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Piracy at The Corner Cafe

Ahoy, matey, and welcome aboard!

Today, we are going to sail the high seas and we are looking for gold. We don't care how we get it, but it's gold and treasure we want!

I do hope you will join us in our latest adventure on the good ship The Corner Café, sailing on the high seas.

A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow. Regardless of the term's literary use, anything that meets the broad definition of a "map" that describes the location of a treasure could appropriately be called a "treasure map”.

And the above is what they hoped to find, but they were not usually successful… riches beyond their wildest dreams!

Jolly Roger is the traditional English name for the flags flown to identify a pirate ship about to attack, during the early 18th century (the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy).

The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today, the skull and crossbones symbol on a black flag, was used during the 1710s by a number of pirate captains including Black Sam Bellamy, Edward England, and John Taylor. It went on to become the most commonly used pirate flag during the 1720s, although other designs were also in use.

There is no obligation to follow any of our informal themes. They are simply for fun. This is an open topic chat thread, so please just post or talk about anything you like!