{"id":7404,"date":"2017-02-11T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:38:43","slug":"freedom-isle-server-mega-exploration-trip-exodus-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/02\/11\/freedom-isle-server-mega-exploration-trip-exodus-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Isle server mega-exploration trip \u2013 Exodus (Day 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color me surprised, people! The person I assume stole my horse and then kept my 2.5s worth of horse gear for herself, responded. And their response was…shocking.
\nSaid the reason my horse was taken, she saw me log out and assumed I had crashed.
\nI actually never thought of this<\/span> being the reason.
\nIn the middle of the night, I set sail back to the deed. I felt a huge sigh of relief, that she didn’t<\/em> leave me for dead.
\nBut I think I can safely say, this 24 spam has been nothing but assumptions. From thinking my horse was stolen, thinking she made off with 2.5s worth of horse gear, and now her assuming that I had suddenly crashed. She actually did care about the horse, thinking someone would take it.
\nYet…why not find a way to contact me? Was it just late for them and all she could do was tell Hoppy? Well, that and she didn’t know my Wurm forum name (as it’s not Dragonhead.. it’s the original name I used when I first played Wurm in 2008(Benie)).<\/p>\n

Arrived back, I also had to ask for another piece of rope to lead the original horse. She eventually arrived with the horse, saying she put it in in an ally’s deed. We talked for a bit, and she told me that she too had learned their lesson “before you”, that someone broke into her deed once and killed 40 of her animals… wow. I didn’t know Lockpicking was even allowed on the Freedom Isles!<\/p>\n

I got three pieces of rope from her. Tried to lead the horse and I couldn’t, but it’s because it was still in the deed. She had to lead the horse into the water to get it out of the deed, and I finally got the Lead option. Bidded her adieu and went back to Serenity. She warned me to be careful, and I said I learned my lesson to always hitch the horse to my tent everytime I need to log out.
\nLast night I asked if it was possible someone could come along and bash the tent to get the horse. I’m now in ‘paranoid mode’ for a good reason. Was told no, as long as the tent is locked (which it is). Thank goodness there’s something that’ll keep the horse safe and close to me.<\/p>\n

So, yay! My 2.5s is mine again! What a RELIEF after that fated evening yesterday. My luck has returned. All there’s left to do is un-equip Shydow’s horse gear, give the second borrowed (but named) horse back to the owners, and then mail Shydow back their horse gear.
\nI went back to the lag town, and asked them to please take the horse as I got mine back. Told them the name after they asked, and Hoppy came out to get it. I thanked them for letting me borrow it for a bit, and they thanked me for returning it.
\nSee, I have morals. I could had left that horse for dead and left without even telling them where it was. But I’m not a monster. I’m an honest floating dragon head.. thing.
\nAnd I’m glad the person that had my 2.5s, was also honest with me.<\/p>\n

I sent Shydow a PM on the Wurm forum last night, asking if I’m able to keep their horse gear (assuming the person wouldn’t give it back to me). Now that she did, I told Shy that as soon as they log in and respond, I’ll find a mailbox and mail back the items. I also took a picture of the gear, for future reference (incase I wanna try to pay for this once I get more silver).
\nYes, what I have is not as fast as going 30km\/h down a flat patch of road, but at least it’s legit.<\/p>\n

I had to put the tent up and hitch the horse next to a guard tower, and log out just to post the good news to you guys.
\nCame back later on as I had more things to do in RL (and dinner to eat). My horse, is still with me (hitched to “DH’s Mobile Deed” as I named it). Unhitched and went on.
\nIt was a cloudy say, which kept Sol from really shining down (making it look like it was evening all day).<\/p>\n

Today, I wanted to check out the tip-top of ‘Mount Tundra’ (which is stone’s throw away from Dragon Point.. that is if you were the Hulk and had super strength).
\nGetting to the ‘mountain’ (which IMO is just one big hill) was pretty easy.
\nAs I continued along the route, I found a magenta-colored sign pointing to the East, saying “- Highroad Market -“. I thought, ehh.. Sol’s up so I might as well. I’m always curious to see what the locals of the server have to sell.
\nWent to this new area, and these two gates. Started looking around for this ‘market’ the sign claimed. But what I found, I’m glad I took this little detour.
\nThere was this 5x4x4 building called ‘Dead Horse Inn”. Loved the entrance. Then I noticed, this place almost looks like my house back home. Infact, I actually wish it was.
\nThe inside looks realistic, and I really like the wrap around second floor connecting to the balcony. I could see my staircase replacing the opening. Thing is, there’s no forge or oven here. However, this is starting to get the ole creative juices flowing again (and a point of having a Workshop and a Kitchen).
\nLike, having a forge for myself and a forge for B2 to cook with. Huh? That would be cool.<\/p>\n

