{"id":7452,"date":"2017-02-16T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2017-02-17T04:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:53:42","slug":"freedom-isle-server-mega-exploration-trip-exodus-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/02\/16\/freedom-isle-server-mega-exploration-trip-exodus-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Isle server mega-exploration trip \u2013 Exodus (Day 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 8. Finally woke up at a decent time in order to be able to finally manage to get back home and refill my deed’s coffer. On top of that, Shydow has responded to my PM and is asking for B2 to give them their stuff back. Both have been done and I’m back in Exo. While I was home, I also took care of an issue with my farm as grass is starting to take over. Packed the dirt and the grass, and now it won’t be a problem. I also put the 20c I got from killing and butchering\/burying mobs in my bank (and put the four recipes I got from trolls into the coffin). Then I replenished my cotton supply, just incase.
\nAnd a final thing. I won’t be able to get Prem through Paypal (for the time being) as they’re having issues with processing payments. They warn anyone who uses Paypal that their Prem time and\/or silver won’t be able to reach them until they fix the issue… thing is, they don’t know when<\/span><\/em> it’ll be fixed.
\nHopefully it’ll be soon (as in before I run out of money to fund my deed’s upkeep). It’s the only way I can get the “1 month Premium time and 5 Silver coins (ingame)” option.<\/p>\n

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\nSo, Day 8. Time to go..anywhere; go places I didn’t before it’s time to leave for good. Though IMO it feels this server is lacking in a lot of real land (and long straight routes).
\nWatched Sol (and Jackal 25% eclipsing Sol) rise in the NW. Started by sailing back to Serenity, parked and got on the horse. I wanted to check out a road I saw heading up to the mountain here (on the map). Yet there was no road, only mobs (such as a spider that I killed in four hits of aiming for the head).
\nWent back though ‘Studderville’ again, but this time..it wasn’t as<\/em> studdering as before. And the reason, was because my Local was shockingly empty. Odd. Maybe everyone’s at school\/work. Went through the desert, and went West to check out the coast there. Not much was here except for a few shacks, and a few deeds. There was also this marble multi-arch bridge going past a deed called ‘Desert Desires’.. oh my. \ud83d\ude09
\nThis deed looks like it’s mainly to sell livestock (horses\/bulls\/cows\/bison\/etc..).
\nThere were several banners telling guests where to park (I assume their large carts and boats).<\/p>\n

