Pirate stuff
[Compiled 2004-01-09 by Sean Barrett, from
suggestions by numerous denizens of IFmud]
  - treasure
  - buried treasure
  - treasure chests
  - skeletons (of the non-animate variety)
  - poison
  - walking the plank
  - monkeys
  - parrots
  - peglegs
  - rum, grog
  - damsel in distress
  - exploring pirate cities looking for rumors
  - islands
  - islands with treasure
  - booby-trapped treasure
  - mutiny
  - ship graveyard (getting caught there)
  - chaining up in the hold
  - cutlasses / swords
  - ropes to swing on
  - sails
  - captain's hat
  - eyepatch
  - beards
  - jolly roger (skull & crossbones flag)
  - daggers
  - rats
  - shipwrecked / marooned
  - cabin boys
  - crow's nest
  - anchor
  - tattoos
  - passing as a boy
  - scurvy / limes
  - coconut
  - palm trees
  - beaches
  - sand
  - ambushes (from around island)
  - fog
  - compasses
  - dice & gambling
  - floating barrels
  - doubloons and pieces of eight (& moidores)
  - figureheads
  - royal navy
  - scuttling ships
  - rats leaving a sinking ship
  - fires and explosions and torches and lanterns
  - rowing
  - sneaking on board a ship
  - dinghys
  - whales, dolphins
  - snuffboxes
  - taverns and brawls and wenches
  - cannons
  - cannonballs, cannonball stacks
  - gunpowder kegs
  - line of burning gunpowder
  - pistols
  - powdered wigs (and governors in them)
  - wearing two pistols in an x
  - hidden coves
  - cleaning off barnacles
  - battening the hatches 
  - storms
  - big waves
  - sock filled with sand (blackjack)
  - seagulls
  - neatly coiled rope
  - pirate duels with daggers in a tavern
  - crude surgery
  - finding a crew
  - shanghai-ing people
  - drugged wine
  - ghost ship
  - hangings
  - reward notices
  - duels on edge of things
  - spyglasses
  - chains and locks and keys
  - sextants
  - plague, such illnesses
  - coves
  - caves
  - impersonation
  - stowaways
  - fat merchantment (vessels and men) as pirate targets
  - galleons (spanish armed merchants)
  - spanish treasure fleet
  - contemptuous high-born lady who falls for a pirate