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Meet Gaius James Rover, a dachshund who aspires to follow his late father's footsteps as a circus clown. He accidentally creates a popular blend of rum that he names, in honor of his father, "Jolly Rover". When sailing with a shipment of Jolly Rover to Governor DeSilver of Groggy Island, James is captured by bulldog pirate Captain Howell. James reports the incident to Governor DeSilver, but is shocked to see Howell entering the Governor's office, delivering the very shipment of Jolly Rover that he stole from James! DeSilver rewards Howell, but takes James to task for failing to honor his contract -- not only has DeSilver refused to take his case, he now owes DeSilver money!

* [[Cannibal Clan]]: {{spoiler|Averted. "Cannibal Island" is actually the home of a band of lady pirates who use the name and some artful masks to keep people - especially men - from finding their camp.}}

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: crazy recluse Ron Copper explains the prevalence of voodoo in pirate games:

* [[Collection Sidequest]] -- three: crackers (for unlocking concept art); pieces of eight (for unlocking music), and flags (for unlocking pirate biographies). These items can be [[Lost Forever]], lots of [[Back Tracking]] is sometimes required, and in at least one case can only be discovered in a rather counter-intuitive manner.

* [[Companion Cube]]: Beatrice, the portrait in the ship's hold (who looks uncannily like Clara in a dress). After three weeks down there, James has taken to discussing escape plans with her.

* [[Concept Art Gallery]]: unlocked by collecting crackers.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Ron Copper, fearing that someone will take his life, has mounted several cannons in front of his shack.

* [[Dog Stereotype]]: James Rover is a fun-loving Dachshund. Howell and his cronies are Bulldogs. Governor DeSilver and his [[The Ace|overachieving]] brother are Great Danes. An enthusiastic Pug is the barkeep. Cooks, being French, are poodles of lard. The lady pirates are either elegant sheepdogs or spaniels, but have a Rottweiler bitch as dumb door guard.

* [[Expy]]: Rover is too close in character to [[Monkey Island|Guybrush Threepwood]] for comfort: he is apt to pestering people with pleas, for example.

** An [[Bragging Rights Reward|achievement]]-like system of "medals". These are ''actual'' Achievements in the Steam version.

** The game cannot be saved manually, but saves itself automatically every time you leave a scene, overwriting the previous save. This ensures that stuff lost are really [[Lost Forever]] -- a bane to 100% completists.

* [[Funny Animal]]

* [[Ghost Pirate]]: {{spoiler|Captain Silvereye.}}

* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: so simple that even pirates can use it.

* [[Lost Forever]]: Any collectibles left behind when you move onto a new area, but even more annoyingly, a Piece of Eight [[Guide Dang It|can only be acquired by following one specific, non-obvious strand of non-repeating dialogue.]]

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: {{spoiler|1=James Rover inadvertently leading DeSilver to the pirate booty, and to Clara.}}

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