At the end of this limited coastal road, where two roads with high walls between the two. Both of them lead back to the desert. I then headed a bit East, killing crocks on the way (go me!) and getting to a unique deed I saw on Day 2: ‘The Nomads’. What was cool was the Pyramid in the middle of a river. The deed is completely blocked off to visitors, sadly. But I was able to scale the Pyramid. Not a bad view from up here.
\nThen it was time to check out these ‘mini-islands’ to the West of it. While there, I tried to engage a ven anaconda. A spider and a crock wanted to join in, and did my best to lure the two away (greater awareness).
\nThe fight took three minutes. 10 times I attempted to Focus past Level 3 of focusing, and 10 times “You fail to reach a higher degree of focus”. Damn annoying. On the 10th attempt, the snake was dead before I realized I finished it off. Ok, so anacondas are still a pain in the ass. But I’m sure when I get that huge axe(after probably spending a small fortune on it + enchantments), it won’t be as much of a problem.
\nYet when I tried to kill a mature crocodile, I was able to get to Level 4 of Focus (enough to finish it off).
\nOn one of these three mini islands, was a deedless area hidden in a small opening of the hill here. There was a spirit cottage named “I raided ur deed”. The containers had some stuff in them, but nothing really valuable. Was also a Aged crab just chilling here and taking a nap on one of the beds. Well, now it can go to sleep…permanently. \ud83d\ude42
\nKchat was getting a bit more active as I continued on, with someone announcing a slaying soon of a Green Dragon Hatchling. ‘Kawopij’, seemed to be like the Lorax. But instead of speaking for the trees…they were speaking for the dragons. Of course I had to chirp in about this, stating how I had a red hatchling near my deed and stuff. Yet the person seemed to refuse to understand the whole point of “mercy killing”; saying to let them “run free with its friends”, and to let them feast on newbies for it is “natural”. Continued discussing as I entered another deed (and as Sol is going down).
\nYet there’s something I didn’t see before when I was going over the chat logs when typing all of this, of seeing “cept dragons dont give eggs anymore.”..Wait WHAT?! Since when!? If that’s the case, then…mmm, no. I’m not doing that again. Moved on. Over. Done with it. Left the deed and continued following the coast on the right. Terrain got a bit messy, but somehow I was able to work around.
\nGot back close to another spot I had setup camp before. An Aged troll showed itself. With no one else, I wanted to prove to myself that I can indeed kill trolls. The battle went on for nearly four minutes. Started to get messy until I got to Level 4 of Focus, then was getting the upper hand…and the troll dropped to the floor infront of me, dead.
\nI did it. Without anyone else..without even help from tower guards, I killed a troll, all by myself.
\nGuys. I…AM a Dragon Warrior!! \ud83d\ude00 I even hopped off my horse and tried to teabag the troll in its face. Eat my big dragon NUTS, troll!! You got DRAGOWNED! ..Ok, maybe that’s a bit too far. But finally doing the impossible, and this one being an Aged troll (like the same one that killed me twice after I had lost my horse), I deserve this victory. And I did it with very minimal damage to myself.
\nSet up camp near the tower, resting my legs on the troll’s face (and using its body like a bearskin rug).
\nRevenge, is sweet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The rest of the day, after logging back in, it was quite uninteresting. But as I continued to follow the coast, I suddenly saw several “unfinished marble brazier pillar”s (all at 1QL) in a really small inlet. Tried to take them, not knowing that player weight affects horse speed(I thought it was horse weight). When I did, I dropped them off and put a note on the world map to go pick them up later when I was ready to go home in my boat. If they don’t want them, I’ll take them. Even though I have very little marble back home, I could always ask for someone to give me access to their marble mine (either as a fee or for free) and get all the marble I need to make these work.
\nSeeing how I really wasn’t finding all that real interesting on this server (except for a large deforesting project someone did, yet never founded a deed), I decided to turn on the main road\/canal highlight of the community map. It showed me that I was close to a rather cool double-canal (two canals with a lake in the middle, similar to what I saw in Deli). Push button, receive interesting things to visit. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Yet I decided to go another route as I saw a big mountain (with a road that looked like it was going sideways up to the peak). Gotta get up there!
\nWent on this slab road, yet it went back down on the other side. Was a bit disappointed, but I followed it anyway to see if it would lead me to something cool. Off a side road when it went back down close to sea level, I saw a champ black bear. Seeing alive champ mobs (that aren’t penned) is kind of rare to me (compared to Gold 2, when I remembered a champ black bear invading one of my deeds when angry was AFK).
\nThe road was heading to Sandhill; another high-studdering deed. But I went for it. It went at an angle. Really nice.
\nThe trees parted on the right as the road went up again. Damn nice view! As I was coming down, I passed by a 1×1 stone house named “drinky drinky”. Assumed it was some safe house with a fountain inside, but the double door was locked. There was also a bit of a concern as the horse is only going 21-22km\/h instead of 25km\/h. Stopped at some grass tiles and tried to feed it. It ate the grass, and I assumed the problem would go away for a bit. Yet it came back. Tried again, except this time the horse wasn’t hungry..wtf? Guess this is something I’m going to have to deal with.
\nQuestioned if the person that imped my horseshoes, didn’t get them to 70QL. Checked, and most of them were 80+. So that’s not the issue.
\nDid my best to ignore it and continued on. Reached the Sandhill canal and got lots of pictures. Now on horseback, I decided to get some closer pictures of Sandhill itself. Though I didn’t know ‘closer’ meant “come on in! :D” as their main gates were accessible to guests. Niiiice!
\nWas able to get a much closer view of the spire here. Four levels of towers. I really wish I could just drop my horse off and get up there. Yet being in ‘paranoid mode’ I fear leaving the horse on-deed (even when I’m logged in), I would lose the ability to Lead if I stay up there too long. I could had just setup camp outside of the deed, but with me being so slow, it wasn’t really worth it.
\nOverall, really like the castle theme of the deed. Yet surprisingly I didn’t see any dragon hota statues. There was however a gravestone of an aged green dragon. Another thing that caught my eye, was the really nice gravesite of a beloved horse to them. It had a bunch of flower planters, with a rare statue of horse named “Memory of Kadenhard”. Wow. That’s heavy. And such a young horse, too.<\/p>\n

