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So, the ‘something completely unrelated to this’ that I mentioned yesterday, is today’s topic of discussion. It seems many individuals aren’t bothered by the lag (which makes sense). But even people creating new deeds there, aren’t phased by it. Course, this could also be alts of mains.
This is the thread I made, about half an hour ago as I write this. I wanted it to sound professional, that I was serious about this.
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Of course my mind is still on Tulsi, and angry’s boats that are in my deed. As for Tulsi, the best way to deal with him is wait ’till his non-prem account expires (then sell his rowboat).
…Angry’s boats on the other hand, are actually a bigger challenge. Once I disband DTH, his boats would start to decay. They need to be kept in a deed to prevent this (especially if he decides to come back in a few years from now).
I could get them out of there, and sail them to Tap Dance (with B2’s help). But, how in the fuck would he be able to get there? His horses are gone. His only option would be to die, and respawn in Tap Dance.
Another option is to contact Dark, and have him to take care of angry’s boats (and also brand Uma for me). Or maybe ask Wargasm to do it.

Anyway, this… isn’t going to happen ’till next year. It feels like a kick to my head as well, but I also have to balance this with VRChat. For some reason, I feel I have to owe friends a reason why I’m not in the game as much. My headset is actually physically painful to wear. It’s doing something to my forehead, which is either making it throb in pain or making it itch.
Plus, the game’s getting quite boring (even in VR). Yet I play it for these friends. You know how it goes.
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Back to Wurm. I also said I wasn’t going to come back ’till the 7th. And I have to mean it. This is why I was weighing the thoughts of making that post. I just wanted to see if people would be nice enough to help me, and sure enough they are.
Why couldn’t I had just fucking stuck with the plan, instead of wanting to move? Just because the grass is clearly greener over there!? Or is it because I was bored?

*sigh*
Plus, finding a spot that matches all of my requirements, founding, thinking of a design for the deed, moving from DTH to the new spot, and building are going to take too much time and effort out of prepping for any future impalongs that happen (such as the Christmas impalong in Glasshollow that may or may not happen this year).
I’m just talking right now. I’m still unsure if moving to Xan is even a good idea. Given how it was in the past (as reported by certain people), but it does seem tamer than it was before.
Yet I also feel if I wait too long, the window of opportunity might close.

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EDIT: Two people have given me clues of where to look, that closely match my requirements. Said to look in and around G-18 (which (I’m guesstimating) is about 1,200 or so clicks north of Dragonshearts’ Xan deed).
Half of me (the bored side) wants to go back to Xan and check this. The other half says “you should had waited and made that post next year”. Hell, I might check it out a few days after the LunaLong is over (once rested up from both impalongs).

I got prem last night, and should have it ’till this day next month. The reason being (as said before) to make sure all my assets in Xanadu are secured (aka the bison).
Since I was home at the time, I was getting ready to throw the 5s into the deed upkeep. See that it’ll be active for 58 days; which would actually be 28 days to avoid decay. Discovered the time to throw more money in the deed, will actually be November 19th (instead of the 5th). Which is a few days after the LunaLong ends. Awesome! I love how that works for me! Impalongs past, I feared if my upkeep was paid as I wasn’t home.
As for travel time, with a breeze (not ‘light’ or ‘strong’)…
– 11 minutes from the server border to reach the mainland.
– 31 minutes from this point, to reach the wagon (took off a minute from this(was 32) due to server lag).
For a total of 42 minutes.

Managed to care for the 4th bison.. odd, says I can’t care for any more. Looks like I was actually right the first time, and uncaring for Uma was actually needed. I also forgot about the rune that I could buy to lower her age. So when I’m ready to care for her in Xan, I can use it and not have to worry about her croaking when taking her out of the cage.
As I was inroute to Kappa, just south of Whitefay used to be a deed called ‘Kittenhold’. Last time I was here, the structures were still here. Now, they’re gone, and you can loot nearly everything. There’s several statues at one part of this once deed; horses, dogs, and girls for what I could see. Helped myself to two statues of horse, one statue of dog, and one statue of girl. The wagon was able to hold it all, and I continued on the trek to Kappa.
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It took approximately three hours (even traveling at night) to reach Kappa. On the way there, there’s another Rift event going to the ESE of me. I also ran into a guy who had died and using a horse to get back, claiming they threw down their tent.. yet they weren’t getting an option to respawn there. Wow.
Oof… reminds me of when I was lost on the top of that mountain. I feel even more thankful that it gave me the option, with how stressed I was.

