Black Spot is a Physical skill. It deals medium Phys damage to 1 foe.
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| - Black Spot is a Physical skill. It deals medium Phys damage to 1 foe.
- Someone is happily living out his life -- frequently a Cool Old Guy or Older Sidekick -- until, out of the blue, he receives a cryptic message. It might not even be composed of words; it may be a piece of paper with a symbol, a scratched casino chip or a whistle done by a passing stranger. Few but the recipient knows what it means. He, however, now knows that the nice people he used to befriend have marked him for death or something equally nasty, and they might be coming in person to enforce it. This was his fair warning. Related to Trouble Entendre. Examples of Black Spot include:
- The Black Spot is a mark of death to a pirate. It was originally a proverbial term applied to a pirate who has a death mark by the authorities or other pirates for misdeeds he must pay for with his life. In Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Spot is a literal marking that appears on a pirate doomed to Davy Jones' locker . Any pirate that gains it will be followed by Davy Jones's pet, the Kraken and pursued to the ends of the Earth.
- The Black Spot was a mark given to an individual who owed their servitude to Davy Jones. Those marked with the Black Spot would be hunted across the Seven Seas by the Kraken.
- The Black Spot is a symbol synonymous with pirates, the name is not euphemism but rather quite literally a black spot given to someone. The spot marks a pirate or sailor for death. Once given, pirates are honor bound to see to it that the receiver of The Spot dies and any time left to them is assured to be quite temporary. While the spot is half death-sentence it is also half hex, used to connect the malice of those who gave it so that their hatred follows the individual around as bad luck of the worst kind that will not rest until the one to whom it was given is dead.
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| - Black Spot is a Physical skill. It deals medium Phys damage to 1 foe.
- The Black Spot is a symbol synonymous with pirates, the name is not euphemism but rather quite literally a black spot given to someone. The spot marks a pirate or sailor for death. Once given, pirates are honor bound to see to it that the receiver of The Spot dies and any time left to them is assured to be quite temporary. The more traditional Black Spot is a simple black drop of ink on a page of The Bible, however, if not available a blank piece of paper will also do. In some cases the mark will be placed on a pirate's very skin as a mark of disgrace to invite others to kill them. The mark may either be a sign of one crew's grudge against a person who offended what few honors pirates grant each-other or simply be meant to call out to any/all other pirates to kill the person for them as it signifies they can not be trusted. While the spot is half death-sentence it is also half hex, used to connect the malice of those who gave it so that their hatred follows the individual around as bad luck of the worst kind that will not rest until the one to whom it was given is dead. The mark was in-fact used in real-life as well but became most famously used in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and has been a steady staple of pirate fiction ever since.
- Someone is happily living out his life -- frequently a Cool Old Guy or Older Sidekick -- until, out of the blue, he receives a cryptic message. It might not even be composed of words; it may be a piece of paper with a symbol, a scratched casino chip or a whistle done by a passing stranger. Few but the recipient knows what it means. He, however, now knows that the nice people he used to befriend have marked him for death or something equally nasty, and they might be coming in person to enforce it. This was his fair warning. Related to Trouble Entendre. Examples of Black Spot include:
- The Black Spot is a mark of death to a pirate. It was originally a proverbial term applied to a pirate who has a death mark by the authorities or other pirates for misdeeds he must pay for with his life. In Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Spot is a literal marking that appears on a pirate doomed to Davy Jones' locker . Any pirate that gains it will be followed by Davy Jones's pet, the Kraken and pursued to the ends of the Earth.
- The Black Spot was a mark given to an individual who owed their servitude to Davy Jones. Those marked with the Black Spot would be hunted across the Seven Seas by the Kraken.
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