Benie's Games Blog

I went to Halcyon (yet again to see if it disbanded). Not yet. But I did find something new. A butchered corpse of a Young scorp next to the fence. Who lured it to the guards, and why is it there?
I then checked the token and saw something else disturbing… Infinity was disbanded yesterday, by a person named “Dragonbait”. Odd name. Angry told me that a person was preserving Infinity, but I guess the person ran out of money or got bored.
I decided to board my boat and get proof. I soon found the unfortunate truth about rowboats; they are fucking SLOW! You can swim faster than that.
I already knew they where slow, but this is really starting to go past my intolerance level.
What seemed like 20 minutes, I made it to the other side of the lake, left the boat and headed up the road toward Infinity, and yes… it is disbanded.

I went home after this, thinking about the boat, my land, and Infinity. Telling angry in Yahoo.
The mid-morning sun brought more drama when Sgal and a few others showed up in my Local, but I don’t see them. Something about mining.
Me and them talked about boats, soon it lead to Ruffle. Where I was received a disturbing thought. Ruffle is an ALT!! An alt of 1 of the goons in Wild. I wish sgal told me this sooner, when angry was on. Well, I will send him the logs when I can.
Is this bad? YES! Does it mean I lost my land to the goons, which was rightfully theirs in the first place? Maybe. The fact the person that plays Ruffle hasn’t been on, there’s still a chance, but now a very slim one.

Why is this bad? The goons are an unruly bunch. They made everything that’s named “Bearback”, from the highway, to the mountain(well they didn’t DO the mountain, but the village next to it. And Bearback Mountain Castle. Both are decaying due to being disbanded for years).

In other words, I’ve pretty much have lost the land to the goons. But in a way, it’s cool that they didn’t really touch the work I put in.

If this other place I saw on the map hasn’t been taken over, I could make it look like my old land with some work, depending if I can get a deed on it.
I will plan to visit it on my boating expedition tomorrow.

Hmm… how to start this one. Well, today was alittle busy with not 1, but 4 hostile encounters. The 3rd and 4th happened later on in the day.
The first two happened in SoTR. First a scorp, then an annoying spider that wouldn’t leave me alone.
I spent the day finishing off what I needed for the boat, while watching Jackal get ever closer to Sol, while angry popped in and ran down to Halcyon to change the sign from contacting him, to me.

And FINALLY… adding the last tenon, I had the boat just about complete. All I needed was to add 1 last peg. It was time to finally ship it to the Village of Small Bears.
And I did… VERY slowly in fact, forced to take alot of breaks. Halfway to Aegis, I ran into my first living Goblin(3rd hostile encounter). He slowly walked over to me, giving me time to abandon the cart and RUN the other way like the coward I am. lol
A guy ran into me, searching for the same Goblin who was slowly coming after me. He helped me kill it and I continued threw Aegis, taking a pit stop for water, to Newtown, where I saw a Young fat scorp right outside of the deed limits, north of NT(4th hostile encounter). But I was going east.
Finally, making it to the Village of Small Bears alive, I got permission to finish and launch my boat there. And did, christening it the “SS Benie”.
I then grabbed my cart and headed home, where I’m now typing this post in the safety of my shared house with angry.

I think I’m going to rest up and maybe fix our home. Tomorrow I’ll grab a few meals and begin my maiden voyage; the Sunken Mausoleum at New Southport(IF it still exists). The journey will be very long, but it’ll be safer than walking down there.
I’ll probley stop in a few places on the way to get some screenshots. Such as Donner’s Pass Outpost (depending if there’s any bears or other hostiles that can swim in the water).
Also, Serenity Port. They have a PoI(Point of Interest) I want to explore.

There’s also a place I do have my eye on that’s WSW of Donner’s Pass that I passed by, trying to get to Mystery Glade on foot when I was playing as Benie. If I never get my land back, this place JUST may be a good substitute.
Why? It’s within acceptable walking distance of NewTown. And it’s right on the east coast.

Been busy here and there trying to make and add stuff to my 2nd boat, the future “SS Benie”. I got the tar, oars, and stern all added. Now all I need are the hull planks, tenons, and pegs.
During all of this, I forgotten a special day in angry’s life yesterday due to Wurm; his birthday.
It really urks the hell out of me that I forgot his birthday. I was going to buy him a copy of Prey. But I guess I can do it when Christmas rolls around again.
As for Wurm, I went back to Halcyon again to see if it was disbanded. On the way there, I noticed 1 of the houses of White Dragon Castle that’s near the road that goes to Rockcliff, is gone.
This proves they disbanded. Alas, Halcyon didn’t (yet that is).
I did notice something missing… my boat! It was gone from the pier. And once again, I searched the lake, only to find it and the fishing boat I saw, docked near Bandana’s homestead.
Someone must’ve used my boat and that person’s fishing boat. But whom?
I put my boat back on the pier, and messed with it’s permissions to make sure I’m the only one that can drive it. Hopefully that will prevent future theft.

