My crewmate and I ran into one of those skeletons last night. He didn't know about it and said there was a "gold kinda skeleton".
I freaked out and ask him if it had a bag, if it was RUNNING away from him not slow walking and he said yeah. I yelled KILL THAT expletive expletive expletive. So he suicided with a gun powder skeleton thinking that would kill it. Again he didn't really know what it was and neither of us knew how much damage it would take.
Needless to say the suicidie didnt work and by the time I made it back to the island the skeleton was gone.
I was salty for the rest of the night. Felt bad after we logged off because I think I was a little to rough on my crewmate. I was surprised when he told me he suicided with a gunpowder barrel and kinda frustrated because he did that. Wondered WHY he would do such a thing instead of just chasing it down and killing it.
Sadly to say we ran into the skeleton but we didn't get the kill :(. So the skeleton does despawn after a while I believe. Think of the gold goblins in Diablo 3.
SIDE NOTE Seriously the word restrictions on this site is incredibly. The word hard and then followed by on is restricted. I get the implications but the phrase is also used to express difficulty of a situation or other things besides poor language. Seriously. The only forum I ever need a thesaurus just to post anything.