9th Annual Scavenger Careening Encampment

Name: 9th Annual Scavenger Careening Encampment
Start: 2025-02-06
End: 2025-02-09

February 06, 2025 February 09, 2025

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**9TH ANNUAL SCAVENGER CREW CAREENING ENCAMPMENT**

Thursday February 6th to Sunday February 9th, 2025

--2025 EVENT SCENARIO--

February 1717

Tranquil turquoise waters lap the small Bahamian island's white beaches in the heat of the tropical sun. The small nameless spit of sand and coral sits perched upon the Western edge of the expansive shifting sand banks of the Bahamas and the deep and swift waters of the Straits of Florida. The same deep and swift waters that funnel all merchant shipping out of the West Indies, Northward into the Atlantic.

Hidden in the lee of the island a 20 gun sixth rate sits heeled over on the gently sloping tidal flats, it's sails furled and emptied of cargo. Barrels and crates are scattered up the sand and into the tree line. Just beyond, slung between the sea grapes and palm trees, hammocks swing beneath stretches of old tattered canvas. Their ship careened, a rough looking group sits around a fire, half empty rum bottles scattered about their feet. In the shade of a seagrape tree two shipmates play a game of draughts atop a wooden crate, muttering curses between swigs of Madeira wine. The fragrance of Virginia sweet leaf blends with the aroma of woodsmoke wafting through the palm trees from the ramshackle kitchen where the Ship's cook prepares a kettle of lobscouse for the evening dogwatches

This is not an event for the public. This is an immersion event, so the idea isn't just to look like pirates from a distance. There is no audience. The goal is to LIVE like pirates. Participants may not portray any character that has already been established in popular culture (IE movies, books, television, etc.). One may attend as a character or persona that they have created, as long as it is sufficiently different from pop culture characters. In order to construct the illusion of a 1710s pirate encampment, any kit worn to the encampment should be based on period sources, whether they are written or illustrated. They should contain no Hollywood influences.

You must obtain approval from the group prior to attending (Thus there is no location provided)

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