From the time I finished the previous blog post, my alt finished filling one of the small barrels and put it in my sailboat.
\nI logged DH in, hopped on my sailboat and left it, constantly. The boat was stuck in the sand on my pier and wouldn’t let me pull up the anchor to move it.
\nSo I’m forced to file in a report with a GM, then checked my other boats to see if they’re stuck too. After checking both of my big boats, my sailboat mysteriously moved away from the pier and I got a PM from Bianca. Nice to see she’s still in the game. She’s helped me more with finding my boats than any other GM.<\/p>\n
So I set sail heading south towards New Galway, to see what it looks like now, while my alt continued his cooking.
\nAfter passing the Crystal Canal (and having to outrun a Young fierce bearshark that caught me off guard), I begin to notice something. Both my Food and Water bars are frozen. This is a known bug. A very awesome one though.<\/p>\n
So I finally reached New Galway and get blown away with how much work they’ve put into the village. They’ve turned the side of a mountain into an awesome sight. But something seemed missing as I explored the settlement. No one was on. And the fields they had were all dead.
\nNow Starhero told me once that if he ever decided to quit Wurm, he wouldn’t tell anyone. He would just.. go.
\nThey got new housing now. But it seems like Hero and Koi are the only ones.<\/p>\n
So, it’s time to move on to the next reason I came all the way down here. Time to check out The Howl. So I boarded my boat and headed through the canal.
\nI began to notice an increase in player corpses along my route. Probably unfortunate noobs.<\/p>\n
I arrived at Freedom Market Pier and docked, then went up the road. Again, corpses littering the road. “Nov 22, 2010 7:40:44 AM Howler founded The Howl” A bit up the road leads to another flat part, with a developing non-settlement to the left. Further up the road, I finally made it to the Freedom Market. It hasn’t changed much. It has actually improved. With some new fencing in the inner circle. The West exit of the market with the portals going to the Wild server, is a new road leading up to a… cemetery. According to the map, a “Zombie Massacre” happened on Thanksgiving Day. I thought of heading to Historic Samling and see if I can sell it there before heading back home. Passing by Berrisville, fog started to roll in. . Still, I sailed toward what was Samling. About 1\/4 there I saw a Caravel.. for SALE! “for sale pm Acoustic” is the boat name. I imagine the asking price is somewhere around 50s. I’m going to miss Samling. Even though I haven’t been on long enough to see the settlement in the past, I feel like I’m a part if its history. So I got home with no problems, and no sign of my horses.. sigh, and attempted to sell the sapphire. One person so far is offering 1.01s (1s and 1c) for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the time I finished the previous blog post, my alt finished filling one of the small barrels and put it in my sailboat. I logged DH in, hopped on my sailboat and left it, constantly. The boat was stuck … Continue reading
\nSoon I entered The Howl. Yet I saw… nothing. I continued my way up until I reached a flat part of road, with several trash bins scattered on the sides.
\nThere’s a road to the right, leading up to a token.
\nI couldn’t believe my eyes. This is no starter town! This is a joke!<\/strong>
\nBut, I went up to the token to see who owns it. And when I got close to it I saw this pop up, telling me to go and explore.
\nLooking inside the token reveled the owner of the settlement is a person called Howler. Obviously a GM.
\nThe Area History reveals disturbing news that what kchat told me is true.<\/p>\n
\n“Nov 23, 2010 8:27:01 AM Rolf disbanded Samling”
\n“Nov 24, 2010 6:59:20 AM Whoze founded Historic Samling”
\nNow I was going to sail to Freedom Market on the 22nd. I had no idea none of this was going to happen.<\/p>\n
\nI saw these crazy signs, like one with “L1TTLE4POLAND2xD0” and the other one with “BEST VODKA” on it.
\nThe non-settlement has a name. Shantytown. Looking at the house names from the road makes me think these are refugees from Golden Valley. Does that mean GV is gone?
\nI explored their small town with mostly 1×1-sized wooden houses. I also noticed a guy in my local named Irondragon. Possibly a relative of MD. I never bothered asking though, that would be stupid.<\/p>\n
\nNow with the gem my alt mailed to me, I tried to see if I could sell the damn thing and get some of the money I wasted from fixing my mine entrance back.
\nSadly, the trader there was too drained to give me anything for it. So was the one by the piers.<\/p>\n
\nCoffins everywhere, yet nothing is in them.<\/p>\n
\nI was paying too much attention to my alt who was searching for any sign of my horses, but found none.
\nBefore I knew it I was boating blind and had to moor and wait. Sadly I didn’t have enough time to get out of the bay as I had to go to bed.<\/p>\n
\nThe next day I finally got to the Darkenstone Canal. When I did I noticed a new sign with “CAUTION LANDBRIDGE Drag Boat” on it.
\nI thought “what landbridge?” as I went through the canal. On the north side is another sign with a clearly-visible landbridge just under the water, forcing me to drag my boat across. I was pissed, and wondered who was the smartass that made this.<\/p>\n
\nAnd finally I reach it. The token is gone, and there’s a fenced area with a coffin. I guess it’s what’s left of Samling.
\nThe settlement I mentioned before, Historic Samling, is located around where you go to get your deed.
\nIt’s a small 5×5 settlement. And there seems to be some expansion, causing alot of the parked sailboats to be beached.<\/p>\n
\nI guess because it’s where I came back to Wurm and saw that I was no longer in JK-H anymore.
\nOn top of it, the trader here too was “low on cash”. I was about to go to NOOOOOO!!!.com<\/a> and FFFFFFFFUUUUU–!!!!.com<\/a> when I asked kchat and they suggested I try to sell it on the forum.<\/p>\n