Benie's Games Blog

Before I start, I wanna give a big thanks to most of you, for the support of this series of exploring the Freedom Isles (and even some of you were asking me to visit your town). I shall be doing that once I get there.
So anyway, let’s begin. Day 4! Started off slow and pretty boring, then suddenly ramped up to “this is it, I’m done, I’m boned”, and now I’m resting comfortably in a pretty big safehouse on the NE coast of Deli.

I honestly didn’t plan to visit the first server on my list for this long, but there’s just so much to see and do. Plus, the reason it’s taking so long is because I’m completely new to the roads (unlike back in Indy). That and.. I didn’t try to go around the coast on horseback. I feel it’ll be either by Day 6 or Day 7 when I have explored enough, to head to the next server; Exodus.
Another thing I need to say before I start. Tulsi logged in back at my deed unsuspectingly. Got B2 on and had him teach the kid how to go about making and imping spindles to get his Carp up. He managed to get it up to 5, but that’s not going to be enough. However, there’s also another issue. All the work Tulsi’s doing could be nil and void, as he’s going on vacation next month and would be gone all that month (and you need to login during any 30 day period, to keep a non-prem account from being auto-deleted by the system).
I hate to say it, but I may have to build the house for him. But that still depends on what happens with this ‘inspiration-fueled’ thing I’m doing. I honestly have NO ideas still for the deed.

But let’s continue. Left where I logged out for the previous night and safely made it back to ground level. Tried to go further south to get around this appendage of the server, but I couldn’t due to the mountain in the way. Had to go back to near Yaga’s place and head East. Heading up, I looked to my right and saw a series of stone arch bridges going up. What made me check it out, wasn’t because “that’s cool, I wanna go up there”.. it was “it’s got ‘dragon’ in it!! :D” (Told you my IQ is that of a 9 year old) A few sections were called ‘Dragon’s Tail’. Easily accessible, too. There were a few other non-dragon bridge names. The view from the bridge was really nice. Got a really good view of Yaga’s place.
This was all part of a place called ‘Dracon Tower’, and the owner was kind of surprising. For one it didn’t have ‘dragon’ in the name. And two, it was someone I saw in last year’s Impalong (requesting her boat to be imped). Did find her boat ‘The Ladyship’ nearby. The person was even in local, but never responded.
Left the tower and continued to go east. The road split in two; one going SE and the other going NE. Awesome design. Don’t see this in Indy. I knew I needed to use the NE (left) road, but I thought.. why rush? Adventure!! Took the right path. But as I continued on, it looked like an alternate route up to Dragontooth Peak. So I turned around and went the original NE route. Why bother exploring something I already did?
This lead to the canal I went through on horseback. I even saw the troll that refused to run out. Crossed a bridge that went over it, and this finally hooked me up to the East coast. Almost done with my coastal horseback exploration route!

Right off the bat, I had a spider and a wolf to deal with. Soon I made it to a town named “Serendipity Bay”. Wait, what? I thought the bay to the west was called that. *shrug* Whatever, Deli residents. Be weird in a good way. 🙂
Continued along the coast, dealing with more mobs. I won’t lie, it was pretty boring here. The only thing that made it somewhat exciting was the mobs.. though this started to get downright ridiculous with so. many. spiders(a few times I had three of these things attacking me)!! Arachnophobia people beware! Yet it feels silly that I’m OK of dealing with spiders in a video game(Minecraft/WoW/Skyrim/Wurm.. whatever. I’m fine with it).. yet in real life, they freak me the fuck out. I guess because I know in a video game, they can’t come out of the monitor and … craw on my han– GEEZUS FUCK even thinking about it makes my skin crawl!
With this huge influx of spiders along the coast, it was like they were singing a song about killing players. So I ‘crashed their party’ by slaughtering every single one of these 8-legged horrors.
Wolves, wild cats, and mountain lions also wanted to join the party. So come on in.. the slaughter is on me. I also managed to kill my first crocodile (an Adol, but hey.. you gotta start somewhere). 🙂

Sol was quickly dipping below the horizon. With no deeds in sight, I needed to hurry and find a safehouse. Getting tired of the constant slaughtering, I made a run for it. This turned out to be a MAJOR headache with the horse only going up specific areas. And with five spiders, two bears, and two trolls chasing me? It wasn’t good, at all. And it just got worse and worse the more I climbed to where I was yelling at my horse to be like the horses in Skyrim that can defy gravity. I was scared for my life, and had no hope I would get away. Felt like, this was it.. they finally got me in a corner I can’t get out. This is where I die. This is where my adventure ends.
But it was like my mortal survival instincts were showing me the way to salvation, and BOY did it pay off as I saw this large (but slim) building on the coast. I made a mad dash for it. Sadly no guard tower here. The horse was able to keep up its speed as we went sideways on this hill, and finally saw what I was looking for ahead of me! By then, most of the mobs (except for two trolls and a hellhound) had backed off from the chase.
Ran like the wind for the awaiting guard tower, and started spamming ‘help’ to deal with the trolls. Dealt with the hellhound, then assisted with the trolls to get my health back up (with Life Transfer). At the end, two tower guards died in this assault.

I’m literally gasping for air IRL after it. How…in the FUCK DID I SURVIVE THAT?! Eventually I calmed down and set up camp near the tower to wait the night out, and hitched the horse to the tent. It felt like a really long night, listening for any rustling of leaves (and my Combat log flashing again). Overall, it was just the music of the night. Stayed on and kept watch at the mountain I just survived from being brutally rekt.
Morning started to come, and my Combat log did flash as a sudden wolf showed up and started biting my shins. Got the guards on it and it’s no more. Typically, wolves are no problem. But I’d rather be fighting on a horse than on foot.
The only good thing that came from that fiasco, was my FS got past 55! WOOT! Only 15 to go until I’m at 70 FS.

With the ground lit up enough to my liking, I packed up camp. Though I couldn’t ride the horse as there was a cave canal in the way, so I lead it across. Had another wolf to deal with, and a troll on the road that I tried to lure back to the tower. Was rather tricky with said canal in the way, but thankfully the tower was in range for the guards to run over and get the troll.
Northward travel stopped of another hill in the way. Seeing all of the mobs there, I decided not to chance it and took a detour inland, which would take me around the north side of ‘Mystic Lake’. More trolls, bears, and other assorted mobs awaited me as I headed up the hill using this three-laned road(with trees in the middle).

Reached the lake. Had to go clockwise as the map says there’s a way past the mountain going this way. Thankfully there was a bridge to get across. Things slightly calmed down in the mob department, which is always good for prolonged survival. Saw another mailbox infront of this place called ‘Hunter’s house’, and got B2 to mail me my toolbelt. Getting annoyed of having to open up my inventory to butcher/bury, when a toolbelt would make it easier to do so. Got it in 7 minutes. Tried to test out if a water skin in it would actually allow me to drink. Couldn’t. I can put the water itself on the hotbar, but it doesn’t stay there after it gets all used up. Very disappointing.
The journey continued, swinging around the north side of the lake. Things started to become more and more beautiful where I just couldn’t keep my finger off the screenshot key. The roads lead me to what appears to be a a medium-sized, very shallow river of some sorts. And my gosh.. GORGEOUS!! The little wooden bridge spanning it, with the hills behind it. ..WHY CAN’T I DO THIS BACK HOME?!?! I would LOVE this to be part of my deed!

Anyway, this road ended at a N/S road. Instead of checking the map to make sure I’m still going the right way, I’m all “I wanna cross that bridge” and did. Though seeing past the bridge to the north was disappointing as this ‘river’ ended at a bunch of rock tiles. Also, there was two bridges(they were just close together, I assume to simulate a footbridge).
After having my fun, I saw an adol troll and decided to try my hand to kill one again, because surely a teenage-aged troll won’t hit that hard, right? Though the troll brought a friend in the form of a black bear, which I quickly ran away from. Trolls are hard enough..I do NOT want to complicate things anymore with another mob biting me! Dealt with the pet, then attempted to battle the master.
And this troll nearly laid the smackdown on my health. With 39% left and my screen starting to turn red, I was forced to flee. Instead of checking my wounds, I sucked the life out of lesser mobs to get back to speed. Vampiric dragon. Fear me. Hell, I should’ve used that as my name instead of ‘Dragonhead’. ‘Vampiricdragon’.. mmm. Rings bells. Though it wouldn’t really suit my….. personality (and definitely my ‘relationship’ with the community).

Managed to kill the troll with 63% health left. Once again I had to kill several lesser mobs to heal up. My longsword be thirsty for your blood.
Ok, DH..enough creeping out the audience. Time to continue the adventure. I’m now starting to butcher/bury the corpses (while having to dodge stronger trolls). With Sol making its downward arc, it was time to leave the area and get back to the East coast.
The map would be quite unhelpful for the first time (and having trolls following me did not help the situation), showing me of roads that are supposed to going North are stopping shorter than they showed. Had to run back through the same area I just visited. An ‘Aged hell scorpious’ engaged me. I’ve seen these ‘hell scorpious’ things before, but never this close. And wow did it look straight out of hell.
Thought maybe I would get lucky and actually kill this thing, but I kept missing, and so did it. Fearing it was preparing to warm up a power attack or something (with those demented eyes of its) to take my health from 100% to 50%(or worse).. running away quickly was a much better option, and I did so.

Somehow I found myself back on track to what the map showed in a town called ‘Trinsic’; the home of “Wilca”(a CA). Using the town as a navigational beacon, I continued up to the NE coast. Stopped by at another grave reminder of why I’m doing this; seeing a gravestone of ‘venerable blue dragon’ with the skull of the beast behind it. After a short pause to pay my condolences, I pressed on, knowing I’m past those dark days. Still kind of– meh.
Solset was happening when I made it to this sand dune of the NE corner, with a pretty cool coastal town. There was even a house that looked much like mine, except bigger (a 4×5 while mine is a 3×3). It was also made out of ‘timber framed’ instead of ‘wood’. The emptiness of the second floor really interested me, thinking the person has the second floor as an overlook. Something I wanted to do but couldn’t pull it off(by using a staircase).
Had to hop off the horse to be able to peek through the windows, and I sadly didn’t see what I had pictured. The entire second floor was completely covered up. Disappointing. A house that big would had looked nice with an open air second floor.

Continued on, and started to look for a place to rest for the night. Found a house named ‘Contact Paulski for Perms’ that I was able to enter. It had a bed, which I promptly used.
Today, I imagine I will arrive back at my boat (having completed the coastal route). From there, I’ll go and check out Greendog again(and check out all of the road tunnels). Even try to find this area I got teleported to. This is where the real goodies of Deli will be kept (and the map’s reliability will be greatly needed(instead of just following the coast around)).
I feel my exploration of Deliverance is almost over. It won’t be long until I head to the next server.

Most of the day, I wasn’t on due to RL issues. Sol sets 10 minutes before I had to get up to Burger King (4pm my time). Typically I eat at 6, but when out, I need to get home before night (because Winter and the sun sets around 5:30).
Anyway, I’m now halfway done with going around the server on horseback. Currently typing from a place called ‘Port Torus’, having found a safehouse here (on the West side of the eastern bay of Deli). Also, I forgot that B2 has his own bank within my deed, and was able to mail my sword/shield and chain armor cross-server to me. And now I’ve been getting some sweet revenge on several mobs.
It also turned into, what I would say the best day in my Wurm life (as I managed to get to the very tip-top of a mountain.. and wanted to spread my non-existent wings and fly off of it(without falling like a rock down the mountain)).

