It is with sad news, that I announce… the dragon escaped the cave. And, it’s my fault. I had just finished the walls, and the gate. Everything was ready.
Got B2 on. Had to have him place a new lock I made on the iron fence gate I added. I thought, as soon as I get the old lock removed, she was going to come running out as pissed off as can be.
Yet it’s a good thing I made a second lock, as I couldn’t remove the old one. Asked in CA CHAT, and one says “you can only replace or unlock the gate, but you cannot remove the lock”. Said that I was told that I can, yet I never got an answer. So I guess either I was lied to, or the more obvious reason being that I was simply misinformed.
Back to the plan. B2 was to run in, and get the dragon out. Simple as that. Yet, it was nothing like it’s ever planned. Found a way to open the mine door for her. He tried, and the gate was in the way. Saw her sitting ontop the mine door trying to get at B2. I had to run back over while he ran back in, and secured her, trapping her in once again.
We should had just given up right then and there, and waited ’till tomorrow. But I…wasn’t about to just give up. So I got on one of my horses, and stood near the gate. I though with it opened, she would had to come running out and then we would have her. That was my theory anyway.
She…did more than that. Not only did she bash the gate down, but the wall next to her, which………. allowed her to escape.
And then, about 30 seconds later, she runs back in to go after B2. And instead of thinking of using him to run back into the mine door and allow her to follow (and myself blocking her access to re-capture her), he joined me behind the gate, and the dragon ran off, never to be seen again (by us anyway).
I blame my impatience. I told Renny, and he said how he told me I needed Cybaru’s alt to make this work– something about sealing the entrance or something like that. I don’t know, nor care anymore, what the FUCK happens to that dragon now.
She wanted out, badly. She was NOT about to be caged like a bird again. She proved that by destroying two 70+QL walls. Though the way they disappeared, I almost swear it was done by a GM watching us. And if it was, I want their head ON A PLATE!!!
But I’m going to force myself to assume it was done by her, because GMs would not be deliberate dicks to players (well, except Enki, but yeah).
If only I had listened to Renny, who told me that I couldn’t really do anything ’till tomorrow. Yet, there was also the risk of once again Cybaru couldn’t help me. And it was just stressing me out MORE and MORE of reading about these people hunting for her. I felt powerless. All of these people looking for her, and I could do NOTHING but risk the chance they would find her, and I absolutely hate that feeling. This is why I did what I did. I felt I had to do SOMETHING. And all it did, was this. If I..KNEW..this would happen, I would had never tried. But again, as I just said, I had to do something. I couldn’t just sit on my hands and risk them finding her.
Anyway, she’s free now. I’ve done all I could to “protect” her, and this is the way she wants to repay me? Fine. If she wants to die by the unique hunting groups, then be my guest. And if I see another unique like that, they’ll die too. I’m done. No more of this. It was very..very stressful on my part trying to keep her scaly behind from being seen by the masses. It turned my life around. And clearly I’m not cut out to be one of those people who can horde a unique from their entire server.
And now with her gone, I feel…I feel like I can’t live in Oceanside Retreat anymore. I feel like I MUST .. move to another server. And the reason is not just the shame I feel, but also the memories of all of that “this is what will happen after we catch her” planning..which now has to be thrown in the trash. Which server and where, would factor in on when I do my Freedom Isles server trip sometime next year.
B2 also reminded me of that Indy server romp on horseback I wanted to re-try (since I got that updated road map). Since it’s Spring again in Wurm, I feel it’s best to go and do that tomorrow. I need to clear my head. I don’t know where I’ll go. Guess I’ll go to FM and eat at the buffet before it ends on New Years Eve. Might even stop by William’s place and have a nice chat about this year’s Impalong (if he’s on). And from there…who knows. I just..want to get away from my deed, for as long as I can (long enough to see “The aged red dragon hatchling has been slain!” in the Event log). I may not even come back, because everytime I look at that deed anymore, I just want to break down and cry over the second biggest fuckup I’ve ever made in Wurm (since I played with angry).
I also had B2 disbandon his deed, since…we don’t need it anymore. With that done (and a day passes due to some kind of timer) I’ll reinvite B2 back into my deed. But I’ll probably do it remotely.
I also hope Tulsi doesn’t still want me to build him that rowboat anytime soon. I’m…not in the mood for that. Maybe next year.
Yet the more I think about it, I feel my idea would had never worked. She..busted right through walls that Garit imped (70+QL). So there was absolutely NO fucking way my idea would had worked in the first place (as the walls I had built were only 39QL).
Yet I still feel like a piece of worthless shit. But… I dunno. I just..tried..to save her. Renny refused to help. He didn’t fucking care what happened to her.
If only I had a much bigger village than I currently did, and told everyone to not tell the outside world of the dragon, I would not fucking NEED the alliance’s help. My villagers would assist. We would had probably caged her properly a LONG time ago, and that would had solved the problem.
But no. I felt I was all alone, with something that everyone wanted to either kill or capture for their own personal game. Well, they can have her. I…don’t care anymore.