Are You Ready for the Race?

Communication with Frigost is finally fully reestablished! Access to the island will be opened to everyone. And it will happen today, which, of course, is very unexpected as almost everyone was sure that repairs would take much more time.

Anyway, waiting for the new lands ends today. And with the new lands new paddocks and new houses will be available. However, there are only 18 new paddocks and almost all of them are of decent size, so we expect a race for paddocks. Our guild will participate as well. We have room for three more enclosures and cra is desperate to get them. I wish her best of luck.

And now I have to go and make last preparations. I’m going to participate in another race – race for houses. Hopefully I’ll be able to buy one not so far from zaap, I really dislike walking through the snow and there are no zaapis in Frigost town.

New Challenge

Otomai, a mad scientist living on the tree, is a very strange person. He is looking for various monsters souls for his experiments and offers a really generous reward for those who can provide him with the complete set of monsters. A shiny egg that resembles legendary dragon eggs gives its owner to do more during the fight. To tell the truth, I do not understand how it works, but it works. And the most important thing – Otomai can manufacture a lot of these eggs and he is in constant need of “experimental material”. Of course our company couldn’t miss this chance and took the quest.

At the moment we are almost done with sets of regular monsters. And cra is very close to complete the set of boss monsters that live in the dungeons. Only Sphincter Cell, Ougaa, and Minotot left.

We’ll try to defeat Minotot tomorrow, and it shouldn’t be too hard if we have some luck. Immobilisation and locking Minotot in the corner should work perfectly. Of course, there is always a chance we’ll have to retreat, but at least we have a good idea what and how to do it.

Ougaa is pretty much impossible for us at the moment. We do not possess neither power nor abilities required for the victory. I just can hope that some day with the help of our friends we’ll do it. But for now I would’t even try anything. Cra will have to think of something to obtain the soul.

Sphincter Cell is a different story. We already have been there and defeated it. But it was so long ago that I completely forgot how to do it, same goes for other members of the team. Not to mention that all previous times we had some serious help.

The other day we paid a visit to Mr. Biggest Rat Boss and had to retreat. It wasn’t as bad as our first try with Bworker, but pretty much humiliating as it was far from the first time we saw it.

Immobilisation and attempts to reduce the range as a strategy failed, and we were unable to lock Sphincter Cell either. I guess splitting the team was a huge mistake; and next time we should try to stay close to each other and lock the boss in some kind of box. The only thing I’m concerned about is that it doesn’t need line of sight to teleport and may run away unless we manage to entertain it somehow or to reduce significantly his abilities to do act.

Revenge

Long awaited victory was ours, finally!
The fight didn’t go smooth and far from the initial strategy that we had planned to use. In fact locking Bworker near the throne never happened, instead we immobilised every monster in the room. Of course, it took some time and required united efforts from both sadidas, cra, enu and me. But as it had been proved many times before two Ultra-Powerful’s, cra’s paralysing arrows, enu’s clumsiness curses and my glyphes combined can stop almost anything from coming too close. However, the key to the victory were sadidas’ summons, and it appeared that it was very important to have them summoned in the very beginning of the fight.
The strategy works, but the fights are slow and some impatient people may be very disappointed. Although it almost guarantees the triumph even if the group consists of not so experienced warriors.
So, after a long and exhausting fight we won, and old lady even managed to capture souls (did I mention she had been extremely absent-minded lately and even had missed several souls?). The only thing that darkened our joy were our empty hands. We found no treasures, even we knew they were there and we had come looking for them. It can be overlooked and next week we’ll pay another visit to Bworker!

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.

New Chameleon

Sram managed to make a deal for almost pure-bred chameleon turquoise dragoturkey. It’s quite amazing as sram is new to our company and rarely useful. We’ll have to return this mount to the owner when it can’t have any more chickens. But still it was a good deal.
Enu doesn’t know yet that she’ll have to fish for rare fishes to pay for the mount “rent”. Oh, she’ll be mad, she never wants to give her fish up, and she can’t be interested with the chameleon turquoise mount as she despises them and prefers her monkey. Probably, we’ll be able to calm her down somehow, she likes to fish in Sufokia and it’s exactly the right place to catch unique kraloves which are agreed as a payment.
Cra is very agitated, she was working on turquoise chameleons for quite some time, but had very little luck. And now her chances are almost 100%.

Another Failure

Our second attempt to kill Bworker failed. The strategy was fine, but tactics could be better.
This time immobilization and draining spell casting ability worked pretty well, but locking Bworker in the corner near the throne failed. To tell the truth we almost succeeded in it, but at the crucial moment eni’s rabbit decided to run away opening the way for the furious king of bworks. This mistake was punished severely, and we were all killed. I feel proud of myself since I was the last man (woman) standing.
It’s amazing how strong is Bworker. He killed cra who has the most stamina and experience with bare hands in instant! He is also very fast and without cra and sadis enu and I could do nothing to slow him down.
I think next time we should try to summon sadida’s dolls to immobilize all the monsters in the throne room. We can’t kill Bworker fast, but if he can’t move he is almost harmless.

New Goal – Turquoise Dofus

Nikto is whining again. She says she is a cra and therefore needs a turquoise dofus to become more powerful.

Turquoise dofus is a very powerful artefact, came from the old times. It’s said it can increase the accuracy of the hits and make them more powerful. No doubt cra wants this relic. With it she can be able to steal life from the enemies or paralyse them using her arrows and of course the damage dealt with the weapons will be more significant.

It’s widely known that some turquoise dofuses can be found in the Dragon Pig’s lair. Also I heard a rumour Soft Oak seizes several relics. After we re-equip our team we should pay a visit to both of them, Dragon Pig and Soft Oak. Maybe we’ll find one of those dofuses and cra stop to whine.