Ring bell for help

@europa4033 said in Ring bell for help:

My crew and I are on a galleon, and we see a sloop a bit far from us. My flex decides to take a rowboat to see what he can find out, and what kinds of shananigans he can cause. He boards them, to find they're hot-micing, and are completely new to the game. He explains he's just out here on a rowboat fishing, and decided to row over to them. After talking with them, giving them helpful hints and tips, etc. he then convinced them that if they ring the bell 3 times, a helpful crew on the server, will be dispatched to their location for assistance. I'm hearing him saying this and I'm already dying laughing, putting both hands over my face. We know what's coming and get ready to sail over. Suddenly, this sloop crew sees another galleon that's not us, heading over to them. One of them yells out, "RING THE BELL! RING THE BELL!!!"

We drop sails and start heading over to them. As we pull up, one of us gets on the loudspeaker and says, "Hey, we got a message you guys needed help over here? What's up?" I can't talk, or breathe at that point I'm laughing so hard. "There's a galleon out there headed towards us!" they yell back. We turn out, go over to the galleon, sink them, sailed back to this sloop and asked them to please rate us 5 stars on Rare's website, as it helps us out. They promised they would.

As we sail away, we started imagining these players in another fight somewhere, and instead of firing cannonballs or bilging/repairing, they're frantically ringing their bell for help.

I’m not gonna lie this is hilarious but also kinda wholesome at the same time.

Your flex rowing over and committing to the “I’m just out here fishing” bit is already funny enough, but convincing brand new players that ringing the bell dispatches help across the server is evil in the best way. The part where they start yelling “RING THE BELL! RING THE BELL!!!” when another galleon shows up actually killed me.

But the fact you guys then actually rolled up, asked what the problem was, and went and sank the other galleon is the perfect ending to it. That’s peak Sea of Thieves energy right there. Troll them a little, then save them anyway.

Also asking them to leave a 5 star review after like you’re some kind of pirate roadside assistance service is insane.

Somewhere out there those guys are probably still ringing their bell every time they get into trouble hoping the help desk shows up again.

@europa4033
The fact you’ve got the video of it and you’re laughing so hard you can’t even talk is perfect. I can just imagine the chaos on their end when they saw that other galleon and started panic-ringing the bell like it was some kind of emergency signal.

And the thought of them actually sending Rare a ticket like “the ring bell for help feature isn’t working” is killing me. Somewhere out there those guys are still convinced a rescue crew is supposed to show up.

Also I’m dying at you guys asking for a 5-star rating after. That whole interaction is peak Sea of Thieves energy honestly.