today, early in the morning, i loged onto a galleon crew getting ready to do vaults of the ancients, as we raised our gold hoarder emissary we spot one, already on the table.
after looting the outpost, we set sail, guided by our wayfounder, after 2 stop, the islands and spot appears to our eyes, plunder valley, whe get the vault key, wich send us to crescent iles, since on the way there, there is an ashen lord at wanderer's refuge, we decide to take him on.
as i watch our ship, while my mate fight the lord, i spot an emissary sloop, at crescent iles, things are looking nice ! since golden sands is near we decide to left the boss on the last phase and attack the sloop, going for a silent sink, as we would not want them to stop looting the vault by hearing canon shot.
not much to say about this sloop, anchored down in the bay, quite a bad spot to be, we bring our ship in front of theirs as they realise to late our arrival, after a quick sink it turns out no vaults where involved, we do ours and get back to the ashen lord.
we sell and take some emissary quest, onto the next vaults !
again two maps in, a spot and an island, thieves haven. on our way we see an emissary sloop parked at thieves haven already, we recognized it as we had already seen his green light at snake islands, an athena's run it seems, for the moment we are not really interested in it, and after seeing us, it leave and sail off.
we parked and get to work on the key, while looking for some loot the sloop might had to gave up to run.
as i climb up to the very top, i spot the sloop stop behind the big rock to the north-east of thieves, they seem to wait for us to leave, fine by me.
as i get down i meet another player, in quite an ankward situation as i would like to alk to him but my mic don't get picked up by the game and so, i would need to type.
but there is no time for that as he attack me straight away, caught off guard i die to a kraken lord.
before going to the fery, i explain to him that we can talk, no need to fight.
he then proceed to get down towards our boat only to get executed, some time later he came back, seems like he's canoning onto the islands, as whe retreived the key we set off, annoyed by the sloop and taking it as target.
we plan to sell our loot and see what he do, one of ours waiting on the islands to hide on his ship if he ever came back to the islands, which he does, sadly our crewmate get himself discoverd and knock off the ship, to again a laughing kraken lord. who after trying to hide his destination to a storm head to snake islands.
to wich we go using one of the rock as cover.
we see a brigantine rushing to either us or the sloop, as we get attacked by a skeleton ship. after a quick sink on the skelly we check up on the brig to find it at plunder, a little disrepectfull to sell in front of our nose, but time is running out as we need to eat, and plan to end the session after sinking this sloop.
our approach is undetected, and we land a great volley shredding his hull and bringing down his mast, he fend off our boarder and get his mast back up, but his still filled with holes as our second boarders come in, a quick sink.
in the end we decide to keep this session up as each one of us altarnate being afk and sell.
when i get back after eating whe have another key for crescent ilses, adding to the one we got at thieves, we go to do a fort, uncontested then head for a double vaults and pack all this great loot, after that we once again sell at golden sands, seing another gold hoarder and an order of soul emissary, we decide to fly as a reaper using the flameheart's fleet at sailor's bounty as our mean to reach lvl 5 quickly, thanks to this fleet, a skeleton galleon and a glitched meg, we do get our lvl 5 rather fast.
as we looked at our maps we realise where in a rush as an emissary is running to dager tooth, thanks the god, the wind is with us, and we catch to another sloop emissary, as thay see us they throw their loot overboard, but we do not care, only their flag matter to us ! as it is a lvl 5 Gold hoarder they crash into the island and we unleash hell.
then comes our next target at fetcher's rest wich happen's to be a brig.
they realise quite late our arrival and end up in a bad spot, they put quite a good fight and manage to repair their ship quite well, how ever this is not enough as they too, sunk.
a lvl 3 order of soul joins our loot.
with ghost fleet loot, skeleton and meg, and some players loot, it is quite time to sell, but there's 2 problem, another reaper's as appeared and our supply are starting to get low.
after some time inspecting the reapers to see if they are pve or server hoppers, our question come quickly as they stoped at canon cove got lvl 2 then headed straigh for us, for sure they plunder someone and we are now their target.
as we head towards the storm that is waiting for us, but also, the actual storm, we spot a brig in the roars, our victim for sure, and after some time, they too are heading for us.
things are looking tense as we suspect that new emissary to be quite an hard foe to beat.
the reaper is finaly seen, a sloop, with a good helmsman this ship will be quite annoying to catch.
we catch wind to keep our distance aiming to take on, one at a time, but also getting closer to the hideout as we want to be able to sell straight away if we came to win.
too focused on the sloop we almost failed to notice the brig at full wind gettig ready to cut our route, we turn our broads side and fire, both ship take heavy damge, i quit the wheel to help at cannon, after some hit i use a chanshot and get their front mast, then our ship crash onto an islands, thats bad as i got to focused on cannon, but it's the same case for the brig, wich, to excited all jump to board us, but with all them on our right flank, group up, they gave us a blunderbombs paradise, as we set off the islands we are glad to look back on a suncken brig.
now, the sloop, still no idéa of their strentgh.
it turned out to be a really annoying fight as they kept their distance and simply run away as soon as we had an angle. using the wind to get us to snail paste, circling us, like a shark, how ever their aim on shainshot where quite poor, as the only time they got one was when whe charge at them full wind to harpoon them, and so getting the upper hand and sinking them.
victory being ours we claim our loot, throuhought the fight the brig did not came back, there was also a galleon that did the fort, but did not get involved with us, (would have love to fight them if we had the chance)
after everything is on board we rush to the hideout as we know it will take a long time to sell and that sloop is bound to comme back, as throuhought the fight they where trying to bait us in waisting our supply, a pretty boring way to "win" sinking another ship that is out of cannonballs.
as you can gues we are only half way into selling, that the sloop is back on the horizon, we turtle up and fend them off while we sell, but, to greedy on selling i'm left on solo at repairs when one of the sloop board us, i'm force to fight him as 1 lower deck holes is still unrepaired and we are almost second deck on water, after a complicated fight i end up on the ferry, but gained enough time for my three shipmates to finish the job, we then take a more defensive approach as we sell the last bits.
it also seemed that he was now solo on his sloop, as everytime he went to board, his sloop whould ran off far away uncontroled.
after selling everything we lowered the flag, i don't like doing that, but when your against a pirate that will just keep comming back until he sink you and call it a "win" yeah, i'm having none of that ! but that guy still want to sink our ship, even if we all left, he is determined and probably, salty ?
anyway, i can't accept letting my ship sink, just because i'm going off, i propose we set our ship to the shores of gold, where will be free to have a, proper, viking funeral for this great ship.
also we had not sell all the loot as we wanted to sell 2 chest of thousands grog to an outpost, so we head to dager tooth to jump off with them as we head to the shores.
i decided to jump off, and see if i can board his ship, to talk to him.
as i grab his ladders and let out my message, wich goes pretty much like this, "coming back, again and again until you sink us is quite boring, don't you think ?"
i hear a sinister theme, the kraken is out ! on his sloop ! i laugh at his misery as i see this as karma, i climb up his ladder and jump down on the deck to slas...
oh oh ! a keg ! nearly blow myself up, i pick it up and ignite it and ran to the back where whe finish our fight, did not manage to quite kill him sadly, in the end he seemed to be still determind to get us, as he fend off the kraken, but it seems to have left the server after that.
so we set our ship on fire, sailing to the red sea, and a skelly galleon spawn claiming our ship to their collection, it seems they have quite the taste, when it comes to legendary ship.
anyway this was an epic, 7h session, in the end we made about 600 K.
hope it was not to annoying to read, i'm french ^^"
