The exact moment all three of my colonists died to an ostrich, and then a man in black came along to save the colony so it could continue to move forward.
Shortly after this happened, I got a quest that had a second random person join the colony. Unfortunately after their time with us they decided to betray Dru (the man in black) and attack him. I’m back down to only one colonist. Hopefully Dru can pull it together enough to survive until someone else shows up. At least he doesn’t require much food.
Despite the fact that a LOT of my time is spent over in World of Warcraft, I do still enjoy popping into other games – like RimWorld, which is probably my #3 played game of all time (behind only Wurm Online and Warcraft). I started up a new colony on a desert island last night, and they quickly took over an old chemical factory that was stockpiled with some food, and a lot of chemfuel. This quickly raised the value of my minions, which of course increased the difficulty of any fights headed their way. I didn’t even last an hour before an ostrich (yep, that’s right, the giant bird) came and killed all 3 of my colonists, so the mysterious man in black joined up and kept things going. That’s where I’m currently at.
It’s lovely to have electricity and comfort at the beginning, but as always, it comes with responsibilities.
January saw me playing a whole lot of games with “world” in the title. I started off the month strong, playing World of Warcraft – Shadowlands. Sadly, I don’t really enjoy the expansion that much. I find anima difficult to obtain, and there are far too many timegates put in place. There’s also a lot of new currency, and I think it’s needless. I did level up some alts through pet battles, and I had fun logging in weekly to obtain loot from the world boss, but I don’t find that that there is a lot of staying power, yet. Who knows if that will change. I’ve been flip flopping between a few characters, mostly my monk and my demon hunter. I also paid just over a million gold to move all of my horde characters from Argent Dawn, to Hyjal. I just wanted to have everyone together on the same server. I now have all of my alliance over on Argent Dawn, and my horde are all on Hyjal. I’ve always wanted to learn how to make gold better on a high population server, and Hyjal is most certainly that – especially compared to AD. I’m just better at making gold on AD and always have been.
I also played a LOT of Wurm Online. I started off playing on the Southern islands on my Indy deed, nothing really special just doing generic deed work. I expanded to a second deed because I wanted a mine, but now that I’ve had it a while I might just disband it. It’s some ways away from home and I’ve been waiting for buildings to decay that are going to take over a year. Worth it? Not exactly. After that I started playing over on the Northern (newer) servers with my Fo priest. I managed to find a 24/7 sermon going on, and I joined up and then subscribed a few alts. For the past month I’ve been doing sermons as often as possible, every three hours. I reached 100 faith for the very first time. This is a HUGE goal of mine. It means I can cast summon soul, and I can also cast lifetransfer without requiring extra characters.
While doing sermons over on Harmony, I met up with Arbi, a friend from Sklotopolis, the Wurm Unlimited server that I frequent. They told me about the fantastic work that the developers have been doing despite the fact that WU is no longer supported in an official capacity. I was drawn in, despite losing my amazing deed – when I logged in the exact location that I had deeded previously was still free. I took it as a sign, and now I’ve dedicated myself to building my place up the exact way that I had it before. I really loved that deed and one of my biggest gaming regrets is letting it fall.
Single player games? I didn’t play many, but I did delve into RimWorld for a bit, and some Sims 4. With covid knocking on my community door, I spent most of my time inside trying to avoid everything going on in the real world. I can think of worse ways to spend my time.
As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
We’re nearing the end of January, and I know I’ve been mostly silent for the past few months – and I’m hoping that changes. I said that in 2019 too, and I managed it for months until it all fell apart, so we’ll just see how it goes.
A Pixel Nomad 