While travelling the Pilgrim’s Path, the Magnificent Five share a campfire with an old Tymoran storyteller. They fall asleep during his tale, waking up transformed into squirrels aboard a pirate ship, the Faerie Queen, captained by the human, Dread John Swallow, who doesn’t seem to notice his ship is completely manned by a crew of squirrels.
The party finds that Capt. Swallow wants the Treasure of San Always-a-Different-Name, and they were hired to be the landing party. Arr. But First Mate, Blue Nut, tells them that No-Beard the Pirate is also on the island, having kidnapped the Princess Cashew.
Get the treasure. Save the princess. Avoid the mystical black fog containing the Piratical Dark Rat Hoard. Simple, right?
Add in a ship ghost, a competing pirate captain and his crew, skeletons, demon-summoning, squirrel sacrifice, illusions, and a short-sighted leopard named Mayaptec, and things quickly become complicated for our tiny, furred heroes.
The Tome of Adventures 