Continued much later in the day (as I said.. oh, and I’ve also been….. playing another game! *GASP*) back at the house I logged for the night and continued to make my way along the West coast, only to be turned back around and had to head into the eastern bay (as there was no roads beyond it). Went into a town named ‘Foxmont’. Quite nice little town here. The owner’s house as pretty good as well.
Finally made it back to the West coast and continued to follow it until I eventually wound up on the Southern Coast.
Had to do a few unconventional ways of getting around the coast’s many obstacles (dismounting and leading the horse through uneven terrain, such as the side of a rocky hill).
Was one time where there was this troll, a wolf, and a bear. The troll was a vern, so I felt no way am I going to risk it. Waited it out, waiting for the troll to run further up the hill. Instead, it got closer and closer to me (is if it was showing it’s trollface).
The troll eventually got close enough to aggro and started running after me. Benny Hill theme GO! Running back and forth, back and forth of this grassy area trying to keep the troll from smacking me with that club. Finally I tried an idea to lead the troll (and the wolf also after me) far enough from the hill edge, and then made a mad dash for it. It worked and I was able to escape! That, was close.

After escaping what felt like a demented version of The Cat in The Hat (aka the mob spawning system of Wurm), ‘introducing’ me to “Pain 1″(the troll) and “Pain 2″(the bear), and to “pick my poison”, things were pretty calm for a good chunk of exploring the coast. Even decided to check out this pretty interesting deed called “Szegvar”. What made it cool is the way the deed was laid out. It looked well-organized (based around a single three-lane highway (with trees in the middle), compared to other deeds I’ve seen. It even had a proper farm(2×10 plots, connected with thatch fences, and even properly named). Whoever the owners of this deed are.. DAMN good job!
So I decided to check out kchat to see what the locals were up to (while I continued to explore this fancy deed), and I saw a familiar name there who was pleading for help; Elvenwing. That same person that gave me a cold welcome back at Ghost’s place on Indy, was having some major issues with mobs. Apparently I’m not alone of being caught off-guard not expecting a fuck ton of pain to be here. Said he died 8 times and was losing most off his 90+ skills.
In the words of Illidan, “YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!” Funny how I laugh when the shoe is on the other foot (instead of having fingers pointing at me, going “HA-HA!!”). At least I have a high QL compass with me at all times when I go exploring (it’s literally a requirement in this game), where he says he was so lost and stuff (nothing about being lost with the map).
This also made me think. I remembered B2 using his own bank money(which is more than I have) to fund the deed upkeep (when I played as him to check on the deed), so it should be OK to go on and mail my gear cross-server. I then asked if the shield can be mailed in CA CHAT. It seems they’re getting annoyed by me asking “can X be mailed” (yet don’t blame me, when there’s no updated list on the wiki of what can/not be mailed).
Started looking for a mailbox, then I would get on B2 and deliver my gear to me. Wanted to find a high cast [[90] or higher) on it. Yet when I come back to think about this, worrying about the cast wasn’t needed (as it only affects the speed of the sender, not the receiver). Yet I was convinced I had to find a good one. Kept looking through several deeds, until I found one at the semi-active deed with an always-AFK owner.. I made my way back to ‘Dragon Shores’. And again, “Dragonshores” never responded to me. Ehh, whatever. Maybe it only speaks through Draconic (or Swedish), but I refused to embarrass myself by doing that.
Anyway, this ‘village'(from what I saw, it’s only a house for such a big deed area) had a red mailbox with an ‘[89]’ level cast. Was close enough to what I needed.
Tested out mailing cross-server by sending my longsword/shield first. Took close to 9 minutes, and it worked! B2 then mailed my chain set (using the same backpack I was given when they were mailed to me after they were made).
Finally got it as Sol is dipping below the horizon three minutes earlier than I had timed it. Guess I can’t factor in server lag.

Anyway, ARMORED UP, baby! It’s time to make these assholes PAY for making me run like a pussy! ):D First time I wore the new chain armor as well. Perfect time for a field test. And that test came pretty quickly in the form of a wolf as I was going back to Southport. It works wonders. Would say that this could be better than my studded leather set.
Finally arrived in Southport (I had passed it earlier, but Muse was AFK. Still was when I got back).

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Missed the Solrise by 5 minutes (as I was pretty engaged to this new game), but it’s all good (as it looked like the sky was just waking up). Passed Dragon Shores and started going up the west side of the East bay(so I’m now approaching the SE corner of the server). This had me cutting through grassland and other areas that didn’t have a road to continue to follow the coast. Oh, and I killed my first crab! Pretty happy with that. Never seen a crab in Indy, which is a shock.
Also, I believe this bay is named “Serendipity Bay”, going by the name of the long arch bridge spanning the two sides of the bay (which means “finding something good without looking for it” in the Wikipedia(not Wurm’s)). And I have to agree there.

Going around the shore to the north side of the bay, I had to once again run from trolls along a rock hill. If only one of them was an adol or a young troll, then I could see if my FS is high enough to deal with them. But, gotta run from things you can’t kill(unless you wanna be the victim).
Managed to get a slightly closer look at this ‘Witcher school’ on the NE side of the bay I mentioned before, and honestly..it’s not that good. Still, the marble/slab roads around it were pretty good.
Now on the East side of the bay, I needed to find a way to get across this player-created river over to this large’ish Steppe area (and near where I threw down the ‘potential’ thing). I could see a bridge crossing it, but I had to go through a town in the way to do so. Got me a bit lost and had to deal with a few spiders, but nothing I couldn’t handle (with gear).
Made it to the bridge. Saw a hell horse staring at me, but from experience of seeing them in The Grand Steppe, they will only attack if you annoy them by being around them too much. Had a vern troll on the other side of the bridge, that refused to cooperate with me of going back across and have some fun with a guard tower. 😛
Somehow the troll got bugged and stopped trying to chase after me. But I also had to deal with a rat that thought it would have an easy kill of me. Took care of it pretty quickly.

Seeing how I was now in this large’ish Steppe area (that’s four times the size of the one near my deed, but smaller than The Grand Steppe), I did some classic hunting as Sol started to slowly set. I raped every mob that wasn’t a troll. Revenge is a BITCH, ain’t it, mobs?! Maybe you dumb fucks should’ve thought about that before I got n00b trapped left and right!!
So I knew I was running out of time as it got darker and darker by the minute. Managed to make it to where I had marked as a potential spot.. and it’s a LOT bigger than I thought. Now… I’m not so sure. I also found out this used to be the harbor of a deed to the East of me (which also disbanded).
This time I wanted to make sure I checked the mine, and it’s a good thing I waited ’till I was on horseback (and got my gear). Lots of mobs in it. Some lava fiends, spiders, a hellhound. The mine is HUGE. I would say about the same size as the mine to the north of me back at my deed. If only I had my pickaxe, then I could’ve seen the quality of the ore. Saw lots of iron (probably marble as well, with it being this far south). Sadly I couldn’t explore all of the mine as there was a troll that chased me out of it. That just shows how abandoned the place was.
As I emerged back into what light was left in the sky, I saw a Knarr pass by me going West (with two people in it). I tried to ask if this area was available (as in, if the owner doesn’t come back and re-claim it). But they just kept sailing away until they dropped out of local. I thought “well fuck you too, then”.

At this time, I knew I needed to find a safehouse (as it was entering nighttime with Sol fully down). Did my best to follow the East roads, using my lantern to light the way. Had more and more mobs breathing down my neck to deal with. Had to go up this winding inclining path, dealing with spiders, bears, and wolves on the way up. Night eventually fell, and I knew I was in trouble. Running on a one tile road, in a thick forest, in the dark. So. much. FUN!!
I made my way back to that long bridge and decided to cross over to the West side, hoping for any refuge from the night. Finally found a nice place, and that’s when I started writing all of this.

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The next Sol day showed on schedule. After discovering my 5-speed horse is suddenly acting like a 4-speed while trying to run away from a surprise crock, I went back across the bridge and tried to continue around to the SE corner of the server. Discovered a canal (called the ‘Eridanus Boat Tunnel’) I didn’t go through when I explored by boat, though thankfully it’s accessible by foot. At the end of the tunnel, there was a troll. Yet it didn’t want to come out of the tunnel (as there was a guard tower nearby). Ran back into the tunnel. Managed to outrun the troll. Killed a mountain lion in the tunnel.
Continuing further south (and going around walls of deeds), I made it to Yaga’s place. Any further was impossible, as the SE corner is as mountain. The only option was an east road. Went up it, then stopped short of a sign pointing in a cave to my left saying “Passage to Dragontooth Peak”. ‘Dragontooth Peak’? It sounds like a cheap knock-off of Dragonfang Mountain. Still, adventure!! I went into the mine.

The way up was very, very hard. I would say there was three trolls, several spiders (some even lava spiders), two lava fiends, and a crab in a lemon tree. The first troll I encountered, was a Mature troll. After much hesitation, knowing I was low on personal resources, I went in to deal with the troll. I had it on Bleeding when my health bar went half, and ran out of there. Once again I cringed to see the wounds. Yet when I looked.. I was, shocked. NO MEDIUMS!! The chain armor IS WORKING!! 😀
Killed my first troll. Wanted to throw a party right then and there.
Went back into the mine, hoping for no more surprises. Yet there was another troll. Vern one. Back out of the mine I go!
Tried to lead it out of the mine, but kt kept refusing; literally trolling me. As I persisted, another troll shows up behind me. This is an Adol troll, so I fought this thing, and survived no problem! Two dead trolls from my blade. FEAR ME!!!

Went back to try to lead the Vern troll out of the mine, and finally it worked. Kited it back down this road and over to an awaiting guard tower, then dove into a safe house for the troll to drop aggro..but I forgot trolls can open doors. FUUU— still managed for the guards to deal with it. Now there’s three dead.
Went back up and into the mine, and fought my way up. So many spiders, but I finally reached the end of the tunnel.
It didn’t really feel like it paid off. More spiders, trolls, and hellhounds to deal with. Thankfully there was a guard tower up here. After wandering around this area, I stumbled on a mine door that opened up, with a tunnel going up even higher. I looked up and saw a house on a high peak. Freaked out with joy and went up the path. More spiders awaited me, and all taken care of.

THIS…paid off. 360* view from the SE coast. I could see..EVERYTHING!! EVEN the fucking server borders! It was NUTS! There was a house up here. Three floors, hardly any walls, offering an even better vista. I decided to risk hopping off the horse and ran up all of these stairs in hopes of taking my pictures and making it back down before the horse decided to wander off the mountain.
And.. my god. From there, I felt that fear of heights. No fences to hold me back. I felt like…I felt like just, spreading my wings and glide off the side of the mountain.
Unfortunately, I’m still mortal and would drop like a rock, breaking every bone in my body of that sudden stop at the end. But the view, I feel made up for the disappointing view of Dragonfang Mountain (how I couldn’t get up to the peak).

As much as I wanted to just log off right here and complete this post, without being able to put a saddle on the horse to keep it from wandering (couldn’t even use my tent as I was in a deed), I had to go back down to the summit and find a safehouse. Found one in a strange spot that had a bridge on an inaccessible second floor, connecting to another place next to the edge of the mountain. Decided to check out this, and I should had stayed where I was. Troll decided to pop in with me. Had to run back out. Spiders (and even a crock) also gave chase. Got guards from the guard tower I mentioned before on the troll, and managed to get the crock off me, allowing me to deal with the spiders. With them all dead (including a 3rd one that came from the side of the mountain), and the troll now dead, I told the guards to deal with the crock. Now everything’s dead. Butchered/Buried everything, and then logged off in one of the houses.

What an awesome way to end the day. This server sure has a lot going for it. Sadly, today will be a repeat delayed day (infact possibly delayed even more) as I got more RL issues to deal with. Sorry.

Look at me, I’m right back where I left off after a day of exploration! I swear, daytime doesn’t last long enough when you want it to. How I WISH it was based off of real time (like WoW) instead of this. Also, how I still wish I could bring my horse with me. Maybe one of these years after they finally figure out how to go about doing it without blowing up the planet in the process.
IMO, you should be required to have a big but slow ship (Corbita/Cog/Caravel) that has a cargo hold which you can load up livestock (like horses), and be like Noah’s Ark. It would make SO much sense to do it like that!! Make it happen, dev team! PLEASE!

I’m also starting to hate Wurm more and more. Remember when I said how the game’s beauty is the reason I play? It still is. However, I don’t seem to get the need to keep the player hot on their fucking toes with the over-spawning of mobs!
Anyway, I left where I logged off (though I was also checking out my deed back home (through B2) to make sure everything’s still OK) and then went in a clockwise pattern. The wind had shifted again, now a gale from the North. But as time went on, this calmed down into a light breeze.

