Johnny Four-Fingers

Johnny Four-Fingers is an NPC in the Pirate Adventures game. When first introduced to the players, Johnny was described as a Human with thin blonde hair tied into a ponytail at the back, wearing what looks like a ragged uniform but does not match any recognisable colours of any specific organisation. He is missing a finger on each hand, one his ring finger and the other his index finger. He has a thin-lined cheeky grin and steel blue eyes with a small amount of stubble on his chin.

After Johnny's brutal ordeal under the Slimes, Johnny's body took on a new form. Half was the same blonde man, but now parts of his body burst from his clothes as his mutated muscles twisted out. One arm has formed into a slimy dark grey skin with long black claws, with one missing on that side. His other hand started the mutation as his nails now blackened with a point. His legs look more frog-like as his torso is strangely elongated at an angle. The mutated side of his face has a yellow, unclosing eye as its grin reaches the high cheekbone of this new frightening form.

## Johnny's Story

### Part of the Crew

Johnny was a thief so prolific in the world of Flood that he had a finger taken from each of his hands after being caught. His nickname was earned by the four digits left on each hand (a fact that confused many on the Cutlass). Johnny arrived on board the Cutlass while sailing a boat he stole from some unknown party and having picked up a swimming Zoro in the open ocean. Captain Bloodbeard welcomed Johnny onto the crew of the Cutlass and quickly put him to work as a deckhand while also sending him out with the other assorted party members on board the Cutlass. While some liked Johnny for his easygoing charm, others (predominately Kethra) disliked him for his unwillingness to fight and a penchant for running away/hiding. Something that came to its head when the party and Johnny were dispatched to Crenulas Crossbone's former ship (now a ghost ship), the Bonebreaker. The party had unwillingly left Johnny onboard the dinghy as backup (and to prevent him from claiming any loot), but while returning the ghost ship to the mortal realm, Johnny was nowhere to be found (many thinking him a coward, running away from the skeletons onboard). When sailing the Bonebreaker next to the Cutlass, Johnny and his dinghy were almost crushed and, once brought aboard, tried to explain the night's events from his perspective, which virtually no one was willing to believe. From Johnny's perspective, while he was aboard the dinghy, he heard some commotion. As he tried to call out to those onboard, the ghost ship disappeared, leaving him alone. He was unwilling to return to the Cutlass for fear of being called a coward and not wanting to abandon those on the ghost ship. When eventually all was settled, Admiral Bloodbeard heavily insisted on Johnny being with the newly formed crew as a means for Johnny to earn the trust he had lost after the night's events and to prove his worth to them when given the opportunity.

Sailing under Captain Kethra on the Boneblade, Johnny was given a hard time, constantly tasked with the worst jobs (including scrubbing the dunny). Despite the poor treatment, Johnny tried his best and did earn some respect from Gruzeel and others. Johnny's fateful moment came while the Boneblade docked on a floating marketplace owned by the Slime crime family. Kethra and the crew had quickly found a chef they wanted as part of the crew, a Quickling called Tiff, who was bound to a life debt with the Slimes. Through some negotiation, Kethra had agreed to a deal with the Slimes that, in exchange for Tiff, they would do them a sizeable favour whenever next called upon. Kethra was to be marked by the Slimes so she could be found and made to do the favour. Fearful of the ramifications (and considering ways to cheat on the deal), Kethra got permission for one of her crew to be marked instead. Naturally, the first person who came to Kethra's mind as the most expendable member of the crew was Johnny. She assured him that allowing himself to be marked would earn him respect and repair the lost trust. Desperate to regain the crew's favour, Johnny agreed and went with Kethra and Gruzeel to meet with the Slimes to finalise the deal. Unfortunately for Johnny (realising too late who the deal was with), the Slimes were a recent victim of his and were willing to complete the trade immediately if they were to swap Johnny for Tiff. Johnny begged Kethra and Gruzeel not to hand him over, but Kethra was too afraid, too insecure in her strength, to deny the Slimes and allowed Johnny to be taken. Kethra lied to the crew about the events, trying to paint Johnny as a hero who sacrificed himself in exchange for Tiff instead of acknowledging she left him for dead.

### A New Enemy

After months of unknown torture, Johnny returned aboard the Boneblade transformed and back for revenge on the crew that had forsaken him. Unbeknownst to him, Kethra was long dead from Bluerot, and Gruzeel was no longer Quartermaster. Despite this, Johnny ravaged the crew while the current Officers struggled to fight a Froghemoth. Eventually, the Officers managed to take Johnny on, but in his new state, he easily knocked the Officers down, forcing Elizora to agree to Johnny's demands and hand over Gruzeel the next morning. The next day, despite Elizora's best efforts to direct Johnny's ire to her, Johnny fought and quickly eviscerated Gruzeel, taking immense pleasure in his animalistic rage. Once the deed was done, Johnny left the Boneblade to seek a means of reversing his transformation.