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Jolly Roger

A short BL Visual Novel about romance and pirates.

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August 7, 2023
2 years and 360 days ago
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About the Game

Doctor Ian Smith, a lieutenant in the HMS Justice, has the bad luck of meeting a pirate ship on his last journey before leaving the Royal Navy. When he learns the name of his captor, a certain Captain "Bloody Henry" Plank, his luck takes a turn for the worse... or maybe not.

Jolly Roger is a BL romance in a pirate setting, around 5k words long. Rating: SFW.

-Character art: Aielia Poot

-Backgrounds: Minikle

-Project managing, Writing, and Spanish translation: Ertal