Eerie Sightings in the Mire...

[Sarah Seaswain]

Well, it seems like no one has ran into Cromwell yet. It's definitely unfortunate that we don't know what server they will be in, since not all of us have time to wander around ghost-hunting.

Although, today was rather interesting. On Port Royal Beach in Anegasseo (spelling?) before the first invasion of the day, I ran into Old Sooty. He kept warning us that Jolly Roger would invade today, and this would not be the end of him. Then, another pirate brought up Constance in which Sooty said, "Ah, Constance. You should pay a visit to Captain Cromwell about her." Then, someone asked about Cromwell and Sooty replied, "I hear Cromwell be around Governor's Garden- he is quite a creepy fellow he is."

Then, strangely enough during the third invasion, we had fought the continuous streams of undead and then Jolly Roger said "Ye are foiling my plans. Mates retreat back to the ship." (or something along the lines of that, I forget the exact wording) and then he just sailed away, never actually coming to fight.
I don't know what that means, if he just retreats, but I was thinking about how it says that the invasions will last as long as JR has enough forces. So possibly this meant he was lacking an army of undead/forces and we won't see invasions for awhile.....?

[Capt C Ray]

Originally Posted by Sarah Seaswain

Well, it seems like no one has ran into Cromwell yet. It's definitely unfortunate that we don't know what server they will be in, since not all of us have time to wander around ghost-hunting.

Although, today was rather interesting. On Port Royal Beach in Anegasseo (spelling?) before the first invasion of the day, I ran into Old Sooty. He kept warning us that Jolly Roger would invade today, and this would not be the end of him. Then, another pirate brought up Constance in which Sooty said, "Ah, Constance. You should pay a visit to Captain Cromwell about her." Then, someone asked about Cromwell and Sooty replied, "I hear Cromwell be around Governor's Garden- he is quite a creepy fellow he is."

Then, strangely enough during the third invasion, we had fought the continuous streams of undead and then Jolly Roger said "Ye are foiling my plans. Mates retreat back to the ship." (or something along the lines of that, I forget the exact wording) and then he just sailed away, never actually coming to fight.
I don't know what that means, if he just retreats, but I was thinking about how it says that the invasions will last as long as JR has enough forces. So possibly this meant he was lacking an army of undead/forces and we won't see invasions for awhile.....?

Sarah,

Was involved in an invasion last night that started around 10:30 central. Went on for almost 1/2 hr.. Jolly seems to still have plenty of undead forces. And Jolly himself did come ashore. Made it to the mansion grounds, but then he finally went down .

Was one of the toughest battles I have been in for some time.

Robert Firewalker, lvl 43

[Sarah Seaswain]

Originally Posted by Capt C Ray

Sarah,

Was involved in an invasion last night that started around 10:30 central. Went on for almost 1/2 hr.. Jolly seems to still have plenty of undead forces. And Jolly himself did come ashore. Made it to the mansion grounds, but then he finally went down .

Was one of the toughest battles I have been in for some time.

Robert Firewalker, lvl 43

I was too. I was with a large crew of pirates all from my guild, so with team work we were able to finish fairly quickly. Although, you are right, during one part in the battle things were getting a bit rough as more and more undead kept coming and we were having trouble getting everyone healed, so it does not insinuate Jolly is exposed to any lack of forces.
After that battle I switched over to an "ideal" server to see if I could catch the end of the invasion to get some more rep. I had done this before in previous invasions and I found that servers that are "ideal" during invasions are very chaotic, since it is not an organized crew, so they tend to take a longer time to finish the invasions. I switched over, and sure enough I was able to catch the last wave of enemies and then Jolly. Once that invasion was done I switched over to another serve, and surprisingly they STILL had an invasion going on. Well, sure enough I got to a server and the last group of enemies had just been announced, and then when we were fighting them off, almost all of them were dead when JR retreats and sails away. It was quite bizarre...

You're right though, it really does seem that Jolly has enough force, that was just an assumption. So, now I think that this has nothing to do with the upcoming events and plot (i.e. JR running out of forces) and this may just be a mere bug, or perhaps its meant to happen that after a respected time period, JR must sail away so invasions do not last for hours. It must have been over an hour or more by the time I got to that server, because I had taken part in two other invasions in different servers beforehand. Anyways, it's just an inference, this whole thing could mean nothing at all.


Well, back to the ghosts, today I plan on doing a bit of ghost-hunting especially for Cromwell now that Old Sooty has hinted his whereabouts. I''ll post about if I'm able to find Cromwell, or if I have any other unusual run-ins with ghosts.