<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=333323.msg15902900#msg15902900">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 29-06-2021, 16:24:27</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">There are no other crewmen tied up and awaiting execution.  The captain thought he probably only needed one guy to show everyone else that he meant business.  To that end, the remaining crew members aren't all "adverse" to the party.  Some have even been nice.  Maybe your binds were loose because whoever tied you up didn't want to hurt you.<br/><br/>It's a dynamic situation.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It was my take on it.  Since in initial you had many visiting us during the trip.  That it was not a flogging and one being keelhauled meant that the captain feared he had lost control of his men and needed to instill fear into his men to fight our natural charms that lure men to hold control over them.   He's dead that control is gone,  the fear left the moment he is dead.   Curva coming from a society such as hers,  would recognize such.   The attackers (pirates are unknown.  And they're looking for prizes, loot.   Prize of us is being sold off as slaves if lost.   Perhaps not the case,  but is the reasoning behind Curva thoughts.