Déjà Vu: Koalak Riders

Funny thing – I’m again in the place I try to avoid as much as possible. I guess, someone from the team have learnt what places are especially unpleasant for me and now we are visiting all of them. But this is just too much! We are at the cemetery!

Yesterday cra announced we were going to hunt koalak riders to craft two pairs of boots and a belt, she refused to hear any arguments against. Well, she even convinced our new recruits to join this tedious adventure…
And here we are, competing with a half dozen of other teams for the mounted bears, being aggressed by all kinds of creatures except the ones we need. Seven hours passed like a second (I wish it was true). Four skins, that’s all we managed to get. ONLY FOUR! And in total we need 23.
Dear Gods, why do you punish me? What did I do wrong?

P.S. Old lady mentioned three or four Pandora Master fabrics. I pray it was just a senile talk.

Do We Really Need Eni?

Minotot was scary the last time we were their. It killed all members of our team with furious cruelty. But it was long, long ago… This time it looked somehow smaller, weaker and even a little bit bashful. It spend all the fight behind the backs of its minions and never had a chance to show its anger and true power.
Once again immobilisation and paralysation of the ability to fight worked great. If the keys and the maze weren’t such a pain we could consider making our visits to Minotot regular. But for now we’ll limit them to weekly visits, the same as for Bworker.
Anyway, during almost all dungeon runs we made recently we had from little to no use for eni’s healing power. And it’s the main argument in her rhetoric. Every time we discuss the team needs she tries to prioritise her plans and equipment alleging that her healing abilities are the key to victory. And now it’s clear that it’s not so true. Of course, they are important and help a lot. But, probably, we could do fine without them if we could increase our damage output. It’s something to think about.
I don’t think we should stop to invite eni with us, but, perhaps, it’d be better to focus on upgrading equipment in order to achieve more brute force. I’m still not so sure about it, need to talk to others.

Moony Luck

Yesterday we planned to go to the Minototor Maze, but it didn’t happen as cra refused to go anywhere until she took care of her dragoturkeys. After I heard this I had no doubts we were not going to visit Minotot. Cra talked to our friends and it was decided we would go to Moon instead of Minotot. No objections were raised.
When cra, eni, and sram were done with the birds we set out to the Moon Island. Moon Beach was peaceful and beautiful as always, lit with bright sunshine, washed by the crystal blue sea. Turtles strolled along the edge of the water accompanied by fussy coconuts and skittish palms.
Our friends – sadida and xelor – were already there. I admire their patience and understanding, they never say a word if we postpone some plans or find ourselves busy with something contradicting all previous agreements. I wish I could be like they. Anyway, they were on the Moon Beach waiting for us. Then someone recalled that our another friend panda hadn’t learnt yet Moon Hammer spell and we decided to take panda with us to Moon (Moon is a monkey, by the way, and it’s the only one creature in the world who can teach one Moon Hammer spell).
It appeared panda never was on the Moon Island and couldn’t use normal transportation services, but it wasn’t a huge problem as cra had helmet and wings required for the Moon Island flight ready. In 10 minutes panda arrived to the island. Bah, another problem! Panda had no turtle shells needed to pay for the passage to the Road to Moon. Unfortunately, collecting shells takes some time and must be done by the person going to visit Monkey Boss. We decided to camp on the beach and sleep a bit while panda got ready for the visit. In the morning all the team was ready to go and we left to the Deep Moon Jungle.
Our trip to the Moon’s lair wasn’t marked with something extraordinary. Instead it was a very fast and pleasant one, we even managed to dodge almost all cannibals’ ambushes. The only thing that’s worth mentioning is the capture of cannibal archmonster.

Moon was waiting for us. It was bored, no one visited its house for a while and it missed the fun. Monkey was so happy we came, that gave us the whole two magic moon fabrics after the fight. Sadi and I was happy, we didn’t expect this monster to be so generous, and we really need these fabrics for our new equipment. It also promised to give us more fabrics when we come again to play.

New Equipment Plans

It started with eni, who was mad she didn’t have yet her belt even it had been promised to her long ago. And all of this when she was almost ready to wear more powerful items. And, of course, she complained how outdated and out of fashion her outfit was.
Well, nothing new, nothing unusual – talks like this happen almost every time our company is going to go somewhere. But this time cra decided to listen to eni. “We are done with mastering professions and don’t have anything urgent and very important planned for the nearest future”, cra said. “And it’ll be a good chance for all of us to shake off the laziness and warm up a bit.”
She got a really good point. We did almost nothing except professions and breeding for a long time. It’ll be nice to remember how to fight. I already feel excited.
But after this decision was made debates continued anew. Everyone needed new equipment and we had to determine our priorities and the order of gathering materials. Who’d be surprised, eni was the loudest. She yelled at us that she was the essential and the most useful member of the team, so her equipment ought to be the top priority. She was right that she was important to us, but as sadida correctly pointed out sram’s need for a new set of weapons and clothing was greater than anyone’s else. Sram, indeed, has no weapon and no battle outfit and feels useless for us (and she is useless, to tell the truth). After several hours of heated argument we finally settled on our priorities. Sram’s equipment will be the first, then eni’s belt, then enu’s new equipment, and in the end some new items for cra and me.
It’s quite interesting that sadida didn’t ask for anything for her, instead of it she reassured everyone that she was fine with her current equipment and weapons and could wait longer for upgrade. Later I checked the recipes for the items she might want, and I totally understood why she was so modest. The recipes required resources that could be only obtained when all other team members are equipped properly and have nothing more important to do than hunting them.

Koalak Riders Skins

Another six hours in that awful place – Primitive Cemetry. It’s inhabited with weird creatures: undead koalaks and gravediggers. Of course they are aggressive and attack every live soul coming too close to them. But I can’t blame them  for this, it’s no place for a creature of flash and blood.

I was told it’d be hard for me and my friends to hunt there. But it turned out it wasn’t true except for poor enu. She still needs to practice to wear better equipment. Therefore she passes out in half of the harder fights due to injuries. But we are still happy to have her around. She is fun and likes to talk and she is very helpful.

After 2 days of hunting we got only two skins. Eni is very disappointed, she needs these skins for her new boots. But there is nothing we can do except continuing to hunt. Maybe we’ll have more luck today or tomorrow. Or if sadi sells tynril amber we got the other day she’ll buy skins for eni. We all know how important is it to have your healer in a good mood and prepared to battle.

P.S.  Captured the souls of 2 archmonsters. That was lucky. Less work for us in the future.

New Jewellery for Eni

Today I made a ring and an amulet for eni. I believe she is happy now as they are copy of the jewellry that one famous eni used to wear.
Ring went good. Almost all statistics are close to perfect. But amulet gave me a lot of troubles: all statistics were low and as far as I knew it was hard to mage. My friend jeweller advised me to craft a new one. So did I. The second amulet was better but still not good enough. And as I had two amulets I decided to try to mage them.
The first one didn’t want to be maged. Runes were failing one after another and it was completely ruined at the end of the maging session. But I got some luck with the second one. I was lucky not to lose important qualities even after I added unnecessary fire rune and it failed (obviously). When I finished with the amulet it was pretty nice piece of jewellery.
With these items eni’s set is almost completed.