Where: Tortuga (Pirates of the Caribbean- verse) How long: Two weeks (real time) Opens: Sat 19th
"More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep the sweet, proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga, savvy? What do you think?"
"It'll linger."
"I'll tell you, mate, if every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted."
―Jack Sparrow and Will Turner
Tortuga, also known as Tortuga Port, named by the Spanish after the turtle it resembled, was an island in the Caribbean, located north of Hispaniola. Of all the pirate islands in the Caribbean, none was the equal of Tortuga. Dangerous, boisterous, drunken, and bawdy, it was pirate heaven.
Around the Golden Age of Piracy, the isle of Tortuga became a major center of piracy in the 17th century. A dank and dirty port, where the tides seem to have swept together the sum of Pirates, privateers, prostitutes, thieves, and drunkards. The island itself became the ramshackle haven for Pirates, rogues, scoundrels, outlaws and sailors in the Caribbean. With its cantered, rotting docks, weatherbeaten buildings, and odd assortment of livestock running free, it was far less civilized than Port Royal. Tortuga appeared to be generally a lawless place, one of the only places a pirate considered to be free with no governing law, despite the expansion of the East India Trading Company. One of the most popular places on Tortuga was the Faithful Bride tavern.
Each person who exits to go to the landing is given a gold coin, from Cortez’s gold, which renders them undead and thus unkillable until their return to the City. The coin also has a rather freaky side effect, it transforms the owner into a Skeleton under the light of the moon but when not in the moons direct glare they will appear as normal. Please feel free to take on any cameo’s relevant to the world, it’s a sort of try before you buy thing. They can be OC’s as well as canon, but keep it in verse. If you want to keep your cameo at the end, that’s fine. If you’ve hit your character limit for the time period, we’ll happily let you have a hold until you have some more gaps. Points for an un-kept cameo can be placed with whichever character you want to have them.
The landing will last for two weeks and you may bring some items back (in this case the coin will cease to exist on return).