Benie's Games Blog

Came on to check Tulsi’s progress, and I noticed someone new in local (named ‘Xandice’ who immediately said hi to me), then disappeared. A few minutes later, the person asked me in a PM if I lived on Cele. I said yes. When I asked why, the person said they “just started here” and trying to meet new people in the area.
All I could say was “Ah. Well cool. :)” Fantastic way to welcome someone to the server, right? Yet I was more concerned if they meant of ‘starting here’ and meeting new people ‘in the area’.. if this means the person is living near me (because you folks know how much I love neighbors).

We talked for about 10+ minutes as I’m pushing ‘angry’s boat’ out of my deed and to the lake, for it to be drifted away. The person tells me they lived in Xanadu. Never once (’till now) did I notice the ironic ‘Xan’ in the person’s name. Though I swear I saw this person’s name before as I was exploring Amish Estates. The person’s also asking me if I know ‘Wargasm’. I said simply that I knew and have seen him in kchat, but I didn’t personally know him. And the person said that they now live near him.
I thought cool and stuff.

After I got done making sure the boat was floating, I turn around and then see a venerable brown bear standing exactly where the boat was… what the fuck? It wasn’t named, just a regular ven bear.
Could…angry possibly be a GM?! Because that bear was NOT there before (nor did I see one anywhere around when I was pushing the boat away).
This is starting to freak me out. First a boat, and now this? Could the lava spider population also be caused by him? Mmmm. I dunno. Maybe I’m just being paranoid. Plus, GMs aren’t allowed to mess with players. So, it probably was a very strange quiescence. I mean, I’ve had it happen before with a mob suddenly showing up that I never seen, so I doubt it’s anything silly as angry being a GM. 😛
I also saw that the dog that Saint had tamed while DTH was being built, its model has changed…to a pumpkin that can walk with its roots. Yep, creepy. There was a Wurm update I got, so I guess the art team have the Halloween spirit (that or were told to change the models of some of the creatures to be Halloween-themed). Either way, well done!

Moving on, I’m in my house and I see the guy in local again, and also hearing the sound of trees being chopped and felled to the south of me. I’m thinking “so Wargasm must be living somewhere on the coast”. Then I see Wargasm also popping up in local.
I needed to go investigate this, so I mounted up and went south. And…sure enough this ‘Xandice’ is my neighbor. FUCK!! He has a pretty modest-sized house that looks like something I possibly would had thought of. It’s a 3×3, but it has an additional ‘driveway’ for carts. This is really neat, and creative. He’s also fighting a cave bug that is green in color (yet isn’t named as a greenish). Must be another Halloween-themed mob. Zombie cave bugs? Eek. Still remember in JK:H, I used to be scared of these little things (as they managed to use their size to evade a player’s attacks).
Now they fall dead just like any other mob to my axe. 🙂

But I digress. Wargasm obviously planned the structure Xandice is building. And before you say “you’re a bad friend because you could’ve done it for Tulsi”, remember that I gave him the option to build a 3×3 back in OR. It’s not my fault he got bored making planks. ..But, he also was helping him, trying to get him to enjoy the game. Personally, I feel ‘enjoying the game’ is doing all the work yourself. But that’s just me. That’s how I raised myself up in Wurm. And I doubt this guy had just started (as he said he started in Xanadu). He has -some- experience with this game, yet a lot more than Tulsi does.
He was even asking War of how to get a cow to follow him (and not trying to kill the cow). Nor does he (Xandice) have a strange obsession to spiders. Though I’ll admit, if smaller versions of dragons could be solo’d, I’ll be having the corpses of them all over the deed (you folks know I would). 😛

Wargasm said he lives on the coast, on the other side of the canal (Pilot’s Point). And looking back, I feel I did a very rude thing by asking him if I could barrow his slate veins (because I could had built the Grinding Floor out of Slate instead of Sandstone, which would had made it look cooler).
He asked what I was willing to offer, and I asked him what would he want that would be worth it to him. Then he turns to Xandice and says “It’s Xandice’s place, I’ll let him decide.” And I’ve been feeling since then “U WOT?! This place had slate I didn’t know about?!?! FUCK!!”
Yet instead of trading, Wargasm is telling me that he’s trying to get Xandice some silver to get prem. And it seemed he had forgotten about the trade, and then asked if I wanted shards or bricks (and how many). Not to be greedy, I asked for a minimum of 50 bricks (not that I’m going to really use them for anything). Then I had to go get my large cart and bring it back to go get them. He said he had them at his deed, but all I had to do was to just go back to the person’s house and receive them.

After getting the bricks, I bidded them adieu. Was getting ready to head back home, when I spotted a spider with a strange cave bug-like model in the distance. Curious, I went over it…and I wish I didn’t. Imagine a pumpkin with a grin, with 8 legs used for walking? Would you be scared of mother nature?
After killing the freak of nature, I decided to take it with me and see how Tulsi reacts to it.

So, this is great. More neighbors, with one of them being closer to me (and stuck in my local). So now I’m forced to use Village chat for now on.
I can only hope the person eventually gets the resources they need to move away from me. That would be ohh so fantastic, and I can finally live like a hermit again (with Tulsi also living here).
Before I close this post, I tried to personally talk to Wargasm of ‘how do I deal with Tulsi’. He seemed to dodge most of my questions, except when I told him that Tulsi’s 12 years old (and how I told him that this game isn’t for him). Yet his answer was “did you tell him it’s more addictive than smoking? :P”
My answer to him was of my own, of how I don’t play as much as I used to; only coming on to make sure the upkeep is good. He thought I also come on “for goblin leader fights”, which I replied “not even for that”.
Told him that I was going to be redesigning the deed in November, and his answer is if I wanted an all slate theme to let him know… god please no. Don’t be the ‘Paint It Black’ guy. Unlike the song, I actually want to see colors (and I don’t need my heart painted black).

I’ve also been tempted to ask him if he might co-op with me to build a bridge on my side of the canal (that I could use to access the mine Saint unearthed). Yet the only thing that stops me is the roads really go nowhere. But that could change with some effort.

Wurm has been updated with a Halloween thing (ends November 1st). There’s now a chance that some mobs could drop Halloween-themed items once butchered. But this isn’t the reason I came on. I wanted to see if Tulsi was done with his shack yet.
He’s made two walls so far, so that’s great. I can only hope he stays on more and actually enjoys the game.

A lava spider huntin’ I will go
Meanwhile, I saw two lava spiders to the west. I swear they breed like rabbits (as I had just killed enough of them where they would go away). Yet they’re coming back, like a weed.
Well, it’s time to get the hedge clippers, because I’m about to clip off their legs with my axe. Saw the leader of this ‘invasion force’. Instead of dealing with its servants, I went right for the leader. Had to get help from the guards (because there’s no way I can solo a champ lava spider). After killing it, I took it with me (for Tulsi to enjoy, because that’s the way he rolls). I’ve also been butchering them, hoping they would drop the Halloween themed items. No such luck, though.
I also took the time to clear out that abandoned mine to the WNW. No trolls thankfully, but there were rats, a few lava spiders, two black bears (one of them was really noming on me), and a lava fiend.

Visited by a ghost of the past
Killed one more lava spider that somehow hid from me while I was on a rampage killing its brothers and sisters (even taking on three of them at once and surviving). Went back home. Was about ready to head in, when a strange rowboat placed right infront of the north gate caught my eye.
I originally assumed it was Tulsi doing his thing again, yet I doubt it. Especially the way it was named “a familiar face”. I examined it… and saw it was owned by “Benie”.
Oh. No. No! NO NO no!! NO GOD PLEASE NO!! NO!! NOT… angry!! Ohh FUCK!
For those who don’t know, ‘Benie’ used to be my original account of first joining Wurm in 2009. I gave it to angry so I could create ‘Dragonhead’.

