A Gentle Fishing Trip for the Soul

Sometimes, violence isn’t on the menu. Instead, fish is on the menu. There are tons of commendations and the like that require fishing. The Hunter’s Call buys your fish and you can catch a bunch of different species in the varied waters of the Sea of Thieves. Fishing is also pretty peaceful, and is a great time to chat while.

Which is why we spent two hours on the Stormcloud, simply fishing.

The commendations we were working on required fishing for a specific species, the Pondie. The best place for fishing Pondies is the Fort of Fortune, whenever it’s not active. There’s a lovely pond in the middle of the island, and it’s rather peaceful when the fort isn’t active. The island is also somewhat sheltered, which is both good and bad.

Either way, we made ourselves comfortable and started fishing, passing the time while simply chatting and talking.

Until some asshole came to ruin it.

All of a sudden, as I was about to dig a hole to find some leeches, I spotted a black brig drifting by. I immediately told Bacxaber, just as a stranger appeared. Neither of us were armed, and Bacxaber was holding the fish he had just caught. We immediately explained that we were just fishermen, with no loot what so ever. The stranger proceeded to shoot Bacxaber and kill him, which led me to draw my sword and kill the guy back. Only assholes attack fishermen.

Turned out, the guy just needed the pink flame, which requires being killed by another pirate. He apologized on the Ferry and both he and Bacxaber respawned. However, the black brig, calling itself the Black Pearl because they had no originality what so ever, seemed like a bit of a dick. After a swift conversation, we made an uneasy alliance, and the brig sailed off.

The confrontation however made us a tad uneasy. So we fished a little more, before returning to our parked sloop. We needed to process the huge amount of fish we had.

An hour and a half cooking.

Now we had to cook all this food. Because cooking it makes the fish have more value when you sell them to the Hunter’s Call representatives. Why does it make them more valuable? Well, most likely it’s because the little outposts are small and rocky and there’s not much room to light a fire. Speaking of which, with the amount of fish we had, cooking it all on board would have taken forever.

So Bacxaber and I set off to find a sea fort. While I dicked around shooting ghosts, Bacxaber diligently went into the kitchen and started cooking, using the four saucepans on the large stove.

This took forever, but Bacxaber continued anyway, managing to cook literally every fish we’d caught. I mostly just kept myself busy, taking any and all fruit I could find and putting it on our ship, while also keeping watch for potential threats. Thankfully, nothing happened.

In the mean time though, we wondered what had happened to the fake Black Pearl. They had said that they intended to do the Fort of the Damned, hence why they needed the pink flame. But we didn’t hear anything after that. At some point, they left the alliance leaving us alone once more. So we just continued to cook and keep an eye out.

After everything was finally cooked, it was time to sell our haul. Didn’t take too long, but the money counter in the top right corner spent ages adding the cost of each fish to our total gold. That other ship missed out on two whole levels of Hunter’s Call experience, and about 90k gold.

The very last thing we needed to do was to sell a little Curio that I’d picked up somewhere, so we headed to the nearby outpost to do so. What we found there was quite interesting: an empty storage crate and a single ritual skull, the key to the Fort of the Damned, left on the ground. It seemed that our alliance ‘friends’ had given up.

Their loss.

Either way, I had a lovely time just fishing, and I heartily recommend it to anyone who just wants to play and relax. We’ll definitely be doing more fishing trips in the future…