Speaker 1: Campers, campers, suitt down, sut down, Let's find our seats.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 1: I hope you all had a RESTful night.
Speaker 2: Eh.
Speaker 1: Let's hope today we have a little less excitement than
Speaker 1: our first diving crew.
Speaker 3: Maybe our captain needs some voting lessons, you're telling.
Speaker 1: Me today we have a very special group project planned
Speaker 1: to explore the rich history of the coastal oasis. You
Speaker 1: will be dividing the teams of three to four in
Speaker 1: tasks with completing a scavenger hunt to uncover signs of
Speaker 1: the past scattered around the camp, and the team who
Speaker 1: can find the most relevant and exciting artifact will be
Speaker 1: given a very special surprise award from mister Thatcher himself.
Speaker 3: Yes, Jack, So how do we know if these so
Speaker 3: called artifacts are relevant?
Speaker 1: Let's just say you're looking for anything unnatural or anything
Speaker 1: that catches your eye. I trust you'll know.
Speaker 4: If you see it.
Speaker 1: Okay, now everyone needs to find their teams and I'll
Speaker 1: get your packets handed out. You'll have until three pm
Speaker 1: to complete the hunt. May the best team win.
Speaker 3: Sounds like fun if we actually knew what he's looking for.
Speaker 3: Avery Morgan with your team, I'm in totally.
Speaker 2: This is a perfect excuse to get a better look
Speaker 2: around this place. The shore, the woods, the old buildings.
Speaker 2: There's so much I've been wanting to see.
Speaker 3: So you too have any idea what exactly we're looking for?
Speaker 5: Avery?
Speaker 3: What's on that packet anyways?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it says ancient rocks with ancient wonders. Whatever that means.
Speaker 2: Seems like you made up a bunch of stuff just
Speaker 2: to have something written down for us. I don't even
Speaker 2: care about what this says, though. You need some going
Speaker 2: to clue us in as to why that you care
Speaker 2: so much about black beer.
Speaker 6: So you're looking for your own treasure. I guess you
Speaker 6: could say that seems like looking for a needle in
Speaker 6: a haystack if you ask me.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, come check this out.
Speaker 2: Holy holy, what is that? Holy? Barnacles?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 2: Barnacles? Those little shellish bumpy things, crustaceans, never mind, just
Speaker 2: those things lining this entire mini cave.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not quite what I was looking at,
Speaker 3: although those are kind of cool. Take a look in
Speaker 3: that dark corner.
Speaker 2: See it is that a chest?
Speaker 5: Whoa quick, Avery, let's jump down there and grab it. Morgan.
Speaker 5: You can keep a look out.
Speaker 6: What if there's a spider crab or something.
Speaker 2: Morgan, aren't you the brave one?
Speaker 6: Not if there's a spider, we've got this. Come on, Avery, here,
Speaker 6: hand in your Morgan Rob the other side. What is
Speaker 6: this thing?
Speaker 2: It's our needle in a haystack. Here, hold the sides.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna grab a rock to try and knock these
Speaker 2: barnacles off. Maybe we can try and cry it open.
Speaker 1: Hum.
Speaker 3: That's interesting. The treasure Wait, look it's it's a compass.
Speaker 3: And look at that symbol. It looks just like my
Speaker 3: swim team logo.
Speaker 2: I was hoping we'd find some kind of helpful landmark,
Speaker 2: maybe some old excavation evidence, if anything, but a treasure
Speaker 2: test with a compass. What are the odds? The compass
Speaker 2: is like nothing I've ever seen. It looks ancient. It
Speaker 2: has nautical symbols on front and back. I'm guessing these
Speaker 2: are those swim team logos Jack mentioned, and barely noticeable
Speaker 2: on the bottom edge there's the old engraved initials E. T.
Speaker 6: Wait, you're on a swim team.
Speaker 3: Too since third grade. You're looking at the front stroke
Speaker 3: champion right here.
Speaker 6: Jack, Avery and I are both on teams too.
Speaker 5: Oh man, that's totally awesome.
Speaker 6: So cool, Jack, Come on, don't you think?
