This chest can be seen by all players on the world map and sells for a hefty price. However, when the Chest of Illusions is brought onto your ship, various random events meant to trick and scare you/your crew will occur, here's a few examples I've come up with:
- Non-hostile NPCs meant to look like enemy crewmates may run across various areas of your ship holding weapons and fake loot. When shot at, these NPCs vanish from thin air as if they were phantoms all along.
- Sounds of gunfire, swords clanging and other weapons may play. If there is more than one person on your crew, these sounds have a chance to lead to a decoy of your crewmate's dead body (the real crewmate doesn't render during this event). When this decoy crewmate is approached, they vanish like a phantom and your actual crewmate is visible once again.
- Fake ships in the horizon, mermaid smoke, megalodon fins, rowboats, etc may appear, all of which vanish shortly after being seen (telescope is needed to dispatch of decoy ships).
To add to the mayhem, all of these events increase in likelihood when your ship is close to an island or an actual enemy crew. The goal of this chest's existence is to give even a seasoned galleon crew a scare, while bringing a more "meta" threat to the Sea of Thieves. Feel free to add possible events to this idea, I had a lot of fun coming up with them!
