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Back in the day, in a Caribbean pirates campaign, I played the ship's master gunner, Fornication Jones ("Me da named me 'Fly-Fornication Jones,' him being a Puritan, but while I was in the army the 'Fly' dropped off"). There was an episode when we were being pursued by a rival pirate ship whose captain was notoriously ruthless. Jones combined his Explosives (Pyrotechnics) and Mechanic (Clockwork) skill to prepare two casks full of powder timed to go off at a set interval after we dropped them over the stern. Thanks to a critical success on one of the rolls, they set off the other ship's magazine. . . .