Most of yesterday, instead of re-preming DH, I’ve been going over my old blog posts of before I moved in. All I could feel was embarrassment for how I treated Saintdouglas. I tried my damnest to keep my opinions to myself this time, yet he defriended me. Though it was probably because, he felt I didn’t need him anymore. He’s done this before, so it’s probably what happened.
Got prem’d up after dinner. It’s good through the 10th of next year. I did what he asked, of removing the left most row of Cobble road all the way south until the road turned due east (also removing the path leading to (and around) the unfinished canal. Began to ponder why the previous owners of the place, left it at this state. And the first thing that popped into my head, is this was initially going to be where the canal would go (until either something went wrong or it got canceled), and was made a bit further east.
With that all done, I was staring at the road going East and seeing how it was done, and had the idea of extending that look down towards our deeds. I didn’t know if angry would want it like that, so I also was trying to find that command someone told me this year, that places lava under your feet (and goes away when you relog). After searching my logs turned up empty (I could had sworn I was told this command before the Exo Impalong), I was forced to ask Global Kchat (local Kchat has been pretty much dead as a doornail all day).
Got my answer, and to my future self that needs it, go into the console and type in ‘firepillar’. It still works, and it doesn’t matter how far away you are from it, as it’ll stay. Used it to mark where the road was going to go (and how it had to be kicked over twice because angry kind of screwed up in the placement of his deed). Waited for him in order to show the plan, and if it was OK with him.
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He came on around 8’ish my time (forgot the exact time though). Tried to show him a picture I took of the plan. Since links don’t work in Wurm(thank you, Rolf’s coding), I had to visually show him the plan. And surprisingly, he had the same idea. So it was OK. And, he did most of the work (not my choice though, I wanted to help, but he decided to do it).
Had a troll encounter to the south. I tried to show him that I could even handle trolls (was waiting for him to give a snarky comment like “have fun dying” or something like that). Yet somehow I was able to defeat this ven troll without losing half of my health. WOW! And this is without being on horseback! That is damn impressive.. either that or the RNGods were rolling in my favor. Without a wolf (or any lesser mob), I chose to wait instead of bandaging myself up. And oh yeah..no Mediums. 🙂
To hell with the people who say Plate is better. HAH! That was living proof that Chain is superior!
We were almost done, when he said that we should also align this road with the road that goes east and south around the lake. I didn’t know how we were going to do that, yet he knew as he started chopping and digging away at the hill on the north end of the road. I just went with it, while just talking random conversations (and also supplying him with Brick and Rock Shards for the road).
One of those conversations was myself being inquisitive of angry dealing with PC (and server) tech support (and asking him of how many times has he told the person on the other end of the line to “turn it off and back on again”). He said it was “several times actually”. Asked him if he had any really good callers, and he gives me a few stories. One being yelled at by an 80 year old man claiming they gave him a warranty. He also tells me how another customer tried to remote workstation angry about 30 times. Said he was moving the windows around of his two screens, and they were all filled.
I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking when I wanted to say “were they filled with ‘Angry help me! Angry help me!’ messages”. Thankfully I didn’t, but it just almost something my uncaring side would do. I feel very ashamed for even thinking of that. What the fuck is wrong with me? …Meh, whatever. My response to him was simply “Damn.”
I also tried to make him proud of me, by telling him that I rebuilt my computer(by taking that accursed 9590 out). But he just seemed to not be amazed that I would actually have the balls to do it.
I also told him about the 9590, waiting for him to tell me something like “you dun goof’d”, but I didn’t get a single response out of him. Though I refuse to say that he just doesn’t care, but more like maybe he was just busy IRL, to notice.
A bit later, I decided to ask him that burning question: “What took you this long to find me?”(while also assuming that RL was the main thing). He said it was “school and work for the last two years”, and then he asked me of how long I’ve been in Cele. After going over my blog posts, I told him that we moved out of OR of July 17th of this year. Wow. That makes it nearly six months since I left my old deed. I told him that it “was quite a mess” of struggling to fund the deed. Did forget to tell him the ‘fun’ that Saint and I had of trying to manually map out the land without a deed(and myself losing patience in him(yet also forgetting he told me that he couldn’t do it over some limit with Deedplanner)).
Then the conversation went to Tulsi (with myself starting it, of telling Angry how I tried to be like him when he was teaching me the game). He basically told me after I said how he(Tulsi) doesn’t really listen to me, that to “let him just go out on his own and see what he builds”. Yet I also told him that when I was living in OR, how he kept pretending he was Superman and trying to fly off the edge of the deed (and also picking fights with my tower guards). And he said to just…allow him.
