{"id":626,"date":"2008-07-16T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/wurm\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:50:00","slug":"i-got-my-ship-and-all-the-lag-is-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2008\/07\/16\/i-got-my-ship-and-all-the-lag-is-annoying\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I got my ship, and all the lag is annoying&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing was going to stop me from taking my new sailboat to Bearcatraz. Not lag. Not server downtime. Nothing! &#8230;. Except for one thing. Home issues.<br \/>You see, angry had me working making planks half the day yesterday. He wanted to get the houses built before the plans disappear. I didn&#8217;t believe him though &#8217;till later on, mine went poof.<br \/>Before all of this, we had a new homestead guest helping us who I thought was a goon; Schizophrenic. He claimed he knew nothing about the goons, but helped design Apple B&#8217;s to what it looks like now.<br \/>But soon I got the roof on my house and helped angry finish his. He wanted to go with me to Bearcatraz, despite the lag. However that wasn&#8217;t going to happen after we got to NT. I needed to find a mooring anchor to keep my new boat from drifting away to who knows where.<br \/>I went to &#8220;Smallbears Cheapo Tools&#8221; since I was told yesterday they had three anchors left. They did, but&#8230; it was very bad. The highest QL I saw for the money was one for 5.51 QL for 60c. The other two where 1.00 QL for the same price.<br \/>I tried to go all over NT to find a better deal. Only problem, no one else sells them! So I was forced to painfully hand over the 60c for a lame ass QL anchor. And then proceeded to head to Small Bears.<br \/>When I got there, I was told by angry that Imno, the person that&#8217;s going to buy our old houses back at SoTR, was going to come with us. But he went AFK, and angry had to leave to go eat somewhere. So, I got to set sail by myself.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Small Bears, I had to dock on the eastern coast and wait for Sol to rise again. During this, I watched the &#8220;total&#8221; lunar eclipse of Seris and Valeri. It&#8217;s funny how Seris looks almost like the size of Earth&#8217;s moon, compared to the planet-sized Valeri. Soon, Sol rised and I was on my way again, only to come within 5 minutes of Northern Haven. My first stop.<br \/>Docking the boat where they had the Knarr boat, I took a look around. It&#8217;s like they never even left. The token was still there, and the houses where all in tip-top shape. I went up to &#8216;Drago&#8217;s Stronghold&#8217; house. Very awesome. I wonder how long it took to build it.<br \/>Soon it was time to leave. So I boarded my boat and waved bye to NH, and proceeded to the Northern Passage.<br \/>After passing it, dinnertime loomed. So I had to make an emergency stop somewhere. And did at what&#8217;s left of Elysium then logged before telling angry if he wanted to join me, to swim up there.<br \/>After dinner I logged back in and it was night. Walking around the abandoned village, I helped myself to some tools here and there, taking a few saws, a mallet and a hammer, carving knife, file, and a few others, I took them to my boat and placed them in my cargo hold, than set sail in the dark to not be spotted.<br \/>It was still dark while I headed to Tir Tochair, where MattyK used to live. After some searching and using the old map he gave me, I found what was left of it. A flat slab of dirt, with a few land-based hostiles that tried to get me when I tried to explore. I took the boat over to the side and got a good picture of what it looked like&#8230;it&#8217;s like the entire town, vanished in thin air! Or decayed alot over time.<br \/>Sol began to rise as I made my way out of this bay, towards the Northeast Passage, passing the home of some people I met in kchat; Crystal Cove. They somewhat told me how to get to Bearcatraz, and warning me about sharks to the east(which I didn&#8217;t find any).<\/p>\n<p>I soon approached a house on the right with a funny name. &#8220;Restaurant at The Edge of the Universe&#8221;. Curious, I went over and docked the boat and went over. The doors are locked, and it looks <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">nothing<\/span> like a restaurant! Got back on my boat and left the passage, but to find myself lost.<br \/>I saw what looked like an island to my left. When actually it was part of the east coast. After some time and &#8220;meeting with the locals&#8221;(who where a bunch of hostiles) of a pretty weird homestead named &#8216;Klerat&#8217;. What was so weird about this thing, is there is no buildings. No dirt moved&#8230;just, a shitload of felled trees. It&#8217;s like a hurricane went through.<br \/>Eventually, I went the right way and found myself in the chilly northern sea. And 20 minutes later, I found out Bearcatraz was <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">not<\/span> a lie! The long landbridge JUST like the map showed was there, but stuff it didn&#8217;t show, such as writing on the side of the rock face to my left. It looks like it spelled &#8220;NOOS&#8221;, or something. There&#8217;s also lava pools on the rock, and no hostiles for miles, except the three champ wild cats in a pen.<br \/>I docked the boat next to the landbridge and went exploring. First I wanted to see the lava pools close up. But as soon as I left the landbridge, I got this in my Event tab, followed with a 3 second timer; &#8220;You failed to respond in time. Disconnecting.&#8221; and it logged me off with that thing I was D\/Ced, but for no reason.<br \/>Getting back in, it&#8217;s like nothing happened. Sol started to set, so I quickly looked around as rain began to fall. Taking pictures of the lava pools. Then went across the landbridge to Bearcatraz. When I got there, I was expecting a prison theme. But it was nothing like that. Infact, it was&#8230;beautiful. The deed was actually called &#8220;Bearcatraznationalpark&#8221;. Almost all the buildings here where unlocked, allowing me to explore more.<br \/>After submitting the pics I took to angry, I decided it was time to head home and get back to work on my house.<br \/>Heading back to Small Bears was in ways quicker than getting to Bearcatraz. I watched Sol go my way as I approached the two passages and finally into Bear Bay, but got kinda lost, not knowing which way was the bay. But finally I found the way in, passed the twin colossi, and parked my boat in the Small Bears Boat Parking.<br \/>After cleaning out all the stuff out of my boat&#8217;s cargo hold that I &#8220;stole&#8221; from Elysium, I headed home safely. Only for angry to put me back to work. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>I felt like I should&#8217;ve stayed on that boat. :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing was going to stop me from taking my new sailboat to Bearcatraz. Not lag. Not server downtime. Nothing! &#8230;. Except for one thing. Home issues.You see, angry had me working making planks half the day yesterday. 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