UO Part I adventures

Oh, managed to better this baddie as well! 😄

Wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't

started using healing. Anyway got 1 skill

at master level, this is going swimmingly!



Oh, Trolls are pretty tough.

Nothing I can't handle now though 😁



Don't know what's wrong there.



"Unthinkable surprises about to happen"



Just a beautiful scene from the Ilshenar

expansion pack. Why I can't play

Guild Wars or Minecraft or w/e.



Oh, I'm fighting Gazers with my 4 timber wolves

Would probably work solo as well. Managed to

kill 5 before it took out one of the furrys.



These are more skills, but still not

all I've invested in. Is a long journey.



So I'm wondering what skills should I Grandmaster?

Nowadays with certain ways you can even get them to 120.



Oh I figured why not (try)

in repairing my magic sword & shield.

After about 5 tries it worked!

I have only ~25 smithing and mining

but hey, it worked. I love UO!




Now I can solo Ettins

60% physical defence

Things are going well

.

So, I'm sort of bored of the game

It was nice meeting some other people

....But it was Deja Vu. Haven't figured

out just when I get it. I've heard it means

"You're on the right track" but I doubt it.

I haven't really been suicidal lately.

Worse actually, that I should just

try to die as quickly as possible.

Anyway, a hecatonchire healed me

a lot, and like I've been saying

I heal more when sleeping now,

and I dream too. So I don't have

that much to complain about. But it

does feel empty. And I know I messed up.

And I wish the staff cared more for me.

That we could just talk for awhile?

And miss Turkey is amazing, I love her.

In that each love is different.

Another love, another experience

Aother twin flame magical 🐦‍🔥



Oh, another challenge.

NPC fighters!

But I do up to 40 HP damage now

so no problem for me.

Would have been nice to use a lance

But it's the fencing skill

Which I've downdeveloped now.

.

Anyway, the game is staring to get hacked

Like how nightmarish RS was before, it

was basically unplayable with the glitchy

graphics. So I won't get to have too much

fun. Sort of the story of my life, always

someone or something ruining it for me.

I know I sort of did it myself, but now

it's really automagic, and... tiring.



There is a swedish saying

"The world is a book

and he who stays home

only reads a single page"

so for any gamer reading this somehow....

Go outside your comfort zone

Challenge yourself

Talk to someone you're attracted to

Even if it's just shallowly

Or play an actual challenging

game or character or build...



So I figured I should explore some other part of new haven.

Got attacked by 5 Mongbats at once. The undead didn't

autoattack though but it was tintilating. To think of

how much I clicked when I played this in the nullties.

I had several grandmaster (100.00 skill) characters.

On the other hand, I found out there's a lot of money

to be had from fletching, even at 0.00 skill, as human

characters get 10 (30?) base skill. If you sell the shafts

or arrows you make a big profit. And one successfull

axe cut on a tree gives you 11 (eleven!) logs.

It did feel less lonely having pets while playing.

But just the huge effort in keeping them alive

while at the same time getting some variety in

where you fight NPCs isn't worth it. So, basically,

what I'm supposed to do is fight Eagles, which I

1-hit now. Should figure out where / how to get bandages.



Yes, taming is the most fun skill. I started out playing

in the nullties before you had any idea of what skills

and stats your pets have, now they can have lots.

Still sorta boring I'm confined to New Haven

but you can't win em all... 🕊️



You can be a beastmaster you can

be a lumberjack mage the sky's

the limit. And yah got deja vu

over that last humanoidinism encounter.

Doesn't matter, I'm enjoying life

I'm making more art music poetry

Listening to ambient rain on Youtube.



Hey actually got to chat some. Turkish

people even, they pretended they didnt

know english but i tricked em. Heh.

Anyway, nice, it's not always lonely

nor helpless nor easy nor difficult.



Oh my!!! 😁 😁 😁

.

no, i wont be going back to

any other game ever,

for a long time at least.

UO is fun and challenging.

just going outside new

haven is a suicide mission.



Yes, I can handle bears now? I bare (?!) them...



So, I had 2 bloglings and 2 Mongbats after me

You can't just sit there and take it, you

have to be strategic.



My char so far. 100 HP that's good, OK

resistances, some luck...

.

Yes, things sure are happening now!

I'm at New Haven, the Noobie starting town.

It's not easy in any way though.