I didn’t really see anything mind-blowing as I did of the interior of the server. Kind of a disappointment.
Entered a South bay that connects to an interior East coast. Was pretty cool. But what really made me stop in order to head back and grab my jaw that had sunk into the bay, when I saw…THIS!! ‘Dat courtyard, yo! 😮 And the reason why it looked so nice, is because it was designed by the same guy who developed WurmClock. That’s right, it’s Yaga. He lives here, and it shows.
Sadly I couldn’t head up to take a peek into his house to get some inspiration. But the specific trees he picked (and probably has pruned them back and chopped down any tall trees that tried to show up), I…I’m lost for words. This, is perfect. This is the way to display your deed (instead of saying “here’s my house. It’s not much’).
Of course, he was not alone in constructing this. There are other names when I examined the area. Either friends or villagers. Though I would had gone a step further and put stone benches along that horse fountain. Now that would look nice. Just sit down and read a good book while the birds are chirping. Such relaxing, many ahhh’s. Wow.

Continued exploring the bay, following the right side. Came across the first potential candidate in Deli for moving. Small’ish flat area, sitting on the ocean.. no mobs, calling my name; “Pick me, Dragonhead! I will be your new home for Oceanside Retreat!”
Looked at it a bit. Looked pretty good. Didn’t ever think to look in the available open mine and see if there’s Iron in it. Dunno if it’s near any resources I need (aka Tar). Marked the area on the ingame map as a ‘potential’ and continued to move into the bay. There was an area where I swear someone’s been playing The Witcher 3 a bit too much, having an actual ‘school’ for Witchers. Dunno if this is based off of the actual school in the game. But this was the only other cool thing (besides Yaga’s place).
Southern coast, there was this town called “Dragon Shores”(and even someone named ‘Dragonshores’ in local). Tried to say hi to the fellow dragon, but they were AFK.

Got close to one of the markets named “Southport”, and decided to check it out as I saw merchants (don’t have much silver left after all of the payments that went to getting new gear and getting it imped, but looking is free of charge). There was this really nice and friendly person named “Muse” here. But before I could check out the market’s wares, a random bear decides to walk in. I ask them if there’s a guard tower nearby to deal with this problem. The person said there’s a tower to the West (yet I didn’t know how far west). But the person killed the bear. They also managed to heal themselves (doubled as a priest).
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Asked them several questions, such as looking for a place to move. The person said how there’s been a few deeds dropping along the east coast (which I really didn’t see except for that corner in the bay). Then the person asks me what I’m looking for in terms of resources. I tell them Tar and Peat. Told “you need to create a tile”(of peat)..how in the fuck do I go about doing that?
As for Tar, “we actually have tar and i bought all the clay tiles here”. You ‘bought’ the clay tiles? How? By covering them up with your deed boundary?
This ‘Muse’ also gave me some important knowledge of the server, such as this ‘claimant’ that “deli hs the best community”. Sure they do. They definitely showed that by ignoring me when I was lost trying to get back to Greendog(and acted like they had no idea what I was talking about). Spoiler Alert: There is no “best community”! *GASP*
The person also told me that they have no ‘main market’ (like FM back on Indy), that “we use mailboxes mostly” (aka, they mostly craft their own goods instead of buying them). Also told me “mrkets tend to serve their local area”.
But the most hilarious thing the person said was “well look at the topology, we are a big ft square with coast all the way round, wherever the market gets put its a long haul to travel to it”.. LOL. HELLO! Indy is the SAME fucking way(except it’s the second biggest PvE server in the game)! WE have ocean surrounding us! Wow.
With dinnertime creeping up (and Sol creeping down), asked if there was a bed I could use to wait for Sol to rise back up. Found it in the ‘sermon house'(the same place I went to hide from the bear until it was disposed of). Got to sleep in one of the big beds. Pretty nice.

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I also figured out Sol’s arc in the sky(how to time out a Solrise). Daylight seems to be two hours (with it setting at the 2nd hour (at exactly #:50). It takes an hour until #:50 when the ground is bright enough to be able to see again. Used this to time out when to get done with dinner and get back in, and it worked perfectly.

So I logged back on (after jotting down everything I saw between that time), and there was a new person in local (and in the same building with me), named ‘Jothebard’. This one didn’t really talk much, just “if you need anything, let us know”.
I said my goodbyes to the area and continued westbound on my boat, following the southern coast. But I didn’t get far until I saw another row of merchants. Checking out what the locals have to sell is like a museum’s gift shop(where everything is overpriced for cheap-ass quality).
Getting to the merchants, only one was available. Disappointing, but whatever.
This merchant was actually selling healing covers for 6c a piece(and only two of them). Not bad! So I started searching around for the token, and found it by going a bit inland, next to a house. Was able to prove that I can access my bank cross-server! Nice.
I then wondered if I could mail them to B2 (so he can hold onto them back home)..though I should had asked CA CHAT before I took the 12c out. Walked back to buy the covers. As I did, my Combat log started flashing as a crock spawned behind me. Was trying to say “Shhhhhiiittt!!!!” but I was also trying to run REALLY fast. Ran to a guard tower on the other side of this small bay and yelled for help to get this fucker off my tail.
With the crock now being attacked by the guards, I tried to attack it with my hand. It bit me, and I ran back thinking one of the guards didn’t fully tank it yet. Then I looked down..ANOTHER fucking crock was attacking me!! With both dead (and seeing how red my health bar was), I cringed when checking the wounds. One medium. Wow. I need those covers now! Then I remembered about Muse and wondered that if I asked nicely, they could heal my wounds.
As I’m butchering/burying the crock corpses, I happen to glance over at a sign that said “FREE 4-speed horses”. Seeing as this being an anti-n00b approach (no one else in my local), I went in and looked around, and grabbed a white one called ‘Kalilcloud’. Was able to lead/ride no problem. Yet it seemed much faster than a 4-speed (at least what I went through with Flashsilver). This horse felt like a 5-speed! Perfect! Now I finally have a horse to be able to safely explore Deli on foot (and I didn’t have to look like a n00b and ask for one).
There was no notice of bringing the horse back after you’re done, but I feel it’ll be the right thing to do once I have my fill with exploring this server.

Went back to Muse’s place. Jothebard was AFK at this time, and Muse was able to heal me up. Told them what happened, and the person said that area has been known for its crocks. But now with a horse, I should (in theory) have no problem with running into a n00b trap like that.
I thought the person was going to give me something (like cotton or some healing covers), but instead gives me a slightly used piece of cotton(0.89 kg).. gee, thanks.
Oh well. I got a horse now, so I should be OK (as long as I don’t do something stupid). Said my goodbyes and hopped back in my boat, then continued west. Stopped by the mini-market and bought the healing covers, then decided to keep them in my backpack as they won’t weight that much (and since I have a horse, weight doesn’t really matter).
The rest of the journey(up the West coast) was somewhat uninteresting; still taking pictures of funny-named boats, buildings, and objects. Oh, and that the wind had shifted again of a gale coming from the NW..as I’m going NW. Wow. FUCK OFF, Wurm weather!! Stop trolling me!

Passed by where I picked up B2…hard on the framerate as ever(but thankfully still playable). Made it back to the north coast and back to where I logged the day ago, and where I started writing this very blog post.
With Sol now up, it was time to finally explore Deliverance on foot! Yet I questioned the reliability of the ‘current’ version of the map I’m using, and asked the locals in kchat if there’s a better version for interior navigation. Got linked to a slightly modified version of the map I have– this one showing the map dump with these white lines (I assumed are the main routes).

I head out, following the first canal I went through upon entering the server. Reaching the crossroads, I had no idea there would be a total of eight mobs that would die here (via a nearby guard tower) within the timespan of five minutes. So not only did I have an even more unreliable map (as these white lines look like they’re blocking the ACTUAL roads), this server has hyper-spawning of mobs going on! It just went on and on.. more bears, more trolls. It felt like I was being raided by mobs! Maybe this was payback from all the times I thought I was ‘a strong dragon warrior’ and killed their brothers and sisters, and they were here to prove I’m still a n00b without proper armor.
The frustration rose to epic levels when I couldn’t even butcher the corpses (or pick them up, or push them due to deed perms), but I tried to keep it together and just follow these white ‘roads’ and see if they actually are the same as on the map. This lead to even more frustration, and running like a pussy once again from mobs. At times, not being able to stop and take pictures. I haven’t even STARTED exploring and I’m being assaulted by mobs!!
This ended at another guard tower. Seeing roads not on the map (as they’re barely visible). Tried to look, and a hellhound sneaks up behind me. ENOUGH, WURM!! STOP with this ‘keep the player on their toes’ BULLSHIT!!

Got a few guards on some mobs, then more spawn behind me without warning. You want me to keep playing? You’re not doing a good job. Finally the guards killed all of them.
Went to bitch in Global Kchat(I rather look like a retard there than in kchat), hoping to get some answers as to why this is happening. And they… let’s say I closed out the chat. It was beyond retard status. It was total embarrassment. “Packing light doesn’t mean packing silly!”..but what sold the deal, was the same guy who helped pen the you know who, saying “maybe you should stay away from Indy more”, with “lol :)” by another elitist asshole.
In my mind, what he said translates to “maybe you should quit Wurm”. Not going to lie, that hurt. And it brought up so many questions swilling in my head. But one thing was known.. “I KNEW this was a mistake!”

THIS…this is why I put off this plan for years. Unfamiliar roads. Hyper-spawning of mobs, and myself refusing to swallow my pride and..ask for a horse(thinking it’s “too n00bish”). Yet not having my armor and weapons and being prepared, is worse.
Not depending on others(of a fear of looking like a n00b) -VS- Being prepared like a pro player. What is more important? It’s a question I still don’t have the answer (as my pride refuses to concede).
Another reason why I refuse to ask for a horse, is “what if the person (or people) say that buying one is the only option they’ll accept, because they’re greedy assholes?” And that seems to be a risk, and that’s going to be a HUGE problem for me.. which is why I wish I could take my OWN horse cross-server. But nooooo “that would kill the horse market”! WHAT ‘market’?! You can ONLY USE IT ON THAT SERVER!! That’s restrictive as fuck to explorers!
So it seems we don’t ‘own’ our horses; always borrowing them (even with paying).
We can own our boats, as we can take them with us cross-server. But a boat won’t go inland and allow me to outrun mobs (or give an advantage in height to be able to kill a mob better).
It feels so… harsh. Why restrict exploration like this? My only thought to an answer is, exploration is perfectly fine..as long as it’s a social thing. Aka, people who play alone, get their asses handed to them (by mobs and by the community). That’s quite punishing.

Yet I was more fed up with the map, feeling if these stupid white lines didn’t exist, outrunning the mobs would be OK(as I would know where I’m going)! Asked kchat again, telling them the problem. Expecting to put a virtual bag over my decapitated floating dragon head to hide the shame, I didn’t check the results for awhile. The “should I stay or should I go(and never do this ever again)” song was playing in my head.
But I finally took the plunge and checked, and it paid off. Got a new map, yet overreacted my “thank you” by saying “Oh wow. That is what I’m looking for! Thank you! :D”.. WELL DONE trying to not act like a n00b! *facepalm*

With the embarrassment behind me (as much as I tried to push it away, as I know it would just happen again of the next server I explore), I tried to go counter-clockwise around the server on horseback. Something I don’t think I ever did, but giving Deli’s topography, I felt it was possible. Made it to the NW corner of the server at least (as Sol is setting).
Was forced to make a pit stop at a town named ‘Oakney’, no wooden structures all stone, and stayed the night at this person’s house. While there, I discovered several things. One thing, I didn’t know you could put mob ‘drops’ (aka what I get from butchering) in a BSB(minus meat, sadly). That’s awesome. I need to do that. The person also stored lumps, though I assume only for imping purposes (going by their QL).
Kchat came alive, so I decided to ‘have some fun’ by making myself look like a retard again, except saying about horses for cross-server. Surprisingly, most of them are against it. Though this one guy saying “it will ruin this game” and myself saying “and just how would it ‘ruin’ the game?”, no response out of them. Got a good laugh from that.
A bit later as I’m waiting for Sol to rise, someone said it would “ruin the horse market”. Ohh BOO FUCKING HOO(didn’t say this in kchat), with how there’s already an over-saturation of breeders out there! It’s one reason why I decided not to join the bandwagon.
Someone suggested that only Caravels should be allowed to do this “cause cara has no use ingame right now other than looking nice”. Well, the person has a point there.

