<div align="center">(http://i.imgur.com/6v8KCZF.jpg)</div><br/>Game thread located here :   (game not yet started)<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Introduction</span></span></strong></div><br/>The timbers of the boat creak beneath you and the sound of wind and rope and sail snaps above you.  The heat of the day is offset by the salty spray of air coming from the bow of your ship as it cracks through chopping waves towards the safety of Port Royale on the horizon.  The windfinder at the bow yells down to the captain, his magic isn't going to protect your ship long enough, you aren't going to make it to the port before the faster ship catches up with you.  The menacing flag of black flying from the pursuing ship's mast leaves no doubt to their intentions.  Pirates, eager to haul off your cargo, press your men into service, and take for ransom any aboard who might have family wealthy enough to be able to pay.  The approaching ship is close enough to make out the leering faces of the men and women eager to board and kill.  Then a moment later a searing white bolt of lightning arcs across the sea, lancing from their ship to crack into one of your masts.<br/><br/>Screams and cracking timber, ropes pulling taut for a moment and then snapping as the mast falls to the side into the briny water to the side.  The ship lists to port and slows to almost a stop as  the crew works to hack away the ropes, freeing the ship from the fallen mast before it can tip your boat dangerously.<em> "Put up cannons and prepare for boarding!"</em>the captain yells, knowing that gunpowder will only be your death if they have a mage that can target the cannons.  Then turning, he looks at you,<em>"Is there anything you can do to help?"</em>he asks, a look of resignation on his face.  Pirates aren't known for their mercy towards conquered captains.<br/><br/><em>"I've already begun,"</em>you mutter as you hold up your hand, slashed deep with a knife and letting crimson flow down onto the pine and pitch of the deck.  You close your eyes and focus your mind on the ancient curse, found in the hidden jungles of Brazil, and knowing that this might save the boat, but it might also damn your soul.<br/><br/>Grappling hooks catch the side rails and arrows and crossbow bolts begin raining down from both sides as the invaders scamper up onto your deck.  Your body falls to the deck, drained of it's life force, the ultimate risk failed as your blood pools about your body.  Blood that raises up into a large beast, an unstoppable blood golem, powered by your death, and hungry for more.  The fact that it won't care about who it consumes is no longer a concern of yours.  You're dead now.  The concerns of the sailors, merchants, pirates, men, women, elves, orcs, and everyone else on the Caribbean seas means nothing to the dead after all.  Because after all, only the living are concerned about the tide, the black tide of death and war.  Only the living know that tide is rising.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Index</span></span></strong></div><br/>This is the OOC for the game Black Tide Rising, a pathfinder ERP featuring Sinestra, Wintercat, and (player 3), being GMed by Rhev.<br/>Please use the index to jump to where you need to go in this thread:<br/><br/>Backstory (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823250#msg9823250)<br/>Races (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823331#msg9823331)<br/>Notable Locations (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823350#msg9823350)<br/>The World beyond the Caribbean / Religions (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823395#msg9823395)<br/>Notable NPCs (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823420#msg9823420)<br/>DM Notes (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823423#msg9823423)<br/>Character creation (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823432#msg9823432)<br/>Wintercat's Character (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9823552#msg9823552)<br/>Sinestra's Character (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9824913#msg9824913)<br/>assleigh's Character (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9831291#msg9831291)<del><br/>Ghostwheel's Character (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9831293#msg9831293)</del><br/>Freeform OOC chat starts here (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201079.msg9831300#msg9831300)