Lots to talk about. Since there’s a lot, I will do it in spoiler sections for easier reading. Please read them in order to understand what’s going on.
With ‘Day 2’ of Release’s exploration completed (having gone completely around the server and exploring everything possible by boat), I sailed back to Saint’s place. He promised I was going to get a few spare items for the new area (when/if I deed it). Even the fact he was offline, I went up there, got to his place, and parted ways with the horse.
Came on later than normal, having to go to the store and stuff IRL. He’s still offline, so… I decided to start up ‘Freedom Isle server mega-exploration trip – Release (Day 2.5)’. This day was to head up those bridges of madness of the north, and get to the top! As I said, I HAVE to get up there! Started off by taming and equipping the horse, knowing I would probably need the speed to outrun anything easily.
The wind has shifted again to a gale from the NE(going SW). Felt this would work, using the canals ahead to get up there. However, I had to go DUE North in order to avoid going 10km/h (which means zigzag to face the canal openings head on).
Soon, I arrived at the bridges. Hopped out and mounted up on the horse, and attempted to cross the bridge. The first section went through a really tall (and fancy) building. Then came the bridge I wanted to go up since I first saw it. But guess what? IT’S A TRAP!! Lots of mobs attacked me on that bridge. In total count (of this bridge alone), two spiders, two trolls, a hellhound, two wolves. It was a mess. Thankfully there was a guard tower next to the bridge that I was able to get backup with the trolls. A road awaited me to more bridges (and more dangers to deal with). And it was nothing but incline. One time, I was on a one-tile road MILES IN THE SKY! FUCK YEAH, THIS ROCKS!
Near the tippy top was a troll on a bridge. I hesitated if I should fight it or bring it all the way back down to where that tower is. I decided to fight, like a true dragon! NOTHING is going to stop me from getting what I want!! 😀
Troll’s dead, left me with one Med that I was able to bandage easily. Then I got to the top…
Dude.. I..I…I CAN SEE THE ENTIRE SERVER UP HERE!!! HOLY FUCK!! This is what I truly love about Wurm. These are the challenges, I’m willing to face. And the reward, does not disappoint. And all I could do, was just roar out. A manly, draconic roar. This makes up for what happened on Exo, tenfold. Let that person (already forgot their name) have that stupid mountain..I got THIS. 😀
There’s also a deed up here (that’s properly named): ‘Vertigo’. That’s hilarious. Though what would be even more, is if I brought Tulsi up here (somehow). I could just see him bouncing off the side of the mountain, and then see ‘Penadragon is dead. R.I.P.” in my event log. Or actually, even funnier.. I do a “FUS.. RO-DAH!!” and Unrelenting Force him off the mountain. HAHAHAHahah…
And before you say “that’s mean and shameful! You should be ashamed of having that thought!”, Tulsi would actually enjoy it. Though he’s not ‘sick in the head’ or emo. He’s just being silly (he’s still a kid, people).
Time to go back down. I got stuff to do. Time to sail to Cele.
Finally back at sea level, I disembarked from the horse and lead it to my boat (not wanting to risk what happened at Exo of not being able to lead a horse on a deed)…however, thinking back at this, doing this wasn’t needed (I’ve been told before that I would had still been allowed to Lead (as long as I’m not logged out for longer than five minutes)). I left the spot, sailed to the coast, tamed and horse and got my stuff back. This is where we finally part ways. Then it was time to sail to Celebration.
I tried to go for this northern canal. Reached it, tried to go in, but it’s sealed up! I was forced to go around and leave that way. And by doing that, I was able to become nearly perfectly aligned with the canal to reach the area! NICE! Reached the area, it was dark. Here, I was going to do what I promised I would do for Saint on Monday (but I’m doing it today). Why? I got paid early, which means I can now afford to pay for the deed.
What’s going to suck about this final pre-planning, is I got two versions of the map that both use the flat map idea I tried to map the place out (and I can’t copy/paste sections between maps). So I thought of just doing it in the first draft of the mapping (and then hand-copy it over after getting back home), and got to work trying to match the height in Deedplanner to what it shows ingame. And now I have the main hill raised up.
