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Pirate Captain Salty Merlot was named by my players when for a starter adventure I whipped out some LEGO figures from a pirate set. This one was a captain figure and happened to have a green goblet in one hand, an a hook for the other hand. Even though I kept playing it as a knock off Jack Sparrow and claiming he wanted rum while prisoner, the goblet made them think of wine I suppose and “Salty” likely because it was on an ocean liner and the commentary he was making as a prisoner was perhaps salty I guess.
Anyway Pirate Captain Salty Merlot seemed fun, and eventually the ship went down and he miraculously ended up on the same island that the PCs washed up on, joined them for the rest of their level one adventure, struck up a bro-mance with BreadBert, and jumped through a portal to escape the island with the PCs as part of their party temporarily.
Not long after exiting the portal in a new inland area, Salty Merlot & BreadBert bought a cart at a flea market, two horses that were quickly named Sail 1 and Sail 2, and became the first ever “Land Pirates”, detaching for the party to engage in likely shenanigans along the area's highways in their “land ship” (cart). BreadBert being the “first mate” and Salty Merlot naturally being the Captain.
Current status: Whereabouts unclear but friendly to the party. Assumption is that they'll get a bigger cart and maybe some additional “land pirates” to join them in time.