Sol finally rose and I continued south and west. The west coast was a bit tricky, especially approaching the HoS(House of Swedes, the area where I picked B2 up), but I managed and eventually swung around the coast into a western bay. Here is where I managed to talk to ‘Cecci’, someone I’ve seen hang around in Global Kchat back in Indy.
She (assuming this is a female(“Oh my god..did you ASSUME MY GENDER?!?!”.. chill, Tumblr in my head) once said she was “offered land on Inde” (East coast, near Mist Lake after asking her), she’s telling me how she was once invited to live on Indy (somewhere on the East coast, near Mist Lake) over having the potential to have a mine that has gold in it, yet eventually settled in Deli and still found what she wanted. Though she still wants to place a deed there.
Asked me where I live on Indy, and I told them. Also asked how old I have, and I said “since Gold 2 closed” (which is technically true, as angry convinced me to come back while Samling was still a thing).
She says after I told her where I lived, “aha that is near where Nachtiti were and I think Brandonsf is in that area now”. Having not played since early 2011 and coming back late 2015, I don’t know these people sadly.
Also discovered she’s a really good friend with Yaga, proving he lives in Deli.

With that it was finally to explore this bay closer than I could on my Knarr. Though I fell asleep infront of my computer at the time of this part of the post(for a good half an hour); guess I was a lot more tired (IRL and of this game) than I thought. Thankfully the memory is still fresh in my head.
So Cecci pointed me to a town nestled in the NE corner of the bay, called “Mermaid’s Lagoon” in order to get inspiration for my deed. Yes, it’s pretty nice, but not something I would need, nor want to do.
The rest of the bay was also pretty nice. I managed to get past these two low-hanging wooden bridges (they were literally touching the shoreline.. that’s one hell of a safety hazard for anyone crossing these bridges at the time I would be going “under” them.
With it getting pretty late, tired and frustrated at the same time (and Sol setting), I found a 3×2 stone shack called ‘Atlantis II’ sitting on the coast (that’s accessible to the public). Decided to log out here, knowing the horse won’t be able to run away from me. This is what happens when I can’t put a saddle on the horse (didn’t have a saddle with me anyway).

This trip also makes me wonder, instead of going to Exodus(the next server on the list to explore after I’m done exploring Deliverance), to just head back home, grab my new Chain gear (and Plate just incase), then my sword and shield and then go there. Then.. well, I would be forced to ask if anyone has any free horses I could barrow (after I’m done checking everything out that I can via boat), but at least I would be able to defend myself and not look like a n00b infront of Global Kchat.
All the preparation to not make myself look n00bish, blew up in my face as I never anticipated the number of mobs that would spawn in.
This, I refuse to let happen again. It can be prevented… and it will, because that’s what I’m going to do. The mobs will pay for making me run like a pussy. They were wrong for infuriating the dragon inside me, because it only made me stronger.

I’ll still keep the clothes CD made for myself and my alt, but only around the deed. Elsewhere, I’m armoring up, even cross-server.

Currently snuggled in a public bed for the night(going to play tomorrow), in the ‘Insane Dragon Inn’ (it’s so insane that it doesn’t even have a roof). How did I get to this point? I finally took the plunge, despite multiple feelings (even the feelings of just stopping and go play another game like Minecraft), and..I’m SO glad I did! The sure beauty I’ve seen from Deliverance alone? Mind-blowing. And this is just some of the interior of the server. And there’s just so, so much more to explore and take in.
The most beautiful, have to go to the canals. Feeling like you’re gliding peacefully down a river (with mobs trying to bite and claw at you from the shore)..can this server get any more fucking beautiful?! 😀
Deliverance.. fuck man, I should’ve gone here to clear my head after what happened with the you know what. It would’ve helped so much. But this place also has hidden dangers that I gotta watch out (and forced to run away) for.

But before I got here, I was still having second thoughts back home. Though I also wanted to wait ’till the perfect time to set sail (in hopes to be at Deliverance by the morning).
My only female horse, still haven’t delivered her foal yet. It’s been two days with it saying “She will deliver in about 1 Day”. I’m starting to get worried that she’ll die during birth. She is old enough that it’s possible, though I hope due to the fact she’s still being cared for, it will overwrite any age (or failure) tick.
The other thing I feel I had to wait for, is Tulsi saying he was going to come on and start grinding his Carp up.
He finally came on during snacktime for me, but then had to go a minute later. It’s there when I decided that I was done putting this off, dropped off everything but the bare essentials, instructed B2 of what to do, hopped in my Knarr and set sail.

And wouldn’t you know, Wurm’s weather system once again is trolling the fuck out of me by having an East gale..in my face. What in the fuck did I do to piss it off?!
So with this annoying East gale, it took me longer to get around the North coast. Still, I wasn’t about to let it stop me from my goal of finding a new place to move.
I’m talking in kchat with CD and a few others about the Rift that opened (how someone mentioned it’s been less than a week since it closed), suddenly I get randomly PM’d by ‘Lyhrinae’, the CA that helped get me that high bookcase.
I’m thinking “uh oh..did I say something wrong?” (as that’s a typical response to seeing a moderator PM you, thinking you fucked up with your wording).
However, the person thinks we’re friends now and says “I gotta tell someone, I just made a 11.34 kg meal!! :D”
The person’s literally freaking out over making a huge meal, and all I can do is congratulate them. And that’s about it.

So as I was speaking to Lyhrinae, I wanted to check that high flatraised area that I kept passing by on my way to wherever. The West ramp up goes stops at a dead end, but the East ramp connects to a road that goes up to the flatraised area. On one end is a bunch of Steppe tiles, and on the other is normal grass. Saw no token, so whoever that sailboat belongs to, isn’t living here.
All and all, I don’t want this place. Feels like bigger mess than what I got back home, and so many awkward paths.

Passed the Northern Sea Pass and continued to look. When I thought there was just no hope, I finally found a REALLY nice flat area, next to the ocean. This..THIS IS IT!! 😀 THIS is what I wanted in a new place to live! Though I couldn’t explore it fully due to a troll and a champ wolf (this is what happens when you don’t have actual armor).
Sadly..it’s already been claimed. Though I didn’t even notice the “You enter Manor House Of The Lady April” message in my Event log, I saw the token. So, um..
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU—!!!!!!!!
There’s literally like..NOTHING HERE (that’s a structure). So it could be one of two ways. Either the deed is under construction, or the deed will be disbanded by upkeep soon.
I marked the area as ‘POTENTIAL deed move spot’ in the ingame map and vowed to watch for the name of this deed to appear as being disbanded….hopefully. When it does, I’m going to swoop in and claim it for myself (using B2). ..But that would also backfire in my face as B2 would be the owner of my future deed and not myself.
Well, that’s also why I hope to find a place on another server. Therefore, the “1 deed per server” limit won’t apply to me (as it won’t be on Indy).

I visited Garit’s place as it started to get dark. I expected to see another one of those huge, multi-leveled sprawling deeds with lots of structures. What I saw, wasn’t bad at all. Though “why is it called ‘Jaxville?'” went through my mind. Sadly I was stuck behind gates and couldn’t fully explore the place (or see where he claims he has a black dragon hatchling buried), because ‘y u leave alliance, yo?’ (and Garit himself hasn’t been on in a week).
Nevertheless, I did get some inspiration for my deed (while also having the local tower guards deal with a bear and a hellhound that wanted to say hi with their claws and fangs). The dock area, that was pretty cool. He has a sunken level to access boats. But what I really liked as the Shipyard house. It looked like a real warehouse IRL(at least, in a game I played). The overhang on the back of the wall, really set the theme.
If(and that’s a big ‘if’) I ever decide to get into the market of making/selling boats, I’ll consider building one of these.

With that, it was time to turn south. I was going to go visit what’s left of Volcano Forest, but with no horse and no armor (and it being night), not really worth it. Seeing the East coast 6+ years in the future, it has really changed. There was even what looked like a skybridge being constructed!
Halfway from the SE coast, CD chirps in asking anyone “do you have eyes on the rift?”. I respond stating the obvious that YES the red beam is there. It’s quite hard not to be able to see it when it goes up to the sky(and is quite visible at night). Use your night vision, CD. Prove to these pathetic mortals that we can see better!
(No, I didn’t actually say the last bit, or the bit of using her night vision)

Finally made it to the Indy/Deli boat bridge, and followed it all the way. Though I don’t like how it stops 10 seconds after crossing the border(in a Knarr at least).
Now I’m in Deliverance, no longer using it as a dimensional slingshot to get back home. The line of sailboats to mark the boat bridge seemed to disappear as I approached the mainland.
Met my first local while preparing to start exploring the island. They said hi and..that was about it. I asked them if they lived here in Deli and I got no response. Almost wonder, if this server is where CD came from. Since she talks about things but never really finishes a conversation(and moves to a new one).

As I said, I’m planning out the route by pulling up the map of Deliverance (though Firefox). Spot (and visually see) a beckoning canal going into the center of the server.
Going through this one-tile wide canal with trees lining the sides.. such eye candy, much yummy! Wow. Don’t see these things too much on Indy. The only one that’s close, is the Hidden Bay Canal that connects to the SW coast to Kinoss Bay.
Can you imagine getting a Cog through this? The view from the crow’s nest? …Is there a word beyond “breathtaking’?

The first cave canal was quite interesting, for it showed people have made underground structures. And this long canal (yet surprisingly not as long as the FM Canal) opens up to..another level of sheer beauty.
…FUCK! I wanna LIVE HERE!! 😀 The rolling hills, the shallow lakes, the realistic-looking towns. This felt like real life. This, is the reason I still play Wurm, folks.
One of these various-sized lakes also revealed another beautiful secret. Besides another 1-tile wide canal (but going SE to NW), I came up to this quaint, undeeded, unnamed town. And wow, did the inspiration scream at me.
It had a cart garage. It had a workshop (that looks like something I would want), it had a hotel (quite nice), and a cottage. All but the cottage could be entered. This felt like every idea I had and was shown, all thrown into this.
Wanted to see if the place at least had a guard tower nearby, then a surprise bear spawned in behind me and gave chase. Ran to my boat as quick as I could, and wanted to pull the chain harder to get the anchor up faster as the bear was preparing to rip me up…yet thankfully it seemed to just let me go without even scratching me (after giving a chase in ‘bearshark mode’).
I’m sitting there telling it “If I had my armor, I would fuck you up!”. But it acted like it said “Just get out of here before I maul you in the ass.”

So the next thing I wanted to do was re-visit Greendog (though it would be my first time as Dragonhead). Sitting there exploring this large’ish lake, trying to talk to the locals (and ask them if there’s any good places I could move to). Yet most were either AFK or didn’t really want to speak past saying “hi”. Don’t really blame them. You got a total stranger you’ve never seen in your life going around in a Knarr, who’s trying to spark up a conversation with you.
Though I did actually have a pretty decent conversation with a guy named ‘Twigg’, who said to try the NE coast of looking for a place to move in. He also said how he’s been helping “to get all the lakes connected via cannal”. I asked him if Greendog is connected, and he said “the cannal to the south there does go all the way from what I’ve been told.”

