Happy holidays!!!! We will be suspending the contest until after the holidays, any entries will be judged and awarded on Jan 5th. We hope everyone is ready to enjoy the holidays and that you have some great times with family and friends, we are enjoying christmas in the country and here are a few pics of the season:
Now a shout out to all the #SSG members that contribute and keep the pirate life going so please check out the #piratesunday and find some great posts https://steemit.com/trending/piratesunday
as always a tip of our hat to our Captain of #piratesunday 
The basis of the contest:
As a smithin' god, Hephaestus made all the weapons for the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith to the gods, and was worshipped by the manufacturing industrial centers of Greece.
The Greek myths and the Homeric poems sanctified in tales that Hephaestus had a special power to produce motion in his metal.
It is said that Hephaestus could not destroy what he created and in order So that no one would possess them he buried them in spots around the world. This Skull be believed to be part of that legend. Now that Captain K has acquired this Copper Skull, he must begin a new journey o' learn the powers bestowed upon it by Hephaestus
Here is the Treasure that Captain K has found
The Lost Copper skull of Hephaestus:
The Contest:
Captain K needs your Help! We are offering a reward to who can tell us the tale of Hephaestus and this copper skull!
The Winner will get the payout from this post and 1 SBD sponsorship to 
To learn more about this social experiment to provide every steemian with basic income
https://steemit.com/@steembasicincome
CONTEST RULES:
To win the booty -you must create a steemit post with your version of a fictional story of the it
The adventures of Captain K!
You must put a link to this contest in your post and Paste a link of your post in the comments of this post to be entered. All entries will be judged by Captain K, 
The Winner will get 1 SBD sponsorship to
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To learn more about this social experiment to provide every steemian with basic income
#Steembasicincome
As always We are very excited to present this weeks entries for your reading pleasure!
Before we begin the contest we would like to challenge anyone with a great reading voice to make a recording or video of one of the stories being read aloud! These are too good to keep to ourselves and would love to share them with a larger audience. So submit your recording and you will also get a share of
There are no entries this weeks
so The winner will receive double the prize next week
We will send the double the prize
The stories grow with each week Captain K and his crew still have so many adventures ahead, We can’t wait to see what is next!!
The Tales of Captain K and the epic adventures keep growing as we learn more about his life his crew, these stories and the travels are leaving us wanting more each week!!
Here is a link to the previous entries we have received: https://steemit.com/piratesunday/@kerrislravenhill/chart-of-the-moon-goddess-part-six-room-for-one-dragon-and-a-princessesteem://piratesunday/@handofzara/curse-of-the-copper-skull-dixiesilverminer-the-final-chapter
https://steemit.com/piratesunday/@handofzara/chapter-46-frisco
For a look at the pour at the pour of this awesome skull
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvEMfRs_09tmk6LGj9qHQw?view_as=subscriber
Here are a few of the characters and locations so far:
