Running home and reliving old days.
After last nights' adventure I was life-stoned in the wrong place. I had to run to get to Tou-Tou. After I was close to Hebian-to and saw a Reedshark had killed someone. Having started in Hebain-to I knew the trouble Reedsharks could be.
I ran over to where they spawn but there were a few other players there looting the bodies. I started going straight to town and ran into 5 Reedsharks, two vets, two elders and an adult. I had never seen 5 at once before. I’m not wearing armor but did have a weapon out. (I wear a mage robe 0 AL when traveling or in town)
There were a few players watching me slaughter them. Melee defense is so wonderful. A short ways away was an undead fort. When I was here last I was killed so easy there. I avoided it like the plague back then. I had been building my magic defense and this was a good chance to test it. I also know that if it works I will train it some.
I resisted all but one spell and killed them without a problem. I had come along way since I ran here.
Back to BDC
I thought it was going to be a good night of XP building. Hit BDC and my first hunting spot was full of workers. Lately it has been half empty, as some other fighter had cleared it out before I get there. Picked up a girth 140al off a worker. Workers seldom drop good stuff like that. Had a vassal who just lost a girth.
Hit one treasure spot and got a peerless lock pick and a few high value gems. After that it was all down hill. Man was it crowded! Large groups wherever I turned. Also a lot of bodies. I hit my favored noble spot and no noble.
I did see a body where it spawns. I ran down the ramp and encountered a solder guarding a body. I killed it and went into the pit. There was a large group there with a strong mage with them. Noble spawns and I got about 4 or 5 hits in before the mage killed it.
I was hoping they would stay in the pit and I could take on the other noble. I waited a short time and saw an orange dot appear up the ramp. I had time before the noble was due do I ran up the ramp and killed it. Just to be safe I re-charged my weapon.
I saw a message that a noble killed someone. I ran down and saw the pit gang was at the noble and the mage was looting it. (Darn it was early)
I could see there was nothing for me here and started hunting the upper levels. I hunted to the top and picked another route down. Kept encountering bodies. First ramp I went down had a solder in the wrong place. Also another body where the solder should be. After I killed it I found another body. Did someone put out the word that BDC was an easy place to hunt?
I also was running into a lot of ppl hunting. In every battle someone would run by me trying to get the next kill before I got to it. Felt like I was back in Old Mines. I hunted a little known route that goes to the bottom step, more bodies.
I jumped into the pit and there were three more bodies. I killed a few solders and found more bodies. There was a large group here too, white and red dots all over my screen.
I was lagging bad and decided it was not worth it to hunt here today. I had a screen clear of dots for once and was about to port out. A noble runs out of the hallway at me. Hell how did they let that one get lose? Glad of the opportunity for some loot I started hacking away on it. Had it down about 40% when the mobs started showing up. (To late guys I thought).
Got a few good items including a life V scroll Sidhartha could use. That put me at 104% burden. I had no reason to stay so I ported to Tou-Tou.
I mostly sell swords except for the really good ones and I always sell daggers. I had them all in the sell slots when I remembered Sid was running a Dagger man and his Son had started one. I checked the daggers. Humm these are some nice daggers, put them the “mule these” pack.
Sid and The Saint were on. I told Sid about the Scroll, he could use it. The Saint was learning Summon portal and wanted to be sure on placement. Sid said he had run a mule to Arwic and one of his vassals had done the same. We are hoping to get my Archer light enough to play.
That was good because I found a lot of stuff that needed to be muled. My mules were at 290 and I really needed a place to dump this stuff. Sellable stuff added up to over 40k and I cashed a C note and a few X notes and got a D note.
While I was stocking up in the mage shop a player asked me if I could get him a ride to BDC. I always help others; it is part of my play. After I sell off I step outside and cast a portal for him.
I run to the muling spot and meet Sid’s mule. After I dumping the stuff into Sid’s mule I got a message from the player I had sent to BDC. He wanted to know if I was coming to BDC anytime soon. I had not planned it as I was having lag problems again. I flashed yellow about every 5 minutes.
He asked me to do him a favor. Could I pick up some violet tapers and bring them to him. Man I must have mule written on my back. I carry 30 tapers of each color and 50 of the important components. I stock up to that each time I sell off. Who would go to BCD without stocking up!
I told Sid I had to go get this fool some tapers. He asked me why I did it. I did not have an answer. I cashed two X notes and got him 50 tapers. I ported to BDC and give them to him. He was very grateful and gave me a C note for my trouble. Maybe I should to start a carrier service.
Body Recovery
This weekend I got a call from Badnames, a long time friend. He was in the direlands and needed help getting 5 bodies. I’m not a direlands runner yet so I was going to need some help.
I was lucky, more than lucky. Lucky (1 As soon as I hit Arwic someone was tossing a portal to the fort. I ported into a place I have never seen before. Lucky (2 One of my vassals ported in with me. He is under 20lv and I had not had a chance to run with him a lot. He knew his way around and showed me how to get to the fort.
After that Badnames gave me the coordinates to the Lifestone he was at. Took a little running and running away before I found him. First two bodies were close and I just had to kill a few golems to recover them. Spawn rate was fast and before I knew it Badnames was dead again.
He ran over and recovered that one. We found the next body a few clicks away. It was well guarded. I ran in and killed what I could but was running out of stam and did a little running. I have a fast run and can break sticky. I took damage from things should not be able to hit me during the run. I think that is the main fix they will be working on. After a little rest I finished them off.
That got us two more bodies. Right after looting one body there was an Ash spawn that targeted him. It chased him I chased it. I killed it just after it killed Badnames. I hated to think of his vitae.
The last one was to well guarded with spellers and fighters. I ran from one battle with 11hp and was very lucky to get away. Badnames died again but by now his alliance had gathered enough power to help him. They thanked me and I ported out to help another player.
I got word the next day on what happened. Badnames died a total of 56 times! He got almost everyone in his alliance killed including a 50lv! Somehow they recovered all the bodies. Must have been a hell of a battle.
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