It's a Pirate Party!

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Mid South con is coming around.
I have a novel coming out at the same time.
This can mean only one thing:

LAUNCH PARTY!!!



So, a pirate party for grown-ups is different than a pirate party for 9 year olds.
And not just because we can have rum.
(the grown-ups are much less willing to play "Keelhaul the Captain" which is just "Red Light Green Light" with a pirate hat on the light)

So I'm thinking as follows:

Invites:
Hall fliers that look like treasure maps
Gold pieces with the room number on them, passed out by costumed minions

Music: burn pirate songs to CD

Decor:
Collins’s pirate flag in a visible place--Crossed red swords on a black field
netting
beads and coins and chests
Skewered skeleton atop chest (how about a cave made of cardboard boxes, with chest and skeleton within its mouth?)
inflatable palm tree

Food: (still taking suggestions)
Cannonballs-chocolate cake with nutella and chocolate jimmies
Hershey’s nuggets
Sweet potato bread
Popcorn, goldfish, Swedish fish and gummy worms ="fish bait."
Veggie Palm Trees
seagull and barnacle puffs

Drink: (open to suggestions here
Rum
Rum punch
Pot O Gold punch (OJ, pineapple juice, gingerale, float rainbow sherbet on it)

Activities: pimping Kestrel, Door prize drawing, Pirate movies on TV/Computer (Both PotCs, Captain Blood)