Back at SoTR, like I said I’ve been getting parts for the 2nd boat. Angry was talking to me in Steam as he was playing Gmod.
I found out from him, that when him and another went to see what my old land looked like, the gate that lead to the house was locked. Now, it’s not. So he has reason to believe Ruffle was there after they explored it.
Why did she unlock the gate though? Was it to piss us off? Or to let us know she’s leaving? Or did she know I would come back, and to see if I really wanted my land back, to wait until the deed disbands.
The 3rd thing is more likely whats happening. It’s a test to see how much I really want it back, and to be happy with the way it is now. In a way I will be, once I get my hands on the info on how to make a dredger and start digging away at the dirt that used to be my island and put it back into the lake’s deeper parts, or back on that hill.
I fear though I may need to be a prem with a high body skill to use it.

There’s 1 thing I have been forgetting. Say I do get my land back. How am I going to keep my Food bar up? Back then, I had Vixey and that one that I can buy meals from in NT. This time, I may be shit out of luck and have to cook for myself.
But with it being a village instead of a homestead this time, maybe..just maybe I could get a cook to join us.

Today has been pretty quiet on Bearback Highway. No hostile attacks. No fighting. However this morning I found two people actually “camping” on the highway, down the road west of SoTR.
I asked them what’s going on. They said a bear is at the tower and won’t move, so they have to camp there, and indeed they did. They where making a BED, and other stuff.
Soon I had enough of them being in my local, and went up to the tower and got the raging bear to get killed by myself and two guards, then told them the bear is dead (now get lost!), lol. Did not actually say that but it was on my mind.
(skips part about going to Halcyon since I explained that in the last post)
I then decided to do Beel a favor by helping him with his Storage house, and made 38 planks. But at first, I made 26 planks with 5 logs, only 4 fails… that, is a fucking RECORD for me!
You say you want proof? Well I wish I could give it to you in the form of a screenshot, but I forgot to take one.
Anyway, I had them done, but somehow I lost my mallet. :-/ I swear I could lose my he….err, mind if it wasn’t in my head(un-intentional pun). I made a new one and imped it to 6.30. Highest I could get it.
And after ALL of that, Beel didn’t have me on the writ so I couldn’t help him build.

Later on that day, I still didn’t know if I should start building my 2nd boat at SoTR, or ship it to the Village of Small Bears and do it there. And if they would give me food if I needed it as I built.
My question was half answered though. According to kchat, I can build my boat, in my cart.
Basically, you put your unfinished boat with nothing added to it, in your cart, and then you can start continuing to build stuff while it’s in your cart.
However, there is 1 thing. If the boat gets finished, it drops to the floor nomatter where you are.

This is awesome news! I now know when it’ll be ready to be sent to the Village of Small Bears.

This post is dedicated to getting my HS back, and why it seems next to impossible now.

I went back to my HS, just to hang out for awhile, and to get away from the drama.
There’s 1 thing that’s been on my mind. If this “Ruffle” person hasn’t been seen by anyone, how is the upkeep staying on the deed?
I decided to do alittle investigation. I examined her house’s walls and the fences, and noticed the damage averaged around 10.
This is a sure sign that Ruffle has either left or hasn’t played Wurm for 2 or more weeks. More evidence proved my theory when I noticed the cart in her house hasn’t been moved since I first checked it out.

What does this tell me? Wait until the deed disbands to reclaim my land. This is now 1 of my options. But even with that, I have to wait ’till everything decays so I can rebuild my house.
A person named Achamian popped into my Local when I was over there in Halcyon. I ask her if she’s seen Ruffle. She said no, but asked if I tried kchat. So I did.
Alittle later, I was PMed by Kyros who wants to know why I asked, and I explained everything. And all this person did was make things worse by saying that I “used to own”, and to go find another place to live.
That really hurt me, and my chances of getting my HS back.

So now, I have 4 options;
1. Wait ’till the deed disbands, then reclaim it.
2. If Ruffle shows up, try to pay either with work or money to get my land back.
3. Head for the West Coast, where Halcyon used to be, and ask around for Ruffle.
4. Give up. Continue to live in what’s left of SoTR or look for another place to live.

For the 3rd option, asking anyone here that travels the Bearback Highway for Ruffle is pointless. If I’m going to keep asking, I’ll have to head to where Halcyon used to be… the west coast.

When or if I ever do get my HS back, I’m going to buy a village deed, and name it “Dragorn Village”. That way, angry will have his “Neveron”, and I’ll have my land back.