Moving on, were repeated named things of someone named “Ghostface”. I assume the person’s one of the villagers (or maybe even the mayor).
\nLeft the area, and followed a South road that would’ve taken me all the way to Boppingtonville. Not going back to that confusing place again. Though I only used the road to see the interior of a Southeast-going canal, that connects to Sandhill (that I didn’t pass through in my boat). Turned left, going East. Along this road was a ven troll. FUN FUN!! Challenged it. Woo wee did that fight get pretty ugly at one time, but I survived with 70% health left. That’s a far..far cry from 38% left from an Adol troll. Plus, a VEN troll.. the things I’ve been avoiding like grinding Blacksmithing(and shield smithing, and weapon smithing…). Anyway, troll’s dead and I’m not, and that’s<\/strong> what matters here! Didn’t drop a recipe, sadly.
\nGot to see the canal from another angle. Different than how busy it looked on the community map, though. I knew I needed to go further South and East to see more of it, so I backtracked and took the required roads.
\nGetting closer to Boppingtonville (and Bouncy Castle), I turned left. Ended up in a pretty large tree-less area with a single 1×1 named “Fieldworker”. Without the trees, I could clearly see my route and made my way to the coast of the canal.
\nSol is setting when I arrived, and it looked like there was some light mist in the air. I thought it was just my eyes, but there was actually light fog going on. But I felt this fog actually amplified the beauty of the area (along with a rainbow). That gradual mist-like fog to make everything just.. *pop*. Really beautiful.
\nAs I went back up the coast (following the canal’s edge), the fog started to lift as Sol continued to set.
\nReached a section of a sunken road allowing access to an island. Saw a crab that I wanted to fuck up their evening. Went over and started to engage. Ven crock shows up. Alright, pal. You wanna fight me? Let’s do it when I’m not being attacked by multiple attackers, alright? Lured it back to the other side, yet the crock suddenly lost interest in me and tried to swim away. Wow, what? Dude, FIGHT ME, FFS! Do what comes natural to your programming!
\nCrock died, and I’m at full health. DAYUM, son! \ud83d\ude00
\nWent back over to the crab and killed it. Saw another ven crock. I’m now starting to get cocky..not always a good idea. When I engaged, another ven crock showed up. Mmk..NOPE! Plus it’s getting dark and I need to setup camp.<\/p>\n

With no guard towers anywhere, I decided to set up camp in such an ironic spot; a clay beach. Ahh clay, I wish I could defeat you like a troll. But I don’t have the small loan of a million silver to be able to afford the transmutation thingies I need to remove you!
\nSaw two crocks lurking on the clay beach. Went over and killed both of them to secure the area.<\/p>\n

Next day, Sol’s rising yet Sandhill’s lamps are still lit. Since I’m in the area, I decided to check out the deed to the north of Sandhill; ‘Thallspring’. Crossed the double bridge here (with red-colored wooden fences). This one wasn’t that open to guests, but I got to explore what I could. First off was their ship builders area. All it was, was mainly like a harbor (but it didn’t have water). Basically it. That and there was a few BSBs here with ship-building things.
\nThen it went to exploring the deed. It’s pretty nice, and a modest size; interconnected with 2 and 3-tile wide roads. Most of the buildings were pretty small.
\nIt even had something I haven’t seen before on other deeds; a cemetery. Lavender-lined roads with two gravestones in each of them. A few of these were actually named.<\/p>\n

