Current Location (of staying for ‘the night’): South of the “Dragon’s Spine” bridge in NE Xanadu(SE of Summerholt)
Travel Locations: (Mainly) East (to Summerholt)
Status: Unknown, assumed alive (forced disconnect by internet outage)|
“I’m having a bad, bad (Wurm)day. It’s about time that I get my way! Steamrolling over every mob (and mountain) I see!
Despicable Benie”
More trans-server traveling (attempting to use bypass routes), my first active wagoner encounter, and spending 2.30s on a compass are the highlights of the day. And finally, my internet connection has been down for nearly two hours since the typing of this text document (claiming of an ‘internet outage’ according to my ISP, yet I blame routine maintenance).
At least I have my phone (using the 4G services of my carrier (as my WiFi is also down, go figure)). Welp.. someone please pass me a blanket, as it’s going to be a long night without power internet.
Anyway… going back to Wurm, I left Dragon Roost Peak and attempted to plot my own route to Summerholt (to bypass Vrock Landing and Linton). This took me due south, on this new Glasshollow-Linton Highway I’ve never been on. As I’m crossing another ridiculously long bridge (that just might rival the one going to Newspring), I’m thinking of random ways to make some money on the go (that don’t exist in Wurm). One of them was to find rare and nice wild horses and lead them to a deed, and turn them into few copper to have them be bred and stuff (kind of like GTA5 of stealing cars).
GTH(Grand Theft Horse), much?
Got off the bridge and start turning the corner (getting down this ramp), and a wagon suddenly gets in my face. Yet the animals pulling the wagon are unlike anything I’ve seen (by a player)– they were deer. Enabled the UI, and noticed.. holy FUCK! This is a wagoner making deliveries!! 😀 This is SO COOL!! I’ve never seen an active wagoner, ever in this game! I was hoping I would eventually, given how populated this server is.
Though, wow is it slow as it went up the ramp I just came off of, going on the bridge! Can you fucking imagine waiting for a delivery to Esteron, from Glasshollow?! It would take possibly a day or two for it to get to you! That is insane, and I bet I could even outrun it if I had wild bison (and make it there in half the time he would).
I wanted to follow it, but given how much it was stopping before moving a few steps before stopping again, I decided against it and continued on course. Less than a minute later, I see a named horse swimming inches off the coast. Went over and investigated it, and made a forum post in hopes the owner of this gearless ven horse would come and grab it. Though it’s highly possible it was left on purpose (like what happened when I lived in OR, finding a named ven horse in the ocean). Except this one is branded and cared for.
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Found another sizable market in another deed (named ‘Haven Community Center’), but no one’s selling a compass. I hate to say, but that person back in Glasshollow might’ve been right (how the forum is the new public market).
Just outside of this deed (after going up the road), is a quite unique deed named ‘Haven Heights’. It looks like one of those old wild west ghost towns, even having a county jail. So cool. Love the theme!
This side of Xan also had something else (that caught my eye on the map), a manmade canal-like river, that I swear its only purpose is to be a tourist trap (definitely worked on me). Getting off the wagon, walking over and getting my camera out, being all “ohhhh“.. “ohhhhh!!” (if vistas were porn stars, I so got lucky this night).
Weirdness aside, even though it was dark, I pressed on (as Gamma doesn’t let darkness get in my way). Eventually made it to the Linton-Greymead Highway(aka the ‘Hellhound Trail’, going past Rome and making it to Greymead just before dinnertime.
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Back on the road, took me north of Greymead (to reach the ‘Tunnel of Doom’, the gateway to Summerholt). Better than going to Whitefay, then go due East, then due North and pass Summerholt Lake. And after a harrowing journey of trolls always behind me and getting nearly owned by them, I made it to Summerholt. It was just a ‘short’ drive East to the NEXA Market.
But 10 meters before I could reach it, I got severe lag (that caused a lagout). Thanks to the auto-relog, I made it to the market. And just like in Glasshollow, I parked the wagon over grass (for the bison to graze) and then started browsing their wares. Out of all the merchants, only one of them had compasses (five of them). But something was off with them.. they have high WoA on them, and that makes them 1-2s each.
