From now until 3 PM PST on Tuesday, January 31st, every purchase of $9.95 or more will earn you a free Ice Box! Featuring the seasonal color Ice Blue, the Ice Box has a wide array of awesome prizes inside: Ice Blue Penguins, Ice Blue War Brigs and Sloops, Ice Blue Chromas, and even Ice Blue/White Parrots!

Be the coolest rogue on the island by sinking your hook into an Ice Box right now! For a full list of available prizes and other more detailed info, the official rules can be found here.

Good luck, everyone!

"Charavie's Dragon Celebration" background, now available!

This week on Portrait Day: a festive array of backgrounds perfect for Chinese New Year! The full list is as follows...

• Cayenne's New Year's Festivity Garden
• Charavie's Dragon Celebration
• Charavie's Crocodragon Party
• Greylady's Chinese New Year
• Inghild's Year of the Dragon
• Velternal's Dragon Dance At Dusk

There's a new background for every size group, so round up your hearties and head over to your nearest portrait easel today! These backgrounds will only be around until Wednesday, February 1st at 3 PM PST, so don't dawdle: start your New Year celebrations now!

One final programming note: this is the last Portrait Day! From now on, new player-created backgrounds will be released alongside other seasonal stuff, like Limited Edition ships or other goodies. Thanks for following Portrait Day, and keep your eyes on the blog and the Pirate News for future portrait background info!

Happy Portrait Day, everyone!

January's Limited Edition ship is sure to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies this year: it's the Dragon Class Fanchuan!

Here's the ship's quarterdeck. Note the deep scale-green hue of the deck planks, and the tail extending out the back! Of course, if the ship has a tail attached to the stern, it only makes sense that...

...there be a fearsome dragon head on the bow! No one would dare mess with a ship with such a ferocious figurehead.

There's plenty of other surprises throughout the ship, as well. Check out these opulent jade dragon statues in the hold!

The Dragon Class Fanchuan is only available until 3 PM PST on Wednesday, February 1st. Grab yours and roar across the seas in glorious draconic majesty!