Dead Men Tell No Tales

Place the four Starting Tiles (marked with ?s) and the Explosion Tracker on the table. Place the Explosion Marker near the left side of the Explosion Track.

For each of the four rooms on the Starting Tile, roll one Fire Die that matches the color of the square in the middle of that room and place it on that colored square. If you roll a 6, re-roll.
HOUSE RULE: Instead of rolling, start all dice at 1.

Place one Deckhand in the room with the Trapdoor Icon.

Place nearby:

• the rest of the Fire Dice
• Bag of Deckhands
• Bag of Enemy, Treasure, and Trapdoor tokens
• the Dinghy Card
• Exploded Barrel tokens
• Cannons
• Cannon Die
• Battle Die

Shuffle the Skelit's Revenge cards into face-down stack.

Shuffle room tiles into face-down stack. Count down # players * 2 and rotate them 45 degrees so they stand out.

Choose difficulty:

• Scurvy Dog: Loot 4 treasures
• Buccaneer: Loot 5 treasures
• Admiral: Loot 6 treasures

Place Item Cards face up within view of all players

Choose 2-5 Pirates

For each Pirate, take:

• Player Board (set Fatigue to 0)
• Pirate Character Card
• Pirate Miniature
• Any Item Card
• Matching Battle Token (Place on 0 space of Battle Track)
• Stack of 6 Action Tokens (7 for Lydia Lamore)

Place Pirate figures on boats by entrance to Skelit's Revenge.

Shuffle Adrenaline Tokens face-down in a pile.

Place Kraken board nearby. (Strength token on 8; Health token on 4)

Set Kraken figure and tentacles near Kraken board.

Shuffle Kraken cards and place near Skelit's Revenge deck.