I did something quite adventurous. Something I thought I'd never do. I set sail on the High Seas alone. Robi wanted to play a bit, but due to technical difficulties on the second PC, we had to play HotS instead. That bothered me, so I tried to fix the issue after Robi headed off for the night unsuccessfully. I couldn't let Microsoft win with their incompetence, I launched the game on my own PC and it ran fine. And then the idea sparked. Why shouldn't I try playing alone? Just this once...
With that, I realized I don't own a Sloop, so I fixed that little issue. I wanted to name it Sloop-Niggurath as a lovecraftian homage. It wouldn't let me.
I tried Ship-Niggurath. It wouldn't let me. This time I actually read the error message. It said it was offensive. I realized it's probably the "nigg" part. Fair. I also realized how H. P. Lovecraft came up with this particular name... I tried it with one G, same issue, so I dropped it. Probably for the better. Therefore, I named her Dagon's Blessing.
I immediately slapped on the Order of Souls emissary flag as Robi never wants to play that, and I enjoy genociding skeletons.
I selected the simplest voyage and completed it fairly quickly. After that, I chose a slightly longer one, the one with the three skeleton captains. That was more of a challenge. After I was done with that, that's when I noticed it... Shining in beautiful turquoise! A Ghost Fort! Why not? How hard could it be? Turns out, not hard at all.
I dive bombed in, disembarked, murdered the inhabitants and cleaned the place out.
It was fun, but everything has to end at some point. My flag was level four, and so I headed to Plunder Outpost. I didn't even check how much I earned, I was just happy that I pulled it off.