User:Sirspooneth/Sandbox

This is a detailed walkthrough of the The Cursed Rouge quest. The Cursed Rogue page describes the quest without spoilers.

The Tale Book
Once the Crew has voted on the Tall Tale and listened to the Madame Olivia, they are given the "Chronicle of Forgotten Lives" Tale Book, which they can find and take out in the  menu. Any Tale Book can be viewed with the  button (Left Mouse Button/Right Trigger). Once taking a closer look at the Tale Book, it's pages can be turned with the  and   keys on a Keyboard and the   and   buttons on a Controller.

The first pages of the Tall Tale book are always the same:

Opening
Begin by talking to Madame Olivia at Plunder Outpost. After some thought she decides to help you locate the ill fated Skeleton Lord, Captain Briggsy. She will give you a Tall Tale book with some pages to get you started on this next phase of your Journey.

If you are seeking all of the commendations, you will need to grab the Bounty Hunter's Journals. Unlike other Tall Tales, the journals here are not necessarily located along your path from objective to objective. Luckily they are mostly located in the south west so they are easy to gather up. It is recommended that you collect them before you get the key and the chest or after you have turned them in. This way you can collect them without lugging around quest items that can be lost or stolen.

The Tall Tale book details the memories of Blackheart Bill and Captain Marrow, two skeletons in Briggsy's horde that hid the Skeleton Chest containing her artifacts and the Skeleton Key to open it. Each are guarded by Skeleton Captains. You can choose to go after the key or the chest first.

Skeleton Key
The first few pages of the Tall Tale book are are always the same. The section titled "The memories of Captain Marrow" will depict a location in the Ancient Isles where you can find the key. You will need to fight a Captain Avery and a few additional skeletons so get some health items and head to of the locations as indicated below. The key will drop where the captain dies.

Skeleton Chest
The section titled "The memories of Blackheart Bill" in the Tall Tale book will depict a location in the Ancient Isles where you can find the chest. You will be fighting Captain Blake and a few minions again so bring some health items and head to of the locations as indicated below. You will need to dig up the chest where the captain and crew were sitting before you so rudely interrupted their conversation.

Enchanted Compass
The chest contains a Star Map and a Broken Spyglass. Grab them or the chest containing them and return to Madame Olivia for her to trans-mutate. After witnessing the true power of the order of souls, you will need to pick up the Enchanted Compass from the table.

Hunting the Cursed Rogue
The Enchanted Compass will point towards Captain Briggsy. She can be found on Cannon Cove, Discovery Ridge, Kraken's Fall, Lone Cove, Mermaid's Hideaway, Shipwreck Bay, The Crooked Masts or Wanderer's Refuge.

Briggsy summons skeleton reinforcements, vanishes to re-position, and charges up a powerful pulse attack. She rarely engages in combat, leaving her skeleton minions to overwhelm her enemy. In larger crews, is recommended to dedicate one member to eliminate the ranged skeletons, and another to group the skeletons away from Briggsy. A good strategy would be to lure her in front of the ship's cannons for heavy artillery as she can eat bananas to regenerate. Firebombs are also your friend here as they make quick work of the minions and also deal damage to Briggsy.

Don't forget to grab the Briggsy's skull before leaving the island.

Conclusion
Head back to Plunder Outpost once again to submit Briggsy's skull to Madame Olivia and finish this Tall Tale.

Bounty Hunter's Journals
Looking at the Commendations of the Tall Tale, you may have noticed one of them requiring the Crew to find all of The Bounty Hunter's Journals. These five Journals can only be found and read when the Tall Tale is active and they are only present for the Crew who is doing the Tall Tale. These Journals are hidden around The Ancient Isles Region. Each of the Journals hints towards the location of the next journal.

The locations and the contents of the five Journals are presented below. Click Expand under any Journal to see an image of its exact location.

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A New Prey
(South Tunnel, Shark Bait Cove)


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Surrounded By Fools
(Northeast rowboat wreckage. Discovery Ridge)


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At last, a clue!
(Southeast skull pile, Kraken's Fall)


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Closing In
(Stuck in a wall, Hilltop ruins, Wanderer's Refuge)


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Defeated?!
(Cave across the docks, Crook's Hollow)