The best walking city on the continent — and the pirate who saved it, then vanished with the proof.
In January 1815, a smuggler bought his pardon with cannon smoke.
Jean Lafitte and his Baratarians turned down a British bribe, tipped off the Americans, and helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. Then Lafitte took his pardon, slipped into the Gulf — and his "share" was never accounted for.
You'll be handed sealed envelopes, one at a time, and sent out on foot through the Quarter as his crew — moving the contraband, making the marks, hunting the share before the authorities close the streets.
Tonight, fact, legend and memory are three different things. Guard which one you trust.
One Quarter. Three ways in.
The Pursuit comes to New Orleans in three editions — all self-guided, entirely on foot through the Vieux Carré, roughly two to three hours. The Pirate's Share is built and ready; two more are in the works.
Move the contraband. Find the share.
You are Lafitte's crew, and every one of you is holding a secret deal. From the dark forge on Bourbon Street to Jackson Square, the French Market and the levee, you move the goods and read the signs the privateers left behind — racing to find the share before the law closes the Quarter at your back. Was there ever any treasure? Or was the pardon itself the fortune?
What's ritual, what's rumour, what's murder.
Follow Marie Laveau and the voodoo trade through the Quarter to the brick ovens of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and the city's most notorious haunted houses. A mystery trail of belief and dread where the players split into believers and skeptics — and the truth is harder to find than the ghost story. Phones-down and sealed envelopes fit it beautifully.
Follow the music from Congo Square to the speakeasy.
The birth of jazz, the vanished red-light district of Storyville, and the Prohibition speakeasies that kept the city playing. A lighter, musical, party-forward edition that follows the sound through the Quarter — bootleggers and bandleaders, the brass never far away. Built for celebrations.
Whichever story you pick, the shape is the same: a trail that unfolds in your hands as you walk — phones-down on sealed envelopes, or live on the app — and a reckoning at the end.
Open them one at a time, in order, on the honour system. Each sends your crew somewhere new in the Quarter — the story deepening with every seal you break.
Every player carries a hidden deal — an informant, a double agent, a side bet only they know. Revealed and settled at the Tribunal.
No "tap done." Each stop is earned with the fact you read on a marker on site, or a photo the host approves — before the next unlocks.
Everyone reconvenes for the reveal over dinner, where the whole night turns on its head and every crew renders its verdict.
They're on the markers, the cornerstones and the ironwork of the Vieux Carré. You bring the curiosity. New Orleans brings the rest.
The Pirate's Share is ready to run. Dates for the New Orleans editions are being set now — join the crew, or get in touch to bring The Pursuit to your group.