What started off as a pretty good, fun day, lead to having thoughts of taking my stuff and going back home without saying a word (similar to feeling like I was being ‘banned’ from the server, for not properly dealing with locals who are AFK).
Okay, yes.. that was stupid of me. I was wrong for what happened back then. Yet I hoped several months after that happened, old wounds would heal.
Alright, first to the nice highlights of the day. Logged in as B2 and had him grab my cart and take it to the armory. I was hoping the strange-named forges were going to be renamed correctly (as in telling people what to put where).
Was forced to ask, and was told to “chuck them anywhere”. As much as I wanted to, I knew from last year that was a really..really bad idea. One at a time. Be respectful of the impers. So anyway, that’s what I had B2 do. Then someone sees the cart and jokes about it.
And who would had believed, the one that made me leave the server back then, actually helped by imping the range pole for him. In ways, I wonder if this was his way of showing that all was forgiven. Though after I traded it to him and said “Dragonhead’s my main”, it was like he remembered that cursed name (and paused for 10 seconds) before simply saying “k” and got to work.
With that feeling that everything was OK between us, I took this time to question him about the barracks. He said it wasn’t just him, and mentions a guy named ‘Robus’ who came up with the plans (except for the last three floors, which he admits he got a little carried away).
When I told him how the two suite floors are an “accident waiting to happen”, he reminded me that there’s no fall damage in a cave. Though also adds how one would have a “really good chance” getting stuck inside the walls of the barracks, if they were to jump off the wrong spot. So..eesh?
Also remember when I said that “Enki could show up announced”? He did, as I thought (an impalong isn’t complete without a little chaos). Though I didn’t see him of the people saying he’s “a regular mortal”, and “my favorite man in a dress”. Okay… where in the hell are you, Enki!?
I soon found him in his ‘dev form’ in the armory building, where we all were talking about deeds and stuff. Suddenly he says “well, one of you has official business with me….. perhaps good, perhaps mortally game ending”, and “so lets get the work out of the way”.
Ohh BOY! Time to get DH on! Party time’s a coming. Yet it was something with him and Jakerivers. I knew this wasn’t anything serious, and didn’t think much of it. And that was all this ‘Enkcounter'(said by a few people) was about. Decided to head over to B2, as I saw his lantern had 55 damage(with 92QL). Felt if it dropped below 70 from repairing, now’s the place to do it (free re-imps, yo).
As I’m repairing his lantern, B2 pokes me on the shoulder and points behind me, to a small hoard of zombies running away from us. I was like “OSHI– here, take your lantern back! TALLY HO!!” and ran after the zombies, hoping I can kill most of them before the others show up.
They ran down to a person driving a large cart on the switchback, and I did my best to assist (even without a horse). After all of them die, Enki says (as a joke); “Fall damage enabled in this cave!” I assume because he saw me falling down to get to the zombies. People are actually freaking out, then he said he was kidding.
When they were all dead, something invisible was attacking me. Discovered it was the hellhorses of the cart that had aggro’d. Moved away, trying to get out of range of their attacks, then went back and continued repairing B2’s lamp. It actually went below 70QL, and I told him I would throw it in to get it reimped.
Enki left after that, but saying to “keep a wary eye out for me”.
Time passed, and I stayed on as DH (while keeping B2 outside the armory incase Enki were to pop up again). Talked about our ‘glory days’ and dying to trolls in hilarious ways. Jaz is telling us about a weekend when trolls had extra hulk strength..aka that even a young troll would turn you into red paste.
Then the conversion went to Valrei mobs (and the want to see (and fight) them on the Freedom Isles)– Mainly talking about ‘Drakespirits’ and ‘Eaglespirits’ (and how they can ignore walls, and “some have a HUGE aggro range and crazy stun attacks”)…. fuuuuuck me!
With Enki not popping up anytime soon, I decided to log off as DH (and then tried running Modded Minecraft while watching the chat as B2). And my computer did NOT explode (or create a wormhole in the 4th dimension)! I was able to get stuff done that I needed to do. This is a fantastic idea, and I’m glad Windows 10 supports it!
