Last night we completed an uncontested skull fort then, thinking the server was empty, we went after the skelly ships.
Shortly after we were challenged by a brigantine crew. Time and time again we fended them off with a barrage of cannonballs, somehow not sinking them but giving us time to move on while they made repairs.
Perhaps we should have boarded them to prevent repairs but with the amount of hits we landed, we thought that they would surely sink without further hampering.
I think this exact play was repeated three times but it made for some excitement.
Suddenly the kraken appeared and proceeded to hold us up, letting the brigantine catch up. By this stage we had ran out of cannonballs.
Whilst we were shooting the kraken with hand guns the brigantine crew were firing at the sitting ducks that we had become.
The kraken sucked up at least two of us, maybe three, but we somehow managed to get back to the ship to continue shooting the tentacles in front of our, still floating, galleon.
Just as we got out of the ink they hit us with a cursed ball dropping our anchor. Don't ya just love it when that happens? lol
@Jacknife-Wilson made the call to load our rowboat with the most valuable loot. I was guarding one of the ladders when I got sniped so I couldn't help grab any of our loot.
After leaving the ferry I re-spawned on the stern. We were boarded just as I had jumped from the stern into the water, in time to see Jacknife lower the rowboat where I climbed aboard as he rowed off.
The timing couldn't have been better as their boat had drifted from it's initial place behind our vessel to in front of it. Had that not happened they would have seen the rowboat being loaded and our attempt to make our get-away.
When I discovered that our other crew members didn't follow the suggestion to get into the rowboat I felt that I should go back to help them but we only wanted a distraction, not to kill and sink the other crew. Then who knows what laid ahead, if Jacknife would be out numbered at an outpost or where the brigantine crew would spawn if we took the fight to them too hard?
It turned out for the better this way.
Our two crew mates were eventually over-powered and killed as they tried to keep the galleon afloat.
The lads kept them distracted for as long as possible even switching to game chat saying "we've just lost all of the loot" making the brigantine crew think that it was worth while waiting around for the treasure to surface, buying us even more time to row to an outpost.
They re-spawned not too far away and were soon back in the mix to distract the brigantine crew even further. The only problem was that the enemy wanted the same outpost we were rowing to, then when we changed course for a different outpost so did they by sheer coincidence, avoiding our two crew mates who where chasing and firing upon them whenever possible.
By this time the storm ahead decided to play a part in our adventure by blocking our path. Navigating by sight alone, we didn't want or need to be blinded by the elements. So we were forced to row even closer to the brigantine.
When we finally got our lads to back-off from chasing the enemy, at least until the brigantine docked, we were able to set yet another course for what hoped to be an unpopulated outpost.
At this stage we were close-by, right behind the outpost the brigantine was moored at.
I left the rowboat in the capable hands of Jacknife and took the mermaid to our galleon which was parked a cannon shot or so from the brigantine on the main dock side of the outpost.
Our two had abandoned the galleon to fight the enemy crew on land. They both died just as I teleported to the ship. So I jumped overboard to grab cannonballs and planks from the nearby floating barrels then proceeded to fire upon the enemy ship as I inched our galleon closer performing a slow drive-by, firing the cannon with perhaps a little too much vigor and accuracy. I never meant to sink them. I just wanted to be annoying enough to hold them up from sailing off again.
But their ship just sat there without anybody firing back and it eventually sank.
I think the enemy crew must have either left the game or perhaps they were hiding at the outpost or they simply couldn't keep it afloat. Either way, I didn't see anyone bailing off the starboard side, closest to me, as I turned back to make another pass.
Soon after that, Jacknife had reached another outpost and was selling our fortune.
It's a shame we didn't get the opportunity to let them know of the many thousands we had got away with while they were treading water collecting the lesser valued loot from our sunken galleon, waiting for the valuable stronghold loot (that was on our rowboat) to surface. lol
They at least got something for their troubles and contributions toward giving us some excitement. So I guess we all won. :o)