So anyway, Kappa. Nice place. It’s located South and Southwest of Surefall Lake. I can see faster routes (off the highway system) to get here, once I near Lormere. Most look like old deed roads, but they should still be intact.
The impalong site, it took me a bit to find. It’s quite compact compared to other impalong sites that I’ve been to. Has three floors. It’s also the first impalong that has underground boat parking (from what I saw of the pictures). But since I’ll be using the highway system instead, this won’t apply to me.
It has two inns in extremely close proximity to the site; perfect for (extremely
slowly) getting SB back up.
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So I logged off in one of the beds here (as it was dinnertime). When I get back and Sol rises, I’m planning to now head to Esteron, to check out the new route.
Came back, and it seemed I had done so at the perfect time. Person in kchat, offering to make three free 50QL smelting pots and give them away to whoever PMs (people in Xan are quite nice). Jumped at this and got it at 55QL. Actually paid for shipping (1c and 1i), but sweet! No questions asked (such as “are you new?”), too. Just how I like it.
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Tried the new route to Esteron. 855m less of a journey than between NEXA Market and Kappa. Eventually got there. The ‘bypass route’ I remember taking from Lormere to get me there (when I was on Uma) is now officially part of the Xanadu catseye highway system.
It connects off of the Rome/Lormere highway (closer to Rome though). To reach Esteron, The Three-Legged Troll is still the gateway to it (and the rest of SE Xan).
And instead of seeing a series of bridges, is one very long N/S tunnel that continues just before the old route to Esteron (involves dodging veins). Then going along a few coastlines before finally connecting itself to SE Xan’s current highway system.
And this route is changed as well. Instead of going through a tunnel and crossing two bridges, you now go along another coast, then up to connect to the main highway.

Now in Esteron (properly), I’m getting bored and want to go back home. Three things happened on the way there;
1. The bison were hungry again. Stopped on the side of the road to let them graze. Random wolf sneaks up behind me and tries to bite. It dies.. and I get a free 20c coin. Nice!! Easiest 20c I’ve ever gotten!
2. Halfway back (on the TTLT-Whitefay Highway, bear attacks me. It’s a champ. He pissed me off, so I challenged him. Trying hard to keep focusing so I can change my stance to the head, and he keeps knocking it away from me (same as fighting a troll). Finally kill him with 50% health left. Yep, I just solo’d my first champ mob!
3. Champ troll shortly after. See it running into the hills, and try to go for it.. fucker turns around and gives chase. Only hits me once, managed to outrun and live to fight another day.

Finally back at my boat, safe and sound. Successfully transferred all the looted statue goods from the wagon to the boat (via unloading and loading), and sailed home (with a light breeze in my face).
A few feet from the private boat parking gate of DTH, I noticed a pretty large problem on the road between angry’s old place and my deed. Champ spider, with several regular ones. Where in the fuck did they come from?! Was this Enki’s doing? No matter. Time to pull out the industrial sized can of Raid and squish these bugs.
Hopped on Uma and got the momma champ spider over to the guard tower. She’s now dead, and so are her five ‘children’. No more mobs around me. Logged out to continue working on this, and publish it.
I’ll be back in Wurm (and Xanadu) on November 7th, for the NEXALong. By then, Wurm Winter will pass. Though, I’m contemplating of making a post in the Xanadu forum
about… something completely unrelated to this (but it’s nothing bad, just an inquiry).

Loaded the bison/wagon up, thankfully remembering how to bypass the volume limit of the Knarr. NW strong wind to take me to Xanadu’s NE coast. As I’m slowly approaching Xan, I checked my animal list and see I had Uma cared for. Let her go, and noticed this;
‘You let aged fat Umawarrior go in order to care for other creatures. You may care for -2 more creatures.’
‘-2 more creatures’.. the heck? After asking if it’s a bug. It’s not. It’s actually something I forgot about… but, I don’t think it’ll be important at the moment. Basically, I forgot you have to have prem. AH is capped at 20 otherwise. Luckily, the game is forgiving to allow me to still care for what I was caring for (when I still had prem in August)… which, just reminded me that I can actually care for five animals, instead of four. And I just un-cared for Uma, who’s ven now… fuck.
Oh well. It’s only 40c more for a new 5 speed horse, right.. right?! Even after going through all of that awesome hell getting her branded on every PvE server in Wurm!!
FML.