If angry is here, who knows what’s next in store? But most importantly, how in the FUCK did he know I live here?! Yet the answer is obvious; he knows about this site. He probably has known ever since our argument that separated us.
And if he’s to read this, I’m just going to say that if you (angry) knew I was going to freak out and make a blog post about this.. you still know me too well, even past the eight years of our ‘relationship’.
Clearly he’s playing his little angry headgames with me, and I’m sure this is just the start. Nevertheless, this isn’t going to slow down or stop with the redesigning of the deed in November. Though, angry, if you’re still reading, what would had really freaked me out, was the boat being named “Neveron”. For the ones that don’t know, that was our true first co-op town in JK:H. It was after I got bored (and frustrated) with my homestead.
And ever since the Freedom server opened up, he’s been missing it.

This ‘sighting’ of angry brings up many questions. One being.. why now? He had months to do this. Did he just recently find this website? Or was this his way of a Halloween prank (that he’s been waiting for the right moment)? And as for how he found me, as I said it’s quite obvious. He put two and two together. Probably has an alt I don’t know about.. hell, could’ve been someone that we met when DTH was being built.
But whatever, it’s no big deal. The boat will eventually decay.

I feel I finally, after months since moving in and designing DTH with Saint’s help, have an idea I actually like.
Now I was going to go with the “let’s see what happens if I was to put the ‘canal’ where it was before” idea, but I stated that I didn’t know where to put the rest of the stuff. However, I actually liked this one idea I had with the horse pens and the cart storage, and a bridge crossing over (and really wanted to see if I could get this same idea to work elsewhere).
But my house, I wanted it to be the focal point of the deed. And so I tried this other plan I’ve been working on, of widening the basin around the token and then having the house on a hill (to basically use the expansion of the deed to my advantage). I also played with that same idea of the horse pens, bridge, and cart storage. And I’m really liking what I’m seeing here.
I’ve been working on this off and on for a few days now, and as I said in the title..I believe I finally have a deed redesign idea that I like.
But enough talking, here’s some pictures. Note that the pine trees (and lack thereof) are just placements of what it would look if I let the deed get overgrown by trees;
What the approach would look by boat.
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‘GM view’ shot of the new design’s layout.
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A shot of one of the roads looking at the smaller-sized storage building.
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This is possibly the best idea planning I’ve done in a long time, with seating around a Chesnut and showing the relocated cart storage and storage
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The relocated animal pens. Going back to the old design that I used in OR (yet was also copied from others who did this). The split is there to allow for the South gate of the deed.
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The new view from my house’s balcony.
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One of the two ramps leading up the house, and the new ‘docks’ for our boats. This can even support a Corbita..if I decide to dredge the ‘canal’ floor to allow passage for larger boats(and also the lake).
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Player view of the house, from the double bridge connecting to the token.
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A slight relocation of the farm(still on the same side of the deed), with four statues (two Statue of Troll, and two Statue of Demon). Will give me something to do.
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B2’s Diner will be re-purposed as a fishing hut, while these two kidney-sized buildings will serve as the new Grinding Floor. This time both Cooking and Forging will be next to eachother, making it much easier to prepare and fuel them.
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And finally… the new ‘Clay Pit’ with easy access to the clay just outside the deed.

This deed’s main idea was originally inspired by Amish Estates (the deed of Saint’s ‘second home’ in Xanadu). I’ve had this plan for a month, and just now been starting to work on it. And the stream splitting the cart garage and animal pens, was inspired by Black Brigade in Exo(of course). Except having the two like that was my own idea.
I really, really like how this has turned out. Everything looks streamlined, and I’m taking advantage of the deed expansion. It feels like “my deed”, and definitely a place I would want to live.
But you might be asking yourself (that is, if you were somehow staring over my shoulder as I was typing this): “What about Tulsi’s house? Won’t this get in the way, and where would it go?” Do remember that his house is a 1×1 shack.. barely even a house, but when you’re a newbie in Wurm, you got to start somewhere. Point is, his house won’t be an issue. And if it is, I can easily move whatever he has (when I’m ready) to a spot where it won’t be in the way, and even rebuild the 1×1 for him.
So, yeah. It won’t be a problem for me. Though he might feel that he did all of this work for nothing, I will just tell him that “you got the skill, and the knowledge. That’s more important.” And hopefully he’ll agree with me. If not, then.. well, I have warned him that I was going to redesign the deed, and he should had put 2 and 2 together and thought “he might need to relocate my house”.

And as to when I’m going to get stated with this huge redesign project (that would possibly take a few weeks or longer)…hmm. Well, I got two games I need to review (that I’ve been putting off), and I also need to get back into Minecraft.
So, I guess November 1st would be a good time to do this? Hopefully then, Tulsi would be long done with his 1×1 (he’s just now doing the planks by the way).
I just don’t want to do it while he’s active (and then having to tell him to move his stuff as it might be in the way). Plus, I need to make buy the materials (mainly the mortar I’ll need for the storage building, which what I feel could be quite pricey(depends on the QL)). But since Cele is a PvE server (and I’m in a fenced-in deed), QL doesn’t matter here.

Back to this same song and dance, and drama with the devil. But before I get to it (as I’m sure you folks really enjoy seeing me posting Wurm-related things(that are mainly drama)).
Sarcasm aside, I’ve been once again trying to think of a good redesign idea. Now that I ‘have permission’ to do the docks..well, after thinking for awhile, I realized now why the owner did them (at least what I can assume..if this person actually planned it like what I’m thinking, I’ll probably never know).
And my assumption (which makes sense), the fact the canals of that deed actually connect to the canal that goes to the impalong location, that in order to prevent clogging the canals with boats (which in ways would also ‘lower the property value’), the docks were made.
So yeah, not needed in this case. DTH isn’t directly connected to the ocean like OR was, instead it requires canals to do so.

Instead…how about let’s take DTH (or rather the land when I first discovered it) back to its origins)? Aka, dig down the original ‘canal’. Tried this in Deedplanner, using my manually-done plan that shows the original location. Did the math, and then started marking what it would look like with a current plan. Discovered it’s one tile from hugging the north edge of the deed border, and then directly doing that at the ‘turn around’ basin. Then I tried it with the idea I once gave Saint, which is extending it and having it end at the token.
This is good, however I’m at a loss of where to put my house (that won’t look tacky). With OR, the NW corner was the obvious location (because of ‘dat view).
Ahh wow. This reminded me what an advantage I had with OR, and that old expression of “the grass is greener on the other side”. Sure, it’s green, it’s flat, but it also gives WAY too many design possibilities. OR was SIMPLE! This, is fucking complicated!
Kicking the house a few tiles to the north to line up with the new boat landing, just feels.. ‘weird’ to me. I feel I need to go back to Release and get a good look at the deed with the house on the flat area (the one with the bridge that leads up to Vertigo).
I must learn the ‘secrets’ of people who do deeds like this! My brain hungers for the knowledge! (Though, common sense says “you idiot, there are no ‘secrets’. Just build the way you want!”) Queue another episode of my emotions fighting themselves.

Will Tulsi actually stay this time?
I did know one thing, one thing that needed to be addressed (so I’ll be able to do it whenever I’m ready); getting Tulsi on, and getting him to give B2 and I perms to the rowboat I made for him. I managed to get him on, but getting him to the rowboat was another story. Had to wait a few minutes until he finally ‘decided’ to do what is instructed. Told him to right click and select ‘Manage Ship’. Said he couldn’t do it.
I thought “okay, let’s see if he can access it another way” and had him go to Manage Ships. Said there were none owned by him…ahh fuck!
I got B2 on to verify that he too didn’t have control, and it was confirmed..I had typo’d his name, and locked myself out. Only way to fix this is a GM call. But instead of doing it myself, I had B2 do it. Except Tulsi kept demanding my attention, asking “where is my HOUSE?”
I told him to get Prem, and show me that you care about Wurm (once again.. that song and dance). He blames me for ‘not letting him know’ as he had a prepaid card he could’ve used to get it. If I could barrow a quote from Oogy Boogy Man from The Nightmare before Christmas;
“Oh, brother! You’re something! You put me in a spin! You aren’t contemplating, the situation that you’re in!” And the ‘not contemplating the situation he is in’ part, is forgetting the hell I went through with him of when we first moved here. Yet after 15 minutes of trying to talk sense into him, he still wants a house.
I’m forced to try to explain it in a way a 12 year old could possibly understand (using virtual crayons and a virtual doodle pad, and draw stuff that possibly a 6 year old could understand). This time he seemed to understand what I’m getting at (somewhat), then I reminded him of telling me, to my face, that he didn’t care for Wurm. I said “am I not wrong?”, he says “no”, then repeats the same answer of saying “so you admit you did say you don’t care?”.
He started doing his ‘dot thing’ when I said “you’re doing it again”(saying no to everything I say). Then I decided to give him one last chance, saying that if gets prem (and pulls his own weight on the deed), then (and only then), would I feel like he deserves a house. Instead he tries to build a 1×1, on his own. Alright, okay. Fine. He’s also asking how to make things, and I teach him.
Finally that I felt I’ve dealt with him (he’s making a backup cart claiming he needs more space), I had B2 report the boat issue to the GMs. The reason is simple; I as DH won’t see the annoying Support tab for a week (since B2 mostly stays offline).
I tell Tulsi that it’s time he should build a coffin, giving him the benefits of one. He claims it’s ‘easy’… we shall see.

