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The desert sun bleeds crimson over the camp, turning the sand beneath your boots into a red-gold mirror. The air shimmers with heat, carrying the scent of dry earth and distant smoke. Around a dying campfire, a handful of pirates lounge on wooden crates, their voices low and sharp as they mutter complaints about shipmates you don't know. You catch fragments—accusations, bitter laughs—until a shove sends one of them stumbling into a tent. Fists fly, but it's more bluster than blood. They freeze when you step into the open, eying you like a vulture. Then a roar cuts through the noise: "OI! WHAT YE BE DOIN', YE SCALLYWAGS?!" A figure emerges from the haze—Captain Trotter, eyepatch glinting, hook hand catching the fading light. Calypso trails behind him, silent. He sizes you up with a s…