Okay, hear me out. I know this topic has been done to death, but I feel like I can bring something new to the table. This is my list of cursed items which adds: two new chest, three skulls, and two good crates.
Chests
The Chest of Wanderer's Beacon
This chest is one of my favorite ideas. The design of the chest is fairly simple, it is painted white with a golden trim. In the center is an emblem made of a yellow crystal that looks like the sun, being an octagon with smaller triangles on each side, these triangles aren't actually touching the octagon but they're close. What the chest does is make your lights very bright and unable to be turned off, it also give you a mandatory reaper's mark except instead of a reaper's mark on the map other crews will see the emblem on the chest.
The Chest of Shadows
It is essentially just a shadow skeleton as a chest. You can't pick it up at night unless you shine your lantern on it. It would have the same color scheme as a shadow skeleton, so mostly black with glowing highlights.
Skulls
Drunken Bounty Skull
I love this one with all my heart. It is similar to the Chest of a Thousand Grogs, however the way it makes you drunk isn't the same. The skull makes those in close proximity drunk, the closer you get, the drunker you become. The catch is that when you leave the proximity you don't stop being drunk, you have to wait for the drunkenness to wear off. As for the design, it would have multiple missing teeth and a metal plate patching part of the skull. Aside from the damage to the skull there is one more distinguishing feature, the rum bottle sticking out of it's eye.
Venomous Bounty Skull
The Venomous Skull is a bronze-ish hue. It has green eyes (just like the normal bounty skulls) and streaks of green sprouting from the base of the skull. On top of the skull is a metallic snake head with green crystals for eyes. Every once in a while the eyes of the snake will begin to glow, the snake head will slowly swivel on top of the skull. Once it is pointed at a player it will spit venom at them.
Lunar Bounty Skull
I didn't think up this skulls mechanics, but I did make the design. The skull is a pearly-white with very small light blue dots around the base of the skull. The eyes glow light blue (as opposed to green), it also has an angular crescent moon, similar to those found in painting around the world. This skull can only be turned in at night, as in the day time it will turned into stone.
Good Crates
Crate of Ancient Teeth
This good crate is the same as others when is comes to design. The boxes cover is a yellow color with a symbol of a shark (Imagine the pose on cover of Jaws where the shark is looking up) and a tooth. This crate cause the carrier to always be followed by sharks and the ship it is to be surrounded when stopped. The only problem I can find with this item is that the player might not realize that the crate is to blame for the shark infestation.
Crate of Bizarre Runes
The crate of runes has a a pink cover, for the symbols on it I was thinking it could have some writing in skeleton tongue (Similar to the writing on the Box of Wondrous Secrets). The cover will begin to become brighter as though something in the box is glowing, soon after it begins glowing it will teleport to one of several predetermined areas on the ship leaving only a silhouette out pink sparkles in its place. If a player is holding the crate during this process, the player will be teleported to the location will the crate.
I hope those of you who read this find these items interesting, or at least get your mind turning about other forms of cursed loot!
-CrystalWyvern
