It’s Saturday. A perfect day to go out exploring. Yet I almost didn’t, feeling burned out over how slightly uninteresting Release was (and remembering the hell I went through). But I can’t postpone it (and really.. I got nothing better to do).
Most of this Saturday went to exploring the server on boat (again), but this time knowing that I had foot transport, I wasn’t annoyed of the wild horse hoarding that I’ve been feeling with this server’s community.
I think I lost count with how many dragon-named things I saw. Though I find a castle named “Dragon Beard” being the best, second place goes to a Cog named ‘Dragon Wing’.
The coolest structure I saw looks like a castle (that isn’t a square) carved out of the ground, perfectly placed in a small cove.
While I was exploring the SE coast, I enter an area where I see three tortoises in the bay, named ‘Gingerbread’. Instead of looking like a newbie and stating what I found in Global Kchat, I ask the people in local if they know about this. I didn’t know a certain person I also met during the Glasshollow Impalong, lives here (Goldfinch). He was very shocked to hear my findings, thinking they could be left over from Christmas and then asked where I was. Moored the boat and tried to use my compass to pinpoint my location.
He then asks where I live, and “your name is so familiar”. I reminded him where I met him, and that he showed up with Cindy, and he was shocked of my great memory. And with that I said bye and went on exploring. Not really much to say. lol
Now done with exploring by boat (excluding areas I remember exploring when I first arrived here to do so).. this also is the fastest I’ve explored a server by boat. Usually it takes two or more days, but I think it’s because I hardly made any pitstops (except waiting for Sol to rise again). And I believe most of that comes from no longer looking for a new place to live (or looking for inspiration for my deed).
Went past Blossom again, and I parked the boat down at a ramp I remember seeing that would get me to Cindy’s place. Grabbed my horse gear and hopped out. Immediately saw a troll near the ramp. I was about to tell Cindy, but I didn’t want to look like I couldn’t handle myself(all in the Dragon Warrior code) and waited for the troll to move away.
It did, but not as far as I wanted. Decided to risk it and walk as close to the grass as I could, and it worked.
Was nearly at the ‘back door’ Cindy claimed she unlocked to let me in. There’s a bear now chasing me. My Stamina is getting critically low, but I keep going thinking the gate would save me. A hellhound is also following me. Soon my stam runs out and I can no longer move, forced to fight. I yell for tower guards to hopefully lure one of them off me, and none of them came. Cindy’s hearing me and asking where I am, and I said outside the gate and saying “I got this” (especially when I see Dragonkeeper in local and I’m trying to show them that I’m no newbie(respect is earned that way)). She acts like she was waiting for me in another location and runs back home, while I’m forced to fight these two. Hellhound’s taking good chunks out of my flesh before I have time to armor up and fight back harder than they are.
Both of them are now dead, and I survive with only light wounds. FEAR and RESPECT the Dragon Warrior! 😀 ..Just don’t send a troll after me, or I will cry (as they’re OP).
Cindy runs toward me from the other side of the deed a minute later, and lets me in. Now I get to see the full deed. The house is quite nice, a lot bigger than mine (yet I’m not really seeing her use much of the space).
I mentioned about the animal pens before, didn’t notice her farm was as basic as can be (yet she has a sign for every crop in the game, to know what it is). I attempted to talk her into possibly selling her crops to priests (once she gets her Gardening skill to 70), and she seemed interested.
While checking her orchard, Serraphine logs in. Trying to focus only on Cindy, I try not to notice her. She eventually notices me and says hey. I try to be formal (her being a CA and all) by saying “We meet again, Serra. Except this time it’s not through PM.” She responds in a way that left me speechless(and not in a good way) for about 10 seconds, saying “you’re visiting our Cindy”.. ‘our Cindy‘. Uhh.. you can’t own someone. Rather than completely embarrass myself by saying what was on my mind, I go along with it with “And what an honor it is.”
Cindy too acted like she felt unsure and didn’t know what to say, and also changed the subject by escorting me to the horses and showing me the horse that has been rented to me. It’s a black mare, very fast 5-speed. She was going to give me the other, but its four days until giving birth (and having that on my hands, no thanks).