Made it to Amish Groves in a half an hour since crossing the server. Unfortunately this place doesn’t have perms for guests to unload, so I found a spot just east of it (on a landbridge).
Unloaded my ven bison first, praying she wouldn’t die.. and she didn’t! WOOT! Caring For WORKS! Unloaded the others as dinnertime loomed, got them all hitched, loaded up the cages, and logged off for dinner in my boat.
Finished off dinner an hour later, watching The Nightmare Before Christmas (while waiting for Sol to rise). This took about nearly an hour as well. Soon Sol rose and I got back in the game. No mobs around when I went over to the wagon. It feels so weird, controlling this again, getting used to not even using a keyboard/mouse for a month (aka VR). But I made my way to the NEXA Mart, using the Xan community map.
Checking at the highway token here, this ‘Kappa’ deed is indeed linked to the network, and shows it was 8,456 meters away from this point. Moved away from it, going full
speed (while still watching the movie).
The movie ended as I was 1/4 the way into the Summerholt tunnel. Emerged, and started to have feelings of “this is stupid, why am I risking my life for this?”. Continuing to go down the road, infront of me are two greenish spiders. No guard towers, so I do my best to outrun them.
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These feelings fill my head more and more, and then I stop. With no mobs around me, I look at what I wrote down. ‘8456m’ to Kappa. I seriously doubt I’m going to be any more “efficient” than letting Xanadu’s road network do it for me.. especially with how (still) outdated the community map is.
Also pondering if I should A: Get prem to care for all of these bison, just incase one of them decides to go ven when I’m away (and die on me before the 7th). And B: Risk bringing Uma here and re-care her.
Decided to go a bit further.. see a troll, turn back around and head to the boat. 😛 Not worth it! I need RL MONEY for PREM, damnit!!
As I’m heading back to the deed close of where my boat was, wondered if I should just ditch the wagon idea and go with a large cart instead, if it would be similar of its speed, and only requiring two animals (instead of four). But I reminded myself that bison have a bonus to wagons (possibly of maintaining their top speed a lot longer than a horse).
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Almost back to my boat. Decided to check, if just incase.. that Esteron is finally connected to the highway system. And IT IS!!! WOOT! Didn’t check how far it would be (as I wanted to get home because Sol is setting).
Finally at my boat, time to head home. Think I might get prem tomorrow and come back in order to care for all the bison, just to make sure my plan won’t fail hard on me. Because the date of the other bison going ven, isn’t a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And I just can’t take that risk.

Made it back home in the still of darkness. How still? A light breeze, in my fucking
face… all the way while trying to get out of Xan. It took, 45 minutes of sailing to leave Xan. Oof.

Some Wurm news, a third Impalong has popped into existence (a week ago), called the ‘LunaLong’, in a deed called ‘Kappa’. This will be the first time the host has done an impalong, but has prepared for it a year in advance.
And this one is… interesting, for three reasons.
1. The NEXALong and this, are being held on the same server (Xanadu). Where the NEXALong is in NE Xan, this one is in SSW Xan.
2. One of the mats the impalong still needs, I could possibly fulfill (with some effort).
3. The LunaLong begins on the same day the NEXALong ends (the 11th), though as the NEXALong lasts for four days, this one lasts until the 17th (which is nearly a week).

The first and third ones are the most interesting, and gives me a feeling of “I need to deal with this now”; especially the first one. The fact that both impalongs are going to be held on the same server (and have highway system access linking the two), I want the wagon to be involved in this.
Here’s what I’m planning to do (for both). Steps 1 to 4 have to be done now, with Steps 5 to 9 to be done in November;
1. Tell friends in VRChat I won’t be active ingame between November 8th to the 17th, due to a “community event in another game” (as they wouldn’t understand what Wurm is). I doubt they’ll care, but I just want them to know before they start asking “where’s Benie?”, you know.
2. Immediately load up the bison/wagon and ship them over to Xan (where all four are cared for under me), and hitch them up close to a spot I’m planning to park my
boat (which would be very close to the NEXALong site).
3. Map out an efficient road route between the NEXALong and the LunaLong (via wagon). I’ll probably be verifying this (and other routes) several times. I could also use Uma for this step… but, the fact I can only care for up to four animals (right now) with my current AH level, this is my only option.
3a... The fact I won’t have prem, I’ll need to watch my ass and use every guard tower I see, to keep the mobs off me.
4. Once I feel I have a fast route mapped out, I’ll leave the bison/wagon at Xan (reason above), and then go back to my deed in Cele, log out and wait ’till November 4th.
5. I’ll need to get prem going before November 5th, as I’ll need to throw more silver into deed upkeep. Once that’s done, I’ll log off and wait ’till the night of the 7th.
6. Once that night comes, B2 and I will leave the deed with imping tools heading towards the NEXALong. No lamps this time, as I can imp them myself.
7. We’ll park near where I put the wagon, and use it wherever I need to (to get me around, such as when the staff show up to “Enki it up”).
8. On the 11th (the day the NEXALong ends), I’ll finish what I’m doing, then B2 and I will leave the boat there and use the efficient route I’ve mapped out to get to the LunaLong.
9. Once it’s over, we’ll head back to the boat, and head home (leaving the wagon again).

I love simple plans, for my simple brain. They are the simplest of plans. Look at how simple they are. Honest. #MSPGA(Make Simple Plans Great Again)
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Now the second thing, that I could possibly fulfill one of the mats still needed for the impalong. The host needs 3k Peat, which is the exact equivalent of 10 full large crates.
I’ve thought about it for awhile. It’s definitely doable, but honestly I wouldn’t have the patience to do it, and I would assume someone (or a group) is already fulfilling that request.
I would have to make ten brand new large crates (because of decay and how this is a donation), then shovel (with B2), a fuckton of peat from the two deposits to the south of me, get them all in the crates, and ship them (with the bison/wagon) to the host.
That is going to be a lot more effort than I feel like doing. I want to help, but I also want it to feel like it’s worth it. Plus, I’ll need prem time (and I don’t know if I can afford it this month).
There are others out there, who are better equipped (mentally/have an efficient deed) at handling a job like this, than I am.