The Hungering Deep Tavern Tales

@khaleesibot Like, Erinome, I, too, came back to try the new features! We just finished the big fight and, man was it tough and exciting!

This is the story of @Thor-von-Blitz , @SirioNDB , @xDeIuxeEditionx , and myself. We also had some other crews, but I'll get to that.

The Fortune crew started as usual - Spawn in, load the galleon up, and fight over the best color hull. I bought the new black Shark Hunter hull and decided that would guide us to victory! We raised the Blue Flag of Peace and set off for Shark Bait Cove. Upon arrival, we found 3 other sloops investigating the island as well. We all teamed up and formed a nice Blue Flag armada to go figure out the clues. We got so far, but we had hit a snag. We couldn't figure out the next location of the crew. While we were searching an island (I will not name in order not to give any spoilers to clues) a sloop came up to us with a drum in hand. We asked how to get it ourselves and invited them to join us for the finale! After getting the drums we head off to the fight. We all played the drums (There were maybe 10 of us from the base 4 and then random sloops we picked up on 3 ships, the galleon "flagship" and two sloops for backup cannons.) As the music changed, my new Shark tattoos lit up, signaling that the beast was near. Suddenly from beneath the galleon, it rose up and attacked! We had all cannons manned with runners to fix the ship and bail water. We fired cannon after cannon! The monster kept taking chomps at us and the sloops, sending some of us to a watery grave. I witnessed with me own eyes two people fly off a sloop and the sloop slowly sink to Davey Jones' locker. 1 ship down. The remaining ships continued fire until they were knocked into the Red Sea by the beast. After navigating out of the Koolaid Ocean, the two ships got in position and continued the onslaught. Suddenly, BAM! Chomp on the second sloop and another ship sent to the bottom. Everyone alive was left on the galleon. It was chaos. Men and women running up and down stairs patching, shooting, bailing, patching, shooting, bailing, repeat! There was no time to draw breath. One last chomp from the giant sends Sirio to his death. It was now up to the 5 of us. Running low on cannonballs, we resorted to small arms. Finally, right before a charge, I drew my pistol and fired it at the demon's mouth, hitting is and killing it! We waited to see if she stayed dead before jumping in to confirm. The survivors took trophy pictures with the beast before heading off to collect the rewards. Some of us will be scarred for life - eyepatches, peg legs, and actual scars. All of us will have an awesome tale to tell.

Out of story mode: This fight and the clues before it were so awesome and the best fun I've had in a video game in a long time. I'm loving this new content and can't wait to see what happens next!

@lt-swag-johnson During the quest: The Speaking Trumpet (Nautical Term: Shout Hole), The Drums, a Tattoo set. From completing: Some titles, and a new figurehead. It's definitely worth it, for the fun alone. :D

4 sloops sailed into these waters. Only one made it out be weary of the great shark.

Awesome experience to unfold organically - no spoilers along the way - although people tried, with sometimes hilarious results (ie: saying YADDYYAYABLAHBLAH on the speaking trumpet when someone would try to spill the beans along the way). LOL

Many alliances, some maybe temporary. But found myself on another sloop during the battle, all ships sharing resources and bodies flying everywhere - we made some discoveries along the way - and in helping a fellow sloop survive, were overcome and his ship sunk.

He then died in the water, and two chests may (or may not have) risen from the deep.

Making adjustments, we completed from one common galleon... and the chests may (or may not have) been cashed in.

sips tea safe and warm on shore in a brand new tankard

Well.. I feel like sharing my story of tonight's adventure! - Danger! Long text incoming! :P

I joined the SoT-servers this night to see what's in the hungering deep. I have to admit.. I didnt touch the game for almost 1-2 months, since the grind was not fun anymore and my friends stopped playing shortly after release.

So.. I jumped on my sloop and did the hungering deep stuff solo as far as I could and then searched for a bigger crew to summon that cute sharkie - no luck. I reconnected to a new server, sailed straight to shark bait cove again and found a galleon that was just leaving the area. I followed and catched the galleon and when I was next to it, I asked the crew if I could join them and they actually invited me to their ship and also dropped the anchor for me, since I failed my jump! :D

We sailed to the destination point together, while a few of us were playing the drums and when we made it to the area, we finally summoned the shark. It was a tough fight and I only made a couple of shots with the pistol and the cannons, after that I was most of the time busy with my bucket, since we were soon out of planks.

