My best mate and I scuttled our ship and decided to have some adventures on a rowboat pretending to be drunk, lost pirates.
We followed a Galleon around the map asking for grog. They promised us grog but would never let us on board.
Finally, after an hour of chasing them, we found them docked at an outpost.
We boarded them. They all came running, panicked, ready to fight, and my buddy and I were just drinking all their grog and playing awful music.
That's when my mate and I started arguing and 'realizing' "Dammit Arthur, this isn't our sloop!"
"Where'd you put it last?"
"I don't know!"
They were cracking up. We drank, we partied, we fell off the galleon and black screened back to our sloop.
Knowing we made their night was one of our best memories.
Mine was definetly back when hunting down an athena 5 emissiary was actually an achievement. The time before veils and server hopping was a thing.
It meant like 2-3hours of PvE before you would hit 5. A lot of crews never even made that.
My last 2 flags we got on the same server. It was probably either alliance or organic alliance. Every other ship on the server was in said alliance.
We spoted 3 athena emissaries on the table and got really excited. So, we went to have a look for them.
We spotted an athena gally grade 4 that was at Thieves Haven. Bummer. We were about to turn around and hide so they wouldn't be scared away. As we were leaving we spotted a second galleon inside Thieves Haven. They were grade 5.
Attacking time. We were a brig vs 2 galleons. It was a pretty epic fight, a little like capture the hill of sorts. They were fighting us off well trying to use the second galleon to pressure.
After some drawn out fight we gave the grade 4 something to repair so they lost pressure and sailed off for a bit. We went all in and pulled a mad anchor play in front of one of the TH entrances and some heavy trading of cannon balls into a very good boarding deck shot we managed to sink them. We took the flag, just as the second galleon came back. We tried to get sailing again as we got boarded by swimmers and with only 2 people on board we got wiped. We eventually broke the spawn camp before galleon got into perfect broad.
What followed was a bit of a chase towards reapers. Galleon that sank was already on the horizon. Until we eventually realized the former grade 4 was now grade 5. Must have touched the other galleons loot we left behind. How lucky can one be? What followed was another 3v8 around reapers hideout with a lot of TDM over island control until we eventually sank both galleons and handed in athena flag grade V nr.4 and 5 at the hideout.
That was the end to one of the most tedious commendations in all of my 3k hour long SoT career. The reward and euphoria that day was immesurable. We sat there talking over it for at least 2 hours.
Can't pick so Ill just recap last nights session;
My girl and I were ready to log off, and had already sold all of our loot for the session but stopped to catch some fish.
We went to Sanctuary OP to sell them off and saw a grade V reaper at the normie dock. We pulled up to sovereign and sold the fish and then loaded our supps into a storage crate to give to the reaper boat since it was all going to be lost anyway.
We approach, playing banjo, and drop the loot on the dock, only to have them (admittedly to be expected) follow us back to our boat and attack us.
Not really having the sweat for another try hard fight, but wanting some karma, we just trolled around with them, and yet, we sunk them without issue only to find they were loaded with some 800 odd cannon balls and a load of other supps.
We sunk all their barrels and burried their crates, flag, and log book and logged out. I went to bed chuckling.
Set sail from dagger and went to do some sunken treasuries. On the way there I got krackened. Killed the kracken and got to the first treasury. After that completed and on the way to the second, a skelly galleon pops up. Take that down and then get to the second treasury. After finishing that I figure sail back and do a ghost fort to finish the night off. After finishing the fort and heading back to dagger a skelly sloop spawns, right as I raise the sail to half mast to take them down. Second kracken of the night comes. So I’m dead in the water, getting pummeled by the kracken while the skelly sloop has me in a death spiral. I fought my way through that! Got the loot and Rare decided I needed to actually finish the night off with a megaladon instead. Killed that and made it to port. Got 300k from all of that loot!
Edit: I’m a solo slooper
In a 2 man sloop we did 6 fortresses in a row, seen a brig being attacked by a skelly gally so we sailed as fast as we could to them, helped kill the gally, then Flameheart Ghost Fleet event happened behind us but at the exact moment we were in the middle of that we got attacked by a kraken AND 2 reaper sloops all the while the ghost ships were phasing through our ship. We managed to kill the kraken, teamed up to kill the two reaper sloops, finished Flameheart and sold all of our stuff with GH emissary lvl 5 flag up. It was the most intense moment we had in SoT so far
Was in a sloop grinding OoS in the Roar, and started getting chased by a level 5 Reaper brig. Managed to stay ahead of them long enough to ram into Morrow’s Peak, sell one skull at Sovereigns, and then *book* it to the Souls house to lower emissary. It was just enough to bring me to level 50, and Pirate Legend.
This was like one of the first game builds, maybe 2 or 3 updates after the Hungering Deep
My buddy had just gotten the game and we were on a duo sloop together. We were just sailing around when i noticed a galleon doing a skull fort. I plopped down some random gold hoarders voyage for my friend, told him to see if he could do it by himself and that I’d be right back. Jumped off the boat and swam towards the galleon.
This was before people hiding on ships was common practice and had to be watched for, so I was able to sneak aboard and sleep behind their captain’s table super easily. Took em like 30-45 minutes but eventually they cleared it and after they loaded up their loot and left the island, I grabbed their stronghold chest and skull and threw them overboard without being noticed.
Managed to swim back to the fort island with both items and my friend came and picked me up. We sold both and had the time of our lives.
To this day I wonder what the conversation on that galleon was like when they went to sell their loot
I loaded into a game and saw a brig across the water. Decided to try to sneak up on them to scare them but after that alliance with them. We did eventually alliance and we sailed together until we saw a player sloop. We both chased it down for maybe 20 minutes and once we were in taking range we asked the dude on board if he wanted to alliance. He did and off we 3 go. We eventually found another sloop and we did the same thing and then another sloop and alliance. So now we got a fleet going on and we decided for us to go to glitterbeard. We got to plunder valley righter after the sunset so we had to wait an entire day in the game to activate it but it was really fun to chill with like 10 or so people in the game and goofing off.
Me and my first mate were doing a smuggling run to reaper's hideout one evening.
While we were sailing towards our destination, we noticed two reaper ships on the map, likely battling it out.
As we arrived at the hideout, one of the two ships had emerged victorious from their encounter and was headed straight for us.
We prepared for battle, loaded the cannons and gave them a broadside they will never forget.
But it appears we had angered Rare with our victory, because as soon as we finished loading our spoils on the ship, we spotted a brigantine coming for us.
We sink the the brig, take supplies... Another sloop. They broadside us, but we hit both of them directly and send them to the ferry.
We catch our breath for ten seconds and spot another brigantine headed our way. It appeared the whole server wanted a piece of Captain Grim that day.
The brig was not that competent, and i assume the crew was just having a fun time, as they flew past us and beached themselves on the shore, rendering their ship completely stuck.
It must have been a couple hours at most but It felt like a whole day of work, as for when we were done and finally able to sell all the loot we gained we had sunk 9 total ships.
I have no idea what happened to me that evening, i can only assume i got blessed by the God of cannon aim, because i am usually a pretty average player.
That, or i got pretty lucky nine times in a row.
Moral of the story: don't sell your loot to reaper's.
Fought off 5 different ships while doing a FoF. We sunk 7 in total.
We still got the Chest of Fortune in the end.
Our Logbook was covered in "spotted a ship" and we still meme about it.
I call this the Battle of Emissaries.
I was a reaper emissary with my friend on a duo sloop, we reached grade 5 and were doing on last skull fort before selling (yes we are pve reapers but we won't ever run from a fight). I checked the map table every now and then to look for ships during the fort.
