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Advice Battle / “Can I solo any of the other Tall Tales?”
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Yesterday I expected to replay Chapter 4’s A Pirate’s Life solo to get 100% commendation. Instead I completed Chapter 2 (got 100% commendation) and Chapter 3, with a crew I didn’t expect to be a part of: Orion, DrShaw, and CEC Blender.
And wow the things I’ve learned that are throwing most of the things Kovo told
me, overboard. At least going by Orion and Shaw, who claim “Kovo is wrong”. Even Blender told me “it’s Kovo, you should expect that”.
Another thing I was told, is don’t bother raising your cannons as it “shows a sign of weakness”.. where Kovo told me “it shows you don’t want to fight”. So I guess the true way to avoid PvP is simply.. to look intimidating. Yet (to me) that would also tell other players
you’re ‘issuing a challenge’ to come sink you. It could work either way, depending on the minds of other player pirates. Leaving the cannons up or down have both advantages and disadvantages.
Turning off all the lanterns, that’s something they agree with Kovo. But only the top deck. I can safely assume it’s based off of what ship you choose to use. For me, I also close the blinds of the Sloop’s Captain’s Quarters. Makes it somewhat harder to bail out water
yes, but (I’m hoping) it’s an added security to help keep me (mostly) hidden from other players that aren’t fully paying attention when it’s night.
But overall, they tell me to not be scared. But honestly it’s not really that, it’s more of not feeling prepared to handle any situation in this game, and wishing I didn’t have to. When I don’t feel prepared, I don’t feel ‘in control’…. and this causes anxiety and paranoia.
But feeling ‘in control’ also has its disadvantages. Getting bored being the main one. It’s an absolute struggle in my mind. If you don’t have chaos fucking up your perfect plan, you’re going to feel you over-prepared yourself Which, has happened too many times of buying crates from the Merchant Alliance and never really having an absolute need for the resources once I complete my journey.
Yet I can also say “I didn’t need them (thankfully), because I had it under control”. I am starting to change my gameplay a bit to waste less gold on prep work.
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Overall, had fun. Even saw the Chest of Everlasting Sorrow isn’t just used as a tool to sink skeleton ships, but it can be sold for 8k gold. I expected to see more than that for the amount of effort myself and Blender went through bailing the constant water out of the bottom deck (and myself nearly having a heart attack seeing another ship so close to
us one time).
But after Captain Shaw sold the treasure, I even got to see the Pirate Legend area.. that apparently Blender knows quite well of. He kept asking me “what do you think?” All I said was “the place looks cool”. I wasn’t really blown away by it, only by the fact the entrance is in the tavern and the only way to access it is for two people to be in the same crew. But one of them playing a spiritual instrument while the other (who’s a Pirate Legend) plays a normal one to open up a secret door.
And then we got wasted on Grog, because “YO HO a Pirate’s Life for me!!”, and we were barfing on eachother.
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Finally, from a very surprising, very helpful response from the SoT Discord, apparently the other Tall Tales can be solo’d. This means I can get the full Ashen Dragon set for my ship and my equipment.
But I’m sure it won’t be easy, as it won’t be instanced. ..I really need to talk to Orion about how to prepare for a Tall Tale solo (if he even knows how. He may had never solo’d so he might not be able to help me).
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Not sure why I’m even on
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We all left and I was on my own again. Ate dinner and was thinking of going to VRChat as it’s a Friday evening and usually a lot of people would be on. But I was also thinking of playing some more SoT (to check out how you get into the Tall Tales)… but my phobias were stopping me from doing so.
After a long wait of thinking, I finally got into VRChat as I haven’t been on in awhile. Yet I felt “why am I even on?” as there was hardly anyone on and I didn’t feel like joining anyone, except Jero though who was on but I’ll come back to him later. I joined a
few ‘world jam’ worlds, which the theme was ‘get the highest score’. Basically, carnival games you can play with your friends that had ‘speedrun’ sprinkled on it. The first one was a pretty unique world that involved you being in a minecart and grabbing coins, using your own body angle to shift the cart to the left or right to pick up coins on the sides. But you had to worry about dynamite slowing you down.
And I like how they give you an alternative option of using your controller to shift the cart. I was able to get more coins like that.
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Another world was a speedrun with traps, of getting to the end to sit on the throne. My highest score was just below 13 minutes.
After that I felt really, really bored. Both worlds I had them set to Friends+. Only one of my friends showed up, but had to leave right after saying something happened to their headset. Meanwhile I kept sending Jero invites if I could see him. Eventually I gave up and removed him from my ‘Cuddle Buddies’ category. Nice to see he’s pulling the same shit he did when I was his BF. Likely too tired, fell asleep in VR. Not even going to bother to ask him what happened. I’m done trying.
Didn’t he say “I’ll be back in VR before you know it”? Yeah, he did.. to ignore all of my invites. Bah. Whatever.
