As stated, I finally reclaimed my mine from those eight-legged bastards. How it started was recruiting Sharpnel to help me kill them.
I thought with me tanking them, him and my alt could kill them all. Since Sharp has a rowboat, I thought of just sailing over there and picking him up. So I did.
When I got him back, I briefly showed him how my village is looking so far before getting my alt on, everyone fed on Stew, and headed for the only mine I had.
I went in and took on one of the spiders. A half a minute later, it had me with 25% health left and I backed out. I checked my wounds and only had light, and healed them all with rags.
Sharp then tried to tank. As he was, I noticed another spider right next to it, and told him to back off, and that they’re working together. He said he was fine but I wanted to wait until my wounds went away. He tried again and sure enough, both were attacking him and he backed out.
He got a med. Fortunately I gave him the healing covers I bought from the Freedom Market.
After all of mine healed up completely, I tried to fight them again, and I got a med. At this time I finally gave up. Sharp had another med. A pretty nasty one that was going to turn into a Bad wound without a healing cover.
I then told him I would take him back home, and did. My alt stayed back home. When I finally got Sharp back, I decided to check out the village (and hopefully recruit angry to kill those bastards). He said he might ask Anayy and Elshar to help, but never responded after.
So I left, and decided to ask in kchat one last time. Before I did, my alt checked the mine and saw the one spider we where attacking, died. Anyway, this time I got one of the populars in kchat; Farmerbob. Talked of the situation, and he asked if it was possible to walk there from the Valley of The Gods.
I did my best to guide him using the old and the latest map, but kept getting lost.
Meanwhile, my alt acted like he had a mind of his own. Dropped everything he had and went up the road to the abandoned village SE of us, and then followed a single-lane road heading east through the forest.
The path ended at a small area with fencing and other shit, with two lakes. In the distance to the SE was a house.
And that’s when he checked his local and saw Farmerbob. I ordered my alt to just return home, but he belayed my order, saying he could guide the guy to the village if he stayed put, but he headed towards the house and wound up at El Rancho Lago.
He stayed there as Farmerbob was dealing with a crock elsewhere, and killed it. Then my alt finally made visual contact with him and showed him to the mine.
I finally pulled up to the village as Farmer entered the mine and started hunting the spiders.
Moored the boat and ran for the mine, watching him kill the spiders. All I could do was laugh in village chat and yell “DIE YOU FUCKERS!!!” I ran in and helped him as long as my alt. After the 3rd spider died and I saw my shards infront of the mine wall I knocked down that released the spiders, I quickly ordered my alt to get the cart and get those shards out of the mine ASAP. He did as the guy was dealing with the lava spider that started all of this.
Finally, Farmerbob killed them all, and acted like he didn’t even break a sweat. I repeatably thanked him (and wanted to bow down to him) for helping to reclaim my mine from the spiders, and asked him how I could repay him. He said the fight skill was all the payment he wanted and butchered all the spiders.
On top of it, he gave me a ultra-high QL (99.86) bear hide, telling me it would make a great bed.
The total body count was; four Mature huge spiders, and one Old lava spider.
Soon he left, suggesting too that I build a tower, once I hit 30 Masonry (hah. Like that’s ever going to happen. I’m no mason). I may need to hire Anayy to do that since he’s more capable of doing it, but it’s not required right now.
I then looked at my alt and told him what he did was foolish and wrong, and didn’t like him belaying my order. But he helped guide Farmerbob to the village. For that, he’s more than qualified for the Cog I ordered from Bay View yesterday, for 10s. It should be ready by Saturday.
Ok. You must be saying to yourself “.. what the fuck? He’s treating his alt like it has a mind of its own! That’s not right!” and you’re right. But, it’s what I do. I like pretending my alt can think for himself like a real person, but be my personal slave. 🙂
But now with the mine back under my control, construction can resume. I’m still thinking though of turning the secondary ‘path’ into a secondary mine path.
I’m still kinda leary walking around the mine, though. Seeing the corpses of the spiders and thinking another one is going to show up. I’m now leary of breaking a wall, thinking a spider (or something else) is going to show up behind it. So yeah.