User Guide

Treasure Maps
Overview
There’s nothing a famous pirate likes to do more than to hide a bunch
of his loot in a secret location, murder all of the folks who helped him
bury it, create a cryptic map showing where the treasure is hidden -
and then promptly lose it.
During your journeys you may discover pieces of these maps. Once
you collect enough fragments you may be able to follow the map’s
clues to the buried treasure, making you much richer - and, not sur-
prisingly, also really annoying the pirate whose loot you stole.
Getting Map Pieces
You may occasionally find a mysterious traveller willing to sell you a
piece of a treasure map. Mysterious travelers are found in taverns.
Governors’ daughters may possess pieces of maps leading to lost
cities of gold. They are found in governors’ mansions.
Looking at Your Map
Once you acquire a map piece, it is stored in the “Treasure Map”
informational screen. If you acquire additional pieces of that map,
they are automatically put together on one page in the correct posi-
tion. If you have more than one map, each map appears on a separate
page.
Once you have found a treasure, the associated map is removed.
Map Clues
Pirates use a variety of clues to indicate the location of their treasures.
Some of these are visible from the sea. These include human habita-
tions - cities, settlements, villages, missions and pirate havens. Pirates
also use named landmarks - Dagger Falls, Skull Shallows, Prisoners’
Rock, and so on, which are also visible from aboard your boat.
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Pirate Haven
These are temporary settlements where pirates gather to recruit
crewmen and plot their next mission. If you’re villainous enough, you
may be able to convince the pirate captain to launch an assault upon
a nearby city.
The “top ten” pirates are each based in a different pirate haven.
Pirate Havens contain poor and primitive taverns, shipwrights, mer-
chants, and so on.
Indian Village
These places are where the remaining native people try to survive the
European onslaught. Indian villages are generally not too fond of
their non-native neighbours: you may be able to convince their chief
to attack a nearby European city ye ruthless scoundrel!
Indian villages may contain merchants willing to sell you whatever
few supplies they possess.
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Book Three
The Memoirs of Captain Sydney
I never understand what them famous pirates was
thinkin’ about, buryin’ their treasure all over the Caribbean
like that. Me, I spent every last shillin’ I ever got, or I put
it in a right, proper bank for safe keepin.’
Seems to me that every time they buried their treas-
ure, along’d come some blasted thief to dig it up and steal
it. What’s the sense of it, I asks ye?
Course it takes some guts to steal another pirate’s
booty _ particularly if the pirate in question happens to be
Blackbeard or Kidd or one of them boys. Those lads really
know how to hold a grudge.
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