<div class="floatleft">(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThXF2t4hyihsQ-zXuM3V72zBpZ8ZNLTUl1CI265v_aFShLQv6LBw)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Elliott Von Root</span><br/>Character Sheet (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1856373)<br/><br/>Thankfully, Elliot got to stay up on the crow's nest for a fair bit while waiting for Jugs to clamber up the main mast.  You could feel the sway of the ship most acutely here, and for someone like Elliot, that meant that the ground finally felt firm beneath his feet.<br/><br/>When it came time to come back down, Elliot helped his friends as best as he could, but even he was a bit annoyed by some of them.  How would they be able to survive aboard a ship where climbing was, at times, more important than walking?  He didn't know.<br/><br/>Elliot didn't mind being gangpressed aboard a pirate ship.  Elliot didn't mind being put on the rigging crew, either, but he understood the work to be very dangerous.  Elliot understood wind propulsion.  He understood sails.  He understood the mechanisms that allowed said sails to be lowered and raised.  But that it was all done by a sailor's hands, whilst on an unnatural angle, during a squall, well... that seemed to be outrageous to the young man.<br/><br/>He did as bidden by Mr. Plugg, though, and approached Samms with a boyish grin.  Everything was a fun game to him.  It was not uncommon for others to find his joy to be impudence, his friendliness to be sarcasm, or his bravado to be recklessness.  But he was grinning now because Elliot enjoyed being naked in front of women, and he was a little turned on to have Samms look at him while he spoke to her.<br/><br/>"Samms, I take it," he said.   "I'm Elliot.  I'm here to see you about some pants."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">You are right, Tam.  I always thought that "accelerated climbing" was a +5 to the Climb Check DC.  Instead, it's a -5 to your Climb Skill, as you said.  I guess that both end up being the same in this situation, but there might be different results in others.</div></div>