Ok. Well I might as well post what’s going on. Now that I finally have my shack built, and everything out of my cart, I’m trying to get my Ship building skill up.
As I was told in the past, I should imp oars. Before, I didn’t have a pelt and had to run to Northern Haven to get one from MetalDragon. Now thanks to angry, and thanks to me keeping it, I have a pelt. I also have all the tools needed to imp anything wooden.
Before I did, Sharp asked me if I saw the Caravel in HoTS Lake. I was thinking “Carnival”. Like they were having some kind of carnival going down at the lake. So I followed Amnesty Road heading east towards the lake. Sharp met up with me and we walked over to the lake’s edge.
We walked on this boardwalk, and there I saw it. The 2nd Caravel I’ve seen in my Wurm life. The first was on JK-H sitting in a bay. We had to swim around this pier to get a closer look at it. I was able to take a peek inside and noticed it was made by Oracle, locked with ‘a lock of fantastic quality’… god damn GMs showing off. I envy them. 😛
It makes perfect sense now why it’s doing there (for those that don’t know, Oracle is the head GM. I’ve met him quite a few times in JK-H).
I told angry, and he says that this ‘Bardofwurms’ person probably made it (another GM maybe), and Oracle stole it.
I also saw a Knarr. One that looked just like the one the residents in Northern Haven were building when I arrived for the pelt, so they could go to the Wild server.
Before I asked Sharp if I could go see his place, I went back to the Caravel and tried to hop on. It said “I wasn’t smart enough”, and laughed. But I was smart enough to see a beautiful view from the crow’s nest. It reminded me of my voyage around JK-H, and stopped at this village where there was a Cog, and I was able to get this awesome panoramic view of the area.
After I got done taking pictures, I jumped down and then asked Sharp about seeing his place, but he then disappeared, saying he swam to the other side of the lake. So with my dog behind me, I swam to the other side. Fortunately it wasn’t as wide as Bearback Lake was back in JK-H.
We met up again on a submerged pier and walked on a few paths, and went up the hill. I then saw something I was hoping to never see again; a cave bug. Thought “fuck it. I got my dog. Let’s take it!” and told Sharp to attack it. We killed it, but my dog was in a (Wounded) state. Fortunately he had no mediums on him. Nor did we have to deal with another as we continued our way up.
Finally we made it to his… place. It looked just like the village. Only smaller. But he has a view to die for. Unfortunately I couldn’t see shit because it was night. Five minutes later I wanted to go back home, fearing another cave bug would pop up and kill my dog. Hard to believe something so small could hit so hard.
Anyway, he took me to this huge, deep shaft that goes straight down right next to his land, telling me it goes to the lake. I hesitantly stayed topside wondering if my dog would stay with me, or I would lose him forever.
I wasn’t really planning to keep the dog, but I can use him to attack hostiles.. especially champ hostiles while I run away like the chicken shit I am.
Finally I took the plunge, and made a crater when I hit the floor. Looked up and saw my dog and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then we navigated through these tunnels that reminded me of the tutorial in TES4. When I saw the exit and ran for it, with my dog following me all the way. I thanked him and said I could handle it now. He then went back up as I went back home.
And now… the rest of the story.
I tried to make said oar, and there was no option. I forgotten that I needed to make something that had to do with Ship building, to get the Ship Building sub-skill for Carpentry.
Soon I had the ‘oar’ option, and noticed it had a 19% chance. I went through four.. FOUR logs, and not one fucking oar.
I was planning to make ten oars. I couldn’t even make ONE!! Finally I did it and attempted to imp it. As I was trying to use one of the logs I stole from those guys back at our village to improve the oar and failing everytime, this guy walks up and stares right into my face.
Now we’ve met before. He’s my neighbor. What makes him ‘creepy’ to me is not the fact he barley speaks English, but the way he talks. And now I wish I never met the guy.
He started mentioning something that I should had rebuilt my house to cover the area that I’m making my ‘yard’ so I can work in PEACE. He then asks for help in also making a boat, asking me to make 50 Hull planks, 2 oars, 9 pegs, and a Stern.
He was making me think that I was being used to build him his boat. But I went on with it for awhile, asking him to bring me lots of logs. I figured it would help me get my Ship building skill up anyway, as long as he keeps the logs coming.
Why didn’t I chop my own, you ask? Well yes, the area around me does have lots of trees. But some of them are behind fenced-in areas, and others are ‘old and shriveled’. And then there’s trees like Apple and Lemon that are not good for plank-making. I need pines. LOTS, of pines. I know by experience that pine trees are the one of the best trees for plank-making.
I kept being told I have to go high up in the mountains to find pine trees. God I miss JK-H so much right now. 🙁 When pines where plentiful.. not rare.
Things started to get harder on me when he was just standing there watching me like a fucking statue for no reason. I still managed to make 12 of his 50 hull planks, and he tells me to take them to his house. Fair enough.
So I walk over to his house with 12 heavy hull planks that can’t be placed in a small cart, and tell him I’m just going to leave them here infront of his house’s door.
I then walk back and wait for him to bring me more logs. Then he says “nevermind”, saying I’m yelling at him about getting the logs I needed. I never yelled at him. But if he wants my help, then he has to get the logs.
As they always say in WoW; “bring your mats”. Most of them want people to have their materials, and all they have to do is make the item. I’m the same way.
Then he says after he sees the hull planks, that they will be stolen. I told him to just put them in his house, and he says they will be stolen again. Wow.. I was about ready to just leave, or move out, or do.. something.
I told him that’s only 1/4 of the work he wants me to do. He comes up the hill, looking at me and asks “why”… so I had to tell him “This is what you told me to bring to you”.
Again, more staring and less chopping. Then he goes past me and starts planning a house next to mine, but removes it after I ask why is he doing that.
More staring, and I just… I just log off, telling myself tomorrow that I’m just going to ask around for anyone that would take me in for a week or two until I can get my god damn fucking Ship building skill up.
You know, I could just say “fuck it” and just get on Dragonhead and go to the Freedom server, then build a rowboat and sail around the server WITHOUT being stared at!
Nor will I have to have a small 1×1 temp shack just to keep my cart safe.
But, I’m making a promise to myself, right now. That I’m going… to build a boat, and I’m going… to go around the Golden Valley in it. Then, and only then after I am satisfied, will I go join angry in the Freedom server.
I still have one other option. One of the PAs says he will sell me a rowboat (with the anchor and a boat lock) for 1.5s.
This would be a steal.. on the live server. But not for something I would just use a few times to go around the server. Why pay that when you can’t even use it to go to the Freedom server?
It’s not like I’m going to be using it as a merchant boat.