Intro
I was very happy to be invited to write for Olthoi Lair. Figured I better give some background to those who don’t know me. I’m Fist de Yuma, 47lv unarmed fighter on the Morningthaw server.
I never thought of myself as a writer. I started writing my adventures for myself and posted them to see if anyone else liked them. Response had been good and I get a lot of comments in game.
I’m outspoken and say what I mean and mean what I say. Please don’t read into it because I never put in a hidden message. I sometimes regret my actions and will he as harder on myself for errors that anyone else would.
I’m dyslexic and have a hard time with proof reading. I do my best and have to read and read my works to find the errors. Still I find stupid error after posting. I apologize in advance, as I know they will be there despite my efforts.
I hope you enjoy the Journal.
The good archer
Those who you have read my journals know that I have a small problem with archers. It is easy to vent the bad stuff here without also venting the good. I’m going to try and repair that oversight.
The first good archer I met was on the beach east of Arwic. I think I was 19lv at the time. He was fighting golems with us. He was friendly, shared loot and if need be, stood toe-to-toe with a golem. After a day of fighting I told him "You sir, are a warrior!" He as was added to my friend’s list and we talk from time to time.
Over time I have met many fine archers. They play well and lamented the cheaters with me. I wish I could name all of them but instead I will tell you the tale of a great person who plays an archer. His name is Hellhawk.
I was in the long ramp coming out of the pit in BDC. I was waiting on a noble spawn when an archer set himself about 3 feet in back of me. Getting tired of what I call leaches, I moved in back of him. He moved back and I moved back again. He said, "I insist." I said, "Unless we come to an arraignment I will not take the damage for no reward." He said, "I always share with a good tank." "That is different", I said, and moved to the forefront. As it turns out I got the looting rights. A bug kept us from getting anything but we built a trust between us.
We paired up after that and he got all the looting rights but always shared with me. He never took advantage of me. In fact, he went overboard in loot sharing, giving me the biggest share.
Being an archer he died in battle against a solder. I was fighting a worker when the solder and a nymph jumped him.
In our final battle was where it started, the noble spawns on the long ramp. This one dropped some great stuff. He ran down the list. "War V wand, Head, gems, magic items". He said he had a vassal who needed the wand, what did I want? I had gotten the last nice item so I said "The war V I would really like for my vassal Sidhartha, but you got the rights, I will take what you decide." He gave me everything but the wand. I was satisfied.
The next day I got a call from HellHawk. His vassal had a War V after all. Did I still want the wand. I made a trip to his meeting hall and picked it up. One fine player. If you see him say "Hi" and give him my regards.
Children in the game
There are of lot of immature people in the game. Many times they are irritating and at times funny. Manta Volt comes to mind. There is an unarmed fighter running around BDC on all orange armor. Pyreal or something like that. First time I met him he was yelling at me not to be in his battles. Told him it is not like that here. After a few comments from him I just tried to stay away from him.
When I was in the meeting hall he was loudly trying to sell off junk for high prices. A few players strung him along, making his actions even worst. I commented to Hellhawk on how he gets on my nerves. He said no one liked him much.
Later I was at BDC, just off the pit. A noble spawns there. Pyreal was there. He asked me "Can I have the noble?" My answer was simple. "No". He stated, "If it targets me, we are going on a run" meaning he will run the noble up the ramp and off the ledge so I don’t get it.
The noble spawns and I get looting right despite a 40lv drainer. I must have got some very good hits in because it fell in less than 10 seconds. Almost did not check if I had the kill. I run up the ramp to do some hunting. When to many peoples are hunting nobles it cuts into the XP. I fight nobles for stuff, solders and workers for XP.
Well Pyreal runs with me. I will say he has worked a lot on his running skills. There is another noble spawn at the jumping pit. He thought I was going there and was trying to beat me. He jumps down and I jump across. I see some orange dots converge on him. I jump down several steps before finding his body. Killed by a solder. Right, he wants to fight a noble and cannot fight a solder.
A little while he shows up to get his body. I said, "Well, you won the race."
Overconfidence
I’m waiting for a noble spawn at the edge of the pit. There is no one in BDC and I’m taking the two nobles in the pit one at a time. There are a few solder spawns that I wisely kill before the noble comes.
Another mid-level player shows up. I’m talking with him and the noble spawns. By talking and not paying attention I had let a solder alone. I’m fighting the noble and it attacked me from the rear. The mid level attacks the solder.
