Ol' Pickering

Ol' Pickering is an ancient old corsair on Markus St. Vincent's ship The Siren, standing in front of Markus with receipts to go over inventory BK E1·00:53:17 BK E1·00:58:37. He reports that The Siren is in fit fighting form and that they have about twice as many arcane cannon as they can use, which they can sell at a high mark-up BK E1·00:58:47 BK E1·00:58:57 BK E1·00:59:04. He proposes taking The Siren to Tor Kelin to start the looting while Markus stays behind to collect the mercenary fee BK E1·01:02:16.

Ol' Pickering is an ancient old corsair of Markus's crew on the Siren, one of the corsairs in the lower decks and reporting that the ship is in fit fighting form BK E1·00:53:17 BK E1·00:58:47. He proposes sailing to Tor Kelin to start the looting and sails off with the crew BK E1·01:02:16 BK E1·01:03:02. He answers Markus's calls over the Hearing Stone BK E2·01:22:50. Later he tells Markus that Markus's servant called the ship back, and says he does not know from a halfling BK E3·02:00:51 BK E3·02:01:04.

In the airship battle he spots the eagles approaching and takes out his flintlock, which misses and blows up in his hand BK E4·00:05:56 BK E4·00:39:45 BK E4·00:40:10. A second flintlock blows up on a natural 1, and he goes belowdecks BK E4·01:20:11 BK E4·01:20:23. He says his hand blew up and that firearms are a new technology BK E4·01:30:34 BK E4·01:30:35. Brennan describes him bludgeoning a goblin with his stump in the darkness, and later he pulls out another flintlock with "Still got one hand." BK E4·02:30:27 BK E4·02:12:22. After the ship is torn apart he clings to a spar with Lilith, and later says he is down a hand but still breathing BK E5·00:02:39 BK E5·01:30:01. Markus slips and calls him Davian, then Pickering, and has him use the hearing stone to touch base with the Forgotten Fleet BK E5·01:30:32 BK E5·01:30:48.

In the tomb he jumps on Lilith's back and makes a pass at her, and she turns him down BK E6·00:15:54 BK E6·00:16:00. He fires a flintlock musket with a natural 20 and blasts a warg for 30 damage BK E6·00:16:30 BK E6·00:16:45. A standard bearer bangs him across the head, and he says it was an honor to serve BK E6·01:00:30 BK E6·01:00:45. When the floor opens, Brennan says he vanishes into the inky blackness, and Markus cries out; what becomes of him is not told BK E6·01:25:19 BK E6·01:25:30.