Since the lamps are made and I have nothing I want to do, I decided to take a trip to Ultimarus. Why? I happened to stumble upon their recruitment thread in the Wurm Forums, heard the reviews of other travelers, and decided to check it out for myself.
So I sailed there by boat while my alt fished. Nearly to Samling I realized I forgot to take something. Something with four legs and I can ride. My speedy horse I paid to breed my two females.
Turns out I didn’t have to spend the money, and the females didn’t need to be bred. They weren’t ‘dying’ like I thought they were.
Anyway, I got back home and tried to lead him to my boat. Yet it seemed like he suddenly had the “Strong Willed” trait (Randomly refuses to follow).
When I finally got him to the boat, he constantly lagged behind me. So much I got fed up and took one of the two females that already gave birth, and she obeyed my commands.
Finally I got to Samling with a horse behind me, parked the boat by a coast road leading to some merchants East of Samling, mounted on my horse and headed towards Xanadu.
Getting there I tried to find the road continuing to go East. After some searching I finally found it. Leaving Xanadu through a palisade gate, I was welcomed by an awesome road that reminded me of exploring the hidden roads east and south of NT. Town over here. Town over there. And signs showing the way.
I continued on the one tiled cobblestone path, heading to Black Pine Forest. Continuing to go down the path, the scenery changed to all pine trees. Beautiful.. pine trees, for as far as I can see. I swear when I first saw it, I wasn’t in a game anymore.
Did I mention I love pine trees in this game? Not only that they’re the best trees for planking, but the beauty of one.
As sunset began, I finally made it to Ultimarus. And it’s just like the pictures showed. Great design and everything. Infact it had everything. Merchants, a public trader, a tavern called the “Laughing Rolf Tavern” (perfect name I may add), all three altars that you can pray to your god, even a public combat training area complete with an archery range.
Night fell. As I waited for the lamps in the settlement to turn on I begin to wonder if I should head back home, or try to see the White Dragon since I’m all the way out here.
But, you know me.. so, off to the white dragon! Unfortunately I never got to meet it.
I followed the Freedom Highway (the diagonal road from Xanadu to Lock Haven) all the way down.
Halfway down I stopped at Pohjanmaa and asked for directions of the white dragon. I was told there is no known road going there. The only way is to climb. A difficult climb at that. But I continued down the road. I wanted to see where it would take me.
Soon the diagonal road changed into a straight one. About ten seconds later I get attacked by a Mature spider, who takes a bite out of my leg. Luckily I survived with only a Light wound. After that I stopped short of the road going East all the way to Colossus Lake. I was hoping I could at least see Dracks Inn.
Looking at the time, I knew I had to get home. If I didn’t have my horse I’d explore more. But since a horse won’t log out with you, I had to get her and me home ASAP.
So I followed the road back up. Got back to the spider and walked far around the bastard and got by with no problems. Thank god there was only him and no one else.
There was also some fog, but just some. Nothing like the “EXTREEEEMEEEE FOG!!” we had yesterday. Got so bad it swallowed my house.
Got back to Xanadu as morning slowly approached. Got back to my boat and raced back home. Got my horse back in the pen and logged off with two minutes to spare. Awesome.
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After dinner I started writing this very blog entry. Checked out the impalong thread. On a reply made on October 1st (yeah so this is late, but I rarely checked that thread), the location is mentioned and the areas it’ll be around.
It mentions a place named ‘Festival Cove’, and will be around the areas of the Cave Canal, Freedom Market, and Freedom Docks. Roughly, around the center of the server. It also mentions that you can visit Santa at the Freedom Market.
That tells me (obviously) it’ll be around Christmas. The exact day and how long it’ll be hasn’t been mentioned yet.
I actually kinda expected Santa would be at Samling, since it’s the start town. Shock to me.