| So I wake up this morning here in Seattle. The
sun is shining; it is a beautiful day. I get the kids ready for school
and step outside. It is 43 degrees. Yup, May 4th and 43 degrees. Now
this wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't planted a bunch of plants out
last weekend. After all, the temps been hovering around 65 and 70
for most of the last 3 weeks. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now.
Off to school where I'm supposed to be helping out today. "We're having
an assembly so you don't have to come if you don't want to!" Hmmm,
if I don't help, I can play AC ALL DAY LONG! "Nope, I have other things
I can do!" I race home with the knowledge that I will have 5 uninterrupted
hours to play! That's more than I've had total in the last 4 weeks!
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| I log on. Great, Herri is only 25k from level
20. We can do it. And we do. |
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| Herri discovers that lugies are actually fun now
that she's level 19 (I think she was level 12 the last time). She
doesn't even trip over their feet anymore. WOW! Those dance lessons
have really paid off! 20 minutes later, and the limestone golems who
decided to party and the lugies are all littering the field. Hmmm,
9 limies and 5 lugies down. Cool! Wow, good loot too! I go back to
Mayoi and sell stuff. Turn all my money into mana stones. |
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| Next I see Bandie Ravors. Hmm, what are those?
Well they're bandies and I know I can whup a bandie. What's this blue
thing? Scrolling backward in the box: Ravor hits you for 35. OK, that
hurt, but I have like 90hp. How did I die? Ghost wisp incinerates
you with flamebolt. What the is a ghost wisp? |
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| Oh well, at least I remembered to lifestone. (Note:
If you are killing the matties and lugies and whatnot on the N Mayoi
beaches, the E. Nanto lifestone is much closer than the Mayoi beach
one. Barely a two minute run.) Vitae nowadays is just an excuse to
work on my unarmed skill anyways. So I work my way back to my body.
Good thing I got tunnel-stuck so I had the coordinates. Double good
thing that I had my mana-stone death item and some random magic armour
so I don't care that I died. Drudges and shereths seem to melt before
me as I stride to my body. I'm down to 3% vitae when I spot my body
on the screen. |
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** Kilif Zefir hits you with vuln
** Jibrit Zefir hits you with flamebolt
** kilif zefir hits you with shockwave |
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| Suddenly, before I can even press the "Get Me
Out Of Here!" key, I am a less than half health. But I am a fast runner
and I am certain I can outrun these things. I have hated these critters
since my first day on this world. A zefir killed me and stole the
gifts my patron had given me not 1 hour before. I would be back. Zefirs
follow me a long way. I zig and I zag and manage to miss the spells.
The lugie boulder scores a direct hit. Crud. 3hp left. |
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| **Shadow laughs as the smell of dinner arises
from your corpse. |
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| You know, it's a good thing the lifestone is so
close. Once again, I tunnel lagged so I know where body #2 is. I have
to get this body because it has my helm on it. OK, I'll run back and
avoid the zefirs this time to get my bodies. Drudges take longer to
kill now. Blood shereth almost killed me. I manage to avoid all the
zefrits - never did find the shadow - and get items back from both
bodies. |
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| Hmm, I now have 7% vitae. I'll take it easy for
a while. I go off and kill frags and gromnies and lower level bandies.
Yet another trip to Mayoi, but I am now free and clear of vitae. |
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| OK, back to the brats who started this whole mess,
the bandie ravors. I discover that I can kill them, I just have to
be fast. Ok, no problem and lots of xp. Hmmm, 1500 to level 20. Great!
Let's see another |
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** Kilif Zefir hits you with vuln
** Jibrit Zefir hits you with flamebolt
** kilif zefir hits you with shockwave |
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| Crap! Not again. Run, evade, and run and run,
evade, get to level 20! YEAH! no stupid, not into the ravors! Not
into the mosswort shamans either! What shadow?!!?! |
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| Hello lifestone. At this point, I am convinced
that the ghost wisp was really the spirit of Hiya Aokawa and I am
now infected with the dreaded purple tunnel syndrome. |
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| Ok, once more into the breech. Wait a second?
My bow?!? My precious bow? Where is it! I have the stupid mana death
stone, but no bow!?! No helm? Both my other death items are gone?
What is going on here? Oh CRUD! The downside of getting the level
is that I now lose an extra item with each death! Well, I'll have
to get another death items. Still weird that my mana stone didn't
work as the death item. Ok, back again. 5% vitae. |
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| I manage to avoid the zefrits and the bandies
and get my stuff back from my body. I take three steps and |
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** Kilif Zefir hits you with vuln
** Jibrit Zefir hits you with flamebolt
** kilif zefir hits you with shockwave |
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| You have got to be kidding! Running again and
evading again and GHOST WISP TOUCHS YOU FOR 60 POINTS. Zefit nips
you for 3 points. Ghost wisp cast vuln 3 on you. You are now dead.
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| Yup, definitely infected with the dreaded Aokawa
Purple Tunnel Syndrome. |
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| Ok, well, I now have 10% vitae. Let's go try again.
At least I kept the bow this time. |
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| Drudges and Shereths have learned that I walk
this path and there is not a single one to be found. Anywhere. I find
a new spawn spot to take out my wrath. 3 drudges. no loot. Not even
a friggin' mushroom. OK, this game is getting the better of me. Kid
gets home in 45 minutes anyways. I'll just get my body and log. |
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| No wait! I didn't say I'd log! Please Aokawa Purple
Tunnel Syndrome! Please I didn't mean it! Lugie Boulder kills me.
15% Get first body. Get vitae down to 11%. Check friends list since
this is getting very ugly. Good. Rhodry, Druss, Sister C and Rojon
are all on. Send telepathic message to them all: don't get in too
deep; I may need you. I keep sending this message as the the 9th level
twit brings a slew of matties into my quiet resting place. I manage
to avoid but I'm down to 9 hp. Shadow Child sticks it up your privates
for a quick trip to the lifestone. 16% vitae Go back for body. |
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** Kilif Zefir hits you with vuln
** Jibrit Zefir hits you with flamebolt
** kilif zefir hits you with shockwave |
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| I die. 21% Go back for body. |
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** Kilif Zefir hits you with vuln
** Jibrit Zefir hits you with flamebolt
** kilif zefir hits you with shockwave |
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| 24% vitae. |
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/p so Rhodry, um are you by chance still in Mayoi?
/v no, I'm in the direlands with Druss and Sister C have a great time.
/p ok, well is anybody still in Mayoi?
/v no. Why?
/p well, I am stark raving naked at the lifestone. 24% vitae. 3 deaths
in the last 10 minutes.
/v oh. let me get my body and I'll be right there.
/p Thank you. I'm going to go find some fig leaves for myself. |
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| I meet up with Rhodry who very kindly loans me
a robe. I point out the zefrit to him and he very nicely serves them
with a side of raspberry sauce. I reclaim two bodies. I don't know
where the third is. I have a pretty good idea. Rhodry goes off to
search for it and finds it not 3 seconds later. Man is Rhodry amazing!
I take advantage of a nearby bush to re-dress myself and give Rhodry
back his robe |
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| I still hunger for zefrit dinner so I wield my
bow. WHAT! CRUD! My injuries are too severe to allow me to use my
bow! Sigh. I thank Rhodry and he leaves. |
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| I slink my way back to E. Nanto and had a good
stiff drink. |
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| Well, it WAS a good day... |
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