Welcome to the 2nd, and final post about this whole dragon thing. Bet you guys are happy (or at least hopefully putting down your cell phones in calling the loony bin to take me away).
Of what I’ve gone through from the past two days, on my own, hasn’t been easy. But now… now I feel like I finally have closure and the strength to move on with my Wurm life.
It started at the Impalong…
Getting back as B2, they’re closing shop and heading home. Impalong 2016 has finally come to a close. So I had him head up to the Priest area to check up on the new plate set that he threw into the AoSP chest. Everything had a really good cast, and asked if anyone could please come get it.
Hugh was the only helper there, and eventually showed up. After going over the items, he says once again that it’s 1 item per customer and the priests are being over-worked. Fortunately instead of giving B2 a tonguelashing about abusing the system, he gave him the set without issue. B2 also got one of the lamps from the chest. He’s also been pulling out fully imped lamps out of BS1 before anyone notices. Good thing, too, as someone was warned for having two fully imped swords (warned “1 per customer”).
Now you see why this is ridiculous, to rely on these people. They do this fantastic service, helping newbies who don’t have the skills needed to get them up to that level. I have the time, I just don’t have the patience.. that changes this year. No more abusing.
Never saw Williamweird there. Guess he showed up on the first week or two of the Impalong (while I waited ’till near Christmas). But with that, B2 gathered his things, got in his sailboat, and sailed home.
As he’s leaving the site and heading for the south edge of the server to cross-travel, he drops the two keys of gates that I made… to pen her. I’m never making another gate (or a mine door) for as long as I live…
Back to DH, who had to finally get closure, I went up the ramp. It was mostly intact. Had a few spiders (with one chasing me past the halfway point). Getting tired of the spider, I turned and kill it. So now I can kill spiders with this gear? HOT damn! 😀
I finally made it to the point where the road splits in two, with one going into a mine and the other stopping as it continues to go up. Remembering of going into a mine back in 2010, I did. Long way up. Ran into a black bear, but I was able to outrun it.
And then I finally reached the peak of the mountain. ‘Dat view. And then… I saw what was left of Erik the Red’s pen. It looked like the shape of a typical village.
And here, I hopped off my horse, placed down my meditation pad, and tried to commune to the ghost of Emeriss the Ferocious.
It was successful to say the least. I passed her tests, and was called a true dragon warrior (as she was). We talked for a bit, and I learned that even from trying to protect her.. that I was actually delaying her death. I was supposed to just..allow it to happen (as Renny told me). As soon as she spawned, her fate was already sealed. She even thanked me for allowing the hunters to kill her. Because actually doing what I wanted to do was worse. She would die than starve to death from their owners not coming on anymore.
She said to not cry over her loss, but to feel proud she died honorably.
As we talked, my spiritual link with her was slowly weakening as mobs started randomly spawning (and attacking me). Tried to hop back on my horse in order to have an advantage, yet it wouldn’t let me (for “You are too busy”). Running away until I wasn’t ‘hurting’ anymore (the area was flat as a pancake which allowed me to get away) was the only way I could finally get on.
The mobs then all closed in on me. It was like these mobs were the hunters that she died to… and now they were after me. Might as well kill two dragons and get double the loot!
Feeling I was screwed, she told me that a true dragon warrior also knows when they are outnumbered, and when to flee. So I fled instead of being slain, finally having my closure.
Coming back down the mountain, it was like a huge weight has been lifted from my chest. I no longer cried tears of pain.. it was tears of joy, to finally feel relieved I didn’t screw up. One thing she also told me up there, was to forgive the ones I felt betrayed me. Said that they helped her complete her fate, and they didn’t betray me. Even had me promise I would.
After much thought… I will forgive them. I just pray I NEVER have to do through this again.
As I’m about to reach the shoreline, I see a moving Caravel for the first time in my life. You know, one of those HUGE ships with a shitload of sails? It was actually moving; being used instead of sitting as a museum piece for big villages to shake their e-peen in the air, saying “Look at how much money and resources I have!”
And so, I made it back to shore. I can finally move on with my life, having reached ‘acceptance’ of the 5 stages of depression.
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So that’s it. No more weird “…WTF?!” stories about caring for a bunch of code in a video game (that took the shape of a dragon). Things are going to start to get back to normal for the new year. That, I promise.
Next time I post, it’ll be discussing of a new floor plan for the deed– redesigning the pathway to the house, and the horse pens. Actually having pens for the horses (and hopefully hiring a Priest that can chant enchanted grass for them). That way, when trees grow, they won’t be growing where I don’t want them to.
With the new CoC pickaxes (gotta imp the other one), I’ll expand my mine. And the CoC will help my mining skill greatly. I’ll also need to learn how to grind specific skills and get them up. And then hopefully by next year’s Impalong, I can finally contribute!