March 2012

A Day At The Deliverance Market #WurmOnline

stargrace March 28, 2012 No Comments

The Deliverance Market was a project a long time coming. Set up by a player named Rudie (I believe) it was a server wide project that everyone could participate in, giving us a central location to sell wares. It’s located just East of Green Dog, on the top of the tundra. These days it’s plagued by a multitude of unicorns, deer, and dogs, but that doesn’t stop an eager customer (or a merchant, looking to set up shop). Since there are so few customers along the West Coast where my deed currently is, I decided to place my merchant at the market, and perhaps do a bit of shopping while I was there.

I was in luck. I picked up a new weapon and a few pieces of gear for Stargrace, and I had my merchant set up without any trouble. I’m not sure if I’ll actually sell anything, but it would be nice to make a few coin. I’ve stocked the merchant with some high quality tools that have been enchanted, and other random odds and ends that I’ve found along my travels. Items that I have no real use for at the moment.

Along my way home, I spotted a greenish unicorn in the distance. Greenish trait animals are much tougher than regular ones, and I longed to add her to my collection. My first attempts at charm were unsuccessful, she beat me to a bloody pulp. I had no desire to have to walk all the way back to the market (and leave my cart there) so I stepped away and healed up, and then in a last attempt I managed to land charm without being interrupted. That’s the down side of the spell, it interrupts very easily. I jumped into my cart and told the bulls to head home, leading a not so pleased greenish unicorn behind me.

Great addition to my crayon box pictured above, no?

My female black bear has been doing pretty well. I’ve stuffed her with more meat than she can possibly eat, about 20 a day. I’m always concerned with pregnant animals because they can starve very easily, especially if they’re meat eaters. I have four more days or so before I can expect a little baby bear wandering her pen. Hopefully it will have a useful trait, I suppose I’d better start praying to the RNG Gods now.

All in all? A very productive day at the market!

Away from It All #WurmOnline

stargrace March 27, 2012 No Comments

I love Deliverance, I really do, but some times I just want to get away from it all. Away from the people I see in local (neighbours, you do not count, I like you all), away from the people I know by name trolling kchat, away from a map that I’m (these days) quite familiar with. Thus, I’ve decided to keep a 3rd deed on independence. At the moment my Vynora priest is parked there, working away on meals. As Moxie says, “if you like it, you should put a deed on it.” That’s exactly what I did. Technically the deed was already mine, I had taken it down a few weeks back, but returned due to the lure of what was left in the houses (completely random, that screen shot above is poor because it’s foggy and I can’t see anything in the fog). This deed is incredibly quiet. To the South is Berlin, which is in various states of decay. A new neighbour moved in West of the deed against the mountain but they’ve been fairly silent. There’s a large fenced in area directly West but I removed the houses that were acting as gates because it’s such a waste of wide open space. If someone wants to move in there, they are welcome to. My own deed is surrounded by amazing stone fences, has areas for horses (of which I currently have none on Independence, and doubt I will) and I planted a gigantic field of crops to work on my farming. There’s a vast forest covering half of the deed, with high reaching pine and cedar trees. I’ve been planting more trees along the other side of the deed to balance the forest out a bit.

My home away from home is quiet because of a number of reasons, some of the biggest reasons are that the server is gigantic, and there’s a long walk involved in reaching it. As Moxie mentions on another blog post, if you’re looking for a place to settle, don’t look for wide open nature places – look for abandoned and deserted deeds. Settling into a location like that and calling it your own is a fantastic way to get started. There are so many half decayed fences and buildings around. Within the rules, of course.

I like the Independence server for a lot of reasons. It gives me a new place to explore, new people to meet. Places to salvage when they’ve broken down. It’s a bit of a pain to lug everything between two servers, but it’s quite easy to bring players between those two servers (depending on the wind) hence my final decision to keep the deed going. Hopefully my Vynora priest will get some good skill gains while I have the character over there, especially channeling and alignment.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!