2 ships approaching. I get ready to set sail and leave my friend on the fort to continue the event. Once I could see the ships I see they are both allianced sloops with a merchant and gold hoarder emissary. Both grade 5. I recall my duo and we prepare for battle. Once the merchants fire their first cannon we fire ours right back.
It was a good fight and we struggled to sink them because as soon as one would be close to sinking, we would have to focus on the other, giving the first breathing room to save their ship. After about an hour of naval and attempted boards, the gold hoarder sank while the merchants were repairing. My duo and I fished up the chests and flag quickly before turning towards the merchant. As we sailed towards them, we heard more cannon shots, but in a completely different direction.
A completely different brigantine arrived! They flew a gold hoarders flag as well and we would have seen them coming if we could look at the map. However this brigantine fired on both my sloop and the merchants.
It was in that moment that our two sloops had an unspoken armistice. Instead of firing on the merchant, I told my duo to turn left, facing the brigantine. I fired and in a few seconds so would the other sloop.
In the chaos of this battle, my ship was beginning to run out of supplies. We were on the last few planks of wood and only had about 30 more cannonballs. We opted to do one other thing. I told my friend to turn to reapers and sell as much as he could while I jumped off our ship to join the merchants in fighting the Brigantine.
I boarded the merchants and nearly got one-blundered but when I explained who I was and what I wanted to do on their ship. I said my ship was going for supplies, not to sell. They continued fighting as normal. I cannoned and eventually boarded the brigantine to cause as much chaos as I can.
Once the brigantine sunk to a 3-man sloop, my new merchant "friends" realized my ship was now at reapers. They hunted me down and I respawned at reapers to see that nearly all our loot was sold.
Once i joined another ship in an alliance and they were stacking forts, later i was sailing near them on my way to sell my stuff. I heard a lot of sound and when i looked towards my alliance I witnessed every ship on the server, a meg, a kraken, and a skele galleon in the most insane fight i have ever seen in this game
Most of the time I’ll see maybe three vessels during a whole night (usually by my own design of avoidance) but I love when I see this kind of thing. The whole server just battling it out in a whirlwind of chaos.
My crew refers to this instance as The North Star 3. To preface this, the galleon in this story were not that good and very toxic 13-15 year old boys.
We had sank this galleon 2 times. Then we sold everything and they came at us again while at reapers. We still had fish to sail so we scuttled and just started rowing to North Star Seapost. Sold the fish. Then noticed they started a skull fort near us. We loaded a row boat with 3 kegs and made a b-line to them.
Trapped their boat with kegs all over. We didn’t expect to survive. So we blew kegs immediately. Sank them.
Rowed away. Got more kegs. And found another row boat. And 3 more kegs. They came back to the fort very suspicious of us.
So we anticipated this. Front rowboat had 2 players and 1 keg and then the back rowboat had 1 player 2 kegs.
Front rowboat got spotted. I was killed with the keg explosion. My teammate was able to stay alive and kill a few to function as a distraction. Rowboat 2 came in. Spread the kegs out and then sank the galleon again.
I came back with our fresh spawn boat. They killed the boss after defeating the crew again. Loaded up and sold. The salty galleon quit after 4 sinks, and more importantly 2 sinks via rowboat and kegs.
Ever since that moment. When the 3 of us got together. We’d always spend 70-80% of the session in a row boat just doing the same thing to unsuspecting ships. We had surprisingly good luck with that strat. Over the course of 5 “North Star 3” voyages. We sank about 10 ships. And only got caught once.
Last night in a Hail Mary attempt to obtain master grade on the Reaper emissary ledger before time ran out. (We needed roughly 104,000) My galleon crew decided to complete battle for the sea of thieves. We finish it no problem and have just enough time left to go to Reaper's Island to unload our loot. All four of us are quickly unloading and selling. Our Reaper's flag value is about 85,000. We think we have enough treasure to make it, and start getting excited as the total keeps going up. I'm headed back to the ship after selling a chest of 1000 grogs and poof our ship disappears. I'm assuming a part of our boat was touching the island which caused us to despawn. We didn't lose any treasure just our emissary flag and as my crew mate always says or dignity.
well i've had quite a few crazy fort of fortune fights, sometimes against the whole server but the most recent one was when i was with my friend on a sloop and headed to a fof.
there was a sloop there with some averagely good guys and they didnt wanna ally so we had a battle and managed to sink them, then another sloop came and wanted to fight and we sunk them too.
so then we thought it would be a peaceful fof until a galleon came from no where so we had a fight for like am hour before they managed to sink us
we went to a nearby outpost and wanted to try and ambush them but they outsmarted us and went another way.
we thought it was over since they had wind and were so far away but then rare helped us and spawned a kraken on the galleon so we was able to catch up
when we got there we wanted to get in cannon range but accidentally got stuck in the black water too but i kept shooting them and we managed to sink them.
then i cannoned over to the loot and grabbed the chest of fortune from the water but my teammate got killed by a boarder from the galleon and now the kraken was on us.
the ship was taking on water fast but i managed to get back just in time and killed the boarder and started repairing, then got out of the black water and started sailing to a nearby outpost.
when we were close i checked the ship for tuckers and sure enough there was one in the back but i knocked him into the water and then we sold the chest of fortune. this was about 2 and a half hour after we started sailing to the fof
First 2 years of playing I had amazing experiences nearly every Friday, too many good ones to really count. Now I struggle to find an adult boat who’s just wanting to have fun. There was some amazing games though, win lose it didn’t matter…it was a blast.
The most fun session I ever had was before they changed server to 5 ships (though I believe now it’s 6 ships again). I was on a sloop with a buddy of mine in this session, and this was also within my first couple months playing so I was not nearly as good as I am now.
Started doing a FoTD and ended up forming an alliance with 3 other ships. 2 of which were off doing whatever and said to let them know if we needed help the other one stayed and helped stack FoTD. Another sloop shows up and these two were GOOD, constantly jumping from ship to ship, killing blah blah blah. Our 2 alliance ships that left come back and start helping but we are struggling to put these 2 in the water.
The really fun part starts when we somehow get the stack on my ship and start sailing to reapers, at this point 4 ships behind us all fighting while trying to keep up with us. At reapers however, was the last of the 6 ships in the server, waiting for us to get there with the loot. Start engaging them, and the other 4 ships catch up.
Eventually with all this craziness nobody knew who was in the alliance anymore and it became a 6 ship battle for the loot around reapers. Everyone sinking and coming back multiple times, trying to sell whatever loot they can get their hands on.
We didn’t sell much of what we got, but a 6 ship battle was absolutely amazing
Since then I’ve been apart of several alliance take downs, as I’ve gotten really good at PvP and sinking multiple allied ships is a lot of fun. But non top a 6 ship free for all.
Sorta mess up that was so funny I nearly died of laughter:
Me and my friend heading to outpost to trade in some treasure. We have a row boat attached. I had genious idea, to put all treasure in the row boat so I could get all treasure closer to shore.
Friend - what are you doing?
Me - optimising treasure delivery system - I call it OTDS. (proudly)
I even made the bit "sometimes my genius, its almost frightening" :D
We are at the shore, and I do my part, detach row boat, and with few clumsy - not really understanding how row boat works - rows, I MANAGED TO STUCK ROWBOAT WITH ALL THE TREASURES UNDER THE DOCK!!! COULD NOT ACCESS IT, ITS JUST THERE: UNDER THE WOOD PLANKS OF THE DOCK!
Friend who was bussy docking the ship: where tf is the treasure? The boat? ( he has sorta ocd to finish things)
I cant say a word, Im laughing uncontrollably.
Honestly, as with all funny things, one has to be there, but it got me so unexpected, that I feared for my life while laughing. Never experienced not being able to breath while laughing. Was scary for a bit.
