Walk the plank?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Ye can't maroon the scoundrels during a "Sink 100 ships without docking" challenge! (Maybe a couple hundred other reasons you might not want to bring your ship into port...) They can always use map to return to their port of call, so it isn't as sinister as you might hope.

The fact that anyone at any time can decline a crew invitation, is just weird. Why ask? Just add them to the crew - they can leave the crew if they really need to. Conscription gangs (navy or pirate) in the 1600s didn't exactly ASK if ya wanted to be in a crew...they just took ya. That practice goes way back, to before biblical times, if I'm not mistaken. Board a ship and defeat their crew? Prisoners are given the option of joining your crew, or walking the plank. But stowaways? If caught, they'd be conscripted into the crew to work for their passage, or made to walk the plank.