Used the colorful canal (called the Rainbow Canal)..and it did not disappoint as it had every color option possible in Wurm via lamps). Just because I used to like rainbows (just the color of them) as a kid, doe NOT make me gay, alright?
And before I realized, I was on the outskirts of Greendog! When I realized, I moored and hopped out of my boat, and followed this road. It was lined with so many Lavender bushes.
Entered Greendog. Felt about the same size as The Howl. Expected a sizable market at least, but there were only two traders. Then I saw this sign that said to Examine it to learn about this ‘Deliverance Derby’ thing. Yet that would be a fatal mistake, of when I did, I didn’t ever think I would be teleported!
Soon as I teleported in, the manual combat window showed up with a wild cat trying to claw me. Managed to get out of there and then realize.. oh shit, I’m lost.

My first instinct is to contact kchat, hoping any locals in the area would be kind enough to help me out to get myself back to Greendog…and I received a not so welcoming response of, nothing. Started freaking out, seeing Sol setting. Trying to calm myself down and to just focus on going up or down this three-wide road (in hopes there would be a sign that points to Greendog). Mobs made this hard and I was forced to run away like a pussy..once again.
THANKS, Wurm Devs for not fucking allowing me to bring my horse cross-server!! D:(
Kchat got active, but only to say hi to another one of the locals. I’m getting annoyed as nighttime approaches and ask again. They act like they never even heard of this derby, and to ask in CA HELP for assistance.
Ohh how far I’m scraping this barrel now. So I ask them, saying “Well this is embarrassing.” (because it WAS. This is NOT the way to be self-sufficient!!)

I decide to head back to where I got teleported in, hoping there another sign to get myself back. Hidden in a corner is ‘supreme Get me outa here!’. Examine it, and I get teleported back to Greendog. Thank CHRIST that worked! I tell all the chat windows that I made it back no problem.
Back in my boat, the last rays of light are in the horizon. I decide to make a mad dash back to the North coast of the server (as I feared a bearshark is going to attack while I’m moored). Sadly, night fully falls before I can get halfway, because trollface has decided to change the wind direction to the NE..now giving me TWO headwinds to worry about. Plus it slows down the process of getting back.

Still, I made it and saw this run down inn next to the canal entrance (called the ‘Insane Dragon Inn’). Desperate for anything at this point, I moor next to it and hop out. Find beds. Takes me two minutes to logout(I assume because it sees having no roof being a problem).
And that brings me here. Tomorrow I’m going to start swinging around the outer coastline of the server and check it out.
Now I’m tired IRL.

So the “help” I said that was showing up in that thread I made? It seems to have fallen short of what I want. There’s been no new ideas (except “you should do this and that”), and even when I responded to them, I never got a response back.
Jaz(yeah, him.. but again, the hatchet is buried), who also imped the Plate armor to 70QL for me(for 3s) has asked why haven’t I just been looking around Indy for a new place to live.
Yet I have.. in ways. Not -fully- looked around (as “this place is boring!” wasn’t on my mind at the time). Western side of the island is a no-go. Don’t really see any places that are flat, next to the ocean, and are at the mainland(that haven’t been taken).
Haven’t really checked the North side fully. I know my side of the server, there’s still that really high flatraised area overlooking the ocean. But it’s a bit too big for my needs. Plus it looks like someone’s already living there (there’s a single sailboat).

So due to no one responding, I decided to go over the ideas given to me the day before (and make it work with the current design of the deed). Sadly, once again, the results have been… not working. And here is what I mean. Note that large empty spot? No idea what to put there(that needs to be there). I do know Tulsi’s house needs to go there, but.. that’s it. Plus I don’t know how it’ll look or where I can put it that would look nice.
There was one time I tried to do a 7 floor tower-like structure that I could use as an ‘Overlook Tower’. Wanted to put it on the NW corner of the deed, but it won’t work as there’s no support.
Seriously, this sucks. The area is literally saying “I expect you to make a town-like area up here” and I have no fucking NEED for it! Yet the thing is, I don’t know what my needs really are. Because if I did, I wouldn’t had even asked for help.
I did however try this idea someone suggested, of having a rope fence around the boat dock area. Now I’m not 100% sure if having that row of Lavender Hedges are allowed on two non-grass tile borders (since I can place it like that in DeedPlanner). But if they are, I find that idea pretty good. I could go with planters and get some flowers, but hearing you must water them or they’ll decay?.. Nah. These don’t require maintenance. Fake flowers are better than real ones anyday. 🙂

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So now I’m trying to push myself to do this cross-server exploration thing. Yet my brain is all “is it worth it?” “What if I die?” “What if it’s pointless?” “Those small servers don’t really deserve to be explored to be honest.” “What if I can’t find an updated map?” “What if I get lost?” “What if I’m forced to depend on others while exploring?”
So many “what if”‘s. I had those feelings when it came to exploring the old Wild server (in order to see the ‘capital’ of the server(Kyara), and rumors of a dragon being kept somewhere in the deed). Yet I spent all day standing infront of their walled-up deed, never allowed to come in and look around. How I wanted to explore another server. Believe I still have the old blog post around here somewhere… ah, here it is! Just had to dust off the cobwebs.
But instead of just one server.. I have six to explore now (and they’re all PvE), begging me to come visit them. So why am I getting cold feet? I need to plunge in and hope for the best instead of be scared!
I guess I’m scared because I won’t have my horse to help me explore these strange new lands. Yet by packing lightly. No armor or weapons, just the bare essentials, I should be able to outrun anything chasing me.

It’ll be FINE! At least..I hope. If I can outrun a dragon with studded leather(going downhill though), I can outrun a troll or a hellhound while going uphill. Plus there would be guard towers scatted all over these servers to deal with the annoyances.
Plus, B2 will watch over the deed for me while I’m gone. Tulsi says he’ll try to come on and start grinding Carp. Though I wonder if he should wait ’till either I finally do what I’m going to do with the deed (or move), or just do nothing and deal with what I got. But him grinding his skill is going to take him at least a day or two (depending on how many times he can come on).
Though I bet if he reads this and sees how long it might take, he’ll probably be all “fuck this”. Again though, this is the test.

It’s time for my favorite thing in Wurm; depend on others of something I can do myself yet I don’t know how! Deed designing has never been a thing for me, yet it’s also fun to do.
Also, this person that was going to be my contact? They still never logged in, and I started looking again for help though GL-Freedom (because I refuse to wait two days..when I’ve been waiting for nearly a month for help). This actually got more of a positive turn for me. They suggested I make a new thread in the screenshots section, provide loads of screenshots of my deed, and see if that works of getting someone to give me advice and help to give the place some well-needed love.
After I created the thread (here), I got PM’d by a person named ‘Saintdouglas’ who greatly helped me (using DeedPlanner) nearly all day yesterday (remotely from the Release server). They were able to give me several ideas, yet a 3rd of them I had to discard because of “I don’t think I really need this.”

I was never known for accepting the advice from people, as it’s usually advice I already know or don’t wish to(that advice is either RL or gear-related from WoW or another MMORPG). But this is “What about this? Does this look good for your deed?” advice. Two of these involved complete redesigns (featuring Castle-like buildings) but would had involved me making a dragon-sized load of mortar and bricks (to make stone buildings instead of wood).
Having a castle, as a dragon? Pretty badass. “Castle Dragonhead” it would be called, rings bells. Yet, there was no real functionality to the build. It felt way too big for my needs, and I absolutely had no idea why I would ever need something like this.
I think practical. If there’s no need (or purpose) for something to exist, then why do it?

There was even this one church-like wooden structure that was seven levels high (which would match or even pass the limit of my Carp skill). If I ever wanted to go through of making another alt, and go through the hell it takes to be a Priest, then maybe I would consider it. It is a good build, though.
There was also this Workshop that was a 4×3. Pretty good size, plus it even had storage space uptop. Yet from what he put in it.. I don’t really see a need for a Workshop (when my house suffices to my basic needs). Though the storage, I did like. I would change the BSB’s to Coffins, though (or crates).

Again, all of these builds, they were fantastic and really do make the deed stand out from what it is currently. *sigh* But when there’s no real need for the structure, then…why even build it?
Oh, but there was one build I actually did like and feel it’s worth existing. And that was how they had the cart garage moved to near the main gate, and was made open air(allowing better access). I honestly didn’t even know I could have an open air house (using wooden arches). Though a day ago, I needed to go to the North side of Dragonfang Mountain to pickup a High Bookcase (from one of the Chat Assistance people).
Stopped by this pretty nice deed (that I thought was theirs), and saw this open air 3-level house that was also pretty nice. Anyway, I’m going to go with this area (especially where the person placed it). But instead of a traditional roof, I’m going with a flat one (using a wooden floor). It just looks better in my head.
Hell, Might double it and go with a second floor storage area. Cart and Item storage? Win win.

There is also another idea I liked.. well, I’ve actually come up with an idea using theirs that I will discuss momentarily. The person said that I don’t really need the farm to be on the deed (as it takes a lot of space that can be used for other things..like expanding my horse barns(or any other livestock I might come across on my travels)).
Now my idea came from them having a gate on the side ramp of where I’ve been trying to level down (aka to get dirt). I could flatraise this (and lower it) to actually make it an expanded section of my deed (to be my new farm)! Going by the size, it would be 7×8, which is a great size for crops.

Lastly, the boat docks. They seriously needed some love (and the most ghosts removed from it). Though, the person assumed instead of improving my private boat dock for myself and my alt’s boats, that I wanted a large bay-like area (for “friends” to visit). Yeah. Friends. Totally have RL friends (that also play this game)! Sure. Except, there hasn’t been another living soul in my Local since… *sighs* yeah. “Friends” are permabanned from my deed (especially if there’s another unique near me). 😛
There’s also something the person had forgotten (and hell… I TOO wish I could just make it all disappear); all the lovely Clay. I told the person of the ugly clay pier that laughed at me for 5+ years (that I finally got to send back into the ocean). There’s still clay in the ‘bay’.
Yet, there’s also that annoying, ugly clay hill infront of my deed that I would love to be able to remove… holy hell, could I do so, so much more with this place if I could remove that eyesore! I could have a PROPER boat dock with a PROPER entrance(aka a wooden bridge), which would link to both of my ramps to make it quicker to get up on my deed!
Damn, that would be SWEET! 😀 If only if I had access to a shit-ton of Transmutation Liquids, the clay mound would be a distant memory. “Wait, you needed clay for your future guard tower? So sorry, but the shop is CLOSED!!” 😀 😀

Anyway, I bidded the person adou as they couldn’t really help me anymore (having gone over all of their ideas). But more people are coming to that thread to give me theirs. I love it. 🙂

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On an unrelated, ironic note, I’m having clothes made from..Champagnedragon. Yeah, her again. I also asked for a second set for B2 (so he’ll look better). CD was the only one that responded from my Trade request.
With my mind permanently stuck in the gutter, when I saw her PMing me, I’m thinking “…Oh..shit. Is she trying to apologize for calling me a ‘stranger’ and we’re going to meet in a quiet place?! :D” ..But it was just her offer to make the cloth sets for me, for 60c. “DAMNIT!! D:(”
There I felt the airhorns going off in my head, the MLG Pro things and the Dorito chips flying around, and seeing “GET REKT”. …Oh wow. 😛
Anyway, I can’t wait to rub my face all over these warm clothes made by a fellow dragon.

(I really need help, don’t I? :P)
The reason I need the clothes, is I want to get started on that multi-server exploration trip that I had planned out for two years (but mainly in order to get inspiration for my deed(and even see if there’s greener pasture around with my name on it (a medium-sized area of flat land near an ocean)) that could be used to move my deed over to).
Yes, with that hill, and the fact how… annoying it is to do anything from my position on the server, I’m thinking about moving. You heard it here, folks.
How I have to go out of my way to get Tar. How I have to go through the Darkenstone Canal to get to the center of the server, since there’s no canal that’ll go there that’s close to me (and I’m not talking the El Rancho Knarr Canal). Yeah, I’m still thinking of that canal I wanted that’ll go through Reborn and the Western Wall at an angle (that I’ll never have as I can’t get the support to do it).
But yeah, everything’s so inconvenient that it’s ridiculous. So.. that’s one reason I wanted to do this.

