Yesterday, B2 made a casserole for me. It was a 40QL casserole. When I ate it, it was so good.
He also made stew, and I made a large barrel. Tulsi managed to make his first small barrel (with me having to tell him twice on how to light a forge).
So now we have plenty of Stew. Also, it’s served the same way I remembered back in 2010; two different-named fish in a pottery bowl. I KNEW a pottery bowl could be used to make stew! Also, with using a forge, this is actually better than an oven. Because the difficulty (quality) of the item increases when cooking with a forge.
I also plan to start getting B2 into making meals, but I need the corn that Tulsi found for me to grow. All is needed is a filet fish (a fish cut open with a carving knife), and a veggie. A friend said that a difficulty of 37 helps to raise your HFC(Hot Food Cooking) skill.
They also told me to eat the food when “warm” or “very warm”, never hot. The reason is the amount of nutrition. Your Nutrition level affects your skillgain. THIS is where I fucked up with my assumption! I thought your Food bar affects it, not Nutrition. Wow. 😛
But now I know, and I will eat my humble pie and enjoy it (even though it won’t help my Nutrition level).
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It’s now today. So with food no longer a concern (for now), I hopped on my horse and made my way to Freedom Market. On the way there, I actually had the balls to engage a few wolves, and killed them. I can handle wolves with this armor.
The person that told me about raising fight skill, said to hunt wolves, wild cats, and bears. And also to run far, far away from hellhounds as I need Plate armor for them. Well, I can’t take on bears. They keep getting a medium on me.
Moving on, I was almost to FM; nearly to the southern shore of the Inner Sea. I was going on a one tile road with low stone walls on both sides. It went up. As it did, I was attacked by a hellhound. Thankfully the hill smoothed out and was able to get away… for the time being. Either another one (or the same one) managed to catch up to me and attacked again. At this time, I didn’t even realize I had just crossed the bridge that goes over the Kinoss Canal; the same canal that I used to get to Tulsi at the Freedom Docks after picking up my alt.
That was really cool. 🙂
After passing the canal, I reached the “East/West Mountain Highway” which went through that huge Tundra area that I saw when sailing to the docks. Now I got to see it up close, and also learn (from a sign), that Tundra still doesn’t grow back after being dug. Though what’s odd, why was it brown when I remembered it being white? Maybe it’s the season.
Speaking of seasons, Winter in Wurm is coming (possibly tonight or tomorrow). Kind of looking forward to that.
Next, as I was following the southern shoreline on the “West Coast Highway”. I also found the entrance to “Magranon’s Scar”, a planned road I saw mentioned on the Wurm Online forum. I went up the road and it turned into grass, sand and rock while still going up. I saw a bear off to the side. It aggroed. Since I was moving so slow, it managed to hit me. Turned around and was all “fuck this”.
I could had lead the bear to a guard tower near the landing, but I had no way of knowing if there would be stronger enemies. And not being able to outrun… it just wasn’t worth the risk.
Being forced to find an alternative route, I went East until I could go east no longer. I ended up in Festival Cove; the home of the 2010 Impalong. I had also learned (from the several colossus statues) that 2012 was possibly the last year the Impalong was held here. There were also statues that I assume were the previous hosters of the event.
After this, the tunnel that I accidentally used in 2010 (before I found out I could had parked my boat at the cove instead of the docks) was still active. Though I had to deal with not only two black bears (one outside and one inside the canal), but all the lamps were off and I kept bumping into walls, even with my lantern lit.
But I eventually made it to Freedom Market! Since I’m here, I decided to look for a saw with WoA on it (as I need a LOT of planks for the house, when I come back).
There was a 76WoA saw for 1.60s, which isn’t bad. Another that had 99WoA for nearly 5s.. pass.
Right now I’m just waiting for sunrise before I try once again to reach the top of Dragon Fang Mountain. I did find an offline Wurm clock which I’m using to know when sunrise will be. It also shows what “Day of the *Month* in *week #*”, and what starfall(week) it’s in and the year. It also shows the season. And right now it’s between Autumn and Winter.
Lastly, it shows what is a good time to harvest what for the best yield.
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Winter has arrived in Wurm! Everything’s covered in white. The trees have all lost their leaves (except the pines, of course), and we have 2D snow falling. They can’t even render a proper snowflake without it looking flat as paper when it floats by you.
The thing I don’t like, is the roads are matching the ground. In other words, it’s hard to see the pavement. This could be hazardous for me, when it’s time to head back home.
Might just postpone horseback adventures ’till the Spring.
Anyway, I’m still in FM. I bought $18 worth of silver (10s). So it’s $2 cheaper now. This is good. With that, I bought the saw. I also bought a 90QL toolbelt and a 87WoA hatchet. Fearing I will likely lose them if a mob managed to kill me, I got B2 on and got him to go to ‘Snoopz’, a village I passed by, earlier in the day. The way to get there is a new’ish canal (new to me, anyway) on the western side of the server.
He found the village no problem, and I was able to mail my stuff (with it costing me 80c as a shipping fee(10c per item)) to him, and he took it back.
At this time it was night again. Went away from FM, and went on that “north and left” path as I was told before. Had to setup camp again and wait ’till morning, while B2 sailed home in Tulsi’s boat.
Morning came, and I waited for B2 who was home to maintain the deed. He put another month’s worth into the token(so Village chat will stop harassing me), tended to my farm, and groomed my horse. Still waiting on the corn to grow, so we can start making meals instead of stew.
Back to me. I put my tent back in my pocket, hopped on my horse and continued on. Eventually I entered a village called “The Great Village”. There a sign, pointing kind of the other direction, showed “Green Ring Express – To Top Of Mtn”. My eyes lit up when I saw the “To Top Of Mountain” part and knew I FINALLY found that second tunnel!
And indeed I did. It took 5 minutes going up a twisty tunnel, with most of the lamps lit, but I FINALLY MADE IT TO THE SUMMIT!!! 😀
And my god, what a view. I’m finally on the highest accessible point of the server! There’s a road that goes halfway around the summit. Up above, is the tip of the mountain(and where the mountain got its name). Can’t seem to get up there, but I’m happy I made it up here at least!
Encountered a crocodile(can’t kill(didn’t try)), a brown bear(can’t kill), a spider(can’t kill), and a wolf(killed) while up here. I also encountered a lone village called “A Horror Film”. What a strange name for a village. Setup camp here for the night (had to log for the IRL night).
I plan to get some breathtaking pictures of looking over the summit tomorrow, see if I can get to the very top of the mountain(the peak) then head down and go back to FM to buy a few more things (a high WoA chisel would be nice for brick-making).