Stargrace

[Wurm Online] The Blackmoor Christmas Impalong

It’s almost that time! Shrimpiie will be hosting the next Impalong over on the Independence server, along with a whole host players who are helping him get organized. I will be hanging out there with my priest alt, Faralithe, during the week and then during the weekend I hope to make it with Stargrace. I don’t need anything improved, but I do like to work on my own skills while helping out other players. It’s a great way for players from the NFI (northern islands) to pop over and have some times made, since you cannot move items between NFI/SFI.

This is the closest I’ve ever lived to an impalong, and I like that I don’t have to do any traveling to get here because it’s in my back yard. When things get too crowded I can just wander back to my own deed, or if the number of people in local starts to give me a little anxiety. I tend to like things quiet, so we’ll see how long I stick around for.

These events are fantastic for both those looking to raise skills, and those looking to help. It’s a wonderful way to get to know the community that you game with, and there’s always some amazing giveaways and tournaments during the event, too. Impalongs are one of those really unique parts of Wurm Online that really has to be seen in person.

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

[EVE] The Great Odebeinn Yard Sale

Filed by E

I set off from [redacted] with a cup of lukewarm station coffee and absolutely no emotional readiness for what awaited me in Odebeinn. My destination?
My asset safety containers—those last little time capsules of my old life in Pandemic Horde.

And apparently I wasn’t the only one making the pilgrimage.

The system was buzzing when I arrived. You could practically smell the desperation and nostalgia in the air—like a garage sale hosted by people who hadn’t slept since the eviction. Former Horde pilots were lined up at the station like we were waiting for concert tickets:

folks in shuttles
folks in stabbed haulers
folks in ships that looked like they’d been duct-taped together after MTO2
and one guy who was clearly still drunk from the farewell fleet

I grabbed my containers and cracked them open, bracing for impact. Yep—there it was: the strange mix of junk, treasure, and “why did I even own this” that asset safety always dredges up.

A T1 salvager.
Four mismatched drones.
Two cyno generators I absolutely did not need.
A stack of ammo I don’t even use anymore.
And a single, lonely killmail token from… 2019?

Perfect yard sale material.

Around me, the station trade window was flickering nonstop as pilots fire-sold everything that wasn’t bolted down. Prices were dropping faster than my morale during the eviction. The market graph for the day probably looked like a cliff.

I listed my own pile of “please, someone, take this” items, wished them well on their journey to someone else’s hangar, and stepped back to take in the scene.

It was weirdly comforting—this unspoken reunion of evacuees, all of us pretending we were “just liquidating assets” instead of quietly grieving the end of an era. No big declarations, no speeches… just a bunch of ex-Horde nerds pawning off our past for a few ISK and the chance to finally move on.

Once my sell orders were up, I stretched, exhaled, and set course back to [redacted].

Another chapter closed.
Another station cleared.

[WoW] Gold Making – Week 48 (2025)

Player housing early access comes out TOMORROW on the NA servers for those who have pre-purchased Midnight. I always found it a bit annoying that those who have bought the physical edition of the game don’t get the early access goodies unless they ALSO buy the digital edition. Then you’re refunded the cost as bnet balance when the physical one shows up. Seems a bit shoddy, to me.

Anyway. Gold making this week was a bit hit / miss. I let a day or two lapse so I could take care of some real life things (my hands have been causing me a lot of grief and typing is difficult) and while I did make almost 5 million gold for the week, it was just a handful of big ticket transmog items. I’m hoping to get some harvesting done today in preparation for tomorrow, but we’ll see. Maybe everyone else will be dumping their materials and there will be a nice influx of cheaper supplies to pick up (I really don’t enjoy harvesting, at all). I’m not expecting my personal sales to do too much this next week as I don’t deal in any of the materials that will be flying out the door, but we’ll see how it goes.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

[Wurm Online] Black Friday Sale & Skins

Each year, Wurm Online does a single large sale on their subscriptions, and that’s when I tend to purchase game time for my active accounts (that’s 2 accounts at the moment of this post, but in the past it has been more) and I top up the deeds to make sure they’ll be sticking around (at the moment I have 3 deeds). If you’re premium you can also claim a skin this month for a Thunder Forge, which looks pretty awesome (thanks to Moumix for letting me borrow his for the screenshots).

In the meantime, I’m making goals for 2026 (something I do each year, but they usually fall by the wayside) such as reaching 70 skill in meditation on my main (this has been a huge work in progress) and maybe MAYBE finishing off the buildings at Quail Landing. Will I get there? Who knows. Still, having these little goals always brings me a lot of joy, and gives me some purpose while I play.

Speaking of, there’s an Impalong happening not too long from now, on Hermit Island, which is where I live. My neighbour is going to be hosting it, so that should bring about a few visitors to my area, and of course I’ll also be attending.

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

[EQII] Where do you Start? The Beginning.

Returning to a game you’ve been away from for some time is never an easy feat. You have to make some tough decisions, do you re-visit your old characters that you love but you have no idea how to play / where to go, or do you start fresh so that you can try to re-learn the game (and your class). I opted for a combination of the two.

I started off re-visiting my higher level characters. Right now I have a handful of level 120 characters, and an unused boost for 130. The rest all sit at level 100, except for a brand new Ratonga Coercer, who was created so that I could get a feel for things again. Most of my characters sit on the Antonia Bayle server, but that has grown quiet over the years, and so this time around I created on the more populated Maj’Dul. There were some events taking place and chat was lively as people were trying to figure out timers and zones to head to. I wasn’t quite ready for that, yet. Soon though.

I’m not really a fan of the ‘starting over’ method, but you’re not given a lot of choices. Games (IMO) do a very bad job of welcoming back the average returning player. In most cases you log in and you’re given zero indication as to what you were working on 10 years ago, and you have no idea where to go to progress – or if you even want to progress. A lot of update notes that you’ve never seen have probably crossed the paths of most players, and you’ll be expected to stumble your way along until eventually, finally, if you stick with it – you’ll catch up.

So where does that leave me? A level 2 coercer, who at least knows where to go and what to do – and a few level 120 characters who have no idea what is going on. In the end, I settled for some crafting.

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