What an ordeal I had. But why did I go through it?
\nWell, I see it as a way to be active again since my previous way to be active resulted in failure with “You hit rock” stopping the terraforming of my new road.<\/p>\n
This way, is to get several items to be more active. The main things of why I’m getting these items is this; It first started trying to get the armor. Originally I was just going to sail down to FM and see what I could find. Then I saw a thread on the forum from Willow saying she makes gear, at great prices too. Saw I could get a 70ql set for only 3s and went with it. Thing is, it seemed directly posting this.. order to the thread isn’t the way you do it. Even though it doesn’t say “please PM your orders” in the OP. About an hour from reaching it, I check my PMs and see she’s responded. I notice the time between her PM and the current time… two hours ago. Never got an ingame PM from her. Either she forgot to read that or that’s not the way she does it. So I head back to my boat, wondering if I should wait for Willow to get on. Then I think “They say she’s near FM, so why not just go there and get the set in person?”. So I ask kchat and a guy named Digger tells me she’s directly east of Dragon Fang Mountain. It took awhile to get the directions down pact but I finally sailed there. My destination was a settlement named “Brutalands”, to the left of a mountain. Digger said there would be a canal there.<\/p>\n When I got there, I found no canal. I saw a road slightly going up where Brutalands should be. So I docked and walked on the path. Came up on a small settlement named “Drachenfells”, not on the map. And also didn’t see this “Brutalands” settlement anywhere. So, I ask kchat again, and this time I’m told to go to Prima Casa. So now I have to go back to FM, and head back through the cave canal to get there. Work as in terraforming and moving dirt around. He gives me a spare shovel to help him. So I help him for awhile, hoping that Willow will come on as I’m helping this guy. Seeing how I’ll be staying for awhile, I forgot that my boat is still not moored, so I tell him and run down there to do it. . I try option 1. As I approach the south shore, the wind dies down. Its like it’s telling me to just go home. So I tell her to just mail the set, and turn back around for home. It’s just not worth battling that wind to save 60c in S&H. I have 20s on me. I can afford it.<\/p>\n When I finally got home with a dying south wind, I checked my mail and there the set was. Put my money back in the bank and bought it. Only costed me 10c for S&H (I believe because of shipping in bulk).<\/p>\n So now I have my studded leather armor set. One piece of it is 75ql. Now my plans can continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What an ordeal I had. But why did I go through it? Well, I see it as a way to be active again since my previous way to be active resulted in failure with “You hit rock” stopping the terraforming … Continue reading
\n1. To get some studded leather armor, and dual weld longswords. So it will hopefully lessen the chance I’ll scream like a girl when I see a fucking spider in my mine. Plus it might also be useful for the second thing.
\n2. To use my riding horse, as<\/em> a riding horse! I cannot do it because to get him to log off when I do (to keep him from running off) when I’m away from my settlement requires him to be trained, which I cannot do until I hit 7 in training, which I cannot do that until I get a pig to grind taming on.
\n3. There was a third, but it’s starting to fade away due to the popularity with the armor. It was to pay Spellcast to come down and plug all ways through my mine instead of a direct route to my iron. This would give some .. safety back to my mine. Might still do it.<\/p>\n
\nSo I PMed her anyway, and told her that I would go down to FM and pick it up and to “PM me ingame” when the set is ready, thinking it’ll be done when I get there. The reason for going down there was to avoid the hefty S&H costs. She responded about a half an hour later saying she’s making the set and will let me know when it’s ready.
\nSo I set sail for FM.<\/p>\n
\nSo I’m thinking (and hoping) she’ll show up again tonight while I’m down at FM, and do this by parking at Avalon (the settlement next to Freedom Docks). First thing I notice is they have their own merchants now. Bought five 75ql iron lumps (for imping) and ten rags, and then headed up to FM. At The Howl I notice a shitload of carts lining the road.
\nSo I get to FM. Another reason for coming down is to see if I can find a saddle and horse shoes for my future tamed riding horse. I found a saddle, but there was this 58ql. I asked kchat if it was good enough and they didn’t know.
\nThe wiki isn’t clear about “50ql gives a 10% speed boost” or whatever. I didn’t want to buy it unless I knew, and decided not to.
\nSaw longswords, and got the answer I need at least 40 ql for both to deal with spiders and scorps in my mine. So now I have a slight solid base and placed my “shopping list” on the forum.<\/p>\n
\nSo I asked Digger again. After a bit of discussion he finds out he had a major DERP, thinking I was looking for Willow trees instead of the person. I even told him I was looking for the person to get my set.
\nStill, I laughed about it for some reason. Would be pointless and stupid to chew his ass off for an honest mistake.<\/p>\n
\nFinally I do. Two people are in my local when I arrive at this.. I think noob town (no settlement), yet the design of it looks like it was done as one. I ask if I’m near Prima Casa, they say yes, then I ask if this is where Willow is. It is, but obviously she’s not on.
\nOne of them who’s named “Noobseverywhere” (I’ve seen him in kchat and Local a few times), asks me if I’m planning to wait for her. I say yes. He asks me if I have anything to do, I say no, and he has me work for him.<\/p>\n
\nAs I’m going down I get another PM, from Paola. He asks if I got the pig I need for taming training, I say no, and he says he has one at the settlement five minutes away from mine (Monkeytown) and giving it free. This is great, but I’m nowhere near home ATM. He said he’ll keep it ’till tomorrow and to let him know before it gets slaughtered. This gives me a chance to go get a rope for it when I get back home.
\nSo I get the boat tied up, and then a thought comes over me. “Just how much is<\/strong> the shipping for the set?” I wonder. I ask kchat and they said it would cost 60c. So, 3s for the set + 60c for shipping is 3s 60c. That’s not that bad! And I begin to wonder why I’m still here waiting for her.
\nThe hours tick by and no Willow, and the guy’s wants of me are increasing, which decreases my desire to help him. I’m forced to lie to get out of this mess. So I tell him that my alt says the Barely back home needs to be harvested, and he can’t do it.
\nHe actually doesn’t call my bluff and I’m able to leave (after giving back the spare shovel).
\nSoon I’m back on the south coast, heading back home while typing this. But I start to get very tired and moor the boat and go to bed while out at sea.<\/p>\n
\nThe next day (today), I find myself off of my boat. So I get back on and resume heading back home. This time the wind has shifted to the south as a gale, giving me a nice tailwind. The sun is going down so I figure I would be back home by nightfall.
\n1\/5 up the west coast, and Willow PMs me, apologizing for not responding yesterday. She says to come back over here to get my set. Seeing with the south wind, that’s not going to be easy.
\nSo now I have two options. Go there, or just fuck it and go home and tell her to just mail the set.<\/p>\n