Tulsi’s back in Oceanside Retreat with me of what has been a somewhat hetric day for me. This morning, I decided that fixing broken fences is a higher priority than sitting on my hands doing nothing until he came on.
Logged in and no one was around, not even my contact. Found it somewhat odd, but at least I didn’t have to explain my sudden intrusion to their village.
Getting back to Indy was..challenging to say the least. There was a gale from the Northeast. And if you remember yesterday of what side of the Release server that this village was? .. Yep. The exact same direction as the wind is coming from. Fuck me. I hate headwinds.
But I believe said headwind was the reason I was having so many issues at the server border. I got the usual “if you keep going in this direction, you will wind up at (server name here)”. But getting close to the border was causing me to hop out of my boat for no reason.
I asked CA HELP for assistance. They suggested I back away from the border and try it from another angle. I did their suggestion, and it worked. Was back in Indy. I was actually getting pretty worried that I was going to be stuck here.
Made it back home with no problem, then realized I didn’t have much time to do anything due to RL issues (aka a mini-heatwave this week, I had to go get fast food for two days). Decided to still scan my mine for hostiles (while on one of my horses). Did find a Venerable lava fiend that gave me some trouble of trying to lure it out of the mine, but I got it out.
By then, I had to go back to Release. Raced back to my Knarr and got in, then got B2 on to take the horse back up to the pen.
When arriving back in Harvestmoon, I (assumed that I) met two of Ultra’s villagers; “Whitefeather” and “Shadowwolf”. They didn’t seem to care about me, but I asked them a few questions (as they asked their own). Basically I asked if they liked Ultra, and they say how he’s a great guy. Hmm. Interesting. Makes me wonder if they got brainwashed to accept him or something. Told them how that Ultra got Tulsi to join, and they’re all “good” and stuff. But I also told them about how Ultra’s trying to get me to join as well. One said to “start an alt”, but I told them that my home is with Indy and it’s not going to change anytime soon.
I then logged out and went to go get dinner. Came back at 6:01pm. Tulsi wasn’t on. He never came on until 6:47pm. He was also having client issues, and has been since he had arrived in Harvestmoon. I wonder if it’s the same as what’s been causing my FPS to tank.
There came a point where he just gave up trying, even though I told him to go to the Support section of the forum.
While I waited for him to respond of hopefully him getting the help he needs to fix his crashing, I decided to explore the village as it was day and no one was stopping (or even talking to) me. Saw some pretty cool stuff. I’ve also finally found the token and tried to ‘download’ data on how long this place has existed. Though unfortunately I have to be a villager to see it.
Eventually got bored and told him I’m going to go back home. He asked me “can i come with you?” I tell him to meet at the bridge. It was here when I discovered their temple. Never saw any freaky shit going on of brainwashing of the villagers to accept Ultra. So maybe they actually mean it.
We found eachother, and I told him to tell Ultra that we’re leaving. He did more than that, telling him he was leaving the village. To my surprise, I saw a rather calm Ultradude say “door is open if ya decide to return”. The guy seems to enjoy using the word “ya” instead of “you” or “your”.
After setting perms for him, Tulsi hopped on my boat and we went back to Indy. We pulled away and I set course back to Indy. Though he was still randomly crashing, which greatly worried me if his client would survive the server border switch.
Again that issue with being too close to the border plagued me. Either it’s the wind, or I was literally sitting on the Northeast corner of the server. But another ‘going back and towards it’ attempt fixed that, and Tulsi also survived the switch! Win win right there.
Starting sailing back home. Tulsi only crashed once. Something about that other server, his client didn’t like. Quite interesting. So it looks like I’m literally stuck with him (until he can afford a better computer). To be honest, I was sure this was going to be the outcome of this. So it’s no big surprise.
Finally reaching home, I had to fix a bug I saw by ‘kicking’ out the old Penadragon and adding the new one. He then proceeded to…want to kill himself by falling off of a cliff. And even tango’d with my tower guards. Not sure how he finds pain fun. Quite disturbing.
And that’s pretty much it with this. Tulsi is welcomed to go back to Harvestmoon, but again.. not with his hardware. As for the GM investigation with my missing backpack’s stuff, it hasn’t happened yet. Still waiting, even as I type this. I hope it’s soon.
But at least, I don’t have to worry about him anymore. I can focus back on maintaining my own village. It may not be much compared to Ultradude’s.. but it is home. 🙂
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With this all said and done, I decided to focus on getting a fountain before doing anything else. Asked in Trade for a 30+QL standard fountain. It took a half an hour until I ‘got a bite’ in the form of the host of Impalong 2015; Williamweird. Was a bit of a shocker. Of course I talked to him before about losing my backpack items.
