So I'm starting in a 7th Sea game (swashbuckling, piracy, adventure, etc., for those not familiar with it), and I'm afraid my character has started to take over my brain. Good thing for playing, baaaad for getting anything useful done today.
The two new things I'll wind up sharing with you today come from my growing store of piratical knowledge. From Rafael Sabatini's classic swashbuckling novel Captain Blood comes the antiquated term for port (the direction, not the drink), larboard, which I think has a nice ring to it.
And from the running-knots, slipknots, and nooses I've been practicing today (don't ask), I can show you how to tie a strangle-snare (it's the second one down).
Enjoy, mateys. (Arr!)
Posted by gris at August 31, 2004 08:53 PM