Yesterday and that night, I prepared to go on that trip from my village… all the way to the Summit of Dragon Fang Mountain. Had to setup camp for a few times. First time was to go to bed ’till yesterday. And the other was a bio break.
When I arrived outside of Fort Jackson, I decided to head to where Ghost is (thinking the only way to continue south was going through his village).
Thankfully he was on and helped me out, even showing me the correct way of getting south. There’s an alternate road that goes around his village. Good to know.
About 5-10 minutes, I make it into the center of Freedom Market.. on horseback. Something I thought just wasn’t possible for me, and really wanted to try since 2010’s Wurmxmas (and seeing a lot of people on horseback dealing with the “Happy Holidays hug zombie” mobs. The way I went there, was taking the tunnel that went right through the mountain. Didn’t run into any mobs in there.
I found the POI I saw on the Map Dump (the reason I wanted to come there), and tried to go up. I made it halfway up, passing a “Dragon Fang Mountain (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)” sign. And indeed it was. The road turned into grass, which turned into normal terrain. But it did have a really nice view. Even got a view of the Freedom Market from up there.
Feeling defeated, but not going home empty-handed, I asked both the Alliance and kchat tabs of an alternate way to the summit. Both mentioned another tunnel that heads to the top, yet neither of them knew where exactly the entrance was.
One of them said to go “north and left” of Dragon Fang Market. I got lost in the village of “POP the Magic Dragon”, trying to find an alternate tunnel that goes into the massive mountain. They were all dead ends, with a mob inside them. Thankfully my horse’s speed really helped.
I asked again, and now the person that told me that, apologized. They thought when I said “DFM”, meant the Mountain; not the Market. I was supposed to go north and left of Freedom Market instead… 😛
By this time, Tulsi had let me know (after I told him to use the forums to post his issue with the game) that his game is running a lot smoother. Though he got confused on which ramp I meant as “the main ramp” to check if he would still crash in a mine (like my mine), and was forced to get B2 on and get him there.
Did so. Tulsi went in and didn’t crash. This is great. Maybe he’ll finally be useful to me now.
Seeing how it was almost dinnertime, I told B2 to just go in his rowboat (which he had to give perms back to Tulsi) and pick me up. I also made the mistake of inviting Tulsi to come with him. … Boy, what a mistake that was.
B2 tried to teach him how to get to me. He seemed to be doing OK (even after telling him it could take 2 hours to reach him) until he’s all “are we there yet?” He literally stopped the boat halfway before reaching the northern passage, thinking (and hoping) I would be there. It’s like all I heard from Tulsi was “waaahhh this is taking TOO LOOONNNNGGGG!!! WAAAAHHH!!!” Typical spoiled 10 year old attitude.
Felt like reaching through my monitor and slapping him for that, followed by “fucking GROW UP, you spoiled BRAT! THIS is what Wurm is like! If you can’t handle it, then don’t fucking PLAY IT! FFS!!”… seriously, I wasn’t anywhere this bad when angry was teaching me things. At least I listened to what I was being told. Sure, when I started I hated the fact that things took too long. But eventually I got over it. Tulsi cannot, because he’s too young.
“You see an aching bruise at the face.” is what he would see after slapping him. 😛
His excuse after picking me up, is “at least with the Guard Tower we actually did something”. So he just finds sailing boring. Well… most people don’t like it because of the always changing wind direction. But I’ve always loved sailing in Wurm. Seeing things from the comfort of my boat and realizing 7/8th of mobs can’t swim. 🙂
Horseback is a new’ish thing for me; why I’m doing it a lot. The sad thing about horseback, you’re stuck on the server you got the horse. With sailing, you’re only stuck by the wind and terrain.
But anyway, hopefully this teaches Tulsi a lesson to say NO to boat rides, since he doesn’t like long ones.
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Anyway, I’m going to try again (after my videos are done) to see if I can find this elusive second tunnel. Now that I know where to go, the journey will be quicker. Though this time I think I’m going to stay on the Western shore of The Inner Sea (instead of crossing at the Darkenstone Canal) until I get north of Gurubear’s Crater. Because those roads also lead to Freedom Market (and the old 2010 Impalong location).
When I get back (hopefully from a successful trip), I’m going to breed my horses and then work on my house.