Parlay with a prankster GM
After he got the cart built, he asked me if he could build his 1×1 in the deed (after I warned him that outside = death). He found a spot behind the boathouse. Immediately a GM (by the name of ‘Njorun’) responds to B2’s report. I tell Tulsi to quiet down, that I need to focus on this.
Takes five minutes to know that I truly did typo Tulsi’s ingame name, and they transfer the name back to DH. This time I -carefully- rename it Penadragon, making sure each and every letter is correct. Tulsi comes over and sees he now has perm access.
B2 thanks the GM, and they close the ticket. That should be it with them. All there’s left to do is get Tulsi to give B2 and I perms to command (so I can move the boat when I’m ready). But instead of allowing me to make sure I can command, he starts to drive it out of the deed and to the lake. I tell him to come back so I can make sure the perms are set… I also notice his avatar is now a pumpkin, but it doesn’t really catch on. Soon Tulsi finally turns around and heads back. Suddenly I felt slower as I’m heading back. My event tab catches my eye: “You feel quite different.”, followed by “You are no longer affected by Illusion.”
I’m like “..wha?”, and see ‘ hahaha’ in local. Tulsi’s legitimately freaking out, not knowing what’s going on…but I do. 🙂
He gets the rowboat stuck at the corner. I tell him to just wiggle and he’ll be free, but he’s confused on what to do. Just then, Njorun pops up next to him in the typical GM getup. And HOLY FUCK the speed Tulsi was going while running away!! HAHAHAH!! Oh god, I can’t stop laughing! BEST. FUCKING. REACTION to a GM popping up!! ):D
I used this to take control (as clearly Tulsi was too busy running for his life than to annoy me), and wiggled the rowboat out of the gap. Very happy everything’s working fine. Hop off and see Tulsi scared to death, back to the Grinding Floor. Njourn decides to have a little fun, flying close to him. Tulsi’s all NOOO DON’T HURT MEH!! Oh god. All I could do was whip out my camera and take pictures of this comedy gold moment.
Njourn then turns to me, saying they’ll be leaving. I thanked them so much for the assistance. He heads to GV and disappears. Tulsi said he was legit scared seeing a “fking flying monster or whatever”. Wow. I hate to say this, but I would love to do this more often to him (of when he doesn’t listen to me). Still fucking laughing, how fast he got out of that boat!! Hahahaha! Ohhh god I’m evil.

The eclipse of Valrei and Sol happening right over my head, was pretty damn awesome. But THIS…this takes the win as being “the best way to end the day”! Not to mention it makes up for the ‘dramalong’.

Looks like I was right, that yesterday was the final day. Because today, more people were heading home. Hardly anyone were working the forges, imping stuff. It just seemed things were wrapping up. Yet when B2 tried to ask if this was it, no one answered him.
On the bright side, pretty much everything thrown in the top floor enchanting area got what it needed.
There was one problem of not being able to get the carving knife out (it had the Steal option, and I’m pretty sure he was the one that put it in. There was someone else trying to get something from the same section B2 was. No staff were active, and it was a good 10-15 minutes until someone responded and was able to help him out.

I was going to wait ’till 4pm, thinking the main staff were going to come on (after getting off from RL work/school). More and more people are leaving. When the main person controlling the enchanting thing said they were leaving, that was pretty much my signal that.. it’s over. Got DH on and we grabbed everything. I as DH thanked them for their hospitality (and having a good impalong), also adding that I hoped to see all of them when the next one rolls around at Christmastime. Yet I got no answer. I doubt they were ignoring me, just busy.

Led B2 to where the boat was. Instead of going home, we went to Esert. With fog, being night, and a West breeze in my face, getting there took longer than I wanted. In the middle of the Shrieking Eel Lagoon, I couldn’t see shit but the island beside me. I was forced to dock next to it until the fog had lifted. It took only up to 10 minutes of finally seeing the coastline (and a glance at my compass) to get my bearings.
Arrived in the cover of darkness, with no one in local I hopped out of the boat and explored the starter town. And I was quite impressed. They definitely kept the theme of Esert the way I had remembered, but the buildings were changed. It felt like a facelift.
But the best thing are the roads had been redesigned outside of the town. Now you know where to go. I also went to the ‘mega-deed’ west of Esert, wondering what it looks like several months later. I told myself this thing was going to disband, because it looked like it was falling apart. And it definitely looked different, but it hasn’t fully decayed yet. Infact what was left of the deed was all pushed to be inside its border to prevent stealing. The deed still exists, but it’s not as big as it once was.

A friendly bet
Back to the boat, and back to home we go. This time I thought of taking an alternate route (to get around the impalong). It felt refreshing, and we made it to the east coast with no problem.
Crossed to Deli. And as I was heading down south for the next turn, I suddenly had an idea to see both the Xanadu and Inde impalongs (of having B2 go to the one in Xan, and I’ll go to the one in Ind). And to make it interesting, a ‘competition’ of sorts was thought of. We would split the remaining lamps, and whoever gets theirs imped first, the loser has to make the winner a casserole when we get back home.
I also told B2 to bring Tulsi with him, saying “he likes you more than me”. So, heh. Not only would B2 be in charge of chucking lamps in the forges and waiting patiently, he has to also watch over Tulsi.
I got this in the bag. Independence is the best server ever. 🙂

Valrei does a Jackal with Sol
Back home, B2 immediately makes a breakfast for us (as the ones we have are going bad) and then logs out. I’m getting ready to log out as well and then get on Deedplanner, to see if this dock idea is even possible. Decided to look up at Sol to see what time it was, …and freak the fuck out when I see Valrei about to cover it!! Then infront of my eyes, a total Solar eclipse! HOLY FUCK, AN ACTUAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN WURM!! 😀
Sadly the ground and the sky never showed what would actually happen during a total solar eclipse (as in the ground nearly gets pitch dark and you can see sunrise 360* all around). It would had been SO BADASS if that actually happened.
The coolest part is it looked like Valrei had Sol’s halo around it (aka the ‘ring of fire’). The eclipse lasted for about a minute, then what should had been ‘the diamond’ showing as Sol slowly started poking past Valrei. And with that, the eclipse was done.
I saw Jackal staring at Valrei, almost like it was saying “Hey that’s my job!”
WOW. What a fantastic way to end the day.

A lot happened since I came back (after the whole incident with Tulsi and Jake). First off, I knew what I had to do. Enough running away. I need to be an adult and talk to him in a civilized way, and try to talk about this. THIS, is the mature way of dealing with a problem like this.
Though I was at home, checking on something that has been eating at my mind ever since I left home on Thursday. I wanted to see if my horse gear needed reimping. The horseshoes were fine, so was the bridle. But the saddle needed some of it (at 64QL). I was also dropping off stuff B2 gave to me which were imped (including one of the 11 lamps I brought).