Nice little detour. Definitely worth visiting. I also checked out their merchant(s).. well, there would had been two except one of them left due to the lack of business. Gee, I wonder why as this seems to be a trend on this server.
\nAnyway, needed to get back. Was getting ready to head back through the same gate I arrived, when I saw a troll. I did see a guard tower nearby, so I tried to get the troll to open the gate. Instead, it stops at the gate. Stood there puzzled, then thought “hmm… let’s troll the troll! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! :D”
\nRan out of the gate, trying to get the troll to follow me. A wolf and a bear also engaged. Ran back in, laughed my head off at the troll couldn’t get in. I teased the thing. Yes, this is my way of getting revenge from being killed by one (twice) while I was here.
\nYet I also wondered what was going on. Did they suddenly patch it that trolls can’t open unlocked gates anymore? Checked the gates, and they were both locked (yet allowed the public to enter). Ohh this is precious. What’s the matter, troll? Can’t beat me to death with your club?! You POOR THING!! Though I didn’t dare to come out, try to swing my sword at it and then sneak back into the gate. I tried that once and the troll managed to hit me a lot more.<\/p>\n

Decided to just run out the gate and leave the troll in a cloud of dust. Isn’t that the real point of having a horse with fast WoA anyway? To be able to outrun any mob (instead of engage every mob)? Well, I would if I didn’t also want to stop to take lots of pictures. But mobs, they enjoy photobombing me.
\nIt’s like what IGP said in his latest Subnautica video: “One of the things I wish didn’t happen, is when I’m trying to be sentimental, and talk about how much I love this, someone’s<\/em> gotta interrupt and be a dick<\/strong>!!”
\nTook the first road going up to the peak. Yet I noticed something off and checked the map, and I was right. This wasn’t the main road leading up. Infact it stops short halfway up while going at a diagonal.<\/p>\n

Though I had misjudged the main road up to the peak. Had trolls, wolves, spiders, and bears all around (and the occasional hellhound).
\nI’ve also been Grooming any passive mob I see, though I feel I’m wasting my time on this as it’s taking FOREVER just to get up to 20 AH.<\/p>\n

There’s another thing about this road, and that’s the severe lack of guard towers. I guess, living on Exo, n00b fighters aren’t allowed(or it’s required to have a really fast horse). Now I’m not that level, but I can’t even kill a troll. That burns my ass so much.
\nOn the way to the main road, I found an abandoned named (but saddled) horse on the side of the highway. A troll kept me from being able to fully find out who owned it; had to lure the asshole away. And that thing I said about “required to have a fast horse”? Wow, the equipment on this horse. 100 WoA just on the saddle! Mind blowing.
\nThe troll, being a troll got closer to me and re-gained aggro. I was forced to run away before I could get info on the horseshoes.<\/p>\n

Sol was going down at this time and I needed to find a safe place. But with no guard towers (and with no water in my water skin), I decided to take the main road. I had to fight my way up with a hellhound following me as I went up the road. The fucker wouldn’t go away, so I faced it and now it’s dead. But with no Stamina, I was open to even more pain.
\nNearly reaching the top, an Adol troll started following me. With some Stam left, I decided to engage it. Even with my footing having me at an advantage, the troll kept interrupting my repeated attempts to focus (and my Stam bar was turning red quickly).
\nAt 38% health left, I was forced to continue to run up. And I was greeted by a guard tower. Got the guards on the troll, but a hellhound wanted a piece of me (and so did other mobs). My screen is getting more and more red. Finally the troll died and I got the guards on the hellhound (after I managed to kill the weaker mobs to regain some of my health).
\nWith them all dead, I had to deal with another issue; getting my water bar back up. Usually this is no problem, even for a n00b…but there’s no wells either out here. Why is Exo proving to be so inhospitable?
\nLooking at the map, there was a way down to sea level. Used it. Three trolls awaited me, because why not? Everything else has gone to shit since I came here!
\nGot a much needed drink of water and filled up my skin, then went back up and set up camp. Great view from my campsite.<\/p>\n