I checked my friends list again, checking where Klaus was. ..Holy fuck, he’s in the world with the band?! Hell yeah! Wish he told me, but maybe he likely didn’t even know I was on. And wow was I lucky– they haven’t started yet as they were waiting for their cameraman for their Twitch stream. Klaus kept trying to bring me over to them but I stayed in the second seat alone, wanting to be by myself (as ‘further punishment’ for letting MIBIT go).
Enjoyed myself. They played a few songs I remember and was really rocking. A few friends joined, one of them stayed one of them left. Even Blender joined, shy as ever. I had to coax him to come over and he slowly did. Hugged and snuggled him as we listened to the rest of the music. It felt so great with him being there.
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The band even did that song with the lead guitarist sitting down and HoppingMad sitting down. I knew exactly what they were about to do as the music played and she hopped off the stage, singing while walking over to people.
Klaus got this shot of her on my lap, and I was blushing so god damn hard behind the headset while bobbing to the music… while my avatar looked so unimpressed. lol, wow.
It ended of them singing for what felt like two hours, with their largest crowd– 30 people at its highest point. That is awesome. They apologized for not having a show last
Friday, due to issues (that’s all they said). And they also have a Discord server for their band.
After it was over I asked Blender if he wanted to go see Orion. He agreed and we left to do so. Orion was in a world I didn’t think I’d come back to (that I tripped over by complete accident and the creator of the world friended me). I wanted Blender to stay close to
me, knowing how shy he is as we went to go find Orion. However Orion and the owner of the world came over to us.
The owner (Lostwolf527, I’ll call him ‘Lostwolf’ for this post) has known Blender for awhile now. They head off while I stay with Blender for a bit, and ask him if he wants to go see this world. He gets stopped halfway by someone’s paws. Ohh Blender. So I sit up on my bed and let him have mine instead, to keep him focused. Just then Lonewolf shows
up, sees what Blender is doing and says “I’m sorry Blender, but I have to do this” and changes avatars to that of one with a bat. Ohh no, he’s about to be sent to horny jail and it’s my fault.
Orion’s laughing as Blender runs for his life. I laugh a bit.. but I’m noticing he’s not coming back. Me and Orion start to search the entire world for him. I’m really worried he might be mad at me for getting him in trouble, and praying I can get to him before Orion does (as he might make it worse on him by accident).
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Definitely getting closer to Blender
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A half an hour passes. I discover some ‘doors’ can actually be walked through instead of clicked on and use this to my advantage.
I walk in to a pizza place, calling for him. Orion searches too and leaves. I was about ready to make my leave too when I noticed someone’s gold name hiding behind the stoves. I quickly make out who it is and carefully move over to him, thankful to find him first.
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He’s so scared and worried. I do my best to calm him down and assure him I’m not going to leave his side. Someone else shows up, thankful I found Blender. He tries to explain
that Lostwolf does that all the time. I use this to once again explain he did nothing wrong and ask for him to come out. He does, very slowly. I try so hard to use calm, soothing words to help him as I know he needs it.
We bump into Orion, who’s annoyed but relived. I tell him to use calm words and he does. Then I tell him to go get Lostwolf and bring him here to get this over with, and I’ll stay with Blender.
Five minutes later, Orion and Lostwolf shows up. Blender bolts away.. oh no. I should had told him to not run when he sees Lostwolf, but it was never on my mind. We’re all
telling Blender to please stop running from us, and he eventually does stop. Lonewolf talks it over with Blender and all is forgiven. Everything’s good now. I explain what started the situation and apologize to Blender, not thinking him licking my feet means “lewd”. But it’s all good. No big deal.
Stayed with Blender for awhile, and one time Orion left. But Blender wanted to speak to Lonewolf. As we looked, got to a quiet area and I decided to tell him what I meant in SoT when Orion asked me “where’s your sense of adventure?” and I said “it’s back at the outpost”. He even admitted he was a bit scared. Funny how we think alike, almost like we would be a perfect– no, I’m not going there.. not yet.
I saw Orion leaving the world and Blender getting tired. I asked him if he wanted to “have some fun”, go to bed or see Orion. He chose the first two options, wanting to be close to me. And holy fuck does he know how to leave someone satisfied. Wow. Definitely not his first time. It really surprised me. 🙂 That one will definitely be on my mind for a very long time. ..I even got hard after it. That’s rare.
He then wanted to ‘touch himself’ that I helped with, and he too seemed blown away by how quickly he came.
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Finally I decided to open up (a bit). He said “I’m sure you know me a lot more than Wolfdog, E?” I said “yeah”.. but not fully. As in what music he’s into, what food he’s into.
I will say no more as this is likely the same song and dance as I went through with MIBIT and I don’t wanna go through that all over again. If it works out then great, if not
then.. yeah.
Just leave it like that.