The Cursed Rogue Walkthrough

This Article is a Walkthrough with expandable Hints and image Galleries of The Cursed Rogue Tall Tale. For general information of the Tall Tale visit The Cursed Rogue page.

Guide
For those that do not want to be completely spoiled of the Tall Tale can find expandable Hints in each section that allow Players to find solutions to a specific problem only. The full written Walkthrough with a Gallery of each step can be found below the Hints sections.

For those that also want to complete all of the Commendations tied to the Tall Tale should also keep their eyes out for the five Bounty Hunter's Journals that need to be found and read for The Hunter's Trail Commendation. These Journals are not necessarily located on the path of the Tall Tale, so you may have to sail out of your way to find and collect some of those. The first of these can be found at Shark Bait Cove with each Journal describing the location of the next afterwards. The best time to find and look for each of these Journals is noted in the Walkthrough, but the journal contents and exact locations with images can be found in the Journals section below.

There are also two unlockable Checkpoints in this Tall Tale that are marked in the Walkthrough below. After receiving a Checkpoint, Players can leave or vote to cancel the Tall Tale and continue it from that Checkpoint at a later time by putting it up for a vote on the Voyage Table. All necessary Quest Items for Tale completion will be placed on the Voyage Table after a Checkpoint is voted for.

Opening
You can begin the Tall Tale by voting on the Tale Book next to Madame Olivia in the Order of Souls tent at Plunder Outpost. After some thought she decides to help you locate the ill-fated Skeleton Lord, Captain Briggsy. She will give you the Tall Tale Book with some pages to get you started on the next phase of your Journey.

The Tale Book
When the Crew has voted on the Tall Tale and listened to the Madame Olivia, they are given Chronicle of Forgotten Lives Tale Book. Once acquired, any Tale Book can be equipped and read from the Map Radial Menu, viewed with the Primary Use button (/) and showed with Secondary Use (/). When looking closely at the Tale Book with Primary Use, it's pages can be turned to read on (Previous Page:/ ; Next Page:/).

The Tale Book details the memories of Blackheart Bill and Captain Marrow, two skeletons in Briggsy's horde that hid the Skeleton Chest containing her personal belongings and the Skeleton Key to open it. Each are guarded by Skeleton Captains. At this point, you can choose whether to get the key or the chest first.

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

The next few pages can vary from Tall Tale to Tale. They provide hints towards where both the Skeleton Key and Skeleton Chest were buried.

Skeleton Key
The second section of the Tale Book, titled "The memories of Captain Marrow" will depict a location where you can find the Skeleton Key that opens the lock of the hidden Skeleton Chest that hides Captain Briggsy's possessions. You will need to fight a Skeleton Captain named Captain Avery and a few additional skeletons to get hold of the Key, 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 one 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, both must be presented 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 is a Gold skeleton that 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. She eats bananas to heal, a good strategy would be to lure her in front of the ship's cannons for heavy artillery. Firebombs can make quick work of the minions and also deal damage to Briggsy. Also sniping from the deck of the ship works well if you do not have enough cannon balls.

Don't forget to grab 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 the 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)