I should have run, turned and taken them from the front. I had taken a Noble and Solder a few days before and felt I did not have to bother. Bam, Bam, Bam, solder is eating me alive. I’m down to 11hp. I keep stocked with stam and heal for just such an occasion. But one little hit from either one and I was dead. Luck was with me and I get the 50-point drink before that hit came. Drank two more before I went back to the noble. I killed it and turned to the solder.
After the battle I was quite shaken. I gave all the loot to the mid-level. He did not really help as I had to kill both of them in the end. But he hung in there and did his best. He knew that if I fell he was dead as well. He could have run away. Either very brave or very stupid. Wish I had taken down the name, I think he will make a fine player.
Archer not a tank
I’m waiting for a noble spawn in on the ramp and an archer show up. I try to set up an agreement on looting. He would have nothing to do with it. “I can tank it.” He said. I check him out, 50+lv. “Well I guess you can”, I said. Shortly after the noble spawns and I guess the archer shot a little to soon. Noble runs by me to him.
It was a lot of fun attacking a noble from the rear. Have not done that in a long time. Hearing the archer grunt and scream had a special joy, as he seemed to be an ass. When done he said he missed 4 shots. I got the loot. He ran off before I could share with him. (I kill them with kindness.)
Wedding
Attended a wedding for Ur IV and Miss Outlaw. I had been disconnected while running to the meeting hall earlier in the day. I had not bothered to relog. When I did I was in the middle of nowhere. I forgot I was running when I was disconnected. At 160 burden I was not moving to well either.
Elder messaged me that the wedding was about to start. I had totally forgot about it. I started my slow-motion run towards Arwic. I finally made the meeting hall and jumped into the portal. Instead of coming out were I should, I was ported into the back of the hall where the wedding was being held. Elder had asked the Sentinel (Ash) to port me in. It was funny when I told them where I was when I was ported me. (In the portal) He said, "Well I saved you a 10 foot walk".
Only a few attending the wedding, the PK wars and bad blood were keeping a lot of the invites away. But it was an elate crowd. Wedding was very moving and "ThePrisoner’ broke out in tears.
A few of the attending were
Elder
Fist de Yuma
The Scout
Passion
Weaksoul
Malick
Slerpy II
ThePrisoner
Terror
Mournblade
(Above list from message by Ur IV)
Body quest and lowlifes
I got a call from AMI asking what my lock pick was. A body was trapped behind a locked door. It is in the 170 range and I had 300k in free points handy. It took a while of running through the swamps to find the place, The Empyrean Foundry. Had to kill a swarm of mosswarts. There was a group of players there. AMI had to log as it was her child that was in trouble.
I tried the lock and no lock had ever resisted my picks before, nada. Weaken lock V, I pored the 300k points into lock pick, nada. Checked the lock difficultly. 800, Humm no way. Someone said you had to have a key.
A player came along and said they had the key but would not open the door unless we agreed to help him with the quest. Kind of low but I agreed to help, despite that fact I was lagging bad and getting booted a lot.
He opened the door and we clear out a few mosswarts. We fought our way down. I was booted a few times but was able to get back and catch up. AMI child’s body was gone but we recovered the body of AMI’s vassal.
We finally made our way down to a place with a bunch of lizard creatures. We found a place with three rooms and a lake of lava over a ledge. I was sure I was not going into the lava so we seemed stuck. Someone asked if they found the dagger but no one had. (Someone was lying.) A portal was created and most of the players left.
We fought a spawn or two but no one admitted to finding the dagger. I was lucky that I was booted between battles and not in one. The person I promised to help left in the portal so I ported out. A little honesty here would have saved me a lot of effort later. I would have my katar now and would have used it that night.
Later I talked with AMI. It seems a group of players asked her child along on the quest without even telling her what it was. After she died they left her. AMI and I will see what we can do to replace the items lost tonight.
Wedding Two
I had an invite to the wedding of Sunrunner and Ciliten (spelling wrong). After that adventure I decided to get to the get to the wedding spot and log there. I was booted three times while finding the place. Wedding was in a Winthura’s Garden.
I logged back in about half and hour before the wedding was to start. Wedding was nice. Not a sentinel this time but used the same script. There was at least 20 ppl there, big crowd. We made a straight line and we all held touches out. They also had a nice twist. They had the cooks create food and drinks and these were placed out for all to eat and drink. Nice touch.
