Good to see Ch0 is back. I didn't even know it was a thing on my first reading. Though Ch1 can easily be understood without reading this one first, it's still a little jarring.
Eh, who cares about his browser history? It said he can't return anyway, so anything anyone has to say about it may as well be water rolling off a duck's back.
On the one hand who'd pick pirates over swords an magic... on the other hand I take that back because you could pick high tech society with pirates. Space pirates?
Ah. That sitting there rolling for high stats... that was me in every black isles ad&d game. Fff trying to get 18/00 str and all the other stats at 16+.