It’s cute that Cindy cares for animals a lot, but the roleplaying of trying to pretend they’re living breathing animals that need love and caring.. I did my best to play along with it, but I knew if I didn’t get going soon, I was going to lose precious time that I could be exploring.
Got my horse gear on the mare and hopped on. Gave her a test drive. She’s pretty fast, but not as fast as Briskabbas. Maybe she’s not a true 5-speed, but I’m not complaining. She wanted to go with me, but had weekend chores to do. I was -this- close from going with the ‘frail and weak’ way of saying “you’ll only slow me down” and “I explore alone”. But hell, I’ve thought of this before (and it would be a cool thing of having someone come with me on these exploration trips), but I could see her(or whoever) saying she needed to AFK and/or needs to go, and I’m forced to wait for her as Sol’s going down, losing time I could be out exploring. And every minute counts when I have a week and four days ’till Wurm Fall.
My patience wouldn’t be able to take it. It’ll be like dealing with Angry’s past AFK episodes, but through the entire thing.
Now finally on the road with a horse, I head back to my boat to plot my first go. The troll is still there, and inching ever closer to me. I realize I need to remove this problem, before it decides to punch a hole in my boat’s sail with its club. Didn’t have to kite it far ’till several spirit templars from Blossom fucking RAPED it with their quick hits. There was also a greenish scorp that was harassing me on the road before. I introduced it to the same people.
With both dead, I could finally pull up the saved top-down map of the roads on the server. Decided to just follow the coast (just for the hell of it). Five minutes after leaving my boat, curiosity kicks in when I see a catseye highway sign pointing to an ‘Amnesia Creek’ going through a mountain. There was a troll and a goblin inside, which was useful to heal up this medium I got from fighting an anaconda before. Found out the reason is I didn’t have my armor on again (took it off when I was at Cindy’s place and forgot to put it back on).
The tunnel went up, which was highly confusing (as a body of water in Wurm definitely doesn’t happen far above sea level). Continuing following the road, it was like a repeat of the hell I went through in North Release. Mobs everywhere, and I just kept going. It’s like this road hasn’t been traveled in months.
When I finally got to the other side of this highway, what I saw didn’t resemble a ‘creek’ at all. It looked like a big castle. So why call it a ‘creek’?? On top of it, I couldn’t find this place on the map. Felt I needed to get back and continue to follow the coast. Back past the mobs I go, going as fast as I can to outrun them. Didn’t have an issue.
Continued to follow the coast going West. Eventually reached one of those assaholic shoreline deeds that have no way around them. Had to go far into the forest, and then go offroad when there were no roads going West.
Sol’s going down and it’s starting to become hard to see the cobblestone road. Plus I feel I’m getting lost again. Pristine has way too many shorelines (why 2/3rds of the server is underwater compared to the others, ergo why it took less than a day to explore it by boat).
Found a guard tower in the middle of a river, the only tower I could find outside of a deed (and its perimeter) in order to put my tent down. Unfortunately a troll is also here and I shouted for the guards to help me. Someone in my local named ‘Degrath’ noticed me and asked the curious questions, and I answered them with truth. It thought I was heading to the Rift.. as much as I could handle myself there, I don’t like how it’s the same thing over and over again. Said I was exploring the server, and I’m looking for a place to slap my tent down.
Tried to place it on the road, and it said I was not allowed. Could’ve sworn it allowed me before on Release. Placed it on the grass and that was allowed. Hitched the horse and logged out.
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The next day comes. Degrath is AFK, and I said “I shall be going now” and “happy wurming”. Not rude at all. Didn’t take long to run into more mobs down the road, including two trolls. Really makes me wonder if anyone on this server hunts regularly to keep the roads relatively safe.
Continued on my trek, coming up on ‘The Serpent’ bridge. According to the map, the roads I am would eventually loop around and connect to the islands this bridge is going. But I cross it anyway (just to say I did). Not bad at all. Got a few pics while being on it.
