A two man sloop floating through the sea, going by Wanderer's Refuge to see a galleon with a unicorn on the front. One man throws himself to the island, the other goes to an outpost to deliver loot.
The lone pirate (me!) swims to the island with no damage from hungry fish and sleeps inside a bush. The galleon slowly makes its way to the island, cautious of any potential interloping ships nearby. I launch myself from my bush into the sea and swim towards the great boat, until I come upon its rear butt.
I slowly make my way towards the ladder to avoid detection only to be hit by a shark! Fortunately the shark pushes me towards the ladder so I climb onto it just as one of the galleon's crew members looks near my direction. He fires on the shark that attacked me, but somehow doesn't see me!
The galleon un-anchors, I hear, and two cannon shots are fired to signal people being shot towards Refuge. I slowly climb up the ladder to see what is left, only to see an enemy crew member staring towards the anchor's direction for some reason. I lower myself down the ladder to remain hidden, and I hear what sounds like a spyclass being taken out and used. Several minutes pass, I begin to hear gunshots being fired from the island. I also hear what sounds like the steering wheel being turned.
I make my way up the ladder once more, and sprint towards the captain's quarters as the remaining crewman adjusts the sails. Inside the quarters I see a good amount of skulls! One villainous, a few fouls, several disgraces along with a captain's and seafarer's chests. I sleep among the chests to avoid detection.
15 minutes pass. I hear them climbing up the ladder and then I see it. Athena's treasure chest!
The crew places the chest on the voyage table, and they circle in awe. They take turns holding it, using the puns that the emote wheel has. It seems this may be their first one.
After a good few minutes of staring in awe at the loot, they all retreat back to the main deck and begin turning the boat and adjusting the sails. They aim to go to an outpost, I know it. A crewman returns to the quarters.
He's standing right next to me, in the corner with the bed. I don't move, just staring at him from my disguise hoping he doesn't realize that he's brushing up against my pirate. He quickly departs, probably taking a picture for the memories. The sails are lowered.
I quickly turn my camera to the door, seeing nobody on deck. I wait a minute or two, so the galleon is a distance away from the island before I stand to scoop the chest up and jump overboard. Alerting my crewmate of what I have, I swim towards the island as the galleon continues on towards an outpost.
Several minutes pass, I'm nearing the island before my sloop alerts me that the galleon is turning around. They've realized the deception! Thankfully they were with the wind on the way to the outpost, so I have time as they are now against it. I land on the island and begin to find a hiding spot for until my sloop reaches the island so we may stow away our new found chest.
The galleon begins to circle the island, hunting for me. I;m hiding in a little nook between rocks, sleeping so they cannot see my name. They continue circling, my sloop says. They're trying to ward him off. I tell my crewmate to circle with them, to get them to chase. He does as I suggest.
And they take the bait.
A sloop can out-turn a galleon, you see. So when my ship turns the corner it gains some distance from the galleon. My ship passes me twice before I begin swimming out to see with the chest, and on the third pass my ship floats right by me so I am able to catch the ladder.
We turn against the wind, towards Plunder Outpost. And start sailing away.
The galleon, to our surprise, does not give chase. They seem to have anchored a small distance from the island, perhaps they were searching underwater for it? I do not know why they didn't think we had it, but we had no customizations on so I am assuming they thought we were new players who couldn't have possibly stolen their chest.
But nevertheless, we sailed freely to Plunder, and turned in Athena's treasure for 4,157 gold and nearly halfway through rank 1 of Athena's faction. First legendary chest, and I'm not even a legend.
