ClausGrimm - I play on Xbox so forgive me if I am a wee bit slower than y'all who play on PC.
So for my day today I just have to say: That. Was. Fucking. AWESOME.
My group and I had stolen loot from a Skeleton Fort Raid while two Galleons were fighting each other (after they had already cleared the fort). We quickly came in and destroyed them both. However, one of the members of the opposing crew had hidden the key. We scoured the island and finally found it (while fending off returning visits from the angry folk). We opened the room, started loading up with loot and were blindsided by the two returning Galleons. We quickly managed to escape with three of us while one held himself up in the loot cave. He hid a good chunk of the skulls beneath some explosive barrels and fended them off. Ultimately we lost one of the chests (I forget the name, but the one that cries), but our teammate held them off from the rest. As we unloaded, sold off the loot and made our way back to get the rest, we started a few missions.
Our group, loaded with the remainder of the loot, started to do a few Order of Souls missions and found a couple messages in a bottle. Luckily, they were all relatively close by and we were able to find a couple nice chests to go with our collection. On our way to the Wanderer's Refuge, we spotted a ship that had parked on a nearby island. I quickly tried to maneuver between a very tight space of rocks without a scratch, with the rest of the crew manning the sails, leading to cheers from the team. We quickly turned to the enemy and destroyed their ship. Sadly they carried not but a few cannon balls that we quickly took to replenish our low stock which we would sorely need.
As we headed to Wanderer's refuge, we came across a ship wreck with one of the crying chests. Maybe it was from the ship that had gotten away 30 minutes earlier? As we loaded it up, one of our members notices that the music has changed and the ocean has turned dark black. Suddenly, tentacles had reached out from the icy depths to take him down, but we freed both him and the chest. Slowly over the course of 5 minutes we fended off the attacks from the kraken as we slowly made our way through the swampy ink and ocean water towards safety.
We finally reached our destination, finished the final message in a bottle and went to the nearest outpost to unload our spoils. We spent 40 minutes just laughing and freaking out about what had transpired in our journey for the day before we logged off for the night.
God damn, I haven't had this much fun in years with friends.