One random single sloop came by, we yelled at him that we need planks and guess what? He helped us out! We were back in business, atleast for a short time, but our planks went to zero in no time again and I was again busy with my bucket. While fighting against the water in our galleon, the heroic sloop captain sacrificed his ship and himself, to buy us some time and we finally managed it to defeat the shark!

Without any planks or bananas and a lot of holes in our galleon, we raised the anchor and went to the next isle to find some planks and repair the ship. the kind pirate legend lady (she already finished the quest earlier) stayed on that isle, so we went back on our own. suddenly the sea went from blue to black and the kraken attacked us! we also managed to defeat the kraken and after some time we finally arrived at merrick's place and claimed our rewards, played some music and enjoyed a couple cups of grog!

This whole adventure was by far the best experience that i ever made in this game! It was intense, thrilling and sooo much fun!

Unfortunately I forgot the exact names of my brave fellow pirates, but I would like to thank you anyway, for inviting me to the crew and sharing this crazy adventure with me! Cheers! :D

With relations staying with me this week and away all next week I didn't think I would be able to follow Merricks tale. Luckily I was able to get a late session in. (The captain wife made me walk the plank this morning...)

I started my trail solo and it was a pleasant change seeing ships sailing close by and not a cannon was fired.

I obtained Merricks drum just as a galleon crew arrived. After a shanty with Merrick I joined their galleon. We sailed to a location and played a shanty, nothing happened. I believed it was a different location and different shanty.

With the correct location and tune in hand the Meg appeared. After letting 2 cannon balls fly into its mouth I was sent flying. Desparately I swam back to the ship only to be eaten by sharks. Noooooo.

I returned to my sloop and sped back to the location. I could see the galleon in the distance hoping I could get there in time. Then it disappeared. Had they killed the beast and left? Had they sunk?

Luckily it was still there for me to fight but it just swiss cheesed my sloop too much too quickly. The Meg lives to fight another day...

I'm hoping to sneak another go this week before I miss it...

Set out to hunt the Meg,

Spent couple hours figuring out riddles. (Which I found very fun), Tried to team up with a couple sloops early.(they tried to turn on us) so we sank them after.

Then we went to see Merrick for the drum hoping we meet someone there. As we arrived we saw what looked like a festival going on around Merrick with drum circles and pirates everywhere.
Soon as we parked a group asked us to team up for the Meg fight.

They were more then helpful offering supplies and anything we may need to help fight the beast. As we took our shirts off and showed our sweet new tats, we drummed our way to battle with two Galleons ready for the unexpected.

As we get to the area our tats started to glow which we knew it was going down now...THE MEG WAS UPON US

Every strike was like a Gun powder hitting our ship. We were lucky we got extra supplies, we used them

The Meg attacked the crew we teamed up with over and over at first almost sinking them.

Couple of us from our boat had to cannon shoot ourselves over and help repair their boat as the monster killed 3 players in one bite.

After a intense battle the beast was slayed. We went back to see Merrick and started our own drum circle....which grew very fast to a beach party. The grog flowed and a new crew was made. (Epic adventure)

Thanks Rare

@khaleesibot Arrr, I sure have a Story to tell ya! Strangers saved us at the battle of The Hungering Deep!!! And I devote this story to our saviors and my brave crew and allies.

To shorten a very long story: We arrived with two galleons at The Hungering Deep. Due to scurvy we lost two men on our voyage - their sacrifices and honorable service will not be forgotten.
Our ship was manned with 3 souls, the other with only two.

We summoned him. We thought we were prepared...

...We were not.

The view of that giant ancient monster, an animal we thought it's been die out, stunned and thrilled us. With bravery and fear we fought against it. With pistols, rifles, cannons...some crazy dog even with a sword!!! Nothing seemed to stop the nightmare, we were into. That...
...Thing...
...it crushed with it's giant teeth our ships several times, ultimately taking one of our naval forces down to the bottom of the sea.

We tried keeping our only ship left in one peace, aided our brothers and sisters...but the creature was too much for us. We went short on materials, especially planks. But we noticed another galleon incoming. We were scared. Was this ship coming to finish us off? Or did they want to watch the entertainment from save distance?

It anchored in save distance, but instead of just watching and enjoying our despaired battle, they offered to send supplies to our ship, which we gladly accepted. Now the table has turned. We kept fighting and repairing, while the strangers reinforced our stock. After several minutes, we finally killed the Megalodon. Relief and Joy spread on the ship and we thanked the strangers saving us from a wet grave!

Fair Seas mates and thank you very much for The Sea of Thieves!