Yay. At last I got the last mastery point for the first of my special monk
skills, the Falcon talon strike (read: falcon punch).

Now I can start thinking about reincing into some other guild. Well, not now,
maybe the next time.

Off to collect some stones.

The valar enchanter gave me a quest to 'find frex frox' this time. No
information at all available on the bat.org quest page, and no info in the
quest rooms in-game, either. The only info I found with the search term "find
frex frox" (with the quotes) on Google, which pointed me towards the
http://tnsp.org/maps/quests.php page. Looks like this is an area quest in
Oystria. Maybe I'll go there some other time...

Now I've got to go mow the lawn.

--turms

Yeah. Finally got the Troglodyte rod quest solved. Couldn't have done it
without Deitrus' help, though. The healing I got was essential :) Many thanks.

-- turms

P.S. The quest isn't really worth it. only 2 training points and 2,7k gold as
a reward. :(

Oh right...  I had a read through my blog... The second entry mentions me
trying to solve area quests: Mirror Mine, Trogolodyte Rod, and Alchemist's
Dilemma. The Dilemma I've solved some time ago, but the others I have not. But
I'm hoping to maybe being able to solve the Troglodyte quest the next time I
play (maybe even tomorrow!) soon after reboot. Today I found the renegade
troglodyte party for the first time and was even able to beat them. 5 or 6
5-8k aggressive monsters in one room took quite a while to kill, though.

But I will get them!

(b)Logging off now. Bye!

The dice for the ppl who sacrificed themselves for Huppu's Asmodeus party was
tonight. I diced a 'short dull black cloak', which has +3% all resist. It
should be very nice when I reincarnate to some other fighter type reinc, but
for this reinc I will keep using my +'iron palm' cloak.

Other than that, nothing much has happened since the last entry.
Total worth is about 22M. I hate that I have forgotten to mark my worth in
these entries for a long time now. :(

See you next time.

Hmph. It seems this nullium bracelet makes me need better infravision. Running
in the outworld is a pain now.. I'll have to look for some solutions for this.
But for now.. over and out.

Time: 2 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds
Experience gained: 262610
Experience lost: 203075

Still 400k more exp needed for a level. PUUUUUUUH

Made some exp with my new friend Emex. A bit more than 700k exp in summary.
Nice one.

Ok. Long time no play. Did a few exps this time, about 250k. I guess that's
not much, but I think it's enough for this session. Will see you later again..
Bye

Was thinking of maybe doing the next level quest, but realised I might not
make it even if I had a tarmalen to raise and heal me when I fall. The last
monsie did do away with most of my hit points in a round after all. I'll need
to train some more first - mainly defensives, but I guess I should be able to
deal some damage also, if I want to succeed.

Out to collect stones.

Next up: Arena fighting. It's the lvl quest for 45. I'm determined to get it
done, even if the mobster for it looks quite big. Only I need to find a key to
get to it, I think. Or defeat a syntax, maybe (are there more verbs for levers
besides push, pull, move, force?). I hope it's not the syntax, but I'm afraid
it might be.

Oh well. I guess I'll have to do some skill training before getting to the
fight anyway... But now it's time for me to go.

--
Turms

At last solved the Holy Grail quest. It was quite easy now that I had help
from Cromel and Nosunrise. Only hadn't packed low coins for the maze, so that
was a bit of running blind, although Nosunrise was able to point us in the
right direction after a bit. Also didn't remember the last question the bridge
guard posed - I only could remember that it wasn't the same as in the movie
(favourite colour) - but a bit of waiting and he asked the question. The rest
was easy, only had to run around a bit in the end looking for Arthur. I think
I had missed the part at first (at Sir Bedimere), and thought I'd have to wait
for him to reset. Another run about the area got me to him, though.

Lots of thanks to Cromel and Nosunrise for this.

--
Turms

Tried the Holy Grail again. Died in the hands of the Black Beast. I guess it
might be a bit too much for me to solo. How can I then expect to beat the
Frenchmen??
Maybe I can bring some help the next time.

Over and out.

