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A Sailor’s Life for Me

“Welcome back aboard, sailor! I trust you enjoyed your shore leave? Well you’re not ashore anymore, so look sharp! There’s work to  be done and a war to fight.”

Daily Schedule: Day #1

1st Dog Watch 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Day #1 Supper

Sail Handling (Sailings Haulings): ‘It takes more than a hundred ropes to rig them sails up there, so that they catch the wind, and speed our ship along. Each rope has a different name, but fortunately you do not have to remember what they are all called. You just have to know which to pull, and when. So watch what I do, then click the pinrails in the same order.

Begin Rigging Duty: “Watch the rigging commands, then click the pinrails in the same order. (Like Simon: It is in the same order, so you need to remember the order.)

Level 1 (6 repetitions): +4 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, +1 popularity

Lt. Hoffman: “That was a fine effort, and you hauled well. The watch is changing now, so you are done hauling today, but we’ll be back tomorrow. Practice makes perfect lad.”

2nd Dog Watch 6:00 PM – 8:00 Day #1 Leisure Time

Shipmate: “Hey sailor! You have a lucky smile today! Do you want another game of dice?”

Leisure Time Options: Begin telling tales / Begin playing dice / begin painting ditty bag / go to purser to buy goods / continue

First Watch: 8:00 PM – Midnight Sleep

Middle Watch: Midnight – 4:00 Sleep

After a month passes you have earned $10 in wages you now have $10.23 in your savings, your game progress has been saved.

Day #2

Morning Watch 4:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Task: Holystoning: “Good to see you again lad! Ready for more scrubbing?”

Level #4 (2 sections): =

“Well done! Not bad for a beginner. That’s it for today but you will be at it again tomorrow.”

“You have worked hard. We shall make a sailor out of you in no time.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, 0 popularity

Forenoon Watch 8:00 AM to noon

Gun Drill “Seaman Gun Duty Drill”: “So you think you are ready to load and fire a gun? Well you will need to pay close attention, for it’s not an easy task. To start I will keep it simple, seeing as you have just joined the crew.  Just watch what the gun-captain does, then repeat each step in the same order.”

Level #1

 

  1. Sponge your gun
  2. Load with cartridge
  3. Shot your gun
  4. Prime your gun
  5. Fire (end of 1st day)

“That was excellent, seaman. You really gave your best shot. I would be proud to have you as a member of my gun crew.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, 3 popularity

The game does a good job of providing a visual of the tasks to be completed. Try without visual hints

Afternoon Watch noon – 4:00

Rats in the Hold: “Your here at last – I can do with some help. There are so many of these darned rats. They will eat the whole ship if we let them. Take this club and help me whack them. Don’t whack the cats or dogs they are on our side (remember you might be looking for the terrier). And don’t whack the ends of the barrels, either.”

Level #1 (45 seconds 3 cats & 3 barrels 21 rats)

“You have scared the rats away for now, but they will be back tomorrow.”

“Phew! You worked up a sweat doing that. That should keep them away for now. Rats are sly and clever, though. so I will need your help again tomorrow.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, +2 popularity

“Take the club and help me whack them. Don’t whack the cats or dogs they are on our side (remember you might be looking for the terrier). And don’t whack the ends of the barrels, either.”

1st Dog Watch 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Day #1 Supper

Day #1 Supper

Your Mess: “Every sailor on the Constitution is part of a 12-strong family called a mess. Messmates are not related, but they are as close as brothers. Each meal time they gather in the same spot on the berth deck, spread out a cloth, and sit around cross-legged to share their food.”

Meal Quiz: Choose your meal

Dunderfunk: Ingredients: Molasses Biscuits, water, Beef fat

Points: +4 Health & Happiness

“It is the closest thing seaman get to dessert. Collecting the ingredients is difficult, and getting it baked brown is an even tougher challenge. First the ship’s chef must be bribed for space on the stove. Then, unless it is jealously guarded, there is always a chance that someone will steal the dunderfunk when it is baking.”

Taking Grog $0.50

Points: +2 Popularity

Share / Don’t Share

Points: +3 Health & Happiness

Begin Rigging Duty: “Watch the rigging commands, then click the pinrails in the same order. (Like Simon: It is in the same order, so you need to remember the order.)

“Looks like Moses ain’t never gonna get out of the sick bay, so we are taking up a collection now. At least before he dies, he knows ‘is wife will be all right.”

Donate / Do Not Donate “Because you donated a dollar, you gain 3 popularity points.”

Last Dog Watch 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Leisure time Options: Begin telling tales / Begin painting ditty bag / Begin playing dice / go to purser to buy goods / continue

“Is that your ditty bag? It is plain and dull! Now mark my word, what it needs is a dab of paint to make it more personalityized, and to give it colorfulness. ‘Ere’s a brush and some paint. Let’s see if you is an artist.”

“Well just look at that magnificent ditty bag! You want to do mine sailor.

Points: 0 promotion points, +1 Health & Happiness, +4 popularity

First Watch: 8:00 PM – Midnight Sleep

Middle Watch: Midnight – 4:00 Sleep

Another month passes, and as an Ordinary Seaman you earned $10 in wages. You now have $19.23 in your savings. Your game progress has been saved.

Day #3

Morning Watch 4:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Task: Holystoning: “Good to see you again lad! Ready for more scrubbing?”

Level #5 (2 sections): =

“Well done! Not bad for a beginner. That’s it for today but you will be at it again tomorrow.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, 0 popularity

Lt. Hoffman: “Yesterday a midshipmen overheard one of you plotting to roll a cannonball down a companionway onto the master-of-arms. Whoever it was shall be court-martialed. If you do not tell me who it was. I will have you all punished.”