Next Solrise, I went around the edge of the hill. Got a bit lost, but thanks to my compass I made it back to roads I remembered. Never leave home without your handy dandy compass, kids! Survival 101.
\nWent down an angled road into a large valley. Looking at the map, I realized I had to go back the way I came to start going around the edges of the server. Made it there with little trouble. Finally the REAL exploration can begin!
\nThis lead me to the Vyrona statue inside a mountain that I mentioned before. Also saw a completely flooded farm. Apparently the crops were fine with it.
\nMoving along the coast, I crossed over the “Mt. Tundra Express” bridge. It’s a North\/South shot to ‘Union Lake’. Never went down this cave canal, but I did explore its other end by boat (following other canals).<\/p>\n

Not really much else as of note, except the mobs were starting to annoy me with the frequency of them. Also, two cave bugs out in the open (both killed by me).
\nI reached the crazy bridge work I saw. But the way the entrance was set up, it felt like I wasn’t supposed to go up them (as they were just decoration).
\nGot to the main pier with several passive mobs (chicken\/cows\/sheep) that I was able to Groom.
\nMade it on the bridge work. Was pretty cool. Felt like I was riding on the tail of a very long Chinese-type dragon. The other end of the bridges lead to an abandoned horse pen area.
\nWent across this two tile tile wide landbridge (quite rare to see these days). Then it went to an abandoned multi-tiered deed, and a area of marshland with a named guard tower (where I would make camp). But first I had to clear out several..waves of mobs. I also met my first turtle of the server…., who nearly kicked my ass. Fuck man, never underestimate turtles. They are empowered by the creepy “I like turtles!” kid. However the turtle met its demise when I called the guards. Though I do<\/em> feel like an ass, as the turtle never engaged first. It was leaving me alone for the most part.
\nAlso had rats, wolves, bears, spiders, anacondas, and several trolls that nearly wiped out all of the guards of the tower. It was the same QL as my tower back home, so the same number of guards.
\nAnd when I thought it was all over and I threw down my tent and hitched the horse, I heard rustling in the marsh and my Combat log started flashing again with a vern anaconda attacking. FUUUUUUUUUU!!!
\nAfter it’s dead with the help of what was left of the guards, I’m yelling “ENOUGH WITH THE MOBS, GAME!!!” And it was like the game actually heard me and I didn’t have any issues when Sol rose again. Thankful for that.<\/p>\n

I also was in a bit of a pickle, as I didn’t know how to get back down (I was on the southern ‘nose’ of the NW side of the server, between two deeds called ‘Udderly Delight’ and ‘Black Keep’ respectively). There was this tree farm, and I needed to go in reverse to get back down. But there was this carved out large area of rock(possibly a canal in construction) keeping me from continuing forward. I also had two trolls (but a nearby guard tower to help out with them), and hellhounds to deal with. It felt like one of those deja vu things.
\nFinally found a public road leading back down to sea level, around Udderly Delight. Passed by another house that looked nearly like mine back home(a 3×3, while mine’s a 4×3). I noticed it too, didn’t have a forge or an oven.
\nPerhaps I’ve been thinking this whole redesigning thing wrong. Twice have I been ‘reminded’ that there’s a reason to have another building (for smelting and cooking). Unfortunately I couldn’t get a really good look inside as the deed is well-secured with gates and fences. Still, it really makes me think. On top of it, the second floor balcony, the person has it wrapping around 1\/4 of the area.
\nAlso, I didn’t know you could have the ‘wooden canopy’ door on the second floor. That is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

Continuing on, I’m now on the West coast. Had to pass through a medium-sized bay with a shallow enough bottom to allow traversal. Of course the horse didn’t enjoy this and kept getting stuck, but with a little wiggle of the controls, got it moving again. As I went on, I heard the sound of a sheep and a wolf fighting. Decided to run over and assist. But by the time I got there, the sheep was dead. So I got revenge on the wolf. It was only trying to eat dinner, though. But it’s a hostile mob and they all must die painfully in dragon flame.
\nAnytime I can piss off the mobs that piss me off, I’m going for it.
\nSo I came back, and found myself in a pretty large farm of corn. Nothing but corn.<\/p>\n