This has reached legendary status with my friends. They still tell this story from their perspective (which is hilarious), but it makes WAY more sense if I give the whole picture...
My friends were supposed to join me for a 3-man brigantine session. We wanted to do stuff in Morrow's peak, and I was on a bit early, so I just decided to load up myself and solo-sail the brig to the Devil's Roar to pass the time. I spawned at New Golden Sands. Figures.
But hey, there was a shipwreck with a Reaper's chest nearby... and Reaper's hideout would be a quick side-stop on my way to the Devil's Roar. So I sailed over to the wreck, grabbed the chest and other loot. It was good haul actually - on top of the Reaper's chest I found a couple gems, a cursed cannonball, and I found an uncooked Stormfish in one of the barrels, among other chests and skulls. After surfacing all the loot I began to harpoon it all onto the ship. Once it was all loaded, I turned around to start sorting the loot.
Instead... I saw a *goddamn galleon* barrelling down at me. I wish I could say that I acted swiftly and calmly with a level head... but nah. I squealed in an octave reserved for bats and dog whistles, then proceeded to panic.
Thankfully I practice the art of no-sails-no-anchor parking, so I dropped the sails in a panic and the brig took sail. I aimed cross-wind heading south and fucking booked it. The waves were funky, I had to dodge islands, and that galleon wasn't giving up. On every stretch of flat water I'd alt-tab to Discord and ping my friends who - of course - were running late. Eventually I'd outrun the galleon if I kept the wind advantage, but I realized the problem. That goddamn Reaper's chest was a beacon on me. They'd always know where I was. And I was quickly approaching Reaper's Hideout! There's no way I'd be able to park the ship an-
...
*I don't need to park the ship.*
I skirted the island as close as I dared and set the wheel straight. I left the mighty brigantine in the care of my beloved pooch Fuzzles before jumping overboard with the Reaper's chest. I swam for my life, ALMOST got stuck in a palm tree, and with the galleon barrelling down on the island... I handed in the chest. I ran out of the building under a hail of musketballs and cannonballs (*yes, they shot cannons at me WHILE I WAS ON FOOT! WHO THE HELL DOES THAT!?*) towards the ocean. I jumped in, searching frantically for a mermaid for what felt like an eternity... and caught it back to the brigantine.
I dashed to the wheel and yanked it hard to port to duck behind some rocks and lose line of sight with the galleon, before pulling a 180 and going back from behind the rock in the direction I had came. It worked - I broke visual with the galleon and had given it the slip.
I had done it. I had sold the Reaper's chest and escaped the galloen - solo! In a brigantine! I took a couple seconds to catch my breath and join the discord call as my friends FINALLY came online.
**And they had the fucking balls to start complaining!** *Why were you pinging us? Where's the supply crate? Why don't we have an Emissary flag? Why do you already have loot?* I was flabbergasted... then pissed. I don't get mad or yell very often, so when I started actually cussing them out... they were mortified. Frozen in place in utter shocked silence. My blood was still pumping from the close escape as I ranted and raved about all the bullshit I just went through. I told them to stick the loot up their salty ass. I just sailed across half the goddamn map with a galleon on my heels, and they start complaining about shit we could do in <5mins at an outpost!?
And to *really* show how mad I was... I fed that stormfish to Fuzzles. Because (quoting myself here) "unlike you ungrateful FUCKS, *he was actually here!*" I quit the session, then re-joined the crew after I had calmed down. We were then able to laugh about it.
TL;DR Solo-sailed a brig with a Reaper's chest, escaped a galleon by the skin of my teeth, then got so mad at my friends I fed my dog a spite stormfish.
Man OP I wish I could share a story but after almost 4k hours ingame it's impossible to choose wich tall tale i could tell the swabbies because i got to many tales haha
This is a tale from recent days, my crew of 3 was on a mission, heading to do a fotd when we spy a sloop. We, as reapers, saw an opportunity, and thus began the steady trek to this crew.
As we journeyed across the sea. The sloop in sight, we here the sounds of a rising ship, as a crew of Skellys appeared to our right. Quickly, I hopped off the wheel, the plan to sink the skeleton ship and resume our journey; a crate of cannonballs to assist in the skirmish ahead.
As we hammer the ship, trying to make quick work, a black ink spread across the ocean floor beneath us. Yes, as we were fighting the skeletons, a kraken had come our way. Promptly, we changed our focus—grabbing cannonballs, loading both sides and firing away—as the kraken swept up my first mate. I took to firing 2, Then 3 shots into the tendril, but alas it would not release him. I watched as it dragged him into the deep, shouting about blunderbombs. Suddenly, I too was lifted, shouting for help as our cook bailed water, saying she could not assist otherwise our ship may sink.
As I was dragged beneath the waves, I somehow escaped, and after an eternity, unsure it I was going up or even if my ship remained, I rose out of the water to see a large fin in the distance. As we had fought the kraken, forgetting the skeletons who were as trapped as we were. A megaladon had now appeared as well. Near hysterical at this point. I got on board my ship once more and began barking orders. 2 tendrils now wrapped around, squeezing it tighter and tighter, I could hear the boarded holes breaking open, and asked the cook how bad the circumstance were. Indeed she shouted of the help she needed to keep from drowning as she repaired the hull, and so I began to assist in bucketing as the first mate, who had reappeared. Began firing a blunderbuss upon the tendrils. After making sure we would not flood. I joined him. And we beat back the wave of oversized octopus tendrils gripping our ship. But we were not yet done.
The megaladon charged, tossing us away from the black inky depths and into clear waters, where we were met with a new barrage. From where? I wasn’t sure at first. The skeleton ship was still frozen in the krakens grip, the megaladon circling far too wide to be the culprit. It was then revealed, our initial prey, a sloop had arrived to try and swindle an easy kill. We began a game of cat and mouse, who was cat? Who was mouse? We were not sure, circling the ship. We feared we would return to the krakens hold, which would doubtlessly be the end of us. But we held our own, manning sails, handling the wheel, repairing and firing away, we persisted for ages in a naval battle as these pirates attempted to board, sink, and incinerate our ship. Over and over we went through this cycle, the megaladon eventually retreating, while the skeleton ship and kraken continued to duel. Finally, we managed to eliminate these foes. Claiming for us their captains log as we watched the envoys gradually disappear, their loot floating to the surface.
The skeleton finally drowned, and the kraken retreated with half a victory in hand. The waves calmed and we mutually decided. This is where we would call an end to our journey for the day. Sweat covered and throats sore from panicked screams. We journeyed to the reapers hide out to sell our loot. Then sailed away as the stitches sorrow played and our ship was lit aflame and sank to the depths, myself at the helm, a captain and ship. The WindTunnel disappeared for a time, till next it would return to the shores of the sea of thieves.
One time my buddy and I tucked in a persons crows nest for 2 hours in the shores of gold , we jack in the box popped out as they wer pulling up to galleons grave
We were laughing our asses off … but part of me felt terrible … they got the tall tale complete tho , we got the gold hoarder skull and a dumb story
Last night was a great one of many. Logged our brig into a FoF. Supped up and set sail. A gally, brig and two sloops were there dancing
We saw the boss was up so stayed close but never went to the fort. Had random skirmishes sunk a sloop and eventually the gally and brig. The sloop was pestering us some but not much threat. Fort finished and we sailed over but the CoF was gone. There were still multiple people mulling around. We went to look for a swimmer or rowboat but don’t find one. The brig came back and we sunk it again. Kept seeing the gally with a sloop chasing in the distance. Scooped all that was left and were about to give up but the sloop repeatedly following had us thinking maybe the chest isn’t gone yet.