Jake finished imping the range pole as the hours went by, and surprisingly still is he imped it over 80QL! I thanked him greatly for the effort. Now all I need imped (that has to do with bridge planning) is the Dioptra). Yet I’m worried as I’m not seeing any of the forges stocked with bronze. I’ll have to ask Nadroj tomorrow if the forges could be stocked with it (if I remember).
Several hours have passed with no Enki activity. B2 (as myself) took this time to explore a bit further of this area. At the top, there’s actually a rim of this pit that can be walked on. Going all the way, and you can see all of Exo’s northern coast (and seeing what looks like tiny ants (as players), running on the sand). What a view. What a great place to do an impalong!
Headed back ,and I started hearing crock pain sounds from ..who knows where. And running around with no gear (with potential mobs around), is a safety hazard for B2.
With him safely back in the armory (and seeing one of the pieces thrown in, imped (but DH placed it in)), instead of closing out of Minecraft, I switched accounts.
Got what I needed. While that’s going on, two players are dueling outside the armory. Checked it out briefly, but didn’t think much of it. Instead, I was waiting for a kind priest to raise the cast of BotD on the trowel I bought from Xanadu (that I said I was going to (try) to get done, but it seems none of them could cast it). One of the priests was begging for anyone to have their stuff enchanting. I said “There’s a BotD trowel crying out “Cast BotD on meh!!” The person said if it had CoC and WoA, that it would’ve been taken care of. Getting a trowel with both of those would’ve been more expensive for me.
However, I’m wondering if I could have it done on the spare trowel that Saint sold to me (if I can’t get it on this). Worth a shot, anyway.
Some time later, I heard someone die (and noticed one of the two fighters had disappeared from local). Ran over and saw “corpse of Punishlife”. Nice. The bragger got FUCKED! 😀 That’s what you get for getting confident. I was also able to look inside the body and seeing all the goodies he was carrying. My common sense stopped me from wanting to take his drake plate set (and probably deed rules. I didn’t even try to take them, fearing that I could (since ‘Take’ wasn’t replaced with ‘Steal’ in this case).
Before he corpse ran all the way from his deed (apparently he never thought of setting up a tent, not a real smart idea), a feeling of chaos started to fill the air. Immediately, champ rats (named ‘Aged champion Gopher’) started spawning around me. followed by ‘Aged champion Squirrel'(champ bears). I yelled out “champ bear!” to get some backup, and a lot of people ran out to join the fun. ‘Aged Pingking'(crabs) showed up, followed by “Aged Soup”(turtles) spawned in.
Enki popped up shortly after the last mob dropped dead, and wanted to do “an impossible challenge”. And that challenge was defeating something even more powerful than a dragon. Try three.. fantastic quality colossus! Chuckled when someone said “quick, push them away!”
Enki removed the joke, and then said he would spawn “30 aged white dragon hatchlings”. I thought “ohh DAMN, son!! My body is NOT ready!” Instead, he spawned 30 chickens named “Aged white dragon hatchling”. Now THIS is the kind of dragon I don’t mind killing!
“One last spawn!” Enki proclaimed after they all died. It was a Worg (a more powerful version of a wolf, named ‘Young Pet of NoGump’) And then came the grand finale.. four ‘Drakespirits’ (named ‘Aged Gaseous Lizard’) were spawned, and damn do they hurt hard (when I accidentally tried to tank one of them)! Luckily, some of the priests came out of hiding to heal us.
After defeating the ghost dragons, one of the helpers started daring Enki to give it their worst. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to see it as my alarm IRL was blaring it was dinnertime. But when the 3rd time that Enki would show up…is when things started to turn sour for me.
Coming back from dinner (and seeing a bunch of cows named ‘Holy Cow’ in the armory), not much really happened here. It doesn’t seem like anything happened (well, except for these cows, but that’s it). Did see Williamweird helping with the impalong, but he was too busy to really chat with me. Nadroj was also active, but I forgot to ask him to please put bronze in the forges.
Someone wanted enchant help, and I tried to pitch in with what I knew (which was in reverse). The discussion got heated and I decided to bail out, and do the usual ‘see what’s been imped’ runs. The travel gear that CD made for (and also sold to) me, got imped to 70. Decided to de-gear and use it instead, to get the maximum speed one can go on foot.
