure that the catgirls don't set fire to anything. But we could skip that if we took safer jobs, or ones that don't require ship to ship combat."

You enter the bar and a murmur ripples around it. Illandra walks to the bar to order a first round of drinks and you head to the back, where some chairs are arranged in a semicircle around a small table. Embedded in the table is a cutlass, which you hang you hat on. Upon seeing this ancient sign of a captain requiring crew, the atmosphere in the hall changes. Several patrons leave, a few order another drink and some send their catgirls out with messages.

You have a look around the room. There's the usual sort for a town like this; dockworkers, merchants, sailors, human and monster alike drink here. One of the staff behind the bar looks familiar. It takes you a moment to place her, but the glare that she gives Illandra after pouring her drinks is enough for you to place her: it's the serving girl from the restaurant earlier.

>cont.

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>>21063933

People start to come up to you and Emma and you quickly settle into routine, sending away those without able bodies or who wouldn't cooperate with your existing crew, and signing on those you want.

>You can hire anonymous crew as you like, but named crew usually require events or otherwise.
>'Girls are paid a cut of the plunder, so there is no cost to hire anyone, but you do have to feed them.

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>>21063945
>Forgot to flag things, the Weresharks and Fire elementals are specialists.

>>21063933
THIS BITCH AGAIN
>>21063945
Get all the Nymphs and Goblins, 4 of the weresharks, all of the centaurs, and 8 of the elves.
Give preference to chocolate elves because we're racist like that.

>>21063945
Will Goblins and Nymphs work together, or will they fight?
Are there any potential racial conflicts we should know about?

>>21063967
I can't really argue with this, though I'm not too sure about the centaurs, though I can't really say why i'm not.

>>21063945
Get some Gobs for maintenance, Nymphs for magic shit, a few harpies to supplement our existing force.

Elves as ranged supplements to our Lizardwomen, maybe 10 of them, chocolate is preferred but vanilla is acceptable. Given the fact that in a lot of fantasy stuff Elves hate Orcs I would hold off on Orks unless they're cool together.

>>21063945
>Humans
Boooring. No boat for you.
>Elves
Hire a bunch. 10, 12, something like that.
Oh yeah, and prioritise delicious chocolate.
>Orcs
Nah, we got lizards for that.
>Centaur
Dunno how useful they'd be. Will they let someone ride them to bolster close combat? Maybe hire a pair.
>Weresharks
Two of them.
>Harpy
Into the pile with you all.
>Goblins
Hire 4. Choose by whoever brings us the most interesting gizmos in the next half hour. They can't leave the room, though.
>Nymphs
>Spec: Magic, more magic
So glad we got them magic engines. Hire all of them.
>Fire elementals
>Weakness: not setting fire to things
>wooden ship
Yeahno.

>>21063960
If that's what the elementals look like, I wouldn't entirely mind 'em.

>>21064096
This sounds pretty good

>>21063960
Uh, how bad are Fire Elementals at not setting things on fire? Because as useful as they could be for a lot of things, like setting enemy ships on fire, assuming we keep them out of powder stores are they likely to combust the ship?

>>21063933
We are being tailed. Keep an eye on that fucking redhaired wench.

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>>21064147
>It varies with how excited they are. Elementals are high risk, high reward.

The turn out is pretty good this time, must be lots of people wanting to leave.

>>21064096

You show your list to Illandra.
"Centaurs? On an airship? If you've lots of ground work planned ahead I can understand that, but they're not very suited to hand to hand combat on ships, the corridors are too narrow. We can roster the elves, excellent taste. Goblins and Nymphs don't usually get along." she glances up at Emma who, even while sitting, towers over both of you.
"I'm sure I can get them to work together, I've dealt with worse." The minotaur cracks her knuckles.
"Harpies are fine, this flock seemed quite social."
Your dragon leans closer to you, "But the weresharks? What will you do, throw them overboard for a week every month?"

