The first DLC of the game, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty, begins with the Vault Hunters arriving to the town of Oasis, under siege by a group of pirates. You're contacted by Shade, one of the residents, who requests your help in cleaning up the town from No-Beard's pirates. Once the deed is done, you turn the mission to Shade.
The second mission, "My Life for a Sandskiff", requires you to meet the titular Captain Scarlett. However, before doing so, you need to create your own Sandskiff, your main way to travel through the areas of the DLC. In order to do so, you need to collect the parts scattered across the town of Oasis.
During the entirety of these missions, you can't help but wonder something's really off. Don't think about that. Much.
These missions take place in the level Oasis, which also hosts the side missions "Fire Water", "Message in a Bottle" (Oasis), "Giving Jocko a Leg Up", "Wingman", "Burying The Past" and "Man's Best Friend", as well as the Badass Challenges "I Ain't Afraid of Heights", "Cult of the Vault" and "Horrid's Hideaway".
These missions, the related sidequests and challenges, and the Oasis level, provide examples of:
- Captain Colorbeard: The first named pirate is a lieutenant of Sandman's gang called No-Beard.
- Collection Sidequest: "My Life for a Sandskiff" requires you to collect five Sandskiff parts in order to digistruct Sandskiffs.
- Emotionless Girl: Aubrey Callahan III is a perpetually bored and sarcastic-sounding young woman who has some sidequests posted to the Oasis Bounty Board for you.
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- "I Ain't Afraid of Heights" requires you to travel the ceilings of Oasis in order to find two Dahl chests.
- Shade looks like a cool guy, however he has a creepy aura around him.
- Message in a Bottle: The eponymous quest require you to find a bottle with a map that contains the location of a hidden chest.
- Permanently Missable Content: You only get one shot at getting the Stinkpot, a corrosive Jakobs assault rifle, from No-Beard, as he doesn't respawn once Oasis is cleansed out.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Shade repeatedly assures you that the people of Oasis are completely alive, and that none of them have died of thirst.
