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"...the boat has STAMINA?!"
"What kind of a boat has stamina?!"
"Especially one that requires furling up your sails to recover?"
"Nevermind apparently all you need to man it is to just have one person behind the helm and no one else."
"Splendid!! Hey, Devil Pirates!! Our boat doesn't need a whole crew to man it too!"
Oh, no. La Demonia Roja groans as one of her scuppers very slowly leaks water.
Giovanni sobs as he hugs one of the masts. "It's okay, Demonia!! You're still special to us!"
"You made our ship cry!! FIRE!!"
It only took one rinky dink canonball to sink the Hurley Crew's ship instantly.
"OH WHAT THE BLOODY HELL??!!"
"Just gather a couple trees and you can repair your boat."
"But these trees are already harvested despite no one having come here!"
"That's a you problem, then."
#comic violence tw#guns tw#[Dumb]#skull and bones#[Dr. Tripoli]#[Hui Singlung]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Amir al-Basil]#[Guest: Giovanni Vespucci]#[Guest: Captain Josep Frascona]#[Guest: La Demonia Roja]#sins of the sea
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//Hilariously, despite him being the Sin of Greed, and being born to a wealthy merchant family in Venice, you won't find typical stereotypical greedy pirate tropes in Giovanni.
Being a greedy pirate is Captain Ravyn's job.
#[Dumb]#[Giovanni Vespucci]#[Guest: Captain Ravyn Hurley]#lookthedevilintheeye#she is the kind of woman who'd ride a vehicle onto a gatekeeper complaining the toll is too high
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Caribbean Currency 2
Continuing from the last post I made.
(Pictured: Florentine Guilder from 1341)
So I did a bit more reading around, mostly in the interest of grasping living wages and cost of living in the 17th and 18th centuries. In doing so I came across more in depth information about Dutch currency beyond the Lion Dollar, namely the Guilder.
Guilder, which is the English term for Gulden, which is German and Dutch for just “golden”, an informal term for “gold penny”. It is largely considered interchangeable with the Florin, as the currency was widely used all across the reach of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway.
A Guilder was essentially worth half a Lion Dollar. Recall earlier, a Lion Dollar is worth between 4 and 5 Shillings in English currency. It takes 20 shillings to make a pound, thus 4 to 5 Lion Dollars to make a pound. Hence, it takes about 10 guilders to make a pound, so a Guilder is roughly equal to 1/10th the value of the pound or English Guinea. This is all noteworthy because the Guilder was the long accepted go-to currency for foreign reserves, likely due to its equal value and standing with the Florin and its widespread use across central Europe.
In reading on all this, I too found the values of ships were often rated in tonnage. Specifically about 20 pounds to the ton. Using some ships in Devil’s Eye for a quick reference...
La Demonia Roja, a massive Manilla Galleon, weighs in at 1000 tons of storage, giving it a massive value of 20,000 pounds.
The Barracuda, a simple schooner, weighs in at a mere 100 tons, giving it the value of 2000 pounds.
The Barracuda’s long standing rival and competitor from their piracy days, the Dutch vessel Diantha, being a converted Fluyt (a ship with a unique design meant to maximize tonnage without taking up too much area), weighs in with 400 tons for a value of 8000 pounds.
The HMS Cavalier, a 6th Rate warship oared frigate captained by an old former friend of Ravyn Hurley’s father, Post-Captain Jack Davenport, weighs in at 300 tons for a value of 6000 pounds.
For comparison’s sake, the annual wage of the First Lord of the Treasury of England was 4000 pounds. It’s a little sad that Ravyn’s pride of a ship is worth less than that, but such is life. Middle class wages were expected to be anywhere between 40 and 75 pounds a year, which is about what would be expected for a merchant trader who owned a ship. Given the costs of a ship and hiring a crew to captain and sail the ship, the loans must be outrageous. Despite that, a ship was a long term investment that often paid for itself several dozen times over several decades of use, which is why piracy for stealing such vessels was a lucrative business to begin with.
Other notable wages and fees of the 17th and 18th centuries include:
Coach rides were 5 pence per mile if you rode inside the coach, and 2 pence per mile if you rode on the outside.
River ferrying was about 3 pence per mile.
A cheap shared bed at an inn would cost you 2 pence a night - but an unfurnished room for rent would only cost 1 shilling a week, so it was actually cheaper to pay by week if you were staying over long term. (Things like this are again, why Ravyn needs Robert around to manage the crew’s finances!)
Servants only made between 2 and 5 pounds a year in earnings, but their estate would pay for their clothing, food, and board, which were the most common and costly expenses of living at the time. A more experienced housemaid could make up to 8 pounds a year, and an exceptional housekeeper could make up to 15 pounds a year.
Lastly, it was generally assumed anyone making 500 pounds or more a year were considered wealthy to some degree or another. I don’t know how far up one must go the wealth ladder to be considered nobility or aristocracy, though.
As for the money the Heyder family pulls in, I’m still working that out. I’m imagining Robert having a fairly large amount of disposable income, but not enough to where he can just liberally throw money at any and every problem he comes across. Otherwise it would start begging some questions. I’ll get back to that later.