Was then to take my leave and go see the original POI I saw.. that double-canal. Crossed the bridge back to the road I went on to get here, and went back on it. But trying to get to that double-canal was almost not possible, as someone had put a surprise farm in the way of the road. It didn’t make sense to me. The highlighted road clearly said this road -should- be going through, and it just..stops without warning.
\nI turned off the option in the community map, and went back in order to make sure I was even seeing what was on the map.
\nWent all the way back past the deforesting area, and to the south side of the Great Northern Desert. Sure enough, the roads were definitely aligning to what I was seeing. So why in the FUCK is the road stopping short back there?!
\nWent back, closely following the map all the way to where the road suddenly stops. Then I thought of going around said farm and find the road is actually going around it (instead of through). Had to go through a few unlocked gates to get to it. Well, someone should definitely update this section of the map. Plus, the road on the map going parallel to the canal, was missing.
\nYet there was another road on the other side of the canal, doing the other thing. Went with it instead. Saw a dog and tried to Groom it. An ‘Old lurking crocodile’ showed up and stopped me from grooming. Told it “I’ll be with you in a minute to kill you.” Yet the crock didn’t wanna wait and nearly took my hand off, stopping my grooming action. How rude of you, sir! You wanna be first? Fine, so be it! Eesh!
\nThe interrupting (nearly albino-colored) scaly ass is now dead, and I groomed the dog no problem. Damn troll crocks! lol<\/p>\n

Followed the canal. The road I mentioned before showed up on the other side of the canal. It was there, but some of it was missing due to misuse. Made it to the bottom of the road (and the end of the first canal. The lake here was interesting; sand on the left side, and forest on the right. Took the right way. Crossing the bridge here, a bearshark swimming near the bridge aggroed and followed me across. The bear now regrets doing so as I was watching the damage I was putting on the bear’s face. It died from a severe head wound. I even jabbed it in its right eye. Rekt.
\nNow going parallel of the other canal, approached a rope bridge crossing the canal, named “The Hangman’s Other Hobby”. Morbid and<\/em> awesome at the same time! Went across this bridge as I saw a lone horse statue standing in the middle of nowhere. I examined the strangely-placed statue (never seen one of these (being used as decoration) with no deed anywhere nearby).<\/p>\n

There was a 3rd (and the last for the night) POI to the far East of here. Had to go back up the canal to get to it. Killed a few wolves, with one having a wound so bad you can clearly see inside of it…ffffuck I hate to be that mob. I almost feel bad about this. Yet I got to remember all the times they harassed me to no end. Also, they’re just code and have no emotions (and don’t feel pain). But GOD. Ouch.
\nI may be pissed off at mobs, but there’s no need to jab my sword into their brain! They’re only there because they have no choice but to kill me.
\nThough, the huge spiders with their big legs and many eyes? They can die in hell. \ud83d\ude1b
\nDue to all of that time I need to backtrack and make 100% sure I was going the RIGHT way before, Sol is now going down and I’m nowhere near my POI.
\nNow on the road to it, a Young troll flags me down with its club, wanting directions to beat my ass with said club. I told the troll (with my sword) to not speak with a decapitated floating dragon head!
\nI now have a new sound of Wurm I absolutely love…the sound of a troll dying to my blade. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Ran for the POI in post-haste. The POI was ‘Bear Claw Mountain’. At first I thought I was going to get a pretty good view when I got there.. but I got so..so much more. Due to roads left over from the previous owners of the mountain, I scaled all the way to the peak. 360* view of the server.
\nOh. my. god. If this doesn’t make up for not being able to go up Gryphon Peak, nothing will. Decided to temp claim this island, as my own. I wanted to call it “Dragon Paradise” (so original, huh?). I wanted to literally roar off the peak, to make all the mobs of the server shit themselves (in one way or another). No mobs up here, so I set up camp.
\nWhat a great way to finish off the day (and completely<\/span> make up for Day 5). Killed three trolls to boot. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\nAs a side-note to finish off this day, Tulsi came on earlier in the day (after I had asked him in Skype, of when he was going to come in order to keep his account active). Had to get B2 on in order for him to re-learn how to grind Carp. He still wants to try to build that house. Well, he’ll still have a chance..but maybe on another server.<\/p>\n

I am unofficially(until something else comes up) marking Day 9 to be my final day here in Exodus. And where I’m going, is Wolf Island (on the SW side of the server). It will finally end by visiting the fabled Wolf Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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