This is not my idea, but I am repeating it here because it struck me as cool. Another player, Vindar is the character I believe, was roleplaying that they didn't like traveling by ship, because it was dangerous. Which got me thinking, would it be possible to make there be a random chance that a storm blows up and you get ship wrecked at some random coastal places, even maybe a deserted island where you must wait until the next server restart to be rescued! Maybe, even a sea attack by pirates, where you are randomly placed on board a ship at sea where pirates spawn on an adjacent ship or something and have to defeat them to be able to use an item dropped by their captain to transition to a safe harbor? I really don't know what's possible, but maybe the random placement as a ship wreck would be enough, lol.

yeah that all do able

and it is some thing I have thought about, but not likely to happen in beta

but it is a bullet point in my design notes for things to do after we are out of beta.

Being jumped by bandits or monsters while travelling through a transition on land s a possibility too. I've seen a 'cart service' used for travel between areas in the same way ships are and there was a chance of a random encounter on the way for those.