Hello, and welcome to the first brief summary thingy that’s going to be replacing all of those ‘Freedom Isle Server Mega-Exploration Trip’ posts I’ve been doing.
Today, I’ve returned from Pristine after spending approximately 4 days there. And from my overall thoughts (usually ‘overall thoughts’ are brought up at the end of content, but I digress), there were only a few parts of the server I liked compared to all the other servers I’ve explored so far, even with the several dragon-named structures, ships, deeds, bridges.. and even bodies of water, on the server. I’m quite curious what started the theme, and how it’s stayed alive after all these years.
Only three POIs really interested me. One of them has been creeping me out ever since I spoke to the ‘CA on the mountain’. And I guess I should talk about this. It’s the mountain that overlooks the hilariously, ironically-named ‘Dragon Head Sea’. I approached and went up the mountain from its North side, seeing a highly accessible deed-like area on the East flank of the mountain.
Going up it, I’m hearing the sound of someone digging. Check local and see a familiar name (from CA HELP); Nocturnes (who I believe is one of the CA’s). I wave, and the person freaks out saying “:D” then “is that you”. Huh, I didn’t know I was famous.
Asked me where I lived, I said Cele, asked what I’m doing around here, and I said how I’m trying to get up this mountain.
So now I’m trying to get up to them, but it seems the only way to get to them is to go East up the road I was going to go. I get to a higher point, and they disappear from my local. Get a PM from them, wondering if I died. Said no that I’m still trying to find a way.
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Now reached a point where any roads going up, aren’t going anywhere. There’s thankfully a guard tower that I take full advantage of (a few trolls were around). This is sadly the highest point I can go. So apparently someone wanted to make sure no one snoops around up here.
Then the person tells me quite the story, of what happened on this mountain a year ago. Apparently this used to be the final stand of the Blacklighters (the BLers), before getting their asses kicked on the Epic server. It tells me the desert below used to be their training grounds, and how this island had multiple interconnected tunnels.
Then the person says how they could try to get me up to the top of the mountain, but they added.. ‘you have to stay with BL forever”. Plus, it was trying to get me to work for them and shit like that. On top of that, Sol has set. I’m trying to find the right time to say “I’m just going to log out for the night” but the person keeps talking to me. Last thing I remember is being offered to do some terraforming work the next day if I choose to stay here.
Finally I state I needed to log out, and do. Yet I can’t help but feel a dark, evil aura filling the air while I tried to ‘sleep’ in Wurm (placing my tent next to the guard tower and logging out). I felt like I was going to log in tomorrow (now today) and see a spiritual figure of a BLer standing there infront of me while I’m in my tent, saying “joooiiiiiinnnnnn uuuuuuussss”. I’m not making this shit up, I was getting extremely creeped out… to the point that I had to get back on, and get the hell off this island mountain. And that’s basically what I did, and I just kept running, and running further and further away from it. I wanted to drop a nuke on the mountain, only then would I feel it’s safe to go up (after the fallout clears from the server in 150 years from now).
Relocated my camp to that once-deed on the lake (with the two bridges). There I felt a little more safe. So now I have a nearly irrational fear of being on a mountain.. thank you, Nocturnes. 😛
So yeah.. the big brave Dragon Warrior, scared of something that’s never been implemented into the game (for good reason). But hell, even an elephant can be scared of a mouse. Infact I tried to get up on another mountain when I was still in Pristine, but clearly the owner won’t allow me. There was a way around the fences and the structure here on the other side, but I worry about getting stuck and having a troll chasing me. Not really worth it.
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Another highlight, is trying to get to the Eastern islands. This happened during Day 2. I could see the only way to get there is near the SW coast. I could see a road that points directly to a bridge going to the Eastern islands. And from what I see, it’s the only bridge that goes there.
Made my way there (passing two champ lava spiders), and when I finally make it there… the road leading to the bridge was clearly out (with a mine entrance above me). Below and to the side are three people in a large cart, all AFK. Felt awkward as hell. Cindy was on, and I asked her (since she knew these people are in her alliance), to ask said alliance of what’s going on with the bridge. Was told it was closed with it to be redesigned with two bridges.
Serraphine’s alt pops up. I was hoping she would tell me if there’s an alternate route, but she logs out without saying a thing. So the bridge (the only way to get to the Eastern islands) is closed.. that really sucks. Oh well. Went back to go in another direction.
About a half an hour later, I get PM’d from one of the bridge workers who is confused about a problem with the bridge. They mention a tunnel. I’m thinking “wait, there’s an alternate route afterall?” I make my way to this alternate route, and it turns out this was the actual route to get on the bridge. I also discovered (though not marked on the map dump), there is indeed another bridge that connects to the islands. It’s right off of Dragon Collar Bridge.
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And a final thing to pass on. This isn’t a POI, but is indeed important (to myself). I didn’t know the combat system of Wurm had special moves (only available for higher skill levels).
When aiming for the head, and managing to focus once (and then waiting about 10 seconds), two small options pop up; ‘Tattoo Twice’ and ‘Cold Clouds’. The first one seems to work well on trolls (some of the time), which causes the troll to lose all control and go from Wounded (or Hurt) to Dying. The second one seems to be the same way.
I managed to kill two trolls with these special moves. They do require about 20 Stamina every attempt, but they’re awesome when they work.
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So that’s about it for this ‘brief’ thingy about exploring Pristine. My final server to explore, comes on the next Wurm Spring(which’ll be here in approximately three weeks and three days from now). I just feel drained from the exploration (and the fact I’ve been playing Wurm for what feels like forever), and I need some time to rest. Maybe finally start playing other games.
I see this Gamefly game sitting on my desk, that I haven’t played in four months. Need to get that done.