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Ships Log November 16, 1793

Under the command of Captain Jacques Faure we set sail for Mont St. Michael's with 28 souls aboard; 25 able seamen, 10 militia, Juan Pedro, Captain Faure and myself. Our objective was to infiltrate the monastery turned prison and rescue military master; and person friend of Captain Faure, Frank Powers. The Captain organized a boarding party and set out for the shore by way of longboat under cover of darkness. The landing party consisted of 10 militia, Juan Pedro, Captain Faure, and myself.

The following supplies were taken:

• 10 muskets (assigned to militia),
• 10 long swords (assigned to militia),
• 130 shot (10 for each militia man and 15 for Captain Fraure and myself),
• 1 bulls eye lantern
• personal affects.

We landed at the shore of Mont St. Michael's near the rear cliff side, and made our way to the monastery. Just as the landing party reached the top, the guards noticed our presence. A brief skirmish broke out in which two militia men where incapacitate. Captain Faure ordered the militia to fall back and called a cease fire with the defending forces. Captain Faure began negotiations but they where cut short by an explosion inside the monastery. Captain Faure took advantage of the chaos and ordered a full attack. Our forces quickly routed the confused an bewildered enemy. During the fight we met Frank Powers who had escaped his cell under his own means. He joined us in the fight along with Redmond Lynch a monk and fellow prisoner whom he had escaped with. When the fight had finished we tended to the two incapacitated militia men; both of whom made a full recovery, plundered what we could and made quick our escape, as re-enforcements would be arriving soon.

We arrived back at our ship where Frank Powers and Redmond Lynch where added to the ships roster bringing our crew to a total of 30 souls.

-Dorian Grey Ships Navigator and Record Keeper

Stocks & Records

Ships Log November 17, 1793

Making good our escape we set sail from Mont St. Michael's to Lisboa Spain.
Spirits are high following the successful rescue mission. Seas are calm and the sailing is good.
Frank Powers is settling in quickly with his new roll as Master of Arms and had already begun to train our rag tag militia.
Concerning the two militia that where wounded during the raid it is to our fortune that Redmond Lynch has turned out to be a capable medic and the two men should be fully recovered in a day or two.
(the two militia men that were struck down; while they survived where technically still incapacitated. But I think one of them did make a vigor roll with a raise see pg 91 "AfterMath")
Also of note the sailors have adopted much respect for Juan Pedro as a result of his sailing and combat prowess.

-Dorian Grey Ships Navigator and Record Keeper

Ships Log November 18, 1793

Mid day: vessel spotted behind us on the horizon. Mr. Pedro confirmed the ship to be a three master flying republican colours. On Captain Faure's orders we turned about to meet the vessel and commanded all crew to quarters. The republican vessel fired on us as soon as we where within range and Captain Faure ordered Master Powers to return fires. During the initial firing exchange no damage was dealt to either side, the enemy missed us on all counts and from our current range our shots could not penetrate their hull. We brought our ship in on the republican vessel and got off the first shots at a decent range, bringing down their mizzen mast and starting the ship on fire. We continued to fire on the ship until it became clear that they where disabled either by the fires or by our cannon fire.
The republican vessel surrendered and Captain Faure lead our men in boarding them. Captain Faure grilled the republican vessels captain for information on why they attacked us, but as the vessel had begun to sink he ordered the defeated crew aboard the longboats and all hands abandoned the doomed wreck.

The boarding party managed to capture:

• 1 8lb Cannon
• 1 Box of Tobacco
• 8 Bottles of Wine
• 3500 pieces of eight

After we got clear of the sinking wreck Captain Faure had us circle back to continue questioning the enemy captain. With some 'persuasion' from Mr. Pedro the enemy captain relinquished his uniform and those of his crew adding further insult to the enemy captains already poor battle performance.