I also attempted to see how much I was going to have to pay with this reduced size of 21×21. After I got in the correct tile counts of all four cardinal directions and then tried to survey the perimeter, and the page closed out. The Event log is saying “You cannot found the settlement here, since there are dangerous aggressive creatures or dens in the area.” What?! I did clear out a few lava spiders that were lurking outside the area, but I didn’t see anything (because it’s night). So I was forced to do a sweep of the area, and sure enough..an adol black bear that I didn’t see (again, night) shows up to attack. If I could, I would had sliced that bear in two for being in the area with my axe.
Went back to the midpoint and tried it again, and this time I wasn’t getting a Settlement option. Are you fucking SERIOUS?! Don’t TELL me there’s a timer until the spot doesn’t becomes available! However, I fucked up because I was supposed to be right clicking the deed stake..not the tile (after asking CA HELP). After everything was done, it showed 7s and 41c would be taken from my bank upon purchase (this figure is now wrong, as I discovered I need to expand West to 7 tiles instead of 6(as I want to wrap two roads around my house to serve as the West entrance to the deed). But I don’t think the price tag would change that much).
Overall, the livable size of the deed would be (from the token) 10 North, 10 South, 7 West, and 14 East. Smaller than OR, but bigger than when I first founded it. So this is done, and those two are the only things I really need done here. I then decided to flip to Skype and ask Tulsi (basing on when Solrise would happen) if he would be on in a half an hour. He first says he doesn’t know, so I had to wait ’till that time. Soon Solrise happened and I asked him again, and he responds a bit later saying sure, then asks how long the ride was going to take. I say “I pray one day you would stay on long enough and ENJOY the ride. But I guess today is not the day.” He says he’s ‘kind of’ working on something else.
This is when Saint logs in.
I asked Saint how was his wife’s birthday party, and he said it was pretty good. Then I asked him if he was good to give me the free stuff and said sure. I load up B2.exe (aka my second account) and get him ready to take Tulsi to the area (while I head back to Release to get the items).
Tulsi’s AFK for a good 20 minutes after logging in, then goes down and hops in his rowboat, ready to take B2 there.. that’s cute, except you have no idea where to go.
He has trouble trying to moor his boat, constantly pulling up the anchor and mooring back and forth. Finally he gets it and hops in B2’s sailboat, and he sets sail.. for one minute when Tulsi suddenly hops out and swims to the spot just north of OR, asking “is this the place” (at the time I thought he was saying “this is the place”, which annoyed me(as B2)). Tried to get him back into the boat and he did. Back to sailing.
He then asks if he’s allowed to go AFK. Listen, people. Everyone has a life, but I swear sometimes Tulsi deliberately does this to avoid having to sit through all of it when he could be enjoying the trip.
A few minutes later, he hops out of the boat again after seeing the sailboat and rowboat parked at the ‘abandoned'(yet still deeded) spot that’s up the coast, saying “free sailboat”.. *facepalm* ohh Tulsi, you have SOO much to learn, and I don’t think I have the patience to do it. Yes, the point of learning is for him to figure things out on his own, but I’m just worried he’s going to get himself (or something I need..like a horse or a farm animal) killed.
But I guess that’s part of Wurm. It’s supposed to be challenging (yet also rewarding). I just wish I knew how Angry taught me. Yet it wasn’t just Angry, but several others (such as how to build a house, how to make planks and nails, how to mine, etc). So that proves that I can’t teach Tulsi everything on my own, yet he refuses to leave my deed to go learn. And if he eventually does, I’m probably have to bail his ass out if he gets himself lost (and then logs off before I get there and doesn’t come back). Who the FUCK has the patience for that?!?! Maybe I should ask Saint one of these days.
..Sorry, back to the story here. Didn’t mean to monologue. He ‘discovered’ that he couldn’t take the ‘free’ boat due to permissions, and I asked him to get in mine and stay in “for your own safety”. And he finally listened to me.