Anyway, since I can’t bring my horse cross-server (sadly), and I don’t want to be forced to have to ask the locals for a horse (or where I could find some wild horses, plus I also want to travel light), I’m going to be exploring these servers on foot.
Yet I also want to go in style, instead of looking like a typical n00b struggling to run away from hellhounds and trolls in need of a place to live. Aka, why I need the clothes. I want people to look at me that I know what I’m doing, I’m no stupid newbie who needs to live with someone else, and I’m just exploring on my own. Aka, I want to be (and look) self-sufficient.
CD said I should have the clothes by today. Getting ready to login and check after I submit this one to youall (and then edit it 20+ times to fix typos and stuff).

If you’re been paying attention to my actions of the forum, you can see I haven’t been happy (as Wurm once again is showing its true colors that it’s a fucking grindy mess).
But with the ones that don’t know, the past two days I’ve been leveling up FS (currently it’s 43.55). I’m thinking, the higher I go, eventually I’ll be able to hit harder and make all mobs run in fear of the almighty dragon warrior with a ferocious bite from my longsword. 😛
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Except, it feels like all of this time..was for nothing. And that’s because, fuck you player, Body Strength is what controls your damage and not the Fighting skill!

My ‘Body Strength’, is 27. I’ve been told to “dig, mine, and chop wood” as the ‘best’ ways to raise it up, and I need to get it at least in the mid-40’s to be able to do ‘deadly hard’ attacks with my longsword. Yet I call BS, as my Mining is 45, Digging is 72, and Woodcutting is 38. Surely, that would had gotten it up to at least 30, for how long I’ve had this char (since 2009). But no. I have to do more.
Well.. FUCK..THAT!! I feel I’ve been grinding for years and have gotten very little in return (OK, I got paid a Rare 20c coin by the game for killing a wolf, and I’m happy about that).

I feel it’s going to take past 2020 until I get my Body Strength that high (or even close) at this rate! I guess it proves just how (un)dedicated I am to this game. I hate. knowing. it will take a VERY long time to get anywhere. I do realize, that this is literally real life in a nutshell. But: a game =/= Real Life.
The ‘Fighting’ skill, I felt like it’s going at a pace I can deal with. To go from 35-43? That’s pretty big! THAT kind of grinding, I’m OK with! But seeing such a low number take the speed of a snail to increase..WTF?! Who in the FUCK has the sanity to get up that skill?! ..Oh wait, PvPers do.

*sigh* I’ll never be like Metaldragon, or any of these top-notch fighters. Not with this whiny attitude at least. Getting to 70+FS? Possible. Yet what’s the point, if your maximum DPS is ‘extremely hard’? I want to be able to fight any mob out there, and come out victorious. I want them to FEAR me, for all the times they pissed me off.
Perhaps I’m just setting the bar way too high (to allow myself to easily pass under it and claim victory). I dunno. …I just don’t know anymore.

Adding Wurm to the expanding list of “this game isn’t meant for you” games? Yet when I look at the “this game is perfect for you” list, it has cobwebs growing on it. All games require effort to play. If you’re not willing to do the effort, then why bother playing?
Yet there’s also another (personal) thing of “I am willing to do the effort, as long as it’s reasonable and doesn’t take years to do”. Wurm falls so short of that thing, with the core being nothing but a grindy mess. Yet the only reason I still play, is;
1. The beauty of the islands.
2. Player housing that’s semi-customized (as long as you deal with the confines of a grid-based system).
3. Everything placed in the game was done by players, making it a living, breathing world.
4. Boats have a purpose, delivering goods and passengers (and you can go cross-server for free and at anytime).
5. Freedom to explore and to hunt.
6. No worries about another player killing you.

Honestly, I’m surprised the game has lasted this long (where other free to play games have fallen short). Hell, it’s almost as old as WoW (I believe by 3-4 years)! And its core hasn’t changed, unlike WoW. It’s still as punishing as it was since angry first showed me it), and I think this is what has kept it alive for so long.
And I swear, and this is ironic…it’s also what got me back in 2015. Again, as I said, I do enjoy a challenge (as long as it’s reasonable). It’s human instinct to be challenged, and to overcome them despite all odds. It gives a feeling of reward; of achievement. That’s always the best feeling.
But some ‘rewards’, I prefer to get them sooner than 5-10 years (these are the unreasonable challenges)… and now I’m just repeating myself. Bleh.
I just need a break from Wurm. After all that’s happened, yeah. The core hasn’t changed, and will likely never change. So hoping and praying for it, will fall on deaf ears.

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HUGE EDIT: Actually, I’m not leaving. At least… not yet. First off, everything I said above? I have NO need to do that! That’s only if I was to PvP (which..heh, is definitely not happening). Being told upping FS will help with trolls, and that’s fantastic.
However, there is something more important on my mind than my FS, and that.. is the location of my deed. Now, no it’s not being removed by the GMs for violating rules (or they need the area to build a canal.. (but that would be SUPER awesome if that came true)). This has to do with..me.
I thought I was going to be happy after the redesign. But no, I’m not. Especially not around the boat dock area. It feels so…. empty, and I don’t know how to fix it. And I can’t believe there isn’t a need in the market to give advice (and even help out with tough areas) in improving deeds.
But I feel this “I’m not happy to live here” feeling is the same exact feeling I had when I was living in JK-H (in Gold 2), of wanting to live on a completely flat area near a body of water.
I don’t really like living on high up areas. It makes the area feel.. isolated compared to everything else. I like everything to be in one area (and also having boat access). Having to go up and down ramps over and over.. is frustrating and tedious (with the speed penalty of going up slopes).

What makes this worse is DeedPlanner doesn’t have every object in the game (not even lamps). So it’s hard to try out designs. However, I -somewhat- got a person named ‘Seschwa’ that has no problem giving out advice for struggling deed owners(that live on their own with their alt and 11 year old friend who doesn’t really care for Wurm).
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Tulsi.. well, he’s been having a bad year in school. And now he’s..refusing to read any of my posts without his name in them. So, here’s a shoutout to you, Tulsi! Also, to get to work on your house (that you haven’t even come on to start grinding your Carp up). 😛

Anyway, back to this ‘Seschwa’ person. They were mentioned by a person named ‘Hannaliese’ who was going to pass my request for advice to them (yet Hanna never got back to me about it). Also, ‘Seschwa’ is offline. So I hope to reach them in the daytime.

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And lastly, I’m currently having a 70QL Chain set made (un-enchanted, will have to ask someone for AoSP). And there’s also a lastly lastly. On February 4th, I’m going to head down south on horseback to ‘Magrannon’s Scar’ and actually help out their huge road project (through Surface Mining)! That’s going to be oodles of FUN (as I heard Surface Mining is hell on Wurm).
But by doing it, I’ll be a ‘somebody’ (and several more steps closer of being respected by the Wurm community)!

I think the death of Emeriss the Ferocious brought a change in me, to finally be someone instead of being treated as a “stranger”. Maybe some of her ferocity is a part of me, to not give up.

Remember how I said yesterday brought change? There was another reason I wanted that horse. It wasn’t for future Indy Romps, but for running away from trolls.
I also made a post on the forum, how do I go about welding a 2H weapon (to give dragons the freedom to die). Well, now is not the time. Now is the time to hone in on my fight skill and finally be the respectable dragon warrior I need to be. I’m done running like a pussy. I’m done hiding like a coward.
Now is the time to take the fight to them; the wolves, the spiders, and the bears I was forced to run from in the past. Note that I didn’t add ‘trolls’ to that list. At least, not yet. Those hard-hitting club-welding bastards are still out of my league.

The responses of that forum post told me that I need to get ‘Life Transfer’ on my longsword, as it will actually heal my wounds a bit upon hit of the target(that is, if I can I hit my target). Tried to respond to the post, and then edit my response to add more info. But the forum (or my client) was acting up and causing a double..triple..and QUADruple post to happen. FUCK me. Everytime I tried to say “please remove this” with an edit, it just kept getting worse and worse to the point I gave up trying, and pray this doesn’t get ugly for me (and the mods realize it was a complete accident and not spamming).
EDIT: It’s not just me, it’s a forum-wide issue happening to a lot of posters. They are well aware of the problem and are waiting back from the website hoster.

So I ‘WTB Priest’ in Trade chat. Waited about 30 minutes. Then one of the CA’s messages me in it suggesting I speak to a guy named ‘Odynn’ to get a good cast. Thankfully the guy’s still on after PMing him, and he confirms that he can do LT(Life Transfer). However, we must discuss price. 70 cast is 1s, 80 cast is 2s, and 90 cast is 3s. But there was also a problem, as ‘Frostband'(FB), one of the enchants I got on the sword I got from FM, isn’t compatible with LT; you can only have one damage enchantment at anytime.
It ended up of him making a brand new longsword at 85QL with all the enchantments I had before(except LT instead of FB) for 2.5s. This includes ‘Animal’s Demise’, ‘Nimbleness'(91), and ‘Circle of Cunning'(81)). Also has a 71 cast of LT.

So I have the new longsword. Left the deed and started doing some real hunting to test it out(in the Northeast hills from me). And honestly…I don’t really see much of a difference in the frequency of “You miss with the longsword” (with 91 Nimbleness). Though I believe it’s because the ‘Swords’ subskill is so low.
But with LT, I am able to heal myself now. Still can’t kill trolls. It’s like I’m not even wearing armor and I get an instant Medium from these fucks (and I’m wearing Plate). How LT works, is it’ll heal a random wound (depending on the severity, it may not be a complete heal or even touch it).
There’s been one instance where I had a Medium change back into a Light, yet it seems when not in combat (aka running from a troll and calling the guards to save my ass), it doesn’t add the Medium to its random ‘queue’ and completely ignores it. That’s not good at all.

So as I said, trolls are still an issue. Infact I’ve been told even the high-skilled fighters take trolls to guard towers. Do I feel like I didn’t get my coins worth? Not from that guy, but I feel yes from Wurm itself. And also instead of CA HELP telling me what’s going on, they say of how I can read about fighting.
I did read, despite the anger I felt for the entire fight system. But as the more I read about Focus and the ‘Combat Rating’ system, the more furious I became. So. many. fucking. FACTORS go in to the hit/miss chance!! Distance of the mob / If your footing is good / If you’re Focused… WHAT THE FUCK, WURM?!?! I’ve been so used to tab-based combat in WoW, Guild Wars 2, and TES:O that it’s not funny.
Though in those games, you can’t just stand there and wait ’till the mob dies; you got to use actual fighting stances and dodge the enemy’s attack by moving out of the way (aka why I rarely play a Melee class).

Yet I swear, Wurm, you use too many sub-skills. You got “Fighting”(Main skill), you got “Longsword”(Subskill)… and then you got “Swords”(Subskill of ‘Longsword’ that’s a Subskill of ‘Fighting’). WTF?!? WHY do you need that much fucking complexity?!
(Isn’t going back to normal, good? This is what you guys wanted, right? …RIGHT??)

So I put in a generous amount of rage into Global Kchat. And instead of them laughing at me, they actually helped explain why the fight system is the way it is. Plus, one told me that Manual fighting is the same as Autofight (except you have more control over what gets attacked and what gets protected). Manual mode fighting is also for PvP.. infact it’s mainly for PvP (but it’s a lot more micro-management than fighting a mob). But with Autofight, there’s no way to focus, and you miss a lot more (as you’re also not factoring in the other crap).
Yes, it’s stupid and tedious. But it’s something I’m going to have to deal with. Once I eventually get a feel of position and where to go to battle the mob (or mobs if there’s multiple attackers..pray one of them isn’t a Troll or another tough enemy like a Hellhound), then it’ll become easy to grasp.

In the morning, I’m going to try to get this plate set imped to at least 70, as I asked if it’s worth getting it imped and they said yes (as it’ll add more protection). However, this’ll be a “make or break” thing for me of either sticking with Wurm or say ‘fuck it’ and go back to Minecraft (but occasionally come on and add more upkeep to the deed).
The “make or break”, isn’t “is this going to be worth it?”, it’s “Will I be charged 1-2s per gear piece?” If so, FUCK that!! If not, then yay! I believe Plate armor is made out of Silver (but can also be made out of Seryll, Glimmersteel, and Adamantine). And if that’s the case, someone said Silver ore (even at 98QL) is pretty cheap. Soooooo, hopefully that means the imping will be as well.

