Ahoy! me arse barnacles, who’s game for some messing about on the water after 8:30 tonight? If you see the boarding party, jump on. Boozy has just confirmed his passage to me.

(I should probably ask the boss first)

How did you get on?

Had a sail with my son and nephew last night, utterly impossible to manage them but a good laugh anyway. Ended up doing the first Shroudbreaker tall tale which took twice as long as when I did it solo

Battle of the sea of thieves was intense

Beautiful random adventure and post hair haha
I recently just started going with the wind and doing random shit do a mission but tackling anything like mega and skellys as I go nothing feels better when taking one of them out

Nice impromptu lunchtime sesh with Chaz and another pal there while I test out my new Series S. Worth it for the load times alone. The double sinking, Meg, and reaper run were a good bonus.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Some shots on that last clip in the dark. Well played

Stormy, lovely read matey. A session on the Sea of Thieves is more an adventure than a game. One day it will get old, but not today…

WIth Apex Legends burnout setting in and me not wanting to go anywhere near Overwatch, this has become our go-to MP game over the last couple of weeks. We've had some truly epic moments, and an equal amount of painful spankings.

Last night was very cool. After finishing a Tall Tale, Scantaki and I were just fucking around on the ocean in our sloop when we spotted the lights of a Reaper's Chest nearby. The shipwreck was loaded with goodies, and feeling pretty good we headed towards Reapers Hideout to sell the lot. 

The first ship to come after us was a brig decked out in that gorgeous Dark Warsmith skin, skele swinging from his cage on the bowsprite. We weren't paying attention at first and these guys really caught us off guard, charging in from behind with better wind. A few traded shots later with a couple of good hits, some slick manoeuvring, and we soon left them behind.  

The second brig to try its luck was already engaged with skele galleon when we crossed paths, and though it tried to focus on us, the skeles were relentless. A great and tense 3-way firefight broke out. Pretty soon the brig had to pull up for repairs leaving us to focus on and take down the galleon. No sooner had it gone under than the sea turned black as the colossal tentacles of a Kraken erupted from the surface. Thankfully, Pappa squid's a walkover in a sloop and we made short work of him. Not getting a moment of rest, the brig was back on us as soon as we'd started up again. As they got close enough to nudge our sloop from behind we climbed on top of our rear awning and started chucking firebombs and blunder bombs at the two guys waiting to jump aboard, killing both of 'em. Fire covering the deck, the brig turned away to nurse its wounds once again. They didn't bother us after that.

And so we turned in our prize at Reaper's Hideout. A shout from the sloop as I headed back alerted me to a player galleon incoming running a Reapers Bones emissary flag. We left the island knowing these guys were gonna come after us, and with nothing on board but a gunpowder barrel we decided to turn and fight. ScantAki climbed to the crows nest with the barrel and I steered us straight into the oncoming galleon. They couldn't avoid us, and with a crash we collided, ScantAki leaping from above and detonating the barrell in the middle of all the commotion. We died, but as we stood around on the ferry of the damned waiting to respawn the guys from the galleon joined us. All four of 'em, and none too happy about our suicide tactics. 

We respawned not too far away from Reaper's Hideout and immediately checked the map, could we have actually sunk their ship? As it turns out, yes! We set sail for the battle site and after a minute or two of searching we found a whole bunch of loot floating from their wrecked galleon, including their Reaper's Bones Grade 5 emissary flag, plus the grade 2 Gold Hoarders and grade 1 Reaper's emissary flags they'd taken from victims. 

We turned it all in for a tidy profit and a whole bunch of Reaper's Bones reputation. Fantastic stuff.

Great story, when it clicks and things go right this game is amazing. You might of inspired me to sail tomorrow night.

What a game, guys. What a game.

It's incredible. Need to get back into this with a crew of motley badgers

Last night saw Boozy, Omne, Grem and myself set sail for an evening on the high seas.

I joined very late, unfortunately missing the incident that resulted in Boozy with a temporary ban from Live.
Boozy therefor dropped out after taking a hammer to his console.

Grem, Omne and myself set sail in the hopes of finding Jack Sparrows treasure and what a palava that is!
Lots of hunting underwater through shipwrecks, finding keys and fighting SO MANY SIRENS.
Thankfully I was quite an accomplished underwater swordsman so they didn't prove toooo difficult.

What I loved was the environmental puzzles, it reminded me so much of being there of day one of a new Destiny raid. No clue what to do, lots of little puzzle pieces to solve and plenty of "aha!!! I got it!!" moments.

Sadly the hours went on and Grem and Omne had to call it a night.
I stuck it out however and managed to solve so many puzzle rooms solo... Until my very angry wife yelled at me for keeping her awake until gone 1am.

So yea, lots of fun for sadly no reward

Love the sailing, like the puzzles, I do not like the sword fighting or shooty bits though. It's just about serviceable in multiplayer I guess but my god is it dull on the missions or against the npc's.
I find it can realy suck the fun out of a good adventure having to whack things with swords over and over again.

That all sounds great. I still wish they would let you name your ship. There's a name plate above the door to the captains quarters just begging to be used.