Just like cursed cannonballs you can find these mysterious packages washed onshore on in barrels.
Only this time you dont fire it out a cannon to give someone a curse, you cook it in the stove of your ship to give your ship a curse.
Some of these curses give a temporary positive curse to your ship. Here are a few curses i thought of.
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A curse that temporarily boosts the speed of your ship similar to that of the skeleton ships.
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A curse that creates a thick fog within a large radius great for escape or anbush
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A curse that gives your ship a very intimidating cosmetic visual appearance. Each one of these is different each time but lasts for about 20-30 mins. Such things you can expect is burning sails, ghostly figures appearing to carry the ship, pushing it along, flocks of bats encircling your ship with thundery clouds. Its all cosmetix but there to intimidate other ships letting them know you have resources and thay theres more to come if they dont flee.
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Flush the water out of your ship. Does not repair holes but is a last ditch attemot to save it.
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Reverse flush. Adds water level to ship as it cooks in stove (About 1 levels worth) Use this as a weapon onboard other shipa.
SIDENOTE)
It doesnt really matter about these curses, the main idea is the actual thing of introducing them.
These packages will be rarer than cursed cannon balls meaning finding one will be very fortunate.
Massively rewarding those who hoard resourses and really turn over every barrel on every island.