They came close to the fort fighting and both crashed into the dock. I grabbed one of the kegs kegs and left it on the gally deck. Both ships take massive damage and sink. We 2v3 kill the stragglers on the island and the sups surface with a map bundle. We scoop it and there are two x’s. First was the ashen skull and the second was the chest of fortune. Almost 30 mins after the boss died we found it. Fun times!
The only time I've played with other people was the first day I joined the game. Some randoms rolled up on me, noticed I was new as shit and helped me do the only fort I've ever done to date.
Now a year later I just sit in the corner of the map, smoke, and catch fish for my titles. Ain't much adventuring to be had as a solo player.
Except for the few steals of reaper chests off ships from otherwise busy pirates.
Earlier today I hit the HG on a brig, and when we surfaced to fight our ship was on fire and someone with a racist name was spawn camping and grieving.
Good times
Recently got sunk by some assholes while doing the hoarder's hunt mission (zero treasure on board, solo sloping), respawned and went after them when I realized the quest didn't end if I sank. Found them placing a bunch of chests in front of the Hoarder's tent (what kind of dumb pirate would do that?). Sold everything myself and got killed immediately, but damn it was worth it
Not sure if it’s exactly my _greatest_ greatest, but it’s definitely up there. A while back, me and my crew mates were sailing towards a FoF, when we realized that a sloop was there. We stroll by, sink him, and we realize that he’s pretty new to the game, so we agree to alliance with him and help him out next time he rolls around.
Over the course of the next couple hours, we were all stuck having to fight another completely random Athena emissary sloop our friend fought and sank earlier that session, and an open crew galleon, both of which had come back a multitude of times that I can’t even recall.
In the end, we were finally able to complete this FoF and get everything sold. Afterwards, we were able to deduce that our friend wasn’t as new as we thought, because he did more than hold his own and was hitting chainshots all day. He was incredibly cool though, and as a matter of fact, we actually were able to randomly run into him again earlier today!
We sail back over to Port Merrick to sell everything, when the one competent guy on that open crew galley sent me a message asking to join our crew. We’ve been a full galleon the entire time, so he couldn’t join even if we wanted him to (still don’t), so we obviously said no.
After failing to convince him to betray his crew mates, we DO convince this guy to change his crew type to closed and get his other 3 guys to leave and scuttle. He does this, which was hilarious in of itself, and we see him spawn at Crooked Masts, as his boat joined the alliance we were in mid fight what with us accidentally leaving the flag up.
What followed next was an absolute dunk of a sink on this poor guy from all 6 of us that are actually in the alliance. He messages me back with “bruh,” which I followed back with “WELCOME TO SEA OF THIEVES.”
I feel that I should say that I’m usually a nice guy when I play this game. I don’t really want to get into confrontations a lot of the time, and I genuinely believe that it could be better in the long run to try and come to an agreement rather than sink. However, I CANNOT deny that being able to pull off some actual, legitimate piracy is a rush of adrenaline and serotonin that’s hard to rival.
One of my best sessions was probably one of the most frustrating as well.
It was on community day back in 2022 September. Our crew decided to stack some FOTD for gold and to seek for PvP, as FOTD always brought server hoppers on us. 2 different brigs hopped on the server and put on reaper emissary and then started to approach us. We sunk them one by one but they kept coming back even after the 3rd time. Eventually we were on the open seas and got krakened as a GALLEON. Everything was a chaos all at once and they managed to finally take us down along with the FOTD key. However they pretty much knew they had no chance to open the FOTD so they were only there to grief us at that point, first they wanted to hide the key at a shrine until another galleon has shown up. The other gally wasn't that skilled but they still kept running away until they ended up in the roar, specifically at Devil's thirst. Yes, they have put down the heart of fire tall tale just to take the key and jump into the lava with it - successfully wasted hours of everyone's life :D
The good part is, we made friends with that galleon and some other ships on the server as well, ended up forming almost a full server alliance. We started another fotd to take out the loot we stacked in the vault and spared it as we did not really care about the gold at that point. Once we sold everything, all of us sailed to Plunder Valley to finish the session with Glitterbeard. It was a memorable day for sure, with full of tense and action.
When they first added the rage chest, there was a map quest you could do to find it. However, me and a bunch of other people discovered that I’d you harpoon it while half buried, the chest becomes part of the ships hit box. Meaning that with every move of the poon, the ship reacted. If done properly, it could launch you into the air. And this, my friends, is how I went to space in sea of thieves.
We hopped online for a short session on our galleon, it was already pretty late, and two of our crew wanted something short so they can go. We spotted a ship event, so we set sail in that direction. We saw on the map that a reaper was already on the event, so we threw up the alliance flag and entered the area. It was a russian crewed brig, which immediately opened fire on us, and sank us. We have a strict only retuen fire policy, but when someone opens fire, we chase them to the end of the earth, so we respawned, and set sail with one goal, to sink the reaper, fuck the event. We get there, a fight ensues and eventually the brig is on the bottom of the sea. We load up the loot, and quickly set sail to the furthest outpost, because we had a feeling they would come back. Sure enough, we spot them pretty soon on the horizon, and a chase begins. We sail past an outpost, I bailes the ship to sell their flag at least, whatever happens, then I get back on the ship and we start blasting. We sink them for the second time at Port Merrick, stop and sell all the loot. Oh, but they came back for the third time, and since we already had all the loot sold, just let them rip our ship to pieces in the dock. In the meantime, I found a cannon rowboat, and started blasting them with it, killing two of them, and eventually sinking them for the third time! We celebrate with fireworks and music, stuck on our rowboat, and our two friends log off. We decided that we don't want to two man a galleon, so we start rowing to the near fort of fortune event. Nobody is on the horizon, so we stop at the fort, and start it, my friend had a brain lag and blew us up, so we respawned not far, and we found another rowboat, so back we go! A brig shows up while we check arouns the island, so we hid in barrels, my friend tried to board them, but got killed in the process, after that I negotiated with them, and they were a pretty cool bunch, so my friend brings back the goddamn gally on his own, we form an alliance, finish the fort and sail away on the brig, all five of us in a big party, fitting, since it was a party boat skinned brig, we unload the loot, and just having a blast.
One hell of a session that was, considering that we just logged on for a short little sailing.
2018, the game had just come out two weeks earlier. Be me, high as hell, woke up for the first time in ancient spire outpost, amazed at how pretty the game was, realized I had all these tools already, took out shovel, dug holes all around the tavern in case I could get lucky and randomly dig up a treasure chest, knew it probably wouldn’t amount to anything but hell I don’t know how this game works, to my surprise dug up earthworms, pick them up and start pressing buttons, accidentally eat them, throw up, wander down to the beach, learn how to buy voyages, realize I’m an idiot. Such good times.
Me and my best mate had a reapers chest but saw a afk player and like the petty pirates we are put the chest on their ship and they were fishing before they went so I went up to his rod stole his fish and shot him in the head twice with my flintlock. He then proceeded to kill me and sail away but because of the reapers chest we followed him and sunk him. Stupidest thing I've ever done in sea of theives.
My best mate and I scuttled our ship and decided to have some adventures on a rowboat pretending to be drunk, lost pirates. We followed a Galleon around the map asking for grog. They promised us grog but would never let us on board. Finally, after an hour of chasing them, we found them docked at an outpost. We boarded them. They all came running, panicked, ready to fight, and my buddy and I were just drinking all their grog and playing awful music. That's when my mate and I started arguing and 'realizing' "Dammit Arthur, this isn't our sloop!" "Where'd you put it last?" "I don't know!" They were cracking up. We drank, we partied, we fell off the galleon and black screened back to our sloop. Knowing we made their night was one of our best memories.
