So...my fellow pirates. Good day to you.
I share this story, not for sympathy or clout or anything like that. Just sharing a heart-wrenching, soul crushing, aboslute depression causing story about my first ever Shrouded Ghost encounter.
I have been playing since the beta, not religiously there have been a lot of things I have missed out on, numerous story and world changing events but I have over 1000 hours, 1030 hours to be precise.
Now I did participate in the world event where you could summon a Shrouded Ghost, however I did not get credit/commendation for the encounter.
So here I am playing all day with my girl, working on her Tall Tales, finished up all remaining ones she had apart from 3 more Shores of Gold. So it's 2am, she gets tired so we get off the game. She goes to bed, so me trying to be a good boyfriend and surprise her, because she absolutely HATES the Shores of Gold tall tale, I jump on her account and I plan on doing the final 3 Shores of Gold.
I start up the game, spawn at Port Merrick and I access the table to dive to Morrow's Peak Outpost. So here I am sailing away from the Outpost so that the dive mechanic can activate. I am getting ready, getting the throwing knives from the weapon box when all of a sudden...I hear it....
Now I've watched plenty of videos of other people encountering the Shrouded Ghost so I know the music when I hear it.
So here I am elbow deep in the weapon box when out of nowhere, the music suddenly plays....my heart dropped....I thought to myself "Finally....my time has come! The Pirate Lord and RN Jesus has finally graced me with my first Shrouded Ghost." I'm getting excited and mentally preparing myself for this epic fight.
Then....the dive mechanic kicks in....and I am screaming "NO NO NO NO." Alas, it was too late, my ship goes underwater.
The pain in my heart still twinges as I write this story. The Shrouded Ghost was in my grasp, the battle that never was.
I surface at Morrow's Peak Outpost and, still fuming about my stupidity I decide I'm going to do the Tall Tales for my girl, so I am at the Outpost gathering supplies and still listening to the thoughts in my head...the Whispers of the Shrouded Ghost taunting every corner of my mind, I had lost the will to play, I didn't even want to do the tall tales I just wanted to wallow in my self pity so I turned off the game and came here to share this tale with you.
I hope no one reading this ever has to go through the loss of the Shrouded Ghost.
Thank you for listening to my story.
