Was a slow day. While I’ve been waiting for Spellcast’s two alts to come back on around 9pm EDT, I decided to try to grind my Prospecting skill.
Not often I attempt to grind a skill. But this skill seemed to be easy to raise. And all I had to do was stand infront of one cave wall and keep doing it. And with the 7 second timer each time, I got it raised from 4 to 20.
With 20 in Prospecting, I can now prospect on ore tiles and determine the QL from “very bad” to “utmost”, and the tooltip is handy in knowing the QL in between.
For example, a few of my Lead veins are “Normal” quality, which is between 40-59 QL. The mine has to be mined a few times to see an ore with the capped QL of the ore tile. Like 43.00. The “.00” indicates that this is the cap.
Alittle later I finally took the time to expand my deed to cover all the fences in and around it, to stop decay on them. The new size is now 7×6 (15×13 tiles total, excluding the Perimeter). It costed 1s and 48c. Not bad.
What hurt is it lowered the days of upkeep by 5-10 days or so, so I put in an extra silver into the upkeep to raise it up to 170 days.
Later on I log on one time and briefly see two people in my local, before leaving in it. I walk around trying to track down where they went, and pinpoint them somewhere SE or ESE of my location, since I didn’t see a sailboat going by.
Took me awhile to notice one of them was Fabrys. The same guy I tried to get ahold of a few days ago and was successful.
I talked with him and asked him what he was doing up here in my local. He said he is making sure Darkmalice has everything correctly mapped for his and my settlements. Pretty much what I was doing before.
I was also hearing fighting. He mentioned about spiders and being ganked. While I was trying to find them I saw one about 30 tiles away from Kinsaitos. Alittle too close for comfort. It reminded me of that Mature starving goblin I saw near the secondary path to my settlement. That thing still gives me the creeps.
If something like that shows up out of nowhere, think about if something stronger showed up, like another fucking champ bear.
Alittle later I finally met up with him and his friend, Peterc. We walk around Kinsaitos, and I show them the house I saw a week ago. They said that the area with the tall stone walls used to be ‘Vulcan Outpost’, and it “came after Kinsaitos was ruins”.
They see my homestead and walk around in it, and down the road to the pier. I take this is an opportunity to ask about the fenced in flat area next to the pier. If it was planned as a farm. Fabrys says it was there after they moved out. And it used to be part of the hill. As well as the raised flat area behind it.
Unfortunately that didn’t really answer my question, and they didn’t explain why I found what I think was a secondary road leading up to the top tier.
Soon they left my local. Then I got my alt on and had him start making stew, knowing Spellcast will be on in an hour.
Turned out s/he came on 15 minutes later with both alts, but said that s/he needed a half an hour to 45 minutes to recharge favor and faith.
This gave me plenty of time to imp my spare pickaxe to 24 something QL. Damn these low QL iron lumps I have! I’m almost desperate enough to buy higher QL lumps and only use them for imping.
A half an hour later, my alt finally had the first batch of stew ready for cooking. Can’t really blame him. But I’m thinking of shifting him from pottery bowls to a cauldron.
I managed to fill up one of my small barrels with nearly the remaining stew in my large barrel, and used my temper water (minus the iron pieces in it) as water, and then slowly walked into my mine with both barrels and placed them where I thought I would need them, then went back up and waited for Spellcast to do something.
Ten minutes later, I saw Spellcast’s alts charging their faith up with gems, and ran down the road, into my mine, making sure I had both my pickaxes on me.
I’m already in the mine when they come into the mine and asking if I’m ready to be sealed in, and I’m already one step ahead of them.
Now, I originally thought that they were going to seal the cave entrance behind them and get out the other side. Instead, they seal themselves in with me, telling me it’s the only way this’ll work.
So I drop my spare pickaxe hoping I’ll get help with this since they’re in here, and the main one does.
Meanwhile, outside of the mine, I have my alt first watch the settlement for me, then give him the task of running to New Galway and seeing what the hell is going on down there.
Due to me being able to see ore QL and Hero needing someone that could do it, I thought of hopping in Teamspeak and telling him. Yet, there was no one in it. Like they moved to another server without telling or forgetting to tell me. And Hero is rarely on Wurm anymore.
Time passed on and me/Spellcast knocked down two of the walls he Strongwall’d for me, and I told my alt to head back home instead. The reason being that.. ugh.. rowboats are fucking SLOW!, and .. come on.. Light breeze from the North?
I explained my concerns with Spellcast’s alt of the mine entrance possibly being reverted back to the way before I fucked it up. He said that I’ll never have a problem again, and proved it when the final wall broke and I could see the outside world again.
Not only the floor is fixed, but the water is GONE! 😀 I wanted to hug him for fixing it for me. Then I ran out of the mine telling him I would get his 5s payment.
Then he asked if I had a large cart. I said yes, and he said the cost would be waved IF I carted both of them back to Reborn, and agreed to it.
I kept thanking him for what he did, and began to think “This priest is awesome! I didn’t have to pay a dime because of what I did!” BOY.. was I wrong when I got them to Reborn.
He was all like “Ahaha alright no problem, now give me my 5s. :P” I felt like saying “…Wait, what?! I thought getting you to Reborn would pay for the work you did!!”, but handed over the 5s without saying a word.
Taking them back to Reborn only waved the travel fee, not for the casting of Stonewall five times. I should be fortunate it didn’t cost me more instead of the price of a shaker orb.
And what was more fortunate is I was able to use the 5s I got from my alt for extending his prem. So I didn’t have to pay for another 10s.
I got back home about five minutes after my alt did, and tried to do the ultimate test. Drive my large cart into the mine, and was able to with no problem. Oh happy day indeed. I then got my alt to help take down one of the two remaining Strongwall’d walls, and got it down.
After that I logged him out and began to build a wooden mine door, as I was planning to do after the entrance was fixed. Got that done. Though now it’s going to be quite difficult to find the exit.