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Okay, that settles it for space-manlet. Still working on the update, so here is another backstory vote in a similar vein - this time about becoming a full crew member of the <span class="mu-i">Salacious Scheme</span>.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Bound by Ink: When the Salacious Scheme advances a 'provisional' crew member into a full crew member, they are given a distinctive and showy ink-job - a sleeve that extends from the tips of their left fingers all the way right up to under their jaw. It is an identifying mark, to say the least, and even those who cannot tell that it is pirate ink are likely to be impressed by the artistry. Prisoners, criminals and ne'er-do-wells will be all the more impressed when they realize or are made away of its provenance. Pirates will at least consider you a fellow freebooter on sight, though the attitude that they take to you would be colored by if they had heard of the Scheme or not - and if they had, what their opinion of the Scheme was. However, if guards, peacekeepers or civilians recognize your ink-job as a crewmark for a pirate ship, they are going to be much more mistrusting and cautious with you, at the very least. And aboard the Commissioner, the jumpsuit that the peons wear leaves your neck exposed, so you are effectively marked to all of the guards as a prisoner who warrants special attention.
> Bound by Blood: When the Salacious Scheme advances a 'provisional' crew member into a full crew member, they are required to prove themselves by killing someone, typically another 'provisional' crew member or prisoner. If none are available, then someone random, snatched off of the concourse of some black or gray port takes their place. When you were made full, you killed another 'provisional' crew member, who had been taken off of another ship before the Scheme had taken the Pinnacle. You have an easier time intimidating people who know you were on the rolls of a ship that bound its crew by blood - and this association also makes it easier to impress prisoners, criminals, pirates and harder edge ne'er-do-wells. However, unknown to you at the time the 'provisional' crewman that you killed was in a vaguely consentual relationship with another full crew member of the Scheme, and he took to holding his lover's murder against you - instead of holding it against the captain, who had actually chosen his lover for your initiation. While on the Scheme, this enmity didn't really amount to much more than angry stares, as you were under Jibbs wing - and his protection. But Jibbs did not survive the taking of the Scheme, and the crewman in question did. Right now, he is somewhere on the Commissioner, and if he was ever to find you at a disadvantage, or come into any sort of power himself, then you have to imagine that he would try to even up with you.