After a confused self rant of why in the fuck compasses need WoA when they’re fast enough (for me anyway), I asked Global Kchat, also half-expecting to get a few sarcastic responses.., but I actually got helpful ones. Seems having WoA on a compass, actually makes it insanely fast (to where it settles the instant you stop moving). There’s this one that 83QL with 88WoA, for 2.30s. The price sickened me, to ask that much for a compass felt like highway robbery, but I was told it’s very much worth it.
Gritted my teeth, and threw the money in the guy’s face (like saying “I hope you choke on it”).
So… was it actually worth 2.30s? Well, I wouldn’t say it’s instantaneous (like half a second after I stop). Server lag seems to also affect how long it takes. But, at least B2 finally has a compass (my old one).
I hope to one day ‘get my money back’ though, by selling something of equal (or higher) value. Such as, if I do decide to disband my deed, to have a ‘yard sale’ on the forum.
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Now with a better compass for B2… I didn’t know where to go next. Decided to check out this ‘Serpent’s Back’ bridge I see to the SE, but I also wanted to see if I could find this merchant deed I remember stopping by months ago, after getting those two larders from Saint and going back north to Cele on my boat. But try as I might, it seemed I just couldn’t find this coastal deed that I got my BoTD Trowel from.
Turns out the NEXA Market, -is- the deed that I got it from. Yet there are certain things I don’t remember seeing back then. I also found where I saw all of those smoking charcoal piles as I exited the canal. There’s a huge tree farm, just above the cave canal.
As I was preparing to follow the roads south to get to this bridge, I saw a moving Corbita heading for the cave canal. Made a mad dash back to the top of it, hoping to get a few pictures of watching this thing pass under me. It’s not very common to see people controlling boats (as most people enjoy being AFK and grinding their skills infront of a forge).
Starting to feel burned out with all of this traveling I’ve been doing for this half week (almost wishing I could remotely bring my boat to me), I made it to Black Castle and White Castle (I was expecting to see a marble structure actually named ‘White Castle’, with seating areas and ’employee’ merchants with White Castle uniforms.. I was disappointed).
Instead, I see merchants below that I cannot access (because of a bridge, and a locked gate beyond it). There was fortunately one of the co-deed owners here, who showed me a path to the merchants (and also mentioning how they have to fence everything up due to some lowlife jerks).
Made it to that cool named Dragon’s Spine bridge, and got to the other side. This is where I started getting all whiny and shit about how I still was unsure what the hell I’m going to do with my Wurm life (and also when I had lost internet access).
3/4 of me wants to go back home (not because this was a bad idea, because this ‘idea’ isn’t helping me decide as I’d hoped it would). The other 1/4 wants me to not give up so easily. But seriously, I AM running out of (accessible) places to explore. To close my eyes and pick a random point on the map to go to, attempting to find roads that’ll lead me to it (and hoping they still look like that with how many months has already passed), is slowly becoming the killer of my enjoyment (of exploration), of this server. As I have said, countless times… I have to absolutely, positively, KNOW where the fuck I am at all times! And that alone ‘kills’ the ‘fun’ of adventuring, because it’s so much ‘fun’ to get lost and have NO fucking idea how to get back.
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As you can see, this is what I’ve been since Day 3 of doing this, and now it’s.. Day 5? And this “extended downtime”, ‘courtesy’ of my ISP, isn’t helping (in the slightest) to help me calm down in order to make a decision. I don’t think there -can- be a decision made, except.. live with someone else who would allow me to not change how I play Wurm.. aka, be a lowlife freeloader (since I so very much dislike paying for upkeep anymore, the entire driving force that caused this).
If Dragonshearts had a better-looking deed, I might just move in with him. Instead I’m thinking of leaving him, and looking for a deed that has better road access (and just live in Xan for the rest of my Wurm life).
I seriously need someone ELSE to guide me in the right direction, because I can’t do this on my own (not this time).
EDIT: Internet service FINALLY fucking came back on, four hours later (at 4:19am).