Made it back, using BB as a parking space (instead of with how packed the canal is with boats). Glad there’s that option. Yes it’s longer of a walk, but at least I can actually see my boat (instead of trying to sort through everyone else’s boats).
Up to the impalong, and I looked for Jake. He wasn’t on. Suddenly Punishlife said in local: “you got 8 minutes, Enki coming”. Remembering today’s the day Enki said he was going to do something in the arena, I asked Punish in a PM if I was right, and ran there as fast as I could. He told me to stay out of the bottom as there’s a competition, and I thanked him for the advice.
I’ll deal with Jake later, I thought. I wanna see a FIGHT! 😀
Made it to the arena (having to stop several times due to my screen freezing up (aka my CPU pegging at 100% usage.. poor thing). What was going on at the arena was a guy, soloing several worgs. I really wanted to come down there and assist (as they’re just wolves), but was told that he had it under control. So I just watched, and sure enough this guy solo’d them all! Go you! 🙂
I suddenly saw Jake in local as I was talking. He seemed to not notice me. I opened up a PM with him and said: “Hey, Jake. Could we possibly talk (hopefully civilized)? I want to bury this hatchet.” Got ‘Jakerivers is not currently available, please try again later.’..proving he blocked me. I was hoping to talk to him directly and not get anyone else involved in this, but I asked Punishlife: “Hey, can you please tell Jake in a PM to unblock me (and that I want to talk in a civilized manner)?”
A minute passed, and he responds with “he says, “fuck off”” Took awhile to come to my senses after that, and thanked him for doing this. He never asked me what’s going on (thankfully), like Jake already told him.
So..wow. So uh, much for having a reasonable conversation with this guy? I tried to tell my brain “let it go, okay? Enough’s enough. Drop it.”, yet it’s all “what the fuck happened to deserve that response? WHAT?! I MUST KNOW!! ARGH!!”
Fuck my brain sometimes. 😛

Enjoyed the rest of the impalong, watching the arena. Tulsi later on comes online and wants to also watch it. So I have to use B2 to escort him, telling him what Punish told me about not going down to the bottom (yet knowing these words, he won’t listen). See, last time (with Jake), I should had known he was going to do this, and make sure to tell him (before I even got to the impalong), NOT to do those things that would embarrass me!
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I knew what would happen to him if he went down there. He would die. Simple as that. Lead him up the stairs (the best I could, since he never used a staircase in this game before). Continued to enjoy the show. The guy that solo’d had died to a pack of trolls, and Enki brought in the next team, starting easy (champ goblins) and slowly working up. Was quite entertaining. It was Round 7, with 30 hellhounds. I’m telling Tulsi (as B2) that this is going to be so awesome (thinking he’s watching the show with me).
…Little did I know, that he was watching it from another perspective, as in doing exactly what I said NOT to! Walking out on the fight floor, during a fight and saying “wao”.
I wanted to say “TULSI, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!!” Punish said “enki kill penadragon”. Then I thought evilly (as this would teach him to not listen to me for his own safety) and said “Yes, kill him.” He shouts “BENIE, i will reveal your skype conversation with jakie!!!” …freaked out and tried to close out the window, but couldn’t. Then I PM’d him as he ran out of the arena, and I said “You know I was play-acting, yes?” …Thank fuck nothing bad happened in local after that.

Rescuing Tulsi
During Round 8, Tulsi PMs me and says “i died”, and something about he didn’t go down to the bottom of the arena this time. Though I never read the entire thing (as I was busy being focused on the fight with several champ trolls), he calls me a dumbass for not paying attention (I deserve it). But now that I have his full attention, he’s at Esert. So I’m forced to leave and get there. One cool thing about this, is this’ll be the first time I’ve been there since the town’s redesign. Had to pull up the community map to help me out here. And I see what appears to be a new canal connecting directly to Esert (that I sworn wasn’t there when I first explored the server).
Took the ‘new’ canal.. at least I think it’s new. I need to go over my pictures, just to make sure of this. It -may- had existed before, but I’m not sure. But I digress. I finally made to.. woah! DAMN! Esert looks AWESOME now!! Never had a chance to hop out and explore (probably will do this when the impalong is over and it’s time to go home). Tulsi’s here. I wanted to hear it from him if he found the layout of the starter town good (but logs out).
Getting back to the impalong proved to be more difficult than I hoped. It took a good 20+ minutes until I finally found the right canal, then just followed the bridges back. Docked at the ramp to the place, telling Tulsi on Skype that we’re here and either he can log on or stay off, and he chose to stay off. Fine with me, at least he’s safe (and I don’t have to worry about him). Back to the arena.

Impalong wrapping up?
By the time I got back, one of the four had died (Punish). While that was all going on, as B2 I started seeing a lack of people imping stuff. Remembering the host saying the 22nd it would end, I thought this was a sign that the impalong ends pretty soon. Yet I never once thought “they’re probably all at the arena”.
Back with DH, the team had died to a group of nogumps. Enki was quite happy to be done with it, yet decided to have a ‘final finale’ with the rest of us (the ones that watched the carnage). Time to gear up! Rushed back to the armory when I heard someone say “lol champ goblins infront of the armory!” Yet my CPU didn’t like it one bit, forcing me to stop several times (and not be a part of the action). Several named mobs were infront of me, waiting to be slaughtered. Crabs, wildcats, lava spiders, bears, and even pheasants. I left the pheasants alone, not wanting to piss off anyone (while others killed them). I wanted more to kill, but Enki was done for the night.

The number of forges being active continues to dwindle, with some people saying “time to go home, thanks for a great time!” I felt like kicking myself in the head for leaving. I could’ve had my lamps imped by now! Also because of this (and knowing tomorrow’s the work week for many), I suggested to Tulsi that I should take him home (incase this is the end of the event, I didn’t want to wait for him while he’s in school).
He hopped on and out of my boat, hoping to meet some people here (and possibly cause more havoc to embarrass me by accident). Instead he said he was bored and wanted to go home. Took him home while keeping B2 here (just incase). And it’s good thing I did, as someone went over to the BS section of the forges (yes, they’re finally named properly now). Dropped off a lamp, and it got imped!

Meanwhile, I got Tulsi on and crossed over to Deli. Told him to move to let me know he’s still with me. He did. Sat course for Cele. Getting ready to spin 180*..suddenly he disembarks without warning, forcing me to spin back around to get to him. He hops on, then disembarks again. I’m thinking he’s lagging or something, and moor. He gets back on as I haul the anchor, and then spin once again toward the server border..then he logs out. God damnit, Tulsi! I asked in Skype if he crashed (as that’s always a possibility), and he says “I thought we were in Cele” (even after telling him NOT to log off until I tell him to). He was confusing the server message about “you will leave this server and enter Celebration”.
He comes on again, and I make the transfer no problem. The reason he has to remain on during server transfers (and this even goes to B2), all passengers must be online during this thing (because of just the way the process works). He would be stuck on the other side if he logs out during the transfer.

Made it home pretty late (due to a SW strong breeze mostly in my face) and stopped my boat in my deed. Told Tulsi to please log in and hop out. Unfortunately he was taking a bath or something. Nearly an hour passed, and I’m getting annoyed by this. I NEED, to get back to the impalong, and I can’t because of him (because he’ll be stuck in the ocean). But one time I get sick of waiting and just go on and do it. Luckily for both of us, that somehow made him respond (and I spun back around and to the deed). He finally logs in.. yet isn’t hopping out.
Five minutes later he does and immediately logs out. Now I can leave.
Back in Exo, I once again stop where I stopped before. But before I went back to the impalong, I took several reference pictures of BB (dock area, height differences, width differences, how they designed this and that, etc). I need to contact this person and see what’s their secret to getting grass (and trees) growing on the side of these mini-canals. Went back to the impalong, especially now finding out B2 talked with this guy who agreed to imp the rest of the lamps for him. This is awesome.
He managed to imp them halfway, and said he needed to sleep. I had B2 thank him so much for his efforts, because that was really, really awesome of him. And even if this impalong is over, at least the lamps are imped up higher than they originally were.
B2 gives me the two completed lamps. He then went up to check on if the stuff I wanted enchanted was done. No change to them, unfortunately. But it’s not that big of a deal (especially with 67 WoA and 71 CoC on my trowel. It’ll make building brick structures, not so troublesome in the near future..never said I was going to make the mortar. :P).