As I was running back to my boat to throw in what was imped, I spotted Enki going around the town. Didn’t think much of it (as he wasn’t spawning anything). He had disappeared after I made it to the armory again, continuing to wait ‘patiently’ (and occasionally moving a few items with my name on it to more active forges).
Some time passed, and I decided to leave the impalong and go on a small adventure to the deed that inspired me to build DTH (to get some better pictures). It’s a small walk to the south, not far at all.
When I first saw the area, I couldn’t really get out of my boat to look around (as the walls of the deed are too high). First thing I noticed upon arriving on foot, was the token was -not- on that middle island as I assumed. And second, the ‘water part’ of the deed wasn’t really being used by anything but looks. Infact, the owner had the boat docks at the entrance of the ‘canal’.
The simplicity of the boat docks (and the fact its harbor master building is empty), really got my brain clicking. This person is putting looks over functionality…ohh god I want to do a dock just like this, and I even was coming up with ideas in my head on just how to pull it off.
This person’s deed is as flat as mine, and he isn’t raising up any hills (except for the docks). I absolutely need to contact the owner of this place, show him DTH (via Deedplanner) and then absolutely beg them to allow me to take their ideas (but saying I’ll give credit). Being serious, by the way. This may be the way to ‘save the deed’.
After a lot of searching, I eventually found the person’s token and tried to figure out the name of the owner. The name is “Bonetly”(I’m guessing? I can barely read the name). I’ll ask Nadroj tomorrow if he knows if this person can be contacted on the forum. The person’s on the same alliance(not to mention south of the impalong location), so I’m pretty sure Nadroj knows this person.
Made it back to the impalong. Never felt the shroud of chaos forming around me, before ‘Aged champion Snoopy'(champ wolves) started popping up around me. Forgetting I had de-geared (wondering why I wasn’t hitting anything), I was forced to run into the armory and re-gear. This triggered others to come out and assist. Came back out, but most of the ‘snoopy’ wolves were already getting their tails kicked.
Some of the guests were curious what was going on. More champ bears (‘aged champion Marmaduke III’) spawned in. Immediately after, ‘aged champion Heathcliff'(aged crocks) spawned behind me. I tried to solo one (BAD idea…nearly all red) before getting a few others assisting. Enki healed me just intime ‘aged champion Garfield'(champ wildcat) spawned in.
It got quiet after that. I’m pacing back and forth, waiting for what’s next from Enki’s bag of tricks. And…bulls (‘Aged Ony’) showed up. Sheep (‘Aged Sharkbait’) show up after that. And THEN come the NoGumps! Two ‘Aged Tom Thumb'(non-champ, so they dropped pretty quickly with multiple attackers(and myself not tanking this time)).
Enki pops up, warning us “you will all die”. And now we have landsharks(Sharks out of water, named ‘Aged Sawzalottalegs’ to deal with, followed by…REALLY, Enki?! Rift hounds(‘Aged Amputator’) now!
Crabs (‘Aged Zoidberg’) after those. While this was going on, pigs were spawning in the armory. And then…Eaglespirits(‘Aged Fangor’)! This time I was smart to not tank them. Though I could barely see if I was even hitting them(going by the combat distance meter).
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Enki wasn’t done yet. However…this is when things started to go sour for me. I was ‘in the zone’, ready to kill anything (hostile or not) that he spawns in. However, one of the helpers wanted to keep some of these as a pet. When this person stopped, having two lambs lead by rope, he let one go and I killed it. I thought the person was just joking about keeping them as pets, even saying “It wanted to be killed”. Again, I thought it was all part of the chaos. I wasn’t deliberately trying to piss anyone off.
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Some time passed and I was still exploring the area (while waiting for the imping to get done). Spotted an aged Ony in one corner of the armory building. I thought “hmm, one of them escaped. I’ll fix that!” As the bull died, two people (one of them being Jake) came running in to see what was going on. I explained to them that this thing escaped the slaughter and it was taken care of, and that would be it. I noticed one of them were still staring at me, and I didn’t really give it much of a thought until I saw a PM from Jake. I turned to my right and saw he was the other one that saw me kill it.