...and ended. Could not be solved this time around. Monsters and items
missing.

The Quest for the most Holy Grail...
...begins.

Uh oh. Long time no see, and even this time writing this blog entry is the
only thing I will do. I haven't even moved one room. Maybe I'll see you next
time, if I'm not as busy IRL, as I am now.

Uh oh. Long time no see. Been away working early hours and too tired to play
(at least anything else besides Fallout3). Going to get tired of Fallout in
about a week, I guess, maybe earlier. So Maybe I'll see you again next
weekend. Who knows. Logging off now... Bye...



Why are you still reading this? I already logged off. Didn't you notice? Go
away and leave me in peace for the time being. Please. Thank you.

Now, stop reading already. It's annoying. Can't take this anymore.
Disconnecting the internets in 5, 4, 3, 1, 3, 7, 0, now.

Ok, this was a nice gaming session. 117 new rooms explored (although I got 151
in an explore party yesterday), 815k exp gained (115k lost, though). And I
passed 10 million exp worth.

I've been dumping exp into skills for quite a while now, at least two million+
at this level I imagine, because I want to solve the Holy Grail quest. I might
be able to do that tomorrow after reboot, since I found out some stuff today
about it. That my info, the one from a certain library, is outdated and
doesn't work. Could be that I need to gather a party for slaying some monsters
for the quest. Hopefully I can do that if needed. Will see about it tomorrow.

Still haven't figured out the Alchemist's dilemma, or the mirror mine, not
that I have spent much time on either of them. Mainly I've just killed the
mobs at the Hobbit Farmhouse, not much else. Usually they're quite good exp.

Ok, see you next time.
Turms

Level 41 requires 207739 experience points.
You have 16600 experience points.
You still need 191139 experience points.
EET time is Tue Aug 11 17:34:04 2009

Will try and advance today.

Whee.

Ggr just held a guessing competition. The question was how many clicks the
Google ads on his Bat map site has got in two years. The price was anipium
worth one million gold if you hit +/-1, otherwise the closest guess wins 500k
in anipium. My guess of 105 clicks was the closest one, the correct number
being 126.

Many thanks to Ggr. :)

Nice. I had 225k exp on when I logged on. I made them the last time I played,
but I think I was at some area I had not visited previously and it was a good
one. No idea where that was, though. I wish I had blogged.

Alright. I just realised something. I'm not making any money. I need to go
back to hunting for Dr. Livingstone and gather some gold that way. It's been
nice getting more exp, but I think I will need the gold, too. I think you
could see the hunting as an occupation, and the exploring and exping is what
you do on your own time. Well, for me it seems like that. For now.

The ferry arrived at Laenor, getting off.

I got frustrated with not getting very far with the quests on Lucentium,
namely Alchemist's and Mirror Mine. The MM seems really to be an item hunt.
You could probably get quite a lot of the items from shops, but I didn't want
to run so far... Alchemist's.. well, I just couldn't come up with a use for
some items - I enjoyed killing the mobs in the area more than solving the
quest :)

Now I moved my ass to Deso. I think I will set the monk trainer as my startloc
for a while, and look around the continent. But not today.

Note to self: Don't attack anything or use skills while invisible.

Tried exploring the Paladin Stronghold a bit more. For the quest. There seems
to be a paladin inside, named Eggmund, who won't fight the undead that come
stand next to him. Also some sad little imp. Neither of these wanted to answer
my questions about anything. Seems frustrating. Too bad I went and lost the
invisibility before reading through all the room descriptions. Well, maybe
next time.

Off to get some pebbles

Experience gained: 464239
Experience lost: 20020
Experience spent: 459970
Gold difference: +5966.00
New areas explored: 4

So, pretty much exp from killing monsies. And mainly without a party, although
I partied with some merchant for a while, so he could gather materials (flesh,
leather, fur) off the corpses. Was fun.