>Confirm? [y/n]

>>21064240
Well that or make a holding tank for them

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>>21064096
>no orcs
Fack you, acquire green muscles. I bet theyre more resilient, too.

>>21064240
Yes, simply because we want to be flexible. At the very least, the centaurs will be able to clear the deck while the others go belowdecks.

>>21064240
The centaurs would make for excellent deck fighting. Hell, they could probably just fucking JUMP across the gap from one ship to another. Not to mention how much crap they can carry when we're loading and unloading.
The weresharks I'm not sure about. How much/often do they need water?

>>21064240
"Mmm, you're right, the 'sharks are probably too much hassle. Still not really sure about the centaurs, to be honest."

>>21064240
We should probably take her advice. Aim for centaurs and weresharks in the long term, but don't hire any right now.

>>21064232
She was here before us. She doesn't seem to like monstergirls in general.
Her loss~
>>21064240
The centaurs were a suggestion. We could just keep them on deck or something.
As for the sharks, an entire week? No way. If it was just a day or two we could put them in a holding tank or something, but to have them out of action for a full quarter of the time they're on board? Not gonna happen.

>>21064342
>centaurs and weresharks in the long term
Why? We're not likely to be in a scenario that could fully utilize centaur, and the weresharks will require significant down time, even if we were to go through expensive conversions to keep them on the ship during that time.

>>21064240
No to the weresharks and centaurs. We're air pirates, not sea pirates or land bandits.

If we ever take a job that makes those specialties useful we can contract them out.

>>21064398
Some of us seemed to want them, and they'd at least be more useful than catgirls. Should we just drop the idea entirely?

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>You gain:
>12 elves
>7 harpies
>4 goblins
>4 nymphs
>2 centaurs

>Yes, you can ride the centaurs.

It's late into the evening when you finish arranging lodgings and contracts. Everyone around is happily sloshed, and Illandra, Emma and yourself are mildly tipsy. You've avoided drinking too much, and it's no easy feat to get a dragon or minotaur drunk.

Your discussion is interrupted by a voice from the other side of the table, "You're Redbeard, yes?" You turn to see the black haired human standing, "Have you got room for a REAL girl on you crew?"

>Ravina
>d8/d6 Speciality: Cooking

>>21064491
Backhand her for that comment and tell her that your girls are ten times the woman she can ever hope to be.

>>21064491
Taste test, first?

>>21064521
Dude, no, an army, or in this case a crew, marches on its stomach. A good cook is insanely useful.

>>21064491
"As long as you have no objection to most of the crew being monstergirls, you swear to obey your superior officers and all that stuff I would love to have a chef.

Am I right in assuming you aren't interested in combat duties?"

>>21064521
Too much.

>>21064491
Tell her that if she can keep a civil tongue in her head, she's welcome.

>>21064548
I never said we would spurn her, just that we would defend the honour of our crew. We are a gentleman pirate, after all. Maybe instead go with a snide comment such as “Do tell me if you see one I failed to hire, but I guess I can settle for you in the meantime”

>>21064565
Way to be the bigger man here, anon.

>>21064574
Fair enough. Forget I said anything.

>>21064491
Poke Illandra.
"Seems real to me. If you have a problem with working with monstergirls then I have a problem with you.
If you pull your weight and keep the peace then you'll likely be welcomed by all."

>>21064551
>>21064548
What these guys said.

>monstergirl
you have my attention

>>21064574
>man
>Heh.

"As long as you have no objection to most of the crew being monstergirls, you swear to obey your superior officers and all that stuff I would love to have a chef. Am I right in assuming you aren't interested in combat duties?"
"That's right. I'm just a cook who wants to get out of this horrible town, but no ship will hire me because I don't have 8 legs, or wings or some other unnatural advantage."

You've been in her shoes, you know how hard it can be.
"If you pull your weight and keep your tongue in your head, then you'll likely be welcomed by all."

Illandra signs up the charter and you tell her to meet you on the ship tomorrow.

>cont.