Yesterday was a semi-busy day. But first off, I just wanted to deeply apologize for all the people I annoyed over this whole dragon thing. Some of you actually understanded me, and I appreciate that, but most of you are sick and tired, and I don’t blame you.
Because I’m getting tired of it myself. Therefore, until (or if) this ever happens again in my travels or near my deed, there will be no more discussing about this whole dragon thing. I’m done.

And the reason is I did something I didn’t think I ever had the courage to do (but did it anyway)… I removed her empty grave completely. That’s right, it’s empty. Apparently that’s what happens when you bury a mob; the corpse disappears instead of actually being buried. So, since the day she died and when I buried her, I’ve been grieving over an empty grave.
Silly, right? Also, I’ve vowed to do something else to remember her. And that is to work on my FS and help save any dragons I may come across by giving them a clean death (with lots of help of course). I understand now, what I tried to do was actually worse. Killing her, was the better option. Instead of being caged like an animal and harvested like cattle for her eggs, I freed her by giving her death. That day, literally was a mercy kill. So in order words, I actually did do something no other has done. I was just too blinded by grief and hate to see it.
Though why the devs decided to use such a beautiful creature to do this, I guess it’s just the name of the game (literally).

But now I can finally ‘bury the hatchet’ (aka all the anger I’ve felt to the hunters) and move on. Also, I’m not re-joining the Alliance. As I said, even before this whole mess started, I felt like I just didn’t really belong in it. Thankfully I’m the owner of the deed and not someone else who wanted to stay with them, which allowed me to remove OR from the alliance.
I also sold her belongings for 3.4s(her hide went for 2.4s, and her blood went for 1s). Not bad at all. And finally, I got a free 5-speed, but on the word that I would help out the community somehow. And the best way I know is to keep the roads safe from mobs (by working on FS). I also learned, the guy that sold me that horse at the end of Day 2 of my Indy Romp? While his price was unreasonable, the thing I said about him turning over perms? ..He didn’t need to, as taming or branding is the only way to ‘turn over perms’.

After I managed to sell her hide and her blood (I also sold the four Valrei items I collected while out there for 10c a piece to a collector(40c total)), I tried to see if anyone would want to trade my 4-speed for a 5-speed(or just buy a 5-speed). Nearly giving up over not getting anyone for hours, I tried the two people that someone was roaming around the outskirts of my deed when I came back home from my adventure, told me (‘Alyeska’ and ‘Mitzie’).
Alyeska was offline, and Mitzie was AFK. But the second person said that they don’t sell horses (however has “given some away” due to her being “in the process of moving”). I then asked them about if they know Alyska and they said no, so I thanked her for her time and wished her luck on her move.
Then she asks me of what I’m looking for. So I pasted in the link to a forum post I made about my request, and she said she had a brown 5-speed she could part with. She also said she didn’t want my 4-speed is “i kill vens”, and that’s fine. Asked how much she wanted for the horse, and she said nothing “but pay it forward some day”.
Told her that I’m not really a crafter, but a striving hunter. And she says “it just means to help someone else out in hte future when you are able”.
(Refuses to say that maybe this could be Emeriss the Ferocious in human form.. ahh damnit)

With it now nighttime, I was to meet her on the East side of Black Dog Isle. Thinking at this time that all she’ll need to do is turn over perms to me and I’ll be able to ride it back home, I got B2 on and got him to take me there on his sailboat, holding to all the horse stuff. Had to fight the current as we went south through the server (gale from the south).
Got a bit lost trying to find the Bay View Canal, but we finally found it and went through. Trying to get to the East side of the island was a challenge due to the wind, but we did it. As we approached the island’s north face, my contact messages me again and says she’s going to switch to a character called ‘Cinderr’ and be sitting at a pier with the horse.
Close to the East side of Black Dog Isle we went. It took 5 minutes until she popped up in our local. Assumed she was close and I started looking at this one village for a pier, but saw nothing. She said to go further as that’s her neighbor’s place, so we did and finally found where she lives, and the horse on the pier.
Hopped out with B2 still in the boat. She stopped leading the horse. She told me it was a male (which is perfect), and it has 6 good traits and no bad ones(also perfect). I asked her if perms have been transferred over, and she says she thinks so. Remembering what I went through back then, I made sure I could at least put the Bridle on him and I couldn’t. Told her the message, and then she told me that I had to either tame or brand him.
She then offered to tame him in order to get my bridle on him, and did, proving that’s what you gotta do in order to be allowed to put things like horseshoes on a horse. But the thing about taming, is it makes hostiles see the horse as something to kill instead of just the player. She already knew this, and ran back to go tame another animal to untame the horse.
So, my only option was to bring the horse back with me on B2’s boat and then brand him when I get back home. Being a nice guy, I asked him why and where she was moving. She said she outgrew this area and needed to find more space, and that she was moving to “south of sutherland shire”. Told her that that I wasn’t sure I’ve heard of it (which is true), she said she would show me and she did.

So I tried to board B2’s boat as a passenger while leading the horse (hoping I can finally do it)…, but it seems they still won’t allow you to do that. Bastards. 😛
And I was forced to take over as captain of the boat in order to lead the horse, and followed her. She lead us through Black Dog Canal, then along the East side for a bit until she stopped. Here we saw this pretty huge, flat field that she and her neighbors have been preparing. Was pretty nice.
Since I was leading the horse, I had B2 hop out and be shown around the place. The tour of the large area took about three minutes. Again, it was pretty nice.
One time she showed B2 that she had a tar pit, and he said where we lived. She mentions “there’s near where i used to live”. At first I thought she said ‘that’s near where i used to live”(as in her deed), but after just reading what she said (going over the logs as I type this), she was talking about the tar pit off the coast of that one mountain in the center of the server (where I go for my tar).

She said about “there’s deed on the east side of the mtn that has tunnel that goes to the top”. I thought she was talking about the Western Wall, but it wasn’t. My head is always in the gutter, isn’t it? But before I could possibly get exactly where this ‘deed on the east side of the mtn’ is (because I wasn’t seeing it on the map), she said that she needed to get started on her project. So B2 ran back to the boat and we set sail back home, wishing them luck.
Going along the North side of the server, I started thinking about how far we’ve come to this point. Also noticing of how barren it is (except for a few villages here and there). For the first time in my life, I actually felt… lonely living without neighbors. Shock, I know. With me being as anti-social as I am… wow.

It just didn’t make sense, how every village around me had suddenly disbanded. Yet I only remember two. However, there are signs that there were even more villages, or perhaps sub-villages off of the main one (with the addition of that new side route leading to the main roads).
I also have reason to believe, the previous owners of my deed owned a LOT more real estate than just my deed. I mean, think about it. That many people living in such a small spot that my deed is currently in? Yeah. Not possible. And somewhere in the back of my mind (not in a screenshot but by pure memory of passing by it once in 2011), the place was HUGE. So they obviously expanded past the confines of my deed. So it’s possible, all of these flatraised areas around me, were owned by them in one form or another.
I also remember the reason why I quit in 2011. Mainly because I just got bored with Wurm and told angry “I don’t care anymore” of what happens to my stuff. But I remember how I wanted to expand the deed further East. Infact, I believe the flatraised area that’s overlooking my deed to the east, still existed back then. I wanted to get into the process of breeding horses and starting a horse-selling service (like a lot of others did back then). But what shot that idea down was how.. remote the area is compared to other villages. So who would want to come all the way here to buy a horse?

Now you get why I stopped playing back then. But, I also have no intention of moving (mainly because I don’t know where we could move that would also be flat and close to the ocean).
But, as for Flashsilver, she now has a new home to live her final moments (in the woods, far away from the deed). She’s also to give birth in 10 days (the reason why I said it was perfect for the new horse to be a male)…if she survives long enough to do so.
Trust me, this is what she wanted.

So… Day 3. It was possibly the most ridiculous (and the most revealing) of all the three days. Logged back in the pen, yet I was against one of the stone walls with no idea how or why I got there (maybe some kind of player position glitch by the server.. thankfully I wasn’t IN the wall).
The guy that sold me the horse was not on, and I feared I would have to wait all day for him to return. Decided to ask kchat if anyone knows this guy and knows when (or if) he’ll be back on.. got the silent treatment instead. Then I asked Global Kchat. This got a bit rough of of a response to “not buy branded horses”. Another one said that they usually go for 50c for 5-speeds (indicating this guy ripped me off).
But before I could respond to them that the horse wasn’t branded, the guy logged in. I quickly told him that you need to set perms, but he wouldn’t respond. I assumed his client was still in the ‘loading world’ state, which would explain why he didn’t respond. So I waited a bit and said hey again, and that time he responded.
He said exactly what I thought, that he didn’t know that horses had their own permissions. But he had things he had to deal with, so I waited. As I did, I got PMed by ‘Pashka’ who asked me where the guy lives, and I told them that he’s on and we’re dealing with the issue.
Sadly, it went down to him giving me back my 1.5s and having no 5-speed (as that was ‘easier’ on him instead of just giving me back 1s and setting perms). But he said over and over how he was new at this. He even proved it by not knowing how the bank system works of the token. Had to tell him how it works, and I got the 1.5s back. I even gave him some advice, of monitoring prices of horses to prevent this from happening again.
He accepted it, thanking me. And I went West to continue following the southern coast. It’s a shame we couldn’t make a fair deal, but I knew 1.5s was a bit too much. Though he claimed that “i heard 5 speeds go for 50 to 3 s also”. Yet Global Kchat told me “normally 5 speeders sell 50copper a piece”.
Well.. I guess I’m stuck with Flashsilver (until I get back home).

Finally made it to the point I could go West no further. “Calli” was in my local, and I asked them how do you get to Kinoss Bay (thinking there’s a road not on the map). But it turned out to having to go back to a town named ‘Port Monito’ and look for a north road to take me around the mountain to the East. Found the road still intact. I took a huge breath and went for it. Ran into a bear and a spider (both dead by my sword). This lead me through a thick forest on a one-lane road. Fun fun. I remember angry teasing me about these, because they had the most risk of a mob near the road.
Using the map, I needed to worm my way to the East side of Kinoss Bay and then follow the road North to the ‘West Coast Highway’.
But first, I had to survive the horrors of the forest. And what horrors it had for me. Though thankfully, bless Rolf for guard towers. Was this area where I was kind of near one, I see two trolls. One of them sees me and starts to run over. I run up this one road and get to the tower with the troll behind me, and then a hellhound shows up. Tell the guards to deal with the troll while I deal with the hellhound, and the plan works perfectly. As I’m getting ready to go loot the corpses, a bear and a wolf show up. FUN! 😀
Tell the guards to deal with the bear while I deal with the wolf. Finally managing to heal up, I manage to kill a spider who’s lurking near the tower. Yet I knew I wasn’t safe; still needed to get to the coast. Halfway up this one road which the map says will connect to the coast, I had a wolf to deal with.
Encountered another abandoned village with a guard tower. Thankfully I never needed it and managed to get to the highway next to Kinoss Bay! I survived the horrors of the forest! Though there would be even more surprises much later.
Started going north. Ran into a hellhound. Glad I brought this plate armor as it saved my life.
Made it to the West Coast Highway (same highway I was on in 2016, but not this far west). Next stop is to visit a familiar town with a familiar name; Akhenaten. For those that aren’t in the know, this town, angry and I used to live with a guy named ‘Flinter’ (but in JK-H back in 2009).
Making my way to the connector highway, I had the occasional wolf and bear to deal with. Nothing all that troublesome, and made it to the connecting road. Made it to the town no problem. Last time I visited this place was early 2010, and the town itself looks unchanged. The only change is the docks (with a few crocks being in the way).
With Sol down (and being at the end of the pier), I logged out to start typing this post. Though I didn’t have much time as RL was getting in the way (and so was Sol rising again). Got back in, expecting one of those two annoying crocks to be trying to pull me into the ocean, but I had no mobs around me.
As Sol rose, fog started to form (and wouldn’t stop). Tried to make my way back to the town to get to the guard tower (incase if it gets too thick and fog spiders start to spawn). Managed to outrun the first crock, but the second one scared the crap out of me by attacking without warning. Managed to get away, though.
When I made it to the town, I noticed the fog thinning out. Thank goodness. Trolls are bad enough.. but not being able to see the next tile infront of me (where all I see is gray) is worse.
Continued southbound in hopes to see more cool stuff (and make it to the SW corner of the server). Made it across the bridge, of the canal that B2 went through to get to the Impalong). Rest of the journey was pretty safe, as I made it around one town and to the end of the road (of a large man-made flatraised section). Not to mention, it was in a serious need of repair. So many missing fences, and I was able to go around them and onto this huge flat land. Three people were in my local here. Introduced myself and they were kind of friendly. Though one of them said about farming here if I need to, and I said how I was just exploring/hunting. Then the guy left and so did I.
Tried to head back up north to get to the true SW edge of the server (as there’s a mountain in my way). On the map, there’s a road tunnel connecting to an area that B2 told me would be a good place for another Impalong. It’s this weird-sounding town name. Think it’s in German or some other language.