I also advanced one level in the Monk guild, thus achieving level 20 in the
guild. I can still train Iron palm only up to 13%, so I need quite a lot
levels more. And exp, since this level cost me 170k+ exp. But I think I will
train the defensive skills before advancing, and offensive ones like Enhance
criticals, too! That way I can get some actual benefit of getting a bigger
offensive when I can start to use it - it wouldn't be very nice if I could
still only fight these 5k monsies etc small stuff and half kill them in one go
when the skill hits. More defence = more time to hit with a slower skill. :)

What else? Can't think of much. Gotta go. See you later.

Ok. I took another look at the Alchemist's dilemma today. Or rather, I tried
to, but failed because of an overcast sky. As long as I've known about it
maybe affecting, the sky has been cloudy.

I also tried the Mirror Mine again, went and trained 'hunting' to as high as I
could reasonably get it with not too much exping. It's at 68% now, and hunting
for squirrels (like 30 of them - lost count) took quite a while. Then I think
the 'gnome tinkerer' is the next one to need help. Going to have to go back
there another time.

Now the ferry arrived at Laenor, so I'll have to run along...

Experience gained: 960155
Experience lost: 0
Experience spent: 949989
Gold difference: -277855.00
New areas explored: 212


Got a chest too, a 6-slotter. Might get some smaller ones to accompany it at
some point, or might not. Will see...

Off to hunt for some pebbles.

Ok, this was an action packed session. Or has been so far...

At first I did some minor soloing, mainly testing out if these "ruby claws"
that I got for free from Dreadlord are better than the "silvery amazon gloves"
I had previously. He said they would change my martial-arts-damage into
monster-damage. I don't know if that is the case, since I think I'm still
seeing the same kinds of melee messages. Hmm... Now that I think about it,
maybe the "testing" part was mainly just hoping for better damage and not
paying any attention to the actual effect. Will do this with more care the
next time. If I remember to.

I also bought an appartment in "X", Nosunrise's player city. Now I have more
space in my MUD appartment than I have IRL. I think that must be the most
depressing thing in a while. On the other hand, what can you expect from RL
student appartments? Definitely not space :)
So I'm looking for a chest to store my (extra?) equipment now. I don't feel
like carrying this other pair of gloves (or claws?) around on my person is a
very good idea. But, of course, after getting an apparment, I am a bit
strapped for gold. So I don't think I can go for the chest size I would like
to have.

Also, I'm still looking for a "silvery amazon breastplate", although it looks
to be a bit on the heavy side. Maybe I should just try and go for the 5% more
trained martial arts instead?

Which brings me to the topic of experience points. I got some of those today,
partying with Angu. My total worth went up by almost 25% in this session, from
roughly 4 million to 4.9 million. Angu suggested I should take 5 levels of
Tarmalen, to get access to better healing abilities and thus increased exp
rates. That I did and now I have studied 'cure light wounds' to 100% (with
bonuses). I hope this will get my rates up. At least it will help me survive
better and be less hindrance in parties, since I can do a bit of my own
healing.

Also, I need to solve a few more quests now. Too bad I can't really solve the
ones for levels 35 thru 39 anymore, so I will have to go for the more
difficult ones. I really want those training points, since my strength is
quite a bit lower than my dexterity or constitution. I need to pump the next
five levels' training into strength, I think.

That's all for now. I think I'll go see if there's any Livingstone-hunting to
be done. Need those gold coins - badly.

Oh... Forgot to mention, that the sewers do not give any explore experience. I
wish they did.

Can't get sleep, so I'll write something in here...

I tried exploring the sewers below Arelium tonight, but got lost. I know about
the book in the library, that explains how to do this, but as I didn't know
how complex the maze is, didn't think I would need the advice that much. (I
have once read it though, quite a while before I even knew where the entrance
to the sewers was.) Well, now I know better.

It seems to be impossible to get summoned out of here, even. Too bad. Well, I
think I will just go LD, and be out of here tomorrow. If I decide to play
tomorrow.

As good as the predictability of having a reboot every day at 12:00 EET is, I
would prefer the reboots to last for either a bit longer or a shorter time,
thus making the reboot time "travel". It would be reasonable, as the reboot is
always at a bad time for someone. Making it travel would also mean making it
not happen at a time, that is unsuitable for always the same people.

