EPISODE I

High Stakes on the High Seas

It is a dark age on the open water. The great ARCADE has gone quiet, its cabinets dark, its champions scattered to the winds.

But the sea remembers. Out of the fog sails a fleet of 6,969 pirates. Every one of them armed, every one of them carrying a chest of its own.

The duels that made the arcade legendary are coming back, and the stakes have never been higher. Choose your side. Sharpen your blade.

this crawl contains zero em dashes. the navy requisitioned them for the cannons.