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's a little strange that we all
Speaker 2: come from highly competitive swim backgrounds now here we are
Speaker 2: at this camp and we just so happened to be
Speaker 2: chosen time and time again for scuba points.
Speaker 6: It's like they're using us or something.
Speaker 3: Hmm, So what exactly do we do? How can we
Speaker 3: even I prove this theory?
Speaker 2: Let me see that compass again. See these initials E T.
Speaker 2: They have to stand for something extra terrestrial.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, Come on, Jack, think well, what if
Speaker 6: E is some kind of cover name for Blackbeard?
Speaker 4: Did we just find Blackbeard's compass?
Speaker 2: That would definitely explain why it's so old and why
Speaker 2: it was hidden away in that cave.
Speaker 6: And if this compass belonged to Blackbeard, then maybe, just
Speaker 6: maybe it's pointing us towards something important.
Speaker 3: So are we saying we stumbled upon Blackbeard's compass and
Speaker 3: now it's pointing towards his hidden treasure.
Speaker 2: It's sure is starting to see him that way. But
Speaker 2: this would explain the camp, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6: And would explain Thatch, that's for sure. But all of
Speaker 6: this is just a guessing game. Maybe there's a connection
Speaker 6: we just haven't figured out yet, like the book the
Speaker 6: story is about Blackbeard or that excavation guy. We just
Speaker 6: don't have anything concrete.
Speaker 2: You're right, we have to figure out more about that
Speaker 2: old book. Guys. Tonight, we need to spread out. I
Speaker 2: think I have a plan, so just follow my lead.
Speaker 2: Just get as close as you can to Thatch without
Speaker 2: being suspicious.
Speaker 5: I captain.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, don't worry, I got it. Eyes on the book,
Speaker 3: Eyes on the book.
Speaker 2: Hello, Jim, anyone there, Hi there, Jim, It's Jim.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, what why are you here? Aren't you like
Speaker 4: supposed to be at the bonfire down there?
Speaker 2: Yes, but I was hoping you could help me with
Speaker 2: something with that.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no no no. I'm I'm just the
Speaker 4: maintenance gy. Like I'm mow, I clean fix stuff. I
Speaker 4: just do what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 2: You know, Listen, I need to get to the bottom
Speaker 2: of something. I really need your help.
Speaker 4: They'll kick you out if you start snooping around too
Speaker 4: much like that. Is A is a private guy. You
Speaker 4: shouldn't mess around stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That's a risk I'm willing to take. Listen, I just
Speaker 2: need you to distract that from me. I don't care
Speaker 2: how flood, the bathrooms spill, the fire alarm in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: I just neede five minutes, and I promise I'll leave
Speaker 2: you alone.
Speaker 4: Fine, five minutes, awesome.
Speaker 2: Give me a head start before you call him, and
Speaker 2: we should be golden.
Speaker 4: Okay, But wait, Avery, just give me.
Speaker 2: A little head start.
Speaker 4: What did I just do?
Speaker 5: In a legendary battle that shook the very foundations of
Speaker 5: the ocean, Blackbeard and his crew confronted Roberts and his men.
Speaker 5: Cannon Balls thundered across the waves, Swords clashed in a
Speaker 5: symphony of steel, and the very heavens themselves seem to
Speaker 5: weep for the fallen.
Speaker 2: Morgan. Yeah, anything, not yet, then I have a plan.
Speaker 2: Just stay where you are until he steps away. He's
Speaker 2: still reading, though. Just wait and you'll see. As soon
Speaker 2: as Jim ran down the stairs, I knew the plan
Speaker 2: was going to work. That ran up the hill to
Speaker 2: the boy's flooding showers, and I jumped on the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Morgan caught the clue to distract the rest of the campers,
Speaker 2: and she started telling crazy stories about a food fight
Speaker 2: that broke out at her school last year. I grabbed
Speaker 2: the book and opened it up to the first page.
Speaker 2: It set for Elizabeth Thatch, my beloved daughter. May this
Speaker 2: lead you to the truth, father Blackbeard. This is when
Speaker 2: I started to piece together the entire story.