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Take on the life of a buccaneer in the golden age of Caribbean Piracy! This game lets you choose from 6 different "ages" (for example, "The Silver Empire" from 1560-1600, "War For Profit" from 1640-1660, etc.), one of 4 nationalities (English, French, Dutch, Spanish), 4 difficulty levels, and one of 5 special abilities (skill at fencing, skill at navigation, etc.). Nine different types of ships were represented.

The goal of the game is to retire with as much gold and land as possible, as many ranks/titles as possible (Colonel, Admiral, Marquis, Duke), and a wife. Finding long lost relatives helps too. You accomplish these goals by plundering cities, capturing and sinking enemy ships, getting in good with governors to receive titles, learn news of "evil Spaniards" holding your relatives, capturing evil pirates, etc.

The game is educational, as you will learn about piracy through the thoroughly researched manual. You'll smell the sea salt as you participate in wild sword fights, desperate sea battles, and daring attacks by land.

After the sensational success of H.M.S. Pinafore, many American performing companies presented unauthorized versions of that opera. Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte decided to prevent that from happening again by presenting official versions of their next opera, The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty simultaneously in England and America. The opera premiered on December 31, 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York with Sullivan conducting, but a single performance had been given on the previous day at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, England, to secure the British copyright. Finally, the opera opened on April 3, 1880, at the Opra Comique in London, where it ran for 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.

On December 10, 1879, Sullivan had written a letter to his mother about the new opera, upon which he was hard at work in New York. "I think it will be a great success, for it is exquisitely funny, and the music is strikingly tuneful and catching." True enough! The Pirates of Penzance was an immediate hit and takes its place today as one of the most popular and enduring works of musical theatre.

In The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. By the end of the opera, the pirates, a Major General who knows nothing of military strategy, his large family of beautiful but unwed daugters, and the timid constabulary all contribute to a cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name.

1. Prologue2. Awakening at Sea3. Explanations and Predicaments4. Logue Town5. Departure6. The Whale Laboon7. Departing for Whisky Peak8. Whiskey Peak9. The Pirates and the Princess10. Arriving at Little Garden11. Exploring Little Garden12. Battles in Little Garden13. Leaving Little Garden14. The Sick Medic15. The Sick Medic: Attack at Sea16. The country without doctors17. The witch and the reindeer18. The King of Drum Kingdom19. Farewell in Pink Snow20. Midnight Drinks and Talks21. Arriving in Alabasta22. Surprising Encounters23. What is Dance Powder?24. Desert Travels are Tough with Friends25. Chapter 25: To Raindinners26. Encounter with the Warlord

Sakura just wanted this war to end, for her teammates to be able to smile together again. Instead, she wakes up in another dimension, loses her ability to swim, and becomes shrouded in more mystery than she cared for. Now she aims to travel the Grand Line, with the oddest crew mates and their eccentric straw-hat captain, in hopes of uncovering answers. But there are forces that conspire at every turn.
Will the kunoichi be able to handle the life of a pirate?

In war, there is no way to be fully prepared, and while what happens revolves around a myriad of factors, each individual will play an instrumental part in their own salvation. At the same time, they had to operate as a united front to face their enemy, which was the best chance to win the war, even if it meant losing a few battles in the process. Sakura understood that as a shinobi she was going to have to play her part and pay her toll.

Already their numbers had been outmatched by the enemy and in terms of power, they were under the meter. The biggest blow was having to face their comrades that had passed, it became a matter not only of strength but of the heart. Bringing back the dead shouldn't have been possible, but It didn't settle there either, separate divisions had to gather whatever forces were left and join hands in what was meant to be the final battlefield.

A woman of white, with a presence that swallowed you and the true end goal of this war. Her power was beyond anything any mortal could imagine, to drain chakra from others, and take whom she decided to different dimensions against their will.

After years, Sakura, Naruto, Kakashi, and Sasuke were united as a team, but of course, it had to be under such dire circumstances where the desires and goals of the individual were a thread in comparison to the tapestry that was about to be burned away by this monstrous being.

Though there were small contributions, the only ones who had the strength and the means to stand against Kaguya were Sasuke and Naruto. Only they would be able to seal away this woman once and for all and keep the world from falling into her grasp. But it was not easy against this power, despite their best efforts and skills, this was not a battle that whit and ability could win alone.

It seemed that patients were limited. Sasuke and Naruto just needed an opening to bring the seal onto her, then she would be powerless. Though the objective was clear, the obstacles were a great hurdle to overcome.

Several dimensions had been jumped through, Sasuke and Naruto were deliberately separated and once they were brought together, Kaguya attempted to change tactics, wanting to kill the incarnates, but was prevented, saved by Obito in exchange for his own life.

By now they knew that this was the power of opening windows into another dimension and how she was able to travel through to those different places. This time however she only made the entrance big enough for her hand to go through and everyone was on alert, waiting to see if she was going to perhaps attack them from that distance by opening another window near one of them.

Sasuke and Naruto were the only ones who truly understood the origins of Kaguya and they knew what happened the last time she had taken a bite from a fruit. The power she had gained from this and the lives that were lost, thousands, no millions, sacrificed to the tree that bore it. The results had been a catastrophic event swept away into history. And they couldn't leave any room to allow this to repeat.

As he held the power of all jinchuriki for the moment, Naruto used his clones to unleash a barrage of super-tailed-beast rasenshuriken. The force was enough for whatever Kaguya had been holding to drop on the ground near the pink-haired Kunoichi.

There was warmth from it, like holding a heartbeat in the palm of her hands, it sunk into her skin, through her flesh, through her blood and bones. There was a pulse that synced to her own. Through this chaos an overwhelming sense of calm wrapped around her like a blanket.

The sensation made her blind and deaf to the world around her, she forgot about the situation at hand, the battle, the war, her comrades fighting, and the enemy threatening to destroy not only her but the entire world. It was a dangerous position to be in as the wound and attack Naruto inflicted on Kaguya began to fester something fierce. A clump-like dough that stretched out and grew to an overwhelming size, harboring the contorted faces of the tailed beasts all welded together in that form.

It was starting to grow limbs and hands, reaching out at everything around it, a vast number of them, not just two, extending, one touched a clone of Naruto's. The clone was brought into its palm and absorbed.

There was a hand hovering towards Sakura, reaching at a great speed that even took Naruto and Sasuke by surprise. Yet she remained oblivious to the obvious danger as she stared at the fruit like it was the embodiment of her every dream and desire. As if a soundless voice was calling to her, bringing her hands towards her face, slowly parting her lips.

She stretched her mouth wide, as the hand's shadow loomed over her, its presence mere inches from engulfing her, yet Sakura continued to bite into the fruit taking as large a chunk as she could, and then without so much as a breath or thought for what this could do. She swallowed.

All that was remembered was the bitter taste, like wax and ash on her tongue, as her friend's voices faded completely, her vision blurred, her lungs refusing to take in air as she forgot to give it instruction and the last thing she felt was her body being wrapped tightly, like silk ribbons wounding around, soft and constricting.

In dreams, the sensation of floating and falling was just as strong as it would be in reality yet it was meant to be the safe space for the mind to wander. Sakura did not feel that way. Through a vision filled with fog, she tried to realize the sensation of being in the center of a storm. Yet she couldn't feel the rain pelting against her skin, or the wind cutting through her, nor fear as she saw herself hovering above a dark raging ocean, that promised nothing but unknown fates.