Bounty Skulls Talking

@barakye could have a 2 minute long story of their life on the voyage if a crew member holds on to it. Only problems i see is repetitiveness and when youre trying to sneak a skull away from an enemy ship, and if its talking that could alert your presence

@awesomechad888 That's true. I think they should only talk if being held, so you can control when/how much they talk. Also, only the crew that has possession would hear them speaking, as not to give anyone away.

I mean this could be good if it wasn't like the same bunch of phrases over and over.
However, with the amount of skulls you'll carry, there's no way they can have enough voice acting to fill that time. Unless, maybe, they started pulling stories from Tavern Tales section or something, and still that's a lot of voice acting to pay for.
Plus, then you've got the moral issue of "well, the OoS does really bad things to these dead pirates. One day, I'll be a dead pirate. Do I want these things done to me? Why should I support these people? How bad IS this?"

If anything I suppose it'd be funny if they're just mad that they know you're about to get paid for defeating them. Because that's GOT to be a hit to someone's pride.

@filthee-mudblud Like I said above, I could see how that would be annoying, but it could be limited to when the skulls are being held, it doesnt have to be constant talking from every single skull you have on-board.

Yeah. I just don't think they could ever hire the vocal labor required to fill THAT much time, you know? Think of how long, cumulatively, you've held a skull. That's gotta be a LONG amount of time.

@cheatingpirate I love this! See, this would just be plain fun! Of course, as discussed earlier you could silence this monologue at any time by dropping the skull. Also, holding the skull doesnt guarantee that it WILL start talking, just that it can only possibly start talking once held.

Pleeeease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMi2Il6iRks

Sounds cool on paper, but with the hundreds of skulls you pick up in this game it's bound to become repetitive after a while.

@katttruewalker Yes, I can certainly understand the annoyance of repetitious phrases being spoken over and over, but I feel that the majority of these phrases don't need to be monologues. Something as simple as, "Put me down!" as an example of something the skulls are most likely going to say, would add more to the game. I welcome the more lengthy stories, but maybe those are rewards for killing a certain captain so you can hear some lore about who he was.

They could also be riddles! Maybe a cross-over into a Gold Hoarder quest, as the skull knows where some treasure is buried. Or the skull could be mutinous, and knows where his captain's final resting place is, just brainstorming. They could add something comical if you mess up the skull's directions, like he calls you a fool or something if you dig at the wrong spots, and overall comments on your progress. Shovel strikes chest"Ooooh, you found it, we're all very impressed." or maybe: "Don't forget my cut!"

I think having them simply sit in your hand, idle, filled with un-dead sorcery is boring. I'd rather them interact and protest, even in a slight manner, to add some character and flavor to the game.

It's interesting, but it require a lot of work (writing, traducting in all player language, actors...), that's why NPC don't talk.
But you could use the conversation of others players, on others servers, with a distortion of the voice.
So you would have, sometime, testimony off what happened in other regions...