{"id":8405,"date":"2017-12-16T04:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2017-12-16T05:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T10:32:55","slug":"a-forced-change-of-plans-of-the-impalongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/12\/16\/a-forced-change-of-plans-of-the-impalongs\/","title":{"rendered":"A forced change of plans of the Impalong(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With four days until the 20th(of when B2 and I visit our own Impalongs, and see who gets their lamps imped first), I have some bad news to share. And&#8230;..it&#8217;s not going to happen. This has nothing to do with my health, or the weather. It has to do.. well, with more fucking assumptions.<br \/>\nYet this assumption, is something you&#8217;re supposed to assume (as there&#8217;s been no drastic changes, until now). Such as the first Impalong in Inde, is to end MUCH earlier than expected (which completely and utterly throws off this plan).<\/p>\n<p>And how I found this out, was a rather &#8230;. I don&#8217;t think I have words, only that it brought back past cringe-worthy memories of a certain thread on the Facepunch forum. Angry and I had just got finished with a long-awaited extension of the eastern road (that goes past the large dead deed on the South side of the lake). I was going to help him get a bridge built (by making half of the materials for it).<br \/>\nRedminer is also on. Suddenly he&#8217;s talking about &#8216;a discussion of gay dragon porn in Kchat&#8217;. &#8230;Either he&#8217;s fucking messing with me in order to get a reaction out of me(angry told him to), or he&#8217;s talking about another Kchat (as local Kchat has no one talking). Either way, I never bothered asking what the FUCK is wrong with their brains (because it would <em>not<\/em> go well for me).<br \/>\nI decide to check Global Kchat and I see no controversial discussions (thank God).<\/p>\n<p>Someone asks a question of when the Impalong starts. I&#8217;m assuming they&#8217;ll be told how it&#8217;s going on right now and it&#8217;ll last through Christmas&#8230; instead, someone else responds and says how the Blackmoor Impalong (the Shrimpalong) ends in two days. This forces me to speak up in a bit of a shock to the system, asking if that means this Sunday, and was told yes.<br \/>\nI ask &#8220;Why is the Shrimpalong ending early? Last year it lasted almost to New Years Eve&#8221;. And,..I&#8217;m getting my ass kicked back and forth by Shrimpiie herself (and a few other members). Talking about how last year&#8217;s lasted way too long, and it isn&#8217;t the same as it was back in 2012(which I was on for, as I was in &#8216;&#8221;fuck this game&#8221; mode&#8217;). Left the conversation, embarrassed(also pissed), saying &#8220;Well fuck.&#8221; in Alliance chat. Angry questioned, and I told him (and all that other drama, hoping he would feel me.. he never did).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say who&#8217;s fault this is. Both parties (myself, and the people who host these events, both have legitimate claims). I feel that this shouldn&#8217;t had been changed (not to mention completely pissed off it ruined my plans). Plus I feel like, a lot of newbies depend on the Impalong. And it gave late-comers like myself a chance to get their stuff imped. Restricting it to end before Christmas, just doesn&#8217;t feel like the Impalong anymore (more like &#8216;Impashort&#8217;).<br \/>\nAnd the hosters would argue about how they do this with volunteering in mind, &#8220;your fault for not checking the forum post, I had stated this months ago if you had read it&#8221;, blah blah blah.<\/p>\n<p>I also felt &#8220;great, I just showed my ass to everyone. Now they&#8217;ll probably blacklist me.. I hate this game. Why is weaponsmithing\/blacksmithing such a fucking grind? This is unfair. Having to pay for imps is no better than paying for a microtransaction (such as the Premium system of this game).&#8221;<br \/>\nWaited several hours, hoping people would just forget that embarrassing thing I did. Finally I decided to ask &#8220;when will the Glasshollow Impalong start?&#8221;, feeling calmed down. One person said they believed it would be the 18th. Thought &#8220;well, that&#8217;s great. Technically I&#8217;ll still be able to go on the 20th, then!&#8221; Shrimpiie says &#8220;I believe it&#8217;s next Friday?&#8221; (vague much?)<br \/>\nChecked my calendar and asked if this meant the 22nd, and was told yes. So there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nHighly disappointing that I couldn&#8217;t do my original plan. But..shit happens. Time to come up with another.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s what I tried to do, while staring at my calendar. Realizing that I&#8217;ve only been to Glasshollow once (when I had gotten my Knarr and B2 sailed back to OR in his new sailboat), I needed to leave at an earlier date and check the layout.<br \/>\nAnd this is what I&#8217;ve worked out..<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n18th-19th, I&#8217;ll head to (and stay in) Glasshollow in order to check out everything we need to figure out (if there&#8217;s a safe logout place, public cart storage area, where we&#8217;ll have to go to drop off items, etc). Gave myself an extra day to do any other checks (direct road\/boat access, market access).<br \/>\n(IF the Impalong somehow is already going, then we&#8217;ll leave on the 20th. But according to Shrimpiie, that&#8217;s not likely)<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n20th, returning home to DTH, then go on the MRT Server to make out my present thing for a few known (to me) members. This would also give me time to play Wurm for awhile.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n21st(night), B2 and I will head to Glasshollow. I&#8217;ve invited Angry and Tulsi to come with me, telling both that I expect them to get back to me by the 20th if they want to go). I still plan to let B2 borrow my old studded armor set, and my good sword\/shield. So he&#8217;ll be able to have some fun (if I&#8217;m bored).<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n22nd-24th, we do our Impalong things (and watch out for the occasional Enki attack).<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n25th, open presents in the MRT Server(and from Wurm Santa), then back to the Impalong.<br \/>\n(Depending where the Santa smoke is on the very large server, of if I&#8217;ll gorge myself at the buffet or not. It would be the first time I get to the buffet on another server)<\/p>\n<p>And the rest of next next week, who knows what happens. Well.. except there&#8217;s supposed to be an &#8216;interesting&#8217; storm setting up on Christmas Eve. Some models say it could be a cold rain(or nothing), others say ice(please God no) or all snow(possible White Christmas in a very long time (in the Ohio Valley)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With four days until the 20th(of when B2 and I visit our own Impalongs, and see who gets their lamps imped first), I have some bad news to share. And&#8230;..it&#8217;s not going to happen. 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