Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:53:21 -0400
From: Kevan Hashemi <hashemi@brandeis.edu>
To: Julian Hjortshoj <jhjortshoj@mindspring.com>
Subject: Wizard Captain

Dear Julian,

I hope your ride went well.

I'm going to have Chris and Kirsten play Duke Plantinak together, trying 
to emmulate John Byers's interpretation, and adhering to the Duke's 
agenda, despite endangering his passangers.

You will play the captain Amahte of The Shark. He is an eighth-level 
wizard trained in the Vatzit University, Gripp. He is Satian-born, and 
speaks Latin, Weilandic, as well as Satian. He uses an island in the 
River Thebes Delta as his base, where he is tolerated by the Satian navy 
because he never attacks Satian Ships, and he bribes the Admiral of the 
Satian Navy with slave girls he brings back from his travels around 
Clarus by sea.

At the moment, Amahte has with him a woman he kidnapped two years ago, 
when she was sixteen, during a stop at Pirate Town in the Diablo 
Islands. Despite the forced beginning of their relationship, he loves 
her, and she loves him too. But they don't admit it to one another. I 
tell you this because her presense on the boat will complicate things 
for Amahte in the event of a defeat.

STR 0
TOU 4
DEX 2
INT 11
fighter level 4
wizard level 8
sailer level 16

Amahte's crew is 100 figher-sailors (pirates). Most are veterans of his 
previous excursions into the oceans of Clarus. They have, on average, 4 
dp and 15 hp. The ship is a three-masted cutter. It is designed for 
speed, not ramming. It has plenty of ropes and grapnels. Its main 
closing weapon is Amahte's spells.

Amahte has Possess working continuously upon an albatross. You can use 
the albatross during the game to spy upon the other ship.

http://alignment.hep.brandeis.edu/Hashemi/SAGA/Rules/Magic.html#Possess

That uses up one of his fourth-level spell slots.

He has Beguile in a first-level spell slot.

I'll let you choose the rest.

Although he has his fortune in a few safe banks, his Clarus ocean 
charts, showing ways to navigate across oceans without running into 
kraken, are of invaluable to him. The gods put a bounty on such maps.

Amahte occasionaly pirates in the Satian sea, but mostly outside. He has 
aggravated the Duke of Plantinak by refusing to pay duty on his imports 
into the Satian Sea, even though those duties are minor. (5% of value). 
The reason he does this is because he carries contraband and smuggled 
goods all the time, and slaves.

When Amahte pirates in the open ocean, he kills prisoners freely and 
captures boats. He brings the boats back to the Satian Sea, and these 
boats, travelling with The Shark, are among the contraband that he 
brings past the coast of Plantinak.

So, I hope that's enough to go on. Read the last few paragraphs of the 
diary to bring yourself up to date.

http://alignment.hep.brandeis.edu/Hashemi/SAGA/HSW/HSW_9.html

Yours, Kevan