A reverse take on skeleton fort events that is triggered by players similar to that of FOTD.
There is a new loot item you can find that works the same way as a ritual skull. It is a crown.
You can sell the crown to gold hoarders or you could use the crown to get more loot!
If you choose to do this, sail to the nearest unoccupied skeleton fort and place it on a throne that will be in the main chamber.
Emote sit on the throne with the crown nearby and it will be equipped on your head and the event will start.
Shortly afterwards skeleton galleons will spawn and circle the fort firing. Use the fort cannons or towers to fight back. There is unlimited ammo whilst the event is active.
The aim of the event is to clear the waves of incoming hostiles whilst protecting whoever is wearing the crown.
If the crown bearer dies. You only have a short window to pick the crown up causing that pirate to be crowned. If no pirate grabs the crown within the 15 - 30 second or so despawn timer the event will fail and the crown will disappear along with the invading skellies and any hopes of a reward. Your crew are free to use their ship in defense of the fort but the crown bearer must remain on the island otherwise the event will fail also. So having a crew helps but you could realistically do this solo too (So long as you dont die). Reason i want the crown bearer to remain on the fort i'll explain below.
Waves begin with circling galleons but eventually skeleton rowboats with 6 skellies or so will spawn and row to the shores. If they successfully come into contact with the fort's beach they will disembark and run straight for the pirate wearing the crown. As soon as skeletons disembark their rowboats instantly despawn making room for other skeleton rowboats. You may find several rowboats charging to the island at once. Eitherway, these skellies will be after the crown bearer. Fight them off, or prevent them landing at all with well placed shots. The key to success however is to sink the circling skeleton galleon ships as this advances the waves and brings you closer to its end. Until these galleons are sunk. Rowboat raiding parties will continue to come.
If you successfully sink all the waves of ships that will emerge circling the island, whilst protecting the crown bearer from the skeletons who get on land via rowboat, you will hear that famous victory tune and a ray of light will appear on the throne with a skeleton key.
Open the vault and take your loot to the nearest outpost!
As for pvp. The crown can be stolen by killing the bearer. So if you were a crew with ambitions to steal the loot from a crew doing the event, simply take out the crew, grab the crown, deal with the skelly ships, or deal with skellies first and kill the players. Eitherway, you can do this like a regular fort.
((For Solo Players))
Understandably your ship will be wrecked left by the fort if you are the only crew member. So if you plan to do this solo, park your ship a short distance away from the fort and use your own rowboat to get to the fort. Activate the event, dont die, then open the vault and return to your ship. You could realistically fire a few shots from fort cannons to damage the ships inbetween fighting skelly squadrons that disembark and raid. But this would definitely be easier and somewhat more fun as part of a crew as your ship can get involved too!
