Squire of the Sea

[Purpure Longstride]

His previous history in my RPGMaker notes is that he admired her from afar after seeing her in action on Tristan Island. TLDR, he admires her because she represents a life from beyond the island he lived on with the rest of the future members of the Lotus Crew.

 

[Grey Roger]

Simon was simple. No, not like that - the model was simple to make because the game's "BlazeNB" almost is Simon, needing only the jacket, trousers and hair to be recoloured. It probably took less than 15 minutes.

Lizzie wasn't so easy. There's no way to get the hat shown in your drawings, so I had to settle for changing the bonnet to pink. Apart from that, I tried to make the model as accurate as possible. The sleeves on "towngirl3" are extensions of the dress while Lizzie's sleeves are the same pink as the undershirt; and the skirt has a pair of pink loops which make it look like a two-layer skirt. Both of those I copied from a different model, but then the snag is that different models use different layouts of texture file and use the parts in different ways. For example, the skirt on "towngirl3" starts on the left seam, wraps round the front and back, and ends up on the other side of the left seam. A lot of fiddling around was needed to get both sides of the seam to line up properly. I also added a completely new face to make Lizzie more distinct from "towngirl3" which also needed a lot of work to make it fit. I've done this sort of thing before, it always takes some time, but it's worth it in the end - especially for a key character.

And so I present Lizzie, PoTC style:


That ship in the background is the one I'm planning to use for the Lotus. Here's the real one, named Lady Washington:
Lady Washington - Wikipedia

 

[Grey Roger]

There are a couple of lines for Purpure's arrest scene in your latest picture. Have you any more, including Purpure's "roundabout answers"?

Spoiler

Is the impostor supposed to be Sonia? If so, I'll need to change my impostor model - I gave her blue eyes to make her a bit more different from dark-eyed real Purpure.

 

[Purpure Longstride]

Yes, you guessed the impostor right.

As for Purpure's roundabout answers, they were all remarks about Lucinda because Purpure went and twisted the conversation around when Gillian asked if she had siblings or relatives that might have gone to the Coconut Farm. This annoyed Gillian so much that she had to rethink what she asked, and decided to ask about doppelgangers instead.

"My mother? She had me when she was a really old woman."

"She had faded blonde hair and green eyes."

"She never had a lover or husband. She just had kids like so."

"She used to babysit kids, including me."

"I don't have any siblings on this island. I had a younger stepsister back in England, her name's Cendree."

 

[Grey Roger]

I'll need to make up the questions to those answers.

Who is Gillian? I thought it was Lucretia Bowyer who was asking Purpure about the Coconut Farm incident.

 

[Purpure Longstride]

Gillian is Lucretia's superior in the Navy, though Gillian doesn't have such a big bone to pick with Purpure like Lucretia does. They both want to figure out the Coconut Farm arson case.

A picture of the Speedy Officers can be found here.

 

[Grey Roger]

Hmm... I was planning to make a model for Lucretia anyway, and after that, it's just a matter of changing the face. And the weapons, but they're equipment, not part of the character model.

Someone once complained that Commander Hornblower only has an epaulette on one shoulder, so I looked up British naval rank insignia of the time and found that a Commander did indeed only have one epaulette. A full captain had two. So when I made a model for Captain Hornblower, he got epaulettes on both shoulders.

Presumably the Speedy navy isn't quite the same because one of the officers has gold braid on the hat, which I'm guessing is what they use for rank and the one with the special hat is Gillian. And that sword looks very much like the English Officer sabre in the game!

 

[Purpure Longstride]

The Speedies exist in a setting where the biggest conceit is that women are potentially physically equal to men and the New World was colonised by the Tang Empire instead of the European powers. There's a lot more supernatural/kungfu tropes in my setting compared to the usual naval adventure story.

Yes, the one with the fanciest hat and red hair with green eyes is Gillian. Her surname really is Speedy, so I've gone ahead with making all kinds of puns about speedy actions. I used to think that Captain Tristram Speedy's name was a joke the textbook authors slipped in when I was a schoolgirl.

 

[Grey Roger]

Then you're going to love the ship I'm going to use for Lucretia and Gillian:
HMS Speedy (1782) - Wikipedia

This ship is included in the game and shows up as "Speedy class brig". It has a couple fewer guns than Lotus but they're 6lb to Lotus' 4lb, and it has a larger crew, so Purpure won't want to fight it, and that's why she'll go quietly during the arrest scene. (But it's possible the player will acquire something bigger before the arrest scene, so the code will check for that. If the "Speedy class brig" isn't tough enough, Lucretia and Gillian will get the big scary steam frigate instead.)

I'd written some dialog for Lucretia for the arrest, intending to replace it if you had something better. If Gillian is the one who interrogates Purpure then Lucretia can keep what I wrote, and Gillian can interrogate Purpure in the prison before Simon frees her.

Does Lucretia call Purpure by first name, or formally as "Miss Longstride" the way Gillian does? And what does Purpure call Lucretia?

Here's what I have for Lucretia - any comments or suggestions?

Spoiler

Lucretia: "Well, well. If it isn't Purpure. I always knew you were a bad one. And now you've burned down a plantation.",
Purpure: "What? I haven't burned anything, Lucretia!"
Lucretia: "Don't try to deny it, Purpure! You were seen. Several witnesses described you perfectly. You're under arrest. Follow me quietly, unless you want to talk to 'Missy' here!"
Purpure: "I could probably take that gun and beat you over the head with it. But your ship is bigger than mine and I don't want to have to fight your crew too."

If the player has already turned pirate, the dialog goes:
Lucretia: "Well, well. If it isn't Purpure. I always knew you were a bad one. And now you're a pirate."
Purpure: "So what are you going to do about it, Lucretia?"
Lucretia then goes straight to "You're under arrest..." without mentioning the plantation. Gillian will ask about the coconut farm during the interrogation anyway.

First names can easily be replaced if Purpure and Lucretia use formal names, and Purpure's name is really "Insert Name Here" because the player can change the character's name. So the dialog code will fill in whatever name the player is using.

 

[Purpure Longstride]

Lucretia calls Purpure wrongly as Longshanks because she can't be bothered to remember her surname. Purpure calls Lucretia Miss Bowyer after having heard of her. She'd like to privately call her Fatso at some point after feeling annoyed by the Speedies being busybodies.

So the islanders generally have insulting nicknames for the main Speedy officers:
Gillian - Nosey Parker, Busybody Reddy, Old Prig
Lucretia - Fatso, Turkey Legs

I like the dialogue for the arrest you've got.