Well, that's it. See you later.

Whee, at last:

Dr. Livingstone, the famous zoologist and explorer
hp: 458 (544) [+21] sp: 435 (435) [] ep: 231 (265) cash: 4536 [] exp: 7033 []
Livingstone takes the corpse from you.
Livingstone exclaims 'Just what I was looking for. You are showing talent,
 young hunter!'   
Livingstone pays you your reward, 3551 gold coins.
You gain 8 hunt points, your total in this reinc is 255 points.
Congratulations! You have just completed Master hunter!
You receive 42732 gold as a reward for completing the quest.
hp: 458 (544) [] sp: 435 (435) [] ep: 231 (265) cash: 50819 [+46283] exp: 7033
[]

Quite a nice reward for a newbie like myself. This quest is highly
recommended.

--> Off to look for more pebbles.

I've been doing some hunting for Dr. Livingstone. He seems to pay good money
for some corpses, but a lot of the time the beasts he wants to acquire for his
collection are big ones, that I can't even think of killing. And very often at
least one of the beasts on his list of three is a blue whale. I hate
everything aquatic. I hate getting my soft, silky fur wet :(

At the moment I'm waiting for some play to start at Shadowkeep Amphitheatre.
Now it begins, bye.

Ok... What to write? Well, I tried doing party exp with Mongooze, which went
pretty well, if you don't count dying quite a few times on the Chessboard. The
Small Meadow area seemed quite nice.

What else? Well, I advanced in the Architects quest a bit, but had to stop
solving it for a while, because I had other things to do. But at least it's
clearing up piece by piece. I wonder if I need to sit tight in some rooms and
wait for the monsters to talk there, to get some keywords I could ask them
about. Will see about that.

I guess that's it for now. Gotta go gather some more white pebbles.

Tried solving a few quests again - with little luck.

"The lost troglodyte rod" looks as if it might not have been updated after the
world has changed, since the info says something about troglodytes turned
bandits on a nearby road. Well, there are _no_ roads nearby. Also the village
turned out to be only a few rooms, so I didn't spend much time there.

The "Mirror mine" area is nearby there, and I even found a monster to help
there. The problem turned out to be of another type there. Looks like item
hunting, but I don't quite know how far I'm supposed to go hunting them. I
thought at first, that one of the items could be a corpse, but it seems those
spoil in a matter of seconds in your inventory, so I must have been mistaken.

The "Alchemist's dilemma" was the one I had more hopes for, since I knew one
monster in the area that I was going to kill to see if he had anything of
worth in the quest. Well, I died once trying to kill the monster, and when I
finally succeeded... I don't think it was any help. So I will need to go back
to each of these after getting new ideas. And think of something else to solve
in the meantime.

The one good thing about the whole running-around-the-world, was the explore
exp, which amounted to a bit less than 200k. And I managed not to die with
that on. Yay.

Off to gather more of those pebbles...

First note. The time is Sun Jul 05 23:51:47 2009.

I guess I'll paste my finger info here first, to get some kind of a start..
Turms is a level 32 mortal of the Catfolk race.
He was created Fri Jun 26 08:45:04 2009 and he is 3d, 2h, 30min and 54s old.
Well, that's the more important part, anyways. So I'm a Catfolk monk (good
religious) - been that for the whole of the time that I've played this game.
Anything else? Umm.. Well, I did buy my first pieces of EQ just now. Three
pieces of "silvery amazon equipment", which have +martial arts. I was lucky to
buy all three pieces for half the price that someone else asked for a single
piece. Thanks to.. the seller - I don't know if the person minds if I put the
name here, but just in case, I won't.

I had previously got a piece of EQ in a small party of one more experienced
player and 2 newbies (me included), where I was basically the useless third
wheel - the other newbie being Tarmalen and thus not so useless. Thanks to
those people, too.

What will become of this character is still left to be seen. I hope I will
remember to make a note in this log every now and then.

Off to collect white pebbles now...
Turms