I have even asked myself, why don’t I just run up to what used to be Oakvale and claim it? I would have my island, AND it’s connected to the ocean!
Well, there’s a few reasons why. For example, it’ll be isolated. It would take hours to get to NT(even by boat), and the journey will be very dangerous.
We would have to literally, live off the land. Which means 1 of us will have to learn how to cook.
Food is going to be the #1 concern for us being non-prem.

It’s been quite a drama-filled day today, from the server being down when I tried to login this morning, to other things.
1 thing being I went to ask the GM’s if they could move my boat from Bearback Lake to the Village of Small Bears, they said no…
So, I decided to go fill up the fountain with more water. So I put mine and angry’s barrels in my cart and walked them to Bearback Lake. But when I got to where I remembered parking the boat, it was gone!
After filling up the barrels, I ran back to the lake, and searched the ENTIRE coastline of it. During my search, I saw the sailboat. It looked like something you would see in Egypt, going down the Nile. Was really funny-looking.
Finally, I found my boat in the last place I would’ve checked; the pier of my old homestead. I decided to board it and try it out to see how fast it was with just 1 person, and it was slower than I thought. Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself. 🙂
Soon, dusk fell and I had to turn the boat around and head to shore. And I beached it on the pier of my old HS, then headed home.

Later, I ran to NT to get some enchanted tools. Looking for 90 WoA on a hatchet, and 90 CoC on a saw.
I got the hatchet, but it wasn’t 90 WoA. Though it would be good enough though. As for the saw, I had to get someone to enchant it.
After waiting for what seemed to be an hour, the enchanter got it at 78 CoC, and I took it and headed home, happy to know I could finally help angry imp that sign with higher woodcutting.
I got it from 12 to 16 though, only for it to slow down to a trickle.

Knowing this, I knew I had failed angry. I believe he was pissed at me for not wanting to work my ass off. Why he logged off this afternoon and hasn’t been on sense. I guess he doesn’t wanna hear my whining how I’m never going to get my HS back.

I don’t know why every MMORPG I’ve ever played, comes with it’s share of drama. WoW and Wurm especially. But it was that boat that brought me back to Wurm. With it done, maybe I should leave. But no. There’s 2 things I wanna do;
1. Build another boat and use it for the Village of Small Bears.
2. Get my homestead back.

The reason why I feel like I failed angry is I can’t get my damn Woodcutting up to 20 to make good QL logs, to help imp that sign. But what I should do …. what I should do is stop worrying about what he says, and what I can do. Just, imp it the best I can.
Beel could give me a good QL log. All I have to do is file/polish/carve it until I can’t do it anymore.

Alot happened today in Wurm, and the server being down wasn’t one of them. Nor did it happen tonight. But other things did. Let me just run down what happened…

I was still working on the boat and stuff, Beel shows up and questions why I’m still mad for the way he acted, but I apologize, he forgives me, and tells me he will help with the boat if angry also feels the same as I do.
Then I find out, his Ship building skill is lower than me, yet he’s making keel sections and hull planks. What the fuck. He tells me to try to snap the 2 keel sections together to make the boat.
So, I tried. First time failed. 2nd time…. WORKS!! I finally had the boat!
I soon got the stern, seats, pegs, tenons, and mooring rope on it, then it was time for hull planks.

Alittle later, I find out I can finally pay Beel the 25s he needs, then run off to NT, got his money and paid it to him as angry logged in, who needed my help in NT to get a few things.
We did that, got back. Beel was almost done with the boat. It needed 30 more hull planks, which I did before and after I was mauled and killed by a bear that popped out of nowhere.

And soon… the boat was done! As for the name? I could’ve named it the “SS Dragon”, but… seeing how angry is my friend, I named it “SS Neveron”.
Only one problem faced me though… NO WATER!!!! Beel and angry both said I could drag it like a cart. Well that is true, but ONLY when it’s in water!!
After some time of hating myself, angry got Blackout to come and bail me out, only to make things even worse on me. He teleported the boat to a place I hope I would only go when I live there again; Bearback Lake.
It was the “Lake of Pain” as I stated to angry as me and him walked to the lake and boarded the boat. Angry taught me how to drive it, but all I could think about is the pain of looking over at what used to be my home.

Not to mention, my dream of being able to explore the oceans of Wurm is now crushed. :’-(
After a few of those water bugs, I walked home, where angry camped infront of what used to be my home.

He then told me to make a sign to put somewhere there to state to Ruffle to contact him. I refused to help, saying that my log-making skill sucks, blah blah blah.
I rather PAY my way to get it back. Not through work.

So in closing of this latest post, that’s basically what happened today in a nutshell. I’m not going to want to take the time to deforest a large area just to get my Woodcutting skill up. Not again.
I’ve already did it as Benie. Only way is if I have enchanted tools.