Soon I had another issue, as I had to go a bit inland to continue along the coast. Saw a troll standing next to a tower guard. Yay! Time to piss off another mob! Called the guards and attempted to assist. Another troll came out of nowhere and smacked me with its club.. and then another. So now there’s three trolls. Maybe pissing them off wasn’t such a good idea.
\nAt the end, the last tower guard fell. The troll turned around and looked like it was saying “run” to me. And so I did…
\nFuuuuuck. Been told that people with 70FS even lead trolls to guard towers. But when you got three trolls, the tower guards got overwhelmed as I was too busy dealing with lesser mobs to assist. Swear they’re all working against me. That’s not fun.
\nSick and tired of mobs at this point, I continued on hoping I wasn’t going to see another encounter, and I saw a vern spider in the way that I was forced to deal with. SERIOUSLY?!<\/p>\n

Since then, it was like the game was giving me a break. I got to take lots of pictures in peace and quiet; finally enjoying myself for the first time since I got here. I say it was a good 15 or so minutes. And then…, I had to jinx myself and think “Haven’t seen a mob in awhile.” And suddenly, they were in my way again. ARGH!!<\/p>\n

But before I thought of that, there was another area I had to go a bit inland. Went across a little wooden bridge(was even named “wood bridge”) going over what I assume to be a cave canal. This one quickly lead to an abandoned deed. Going over where all of these slab tiles are, the deed possibly looked pretty good. There was an area with 5 forges. Why you would need that many is beyond me.
\nThere was one structure here, called a “worker shed’. All it was, was a 1×1 of ‘Stone portcullis’ gates. Still, it was a structure that would’ve kept anyone (except the original mayor or a villager) from being able to slap a deed down.
\nLooking through the post-deed’s belongings (they still had some as if the deed disbanded only a few days ago), I could see they were just starting out. Like three iron pickaxes at 34QL or less. Now I could had taken them due to the whole “deed it or lose it” thing, but I’m not heartless. Plus, why bother when I have a CoC enchanted 70QL pick back home?
\nThey also have horses here, fully pinned. Didn’t bother to see who owns it. I’ve already made up my mind about moving here a long time ago (I’m not).<\/p>\n

Continued south, but I would get no further with a deed in my way. Was forced to go further inland. Found an alternate route to get me around the obstacle. Yet to get to it, lead me to another obstacle in the way (in the form of ‘Ancient Gate of Libila’. Passed through it with no issue. On the other side of the gate, I actually saw some hope that Exo was trying to present itself to me with a beautiful road of Linden trees(and Fir behind them), bushes, and hedges on the sides. Really nice. If only all of Exo could be like this, I would reconsider moving here.
\nArrived at the deed blocking my further southward travel. The mayor looks like a full-fledged fan of PvP and PvE with all the flags of different kingdoms. The mayor’s name is ‘Wolfikita’. This name will be known as a ‘polite enemy’ to me on Day 5.
\nTried to get back to the shoreline. Found a fountain. Even though I was good on water at the time, it felt like hope that Exo isn’t so unfriendly.<\/p>\n

I had to go on this flatraised grass wall thing (almost like a floodwall) in order to use a bridge, which lead down to the shore.
\nBack at sea level once again, I continued along the shore. More mobs showed up, but I just ran by them on the horse. Fuck combat. I’m sick of the interruptions!
\nStopped again with a mountain in the way. Guess what I had to do? Yep, had to go back inland to get around it. Nealy to the top, I see a guard tower (and more mobs). *sigh*
\nSol is going down for the final time ’till I typically go to bed, so I try to hurry up and look for a good spot to camp. Sure I could had camped infront of the guard tower, but I still had plenty of light for more exploration.
\nSaw what looked like a deed to the South of me and went for it, and it was another abandoned deed.
\nAccidentally went back down the mountain, but on a new road. This lead to an area where boats would usually be parked. It was pretty small, and had a nice view of Solset. Thought of just using this as a campsite. Tried to throw my tent down, yet kept getting a “You’re not allowed to put your tent there” message. Usually I only see that if I try to put my tent down on the perimeter of a deed, so it wasn’t making any sense as there were no deeds close enough to cause this issue.. but the message persisted, angering me.
\nI tried in another place, and it went down. Seems the game assumed I was trying to drop my tent in the ocean (somehow), but whatever. Great view of the coast from the entrance of the tent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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