The Legend of Ambrosia Blackbird

It was early Autumn of 1722, when, caught in a storm off the western coast of Hispaniola, and with scouts of the Royal Navy on the horizon, the dread Viking pirate Ambrosia Blackbird turned her sights north towards the waters of the Messepi (the father of waters).

She had heard stories as a child of a band of Viking raiders who, having made it to the headwaters of the Messepi, retreated to prairies to the south.  They hauled with them hoards of riches.  They were never heard from again, though over time traces of their journey have emerged etched in runestones, and passed down through oral tradition, all eluding to a stash of treasure where the fields are rich.

With chests of bounty requisitioned from all corners of the Caribbean already in hand, and harassment by the the crown intensifying, the notion of pulling back to less chartered realms and seeking the lost Viking riches was an attractive proposition.

As the days shortened Ambrosia and her crew of loyal pirate skaliwags made their way north until a great rapids blocked their way.  Mooring their ship near a large boulder at the outlet of a small tributary on the western bank of the river a few miles south of the rapids, the band of pirates made their way west past a spectacular waterfall and into a vast prairie, all along carrying their Caribbean hoard with them.  Throughout this journey, she maintained a detailed journal, the whereabouts of which remained unknown for generations.  

In April of 2022 a caretaker at the Swedish Institute in Minneapolis opened a trunk in the attic and found the journal.  It’s last entry was “October 31, 1722 - Rich fields indeed!”

It is rumored that the dread pirate Ambrosia Blackbird was reincarnated precisely 250 years from the day of that last entry, and for fifty years has sought to reclaim her treasure where the fields are rich - now rejoined by her skeleton crew and wenches “two”.

Will she find it, or will you, with abundant clues claim the treasure first…?

Your first clue is a lagoon of blue, when you find it say “I love you.”