Hello everyone, ahoy.
I want to say that I have been playing this game for a while and I am really excited when during my adventures I have different encounters. My favourite one is Kraken, I really like fighting him. When I fight him I imagine that scene from Pirates of Carribean at World's End. However, I often play with open crews and more I encounter him, more I see than most of the crews I play with end up leaving the game or just running. Such specific behaviour made me thinking. What if the encounter with Kraken wouldn't be just a random encounter, what if it would be an event, a world event. And that's how I came up with Ancient Kraken Event.
Imagine a Big/Gigantic Shipwreck Graveyard. Surrounded by clifs/rocks on which shipwrecks are also strung. There is only three thin paths which will lead you in inside area. Inside of such place you will find a large pool area, which also surrounded by shipwrecks. Under the water you will see a large number of shipwrecks ( around 8 ships) with one in the middle. You will also notice that several ships on the clifs have cannons pointing at you and several barrels containing food, planks and mostly cannonballs.
To trigger/activate the event you will need to drop the anchor and, as whole crew, play the Shanty "Who Shall Not Be Returning". After playing it for a while you will notice that lanters which located on the shipwrecks below and around you starts light up. After all of the light up, the battle music will start to play and several tentacles will appear. They will block the exits and wrop around your anchor, completely blocking it ( All the tentacles which I will mention in this topic will look different form standart ones, they will have cuts, scars, harpoons stuck in them and even some weapons). As soon as it will be activated the storm clouds will appear above it in the form of water funnel, a cyclone.
To complete the event you will need to fight throw the deadly waves of Skeletons, who will shoot at you with their guns or by using a cannons, as well as boarding your ship by jumping from shipwrecks or climbing on it; Ocean Crawlers who will also use cannons and board your ship by jumping from water onto your deck; angry pirate ghost/phantoms who will appear on your ship; and sirens ho will shoot at your ship with tridens or their voices. By defeating each wave you will progress furter in the event. You will meet different skeleton lords, ocean crawslers and sirens lords (ones with the red names above them), and phantom captains. You will know that you are getting close to completing such world event by noticing that during the waves tentacles will emerge from the depths. Some will do nothing, some will hit your ship, wrap around it or suck a pirate up into the tentacle and try to drown him. To complete the wave you will need to defeat tentacles too. There will be 10 waves. The final stage before the final fight, will appear 8 tentacles which you will need to defeat to progress to final fight. After you defeat them, 14 (13 if you on sloop) tentacles will emerge from the depths. 2 (1) of them will wrap around your ships ends while 12 will be around it. 4 of them will be "inhalers", another 4 will do nothing ("targets"), last 4 will be attacking your ship.
Now, let's talk about the loot. Before I will talk about shipwrecks and loot from shipwrecks below your ship and loot which you will recieve after defeating Ancient Kraken, I want to mention loot which you will recieve after defeating certain foes.
- Skeleton Lords. From Skeleton Lords you will recieve skulls (mostly gold, but it will depends on skeleton lords) and gold pouches (160-600 gold).
- Ocean Crawlers and Sirens. Ocean Crawlers and Sirens will bring you siren gems (50/50 chance, unless there is red name above it, then it's 100 %).
- Phantoms. Phantoms will bring you gold pouches (160-600 gold).
- Phantom Captain. Phantom Captain will bring you gold pouches (160-600 gold) and bewitching doll (300-400 gold) or dark relic (depends on relic).
Now let's go back to Kraken. - Ancient Kraken. After defeating Ancient Kraken you will recieve from each tentacle including ones that blocked exits, wrapped around your anchor and ends of your ship Ancient Kraken meat (1-2 pieces) and a random treasure items (1-2 pieces), as well as a key to a captain cabin.
As you remember, at the beggining I have mentioned that below your ship is a large amount of shipwrecks (around 8) and one in the middle. Inside this shipwrecks you will find different treasures, such as: - Siren Gems & Mermaids Gems
- A wide variety of chests (Captain's, Castaway's, Maradeur's, Seafers)
- Skulls
- Chalices & Artifacts
- Crates
- Animal Cages (Empty)
- Gunpowder barrels
- Coral Treasures
- Barrels filled with different resources
The ship in the middle will be a captain ship. You won't be able to enter it unless you have a captain key. After opening it, you will have access to whole captain ship below which you will find it filled with loot I have listed above and also this one: - Chest of Legends
- Legendary Chests (Rage, Sorrow, Thousand Grogs, Ancient Tribute, Damned)
- Ashen Chests and keys
- Reapers Bounty & Gifts
- Broken Emissary Flags and Captain Logbooks
- Stronghold Gunpowder
- Athena Fortune treasure
After completing such event you will not only have your pockets filled with enough gold (40 treasures max from 8 shipwrecks, 60 treasure max from captain shipwreck, 40 max from tentacles (40 kraken meat max), 4 skulls max from skeleton lords, 8 siren gems max from Ocean Crawlers and Sirens Lords ( if 50/50 hit then more), 1 max from Phantom Captain, and that brings us to 153 treasure max (it without counting meat & fish and 50/50 chances)), you will also have a great memories and stories to tell in the tavern behind the mug of good grog.
Such event will interest people more in fighting Kraken. And people will stop running from such encounters, they will stay and fight, so one day they will be able to defeat a Mighty One.
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I just want you to remember that after defeating Ancient Kraken, the ancient tentacles that blocked the only paths to enter to such event which were protecting you from being attacked by other crews will be vanquished. Therefore everyone would be able to sabotage your ship/sunk it. Plus the clouds which were indicating about the beginnig of this events will dissapear too. Therefore, you will become a target for every ship on the sea. I also wanted to add that such event will be able to complete only once in 1-2 hours. And that it would be nice if such place would exist in The Wilds, in between O1 and P1, in uncharted sea.
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Thank you very much for listening/reading this topic. I hope you like this idea. If you want to add something to it or change it slightly or radically, or you don't like it, please leave a comment. Thank you very much for everything . Have a nice day or night and see you on the Seas.
Selgewick The Seaman
Chronicler of Legend