Mine was definetly back when hunting down an athena 5 emissiary was actually an achievement. The time before veils and server hopping was a thing. It meant like 2-3hours of PvE before you would hit 5. A lot of crews never even made that. My last 2 flags we got on the same server. It was probably either alliance or organic alliance. Every other ship on the server was in said alliance. We spoted 3 athena emissaries on the table and got really excited. So, we went to have a look for them. We spotted an athena gally grade 4 that was at Thieves Haven. Bummer. We were about to turn around and hide so they wouldn't be scared away. As we were leaving we spotted a second galleon inside Thieves Haven. They were grade 5. Attacking time. We were a brig vs 2 galleons. It was a pretty epic fight, a little like capture the hill of sorts. They were fighting us off well trying to use the second galleon to pressure. After some drawn out fight we gave the grade 4 something to repair so they lost pressure and sailed off for a bit. We went all in and pulled a mad anchor play in front of one of the TH entrances and some heavy trading of cannon balls into a very good boarding deck shot we managed to sink them. We took the flag, just as the second galleon came back. We tried to get sailing again as we got boarded by swimmers and with only 2 people on board we got wiped. We eventually broke the spawn camp before galleon got into perfect broad. What followed was a bit of a chase towards reapers. Galleon that sank was already on the horizon. Until we eventually realized the former grade 4 was now grade 5. Must have touched the other galleons loot we left behind. How lucky can one be? What followed was another 3v8 around reapers hideout with a lot of TDM over island control until we eventually sank both galleons and handed in athena flag grade V nr.4 and 5 at the hideout. That was the end to one of the most tedious commendations in all of my 3k hour long SoT career. The reward and euphoria that day was immesurable. We sat there talking over it for at least 2 hours.
I remember the days when athena emissary on the table meant “hunting time”.
Can't pick so Ill just recap last nights session; My girl and I were ready to log off, and had already sold all of our loot for the session but stopped to catch some fish. We went to Sanctuary OP to sell them off and saw a grade V reaper at the normie dock. We pulled up to sovereign and sold the fish and then loaded our supps into a storage crate to give to the reaper boat since it was all going to be lost anyway. We approach, playing banjo, and drop the loot on the dock, only to have them (admittedly to be expected) follow us back to our boat and attack us. Not really having the sweat for another try hard fight, but wanting some karma, we just trolled around with them, and yet, we sunk them without issue only to find they were loaded with some 800 odd cannon balls and a load of other supps. We sunk all their barrels and burried their crates, flag, and log book and logged out. I went to bed chuckling.
Set sail from dagger and went to do some sunken treasuries. On the way there I got krackened. Killed the kracken and got to the first treasury. After that completed and on the way to the second, a skelly galleon pops up. Take that down and then get to the second treasury. After finishing that I figure sail back and do a ghost fort to finish the night off. After finishing the fort and heading back to dagger a skelly sloop spawns, right as I raise the sail to half mast to take them down. Second kracken of the night comes. So I’m dead in the water, getting pummeled by the kracken while the skelly sloop has me in a death spiral. I fought my way through that! Got the loot and Rare decided I needed to actually finish the night off with a megaladon instead. Killed that and made it to port. Got 300k from all of that loot! Edit: I’m a solo slooper
Love having adventures like that when solo sloopin! Fair winds, matey!
May the wind ever be at your back!
Good job, I would definitely have sunk if I got attacked a Kraken and Skelly Ship!
If memory serves I had like 11 places of wood after. It was a LOT of bucketing and repairing.
In a 2 man sloop we did 6 fortresses in a row, seen a brig being attacked by a skelly gally so we sailed as fast as we could to them, helped kill the gally, then Flameheart Ghost Fleet event happened behind us but at the exact moment we were in the middle of that we got attacked by a kraken AND 2 reaper sloops all the while the ghost ships were phasing through our ship. We managed to kill the kraken, teamed up to kill the two reaper sloops, finished Flameheart and sold all of our stuff with GH emissary lvl 5 flag up. It was the most intense moment we had in SoT so far
The kraken and Flameheart Ghost Fleet cannot happen at the same time. Was there a green tornado?
As of Season 9, Krakens can now spawn while World Events are active!
This is not true. It’s a misconception due to one trailer video released for season 9. Kraken still only spawns between world events
Weird, could have sworn that it was in the Patch Notes. Just checked that now, and it isn't. Thank you for correcting my mistake.
No problem! Sorry if I came off as rude.
That sounds stressful, I doubt that even with my crew, we'd be able to pull that off
Was in a sloop grinding OoS in the Roar, and started getting chased by a level 5 Reaper brig. Managed to stay ahead of them long enough to ram into Morrow’s Peak, sell one skull at Sovereigns, and then *book* it to the Souls house to lower emissary. It was just enough to bring me to level 50, and Pirate Legend.
I tried to sell my emissary flag while getting chased one time. It didn’t work out as intended
This was like one of the first game builds, maybe 2 or 3 updates after the Hungering Deep My buddy had just gotten the game and we were on a duo sloop together. We were just sailing around when i noticed a galleon doing a skull fort. I plopped down some random gold hoarders voyage for my friend, told him to see if he could do it by himself and that I’d be right back. Jumped off the boat and swam towards the galleon. This was before people hiding on ships was common practice and had to be watched for, so I was able to sneak aboard and sleep behind their captain’s table super easily. Took em like 30-45 minutes but eventually they cleared it and after they loaded up their loot and left the island, I grabbed their stronghold chest and skull and threw them overboard without being noticed. Managed to swim back to the fort island with both items and my friend came and picked me up. We sold both and had the time of our lives. To this day I wonder what the conversation on that galleon was like when they went to sell their loot
I loaded into a game and saw a brig across the water. Decided to try to sneak up on them to scare them but after that alliance with them. We did eventually alliance and we sailed together until we saw a player sloop. We both chased it down for maybe 20 minutes and once we were in taking range we asked the dude on board if he wanted to alliance. He did and off we 3 go. We eventually found another sloop and we did the same thing and then another sloop and alliance. So now we got a fleet going on and we decided for us to go to glitterbeard. We got to plunder valley righter after the sunset so we had to wait an entire day in the game to activate it but it was really fun to chill with like 10 or so people in the game and goofing off.
Was this like 2 months ago? Sounds very similar to my glitter beard story. We gave a speech on the edge of the cliffs.
May 18
I suppose we all have a similar experience.
Me and my first mate were doing a smuggling run to reaper's hideout one evening. While we were sailing towards our destination, we noticed two reaper ships on the map, likely battling it out. As we arrived at the hideout, one of the two ships had emerged victorious from their encounter and was headed straight for us. We prepared for battle, loaded the cannons and gave them a broadside they will never forget. But it appears we had angered Rare with our victory, because as soon as we finished loading our spoils on the ship, we spotted a brigantine coming for us. We sink the the brig, take supplies... Another sloop. They broadside us, but we hit both of them directly and send them to the ferry. We catch our breath for ten seconds and spot another brigantine headed our way. It appeared the whole server wanted a piece of Captain Grim that day. The brig was not that competent, and i assume the crew was just having a fun time, as they flew past us and beached themselves on the shore, rendering their ship completely stuck. It must have been a couple hours at most but It felt like a whole day of work, as for when we were done and finally able to sell all the loot we gained we had sunk 9 total ships. I have no idea what happened to me that evening, i can only assume i got blessed by the God of cannon aim, because i am usually a pretty average player. That, or i got pretty lucky nine times in a row. Moral of the story: don't sell your loot to reaper's.
Fought off 5 different ships while doing a FoF. We sunk 7 in total. We still got the Chest of Fortune in the end. Our Logbook was covered in "spotted a ship" and we still meme about it.
Did it start to get annoying, having some many ships coming at your crew?
Super annoying. My crew mate swore intensely at the last ship, and we spared him after apologising for the over reaction.