Almost immediately, I knew I had just fucked up. My anger level rose pretty quickly, for the guy who has beef with me..apparently I did something really stupid (again). Here I’ve been trying to avoid getting into a quarrel with him, yet somehow I managed without cause. Went outside to clear my mind and to my boat in order to clear local. With it clear, I was confused on what the fuck did I do this time to piss him off.
He popped up in local alone with me, and I said to him “Let me guess…I wasn’t supposed to kill the bull?”, but he left before I could continue my conversation with him. A bit later, he pops up again with someone else. Not wanting to continue this conversation with anyone but him, I kept it to myself. Went to Black Brigade (the deed to the south) and sat down on one of the comfy benches, looking out at the eastern sea. I originally thought “wow, I need to get one of these”, knowing I have no place to sit in DTH.
At this time, I check out Jake’s PM. He’s saying I’m “obviously trolling”. Guys, if you read up, both times I had no idea some of these people were actually serious. Plus if you were to have a pet, you should had tamed it. Though that’s only an excuse, as I should’ve known what bulls don’t run off like cows do. It was obviously lead here, and kept out of sight…to probably prevent something like this from happening. If I had only used my brain instead of “hey it escaped”, I would not be in this mess.
Yet I responded in this manner, still frustrated and confused(at the time): “I’m not sure why you come to this decision. Did it occur to you that both times, could’ve been an accident?” “I wouldn’t deliberately troll people.” “Plus that bull, was spawned by Enki. I had no idea that bull was someone else’s.”
Somehow I was blocked after that, getting a message with “Jakerivers is currently offline, please try again later”. Though the more I think about it, he could had fake logged out to prevent people from PMing him. I believe there’s a way to do that.
I felt like, just grabbing my stuff and going back home, that it was a mistake to come back to Exo and expect old wounds to heal. I still feel he has a direct issue with me, yet he won’t just tell me what it is (so then I could block his ass, as he just did the same thing to me).
Robus PMs me a few moments later, stating he talked it over with Jake and “the situation has resolved”. Yet now I seem to have beef with this guy, telling me “you don’t have to carry it out in public” yet also stating “just enjoy the impalong man”.
Just enjoy the impalong, after this? Okay, at least respond to my PMs to hear my side of this story, if you could. Oh wait, but you’re going to take 30+ minutes and not do that. Yeah..that doesn’t help defuse the situation. No “that’s fine, just please don’t let it happen again, alright?”. No communication whatsoever.
Thought about it to myself as Sol went down (and light fog was developing), and then eventually thought “okay, so let’s just try to not have anymore ‘accidents’ and I should be fine”…yet where’s the line drawn here? What is ‘safe’ to kill that won’t involve the wrath of Jakerivers? Is he going to start bitching at me for killing a hostile now?
Where is it going to end, huh? But, I got up and started walking back to the impalong, hoping that tomorrow would be a better day and we can just put all of this mess behind us… that was until I saw Jukimo (the one that taught me how to kill trolls) had defriended me.
Wow. Wow. Okay, that’s it. I am, DONE, with this server’s community. That was my breaking point; the final nail on the coffin, etc.. tomorrow I’m still going to ask if this “Bonetly” person can be contacted on the forum, and then gather my tools and leave quietly.
I will wait ’till the Shrimpalong, and hope that god damn common sense-spewing asshole isn’t there. Though if he is, I feel (and again hope) that his connection to Exo isn’t so strong on Inde. The people I have on my friends list, don’t even know him. That -should- save me (depending on the severity).
Folks, this really wasn’t that big of a deal as they made it out to be, and there was no need to escalate it like this. Accidents. happen. And apparently Jake thought I was doing it on purpose by saying I’m “obviously trolling”. This makes it partly his fault. But I too also take part (hell, even most) of the blame. Again, I wasn’t paying attention. I too, was assuming. Assuming they weren’t being serious with keeping them as pets.
This is not going to happen again in the future. I will be more cautious on what I kill. But as for now, I’m sick of Jake. And I just feel that removing myself and my tools from the impalong, quietly, is possibly the most mature way to handle this.
It’s a shame to have to leave, it really is. This is a great place to do an impalong… if its community wasn’t so…so… ‘cancerous’? I actually feel uncomfortable using that word.