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I've been working on some ideas and designs for the Pirate RP/game theme, because I think it'd be a fun theme to explore.
My idea for the premise is that recently in town a pirate themed card game in the vein of something like Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic the Gathering becomes really popular, as well as a tie in cartoon series really hyping up pirates for the kids who start dressing up and playing as pirates as well as playing the actual card game.
There is this one 6th grade kid named Jonesy Davis, who is infamous for having the most broken deck possible with some of the rarest cards ever printed. The kid spent all his allowance on cards, and when he ran out of that he stole his parent's credit card. Turns out his parents don't like that much, and when they decided to move out of town they forced him to get rid of all his cards and banned him from playing it anymore. After this a rumor spread that he hid his collection of super rare cards somewhere in town, which lead to a big treasure hunt for the cards, with different kids forming "crews" dedicated to finding this hidden treasure and feuding with rival crews. Basically one big buried treasure adventure but through the lens of kids being obsessed with some latest fad.
In the pic you can see Mandy holding what I imagine the cards looking like, they have this gold pirate coin design on the back which really sells the fact that they represent treasure for the kids.