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And that’s it. And as for Jakerivers, I don’t know what made him snap between that conversation between him and Tulsi (to make him say “fuck off” of trying to reason with him). I can only assume he sees me as a kid (like Tulsi).
And I don’t know if I should ‘thank’ Tulsi, or yell at him for ruining my chances to make amends …but at the end, does it really matter? No. What matters, is Jake is out of my hair. I don’t have to worry about him judging my every move, and I can finally enjoy the impalong (and not feel embarrassed of being here as DH).
I just hope this is the last I’ll ever have to deal with him (and/or his contacts). I want to enjoy myself, not feel ashamed.

I honestly don’t even know why I came back… oh right, I do. This fucking thing has been eating away at my mind all day yesterday, driving me insane and not allowing me to think straight. And that thing is feeling that leaving was a stupid thing to do, and that I should had just used common sense and not kill anymore non-hostile creatures.
Jack ISN’T going to yell at me for killing a hostile. If he did, this would PROVE he only goes after me. No, I need to make this right, and go back to the impalong.
Yet I just don’t know. I know I needed the opinion of another, but someone that would also understand me and give me life advice…
I asked Tulsi. Boy, have I really scraped the bottom of the barrel of people that will tolerate my existence, haven’t I? 😛

Told him word for word of what happened. He was calling Enki a monster once, by letting loose non-hostiles infront of cold-blooded warriors. Heh, in a way he could be right there. Those poor sheep. They didn’t have a prayer.
He also called Jake an asshole, and said I could be right of accusing him of alienating me. But after I told him how my brain is telling me to come back, he says “then come back?” and say he would come with me to ‘watch my back’. Oh lordy. But what do I have to lose? Plus he said he was available to come. He just had to take care of one little thing; which was creating a new him (yeah, it’s been a long time since he’s been in Wurm, and now his account has been removed for inactivity).
I wanted him to let me know when he arrived in Golden Valley. Instead, he lets me know when he made it to Tap Dance, giving me no time to pre-prepare for his arrival (to get B2 ready and stuff like that).
After trying to think of all the possible commands of inviting a person to one’s deed, I finally remembered the correct one. I asked in CA CHAT what was the command for him to teleport, and…he’s telling me he had already teleported to the deed (followed by “you dummy”). Oy vey. How quickly he forgets that channel is for ingame questions only.
I didn’t see him teleport, and went up to the token trying to look for him. Suddenly I see him in the farm, attacking one of my cows….REALLY?! We need to get ready to go, and you’re picking fights with cows?? I told him to stop and get ready to leave. Took a bit until he did, then I got B2 on and re-gathered everything that hasn’t been imped (or enchanted) yet.
This time I didn’t bring the cart (reasons being to hide it as it can be seen as evidence of being back here). See I’m trying to stealth return, drop my items in and then have DH sail away so Jake won’t see him (as my name is apparently a curse on this server).
All went OK until we got to the canal and docked slightly further than before(a corbita took my old parking spot). I had B2 lead Tulsi to the impalong, but he went too far (even when instructing him in PMs to follow him). Thankfully he wasn’t hard to track down and the two got up there.

Everything seemed to be OK here. Tulsi’s chatting with the impers and guests and enjoying himself, and I as B2 am renaming all my items under Beanietwo’s name(in hopes to throw off any suspicion). Jake was also there, but didn’t seem to care for me (even though he clearly saw DH in local).
B2 had to come back down and grab the lamps that were in the boat (forgot before that he needed to grab them), then had DH leave the impalong and ‘hide’ himself and the boat at the far off island near the server border, and logged off as him. I felt he was safe there from being spotted by anyone that remembered what happened.
Now only controlling B2, I tried to show Tulsi around (such as to see the dragon corpse, which he seemed non-interested in it, and more interested in the dead champ spider corpse(because that’s the way he rolls)). Little did I know, he was also ruining my stealth attempts by repeating everything I say in a private channel…in public chat. But I had the PM open and wasn’t paying attention. Thankfully, it seems no one else was either.

Tulsi is now getting bored, and tries to talk to Jake(in public). I’m trying to look for him, because I need to make sure he’s not close to where I can get DH back and drop off a few more items. Tulsi finds him before I do, and he’s trying to get him to ‘sign his autograph’, saying he’s ‘his biggest fan’. Riiiight. Whatever, that’s great Tulsi! Keep him busy for me! 🙂
….And then he says something that ruins my stealth attempt (and this time I see it). “benie told me all about you” I immediately say in Skype, “FUCK!!” and try to run away (yet running the wrong way, should had been running towards the switchback to the boats instead).
And then he says “was i not supposed to say that cause benie messaged me saying “fk!!!”” …I immediately log out as B2, and give Tulsi hell. I told him to PLEASE..PLEASE DO NOT..repeat what I say in private chat! I also felt it was over, my cover’s been blown, etc, etc, why in the fuck did I think this was a good idea bringing a 12 year old to a stealth mission!? I am EVEN MORE STUPID than I was for killing that damn bull!!!
Eventually I came on, hopefully (if Jake PMs) to make him think that “he (Tulsi) was probably talking about the wrong benie. There’s other benies playing this game. :)”
Immediately after I log B2 back on…
“benie came back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“benie tell jake all the cool stuff you said about him”
(choice words said in Skype)

Talked with him again that no, I don’t want to be friends with Jake. I was never friends with Jake, that all he did was help me find that horse several months ago. That’s it. And I hoped that would be it.. until,
“benie says he actually doesn’t want to talk to you”
(OH.. MY.. GO– Log off..)
(screaming internally intensifies)!!!
Stayed off much longer this time, trying to beat my brain into submission of WHY THE FUCK DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA to come back!? And also how in the hell I’m going to get my ass out of the fire Tulsi put me into. Started writing a long message, telling him to PM him and apologizing and stuff.
As I was nearly finished, he had already PM’d him. I was too scared to see what this disturbed kid had to say to this person. Completed my message and sent it. He tells me he already talked to him, and he had logged off. I’m thinking “OHH FUCK!!”

He told me that Jake thought he was an alt of mine. Oh yeah, totally. Like I would stoop this low to make a fool of myself in public. You really have no faith in me, do you? But I digress.
Honestly, this whole “stealth mission” was flawed ever since I told Jake that DH is my main. All I hoped to do as B2, to make it look like the actual name “Dragonhead”, was nowhere to be seen. Then maybe nothing would happen to me.
And also honestly, Jake seriously doesn’t even care about me (just as long as I don’t do anything stupid). That’s what I said before, and it’s still true. I just wish the bastard would talk to me, and understand that accidents happen. Because, maybe if he understood, this entire shitshow would had never happened.
..Instead, I’m too scared to face him head on (thinking he’ll say something that will make me want to leave again). I don’t know what it is with him, but he just seems to have this ‘power’, like a moderator. Surprised the guy isn’t -A- moderator, as he would be perfect for the job (as being unliked by me).

Okay, back online. Jake is gone, and that’s fantastic. So now I can bring DH back without feeling scrutinized. Tulsi also left. His reasoning is “y not”. I assume he was just bored. Got to the boats and made my way to Black Brigade. Someone I remembered from Cele’s kchat (‘Teeebomb’) saw him and said “howdy the Beanietwo o/”. Said hi back, no problem here.
Made it to BB (the abbreviation of Black Brigade). Someone named ‘Xcaliber’ saw him and waved, I waved back and then wondered if he was one of the villagers here (that maybe he could answer my dumb question). He said no, but was able to answer it with an equally dumb answer; “its not copy wrighted” “do what you want :P” So that’s um.. fantastic. Finally got the answer I seeked. Definitely gives me something to do when I get home.
Got DH over and dropped off some stuff. Luckily he didn’t recognize my main, and asked if “you folks” are interested in some high priced tools that are enchanted. I as B2 (while DH went back into hiding) said I would check them out later, and then went back to the impalong to throw in the stuff.

And that’s about it. Today I just really need to watch myself. Watch what I do, what I say, and overall avoid any confrontations with Jake. Because he’s dangerous, to my mental health.