#OOC#real history#given the Heyder family's closeness with the Hawthornes#and the fact both of Robert's sons work jobs#it wouldn't make sense for the family to be fabulously wealthy#but they are more comfortable than most#again im still working on it
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Oh Captain, my Captain.
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Sneezes.
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"But our Captain hasn't stolen anything! ..... As of late!"
An entire box full of silverware drops from under her skirt.
"....Captain...."
"Hey, at least I didn't put it in my bodice this time around."
#then.... WHERE???????????#[Johnny Hawthorne]#[Amir al-Basil]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Dashboard Commentary]#sins of the sea
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//Cappn and I frequently joke how Captain Ravyn is the manliest character in the entire cast. Even more than her First Mate, who can bench-press a cannon like a Q-tip.
Bonus:
Rashid gets it.
#Amir and Rashid speak Hejazi Arabic so forgive me if the term for 'grandfather' is regionally incorrect#[Mun's Art]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Amir al-Basir]#[Guest: Rashid al-Qadar]#sins of the sea
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I have no idea what Captain Ravyn and Abena are fighting over. Whoever stole that beautiful candelabra, who got the last chocolate chip cookie, who has the most wonderful husband, who suggested Omar rob a bank all by himself with just a stick and a ball of twine, it can be anything.
Not to mention it’s just outright rude for a man to interrupt a ladies’ fight.
#comic violence tw#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Johnny Hawthorne]#[Amir al-Basir]#[Guest: Abena Frascona]#[Guest: Captain Josep Frascona]#sins of the sea#[Mun's Art]#racy tw#food tw
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//We're still figuring out the story itself, but this is more or less how the Magic Maharajahs (what they call themselves to foreigners, at least) would be introduced into the main Devil's Eye story.
By this point, Ulan would have joined the party, and she is so fucking tired of bullshit.
#[Mun's Art]#[Art by Immy]#[Neena Kaur]#[Ajitpal Singh]#[Ulan]#[Johnny Hawthorne]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Isaac Conrad]#[Captain James Davenport]#[Captain Sebastiaan Vanderveer]#[Omar]#Omar no this isn't going to end well#also the tigers are clearly Maya and Mata
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The 'Devil's Eye' Pirates yell at 'Assassin's Creed: Black Flag'!
"You're privateering!! Privateering!! Why are you sinking the boat?! You're supposed to capture the boat and its crew alive!! Your pay is going to be shit for this!!"
"Why are the guns on the top deck?! They don't even look secured! How are they being aimed to begin with?!"
"'Visibility' I guess."
"I hope the sliding 5 tons of metal crushing your crew and equipment is worth 'visibility'. Also I just love how both ships sank like they were made of paper. I want to believe an entire herd of albatrosses shat on them both just before the battle. Less pathetic."
#GUESS WHAT CAPPN JUST POPPED INTO HIS PS4 LMAO#also putting this on the Sin blog because it has more followers and the Hero blog is still being set up#[Guest: Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Captain Josep Frascona]#lookthedevilintheeye#unsanitary tw#toilet humor tw
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After a particularly bitter battle where the Crew of the Barracuda obtained a Key of St. Emilio...
"Oh, seriously? We won this battle, Captain Wrath can eat my ass."
#GUESS WHO HAS ARRIVED#[Dumb]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Mun's Art]#[Guest: Captain Josep Frascona]#sins of the sea
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“All in favor of sinking La Demonia Roja, say aye.”
“Not enough of the muses on this blog have icons in order do so, Captain.”
#WAIT YOU TWO COME ON NOW#I AM FINISHING A STORY IN THE SEVEN DEADLY SIN BLOG#BE PATIENT#[Dumb]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Amir al-Basir]
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“I feel called out.”
“We’re ALL called out.”
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“Oh, sure, you’ll bark at anyone who threatens to pressgang someone in YOUR Crew, but then you go after Johnny all the time and force him and la Brujula to work for you!”
“Captain, that is called ‘kidnapping’.”
#PFFFFFFFFFFFF#[Dashboard Commentary]#sins of the sea#vile muses#crime tw#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Amir al-Basir]
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"Has anyone ever thought of, you know.... being nice?"
"Being nice gets you killed, kiddo."
"But sometimes all it takes is one act of kindness for someone to let their guard down and consider doing something better than to hurt and keep on hurting."
#and here we have Johnny representing one of the Heroes of the Hero Crews!#Ravyn is a lighter shade of gray tho lmao#[Johnny Hawthorne]#[Captain Ravyn Hurley]#[Dashboard Commentary]
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"One last comment on 'Pirate's Dinner Adventure': Did anyone think the Pirate King's wife greatly resembled the Barracuda's Captain Ravyn?"
"So that's why I was half-expecting that woman to yank out an entire cannon out of her bosom!"
"Fellows.... she is more than just gags centering around her violent kleptomania and cleavage."
"You're right. The fact the show crew's ship didn't sink 100 times proves she's not Captain Ravyn Hurley."
#afafdfsdas;#[The Sin Crew Watches]#[Rashid al-Qadar]#[Captain Josep Frascona]#[Abena Frascona]#racy tw#crime tw
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