Re: Companies in Spelljammer

--- George LaValle <flamebringer@???????.com> heckled:
> ...
> Yeah...
> Pirates are suddenly going to start stealing MANGOES!!! SOMEBODY
> PROTECT THE
> MANGOES!!!

If they are such valuable cargo in the first place you bet they will.

> If anything, the pirates are most likely to take your ship...your
> helm....Your magic and valuables, your pretty lasses (or lads,
> depending on
> the pirate)...But I have never heard of a pirate stealing produce.

Pirates traditionally took the cargo, maybe inpressed a few replacement
sailors, and left.  If mangoes are the cargo, mangoes are what you
take.

> This may just be my ignorance, but it seems to me there would be a
> lot less
> scurvy if the pirates knew to take the mango instead of the ruby.
> Aside from
> the fact that your fruits and veggies, regular home-baked bread and
> such are
> going to be rotting, moldering, and getting eaten (or some
> combination of
> those, in no particular order)-they are also possessed of about THE
> lowest
> sales value of anything in existence.

Then why is anyone carrying them as cargo?

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