Post by Queenie on Sept 27, 2012 6:17:50 GMT -5
The Caligo
[/b][/u][/center]The Caligo is a two-deck frigate and the sleek line of her hull reveals she was built for speed and maneuvering primarily, making her elusive and difficult to chase. Her cannons are powerful, but fewer than for instance, those of the Nox.
Aside from the pirate ports in Discordia, the Caligo, frequently sailing southern waters, often makes port in the Cape of Good Hope, the harbour the Flying Dutchman of legend also makes port for but unlike the Caligo is doomed to forever sail the adjacent waters, never succeeding to round the headland. Also known as the Cape of Storms, or simply ‘the Cape’, it’s not an always an easy port to reach, but it’s also relatively safe from prowling Navy ships.
They also frequent Cape Town and the False Bay area in general, with HangKlip (Hanging Rock/Cliff in Afrikaans/Dutch) as the designated place to put any captured Navy crew on trial if captured in the area.
The crew are also known as the ‘Midnight Mariners’ or ‘Moonrakers’, for the Caligo, like its name indicates, often operates under the cover of darkness.
The Caligo knows a special Initiation Rite which goes by the name of Dusk ‘til Dawn, also known as the Triple Trial.
To be truly regarded as one of the crew and prove their worth as a capable sailor, the new recruits have to sail for three nights. The first under the spell of a new or crescent moon, the second wearing one eye patch, preparing them for the third, where their vision will be obscured entirely.
When the sailor meets the dawn without having messed up the lines or having fallen overboard, his/her rite is completed, and they are now a Moonraker.
Subsequently, the captain lets every crew member carve their name on the deck with his boat-hook after they successfully completed the initiation rite. Then they have to cut their hand (but the fool that cuts too deep to hold a weapon or do their work will hear it for months) or a finger and colour a part of their name. After the initiate comes the Captain, and then all other crewmembers with them, to paint the name red with their blood as a token of kinship, eternalized on the ship itself. Even if the crewmember is lost, he/she sails on with them forever.
Desertion however…calls for specific measures.[/b]
The Nox
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Coming soon to a board near you![/b]
The Ater
[/b][/u][/center]Coming soon[/b]