Pillagers Brigade

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**The Pillagers Brigade** is an organization affiliated with *Tower of Terror*.

## Description

The Pillagers Brigade was an organization of wealthy white men in the 19th century who travelled the globe, joining efforts to grave-rob and pillage for their personal collections. One or two of their ranks were members of the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers.*

### Members

There are six known members of the Pillagers Brigade however only two have been identified with only one being explicit.

## History

In 1899, the Pillagers Brigade travelled to the Congo in Africa. The six men had a portrait made of them on their raid on this expedition. On this expedition, Harrison Hightower III would find the Mtundu tribe which gave him shelter on the June 16 of that year. However, Harrison betrayed the tribe in order to steal their idol the Shiriki Utundu for his personal collection. Harrison was killed by Shiriki Utundu on the New Year's Eve of that year.

At some point in early 20th century prior to 1919, the Pillagers Brigade and Society of Explorers and Adventurers splintered a new group of globetrotters known as the Adventurers Club which was founded due to Merriweather Adam Pleasure's dissatisfaction with the aforementioned groups. The Adventurers Club's base would be built on Pleasure Island, Lake Buena Vista, Florida in 1932 and a portrait of the Pillagers Brigade was hung up within these headquarters.

Merriweather Adam Pleasure eventually died in 1941 and following this the Adventurers Club dispersed while having claimed much of the group's estate. The portrait of the Pillagers Brigade was sent to the Polynesian island of Aulani by club president Pamelia Perkins to Adventurers Club member Dreamy Ka'imi with a letter detailing the history of Harrison Hightower III and the Pillagers Brigade.

## Appearances and allusions

### Adventurers Club

A portrait of what would later be retconned into the Pillagers Brigade was hung up in the Adventurers Club headquarters (set in 1937) nearby the phantom organist, "Fingers Zambezi". A plaque from archaeologist and club curator Fletcher Hodges identified it as having been a depiction of Merriweather Adam Pleasure.

### Aulani

The portrait of the Pillagers Brigade is hung up in Aunty's Beach House in the Aulani resort. With it is a letter from Pamelia Perkins, explaining the history of the Pillagers Brigade, Harrison Hightower III, and Hightower's search for Shiriki Utundu with the brigade addressed to her late-contemporary Dreamy Ka'imi.

## Behind the scenes

The portrait that would later be identified as representing Harrison Hightower III and the Pillagers Brigade originally appeared in the Adventurers Club of the defunct Downtown Disney. In the club it was only identified as representing club founder Merriweather Adam Pleasure on an expedition, Pleasure later being revealed to have been a member of S.E.A. alongside Harrison Hightower III. In Disney's Aulani Resort, it was retroactively explained that the portrait also depicted Harrison Hightower III on his 1899 expedition to the Congo.

## Trivia

* One member of the Brigade in their 1899 roster greatly resembles Theodore Roosevelt who in Disney lore was another original member of the Adventurers Club.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/525232375297586447/?mt=login
2. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?q=fingers+zambezi&client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk02rS2BI6LPZLAqOTH03x0tpmnryag:1614005947230&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIlJnZ4P3uAhXHLc0KHSQwDqoQ\_AUoAXoECAUQAw&biw=1440&bih=820#imgrc=CxKWoyevqDETLM
3. ↑ https://jungleskipper.com/uploads/posts/sea-part-1/PameliaPerkinsLetter.jpg