Corpo Pirates

The Enthralling Business of Running a Limited Liability Pirate Vessel

- The pirates are equity holders and most of their disputes are business related

- The swashbuckling and plundering takes a back seat to negotiations and “boardroom” meetings

- The pirates are more po faced and business oriented. The navy are the emotional “YARRR” types.

- The Ship’s name is the St Adam

Characters

Captain Quincy

• Excitable but not very social
• Loves pirating and giving orders and all that, but finds it hard to do any deeper conversation
• Basically me when I’m talking to someone in a meeting, awkward questions and all

Quartermaster Edmund

• Unamused accountant
• Exists to temper Quincy and the crew’s expectations
• Has a mind of pure analysis

Truesdale “Thatch” Tindall (Just call him Thatch)

• Surprisingly apprehensive for a wannabe pirate

Harvey Satan

• Wants more, shares this motivation with Thatch but expresses it differently

Lines

- “Now, naturally, you take on much more risk here than on a navy ship. This will explain your healthy compensation and our flat corporate structure. If we operated much the same as the navy, we would have a mutiny in moments, and fairly too. With this, everyone is a shareholder and everyone gets their preferred captain and quartermaster”

- “We are not the only entities on the seas which is risk averse. Most merchant and naval ships will gladly part with their gold if it means they incur no further losses.”

- “You’re gonna die, you pirate scum!”

Outline

- Contract negotiation

- Port plunder plan

- Grunt work

- Inquiring about captain

- Plunder the port? No.

- Pouring over contract

- Planning the coup for after the next battle

- Going to fight a ship

- Voting during battle

- Ship comes looking for fight

- Split loyalties and backstabbing

- Thatch and Quincy last to go, dead

- TIME TO PLUNDER THE PORT

- Massacre epilogue