Pirate Oracle - Cutlass and Dagger

… for “In a Wicked Age”

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6,[card] of [suit]: [no_art]. 46,[card] of [suit]:.
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1,Ace 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9 1,10 1,Jack 1,Queen 1,King
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1,Clubs 1,Diamonds 1,Hearts 1,Spades
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1,Cutthroats and scoundrels, forced to seek honest work 1,Legends tell of a creature of the deep, a leviathan, which haunts the waters off Bermuda 1,Longboats rowing out after dark to rendezvous with a ship 1,The chief administrator of a Crown colony, fearing dismissal 1,The dark, silent, gold-greedy First Mate 1,Worn ropes and rotting spars, showing plainly that this ship has seen better days
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1,actor and playwright, on the run from his creditors and his critics 1,agent of the Crown, pursuing members of a secret and treasonous society 1,band of cutthroats, in the pay of a foreign Crown, gathering secretly in the jungle 1,beautiful foreign spy, with a dagger concealed in her bodice 1,bewigged merchant, haggling over the price of a cargo 1,black cat, which always seems to be nearby, purported to be a witch’s familiar 1,cask, roped and tarred, full of brandywine smuggled all the way from England 1,cloaked and hooded figure, skulking in the shadows 1,cruel reversal of fortunes, which leaves its victim suddenly poverty-stricken 1,cunning spy, always in disguise, whose true features are unknown 1,dagger, its blade dripping with viscous green poison 1,damaged prize ship, sailed by a skeleton crew, making its way back to a safe haven 1,daring military officer, rumored to have once attempted to steal the Crown Jewels 1,dashing hero and a dastardly villain, dueling on a narrow spit of land revealed at low tide 1,diplomatic envoy to a foreign power, sent to negotiate a peace treaty 1,escaped slave, now a buccaneer captain feared by all 1,French duelist, deadly with a rapier, looking for his enemy 1,gala fête at the home of the island’s wealthiest lord, where the rich gather and display their wealth 1,heavy, ornate gold cross affixed to a chain, once the property of a Conquistador cursed and slain by the Aztecs 1,heretical preacher, converting sailors from his fo’c’sle pulpit 1,ill-tempered sailor, bearing many lash-marks across his back, and a fetish bag to use against the cruel officer who marked him 1,learned Englishman, reputed to be an alchemist, whose sea-chest contains many heavy books of lore 1,lone figure, knife clenched in his teeth, scaling a high tower 1,man who, they say, is the very spit’n’image of a famous (and famously dead) pirate – as if the scoundrel were reborn into new flesh 1,masked ball, where many assignations are planned 1,mincing Spanish Grandee, with oiled locks and an oilier smile 1,officious, businesslike representative of the East India Company 1,pair of captured pirates, chained together, being marched to the gallows … unaware of the fate of a third crewmember 1,pardon, offered for any pirate who betrays his crew and captain to the Crown 1,plaguing swarm of disease-carrying, biting insects 1,press-gang, rounding up sailors to crew a Naval vessel 1,Priest of the Inquisition, seeking heretics in the New World, and finding many whom he wishes to see burn 1,privateering ship, well-equipped, but with a crew both naïve and overly optimistic 1,proclamation by the Governor offering 500 pieces of eight for the capture of a particular pirate – and a proclamation by the pirate, offering 5,000 for the capture of the Governor! 1,proclamation of a new tax levied by the colonial Governor, nailed to a notice-board in town 1,scandal suddenly revealed, throwing a family into chaos 1,secret benefactor, aiding another for (seemingly) altruistic motives 1,smuggler’s ship, with lights showing low on the water, signaling her contacts 1,social gaffe which leads to a duel of honor 1,spy’s paymaster, on the run with a chest of gold 1,stowaway with a vendetta against one of the ship’s company 1,terrorized prisoner, forced to walk the plank 1,traitor, marooned for many years on a desolate island, now gone savage and hardly sane 1,treasure hoard, its location known by only three souls – the same three who robbed and murdered to get it 1,voodoo houngan, practicing his beliefs secretly aboard ship 1,whaling ship, blown off course into the Great Southern Ocean by a storm
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