I have never been a big fan of the ocean going aspect of UO, Yeah I know makes perfect sense that a guy that lives on a island doesn't do the water things
So I have had this big Brit ship knocking about from chest to chest in the Tokuno greenhouse for years and Mongbat a Character that I have never developed beyond planting and harvesting the raised beds and making scrolls . Dangerous combination! After much thought, about 3 seconds worth Mongbat decided to become a a mage, mystic, fishing pirate hunter. She contracted the services of Crafter Tyrath to arm her ship with 7 heavy cannons and 2 light cannons and make all of the things to keep them firing and keep the ship in good repair.
After spending a week getting to 115 mage 115 mystic 110 eval 100 focus 120 med 100 fishing, the 100 inscription was stoned and ERRR the Mongbat headed out to sea. The first challenge was learning to navigate the oceans and find that elusive floating market! Mongbat had heard of a Officer there that pays a Bounty for Dread Pirates! After several hours Mongbat had a light go on in her head and figured out how to use a sextant and pilot wheel and sailed right into the floating market. The residents of the market snickered and some openly laughed at the idea of a lowly Mongbat taking on Dread Pirates, but Mongbat was determined!
After finding the officer and accepting his mission, Mongbat boarded her ship and headed out to sea to find pirates. It did not take long, while sailing south and napping at the wheel Mongbat ran right into a pirate ship. She quickly turned the ship and ran down the port side cannons firing a broadside into the pirate ship. Then turned the ship aft and fired 2 more heavy cannon balls and two light loads of grapeshot. The Pirates quickly recovered from the shock of being attacked by a Mongbat on a really big heavily armed ship and began firing back! The orc bombers tossing explosives, the orc mage casting nasties and the dread captain poking poor mongbat with arrows. Mongbat kept hitting the healing stone and had a second healing stone in the spell trigger! Mongbat settles onto one cannon and slugged it out side to side with the pirate ship. Then Mongbats ship broke and could not move as the pirates kept up their fire. Mongbat not knowing what to do just kept firing one heavy cannon round after another until the pirate ship broke and could not move either! Finally the Pirate ship could not resist Mongbats magics any longer and a RC appeared on the pirates deck clearing the deck and going after the dread pirate. One RC after another with flame strike after flame strike finally caused the Captain to submit to mongbats will. Mongbat quickly tied the nasty pirate up and chained him to her ships pirate pole. Mongbat then raided the chest and hold of the pirate ship and found lots of goodies. Two smuggler chest full of booze!!!! A light cannon and lots of things for Mongbat to eat!
Mongbat had a big problem though..... Mongbats ship looked like it came out of the South side of a North bound dragon! After enlisting the help of crafter Tyrath and bringing many hundreds of boards and lots more cloth the ship finally was in perfect shape again!
After taking everything important like the 200 heads of cabbage mongbat set sail North for the sea port. The pirate was annoying the whole way trying to tempt Mongbat with tales of treasure and reform. Mongbat listened to none of it and kept poking the pirate with a looted carrot. The bounty office looked shocked as Mongbat brought the chained pirate captain before him and shakily handed mongbat 10,000 gold and stupid paper for some stupid broken ship. Who cares about gold and stupid broken ship when Mongbat has booze, cabbages and fun poking captured Pirate with a carrot! ERRR
After spending a week getting to 115 mage 115 mystic 110 eval 100 focus 120 med 100 fishing, the 100 inscription was stoned and ERRR the Mongbat headed out to sea. The first challenge was learning to navigate the oceans and find that elusive floating market! Mongbat had heard of a Officer there that pays a Bounty for Dread Pirates! After several hours Mongbat had a light go on in her head and figured out how to use a sextant and pilot wheel and sailed right into the floating market. The residents of the market snickered and some openly laughed at the idea of a lowly Mongbat taking on Dread Pirates, but Mongbat was determined!
After finding the officer and accepting his mission, Mongbat boarded her ship and headed out to sea to find pirates. It did not take long, while sailing south and napping at the wheel Mongbat ran right into a pirate ship. She quickly turned the ship and ran down the port side cannons firing a broadside into the pirate ship. Then turned the ship aft and fired 2 more heavy cannon balls and two light loads of grapeshot. The Pirates quickly recovered from the shock of being attacked by a Mongbat on a really big heavily armed ship and began firing back! The orc bombers tossing explosives, the orc mage casting nasties and the dread captain poking poor mongbat with arrows. Mongbat kept hitting the healing stone and had a second healing stone in the spell trigger! Mongbat settles onto one cannon and slugged it out side to side with the pirate ship. Then Mongbats ship broke and could not move as the pirates kept up their fire. Mongbat not knowing what to do just kept firing one heavy cannon round after another until the pirate ship broke and could not move either! Finally the Pirate ship could not resist Mongbats magics any longer and a RC appeared on the pirates deck clearing the deck and going after the dread pirate. One RC after another with flame strike after flame strike finally caused the Captain to submit to mongbats will. Mongbat quickly tied the nasty pirate up and chained him to her ships pirate pole. Mongbat then raided the chest and hold of the pirate ship and found lots of goodies. Two smuggler chest full of booze!!!! A light cannon and lots of things for Mongbat to eat!
Mongbat had a big problem though..... Mongbats ship looked like it came out of the South side of a North bound dragon! After enlisting the help of crafter Tyrath and bringing many hundreds of boards and lots more cloth the ship finally was in perfect shape again!
After taking everything important like the 200 heads of cabbage mongbat set sail North for the sea port. The pirate was annoying the whole way trying to tempt Mongbat with tales of treasure and reform. Mongbat listened to none of it and kept poking the pirate with a looted carrot. The bounty office looked shocked as Mongbat brought the chained pirate captain before him and shakily handed mongbat 10,000 gold and stupid paper for some stupid broken ship. Who cares about gold and stupid broken ship when Mongbat has booze, cabbages and fun poking captured Pirate with a carrot! ERRR