New AI Companions Like Jack Sparrow

@campfilms I love the idea of transporting / guarding NPC companions. Hopefully this will come eventually.

And I'm hopeful that we'll eventually find an artifact that will let us summon a posse of skeletons.

I like the idea. As long it isn’t perm.
Like jack will join you until he’s called back to the pearl or he thinks you don’t need him anymore.

Or better yet. Purchase a skull from OoS, then you find a random spawned skeleton on an island. Place head and tada you have a skeleton dude.
But like the tall tale. Rotten bodies that don’t belong will vanish after a time.

This would be one of the best additions to the game. It’s often hard to get all your friends on the same schedule. Sometimes they need to leave for work mid voyage. It would be really nice to swing by an outpost to hire a temp crew-mate. There could be a wheel of orders you could give them, like bucket, repair, sell loot etc. I would just use the open crew feature, but in the past I have had randoms that join just to throw my loot overboard and light the ship on fire.