When we began to stow away our plunder I found out that the crew had poorly packed our cargo. In fact we where carrying to much cargo and in an effort to get it all into the ships hold the cargo had been stored in such away that we could have very easily become unbalanced from a collision or volley of enemy fire. In order to remedy this problem I had some of our cargo moved to occupy one of the cannon batteries. This unfortunately puts us down 2 guns and with fact that we are overladen we are also sitting much lower in the water making handling somewhat more difficult. As a result of this I performed a complete inventory of the ships stock. More bad news was awaited us however as I discovered that we where completely bereft of oil and will not be able to light any of our lanterns. I have put in to have some oil purchased when we next make port, perhaps we could trade some of our 50 bars of soap.

Despite having to crowd around the galley stove for light the crew celebrated the victory with 4 bottles of fine wine captured from the republican vessel

-Dorian Grey Ships Navigator and Record Keeper



(only some things take up cargo space in the pirates RPG: food, cannon shots, consignments, and extra cannons. 500 food consume 1 cargo space as do 50 cannon balls. Also a consignment, a bunch of random goods for trading, take up one cargo space. Finally a cargo space can be refitted to instead hold 2 cannons, so I figure that the reverse is also true. Technically unused cannons, cannons that cannot be fired, do not count as taking up cargo space.)

Ship Log December 10, 1793

Dorian Grey has been feeling sick for the past few days. He has been able to keep up with his sailing duties, for which I am very grateful, but has been unable to keep up with the scribal work. I have temporarily taken up the task.

The inquisitors came and took the propaganda from the new galley. Although it would have been nice to earn some coin from that plunder, it would have been too risky of a proposition. Also, I think that in being rather straightforward about our business this time has gain us their goodwill (assuming those humbugs have any). This should allow us more leeway in the future.

Juan Pedro hired 15 new sailors, 10 of them can fight. Those that can fight were assigned to the Chevalier, the other 5, along with 10 of the regular sailors and the 10 soldiers where moved to the new ship which we name le Butin (French word for Booty). Redmond requested reassignment to the Butin, but I denied that request because I needed a Quartermaster on my ship. He accepted the promotion to that position and is now second-in-command on my ship. I am not certain of his abilities, but he seems to have the qualities of a fine officer.

We sailed off to this supposed hideout. The place is an hardly even an island. It's really just a beach with an empty flagpole (upon arrival the flag pole was carrying the Spanish flag, but we decided the flag could use some 're-purposing').

Eventually, after a few days, two galleys appeared on the horizon. One with a Spanish flag, and one with a French flag. The wind had completely died rendering le Chevalier immobile, so I ordered 4 of its guns to be moved to the Butin. At nightfall we began signalling each other. We where able to lure them in by pretending to be one of them using a code book on the Butin. I told them we were carrying propaganda (which is actually true since I still have two books of Galileo).

As they were starting to broadside us, to begin transactions, I ordered all guns to be loaded with grapeshot and then both ships our ships fired on them simultaneously. The effect was devastating. Both enemy ships lost all their crew on deck, leaving only a few frightened oarsmen below. I, Fauré, led a charge on to one galley and Powers was about to lead his soldiers onto the other, but the remaining enemy immediately surrendered. We now have two more galleys in near perfect condition. The decks are riddled with shrapnel, but they damage is merely cosmetic. I am glad for our decisive victory and crew moral is soaring, but I miss having a decent fight. Hopefully we will be able to get to some serious fighting once we finish these little escapades for the Inquisition.

We are now headed to Tunis. I know some friends there from my old travels. I think we might be able to sell some of our goods their. It would also be nice to talk to them, being pirates, they might have some advice. My plan is to sell the galleys as soon as we can get a good deal on them. When we return to Lisbon I will look into purchasing a 4-masted ship-of-the-line. I am hoping that there are some good quality ones left over from what was left of the Portuguese navy. Once that is one, we will set sail for the Caribbean. Powers thinks some of his old friends may be over there and having some good officers is very important.

N.b. We have not yet taken an inventory of the newly captured galleys. We should do that before making port.

- Captain Jacques Fauré