[quote=@Ink Blood]
We could start the RP without a First Mate and decide IC which should be the First Mate and if we want the First Mate to be the right hand man or the crew's elected representative.
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I'm all for this, just because it'd be a nice sort of thing to get all the characters together. Not that there'd be any shortage of things to bring everyone on board together, naturally. I just have a sudden hankering for rousing political speeches.