Everything went as planned (if not better). Came on as DH and immediately PM’d Nadroj, asking if this “Bonetly” person can be contacted on the forum.
Seems I got the name wrong: it’s actually “Bonefly” (also goes by “Fhylli”). It took awhile to get conformation if these names can also be used to contact the person (was told yes). I will be doing this as soon as I’m done with this post.
Got B2 on and told him to bring the cart to the Armory’s north side (and try to avoid being seen with it). He tried to do so, but the way around was blocked by a cave wall. He tried something daring and leaped off the side with the cart. Thankfully it worked, and he was able to park the cart on the north side.
Then we went in and grabbed all of the stuff. And shockingly, most of it had been imped (including my grooming brush to 80QL). Very nice! It really is a shame I have to leave..but you guys hate me so.
Loaded up everything in the cart and went to the boat. It’s night, but that’s not a big deal as I knew where I needed to go. The only thing I was worried about as B2 slowly dragged the cart to the boat, is being able to load it. Threw everything in the boat, hopped in..and I got it to load! NICE!
Just had to go grab my tent, and we can give this place a great big FUCK YOU! Did so and got back in, set sail and made it out to sea without anyone noticing.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, and made it back home with no problem. B2 spotted a spider on the east wall of the deed, which I killed. Oh NO, Jake! I shouldn’t had killed that God-given spider placed by the game that was on my deed! Please PM me with your common sense-spewing bullshit! I FUCKING DARE YOU, JAKE!! Give me a reason to QUIT this fucking game! COME ON!
Seriously, this is how I’ve been feeling ever since that shit hit the fan, that there’s someone that’s going to be watching me (even on my deed) and tell me not to do shit,
(on my deed).
Maybe I’m just being paranoid (annoyed of people that could be judging my every move). But it feels like the song that goes: “I always feel like, somebody’s WATCHin’ mmeeeee!” (And I got no privacy!) Oh woah oh!

Anyway, I doubt I’ll be getting a response from Bonefly anytime soon. Though I also feel that I shouldn’t even ‘need permission’ from them to do this. There’s no rule in Wurm (that I know of) that states you’re not allowed to directly hand-copy ideas from another deed.

What started off as a pretty good, fun day, lead to having thoughts of taking my stuff and going back home without saying a word (similar to feeling like I was being ‘banned’ from the server, for not properly dealing with locals who are AFK).
Okay, yes.. that was stupid of me. I was wrong for what happened back then. Yet I hoped several months after that happened, old wounds would heal.

Alright, first to the nice highlights of the day. Logged in as B2 and had him grab my cart and take it to the armory. I was hoping the strange-named forges were going to be renamed correctly (as in telling people what to put where).
Was forced to ask, and was told to “chuck them anywhere”. As much as I wanted to, I knew from last year that was a really..really bad idea. One at a time. Be respectful of the impers. So anyway, that’s what I had B2 do. Then someone sees the cart and jokes about it.
And who would had believed, the one that made me leave the server back then, actually helped by imping the range pole for him. In ways, I wonder if this was his way of showing that all was forgiven. Though after I traded it to him and said “Dragonhead’s my main”, it was like he remembered that cursed name (and paused for 10 seconds) before simply saying “k” and got to work.
With that feeling that everything was OK between us, I took this time to question him about the barracks. He said it wasn’t just him, and mentions a guy named ‘Robus’ who came up with the plans (except for the last three floors, which he admits he got a little carried away).
When I told him how the two suite floors are an “accident waiting to happen”, he reminded me that there’s no fall damage in a cave. Though also adds how one would have a “really good chance” getting stuck inside the walls of the barracks, if they were to jump off the wrong spot. So..eesh?

Also remember when I said that “Enki could show up announced”? He did, as I thought (an impalong isn’t complete without a little chaos). Though I didn’t see him of the people saying he’s “a regular mortal”, and “my favorite man in a dress”. Okay… where in the hell are you, Enki!?
I soon found him in his ‘dev form’ in the armory building, where we all were talking about deeds and stuff. Suddenly he says “well, one of you has official business with me….. perhaps good, perhaps mortally game ending”, and “so lets get the work out of the way”.
Ohh BOY! Time to get DH on! Party time’s a coming. Yet it was something with him and Jakerivers. I knew this wasn’t anything serious, and didn’t think much of it. And that was all this ‘Enkcounter'(said by a few people) was about. Decided to head over to B2, as I saw his lantern had 55 damage(with 92QL). Felt if it dropped below 70 from repairing, now’s the place to do it (free re-imps, yo).
As I’m repairing his lantern, B2 pokes me on the shoulder and points behind me, to a small hoard of zombies running away from us. I was like “OSHI– here, take your lantern back! TALLY HO!!” and ran after the zombies, hoping I can kill most of them before the others show up.
They ran down to a person driving a large cart on the switchback, and I did my best to assist (even without a horse). After all of them die, Enki says (as a joke); “Fall damage enabled in this cave!” I assume because he saw me falling down to get to the zombies. People are actually freaking out, then he said he was kidding.
When they were all dead, something invisible was attacking me. Discovered it was the hellhorses of the cart that had aggro’d. Moved away, trying to get out of range of their attacks, then went back and continued repairing B2’s lamp. It actually went below 70QL, and I told him I would throw it in to get it reimped.
Enki left after that, but saying to “keep a wary eye out for me”.
Time passed, and I stayed on as DH (while keeping B2 outside the armory incase Enki were to pop up again). Talked about our ‘glory days’ and dying to trolls in hilarious ways. Jaz is telling us about a weekend when trolls had extra hulk strength..aka that even a young troll would turn you into red paste.
Then the conversion went to Valrei mobs (and the want to see (and fight) them on the Freedom Isles)– Mainly talking about ‘Drakespirits’ and ‘Eaglespirits’ (and how they can ignore walls, and “some have a HUGE aggro range and crazy stun attacks”)…. fuuuuuck me!
With Enki not popping up anytime soon, I decided to log off as DH (and then tried running Modded Minecraft while watching the chat as B2). And my computer did NOT explode (or create a wormhole in the 4th dimension)! I was able to get stuff done that I needed to do. This is a fantastic idea, and I’m glad Windows 10 supports it!
Jake finished imping the range pole as the hours went by, and surprisingly still is he imped it over 80QL! I thanked him greatly for the effort. Now all I need imped (that has to do with bridge planning) is the Dioptra). Yet I’m worried as I’m not seeing any of the forges stocked with bronze. I’ll have to ask Nadroj tomorrow if the forges could be stocked with it (if I remember).
Several hours have passed with no Enki activity. B2 (as myself) took this time to explore a bit further of this area. At the top, there’s actually a rim of this pit that can be walked on. Going all the way, and you can see all of Exo’s northern coast (and seeing what looks like tiny ants (as players), running on the sand). What a view. What a great place to do an impalong!
Headed back ,and I started hearing crock pain sounds from ..who knows where. And running around with no gear (with potential mobs around), is a safety hazard for B2.
With him safely back in the armory (and seeing one of the pieces thrown in, imped (but DH placed it in)), instead of closing out of Minecraft, I switched accounts.
Got what I needed. While that’s going on, two players are dueling outside the armory. Checked it out briefly, but didn’t think much of it. Instead, I was waiting for a kind priest to raise the cast of BotD on the trowel I bought from Xanadu (that I said I was going to (try) to get done, but it seems none of them could cast it). One of the priests was begging for anyone to have their stuff enchanting. I said “There’s a BotD trowel crying out “Cast BotD on meh!!” The person said if it had CoC and WoA, that it would’ve been taken care of. Getting a trowel with both of those would’ve been more expensive for me.
However, I’m wondering if I could have it done on the spare trowel that Saint sold to me (if I can’t get it on this). Worth a shot, anyway.

