Merry Christmas Eve.. morning, everyone! I’m waiting for morning in Wurm to do my normal maintenance at the farm (tending to the crops and then the livestock).
Yesterday, I was going to do the 10 lamps and buy a bed, both would be in prepare for the Indy Impalong.
Unfortunately, the fear of strong tornadoes IRL, going through my house…. ruined that plan. Seeing how I’m not typing this using my phone, my house is still here and thankfully so am I. I unfortunately can’t say the same for people in Mississippi (especially in a town called Holly Springs, where they lost three people… the youngest being a 7 year old).
Do pray for everyone affected by yesterday’s severe weather on this Christmas Eve. No family should be apart.
Anyway, going back to the point of this thread, it seems the devs want to simulate global warming and keep it Summer. Bleh! I expected snow on the ground, and the air to feel festive. The wind isn’t even in my favor today(strong breeze from the south). I think this is the same exact wind I got, Wurmxmas 2012.
I do have a pre-plan to start my initial plan for today;
-Buy the bed first. This is the first priority.
-Get home with it, put it in my house using my large cart (thankfully, beds can be loaded into a large cart).
-Go to sleep in the bed until my sleep bonus goes back up. This is about 3 hours of not playing Wurm.
-Get back on three hours later and make the 10 lamps. Imp them to as high as I can (make it look like “at least I tried to imp them on my own”).
-Do the plan I mentioned earlier this month, with my alt, my large cart and horses.
Oh yeah. A few days ago, one of my horses finally gave birth to a gray horse, called “Quicksilver”. It’s a female, but hopefully it’s a 5-speed horse once it grows up to be ridable. I also managed to pregnant the horse that Cybaru gave me (the one with the single bad trait). Surely her offspring won’t have this same trait.
The offspring will be born in four days from now(or maybe sooner than that).
EDIT: Morning has arrived in Wurm. I did my farm maintenance. When I asked for a bed, Reaping popped up and offered to give me one. To do so, I had to take a few short cuts instead of sail south and meeting him at the south side of the Crystal Canal.
Sadly, the shortcuts have gotten me lost a few times, and I can feel Reaping facepalming at me for not knowing the layout of these servers.
I decided to fuck it and went back to Indy. When I crossed the server border… somehow I actually found myself in south central Indy. Exactly where I needed to be!
I used my knowledge of Indy to guide my Knarr towards the Crystal Canal. I found Reaping’s place; “Fortress of Death”, just West after going through the Crystal Canal. He gave me a 26QL bed for free (as a Christmas present). As I pushed the bed over to my Knarr, he asked if I wanted some meals for my return trip. I debated, since I was going to eat at the buffet in FM later on, but decided to take them as he was offering. Said he can only make 31QL meals. That’s fine. The weight of them was similar to what B2 could cook (0.40).
Yet I’ve been told that it’s not the weight that matters, it’s the QL.
I entered his village. Going up a ramp, I saw something I’ve never saw in my Wurm life; the corpse of a “aged blue whale”.. apparently they added whales into Wurm! 😮
Reaping told me that they’re “somewhat common” on the north shores of Deliverance. Said that the whale was a “mean mofo” to kill.
He showed me where one of his villagers were trying to keep the whale; in a fountain. Yeah. That’s going to work. Just like a dragon in a birdcage. He also showed me the interior of his Crafting Hall, adding this is where new players go to learn. And before you guys say something… no, I’m not going to stick Tulsi in there. 😛
Before I left, I noticed he had a Christmas Tree here. I checked for a gift, and shockingly, I actually got something from Wurm Santa(a dragon in a Santa disguise)! Back in 2012, I had to wait ’till Christmas Day to get it. But I’m actually going to wait ’till tomorrow before I unwrap it (just incase it’s a… *flashback of 2012’s “shit gift” of Fireworks*).. ugh. But even if it is, I know it came from the heart.
Anyway, time to go home. I asked for a quick way to get back. He said to go south and plot a course for Exo, then turn around and to go to Deli, then sail West and plot a course for Indy (once I reach the Southwest side of Deli).
When reaching Exo, I couldn’t see the front of my boat. The fog, was insane on that server! I thought any time, a fog spider was going to attempt to board my boat and attack me. I turned around and got to Deli… much better. I have unlimited visibility.
When I was past the Southwest coast of Deli, I turned south to Indy and found myself exactly on the Northwest coast of Indy. But when I did, I noticed fog was developing (and still is). Now I can’t see the shoreline anymore.
Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long for the fog to thin enough, to get my bearings. Due to the wind in my face, I had to swing around the western-most island and head home. B2 was able to get the large cart ready for my arrival. Got the bed in it and up to the house, and placed it down.
Seeing how he and I had a sleep powder, he gave me his and I was able to get up four hours of my 5 hour max. Here I went right to work making the lamps.
I also fucked up after creating the lamp heads, thinking to imp them will set the QL of the lamp… it didn’t. So much unnecessary work. 😛
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Due to RL issues, I was forced to forfeit a lot of time to making the lamps. I should had made the damn things sooner. When I got them done, I only had a few hours to get them up to the Impalong before 12am rolled around. Still did the plan as I planned, except B2 was forced to stay there while I went to FM (due to being close to 12am).
I also forgot to bring one of my horses for the trip up the ramp to FM.
When I arrived at FM, it was so much quieter than it was back in 2012. Only one guy in my local. No one actually in FM. But I was able to meet Wurm Santa. As much as I wanted to see him in his dragon form, he refused. You can’t trust a floating dragon head?
Anyway, was able to eat at the buffet. Once again it helped to get everything at 99%. All I need to do is find the public mine.
Speaking of getting my strength up, Reaping had told me I’d be wasting my time going for that; as a Knarr has a shallow bottom. I told him that the Clay I have around my area, my Knarr gets stuck in it. He said that I can try to “wiggle” myself out from being stuck by using my arrow keys.
Well, this may be my only choice if I can’t get it up with this plan. To be honest, dragging my Knarr isn’t really a high priority; getting the lamps imped, is.
Tomorrow, once all the lamps are imped to as high as they’re allowed (70QL), we’ll go home and open up our gifts from Wurm Santa.