The roads turn East for a bit, entering a pretty big bay. Eventually I end up at the same deed that I thought I got lost at (the ‘creek’). Decide to get a better look at the area, and it’s like the people that live here don’t mind the public coming in and looking at their stuff. All the doors are open. The courtyard of this big structure almost felt like it could support an Impalong. Then again, any big deed like this with lots of villagers, it can feel like an impalong year-round (minus the public wanting their stuff imped). Also do love how symmetrical their main entrance of the deed looks; a perfect mirrored image. Well done.
Their back yard was one of the biggest areas of Dirt I’ve ever seen, sloping up. It almost looked like a target range. But looking at it closer, I believe it’s the deed’s bulk farm (the multi-FSB’s should had told me this).
Contained to follow the coast, now going South. To my SE is a place up high that I saw when I was on my boat, called ‘Vulcan Reborn’. Went all the way up its ramp and was able to walk into the deed. I felt the view would be spectacular from up there. And it was.. ehh. Minus the oak tree blocking the view, it was OK. The deed itself almost felt like OR in the past (with three single floor structures with no roofs). The doors wouldn’t let me in, sadly. There’s also a random road going right into a fence and stopping. Went over to it and it showed the road continued. So it’s to be assumed the deed may not had been as high, and they kept the road like this for a memory.
Just down the road from the deed, is a few wooden shacks that are falling apart (one missing a wall). Clearly the looters have already made up with all of the good shit.
The coast is now going West again, doing the loop to connect the islands. I eventually reached some bridges, and I’m suddenly feeling lost remembering these same bridges from before, and being unsure how in the hell I got way over here to that point.
Retrace my steps and try my best to pinpoint where I am, and it’s like the map isn’t showing me. Finally things start to align and I figure out my location and cross the bridge. This is the same area I stopped when I was exploring by boat to check out this (dead) market. Further in, every tree on the deed has been chopped. It’s like they too are planning to redesign their deed (that or just randomly deforesting their entire deed.. even the oaks lining the sides of the road were nothing but stumps). Last time I saw this mass-deforesting was back on Exo.
Took this mountain road, and I thought it was going to go up to the top. Sadly it didn’t. But it was the only way to get to the other island. And the other island wasn’t much, just a locked to public deed. There’s another mountain road which connects to the other end of that Serpent bridge I mentioned earlier. After that, I pretty much went back to the mainland. Further exploration down the West coast isn’t possible (a lack of roads), and I even saw this from my boat. I would have to go inland quite a bit, and wouldn’t see the coast again ’till I reached the South side of the server.
Had to backtrack to reach some roads I saw on the map that would help me out, yet only to be stopped by a door that wouldn’t let me pass. Had to go offroad to get there to get on these backroads, to get on the main road. Ending up getting quite lost and the map isn’t telling me shit. I have to literally flip the map around and zoom in as far as Windows 10’s photo viewer would allow me. Managed to pinpoint my location (really, really small road). Got to the main road. Saw I could go West and check out this mountain deed (and this road I see on the map), or East and check out these two interesting lakes. Went West first, saw the upper end of this deed and went up the road (according to the map, rock is on the sides). There’s a wolf behind me, and the fucker manages to get a bite on me and scares the shit out of me, thinking it was a troll. Killed the troublemaker.
Turns out this mountain road links up with the deeds I was at earlier, to where I didn’t have to go through the forest and get myself lost. But what fun is that? Backtracked to the main road and went to the smaller pond. With no red outline showing up from every direction, I hopped off and took this time to repair the horse gear (I have to constantly do this, less the damage gets too high).
Pretty nice little pond. Even had a small island in the middle. I like to call these ‘mini-servers’.
Headed East to this other, larger lake as Sol is setting, and made it there. Now this is very nice, and I notice there were hardly any deeds here. Saw a guard tower with a nice flat area to put my tent down on the other side of the lake. To cross it is a small stone bridge named ‘El Dragon’. Wow, nice. Got to the guard tower and put my tent down as the crickets started chirping.
And this wraps up the continuation of Day 1. Good thing too, as Day 2 is already going.