My hopes that NESgamepro are being shattered by an unlikely person (Jakerivers), who’s playing the “if they wanna claim a mountain, that’s their business” card.
\nWell buster, explorers should be allowed to go anywhere, and explore everything (that isn’t a private deed). And having an asshole claim two mountains and disallow anyone else from going up there is WRONG!
\n*sigh* But I’ve already been through this. I just wonder what else that is cool on the map, would be blocked off.
\nThe whole reason why I’m even making a big deal, is the peak was techinically going around the coast. And there was a road to get back down the other side. Instead I was forced to go the long way around. But, by doing so did reveal some pretty cool stuff… so it wasn’t that all bad.<\/p>\n
At 9:15pm or so, I’m going to log in for “Part 2” of Day 5. There will be no more rambling…as long as I don’t have this happen again. Though I am<\/em> thankful that the person didn’t completely block off access from going around the island. He could had and been even more of a dick, but he didn’t. . Saw a mountain lion on the side of the road and killed it, and I got a message that “Magranon is pleased.” Okay, so where’s my big fat reward for killing 80 or so mountain lions? Didn’t get any money for doing it. Wurm’s Mission mechanic is still unknown to me. Now on the coast, I followed it North. Stopped at a very small lake infront of me with a wooden bridge connecting the other side to a slightly higher point on the hill next to me. Saw a wolf keeping me from getting a good picture. Started to engage.. Also, it was near a pretty large deed. This leads me to believe this person is friends with the mayor here, allowing them to live this close to their deed. This lead to an even bigger deed as I continued to follow the coast. Continued to go through this pretty large deed until I’m suddenly in a desert (with forest to the right of me). Go home, Wurm biome system. You’re drunk. Stopped at a road going East\/West (with another larger road infront of me). Checked the map and saw I was near Esert. I’m still following the coast, and..I’m near Exert. This wasn’t the way back in Deli with Green Dog. Another interesting thing is the way the directional signs were named around here. I was seeing “‘Deed Name’ (Deed)”, and “Tar (Resource)”. Am I to believe, Exo is younger than Deli (as I never saw this around Green Dog)? Obviously these signs were once for complete newbies not knowing what a ‘deed’ is. Esert still has its rolling hills and a whole lot of..nothing else. This place possibly was a bustling deed back in the day (like Newtown was in Gold 2). Also, I didn’t even realize the Epic portal had two toy-sized horse statues on the ends. Next day, I went on the ‘Royal Flush’ bridge and got some pictures, then went back across the landbridge and continued along the coast. Saw ‘The Red Dragon Hotel’ again. A bit past that hotel (and the Gold Pearl “Market”), was the alternate route that nearly lead to the peak. I expected heavy resistance getting up there, and the game didn’t let me down. Started with one troll. Lead it down to an awaiting guard tower. Went back up..another troll showed up in the EXACT same spot as before. Ok, what the hell? Lead it<\/em> down to the awaiting guard tower. This second one dropped an ‘unfermented rum’ recipe. Woo! Then I get ambushed by an ‘aged hardened black wolf’. Looks like the wolves are pissed off of me slaughtering their entire family, that they created a ‘monster’ in order to finish me off. It was a bit tougher than even a ven wolf, I’ll admit. But I took it down. Ran back, and then..I groomed a Rooster (and then made it give its life essence to me by killing it). That and I had to use cotton on three close to 15 damage wounds. The mobs apparently didn’t think I would have the smarts to do that. They were fatally wrong, as they paid the price. The sounds of spiders dying in horrible (yet delightful) ways could possibly be heard for a good distance. Looking to the Southeast, I could see the fabled ‘Wolf Mountain’ (from all the stories I heard of dragons and other uniques up there). Day 1 of exploring on horseback (when I was waiting in my tent of the rented horse), someone in kchat was mentioning that in two weeks or so, the peak would be opened to the public (as the person is working on an elevator of sorts to get up there of their deed). Personally, a tunnel going up like other passages (or a switchback road) would work (as it works for horses). I started heading in the direction of ‘Sandhill Market'(yet not going to stop there as I have already) as Sol is setting, and made my camp on another flatraised island in the mouth of this large lake. It was a fairly large farm, going by the large square box of walls. Visited ‘Bouncy Castle’ which had a place belonging to “Ipeeinpools”(how in the heck did the GMs allow them to keep that name?) and ‘Boppingtonville'(very large deed, confusing layout). . My hopes that NESgamepro are being shattered by an unlikely person (Jakerivers), who’s playing the “if they wanna claim a mountain, that’s their business” card. Well buster, explorers should be allowed to go anywhere, and explore everything (that isn’t a … Continue reading
\nThere’s still a rule, that if there’s no other way around, you’ll be answering to the GMs.<\/p>\n
\nAnd “Part 2” of Day 5 has begun. I had logged out near the deed that had fucked me over. Expected to see a spider or something coming from the mountain (that I cannot access). The game wanted me to make sure my Prem time was going to expire soon by putting in my face “Your premium time expires this week.”
\nGeezus, Wurm. It’s almost like you’re hurting for money.
