Hi Guys,

As I previously posted I found my new hobby in Fumbbl. Not just in the games but also making team bios!

I decided to start up a new gobbo team yesterday and since I know very little about bbcode thought it would be fun to start up a project of making them a cool bio.

The only image editing software I own is MS Paint and I have very little experience with bbcode but I have spent a couple of hours these last 2 days at it and am rather proud of the results.

If any wise person has any suggestions on how I can improve the bio let me know as I love writing stories so thought it would be cool to make a team I can keep adding more and more fluff to over time so would appreciate any advice anyone has.


Someone I played earlier today suggested I posted the team's story here as they enjoyed reading it.

So here is a snippet of the bio:


History of The Pirates of Bogwash


The crew of The Reel Booty are widely known in the Islands of Bogwash as merciless, slightly insane, criminals. Under the command of Captain Sharktooth these Pirates have pillaged and looted over £1 Million Gold from ships in the last decade. Recently Sharktooth developed a new tactic involving squig bombs and chainsaws that made boarding actions a 100% guarantee of success.

Cargo ships that trade near the Bogwash Islands dread the sight of a green skull and crossbones on the horizon.

Recently during a freak storm, The Reel Booty and her crew found themselves off the coast of Lustria. It was a 2 week journey back to the Bogwash Islands so Sharktooth decided to make the most of the opportunity and pillage a few 'local' goods to take home with he. Those fancy Lizardman temples must be full of gold!

So Sharktooth's crew began their journey along the Lustrian Coast looking for anything that looked worth stealing.

After a few days of finding nothing but ruins of old coastal temples the ship's lookout Lewie 'Crow's Nest' Cooper spotted a ship in the shallow water near a beach.

Now Lewie isn't called 'Crow's Nest' because he is a particularly good lookout, rather, he was sent up there as punishment for 'pooping' on the poop deck by the ship's first mate Bray 'Iron Chest' Newbury. One of the cabinboy/trolls, Billy 'One Eye' Borrington, thought it would be useful to break Lewie's legs whilst he was up there so he wouldn't be able to come down and would stay as a permanent lookout forever.

Anyhow... Back to the story.

The ship turned out to belong to some beautiful Amazonian women who were fishing in reef. Most pirates would have been distracted by the beauty of the women and probably forgotten why they were actually there. The Pirates of Bogwash are professionals and no such trial thing would ever distract them from accumulating more gold.

Pirate code dictates that when looting and plundering you much always announce your presence and introduce yourself before boarding actions begin. This is to give the enemy a chance to surrender and retreat with their ship intact as every pirate knows that drowning and finding yourself in Davy Jone's locker is a fate worse than death.

So Sharktooth introduced himself to Amazonians.

'YAARRRR WE BE YE PIRATES OF BOGWASH AND YOU GIVE US TEH TREAZURES ANZ YOU LIVE'

The women looked at each other and laughed. A particularly bronzed women standing on the boat shouted back whilst simultaneously hurling her spear towards Sharktooth.

'This is our lands and we have never even heard of you! If you want our fish then you can fight us for them'

Sharktooth was so confused by the reply that he didn't notice the spear heading towards him. Luckily Little George walked past at the perfect moment and the spear skewered him straight through his back and pinned him to the central mast.

Little George is a giant, well a small one anyway. George was shunned away from his own people due to his short stature measuring only 8Ft5In however he was accepted into the crew of The Reel Booty as a youngster of only 4 years and quickly begain assisting the ships Trolls with heavy lifting duties.

Ah.. looks like I got distracted again. But the point is that George pulled the spear out and walked away like nothing had even happened.

Skarktooth was not stunned by the thrown spear but by the fact that the Amazonian women had no idea who The Pirates of Bogswash were.

'YARRRRL SOON KNOW WHO WE EZ WHEN WE BREAK YA PUUNY SHIP' Shouted Sharktooth as he ordered The Reel Booty into the shallow water to get the Attack Squigs in range. Seconds later there was a great crunch as the ship hit to corals below the water.

'We canni go no furthARRRR captain' bellowed the helmsman Oakey 'Evil Eye' Jones.

'BRING CAAAARNNONS TO BEAR' was the next order given.

By the time to huge ship had circled round to bring the target into range of its port cannons the women had rowed away laughing to themselves all the way home.

This was not the sort of thing that happened to the crew of The Reel Booty. Captain Sharktooth needed a way to make The Pirates of Bogwash feared in all the world. If only there was a way to murder huge amounts of people in front of large audiences??

The ship continued its plundering North along the shore of Lustria towards the Vampire Coast. It wasn't until a few days later that the Captain found what he was looking for.

Whilst sailing past the Fuming Serpent the crew could hear the cheering and booing of an enormous crowds. Naturally the source of all this noise had to be investigated.

A great stadium was visible at the foot of the volcano. There was a temporary port set up for ships to dock and resupply.

The captain decided it was time the crew got some shore leave so docked at the volcano's port and left a skeleton crew on board to guard his ship. There was something Sharktooth had to check out.

Sharktooth walked straight to the stadium in the mountainside. He brought George and 'One Eye' with him for a bit of protection.

When he arrived he saw something he never expected to find. The huge wooden stands were the strangest thing he had ever seen. Huge crowds made up of more species that he even knew existed was watching a bunch of humans and orcs fighting over a strange brown object. Sharktooth had an idea that he knew would change everything.

He asked one of the strange lizard creatures in the crowd what was going on and the green thing just shouted back 'BLOOD BOWL'.

Sharktooth stayed and watched a couple of matches. He began to realise just how much carnage happened on the pitch and watch the fans lapping up every moment, the teams on the pitch were like gods to them. He knew his plan would work.

Sharktooth spotted the fellow collecting all the money, a Ratman known as Ratthew Uglystream, and knew he needed to have some words.

Ratthew was found in the tunnels under the stadium counting coins. After a short session with Geroge and One Eye he became very agreeable and accepted all of Sharktooth's terms.

Ratthew agreed that Sharktooth could field a team of his own. There would be double payouts for every game (win or lose) and all weapons would be allowed. He even gave him some of the gold in his counting pile as a gesture of good will, under the promise he would never be left alone in a room with George the giant again!

When he returned to the ship he gathered all the crew on deck.

'ARRVASH YE SCURY GOBS WE GOTZ A PLAN TO MAKE US FAMED IN THE WHOLE WORLDZ. EVERYONZ WIL FEARS US ARRRD WE BE RICHEST IN DA WORLD. WE ARRS GOING TO PLAY BLOOD BOWL.

WE GOTS THE SAWS AND ZE TROLLAAAARS AN SQIGGGZZ SO WE KNOWS THE WAYZ OF CHARNAGE. WE SHOWS THEM WHO IS BOZ AND KILL EMS ALL.'

The crew were completely hooked and the world knew it when a great cheer was heard from the deck of the The Reel Booty. Louder than all crowds at the stadium.

'YAAAARRRRR'

So it was this day that The Bogswash Pirates formed a team. Not to win trophies but to cause as much chaos and carnage as possible and become the most famous pirates in the world!

Hope you all enjoyed if you made it down to here. I look forward to playing you in the box in the future!