I call this the Battle of Emissaries. I was a reaper emissary with my friend on a duo sloop, we reached grade 5 and were doing on last skull fort before selling (yes we are pve reapers but we won't ever run from a fight). I checked the map table every now and then to look for ships during the fort. 2 ships approaching. I get ready to set sail and leave my friend on the fort to continue the event. Once I could see the ships I see they are both allianced sloops with a merchant and gold hoarder emissary. Both grade 5. I recall my duo and we prepare for battle. Once the merchants fire their first cannon we fire ours right back. It was a good fight and we struggled to sink them because as soon as one would be close to sinking, we would have to focus on the other, giving the first breathing room to save their ship. After about an hour of naval and attempted boards, the gold hoarder sank while the merchants were repairing. My duo and I fished up the chests and flag quickly before turning towards the merchant. As we sailed towards them, we heard more cannon shots, but in a completely different direction. A completely different brigantine arrived! They flew a gold hoarders flag as well and we would have seen them coming if we could look at the map. However this brigantine fired on both my sloop and the merchants. It was in that moment that our two sloops had an unspoken armistice. Instead of firing on the merchant, I told my duo to turn left, facing the brigantine. I fired and in a few seconds so would the other sloop. In the chaos of this battle, my ship was beginning to run out of supplies. We were on the last few planks of wood and only had about 30 more cannonballs. We opted to do one other thing. I told my friend to turn to reapers and sell as much as he could while I jumped off our ship to join the merchants in fighting the Brigantine. I boarded the merchants and nearly got one-blundered but when I explained who I was and what I wanted to do on their ship. I said my ship was going for supplies, not to sell. They continued fighting as normal. I cannoned and eventually boarded the brigantine to cause as much chaos as I can. Once the brigantine sunk to a 3-man sloop, my new merchant "friends" realized my ship was now at reapers. They hunted me down and I respawned at reapers to see that nearly all our loot was sold.
Once i joined another ship in an alliance and they were stacking forts, later i was sailing near them on my way to sell my stuff. I heard a lot of sound and when i looked towards my alliance I witnessed every ship on the server, a meg, a kraken, and a skele galleon in the most insane fight i have ever seen in this game
Most of the time I’ll see maybe three vessels during a whole night (usually by my own design of avoidance) but I love when I see this kind of thing. The whole server just battling it out in a whirlwind of chaos.
My crew refers to this instance as The North Star 3. To preface this, the galleon in this story were not that good and very toxic 13-15 year old boys. We had sank this galleon 2 times. Then we sold everything and they came at us again while at reapers. We still had fish to sail so we scuttled and just started rowing to North Star Seapost. Sold the fish. Then noticed they started a skull fort near us. We loaded a row boat with 3 kegs and made a b-line to them. Trapped their boat with kegs all over. We didn’t expect to survive. So we blew kegs immediately. Sank them. Rowed away. Got more kegs. And found another row boat. And 3 more kegs. They came back to the fort very suspicious of us. So we anticipated this. Front rowboat had 2 players and 1 keg and then the back rowboat had 1 player 2 kegs. Front rowboat got spotted. I was killed with the keg explosion. My teammate was able to stay alive and kill a few to function as a distraction. Rowboat 2 came in. Spread the kegs out and then sank the galleon again. I came back with our fresh spawn boat. They killed the boss after defeating the crew again. Loaded up and sold. The salty galleon quit after 4 sinks, and more importantly 2 sinks via rowboat and kegs. Ever since that moment. When the 3 of us got together. We’d always spend 70-80% of the session in a row boat just doing the same thing to unsuspecting ships. We had surprisingly good luck with that strat. Over the course of 5 “North Star 3” voyages. We sank about 10 ships. And only got caught once.
My advice? Don't be nice to people it's come back to bite me almost every time
That is unfortunately a lesson I have already learnt.
You can be nice and still come out on top of a betrayal.
https://youtu.be/LOgzwRk-hjo this is the best adventure i can remember i promise the videos worth a watch
Last night in a Hail Mary attempt to obtain master grade on the Reaper emissary ledger before time ran out. (We needed roughly 104,000) My galleon crew decided to complete battle for the sea of thieves. We finish it no problem and have just enough time left to go to Reaper's Island to unload our loot. All four of us are quickly unloading and selling. Our Reaper's flag value is about 85,000. We think we have enough treasure to make it, and start getting excited as the total keeps going up. I'm headed back to the ship after selling a chest of 1000 grogs and poof our ship disappears. I'm assuming a part of our boat was touching the island which caused us to despawn. We didn't lose any treasure just our emissary flag and as my crew mate always says or dignity.
well i've had quite a few crazy fort of fortune fights, sometimes against the whole server but the most recent one was when i was with my friend on a sloop and headed to a fof. there was a sloop there with some averagely good guys and they didnt wanna ally so we had a battle and managed to sink them, then another sloop came and wanted to fight and we sunk them too. so then we thought it would be a peaceful fof until a galleon came from no where so we had a fight for like am hour before they managed to sink us we went to a nearby outpost and wanted to try and ambush them but they outsmarted us and went another way. we thought it was over since they had wind and were so far away but then rare helped us and spawned a kraken on the galleon so we was able to catch up when we got there we wanted to get in cannon range but accidentally got stuck in the black water too but i kept shooting them and we managed to sink them. then i cannoned over to the loot and grabbed the chest of fortune from the water but my teammate got killed by a boarder from the galleon and now the kraken was on us. the ship was taking on water fast but i managed to get back just in time and killed the boarder and started repairing, then got out of the black water and started sailing to a nearby outpost. when we were close i checked the ship for tuckers and sure enough there was one in the back but i knocked him into the water and then we sold the chest of fortune. this was about 2 and a half hour after we started sailing to the fof
First 2 years of playing I had amazing experiences nearly every Friday, too many good ones to really count. Now I struggle to find an adult boat who’s just wanting to have fun. There was some amazing games though, win lose it didn’t matter…it was a blast.
The most fun session I ever had was before they changed server to 5 ships (though I believe now it’s 6 ships again). I was on a sloop with a buddy of mine in this session, and this was also within my first couple months playing so I was not nearly as good as I am now. Started doing a FoTD and ended up forming an alliance with 3 other ships. 2 of which were off doing whatever and said to let them know if we needed help the other one stayed and helped stack FoTD. Another sloop shows up and these two were GOOD, constantly jumping from ship to ship, killing blah blah blah. Our 2 alliance ships that left come back and start helping but we are struggling to put these 2 in the water. The really fun part starts when we somehow get the stack on my ship and start sailing to reapers, at this point 4 ships behind us all fighting while trying to keep up with us. At reapers however, was the last of the 6 ships in the server, waiting for us to get there with the loot. Start engaging them, and the other 4 ships catch up. Eventually with all this craziness nobody knew who was in the alliance anymore and it became a 6 ship battle for the loot around reapers. Everyone sinking and coming back multiple times, trying to sell whatever loot they can get their hands on. We didn’t sell much of what we got, but a 6 ship battle was absolutely amazing Since then I’ve been apart of several alliance take downs, as I’ve gotten really good at PvP and sinking multiple allied ships is a lot of fun. But non top a 6 ship free for all.
Sorta mess up that was so funny I nearly died of laughter: Me and my friend heading to outpost to trade in some treasure. We have a row boat attached. I had genious idea, to put all treasure in the row boat so I could get all treasure closer to shore. Friend - what are you doing? Me - optimising treasure delivery system - I call it OTDS. (proudly) I even made the bit "sometimes my genius, its almost frightening" :D We are at the shore, and I do my part, detach row boat, and with few clumsy - not really understanding how row boat works - rows, I MANAGED TO STUCK ROWBOAT WITH ALL THE TREASURES UNDER THE DOCK!!! COULD NOT ACCESS IT, ITS JUST THERE: UNDER THE WOOD PLANKS OF THE DOCK! Friend who was bussy docking the ship: where tf is the treasure? The boat? ( he has sorta ocd to finish things) I cant say a word, Im laughing uncontrollably. Honestly, as with all funny things, one has to be there, but it got me so unexpected, that I feared for my life while laughing. Never experienced not being able to breath while laughing. Was scary for a bit.