Some time later, I heard someone die (and noticed one of the two fighters had disappeared from local). Ran over and saw “corpse of Punishlife”. Nice. The bragger got FUCKED! 😀 That’s what you get for getting confident. I was also able to look inside the body and seeing all the goodies he was carrying. My common sense stopped me from wanting to take his drake plate set (and probably deed rules. I didn’t even try to take them, fearing that I could (since ‘Take’ wasn’t replaced with ‘Steal’ in this case).
Before he corpse ran all the way from his deed (apparently he never thought of setting up a tent, not a real smart idea), a feeling of chaos started to fill the air. Immediately, champ rats (named ‘Aged champion Gopher’) started spawning around me. followed by ‘Aged champion Squirrel'(champ bears). I yelled out “champ bear!” to get some backup, and a lot of people ran out to join the fun. ‘Aged Pingking'(crabs) showed up, followed by “Aged Soup”(turtles) spawned in.
Enki popped up shortly after the last mob dropped dead, and wanted to do “an impossible challenge”. And that challenge was defeating something even more powerful than a dragon. Try three.. fantastic quality colossus! Chuckled when someone said “quick, push them away!”
Enki removed the joke, and then said he would spawn “30 aged white dragon hatchlings”. I thought “ohh DAMN, son!! My body is NOT ready!” Instead, he spawned 30 chickens named “Aged white dragon hatchling”. Now THIS is the kind of dragon I don’t mind killing!
“One last spawn!” Enki proclaimed after they all died. It was a Worg (a more powerful version of a wolf, named ‘Young Pet of NoGump’) And then came the grand finale.. four ‘Drakespirits’ (named ‘Aged Gaseous Lizard’) were spawned, and damn do they hurt hard (when I accidentally tried to tank one of them)! Luckily, some of the priests came out of hiding to heal us.
After defeating the ghost dragons, one of the helpers started daring Enki to give it their worst. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to see it as my alarm IRL was blaring it was dinnertime. But when the 3rd time that Enki would show up…is when things started to turn sour for me.

Coming back from dinner (and seeing a bunch of cows named ‘Holy Cow’ in the armory), not much really happened here. It doesn’t seem like anything happened (well, except for these cows, but that’s it). Did see Williamweird helping with the impalong, but he was too busy to really chat with me. Nadroj was also active, but I forgot to ask him to please put bronze in the forges.
Someone wanted enchant help, and I tried to pitch in with what I knew (which was in reverse). The discussion got heated and I decided to bail out, and do the usual ‘see what’s been imped’ runs. The travel gear that CD made for (and also sold to) me, got imped to 70. Decided to de-gear and use it instead, to get the maximum speed one can go on foot.
As I was running back to my boat to throw in what was imped, I spotted Enki going around the town. Didn’t think much of it (as he wasn’t spawning anything). He had disappeared after I made it to the armory again, continuing to wait ‘patiently’ (and occasionally moving a few items with my name on it to more active forges).
Some time passed, and I decided to leave the impalong and go on a small adventure to the deed that inspired me to build DTH (to get some better pictures). It’s a small walk to the south, not far at all.
When I first saw the area, I couldn’t really get out of my boat to look around (as the walls of the deed are too high). First thing I noticed upon arriving on foot, was the token was -not- on that middle island as I assumed. And second, the ‘water part’ of the deed wasn’t really being used by anything but looks. Infact, the owner had the boat docks at the entrance of the ‘canal’.
The simplicity of the boat docks (and the fact its harbor master building is empty), really got my brain clicking. This person is putting looks over functionality…ohh god I want to do a dock just like this, and I even was coming up with ideas in my head on just how to pull it off.
This person’s deed is as flat as mine, and he isn’t raising up any hills (except for the docks). I absolutely need to contact the owner of this place, show him DTH (via Deedplanner) and then absolutely beg them to allow me to take their ideas (but saying I’ll give credit). Being serious, by the way. This may be the way to ‘save the deed’.
After a lot of searching, I eventually found the person’s token and tried to figure out the name of the owner. The name is “Bonetly”(I’m guessing? I can barely read the name). I’ll ask Nadroj tomorrow if he knows if this person can be contacted on the forum. The person’s on the same alliance(not to mention south of the impalong location), so I’m pretty sure Nadroj knows this person.

Made it back to the impalong. Never felt the shroud of chaos forming around me, before ‘Aged champion Snoopy'(champ wolves) started popping up around me. Forgetting I had de-geared (wondering why I wasn’t hitting anything), I was forced to run into the armory and re-gear. This triggered others to come out and assist. Came back out, but most of the ‘snoopy’ wolves were already getting their tails kicked.
Some of the guests were curious what was going on. More champ bears (‘aged champion Marmaduke III’) spawned in. Immediately after, ‘aged champion Heathcliff'(aged crocks) spawned behind me. I tried to solo one (BAD idea…nearly all red) before getting a few others assisting. Enki healed me just intime ‘aged champion Garfield'(champ wildcat) spawned in.
It got quiet after that. I’m pacing back and forth, waiting for what’s next from Enki’s bag of tricks. And…bulls (‘Aged Ony’) showed up. Sheep (‘Aged Sharkbait’) show up after that. And THEN come the NoGumps! Two ‘Aged Tom Thumb'(non-champ, so they dropped pretty quickly with multiple attackers(and myself not tanking this time)).
Enki pops up, warning us “you will all die”. And now we have landsharks(Sharks out of water, named ‘Aged Sawzalottalegs’ to deal with, followed by…REALLY, Enki?! Rift hounds(‘Aged Amputator’) now!
Crabs (‘Aged Zoidberg’) after those. While this was going on, pigs were spawning in the armory. And then…Eaglespirits(‘Aged Fangor’)! This time I was smart to not tank them. Though I could barely see if I was even hitting them(going by the combat distance meter).

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Enki wasn’t done yet. However…this is when things started to go sour for me. I was ‘in the zone’, ready to kill anything (hostile or not) that he spawns in. However, one of the helpers wanted to keep some of these as a pet. When this person stopped, having two lambs lead by rope, he let one go and I killed it. I thought the person was just joking about keeping them as pets, even saying “It wanted to be killed”. Again, I thought it was all part of the chaos. I wasn’t deliberately trying to piss anyone off.
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Some time passed and I was still exploring the area (while waiting for the imping to get done). Spotted an aged Ony in one corner of the armory building. I thought “hmm, one of them escaped. I’ll fix that!” As the bull died, two people (one of them being Jake) came running in to see what was going on. I explained to them that this thing escaped the slaughter and it was taken care of, and that would be it. I noticed one of them were still staring at me, and I didn’t really give it much of a thought until I saw a PM from Jake. I turned to my right and saw he was the other one that saw me kill it.
Almost immediately, I knew I had just fucked up. My anger level rose pretty quickly, for the guy who has beef with me..apparently I did something really stupid (again). Here I’ve been trying to avoid getting into a quarrel with him, yet somehow I managed without cause. Went outside to clear my mind and to my boat in order to clear local. With it clear, I was confused on what the fuck did I do this time to piss him off.
He popped up in local alone with me, and I said to him “Let me guess…I wasn’t supposed to kill the bull?”, but he left before I could continue my conversation with him. A bit later, he pops up again with someone else. Not wanting to continue this conversation with anyone but him, I kept it to myself. Went to Black Brigade (the deed to the south) and sat down on one of the comfy benches, looking out at the eastern sea. I originally thought “wow, I need to get one of these”, knowing I have no place to sit in DTH.
At this time, I check out Jake’s PM. He’s saying I’m “obviously trolling”. Guys, if you read up, both times I had no idea some of these people were actually serious. Plus if you were to have a pet, you should had tamed it. Though that’s only an excuse, as I should’ve known what bulls don’t run off like cows do. It was obviously lead here, and kept out of sight…to probably prevent something like this from happening. If I had only used my brain instead of “hey it escaped”, I would not be in this mess.
Yet I responded in this manner, still frustrated and confused(at the time): “I’m not sure why you come to this decision. Did it occur to you that both times, could’ve been an accident?” “I wouldn’t deliberately troll people.” “Plus that bull, was spawned by Enki. I had no idea that bull was someone else’s.”
Somehow I was blocked after that, getting a message with “Jakerivers is currently offline, please try again later”. Though the more I think about it, he could had fake logged out to prevent people from PMing him. I believe there’s a way to do that.

