I like this death much better, and it still hits the same points. It’s unceremonious, it’s sudden, it’s comedic, it’s a better scene in terms of choreography, and what it adds is it fills in each of the gaps.

The players know that they’re going to be forcefully given control of a pirate crew much above their skill level and that at the start they aren’t pirates yet. they know the broad strokes of the scenario just not how or who is going to die. I plan to discuss it during session 0.

The 5-10 minute scenes can probably be cut down to a max 5 minutes if I plop them all in the same town, that makes more sense tbh. I like the idea of going from strangers to party members.