Anyway, I was heading for said road tunnel. Troll infront of me. Got the guards on it and now it’s dead. Got to the tunnel and went through. Was a black bear and I was able to outrun it. As I approach the end of the tunnel, I saw a familiar name in my local. Someone I kind of wish I didn’t; ‘Whykillme’. He lives here.
And the reason why I wish I didn’t, is that one side of my brain started clicking. I felt I “had him right where I wanted him” to make someone ‘pay’ for the death of my dragon.
So I asked him a ‘personal’ question, of where he would had kept her if I never did. He seemed to refuse to answer my question, then goes AFK(without saying anything) as I continue to ask him questions. I even told him how I’ve been looking for the whereabouts of the other two dragons. Though at this time I didn’t even know he was AFK– I assumed he was attempting to ignore me (in order for me to just give up).
Yet I finally was about ready to admit defeat and leave the area, then he said he “was afk :P”, and told me how I would never know if there was a dragon there with any standard deed I might see. In other words, it would had never been obvious (like I saw with Erik the Red being publicly displayed).

Then he tells me “the red dragon will have a slaying soon”. Curious, I asked how does he know this, and he said it’s because he’s organizing a fight to kill it. In order words…he knows where the red dragon is being kept. He also has the black dragon hatchling under lock and key.
He said “a random player” contacted him after penning the red dragon. Asked him if I’m to assume the name of this person and the location of the dragon is to remain unknown, and it was an obvious ‘yes’. Now I could’ve been a total dick and informed everyone that this guy has the two remaining dragons on Indy, but without knowing the locations of them, it would be pointless. Plus..I’m not a dick. There was a reason Garit never told me that this guy has the dragons.

And then I said something rather stupid, asking him if he’s such a fan of dragons(as what people were telling him in Global Kchat one day), then how come he doesn’t have ‘dragon’ in his name. Says how “my name is older than yours”…I find that hard to believe (especially if he even knows me from way back), but it’s also possible that he could’ve played in JK-H. He even asked me how old I was. Fantastic… probably thinks I’m some kind of 10 year old (well, that’s the age of my IQ anyway).
Asked him two other questions. First one being of why does he enjoy slaying them if he likes dragons so much. He gave another obvious answer of “gives more fun in the game :)” ..Ohh *facepalm* & myself
The second, non-dragon question I had for him, is if he owned this strange-named village. Says he co-owns it with two other people. And with that (and looking like a complete retard infront of him), I left by saying “I won’t take too much more of your time” and “I have more places to explore.”

Oy. That was not fun. But it didn’t end there. I sent him a PM, asking if the red dragon was a male or a female. He claims “all dragons are male”. I countered by saying “The one I had was a female”, and he counter-claims by saying “it wasn’t a dragon, it was a hatchling”. Well excuuuuuuse ME for not knowing my shit.
But this is what I know now (from him);
1. Thinking I had to have a deed similar to how Erik the Red was displayed, there was no need. I did need a deed, but it just needed to look like any typical deed. And from where she was, was rather impossible (however it would had also made people not think there was a dragon in there). So she was fine where she was, which proves even more that Cybaru and Jax were both lying to me.
2. Dragon hatchlings are female and lay eggs, and dragons are male(according to him).. which is so messed up. But that’s also to assume that hatchlings are like chickens and can lay eggs without needing a male. And I believe Renny told me that the reason they keep the males is for their scales(that wasn’t supposed to rhyme).

So with the red dragon to be slain ‘soon’ (should had asked when), it seems the poor thing ‘outlived its usefulness’. Then again, it’s just a NPC who has no real feelings(just like any other mob in this game), with its only thought being “kill player”. It’s sad that NPCs can’t feel emotions like we can (even real animals). And the reason why this is only happening to me, is this came from WoW and games before it. My brain is having trouble trying to understand that not all games have scripted NPC emotions (where they feel.. real to me).
All Wurm is, is just one big grindy (but also rewarding) mess and that’s it. The only real NPC interaction is through hunting them like the single-thought mobs they are. Even real life animals have emotions, and the dev team couldn’t do it (except “this guy is bad, you must kill it, but these guys are nice, but you can kill them if you wish. They won’t talk to you.”

So yes, that’s why I’ve been acting. It’s not because something in my mind snapped and I’ve gone full-on mental, it’s…I expected more. I see a dragon near me, I expected it to feel what I was trying to do, instead of trying to eat me just like any other mob in the game.
And in my opinion, they should make it just not possible to pen a dragon(or a hatchling). Mine door or whatever, it should find a way out. That way these trappers would be forced to have them killed instead of having a chance to harvest them for eggs and scales (like cattle), and then kill them later on. But that would make people bitch and whine and cause the price of scales to go through the roof.
Then…come up with another kind of armor that you can only get when you kill a dragon, which would make it pointless to trap them!

I… *sigh* I’m just going to stop and continue with this, as I do have more to say. I’m sorry. Having owned a dragon in this game has really changed my perspective on the Wurm community.
Moving on. After I got done with that conversation, I felt it was time to return home by heading back up North(seeing there was roads ahead of me going all the way up to roads I remember of Oceanside Retreat). Having explored all that I could, returning home was the only option I had left.

Went back to the bridge, and there’s now a hellhound stuck on it. So mobs will actually get stuck if they spawn on a bridge (as I found out during the Impalong).
Decided to take advantage and tried to kill this spawn from Jackal. Was forced to run off as I got a really, really nasty wound (29.97.. nearly a ‘Bad’) I was forced to use one of the healing covers that B2 ‘borrowed’ from the Impalong in order to get it healing. Went back and killed the hellhound without any more trouble.
FUCK me! For being able to bite through plate, that hellhound had a can opener on them! Fortunately the wound healed enough for me to go back to normal hunting.
Followed the West Coast Highway towards ‘Tennakill'(as what the sign said). Again, bears, spiders, and wolves falling to me. Got to a guard tower in the middle of the forest. Noticed a family of 4 ‘aged slow wild cat’ around the tower. Decided to wipe them off the face of Wurm by killing them all (I’m so heartless).

At this point of the journey, the West Coast Highway enters a semi-abandoned deed (just the outskirts). I turn North and follow the roads. Suddenly, it’s like hell once again opens up above me. Two trolls, two hellhounds, a wolf, a spider were ALL after me. No guard towers for miles, it’s night, and all I see are roads going up. I said to myself “yep.. I’m dead. Fuck me”. It was the worse case scenario. But what had been even worse was my cable modem’s connection going out. Thankfully it never did.
Yet despite Flashsilver being a 4-speed, she managed to stay ahead of the pissed off conga line of mobs following me. Up and down slopes we went, around the Western side of the server the mobs kept in hot pursuit of me and my horse. Occasionally the fuckers managed to lay the smackdown on my health bar. As I started to close in to Tennakill, half of the mobs had backed off the chase except for a troll and the two hellhounds. Great. The two types of mobs I don’t wish to fight are following me.
Reached a part where it started to go downhill, and it was like Flashsilver also wanted to get the fuck out of there and kicked on it. Managed to outrun the troll, but the two hellhounds were still following us. But eventually we reached a mostly downhill part and the hellhounds backed off, leaving us alone. Holy FUCK!! I dodged death once again! 😀
Made it to Tennakill. Was able to stop and let Flashsilver catch her non-existing breath while I checked my wounds. Shockingly nothing serious! Yet I’m now getting quite low on cotton (had 9.10 kg of the 20.00 kg I took with me, left). All there was left to go now is the Great Western Desert.

It’s still night as I made it to the desert no problem. Was getting close to dinnertime when I saw a public inn nearby. Went into it, as it would be safe haven for me when waiting for Sol to rise (and to eat dinner). Came back as Sol rose over the NW horizon and left the nice inn. Managed to get some sleep as well. After what I just went through, sleep is good…
So now I’m on semi-familiar roads I used to get to this area (in early 2016). I’m to go around the Western Wall and finally to the town where the guy I first met mentioned (“Stone Rose”).
Made it to ‘Bird Hill’ (which is now abandoned). It’s the first time we tried to test the new bank (after I had it enchanted by that nice person from Deliverance) by B2 going there and sending me something. Was able to check out that new canal in the Western Wall. All that was left to do was, as I said, follow the shore back home. Also made it to the southern bay (that’s south of my place). And wow does it look different when on horseback.
Finally I arrived at Stone Rose. The place still exists. Though I started to get lost again, with the roads once again not matching up to what I’m seeing on the map. Also had a hellhound behind me with no guard tower anywhere. Managed to lose it in a forest (while going downhill). Then I finally found the roads on the map, and made it to the center of the town. It’s quite lovely with its 3-wide roads with trees in the middle. Had another troll, a fierce wolf, and a scorp to deal with. The troll was quite a problem, as the guards took forever to “runs to the rescue”, but it got dealt with.

With them all dead, I followed the NW coast. Saw the clay mound ahead of me (and the top of my guard tower). Just inches from home. But I had to go up towards the area where…she died. Thankfully I didn’t have to go all the way and took the ‘road’ (that I personally removed before leaving in order to once again remove the ‘ghosts’), and made it back home…safe and sound.
Took Flashsilver to her pen and hopped off. Feeling exhausted, I went over to my new house and put the backpack of the plate armor back in the coffin. Going by the damage, it really got a work out.

With the ‘Indy Romp’ now done, I’m still going to try to get a new 5-speed horse (to use either as my main horse instead of Flashsilver), or just get her replaced. She saved my life, and this is what I do to her. And it’s not really her fault that she will go from galloping to suddenly going 12.24km/h for no reason.
I need a more reliable horse. Not to mention I should also look into getting the items that Flashsilver had, enchanted with WoA (as that will make the horse even faster from what I’ve read).
Yet, there’s also another feeling. Why bother with that now, when I’m done with my ‘Indy Romp’? I’ve explored all that I can (except for the Central and South East side of the server, due to what I was told and the Rift being there). But one reason is to use it if I’m ever going to start actually hunting (to work on my FS) instead of exploring. But from what I got, my FS went up from.. 15, to 35. That, is impressive. Maybe one day I’ll get it to 50 or so and actually help out with the Rift event. It beats having to sit at a forge all day and grind.

And with that, I shall close this adventure. My next adventure will be to explore every server (by boat and by foot) of the Freedom Isles. When I’ll do it, I haven’t decided on a date yet (as it’ll take much longer, and depends on so many factors(such as if it’s foggy, if I’m able to borrow a 5-speed on that particular server to get around faster, server (and cable modem) reliability, real life getting in the way, how I’m doing on food, and stuff like that)).

Right now, I think I’m kind of done with Wurm (for now). This trip has taken a lot out of me (plus the whole dragon thing), and I deserve to take a break. Perhaps (which I haven’t been doing for the last two months), I might get back into reviewing games to hopefully restore some of my reputation with you guys.
I understand if you can’t stand to bare seeing my words anymore. Don’t really blame you.