Finally in Cele, I (as B2) followed the shoreline. Was a bit too far West, but I had to as Tulsi would likely bitch about how long it’s taking (as he has before).
Someone named ‘Corvand’ shows up in local. Tulsi says “who’s corvand”, the person says “the fucker who lives here. :P” Wow. Ok, not the jolliest of people, are they? Though I also had to get on Tulsi about what to and what not to say infront of people (just incase). I also told him…something someone told me in Exo (which was one of the most embarrassing days in my Wurm life) to just wave and…to not expect the person is ignoring you. Hell, even I learn things ‘new’ that SHOULD HAD BEEN FUCKING COMMON SENSE!! :/ To say “we all make mistakes”, I should’ve been beaten with a bat for being rude to people, thinking they were deliberately ignoring me.
Meh. Definitely never going back to Exo to explore again. Anyway.. I assumed Tulsi got the message. At this same time, I (as DH) am in Release. I’m too busy dealing with Tulsi that I had completely passed where Saint parks his boats, and didn’t realize until MUCH..much later. Turned around and had to go back up North.
Back to B2 and Tulsi, the canal to the area gets closer, and I tell Tulsi to please behave himself. Lots of people fill up local, and then Tulsi opens his damn mouth and says “dear god” and “how many players are here”. I quickly try to get the situation under control (to keep Tulsi from accidentally pissing off the entire server) by saying “Hey, guys.” This seems to work just fine, and Tulsi waves (he’s actually listening to me, this is a really good sign).
We then enter the canal, and he says in all caps “WOWIE IT’S A CANAL” and “SPOOKY”..ohhh my god. Finally got to the area. First thing Tulsi tries to do is get inside the fence that has all Saint’s stuff in (for me, when it’s time to deed it up), then he..tries to kill one of the wild horses, which I have to tell him, in all caps..”STOP ATTACKING THE HORSE.” Remember what I said how I was worried about getting himself (or something I NEEDED) killed? That’s what it was. Told him to move away from the horse, so it’s all good there.
I tell him to just walk around the area and see if he likes it (since he’s (unfortunately) going to be living here). I use this as a distraction where I can focus as DH a lot more. And by the time Tulsi says “I HAVE A GIFT FOR YOU”, I finally find where Saint’s boats are and head up the roads. I wanted him to come down here, but he’s busy. I find him working on an extension of his deed, stating he’s trying to get a mine going to get more shards, and he says he’s got a friend “pushing out bricks like there’s no tomorrow”. Lol. Nice.
I ride on the back of this wagon as he throws the free stuff in my boat. I tell him “Thanks for everything, man.” Yet I also remind him of this promise he made to help me build the deed, and he says “sure, i love free xp”. Ohhkay. I wouldn’t call having to make a fuckton of planks, ‘free XP’. But whatever.
Back with Tulsi and B2, Tulsi gives B2..several corpses that I as DH didn’t butcher, including two pelts that Saint made for me (even know I have B2 holding onto several for me). I say to him “Thanks…?” He gets pissed off (somehow), takes the corpses and the pelts, says “no gift for you” and then goes to cry in B2’s sailboat (where he eventually logs out).
What. a. day, and it’s just getting started. This entire couple of weeks is going to be crazy. Either tonight or tomorrow, I plan to slap down the token. I’m still debating if I should go with ‘Dragontail Hideaway’ as the official name. Something about it just feels…off, especially when Saint yesterday told me how “it sounds like what a dragon does when it runs away”.
His words just feel a bit.. ‘harsh’. I know that was not his intention at all (of course not). But just hear me out. The way I originally saw it, the ‘Dragontail’ part of it resembles the canal thing, and the ‘Hideaway’ resembles how ‘out of the way’ and ‘quiet’ it felt when I first saw it of my initial exploration of Cele.
There’s also the MRT’s 5th anniversary I need to be a part of (on the 14th). But I actually love this kind of stress (maybe I’m the one that’s ‘sick in the head’, and not Tulsi). Though it’s mainly because there’s no punishment for failing.