>>21064655

You leave the werehouse distract and take the long road back to your ship. One of the catgirls posting flyers managed to get herself stuck in a fence, so you have to get her out. Illandra is talking to the catgirl who told you, and Emma is arguing with a street stall over the price of a kebab.

"Well if it isn't Redbeard the Angelthief." An angry voice calls from an alley. At the door stands a very well built man, easily twice your weight. He wears high quality clothes, but they are dirty, as if they haven't been washed in too many weeks. On his chest is an emblem of the local governor. He glares at you across the establishment with a mix of rage and fury. "You dare show your face in the upper city after what you've done?" He brings his fist into his other hand with a muffled thump.

You suddenly notice the half-dozen burly friends he's brought with him. 2 humans, 3 orcs and a sea giant.

>>21064670
"It wasn't exactly theft, I prefer the term borrowing, or forced passage. As you well know she is no longer on my ship."

Slowly back away, look for possible escape routs.

>>21064670
Uh, Lasciel, little help.

>3 orcs and a sea giant
Male? Thought there were only female monsters.

Also, the charts apparently make reference to a single Catgirl, name 'Sushi'. Why is she special?

>>21064670
We have a dragon, a Minotaur, a couple of catgirls and ourself

I think we aren't too badly off here

>>21064670
"Please, if it wasn't for me you all would've been waiting another full week for her arrival. I saw the engines on the airship that she started on - puny. Hey! Just like your dicks!
Now get the fuck out of here before I get mad, call in the rest of my crew, and use your precious town for target practice."

>>21064670
Well it is hardly stealing since I gave her back to you

In fact I think you guys got her early thanks to me so how about being a bit more appreciative

>>21064722
>The humans are male, the rest female.

>Sushi is your blind, stupid and mostly mute catgirl. She took a nasty blow for you, and never quite recovered. She can make it about halfway through a 'Nyaa~' before choking off.

You back away as he advances out of the dim alley, silently wishing Lasciel were here to help you out. "It wasn't exactly theft, I prefer the term borrowing, or forced passage. As you well know she is no longer on my ship."
"But you stopped her from arriving."

Illandra sees what is happening and sends the catgirl to fetch Emma.

"Please, if it wasn't for me you all would've been waiting another full week for her arrival. I saw the engines on the airship that she started on: puny."
"No. No, it's because of you that she was late. It's because of you Emilia-" He cuts off abruptly with a howl and charges at you, and his friends follow suit.

>Roll 2d20 for your dragon, 2d12 for your minotaur, 2d8 for yourself or d4 for the catgirl.

>>21064670
"What I've done? Which is get her here faster than that slow-ass piece of junk could have? Now, if you don't want to die tonight, I suggest you scurry on back where you came from."

Apologies for being late to the party, but are these monstergirls more or less based off of the MGE? or is it some other text.

Rolled 6, 6 = 12

>>21064807
Rolling for dragon first.

Rolled 6, 16 = 22

>>21064807
Rollan for dragon. I want to see her wreck shit.

>>21064807
>Roll for actions, you need to tell people what to do.

>>21064810
>Sort of, losely.

>>21064820
>>21064825
Okay, tell Illandra to take the biggest one out of the fight.

Rolled 8, 4 = 12

>>21064807
Self

>>21064854
Oh and shoryuken.

Rolled 4, 4 = 8

>>21064807
Illandra go for the giant, everyone else group up and take the humans and orcs.
Rolling for Redbeard the Misunderstood.

>>21064807
Sushi's story makes me both impressed and sad

We need to give Sushi a retirement position on the ship which involves doing nothing much aside from lazing around and playing with things

>>21064670
>werehouse
Now this is just getting ridiculous. If we have trouble finding room for centaurs, where in the hell are we going to put a housegirl?

>>21064884
I think we more or less already have. Only she still wants to be useful.

>>21064886
>I laughed.
>>21064884
>She usually sleeps in your room, on a small pile of cusions. Though she has been known to get stuck in the crows nest on occasion. Nobody's quite sure how she gets there, but after all, she IS a catgirl.
>She rolls 2d3, if you want her to do anything.