\nDuring my.. emotional breakdown yesterday, I did check the map and there is a way around that deed I encountered. It goes inland, but I do see small branching roads leading back to the shoreline. Also, I forgot to mention. I mailed Shydow’s horse gear to B2. He’ll be able to store them safely in my deed until I get a response from them.
\nTook this three-tiled road. Didn’t realize I would be in for a treat with a beautiful road ahead (especially when it went diagonally Southeast). After crossing a bridge, it looked like a one-tile road with trees of all kinds on both sides of the road (with Walnut being the dominant).
\nIt was so scenic. So beautiful. It’s almost like Exo was trying to ‘apologize’ to me. I really loved it. Plus, there was no mobs… that was until I tried to go over to a sheep to Groom it when a spider popped out of the forest, and now it’s dead for being a douche. \ud83d\ude1b
\nThere was a lake to the NE of me, but I didn’t know how to get down to it (nor did I see any roads showing how on the map). Infact, a lot of the branching roads off of this main road, the entrances were missing from months (or possibly years) of misuse.<\/p>\n
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\nContinuing on, I went past several tree farms. This eventually lead to a road that would lead me back to sea level. Passed by an un-deeded structure on the left of the road, called “Freedom and Cheese Church”. Curious, I went in this arched roofed structure. Looked like a typical Wurmian church…except it had a dark secret along the arches; the gravestones(with some nearly decaying away) of many, many dead Champion and Unique mobs (including green and black dragon hatchlings, and a red dragon).
\nThis is..freaky, and highly disturbing. What..are they doing with these gravestones? Why are they aligned like this? Is this some kind of satanic ritual that they’re…wow, this is messed up. I left the disturbing “church”. Was checking the map again and I’m now being attacked by a wolf (who’s hiding from my view). Found the sneaky ass hiding behind a tree.
\nSneaky wolf is sneaky.<\/p>\n
\n“A venerable troll moves in to attack you” shows up in my Event log. NOPE!! Ran around the small lake, trying from another position to get a picture..when a bear tries to photobomb me. So I run back across, to the troll. Stuck between a club and a brown furry ball with a powerful jaw and claws.
\nRemembering of a guard tower nearby, I attempt to lead the troll away using one of the connecting roads (hoping it’ll take me to the main road I was on before). Getting lost, with one (now two) wolves following me, somehow magically biting my ankles when I’m nowhere near them.
\nI managed to outrun all three mobs. Well, still works! When I went back to get the pictures of the small lake, it was mob-free. I also went on this strange wooden bridge. The other end, never really lead anywhere. Of all the times a bridge is needed, IMO it wasn’t here. Maybe it was just someone that really wanted to build a bridge.
\nEhh. Whatever. Moved on, for the 3rd time since arriving on this side of Green Bay, I passed by this small settlement. The name (Koifish), I remember seeing this person logging in yesterday. All it was, was a 3×1 house (and a medium-sized farm of Cotton). There were no named horses (just a single wild ven horse that wasn’t branded), which leads me to believe this person is temp living here. Going by the damage on the walls, I would guess it’s been a few weeks since they moved in.
\nHaving no deed, and that small of a house, the person is a non-prem. But they sure have a lot of animals. I doubt it’s anything like something I might do of setting up a temp base.<\/p>\n
\nPart of this large deed, had a unique cave canal. What was unique is the bottom was shallow enough to allow the horse to traverse through the tunnel. The other end wasn’t though, but there was foot access. A troll saw me and gave chase, but didn’t get far as they don’t know how cave entrances work. \ud83d\ude42
\nSo this detour I did? Let’s say it made me very, very happy after what I’ve been through. A shallow river, with bridges that you can go over and under. Willow, Cherry and Walnut trees on the sides. Whoever made this, well done. This is, BEAUTIFUL!! This…THIS is what I’ve been looking for, Exo!! A reason to explore! \ud83d\ude00
\nThis is why POIs don’t work for me in this game. I didn’t even know this gem existed.
\nAnd it didn’t stop there. Was trying to get back the way I came, went the wrong way, but saw this arch bridge going over the river and a road next to it. I was able to go across this bridge (not fully, as the other end was blocked by a gatehouse).
\nWent back down the bridge, and went under it and followed the river. FUCK ME, I’m crying. So awesome!!
\nMade it back to the coast, and it was like Exo was saying “hope you enjoyed that”. I did.. I definitely did. It refilled my exploration urge! So glad I didn’t give up!<\/p>\n
\nI also saw a mountain right infront of me, named ‘The Oalhadras’. Is that a reference to something? Dunno. Lastly, I was near a deed called ‘Stanford and Son’. Went there first. The place, reminded me back in 2010 of the deed to the SE of me in Indy (of the first few months since I had moved in); lots of missing high walls. In the distance were lots of merchant stalls. Went over to them, and they were all empty (and heavily decayed). This place is going to disband soon.
