Winter - Green ice

It is said that it isn't wise to eat yellow snow, now what about green ice?

On Longships this winter, ice on the ropes was bluish on the deck and greenish in the crow's nest (enhanced when your ship is painted gold). The same green snow has also been reported on the figureheads of other ship types before the bug got corrected.

Also, standing on your pet (might take several attempts) brings some new interesting uses for pets in the game (live car-pet).
December 10, 2009.

Vargas the clone

Halloween darkness, some pirates have been turned into vampires. Vargas the Mad has been cloned and he and his clone(s) often spawn on islands where smellie frays take place.
October 24, 2009.

Halloween bug?

Well, that was weird!
Jobbing crew: none (as if I was jobbed, LOL), crew: none, me hearties:

Yer hearties list is empty. To add a friend, click on them and select "invite to be your hearty".

Meh!
October 20, 2009.

Fluctuat nec mergitur

Fluctuat nec mergitur (tossed by the waves but does not sink). Yep, with that much damage, we (or more exactly Bnavking) managed to escape. We all thought the game was over...
September 05, 2009.

Atlantis - Perfect spot

Protected from the front, the left and the rear... we just had to stay, wait and fire at everything coming from the right side. I do believe this board has been removed from the game since, as developers usually hate when we have fun.
April 23, 2009.

Carpentry - Masterpiece 16!

Is it my record? Possibly, yes! Did I get an "Incredible" on the next duty report? I forgot, but I doubt it (carpentry moves in mysterious ways)!
Done in June 18, 2009.

Double vision when not drunk

This screen shot was made on July 22, 2009 (I have a huge screenshot database, lol); the situation has not evolved by the time I'm posting this (I thought the double "Order products" was just a temporary bug). Frozen Whiskers Apothecary Bazaar on Winter Solstice (Midnight). Confuses my neurons every time I look at it...

The art of rigging

Yes, I know, some have done even better, but this board gave me all special pieces in the next move, as it surrounds non-matching pieces in a pull, removes all of one color (black) from the board in a pull, links an opposite inactive pulley to the chain.
Well, it removes 41 pieces in one move!
May 26, 2009.

Atlantis - Dragoon squad on board!

I don't know if this happens every time a ship attacks an Atlantis citadel, I just think it is an unusual sight...
February 16, 2009.

Booty division after server crash

The server crashed during a long Atlantis run... when it went back online (and probably after the Ocean Masters got petitioned), all pirates who were back online got recalled (since the ship was recovered and the booty still there) and the booty division took place. No goodies but nice amount of 965389 pieces of eight which resulted into 34 shares of 22450 PoE per pirate (the rest for restocking).

Pigs and white-named pirates

Yet another unusual sight: a white-named pirate seemingly "busy" with some dock pig...
Now independent, the white-named pirate was in the Ocean Master (sided) crew Bake Off at that time.
Now you know that bots aren't the only characters using white names in the game.

A busy distillery

Busy yet (often) sleepy bees... Zzz zzz zzz...
Funny and uncommon sight... no less than 25 alternates (or alike) working (booching) at the same time!
Swill is fine but fine rum lasts longer LOL.

Disagreement...

The duty report was OK, everything could have been just fine... except for that weird:

Lodista lost!
Yer client seems to be having a disagreement with the server. Please reenter the puzzle and try again.

Let me tell you that I totally disagree with those absurd "disagreements"...

Missing league point

You're at a league point, nearly at the end of your inter-archipelago route: your vessel tab shows that you can hit "Sail"... yet there's no league point showing there...
February 24, 2009.

Outstanding invitations

Got booted from the server previously while attempting to trade... then, after reclienting it was impossible to trade anymore due to "outstanding invitations".
Dated screen shot (not a fresh one).

Brigand King encounters

Defeat - 2009 03 10 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 04 15 - - - Barnabas the Pale by Lefrancais

Victory - 2009 04 21 Will o' wisp Barnabas the Pale by Bnavking

Victory - 2009 04 21 Will o' wisp Barnabas the Pale by Bnavking

Victory - 2009 04 21 Ectoplasm Barnabas the Pale by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 21 - - - Azarbad the Great by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 21 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 22 - - - Barnabas the Pale by Bnavking

Victory - 2009 04 23 Will o' wisp Barnabas the Pale by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 24 - - - Azarbad the Great by Lodista

Defeat - 2009 04 24 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 24 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 04 25 - - - Vargas the Mad by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 04 25 - - - Barnabas the Pale by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 04 28 - - - The Widow Queen by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 05 02 - - - The Widow Queen by Bnavking

Victory - 2009 05 02 Silk handkerchief The Widow Queen by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 05 03 - - - The Widow Queen by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 05 03 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 05 03 - - - The Widow Queen by Lefrancais

Defeat - 2009 05 04 - - - The Widow Queen by Bnavking

Victory - 2009 05 04 Ivory toothpick Gretchen Goldfang by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 05 04 - - - The Widow Queen by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 05 04 - - - Gretchen Goldfang by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 05 05 - - - The Widow Queen by Bnavking

Defeat - 2009 05 06 - - - Barnabas the Pale by Masonsdad

Atlantis - Escape attempt

I was just a bit late for this screen shot, as the Light Triketos just achieved a double forward move that brought it to the middle of the safe zone (before it got pushed one space back). Also, moments earlier, the Heavy Triketos on the right was in the safe zone too, side to side with the other.

Looks like Spearhalk's predatory behavior triggers panic among the poor Triketos...

Cnossos dock

Just wait... you'll see!

I've heard of a guy who did the same... about 2000 years ago...

Battle navigation "trap"

I was monkey boat hunting, needed to grapple as fast as possible to avoid wasting time till the next attempt.

Don't worry, be lucky...

My first monkey boat hunt!

Beware! These guys have more battle navigation moves than Imperials...

Idle carpenter

Idle and busy at the same time?!? Several attempts to prove it can happen!

All is in the chat and the /who query...

How do you spell "pirate"?

Jobbing... what?

Some would say: you can't spell pirate without irate...

"Cursed Isles" sleepers

Cursed Isles are so annoying, LOL: better take a nap!

Just kidding: this was a bug, nobody was sleeping there; I just remember that we got screwed all along that trip... lag issues, strange things occurring...