So, I thought fine, I guess I’ll try to talk Tulsi into re-joining after just over a month of being gone. And sure enough it worked. However, after he asked if it was angry, I said “I’m not telling you” to not spoil the surprise. Yet the first thing he calls me when he logs in, is “u stupid poopy” for ‘lying’ to him (with angry actually agreeing with him). It’s to be expected.
A ven bear decided to show up on the south road. I geared up and took it out, again trying to get angry to be proud of the effort I put in of being able to fight. Managed to kill it before the first guard came to assist me. Ooh yeah. But no reaction out of angry. Damnit. What do I got to do to get some respect out of him?
Anyway, Tulsi saw angry’s deed and wondered why he built it so close. Somehow this turned into a small ‘debate’ between Tulsi and Angry about how old I am (with angry saying he might have to sign me up to AARP.. har har har. 😛
Then Angry did a no-no in Tulsi’s eyes; taking a butchering a spider corpse that was on the road (before Tulsi could claim it). He wasn’t quite happy with him. And then he’s accusing myself of taking that champ lava spider corpse. Told him it decayed (which was the truth). Then he asked me what happened to his shack. Told him it decayed (which wasn’t the truth, but it’s the fact he was done and I got rid of it.. and never once did I feel sorry for him and help him rebuild it. After I get this done, I will. I owe it to him).
He had to leave to do homework, and said he would come back. I asked angry shortly after he left of what he thought of him, and I told him that “Typically he’s not this calm” (referencing the times he used all caps in public). Angry said it reminds him of his coworkers, thought not so much in calling their customers names(thank goodness for that), but going out of their way to embarrass themselves in public. Hmm.
A bit later, he’s on the south road and suddenly gets into combat and calls the guards. I question him, as I don’t see what he sees. Soon I saw the mob: a champ wild cat. Second one on this server I’ve seen. Again I’m trying to impress him by saying how I killed three champs on this server alone… and again, no reaction (even after I said how I killed it in two hits).
Whatever. I’m done trying, then. I’m just going to do my thing. I just wanted him to be proud of me (that I actually put effort into something in this game), that’s all.
Decided to turn the stalemate conversation into a burning question (to get it off my chest). “So, what are you going to do once you get this place fully built?” He says he’ll probably “sit on it a bit”(telling me that the upkeep is good for a few months(of course it would be, as that’s a requirement for founding a deed)). I also questioned if his true intention was to just mess with me with this deed, and then “disappear back into the shadows”. He said “probably” and “I’m on a Wurm jaunt, no clue how long it will last”. I suggested that he would just go back to Inde and try to “relive the glory days”(as I did). Said he’s tried, but he ran out of money.
And that’s when I decided to pop a question that I’ve been wondering if he wouldn’t mind doing (which is to enchant the grass of when I do the deed redesign). And he said sure. So that’s awesome.
By the way, I plan to start after I get back from the two Impalongs. Today, I’m going to tally up the totals for all the materials of the entire redesign, and then the next day to buy the mortar I’ll need (maybe stone/sandstone bricks too, depends on how I feel).
Caught him building a guard tower, and questioned the reason as to why. He claims that a guard tower is a necessity. Well, maybe in the past. But now when I can take on pretty much anything (that isn’t a Rift/Valrei mob, or even big ass champ mobs), I don’t really need a tower. But since he’s building one, that keeps me from doing the same (for Tulsi). But, no matter. The ‘guards!’ range should be within the South boundary of my deed.
Tulsi came back sometime after, asking if “are you and angry cool now”. I honestly didn’t really want to step on toes, but I said “For now, I assume so.” After Angry said “I don’t know if we’d go that far”, Tulsi PMs me and asks if Angry was being sarcastic. I said it “depends on his mood.”(referencing that one time in Gold 2 where he was pretty pissed off at me, and it was Summer).
He asked when did we meet, and Angry told him that we met in the Facepunch forum. But it wasn’t what he wanted (which was, how did he find me in Cele). I didn’t really know what to say after that.
I’m then telling Angry about how Tulsi can’t get Prem, over his parents being super strict. Suddenly he’s giving me a story that I swear he never told me (yet he claims he did) of his parents buying him a membership and the browser he was using saves the credit card info to make future purchases easier.. and he binge spent thinking it was free. When his parents saw the $200 bill on their statement, they banned him from having any money.