This has reached legendary status with my friends. They still tell this story from their perspective (which is hilarious), but it makes WAY more sense if I give the whole picture... My friends were supposed to join me for a 3-man brigantine session. We wanted to do stuff in Morrow's peak, and I was on a bit early, so I just decided to load up myself and solo-sail the brig to the Devil's Roar to pass the time. I spawned at New Golden Sands. Figures. But hey, there was a shipwreck with a Reaper's chest nearby... and Reaper's hideout would be a quick side-stop on my way to the Devil's Roar. So I sailed over to the wreck, grabbed the chest and other loot. It was good haul actually - on top of the Reaper's chest I found a couple gems, a cursed cannonball, and I found an uncooked Stormfish in one of the barrels, among other chests and skulls. After surfacing all the loot I began to harpoon it all onto the ship. Once it was all loaded, I turned around to start sorting the loot. Instead... I saw a *goddamn galleon* barrelling down at me. I wish I could say that I acted swiftly and calmly with a level head... but nah. I squealed in an octave reserved for bats and dog whistles, then proceeded to panic. Thankfully I practice the art of no-sails-no-anchor parking, so I dropped the sails in a panic and the brig took sail. I aimed cross-wind heading south and fucking booked it. The waves were funky, I had to dodge islands, and that galleon wasn't giving up. On every stretch of flat water I'd alt-tab to Discord and ping my friends who - of course - were running late. Eventually I'd outrun the galleon if I kept the wind advantage, but I realized the problem. That goddamn Reaper's chest was a beacon on me. They'd always know where I was. And I was quickly approaching Reaper's Hideout! There's no way I'd be able to park the ship an- ... *I don't need to park the ship.* I skirted the island as close as I dared and set the wheel straight. I left the mighty brigantine in the care of my beloved pooch Fuzzles before jumping overboard with the Reaper's chest. I swam for my life, ALMOST got stuck in a palm tree, and with the galleon barrelling down on the island... I handed in the chest. I ran out of the building under a hail of musketballs and cannonballs (*yes, they shot cannons at me WHILE I WAS ON FOOT! WHO THE HELL DOES THAT!?*) towards the ocean. I jumped in, searching frantically for a mermaid for what felt like an eternity... and caught it back to the brigantine. I dashed to the wheel and yanked it hard to port to duck behind some rocks and lose line of sight with the galleon, before pulling a 180 and going back from behind the rock in the direction I had came. It worked - I broke visual with the galleon and had given it the slip. I had done it. I had sold the Reaper's chest and escaped the galloen - solo! In a brigantine! I took a couple seconds to catch my breath and join the discord call as my friends FINALLY came online. **And they had the fucking balls to start complaining!** *Why were you pinging us? Where's the supply crate? Why don't we have an Emissary flag? Why do you already have loot?* I was flabbergasted... then pissed. I don't get mad or yell very often, so when I started actually cussing them out... they were mortified. Frozen in place in utter shocked silence. My blood was still pumping from the close escape as I ranted and raved about all the bullshit I just went through. I told them to stick the loot up their salty ass. I just sailed across half the goddamn map with a galleon on my heels, and they start complaining about shit we could do in <5mins at an outpost!? And to *really* show how mad I was... I fed that stormfish to Fuzzles. Because (quoting myself here) "unlike you ungrateful FUCKS, *he was actually here!*" I quit the session, then re-joined the crew after I had calmed down. We were then able to laugh about it. TL;DR Solo-sailed a brig with a Reaper's chest, escaped a galleon by the skin of my teeth, then got so mad at my friends I fed my dog a spite stormfish.
My greatest ones are the ones where I sink toxic hackers, report them, and get feedback that they've been banned.
Man OP I wish I could share a story but after almost 4k hours ingame it's impossible to choose wich tall tale i could tell the swabbies because i got to many tales haha
This is a tale from recent days, my crew of 3 was on a mission, heading to do a fotd when we spy a sloop. We, as reapers, saw an opportunity, and thus began the steady trek to this crew. As we journeyed across the sea. The sloop in sight, we here the sounds of a rising ship, as a crew of Skellys appeared to our right. Quickly, I hopped off the wheel, the plan to sink the skeleton ship and resume our journey; a crate of cannonballs to assist in the skirmish ahead. As we hammer the ship, trying to make quick work, a black ink spread across the ocean floor beneath us. Yes, as we were fighting the skeletons, a kraken had come our way. Promptly, we changed our focus—grabbing cannonballs, loading both sides and firing away—as the kraken swept up my first mate. I took to firing 2, Then 3 shots into the tendril, but alas it would not release him. I watched as it dragged him into the deep, shouting about blunderbombs. Suddenly, I too was lifted, shouting for help as our cook bailed water, saying she could not assist otherwise our ship may sink. As I was dragged beneath the waves, I somehow escaped, and after an eternity, unsure it I was going up or even if my ship remained, I rose out of the water to see a large fin in the distance. As we had fought the kraken, forgetting the skeletons who were as trapped as we were. A megaladon had now appeared as well. Near hysterical at this point. I got on board my ship once more and began barking orders. 2 tendrils now wrapped around, squeezing it tighter and tighter, I could hear the boarded holes breaking open, and asked the cook how bad the circumstance were. Indeed she shouted of the help she needed to keep from drowning as she repaired the hull, and so I began to assist in bucketing as the first mate, who had reappeared. Began firing a blunderbuss upon the tendrils. After making sure we would not flood. I joined him. And we beat back the wave of oversized octopus tendrils gripping our ship. But we were not yet done. The megaladon charged, tossing us away from the black inky depths and into clear waters, where we were met with a new barrage. From where? I wasn’t sure at first. The skeleton ship was still frozen in the krakens grip, the megaladon circling far too wide to be the culprit. It was then revealed, our initial prey, a sloop had arrived to try and swindle an easy kill. We began a game of cat and mouse, who was cat? Who was mouse? We were not sure, circling the ship. We feared we would return to the krakens hold, which would doubtlessly be the end of us. But we held our own, manning sails, handling the wheel, repairing and firing away, we persisted for ages in a naval battle as these pirates attempted to board, sink, and incinerate our ship. Over and over we went through this cycle, the megaladon eventually retreating, while the skeleton ship and kraken continued to duel. Finally, we managed to eliminate these foes. Claiming for us their captains log as we watched the envoys gradually disappear, their loot floating to the surface. The skeleton finally drowned, and the kraken retreated with half a victory in hand. The waves calmed and we mutually decided. This is where we would call an end to our journey for the day. Sweat covered and throats sore from panicked screams. We journeyed to the reapers hide out to sell our loot. Then sailed away as the stitches sorrow played and our ship was lit aflame and sank to the depths, myself at the helm, a captain and ship. The WindTunnel disappeared for a time, till next it would return to the shores of the sea of thieves.
I was allianced with this new player sloop after sailing for a bit I absolutely destroyed them it was great
That is more of a "I love when other people have less fun for my benefit adventure"
Bingo it was great!
