Before I start this off, there’s a few things I have to say.
Now remember when I got to a level of being obsessed, having bison and my wagon to explore servers? Of course you do. But since the downtime (and re-reading what Soleil actually said to me when he was taking me to Esteron for the first time.. aka, he never once indirectly hinted at going for bison), it’s making me re-think that having a single horse would be a better bet.
Now I’m not saying I’m getting rid of the bison. No, that’s actually for when I eventually decide to disband my deed. They’re going to stay home, on standby. And to make sure they’re going to stay there, I made the decision to let my ven 5-speeds go (and euthanize them). It hurt me more than them, as they were really, really good horses. But I’m forced to cull the herd (in order to care for the bison), while B2 cares for Uma.
With this done, it still made me feel the game was against me (the fact Uma is now Aged). Then I remember what Retrograde told me (when I had asked him those questions about the creature cage).. when he said “as long as the animal is cared for, it will live forever”.
Caring For her on every server, would ensure the ‘may die’ thing (once she turns ven) will not trigger.
Time to get to work, then.
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But before I started, someone PMs me saying they could brand her on Inde for free (as a response to this thread I also made, asking for her to be branded on every server).
Tried to go there as quick as I could, but RL things were getting in the way (which took a half an hour) until I was able to get back and finally get to the person ..who just happens to be living at Williamweird’s deed.
After giving him my flint & steel, a kindling and my branding iron, he made a campfire near me and attempted to brand the horse. Unfortunately, he got a message about that he has to have existing prem time to brand it (claiming he never saw this message before).
So, no branding. Sucks, but at least I got to care for Uma here (scratching Inde off the list). He apologized for wasting my time, and I lied and said how it’s OK and he’s fine (while also keeping in my head “yes, yes you did waste my time. You promised me a brand, you should had looked that shit up before I left home!”.. meh. Whatever. It’s not the end of the world.
At least I got to see William’s place again, so that’s cool.
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The rest of them went better than planned (of getting Uma cared for of those servers). All I had left was Release, and of course Xanadu again (have to let go one of the bison to re-care for Uma).
Release however, would become a problem. Just like the others, I found the nearest land mass to the server border that I could find. But this one had a deed (that I couldn’t access its token because of locked gates). But there was a spot that was off-deed, and thought I could just do it there. But as soon as I unloaded Uma from the cage, she decides to play games with me and walks INTO the deed, to where I can’t lead her ass back to the cage.
I was forced to make a support ticket and ask for assistance. Waited a good half an hour, suddenly Uma starts to go in circles. With so many boats, I couldn’t really see where she was going a few times (to where I could catch her and lead her before she got away)… but she nearly did, trying to go up a mountain (still in the deed’s border).
Re-loaded the crate and stayed close to her, trying to verbally coax her back down. Another half an hour passes, and it seemed the GMs didn’t see the issue being serious enough (that she could get away from me).
Finally a CA responds to the ticket (with a name I should had noticed (Dreammaster), but I was in dire straits). The CA is then “technically this is deffinitely not a bug, but its funny as heck so let me go get my GM”
“Funny as heck”.. are you fucking SERIOUS right now, after what I’m going through?! .. But I actually had no idea, that this was the King of Trolls himself; Enki. Wow. .. WOW. *facepalm* I actually couldn’t help but to laugh with him.
So he sees the horse, sees me and says “get out of that boat and climb up there and grab that horse!” I said “Hehe… well, it’s the fact I can’t Lead her.”
Then he realizes I was actually telling the truth (how I have no Lead permissions). So he flew up to her, and teleported her to the ocean (where I was doing doughnuts around her in my boat, until I finally got the Lead option to show up).
I thanked him and went back to the spot. All he said is “you are welcome” and logged out a minute later. After caring for her, I wanted to throw her in the cage for what hell I went through with her.
Enki then left a message as he closed my ticket, stating “Was almost a good laugh. Not a bug, but circumstances were daunting.” I never stated it was a bug (even picked the ‘Other’ option when I made the ticket). Also, I didn’t have this issue the first time I had an issue where I couldn’t lead the horse (and a GM moved it without question). Of course back then, this was when the horse had a saddle.
Whatever, this won’t happen again (as caring for is much more important than branding right now, to ensure she’ll never die). I just didn’t expect Enki of all the GMs to show up.
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Caring for her in Xan went as planned, uncaring for the youngest of the bison to make room for Uma. And, it’s done! Now I never have to worry about her croaking on me when taking her cross-server (while I wait for people to brand her.. if they even do). Infact I feel they’re probably saying “why should I even bother branding it for this person if he’s not willing to join my village? Does he not know this is a multiplayer game, that you’re not supposed to play solo?”
But even if I have to bump the damn thread until I’m blue in the face, hopefully there’s someone out there that would be willing to do it.