Pirate101 Monthly Newsletter

We’re jumping into July in Pirate101 and hope you’ve been enjoying your summer—have you seen all the new pets and mounts that have been introduced into Pirate101? Be sure to check them out in the Crown Shop. It was great to see so many of you loving the new Tiki Waverider mount, so let’s keep the good waves rolling in Pirate101 this month as there may be a fun surprise soon! Maybe something that looks like this . . .

Now that’s something you haven’t seen before!

Read on to learn a bit more about what happened in June while we hope you hop into a Test Realm sometime this summer.

Welcome to the Pirate101 Rogue’s Gallery. Subject, Fan Flanders.

Fan Flanders was born to a small farm on Webston’s Island, one of the many small Islets that dot the skyways of Marleybone. The Flanders were tenant farmers and led a hard life, one made even worse when the Lord Baron Bufo of the Island sold their farm from under them in order to cover a gambling debt.

Broke, the Flanders moved to the coastal town of Cramshire to live with relatives. Fan and her sisters grew up in the crime ridden slum of Frogbottom. After her parents were sent to debtor’s prison Fan became the only source of income for her siblings – first by selling sky clams, then flowers... and then by becoming one of the best pickpockets n Frogbottom.

As time went on Fan graduated from picking pockets to becoming a cutpurse of uncommon skill and later still the best frog burglar (like a cat burglar but quicker on the bounce) in Cramshire. And each “job” she pulled helped her get her sisters a little farther away from Frogbottom.

Alas, no thief’s luck lasts forever. Both of Fan’s sisters had been married off to likely lads when she saw an opportunity to enact revenge for her poor parents – a chance to steal the signet ring of the Lord Baron Bufo himself – but just as she approached the safe that held the ring the lights came on and she was apprehended by the City Watch.

Fan was consigned to Newgate Prison but soon broke out, swearing Vengeance on Baron Bufo. She bought passage on a Wharf Rat ship bound for Skull Island. Once there she sought out Morgan LaFitte, an old acquaintance from when Fan first became a burglar. Upon hearing her tale a woe, Morgan made a fateful suggestion: Why not take up Piracy?

These Pirates and more await you when you play for free at Pirate101.com.”

Ahh, Pirate friends! Welcome back! The book I have to share with you today will have you thinking that sometimes good things just drop right out of the skyway and into your lap!

Nick and his dad and brother have just moved to a new house, and he's not feeling very confident about starting a new middle school - and that's *before* he gets hit in the head with a weird toaster that falls down from the attic.

In fact, the attic is so full of weird stuff that Nick decides to make some money by selling it at a garage sale. But it's when people buy the stuff and take it home that things get really freaky. Tape recorders that record what you say, but play back what you were thinking? A See and Say that predicts the future? Nick and the kids who bought stuff from him will have a lot to figure out, especially if they want to stay away from the creepy secret society that wants the stuff for themselves.

It's all in Tesla's Attic, by Neal Shusterman. If you like that book, read the sequel, Edison's Alley, to find out what happens next!

Boochbeard: "Sorry, little fellah, we just have peanuts, not nuts and bolts!"

- By Ruthless Richard Sharp

Who will caption the next Puppet Pirates? Stay tuned to our Facebook page to enter your caption on the next Puppet Pirates.

There’s a newly discovered hybrid in Pirate101 thanks to our friend Decius Duelmaster and a very clever pirate named Brave Sam Laveer. He pieced together hints from Decius to discover a Coconut Crawlie plus another Coconut Crawlie can sometimes have a unique outcome! Go read about it on our official Pirate101 Forums here.

Not up on the latest Pirate101 news? Why not take the time to look through these links that caught our eye last month:

• We’ve had some good suggestions for additions to menu chat! Feel free to join in the discussion.
• MMOs.com gave Pirate101 a stellar review!
• There’s some interesting new PvP rules for Pirate101 Central tournaments. Be sure to stay up to date!
• Looking for a good guide to Ship Vendors? Willowdreamer has a great one to share this month.
• Paige Moonshade was enjoying the Tiki Waverider Mount last month!
• Jones and Short Stop? Hmmm!
• Like Call Me Maybe from Carly Rae Jepsen? Here’s a funny Pirate101 version.
• Petnome was hard at work this month with both tracking the Flying Cobra and the Shrieking Eel.
• Have you seen Swordroll’s new hybrid pet guide? It’s a great collection of hybrids found in Pirate101.
• Phule’s Rogue’s Gallery sure had Valkoor thinking! Check out this interesting conspiracy theory.
• Mercenaries for Charter amped their game with a couple of new strategy guide this month! Be sure to check out these strategies for Old Scratch and Chumba Wumba.
• Looking for some encouraging words? Chrissy the Blesser is always full of good cheer and positive thoughts.
• Hurry and enter this screenshot contest on the Adventures of the Spiral Blog before time runs out!
• Ditto Monster continues his let’s play series of Pirate101. This month he noticed a funny Easter Egg.

We continued celebrating a lot of fun days in June. Follow us on Social Media and you too could find free helpful tips and codes in game!

• 8 June – National Best Friends Day.
• 14 June – Boy George’s Birthday.
• 15 June -- Sail into Summer Sale.
• 17 June -- Eat Your Veggies Day.
• 20 June -- Jaws Anniversary.
• 26 June -- Chocolate Pudding Day.
• 27 June -- Sunglasses Day.

Hello my pirate friends! I see you have come before me again, seeking wisdom. This month our question comes from “Quite Jacques” on the official Pirate101 Message Boards. Jacques asks, “Has any horn never been used and if not which is the rarest horn (ships)?” A very perplexing question about ship horns indeed! A ship’s horn is its conduit to the magic of the Spiral and many battles can be won or lost based on the quality of a ship’s powerful horn. Also . . . you can use it to honk at your friends when you pass them in a windlane . . . ahem. Let us peer into Vadima’s magical ball and see what information we can find about this powerful piece of ship equipment.

I see a very dangerous place in the spiral: a foreboding turret in Marleybone in a far off corner of the Spiral. I see very few pirates obtaining a special horn called the “Fulminate Horn.” I see that it is ten times rarer than the Horn of Ra or the Horn of the Great Serpent. Yes, this is a very powerful piece of ship equipment indeed and will serve pirates well in the future. Perhaps they simply do not know of this items existence? Perplexing indeed!

The vision fades . . . until next time my Pirate students . . . see you on the message boards.