\nWhat’s strange, is I think this might of been at one time, a very rare “mega-deed” (as there’s also an abandoned deed in the same area (once called ‘Vicus Arboria’). Very fascinating.<\/p>\n
\nFollowed the ‘Esert (Starter Town)’ signs (one on each end, so you won’t get lost). Yet the hilarious irony in this is there was no sign pointing to Esert once I got there. I also got to play with a ven lava spider.<\/p>\n
\nGot bored with the place quite quickly (guess that’s the point). Tried to go up the mountain I saw infront of me before. That bigger road I said, went straight up. Followed it, only for it to stop short. Looked closely, and saw an alternate route on the West side of the mountain. It wouldn’t lead to the peak, but it would be close. With how outdated the mapdump is, I assumed the road has been finished now.
\nContinued along the coast as Sol’s setting. Got to the large flatraised island (there’s just so many references to my past Wurm life of this server on this (‘Part 2’) day. This<\/em> one was the time where I started having the urge to wanting to live the ocean, but it would be flat. Tried to make that island.. and the pain I went through trying to get people to help me.
\nBack to the present, I sweeped for hostiles and killed two bears, securing the island. There’s two guard towers on the mainland incase I need them. Set up camp and logged out.<\/p>\n
\nYour plan is foiled, wolves! Yet the other mobs had another plan up their…whatevers, and it nearly worked in their favor. Sent a hellhound in to keep me busy, while three spiders start Focusing up, making them too strong for me to handle. I was down to 36% health of mobs that should be no problem for me. But hellhounds have that ability to turn the fight into their favor (somehow).<\/p>\n
\nOhh poor spider. Don’t like me ripping off one of your legs and SHOVING IT UP YOUR ASS, DO YOU?! \ud83d\ude00
\n(And you thought that ‘church’ I passed by was scary)
\nEven after having their extremities rammed up their assholes, the mobs weren’t done with me. Not by a long shot. Halfway up this secondary alternate route, I needed to catch my breath incase a mob shows up. Two did; two black bears. Then I was being attacked by a brown bear behind me, and then a wolf joins in the fight..followed by another brown bear. This was IT for them! If they couldn’t piss me off here, they would give up!
\nThey never got me past 70% health when the last bear died. Though I had to ‘turn into my dragon form’ (aka reach the max level of Focus) to #REKT their faces. \ud83d\ude42
\nThey left me alone to continue to go up the mountain side. Reaching the end of the road, I could see the entire North and Southeast coasts from here. This made up for not being able to head up to Gryphon Peak. Heck, this thing was higher than that crap mountain (not by much, but it was still nice)!<\/p>\n
\nHorses don’t use openings or staircases.
\nWent back down the way I came, and continued on. A few more mobs decided to lie to me and tried to attack, but I just ran right past them on the horse. Not really anything to note, except that I had finally left Green Bay. Still not on the main ocean coasts. There’s just so many inland coastal areas on this server.
\nThere was also this one section of this coast road, of this blinded one tile road going into a deep forest. It looked so inviting (and deadly). And I was right as there were two cave bugs lurking in it.<\/p>\n
\nCame back and continued onward. Saw a flooded road on one side of this lake, and passing by a pretty cool canal. Approaching this one deed, I froze in fear as I feel I just saw a ghost, of a person with…such a familiar name, appearing and then disappearing from Local; “Mistvengery”.
\nNo…NO. It CAN’T BE!! Not…Angry!! I tried to calm myself, still feeling scared to death of what I saw. Angry’s main in Wurm, was ‘Misterangry’. This person’s name..it’s such an eerie resemblance. Yet, yet I swear I’ve seen that name before. Maybe in Global Kchat? It couldn’t be angry. Why would he even care about what I’m doing? And HOW, would he even know where I was at that moment (when I’m just now writing about this)?!
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\nGetting over that shock to the system, I continued getting pretty pictures (never seeing that name again). More trolls, and more towers to deal with them later on (and pure beauty that I feel Exo is trying to win my respect..and it’s working), I found myself at the canal to Esert. Damnit! I went too far North! Tried to turn around and get back to where I needed to go. Finally did, and decided to check out the island here. The mobs wanted me to check out their painful ways of dealing with players.
\nOh yeah… I REACHED 70FS HERE (from killing a Wolf)!! WOO HOO!! \ud83d\ude00
\n“You have just received the title ‘Dragon Warrior’!” (actually it was named ‘Mercenary’, but one can dream)<\/p>\n
\nThe 3rd deed was also an issue, as it was blocking access further. Trying to get around every gate locked (except one that put me in the main area of the deed by accident). I felt like a mouse unable to get the cheese as I was caught in a labyrinth, with all ways locked out (except the gate I came through).
\nSol’s setting for the final time this ‘Part 2’ night when I finally escaped the deed. Mobs engaging, trying to get some evening pics (and groom animals). Nope and nope!
\nGuard tower presents itself with a troll behind me. It’s dead. Tried my best to secure the area, leading another troll to the guards.
\nTwo mountain lions fell to my blade of my sweep for mobs, and a wolf hiding in the forest. Set up camp near an old boat dock (close enough to the guard tower).<\/p>\n
\n‘Part 2’, huge<\/strong> comeback from what nearly completely killed off my urge to explore (all over not being able to go up a stupid mountain). Exo awarded me for staying with its beauty, and I thank it. So glad I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"