Tavern Watch Plays Pirate Borg, episode 1: Into the Maelstrom

On the briny seas of the Dark Caribbean sails a ship unlike any other; a ghostly ship, made of rotting wood with sails of red flesh, heralded by an ominous green fog, and crewed by vampiric pirates: the Maelstrom. Last time it made landfall, the Maelstrom took aboard several captives, including a specific VIP; on top of that, the ship contains untold wealth gathered from across the seas, and a mysterious Spanish Inquisitor has offered a bounty of silver for each of these vile pelagic vampires that meets their permanent end — especially their captain, Albrecht the Tideborn. That’s more than enough to get our scurvy scallywags interested, wouldn’t you think?

Captaining our spooky season actual play of Pirate Borg is GM Phil Ulrich, and our crew of cutthroats and ne’er-do-wells for this excursion is:

• Eric O’Dea as Cornelius “Noseface” Collins, an erstwhile sorcerer and escapee from cannibals who is growing increasingly, concerningly, gangrenous
• Trish Olson (AwkwardishPanda) as Octavia, a swashbuckler who just happens to also be at least half octopus
• Liz Harper as Tama, an actual talking parrot — a very pretty blue lucky parrot, to be precise, although she wasn’t born that way

This is the first in a four-part actual play of Limithron’s Pirate Borg, running the boat portion of “Into the Maelstrom” from their first expansion, Down Among the Dead. Watch for new episodes every Monday!

The music in this episode is “Dark Tides,” by PhatPhrog Studios.

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