“I confess it was me!” or “I do not know who did such a thing.”

Lt. Hoffman: “You have a very guilty look for an innocent man! However, since you won’t confess to this foolishness, everyone will receive the same punishment. If you are indeed the culprit, then I am sure your companions will find ways to get even.”

Points: -2 promotion points, -3 Health & Happiness, -10 popularity

Forenoon Watch 8:00 AM to noon

Lt. Hoffman: “Several officers are saying that you you seaman material, but you need to prove yourself to the other officers. Your two-year enlistment is nearly up, so if you want to re-enlist and get promoted, you must work even harder.

Gun Drill “Seaman Gun Duty Drill”: “Just in time, the gun crew needs an extra man. Now that you are an Ordinary Seaman, you will need to know a little more. The drill is the same as before, but there are a few more steps to repeat.”

“Practice loading and firing a cannon in this gun drill. The procedure is complicated, so watch carefully and repeat it, step by step, until you can do the entire procedure correctly.”

“Congratulations! You’ve completed this gun drill! To earn bonus points, you can try it again without visual clues.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, 3 popularity

Day #2

 

  1. Run in your gun
  2. Sponge your gun
  3. Load with cartridge
  4. Shot your gun
  5. Wad to your Shot
  6. Prime your gun
  7. Fire

Afternoon Watch noon – 4:00

Rats in the Hold: “Your here at last – I can do with some help. There are so many of these darned rats. They will eat the whole ship if we let them. Take this club and help me whack them. Don’t whack the cats or dogs they are on our side (remember you might be looking for the terrier). And don’t whack the ends of the barrels, either.”

Level #2 (45 seconds 11 rats)

“You have scared the rats away for now, but they will be back tomorrow.”

“Phew! You worked up a sweat doing that. That should keep them away for now. Rats are sly and clever, though. so I will need your help again tomorrow.”

Points: +4 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, 0 popularity

“Put your hand in your pocket for the widow of poor old Philip; remember it might be you that falls from the yardarm one day.”

Donate / Do not Donate “Because you donated you earned 3 popularity points.”

1st Dog Watch 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Supper

Supper

Leisure Time: Begin telling tales / Begin painting ditty bag / Begin playing dice / go to purser to buy goods / continue

“Share a treat.”

Share / Don’t Share

Points: +6 Popularity

Take Grog or $0.50 +2 Health and Happiness

Share Grog or Don’t share grog +3 Health and Happiness

Sail Handling Begin Rigging Duty: “Watch the rigging commands, then click the pinrails in the same order. (Like Simon: It is in the same order, so you need to remember the order.)

“Looks like Moses ain’t never gonna get out of the sick bay, so we are taking up a collection now. At least before he dies, he knows ‘is wife will be all right.”

Donate / Do Not Donate “Because you donated a dollar, you gain 3 popularity points.”

Last Dog Watch 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Leisure Time:

Leisure time Options: Begin telling tales / Begin painting ditty bag / Begin playing dice / go to purser to buy goods / continue

“Is that your ditty bag? It is plain and dull! Now mark my word, what it needs is a dab of paint to make it more personalityized, and to give it colorfulness. ‘Ere’s a brush and some paint. Let’s see if you is an artist.”

“Well just look at that magnificent ditty bag! You want to do mine sailor.

Points: 0 promotion points, +1 Health & Happiness, +4 popularity

First Watch: 8:00 PM – Midnight Sleep

Middle Watch: Midnight – 4:00 Sleep

Another month passes, and as an Ordinary Seaman you earned $10 in wages. You now have $11.06 in your savings. Your game progress has been saved.

Day #4

Morning Watch 4:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Task: Holystoning:

Lt. Hoffman: “Look alert, sailor! You may not be on watch now, but can’t you hear the drummer sounding “beat to the quarters?” Your shipmates are making their battle stations with all possible haste. The reason is plain to see on the horizon: a frigate flying the British flag!”

“The enemy ship is HMS Java, a frigate smaller and lighter than the Constitution. Captain Bainbridge gives the order to open fire in the early afternoon.”

“The battle is on now. Load and fire this cannon.”

“The time has come to put your gun loading skills to the test – the only real test, battle! Can you load the gun without making any mistakes?”

“You’ve done your part in battle.”

Points: +5 promotion points, 0 Health & Happiness, +3 popularity

Midst Battle: “In a devastating display of seamanship, gunnery, and cunning, Constitution leaves the British ship a complete wreck and barely floating. Constitution crew gives three cheers when the enemy haul down their flag showing that they surrender.”

Midst Battle: “Almost immediately, Constitution’s two surviving boats, row the short distance to the defeated Java. Climbing aboard, First Lieutenant George Parker finds a scene of total destruction, with the dead and injured everywhere among the tangled rigging and splintered wood.”

After  Battle: “The defeated British crew comes aboard Constitution. Captain Bainbridge decides Java cannot be saved and orders her set ablaze. The explosion of the magazine full of gunpowder sinks her.”

“Bravo! For a seaman of such little experience, you are a credit to Constitution. You have done so well I have decided to promote you. When you return to the ship, you will have the rank of Able Seaman. There is something to tell your family and sweetheart. Would you like to send them postcards? You can tell them you are a wealthy man, too, for besides your pay, you have earned $43.20 as a prize for defeating HMS Java.

Save game and continue to the next level.