I logged into Wurm thinking I would be showing up in the water by that mountain. Instead I showed up still in the boat, parked in grass along this narrow shoreline.
Angry was on, but wasn’t responding. So I hopped out and then pretended that I was playing some kind of Single Player adventure game of being taken to some uncharted place in the game world and having to find civilization with no weapons or anything to defend myself. And no tutorials. But there were pickups like ‘a shitty map’ and ‘a compass’.
I walked along the narrow grass shore, back and forth trying to find angry until he finally responded and had me meet him back at the boat. He then gave me the ‘Wurm Slap Handshake’ as a way to say “hi” by slapping me across the face. I wanted to ‘return the favor’ but everytime I tried the Slap command it said I was too far away.
We went up this cliffside ramp up to this village named Vorgon. He mentioned Vorg used to leave near Bennie Bay and Tir Tochar, and is a friend of him. I remember the place, but not the guy.
Angry said this is temporary until someone that he bought a sailboat from logs back in (though why we couldn’t just go to angry’s place and THEN wait for this guy), and gave me a bunch of 20’ish QL tools, then went back into this work area and worked on a grindstone.
I decided to run around the area, then got bored and went over and leaned against this wooden fence looking over this bay.. I think it’s a bay. Angry helped to pinpoint our location around 58y/31x on the map.
I actually had my eye on this appendage of the map to slap a homestead down, sometime in the future.
As I stood there I began to wonder, what was I doing here. This is no place for me. There seems to be more mountains than flat areas. Forcing you to terraform. Even that, the chance of hitting rock seems very, very high. Angry reminded me that you can terraform rock. You could back then. But the process is extremely tedious. You have to wack the corner you want lowered several times with your pickaxe just to get it down by one slope.
About a half an hour later, angry said he’s going to bed. I actually expected him to tell me to stay on and be here for the guy to PM (but how is he going to tell him to PM me instead of him, if the guy isn’t on), and go pick up the sailboat for him. But it wasn’t and he left.
I thought about just seeing if I could find any pines around, make a rowboat and look around. But there’s two flaws with that. One that I just thought of. It requires a mooring rope which I don’t have. Also, I would need a cart to haul the unfinished boat to the water and, since this is a temp place, it’s just not worth it. Now, anyway. When we finally, hopefully get to angry’s area, then I can do it.
And now I present you my thoughts of the server to close this temp blog entry until angry comes back tonight, or I decide what to do next.
From what I could see of the map, and what I really saw, the thing looks like a boater’s paradise. But I feel it has a dark secret. It just seems too.. perfect. Like it’s hiding something. But what?
Everywhere I looked it seemed like, rowboats are rare to see. It’s either Cogs or Corbitas. And there’s alot more than in JK-H due to how much more open water there is.
The road network on the map seems out of date. Almost like it’s now a requirement to build and use a boat.