I felt like, just grabbing my stuff and going back home, that it was a mistake to come back to Exo and expect old wounds to heal. I still feel he has a direct issue with me, yet he won’t just tell me what it is (so then I could block his ass, as he just did the same thing to me).
Robus PMs me a few moments later, stating he talked it over with Jake and “the situation has resolved”. Yet now I seem to have beef with this guy, telling me “you don’t have to carry it out in public” yet also stating “just enjoy the impalong man”.
Just enjoy the impalong, after this? Okay, at least respond to my PMs to hear my side of this story, if you could. Oh wait, but you’re going to take 30+ minutes and not do that. Yeah..that doesn’t help defuse the situation. No “that’s fine, just please don’t let it happen again, alright?”. No communication whatsoever.
Thought about it to myself as Sol went down (and light fog was developing), and then eventually thought “okay, so let’s just try to not have anymore ‘accidents’ and I should be fine”…yet where’s the line drawn here? What is ‘safe’ to kill that won’t involve the wrath of Jakerivers? Is he going to start bitching at me for killing a hostile now?
Where is it going to end, huh? But, I got up and started walking back to the impalong, hoping that tomorrow would be a better day and we can just put all of this mess behind us… that was until I saw Jukimo (the one that taught me how to kill trolls) had defriended me.

Wow. Wow. Okay, that’s it. I am, DONE, with this server’s community. That was my breaking point; the final nail on the coffin, etc.. tomorrow I’m still going to ask if this “Bonetly” person can be contacted on the forum, and then gather my tools and leave quietly.
I will wait ’till the Shrimpalong, and hope that god damn common sense-spewing asshole isn’t there. Though if he is, I feel (and again hope) that his connection to Exo isn’t so strong on Inde. The people I have on my friends list, don’t even know him. That -should- save me (depending on the severity).

Folks, this really wasn’t that big of a deal as they made it out to be, and there was no need to escalate it like this. Accidents. happen. And apparently Jake thought I was doing it on purpose by saying I’m “obviously trolling”. This makes it partly his fault. But I too also take part (hell, even most) of the blame. Again, I wasn’t paying attention. I too, was assuming. Assuming they weren’t being serious with keeping them as pets.
This is not going to happen again in the future. I will be more cautious on what I kill. But as for now, I’m sick of Jake. And I just feel that removing myself and my tools from the impalong, quietly, is possibly the most mature way to handle this.
It’s a shame to have to leave, it really is. This is a great place to do an impalong… if its community wasn’t so…so… ‘cancerous’? I actually feel uncomfortable using that word.

Alright, I left later than I said I was. Minecraft wanted priority. Still at home I went over everything B2 and I owned (of what could be imped to 70QL). Most of the time was wasted on trying to find the more important half of planning bridges in DTH..a thing that I cannot pronounce for the life of me. I know I wanted to get that (and the range pole) imped.
I also threw in some of my most used tools to give them a buff, and B2 grabbed two of the four remaining breakfasts from the main larder (all of the snowballs had decayed away, and nearly all the breakfasts he made have 55 damage on them).
But it’s no biggy. All he needs is meat and a veggie and he can cook more; quick and easy, and SO much better than ..belch, Stew. 😛

Made it to Exo with no problems, but reaching the destination got me briefly lost. However it felt like a kick to the head, stumbling upon the very idea that made me design DTH the way it is (even having the token in the middle). Finally I found the canal (and the destination), yet I was a bit disappointed when I didn’t see an underground marina (instead of having to drop anchor on the sides of the canal).
The walls (and height of them) reminded me of the old time Crystal Bay Canal in Inde (back in 2010).
Told B2 to stay in the boat to make sure this was the place (as I didn’t see any signs). Went up one of the walls toward a bridge. Crossed it and through the doors, was a switchback slag path heading up to unknown lands (lined with pumpkins).
Made it up the long route (having to stop once to catch my breath) and at the top, my jaw dropped. This… is a FUCKING CITY, underground! HOLY FUCK!! The effort that went into this place, must’ve been insane. Really high ceiling. The cave floor even looked like city streets!
Now this isn’t a huge city, more like a town. But DAMN, the work that was put into it. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen in this game.

There wasn’t a lot of activity in the town; the main action was happening in a building that I couldn’t seem to enter. I thought “ehh, seems normal since I’m here early.” Explored the underground town, seeing another ramp leading to another gate. Followed it and found myself outside again. What was infront of me is apparently known as the ‘LOLPIT’, with no fencing out here. Even a friendly “seriously you -will- die” sign. Kind of uneasy. But hey, it’s near Halloween. And as a certain song goes: “Life’s not fun without a good scare!”
And nothing scares me more than the fear of heights (and looking down from them, freaking out every step I make, thinking I’m going to autowalk off)…

Decided to ask if this is the place, and was told it was by several people. One them also asked me “are trolls still a problem for you, Dragonhead?” Heh, what a silly question. Until the day I get a set of drake armor…yes, yes they will remain a problem.
Speaking of drakes, I got a disturbing surprise when I opened up a random door, seeing the corpse of a white dragon on the floor infront of me. I can only imagine, that it seems I finally found the one that had eluded me for years (even though I know this was a different dragon). I’m just glad I wasn’t there to see it die. I told them about it, and they’re saying there’s a second corpse. Though I never found it (luckily). I did find the corpse of a Cyclops, in a room opposite of the room the dragon corpse was in.
Having explored enough (and asking where I could store my cart for tomorrow), I got B2 active. Had to go back down to the boat and unload the cart for him, then escorted him up the long-ass ramp to the town. Lead him to the outside cliff area (as that’s where I was told I could place it). The cart is locked and perms are set, so I’m not worried about theft.

We then headed to the Inn, which is really nice. There’s 7 floors (even though it claims there’s 6, but I’m not European). If the ‘lobby’ actually looked like one, then I would agree.
But I digress. The last three floors are the suites, and they’re really nice…except the balcony is a safety hazard. Wow. This place needs a safety inspector to visit them. I also figured out who built it; a name I’d hope to not see here (after the not so nice conformation I had when I was exploring Exo earlier this year): Jakerivers. I can only hope that he forgot that mess, and will still treat me as an acquaintance (but really, as long as I don’t do anything really stupid, I feel we should get along OK).
Was told that Jake “would not stop building”. I wanted to say “yeah I know that feeling”…but really I don’t. Not in this game, anyway.

After that (and B2 logs off by using one of the beds, hope they didn’t expect him to pay when he has no coin), I looked around some more. Walked over to this arena, that seems like it was specifically made for Enki to get his kicks. It wasn’t over the top like the arena of Shrimpalong, but it was pretty nice (even having a VIP section that I cannot access) Was told that he might not even come, something about no response if he would be available. Though, I have a feeling he’ll pop up unannounced.
Still, this could be the first Impalong (that I’ve attended) without Enki. We shall see what happens. There’s also something else to note. Apparently, reinforced cave walls can now be decorated with round stone bricks. I’m sure this requires 50 or higher in Masonry.
There is also a multi-storied, large workshop that’s clearly under construction. Yet what’s unique (and potentially useful to me), is the contents I see through the locked door. A rack that can handle up to four BSB’s, and a rack to handle crates.
This…this is something I need to look into when I get home. This has potential to help me. Though I imagine you’ll need a high level in Fine Carpentry before you even think of wanting to build them.

That’s pretty much it. Tomorrow’s going to be a busy day, though I’m not going to be sitting on my hands, waiting patiently for the impers to eventually get to my stuff. For I have a plan, and that simply involves Minecraft semi-running in the background (aka sitting on the main menu, not being ingame). I tested this when I went up here with B2, and it passed. My computer seems to be able to handle it.
Though I know the real test will be with 50+ other people also waiting for their stuff to be imped (or doing events). But I feel I should be fine. As long as one primary launch of Java is being ran, my CPU isn’t going to cry -that- much.
Basically, if nothing happens in a half an hour, I’ll quit and play Minecraft for an hour, then come back and check up on the progress. The only drawback is missing a sudden Enki mob attack (or an event being done by the hosts). Both are possible at anytime…but it isn’t -that- big of a deal to miss a few of them(in exchange of trying not to be bored out of my mind).

May just try to have one instance of Wurm running (B2) and Minecraft, as with Windows 10, I can visually check what’s going on between these two windows (via the taskbar).
Trying not to over-tax my CPU (and risk a system crash), is key here. Though if I had that Ryzen 5 1600, I (hopefully) doubt this would be an issue.