#ex-pirate

[captain-heiko]

Heiko Follower

A Bard,Thane,Chef/Restaurant Owner, Healer/Dibellan Priest, retired Pirate, and former Legionnaire starting a new life/identity in Skyrim after faking his own death and being in hiding for years due to past crimes against the Empire. Winking Skeever, Solitude.

Finally got into learning how to make a follower after all this time, was fun if frustrating and tedious.

[false-mirrors]

Redskull was once a feared pirate.  She spent a good bit of her long life as a captain, before she lost her ship in a fierce storm.  She was one of the few survivors of the disaster.  It had a terrible affect on her.  Once a proud captain, she turned to drinking and skooma.  Her ferociousness and confidence was remolded into depression and self-loathing.  She blamed herself for the accident.  If only she hadn’t told her crew to take that fateful route, this wouldn’t have happened.  It was all on her.

Having lost most of her crew, Redskull and the remainder of her band of pirates joined another pirate ship.  The captain of this ship was, at first, weary of Redskull.  He knew of her exploits and was certain she was trying to take over his ship.  It wasn’t long before those fears were put to rest, as he found that Redskull had little drive left.  He found that she had developed a reliance on alcohol and skooma.  It wasn’t long after that revelation that he had her marooned on a small island.  The former captain was becoming a liability.  She was left to freeze to death in the cold northern hemisphere. 

As luck would have it, Nordic sailors found her and offered to take her to Windhelm.  The city of Windhelm was the closest port.  They told her there was an entire city section full of people like her. 

When Redskull arrived in Windhelm, she was immediately let down.  That entire district of Dunmer was the city’s slums.  Redskull arrived at the district’s bar, the New Gnisis Cornerclub, and made herself at home.  She is currently spending her time trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life.  She is also trying to kick her unhealthy addictions.  Occasionally, Redskull finds herself in the homes of Windhelm’s Nordic residents and “borrows” things she thinks they don’t need.

[babybeekeeper]

This is Ryder! A cyborg ex-space-pirate, with a prosthetic leg, a robotic arm, and an enhanced robotic eye. Her enhanced eye has night vision and a telephoto zoom feature. She can create spears out of energy that she uses as weapons.

[sileeeles]

Pirates!

I find it interesting how people change.

There was a time, a few years ago, when I didnt care about the legalities of piracy or the morals of it. I justified it to myself as “stuffs too expensive, im poor, they just want money and dont care about the artist, i’ll never be caught” and whilst mostly true ... something, somewhere down the line changed.

I have never been against owning the actual product of something. My main problem is, I dont see why I should have to wait to watch something that I like. And so in cases like these, for instance Family Guy, I would download them as soon as they were uploaded online. And then when the DVD came out, I would buy that. Because, downloads are downloads. They dont come with all of the extra features and commentaries and BTS stuff that I’m interested in.

It is things like this, region blocking/locking, region codes ... They are pointless. They create issues where there needn’t be any. It means for the most part, I have to purchase Region Free blu-rays because the things I want in the UK are limited. But in the US ... No, its region 1. Fat lot of fucking good that is to me. It’s more useful as a coaster. I’m willing to pirate for that reason alone.

Case in point, I have the DVD of High Fidelity. A great film, and one of my all time favorites. Blu-ray? REGION 1 US IMPORT. Fuck you. I’m not against DVD’s, it is the only way to get some stuff that WON’T be on Blu-ray, Stargate SG-1 is one example. Since it was filmed mostly in Standard Definition, it would require new special effects work, at least for earlier seasons. Stargate Atlantis is on Blu-ray region 2 but for 5 seasons its almost (if not more) expensive than the entire box set plus the two films of SG-1. I WILL be getting the SG-1 box set at some point, but therin lies the painful part of it.

This stuff isn’t cheap, especially when you have virutally no money. I have to work out carefully from week to week what I can afford to get. It’s a shame, just for some personal enjoyment and when you’re on the other side of the moral fence as it were, you can understand why pirating seems like an attractive way of obtaining stuff, instead of just saying “fuck the system”

These days, actually doing it makes me uncomfortable. I have no right to judge people who do, or call them on it and say “hey, thats wrong” ... I was just like that. But I will avoid it, if I can. Up until regional bullshit gets in my way.

[ex-pirates-blog]

Errata

In reference to the Unknown Ex-Pirate published in March 25, 2012 we've been informed by one of our top contributors that the location of the sighting took place on the Northern Line instead of the District Line as originally reported.