Reach Marauder

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Reach Marauder
Type	Outlaw
Location	The Reach

[P]irates, outlaws and murderers, who adorn their scrappy locomotives with fearsome heraldry. Some are lone thieves; others are part of extensive criminal clans.

Description

Reach Marauders are aggressive enemy ships found in The Reach. Their guns do 9 damage per hit.

The Reach Marauder is Defeated

The Reach Marauder is Defeated
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	277242

You approach the buckled wreckage, poised to plunder the plunderers. Behind you, someone is humming a song of victory.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects			Notes
Demand their stolen souls You had heard rumours of a Reach marauder that had turned to spirifage – the unlicensed trade in souls.	Opportunity: Spirifage in the Reach ≥ 1 [You have heard of Jumbles of Undistinguished Souls being shepherded through the Reach on spirifer engines] Looting ≤ 50 Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≥ 1	Triggers event:  An Opportunity: Spirifage
Recover its weaponry The bridge is in ruins. The hold is crumpled. But its main gun has survived. An engineering crew could remove it intact. Game note: This will give you a small weapon that you can equip while in dock, or sell to an equipment shop.	Looting ≤ 4	A rare find! Your crew return in one piece and bearing the spoils of your victory. "It was a right devil to remove, Captain!" says the lead engineer. "Hope you'll make good use of it." The Marauder cannon launches chunks of jagged, superheated rock via a brutally basic mechanism. Simple. Ruthless. Effective. +1 x Reclaimed Marauder Mangonel
Raid the safe Your guns have reduced the door to a smouldering heap, but sovereigns are surprisingly durable. Game note: Gain Sovereigns.	Looting ≤ 50 Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≥ 1 Opportunity: Spirifage in the Reach ≤ 0	The marauders haunt the Reach like bats in an attic. They spend their ill gotten gains in the more licentious ports – acquiring sins in the riot of Lustrum, before weeping their confessionals at Magdalene's – but a few meagre funds remain. 20+(1 to 10) x Sovereign			Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Loot the hold Some of it is even intact. Game note: You may gain unusual cargo.	Looting ≥ 51 Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≥ 1	A Cache of Curiosities = (1 to 40) Triggers event:  Cache of Curiosities
Strip the engine for materials Let the marauder find a better use in death than it had in life. Game note: Gain Hull. Your Mirrors skill will slightly affect how much you repair.	Looting ≥ 51 and ≤ 100 Hull ≤ MaxHull-1 Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≥ 1	Your crew go to work eagerly, vaulting out into the bright, tools at the ready. The stripping of the Marauder is slow and painful work – they are cobbled together of stolen parts – finding suitable fits for your own engine is a process of trial and error. Many of your crew will have lost friends, family, lovers to the marauders. It speeds the work. 5+( Mirrors/10)+(1 to 5) x Hull			Advanced query needs investigation Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Explore the captain's cabin The marauders are rarely democratic. The captain rules by strength and claims the best for their own keep. Game note: Seek unusual items.	Iron challenge (25 for 100%) Looting ≥ 1 and ≤ 50 Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≥ 1 Opportunity: Spirifage in the Reach ≤ 0	Failed event
		The door eventually yields after sufficient bashing with a large hammer. Inside, the room is a wreck. The damage is greater (and more specific) than could have been achieved by your guns. The carpets are mauled. The desk oozes. Precious charts have been regurgitated. It seems the captain had a pet. It's in the corner, there, with the very long shadow indeed. It is decidedly unhappy. A change of scene may do it good. +1 x Uncanny Specimen
		Successful event
		The cabin door did not survive the onset of your guns. Nor did the captain. You have to tread carefully. The carpet will not be saved. A few scorched documents sit on the bronzewood desk. They make for interesting reading. Apparently London had need of a few brave captains willing to bring fire to the Tacketies. You would not have expected the signatories of the orders. (1 to 2) x Salon-Stewed Gossip
Board the defeated Marauder To the victor, the spoils.	Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain ≤ 0 In Tutorial ≤ 0	All that remains The crew of the Marauder lie dead in the corridor, killed not by your guns, but knives and small arms fire. The only survivor is the captain, locked in the brig with a bottle of brandy. Chalk eyes stare back from every wall. When he ran out of chalk, he began scraping them in with his fingernails. Little remains of them but bloodied stumps. "Seen this before, Cap'n," says a crew-member, grasping your arm. "Sky-madness. Magdalene's can treat it, if you can be bothered to take the poor sod." Witnessed a Sky-Maddened Captain = 1 +1 x Tale of Terror Looting = 51	Bring the poor fellow on board The High Wilderness is cruel. This could easily be you, one day. Game note: This will begin a short quest.	The crew wrap the Sky-Maddened Captain in blankets then secure them tightly with belts. It takes four to transport him safely to your locomotive. He might not be happy restrained, but it should keep him from harm until you get him to Magdalene's. [Directions are given here]. The captain secured, you have a moment to see whether there's anything of worth on his locomotive before abandoning it to the Wilderness. Sky-Maddened Captain = 1 [The Sky-Maddened Captain is aboard your Locomotive.] Delivering the Sky-Maddened Captain = 1 [You are escorting a Sky-Maddened Captain to Magdalene's]
			Put him out of his misery A single bullet will do it.	The Sky-Maddened Captain writhes once, then is silenced, still. Your crew move swiftly – anxious to loot the train or, perhaps, to evade your glance.
Raid the remains Marauders pillage homesteads and hunt travellers all across the Reach. They often carry stolen valuables.	In Tutorial ≥ 1	Ill-got gains Your boarding party returns with wallets and watches, cuff-links, lockets and keepsakes. You store them in the safe, to be pawned when – if – you make it back to port. 25+(1 to 25) x Sovereign			Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Strip it for repairs Scavenge the Marauder's plating and components to repair the damaged Orphean.	In Tutorial ≥ 1 Hull ≤ MaxHull-1	Putting it to use Your engineers scour the remains of the Marauder for intact parts. Even before its defeat, it was rusting and rickety, its plating a patchwork of reclaimed steel and re-purposed bronzewood. But enough can be salvaged to repair some of the damage to your own locomotive. +5 x Hull			Advanced query needs investigation