Anyway, he said he would make one for me for free. All I have to do is come over and pick it up. Of course I agreed and set sail.
The wind has shifted to the South as a gale. Fucking PERFECT! Just in the direction I gotta go, too!
As I pass by the Northern Passage, I notice the red beam again. Decide to ask him what he knows. He says he’s been to one, and it’s pretty hellish. Saying it’s worse than what I saw (on both B2 and DH) with Enki.
He says it’s a late-game PvE event that happens (and mentioned quite frequently). I would assume it would be rare. Apparently not.
He also said that in 48 hours after the beam appears, is when the monsters spawn — not during it. This might give me time when I’m not busy (and it happens again) to go there on horseback and check it out.
Made it to William’s place. Yet I had a tailwind and I couldn’t really stop. Finally moored with half of my Knarr’s sail is in the bridge that links to the inside of the village. It startled William who didn’t expect it, and I laughed a bit while also apologizing.
He showed me around a bit, and I saw rows upon rows of statues of different shapes and sizes. I was almost about to ask if I could have a few of them (though I really have no need for ’em), but he told me to “please ignore the statues”. It’s possible these are what’s left after the Impalong? Yet that wouldn’t make sense as it was several months since it happened.
After I turned around, I couldn’t find William. Looked around and asked him where did he go. He re-appeared behind me, scaring me a bit. Looks like he got me back. 🙂
He then asks me “so where’s the fountain?” I pause for a bit, thinking “Uhh.. I asked YOU for a fountain, and you said you would make one” Not sure what happened there, but he agreed and said he would be making it on the south side of the village (near these two bridges).
I still had the shit compass, and didn’t know what he meant by ‘south of the village’. Waited for the compass to settle, then got my bearings and ran for my Knarr. Un-wedged it from the bridge and brought it over. I saw him between the two bridges working on the fountain, and moved over and moored then got out.
I told him how I tried to make a fountain, and with 32 fails later I finally had it. But told him the thing decayed ‘a few months later’. I’m not even sure if it was that. Could had been just a month.
He told me that items that use Stonecutting tend to decay faster than most items, which explains why my fountain went poof (even on deed).
So we talked a bit about certain things. He asked me a pretty embarrassing (at least to me) question that I wish I could had given him a better answer; “have you been skillgaining since we last met?” Of course I had to tell him the same thing I told you guys, that I’ve been ‘slacking off’. But said how the next Impalong is months away and I got plenty of time.
Then he told me that he won’t be doing it this year, and said he doesn’t think anyone has ever hosted an Impalong twice. I reminded him about 2010’s up near FM. I don’t think he remembers it like I do (as it was my first).
He continues by saying of the Chat Monitor named ‘Shrimpiie’ is planning to host it this year, saying how he’s been purchasing a lot of things for it. Asked him where he lives, and he says that he ‘thinks’ he lives on ‘the bottom-right’ island. So that would be the Southeast island. Damn. That’s on the other side of the server, and not accessible by horse. But again, he ‘thinks’ this is where Shrimpiie lives. I’m going to have to ask him personally if I see him to confirm the location.
I then asked him of why he’s not going to host, adding on that last year’s was the best I’ve been to (better than 2010’s for sure). He said how it’s just a lot of work and how he has very few friends to assist (which is why his place was so messy).
And with that, he got the fountain up to 71QL and said it should last a good time if I repair it once and awhile. Loaded it up in my Knarr and bidded William adieu. He said bye and he hopes to see me at “Seafood’s Impalong”.
Well, you know that feeling where things are changing and you got to embrace it, but you want to just go back and re-live the ‘good days’? Yeah, that’s how I feel about this. But the ‘good days’ being a purpose for going to an Impalong, which was to get my lamps imped. Now it seems the only purpose is to go and help with it (as I fucking said I was going to do last year…).
But it’s going to require me to do things I don’t like doing, which is slaving over a forge for days… grinding up my skill in something like Blacksmithing. Basically, skills I really have no need for. And then having the desire to do this for free during the Impalong.
If it wasn’t for when you fuck up (a LOT) that what you’re working on gets damaged to a point that 10-15 minutes of grinding was for NOTHING(as the QL of the item is lower than it was back then), then yes I would do it more. So it looks like all I’m going to do over there, is stand around being bored out of my mind while everyone happily imps.