More Adventures on the Stormcloud – Sea of Thieves

It’s funny what some people do for cosmetics. I once spent ages doing a boss fight in Warframe to get Shocking Step, an ephemera. But some cosmetics are insanely out of reach, particularly in the Sea of Thieves. Lately, my adventures in the Sea of Thieves has mostly involved doing Veil missions. If I do enough of them, then I get a cool hat. By enough, I mean like 50 of this mission, which can easily take an hour or so. But alas, Bacxaber and his crew really, really want this hat. And I don’t blame them, it’s a cool hat. However, when it comes to progress, some days are better than other days.

For our first Veil mission, everything actually went really smoothly. It all just came together nicely and neatly, and I’m pretty sure we finished it in record time. We also had time to utterly annihilate a sloop that got a little too close to us. To the point that we completely and utterly blew them out of existence.

Something that didn’t go smoothly was our voice chat. We were using Microsoft’s Xbox-based gaming thingy, but it kept on booting us out of voice chat. We didn’t really have much of an alternative, and we ended up just using in-game voice chat. This did mean that anyone nearby could easily hear us and our scheming, but it was still more preferable to Steam chat and stuff like that. But with voice comms back and working, we went and started another Veil mission.

Funnily enough, the second Veil mission also went pretty smoothly. After we finished it though, we looked at the map, to see what else was going on. There was some guy with a level 5 Reaper flag, begging for us to come along and take it off his hands. After all, we’re Reapers ourselves, even when we’re busy doing non-reaper things. We quite quickly steamrolled him, killed him and sunk his ship. The guy was solo, but had a very unique ship: he had the Insider skin for his ship, which is supposedly related to beta testing and things like that.

So we tear his ship apart and go off to sell our freshly stolen loot, thinking that would be the end of it. Then this guy decided he wanted to shit-talk. Despite the fact that we had kinda bulldozed him and his ship. It was decided that he needed to die now. So that’s what we did. We killed him again.

After a handful of deaths, the guy claimed he was going to invite someone. Which he actually did do. Apparently maybe they were a streamer or something. What ended up happening was a constant back and forth. They’d shoot at us then fall out of range, then we’d shoot at them. There were multiple attempts at boarding on both ships, but these two just wouldn’t give up.

Honestly though,after about half an hour of this, we were all getting bored and I was getting tired (it was 6am in the morning for me). We’d hardly made a dent in our massive surplus of resources and the sloop seemed to have infinite cannonballs as well. It was a very boring mixture of us chasing each other, finding a good angle, shooting for a bit and then back to chasing each other.

Luckily, we had an out. Fox had a checkpoint saved for another quest, and we somehow used that to escape. I don’t really know what exactly happened, but we sailed through a portal, ending up in some green ghostly place. The other ship couldn’t follow us, and that was the last we saw of them.

Overall, a chaotic adventure, but we got to sell a level 5 Reaper flag and get two Veil missions done. Not bad. Not bad at all.