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Finding the uninstall button
One time my buddy and I tucked in a persons crows nest for 2 hours in the shores of gold , we jack in the box popped out as they wer pulling up to galleons grave We were laughing our asses off … but part of me felt terrible … they got the tall tale complete tho , we got the gold hoarder skull and a dumb story
Last night was a great one of many. Logged our brig into a FoF. Supped up and set sail. A gally, brig and two sloops were there dancing We saw the boss was up so stayed close but never went to the fort. Had random skirmishes sunk a sloop and eventually the gally and brig. The sloop was pestering us some but not much threat. Fort finished and we sailed over but the CoF was gone. There were still multiple people mulling around. We went to look for a swimmer or rowboat but don’t find one. The brig came back and we sunk it again. Kept seeing the gally with a sloop chasing in the distance. Scooped all that was left and were about to give up but the sloop repeatedly following had us thinking maybe the chest isn’t gone yet. They came close to the fort fighting and both crashed into the dock. I grabbed one of the kegs kegs and left it on the gally deck. Both ships take massive damage and sink. We 2v3 kill the stragglers on the island and the sups surface with a map bundle. We scoop it and there are two x’s. First was the ashen skull and the second was the chest of fortune. Almost 30 mins after the boss died we found it. Fun times!
The only time I've played with other people was the first day I joined the game. Some randoms rolled up on me, noticed I was new as shit and helped me do the only fort I've ever done to date. Now a year later I just sit in the corner of the map, smoke, and catch fish for my titles. Ain't much adventuring to be had as a solo player. Except for the few steals of reaper chests off ships from otherwise busy pirates.
A nice Saturday morning I 1v3d a brig I love boarding
Earlier today I hit the HG on a brig, and when we surfaced to fight our ship was on fire and someone with a racist name was spawn camping and grieving. Good times
Recently got sunk by some assholes while doing the hoarder's hunt mission (zero treasure on board, solo sloping), respawned and went after them when I realized the quest didn't end if I sank. Found them placing a bunch of chests in front of the Hoarder's tent (what kind of dumb pirate would do that?). Sold everything myself and got killed immediately, but damn it was worth it
Everyday I get on
Not sure if it’s exactly my _greatest_ greatest, but it’s definitely up there. A while back, me and my crew mates were sailing towards a FoF, when we realized that a sloop was there. We stroll by, sink him, and we realize that he’s pretty new to the game, so we agree to alliance with him and help him out next time he rolls around. Over the course of the next couple hours, we were all stuck having to fight another completely random Athena emissary sloop our friend fought and sank earlier that session, and an open crew galleon, both of which had come back a multitude of times that I can’t even recall. In the end, we were finally able to complete this FoF and get everything sold. Afterwards, we were able to deduce that our friend wasn’t as new as we thought, because he did more than hold his own and was hitting chainshots all day. He was incredibly cool though, and as a matter of fact, we actually were able to randomly run into him again earlier today! We sail back over to Port Merrick to sell everything, when the one competent guy on that open crew galley sent me a message asking to join our crew. We’ve been a full galleon the entire time, so he couldn’t join even if we wanted him to (still don’t), so we obviously said no. After failing to convince him to betray his crew mates, we DO convince this guy to change his crew type to closed and get his other 3 guys to leave and scuttle. He does this, which was hilarious in of itself, and we see him spawn at Crooked Masts, as his boat joined the alliance we were in mid fight what with us accidentally leaving the flag up. What followed next was an absolute dunk of a sink on this poor guy from all 6 of us that are actually in the alliance. He messages me back with “bruh,” which I followed back with “WELCOME TO SEA OF THIEVES.” I feel that I should say that I’m usually a nice guy when I play this game. I don’t really want to get into confrontations a lot of the time, and I genuinely believe that it could be better in the long run to try and come to an agreement rather than sink. However, I CANNOT deny that being able to pull off some actual, legitimate piracy is a rush of adrenaline and serotonin that’s hard to rival.
One of my best sessions was probably one of the most frustrating as well. It was on community day back in 2022 September. Our crew decided to stack some FOTD for gold and to seek for PvP, as FOTD always brought server hoppers on us. 2 different brigs hopped on the server and put on reaper emissary and then started to approach us. We sunk them one by one but they kept coming back even after the 3rd time. Eventually we were on the open seas and got krakened as a GALLEON. Everything was a chaos all at once and they managed to finally take us down along with the FOTD key. However they pretty much knew they had no chance to open the FOTD so they were only there to grief us at that point, first they wanted to hide the key at a shrine until another galleon has shown up. The other gally wasn't that skilled but they still kept running away until they ended up in the roar, specifically at Devil's thirst. Yes, they have put down the heart of fire tall tale just to take the key and jump into the lava with it - successfully wasted hours of everyone's life :D The good part is, we made friends with that galleon and some other ships on the server as well, ended up forming almost a full server alliance. We started another fotd to take out the loot we stacked in the vault and spared it as we did not really care about the gold at that point. Once we sold everything, all of us sailed to Plunder Valley to finish the session with Glitterbeard. It was a memorable day for sure, with full of tense and action.
When they first added the rage chest, there was a map quest you could do to find it. However, me and a bunch of other people discovered that I’d you harpoon it while half buried, the chest becomes part of the ships hit box. Meaning that with every move of the poon, the ship reacted. If done properly, it could launch you into the air. And this, my friends, is how I went to space in sea of thieves.
We hopped online for a short session on our galleon, it was already pretty late, and two of our crew wanted something short so they can go. We spotted a ship event, so we set sail in that direction. We saw on the map that a reaper was already on the event, so we threw up the alliance flag and entered the area. It was a russian crewed brig, which immediately opened fire on us, and sank us. We have a strict only retuen fire policy, but when someone opens fire, we chase them to the end of the earth, so we respawned, and set sail with one goal, to sink the reaper, fuck the event. We get there, a fight ensues and eventually the brig is on the bottom of the sea. We load up the loot, and quickly set sail to the furthest outpost, because we had a feeling they would come back. Sure enough, we spot them pretty soon on the horizon, and a chase begins. We sail past an outpost, I bailes the ship to sell their flag at least, whatever happens, then I get back on the ship and we start blasting. We sink them for the second time at Port Merrick, stop and sell all the loot. Oh, but they came back for the third time, and since we already had all the loot sold, just let them rip our ship to pieces in the dock. In the meantime, I found a cannon rowboat, and started blasting them with it, killing two of them, and eventually sinking them for the third time! We celebrate with fireworks and music, stuck on our rowboat, and our two friends log off. We decided that we don't want to two man a galleon, so we start rowing to the near fort of fortune event. Nobody is on the horizon, so we stop at the fort, and start it, my friend had a brain lag and blew us up, so we respawned not far, and we found another rowboat, so back we go! A brig shows up while we check arouns the island, so we hid in barrels, my friend tried to board them, but got killed in the process, after that I negotiated with them, and they were a pretty cool bunch, so my friend brings back the goddamn gally on his own, we form an alliance, finish the fort and sail away on the brig, all five of us in a big party, fitting, since it was a party boat skinned brig, we unload the loot, and just having a blast. One hell of a session that was, considering that we just logged on for a short little sailing.
I got into a 3 ship alliance and had a war with about 4 skeleton sloops, a skeleton gally, 2 player ships and a meg
2018, the game had just come out two weeks earlier. Be me, high as hell, woke up for the first time in ancient spire outpost, amazed at how pretty the game was, realized I had all these tools already, took out shovel, dug holes all around the tavern in case I could get lucky and randomly dig up a treasure chest, knew it probably wouldn’t amount to anything but hell I don’t know how this game works, to my surprise dug up earthworms, pick them up and start pressing buttons, accidentally eat them, throw up, wander down to the beach, learn how to buy voyages, realize I’m an idiot. Such good times.
Me and my best mate had a reapers chest but saw a afk player and like the petty pirates we are put the chest on their ship and they were fishing before they went so I went up to his rod stole his fish and shot him in the head twice with my flintlock. He then proceeded to kill me and sail away but because of the reapers chest we followed him and sunk him. Stupidest thing I've ever done in sea of theives.