I’d been aware of it for a while. I’d seen podcaster and streamer Sean Bell had been playing it and
labelling his streams Sea Of Friends. A really joyous and gentle stream that did have real
moments of tension when some sweaty kids would arrive and do everything they could to sink The Good Ship Bell. As a viewer it was thrilling, I now know as a captain or member of the crew, it is bloody annoying.
Actor James Buckley also played the game online. It looked ridiculously hard to me. How do you know where to get the skull that activates the doo-dah that unleashes the ghosts that then fires the cannon?
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