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I was tired and elated to finish a project I had started over a year ago. I may be small potatoes in the YouTube Silver Community yet I was dying for a cool Channel Bar. It was a year of aggressive saving, quietly enquiring various silver pourers, most of all wrestling with copyright issues on YouTube as I experimented with ways of negotiating or working around the restrictions of an AV segment I needed to use. Eventually, I was allowed not long prior to the rollout.
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My biggest influence on my choice was Laura Blade aka Coin Keeper, so I give a huge credit to her lead as the Giveaway Queen of the Silver Community. Blade has been absent from YouTube since Spring 2018 but she would be always remembered.
Halloween was my Target Date for the Roll out and with my long time subscribers already familiar of my Cinematic style of YouTube videos, it had to be Dramatic and Epic.
Audience Participation, Three were carefully chosen; 
Only then the YouTube Rollout can begin!
First was the Teaser trailer.....
Aye, and there be a tale to tell!
The Lost Treasure of The Storm Crow
In the summer of 2006 a pair of brilliant University History Students and talented Youtubers embarked on an archeological adventure to their ultimate video project: The Top 10 most obscure Pirate Legends. If their data was correct then their discovery would not only earn them their Doctorates but open up a new study of the South Pacific region’s economic and social history that never made it into the History books. The National Archeological and Anthropological Society were taking a keen interest in this expedition and eagerly awaited for the results.
On their target Island in Late June, the two young men checked their notes from their painstakingly collected data of star telemetry, last known navigational coordinates, poorly scribbled notes of oral history and tradition, and best determined place for moorage and locations of the oldest Island inhabitant structures. Their hopes were buoyed as a coin dating back to 1820 was found by metal detector fitting the plundering of a Secret Ship named ‘El Condora” a powerful warship denied to exist by the Spanish government even to this day.
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In mid-July, their target area was an idyllic reef protected harbor where they planned their next investigative effort in locating the remains of a Privateer vessel named the “Storm Crow”. A week into the unproductive investigation the area was struck by an unexpected typhoon that overturned the local geography into a disaster area. Upon their return they found palms uprooted and broken, entire dunes shifted, with their camp and archeological markers totally obliterated. The project was good as done. Disappointed the older of the two young men randomly probed the littered ground with his metal detector. And to his surprise his metal detector buzzed loudly yielding a shiny object laying just barely below the surface.
His excited colleague rushed over with his video camera as the Detector struck positive signals all over the area. They took a few quick measurements and logged their GPS coordinates and carefully noted the remaining surrounding geographical features. Then they dug, every signal yielded a silver object, the bucket was quickly filing with what appeared to be a treasure type consistent to only one particular obscure Privateer and Pirate that lived 184 years ago, The Bloody Raven.
According to one hand scribbled document The Bloody Raven collected cursed Treasure and that she had an unnaturally long life span. Oral tradition supplemented, by other scant memoirs also warn of a curse that she would return from the dead if her treasure comes into the hands of mere mortals with ill intent.
By the end of July the video footage was cleaned up, edited, and uploaded onto their YouTube Channel to the accolades of the public and The National Archeological and Anthropological Society. Funding, awards, and scholarships flooded into their research accounts in anticipation of more results. Eight hundred nautical miles away the Governor of Hawaii offered the young lads rich scholarships, permanent positions at the university and a facility to continue their research and for their Treasure finds to be publicly displayed.
Now, months later, tragedy befall the young lads as they were found murdered in their luxurious Hawaiian homes. The Silver Artifacts were gone leaving the other valuable objects including gold and silver coins behind. Investigators followed the trail of the murderers only ending at the airport as an unmarked plane lifting off westward to an unknown Asian destination.
The families of the slain lads demanded the Police to continue the pursuit and investigations but for reasons unknown the effort was quashed by orders from someone much higher up in the government. Claiming the investigative trail was lost in a “Clerical error.” The News service was ordered to cease reporting the incident, the Museum and faculty closed, and their YouTube channel taken down and deleted. Why?
And here the tale continues….
The Lost treasure of the Storm Crow Part One
Ninja Star Bullion Giveaway (closed) - Lost Treasure of the Storm Crow Part two (Warning Mature)
The Ninja Star Giveaway Result - Lost treasure of the Storm Crow epilogue
Tamed Version of Part Two Video This was made in the event negotiations fail for fair usage. Part Two's AV track as there was still no granted permission at the time.
There was an Update Video
It was an exhilarating rollout!
Even though being a mere Steem plankton by Reputation, so like the big boys, I decided to put one of these babies into the #MonsterRafflethree as a chance for a fellow #steemsilvergold Steemian to get this Unique 1 oz fine silver Shuriken Bar, Number 16 of 18 Bars.
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There you have it, I'm sneaking out of my comfort zone as a tiny Steemit plankton and do it for the community like the bigger fish.
“Et lux in tenebris to serve laboro, sum sicarius” “I work in the shadows to serve the Light, I am an Assassin”