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First Impressions
The excitement continues through the night as the Pirates enjoy some rum and get to know each other on the ship's deck. Louie is impressed when he meets his fellow shipmate, Christian, a former NFL Running Back from the Kansas City Chiefs. Another Pirate, Deputy District Attorney Cheryl, gives off an intimidating first impression to her fellow female crewmembers and John, a scientist/exotic dancer, quickly gets under the skin of Joy, a receptionist, who warns John, "Make sure you sleep far, far on the other side." John continues to annoy Joy and the rest of the crew with his hushed voice, intense demeanor, and his constant invasion of personal space.
At dawn, the crew sets sail for the island of Dominica, where they will open the first compartment of the chest. However, the choppy waters don't sit well with Joy. She is the first Pirate in the crew to experience sea sickness and her fellow crewmembers watch as she vomits over the side of the ship.
The Crocodile's Lair
The ship drops anchor just off the shore of Dominica. Cameron unlocks the first compartment on the Chest of Zanzibar and pulls out two maps and two compasses. It is now time for the crew to split into two teams. Picking shot from bags, the pirates split into a Red Crew and a Black Crew. The first crew to use their map and their compass to discover the treasure will get to keep all the gold to themselves.
For their first Expedition, the Pirates must paddle up the mouth of the Indian River and make a left at a fork to find Dead Man's Tree. Then heading east on foot, they'll have to find three buried keys that will unlock and lower a skeleton's cage that holds their next map.
As the Expedition begins, the Red Crew immediately runs into trouble when they don't use their boat rudder properly and find themselves off course. The Black Crew uses this opportunity to forge ahead. Once the Black Crew reaches land though, Ben faces a setback when he gets stuck in mud and can't find his shoe. As he and some of his fellow crewmembers search through the mud, the Red Crew starts to catch up. Eventually, Ben recovers his shoe and the Expedition continues. The Black Crew unearths the three buried keys, but they have trouble using them to pry open the lock on the skeleton's cage. Luckily, John, the black sheep of the Black Crew, figures out how the keys work, unlocks the cage and retrieves the next map.
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