#pirates 101

[aceofturtles]

Item: The Time Machine Rarity: ⏶ Common

What game do you associate most strongly with a specific time in your life?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Okay, so a lot of my video game memories involve christmas, because that's when I have the most time to play.

If I'm picking one, then lets go for the time I had an emotional breakdown on boxing day after playing Pirates 101 for roughly 24 hours straight.

[thedyf]

[foxloree]

bruhhh my 8 year old self straight up be simping for this thing???

[crustarsdiddles]

Commission for @malakagaming of their Pirates 101 character facing down Kane for the fate of the Spiral!

[dappertangerine]

If You Have/Plan on Making a Wizard 101 or Pirate 101 Account

Please go to https://www.wizard101.com/home/game/friend/36156-12124-70163-57514 to redeem my friendcode ( 36156-12124-70163-57514 ).  If you do this and then message me your friendcode I’ll redeem you as well.  We will both earn free crowns through this and it’ll be a good old time.

[onewomanpiratecrew]

Wait- is girl who runs up and down Skull Island Simon Smiths niece? 

I got a quest to save her from the Pirates on the Dauntless (my Swashbuckler) and she looks an awful lot like her (also she wasn’t running back and forth when I was on the quest....) (...although the color is different maybe not)

[onewomanpiratecrew]

Confused about the pirate classes on Pirate 101? 

Privateer - in P101 they’re ‘leaders’, but in real life, a Privateer was “an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping.” (google definition)

according to Wikipedia: 

"A privateer or “corsair” was a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign vessels during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having vessels be commissioned into regular service as warships. The crew of a privateer might be treated as prisoners of war by the enemy country if captured.

Historically, the distinction between a privateer and a pirate has been subjective, often depending on the source as to which label was correct in a particular circumstance. The actual work of a pirate and a privateer is generally the same (raiding and plundering ships); it is, therefore, the authorization and perceived legality of the actions that form the distinction. At various times, governments indiscriminately granted authorization for privateering to a variety of ships, so much so that would-be pirates could easily operate under a veil of legitimacy. “ 

Buccaneer - This term is funny because it actually refers to how these “pirates" cooked their food!  From Wiki- “The term buccaneer derives from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this derived the French word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer” 

In the game, they are ‘brawlers’, but in real life- The buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the 17th century. The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate. Originally, buccaneer crews were larger, more apt to attack coastal cities, and more localized to the Caribbean than later pirate crews who sailed to the Indian Ocean on the Pirate Round in the late 17th century. (From wikipedia)