Almost before you can react Illandra rushes past you, ducking under the sea giants arms and tripping her over with a swift kick.

The man swings a hook at you, but you dodge to the left. Years of actual fighting have made you good at not being in harms way, and this man doesn't appear to be much of a fighter, for all his size and bravado.

You twist in a rising uppercut, and land it square on his jaw. The man lifts off the ground half an inch and stumbles backwards before falling on his hands. "Emilia, why?" he sobs.

Meanwhile, Emma squares off with two of the orcs, neither game enough to get within her reach.

Illandra opens her mouth in a roar, and a jet of fire arcs across the street, preventing the men and the last orc from getting into the fight.

Rolled 1, 1 = 2

>>21064807
Rolling for Emma to smack down anyone who gets too close to us while we are fighting heroically

>>21064984
I hope this doesn't count since it was for the fight which we already had...

>>21064964
Oh shit, we killed his lover.

>>21065015
We did no such thing

We just happened to delay the one person who could have saved her from the plague

>>21065023
I was thinking Emilia was on the escort ship we ransacked.

>>21065023
Actually, it's arguable if we even delayed her at all.

One of the orcs grabs a metal pole from a nearby stall, but your attention is pulled away when the last orc jumps through the fire and tackles you to the ground. There is a loud thud behind you as Emma's unconscious body lands heavily on the cobblestones. You roll aside as the orc brings down her fists to where you head was only a moment ago. You start to stand up, but a boot to the small of your back forces you back down again.

Illandra wings flare as she darts past the pair of orcs and grabs them, one in each hand. She lifts them off their feet as she jumps onto a rooftop.

"If it weren't for you," the man above you gasps for breath between waves of tears, "she'd still be here."

In the distance you can hear shouts, looks like your catgirl has run off to get some help.

The man pulls a knife out of his boot. "And soon you won't be here either. A life for a life."

>What do?

Rolled 3, 1 = 4

>>21065132
Sushi does something amazing!

Rolled 6, 7 = 13

>>21065132
Knock the knife out of his hand, then knock some sense into him.
"You're a goddamn fool. Do you really think this is what your precious wife would want you to be doing right now? Risking your life fighting pirates because you're just so fucking pathetic without her? GROW SOME BALLS, AND DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE WITH YOUR LIFE TO HONOR HER MEMORY YOU UNGRATEFUL SHIT."

>>21065146
>Sushi's on the boat.
>Also, she still needs 4's to succede.

>In your proximity you have yourself, Illandra, Emma (KO'd) and a catgirl.

>>21065132
Break hand.

>>21065170
Ah. When you said your catgirl I thought you meant YOUR catgirl.
Just go with >>21065165 I suppose, but a little less angsty.

You throw an arm up and catch his wrist as he clumsily swings down. He pauses for a moment and you use the opportunity to twist his hand, forcing the dagger out of his grasp. Then with a wrench you pull him down and yourself up. He goes sprawling face first into the dirt.

Illandra jumps in a lazy arc from the rooftop and lands elbow first on the sea giant, knocking her out cold.

"You're a goddamn fool. Do you really think this is what your precious wife would want you to be doing right now? Risking your life fighting pirates because you're just so fucking pathetic without her? Grow some balls, and do something constructive with your life to honour her memory you ungrateful shit."

He tries to push himself up, but his right arm collapses underneath him. He bursts into tears, battering the ground with his other fist.
"My poor Emilia, why did you leave me?"

Everyone else seems to have run away.

Victory?

You leave them lying on the ground and pick up Emma with the Dragon's help. You'll just have to rescue the other catgirl tomorrow.

>End of thread.
>Getting rather tired and even slower then usual, so I'll end it here.

>>21065328
We should have killed him. Maybe taunted him as he bled out.

>>21065344
Why bother? He's too pathetic to kill.

>>21065344
Man, there is no need to be so bloodthirsty.