The quest
Sidhartha has been setting up for us to do the Hamud's Pyreal Katar quest. (Bad spelling I know.) I ported to Arwic after the wedding to pick up my vassal The Saint and we jumped into the subway. After we ported to Qalaba’r. Sidhartha asked me to aid a vassal who had died.
She had died outside of the old mine. The fastest way for me was to port to Arwic and run through the Arwic mine to the Old Mine portal. I left The Saint with Sidhartha and ported.
By the time I had got to her she had died twice more trying to recover on her own. Two Ash’s were guarding the bodies when I got there. There was a lot more action than when I last hunted here. I even had to put on an armor item. Easy to think nothing can get though a 260 melee defense.
Sidhartha was learning about getting a quest to start on time. He left without me. The Saint had to leave so he lost out, but got some sleep. I have a good run but have never been very good at running with the map. I kept getting lost in mountains and have to backtrack.
We finally got together at the dungeon entrance. Dungeon was a maze and a lot of shadows. One player had been there before but was lost after a time. I took the lead and just followed one wall until Loc said we were in the right place.
There was a large group of others there as well but it was quick to get a key from an NPC and head out for the next part. We hit an exit portal a short distance away had to run back to Qalaba’r. Well, I cheated and ported to the life-stone and waited at the Hebian-to portal.
After this I followed Sid on a long run. I did not know where we were going on the second part. Next time I’m getting the run down before we leave. After a while of running I found a little about where we were going. Loc had allready gotten there. I checked the map and we were not going where he said we were. I commented on this and Sid said we were going in the wrong direction. We turned around and started to retrace our steps. I ported back to the Life-Stone and ran to the coordinates. Meanwhile Loc had died to a horde of mosswarts.
As I got close I got a feeling I had done this before. Yep we were going to the same place I was at earlier that day. I killed the mosswarts again and Loc got his body. Then we waited a long time as Sid and his vassal were lost in the mountains. They tried to take a short cut.
Loc who had been the only one to do this quest had to leave at this point. We got in and killed the mosswarts guarding the door. We hit a few switches to get the other two doors open. We fought our way down. I had to prompt them a few times as after clearing a room they thought they had got to the end. I knew better.
We finally got to where I was earlier. After clearing the room I found the quest item (dagger) on the floor. Now if the lowlifes that were with me earlier had said something, I would have had my katar when we got the key.
By this time it was very late. Spawn was every 15 minutes so we had another hour before we got everyone a dagger. Now the fun part. I offered to port the non item people to BCD. There they could log out a somewhat safe place and Loc could port out them the next day.
BDC was on their no-way-no-how list so that was rejected. So we spent more time fighting to the exit portal, and then running to the road. Sid is a powerful mage, but has to get level 55 for item. Finally got to bed at 1am. Up at 5:30 and made the coffee a little stronger.
Do I look like a mule?
Got a call from someone. He started an archer and he was perched outside of BDC on a slim ledge, killing the workers. He ran out of arrows and other stuff and needed someone to bring him more. I did not know this at the time. He just asked me if I would bring a few items to his ppl fighting in BDC.
I agreed to do this but thought he was talking about a few mana stones for a fighter or something like that. I was loaded up with his junk and ported to BDC. I then took the exit portal outside. Then fight 4 worker at once. After that jump to his ledge and give him the stuff. If this keeps up I’m going to start rejecting quests until I have all the details.
Another player came out and jumped to the ledge too. This guy and had guts to tell him he was there first. Hell of course he is there first, he never leaves!
I’m not your friend
I got a message from a person with Loc in his name. I thought it was a good friend playing another ppl. He asked me to meet him at the mountain portal. I arrived there and found an archer. He said he was starting this new player and need to get XP for him. I checked him and found he was Requiem. I knew that Loc was not going to put a player in Requiem. I said, “I’m going to help you get XP because?” He said I was going to help him because I was his friend.
Now I was confused. He then said that his main ppl was Lazarst Master. This was the thief who wanted me to drop everything and get matty coats for his vassals. I’m really burnt now. This guy cannot get it. I’m going to have to lay it on the line next time we meet. I’m not your friend, have never been your friend and will never be your friend. You are a thief and a user.
I was not ready to do that then. When I’m hot I try to be nice because my temper can make me say things regret later. I nicely begged off and buffed his weapon. Next time I will be calm and tell him the way it is.
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