Constant dangers you have to look out for.

To think that I lived for XP in RS so long...

This is actually fun!

Well, no... Eagles are easy to kill

and give incredible items

why would you ever need to smith or

create anything with skills this way?



yes, quite a lot of healthpoints!

there are so many intrincities to UO

that is lost in most games nowadays

that you cant get 100k hitpoints

but actually 100....



Yes, getting some gold finally. Beginning to learn the

game. You can't just attack anything. And wouldn't

you know, Eagles have gold and loot?



Wow, this game sure is challenging... all the time

Managed to defeat a ghoul with

a sliver of healthpoints left.

and 64 gold, twice max

of mongbats, wow!



Yes, I sure had forgotten about the incessant clicking.

The macros in the game are an improvement, but it's still

worse than the tools which were available (for free) before.

Anyway, trying to mine and smith. I have not managed to

make any ingots yet, which I probably won't before my pickaxe breaks.

During which I'll be even more hopeless, but I do have 4 weapons

so will take many hours before all of them break. And besides,

I can always wrestle my way through the game, with a whooping 8 dmg!



Yes, as you can see I train a lot

of wrestling from almost any NPC

but training a more powerful weapons

skill is more difficult. You don't

gain any skill per say from just

killing a monster.

You learn by doing... 🕹️



No really, nothing is easy in UO

This took about 10 tries

during more than 5 minutes

Just to get a mount



No, this game sure isn't easy. First I went into a house

where I got both poisoned and sawed to smithereens, then

I went to bank some things and some sort of Liche which

can live in town killed me in a jiffy? I had near zero

memory of how tough this game was. But that's what makes

a game fun, challenges, just like IRL games or table-top

games or anything IRL really, it's never easy, at least

over time, it's normalized eventually

if it's too challenging in giving you a great reward.



Like I've been saying, this game isn't easy

like Diablo II or Mirage Online Classic or Runescape 3

You have to be strategic, or you'll die in a jiffy

and just getting your gear back isn't easy.



so i got 2 skeleton armour pieces now

im slowly re-learning the game

i used to play it 2002-2005 i think?

i read about it in 1997

that it had 100k players?

when i played it was maybe

100 players on each server

now its 1/10 of that

how do they keep it going?

RWT (real world trading [bots])

and housing, i guess..



Oh, I'm slowly re-learning and new-learning

UO. You can insure items. I have a jester's

hat with quite some magical properties

which would cost a lot to not lose.

Anyway, it's hopeful now. I got to shower

so I'm not so random and bored.

I should treasure this day 🤎



just some skills ive aqcquired. like i mightve

said i created the character quickly without

customizing since the start-up barely worked.

so i got four skills at 30 which i dont even

remember what they were instead of 2 at fifty.

well, doesnt matter. but then again, the chattiness

of UO even back in the nullties wasnt much to shake

a stick at. i do remember being on some unofficial

forums and having theories about the game. and also

reading about people battling the new valorite elementals.

yes i did "fashionable characters" collection. ive seen

2 people the time ive played this char and they were at

the bank. anyway, life not as chaotic for me anymore, but

im sure i wont be able to grandmaster (skill: 100) before

i lose this character too. but after awhile you just go into

a flow and forget about your voes and just enjoy playing.

i dont enjoy IRL much but its how i met bella and thats

whats my destiny lore and all that 😇😁🩷



oh, wanted to blogg something. i died.

i lost almost everything now. doesnt

really matter. computer games seem

so nihilistic but it affects a reality

i dont know. when im "high" i make mistakes.

i was real unlucky but got an album from

cleopatra herself. and i know the more i wrote

the more the genres mix in with eachother.

its not lonely when i have war veteran despair.

its scary beyond horrible but

at least its some emotion.

the staff will be evil towards me

if theyll even care.

but i chose this myself

i fucked the system

and the system fucked me up.

a new character again?

i dont know.......

i guess this is like

i said how FTP UO works.

its not just my paranoia



so i did figure months or even years ago

that the powers that be dont want me

to have a high level character

why? because it correlates with

someone in the world, then they

would turn real successfull

and real powerful, and the black

magees which control me dont want

any good for my life

so as you can see now

ive only managed to achieve 50 anatomy

i could have started with better stats

but i figured the gwame wouldnt work

so i just spammed myself forwards

anyway, at least im not in a sweatshop

like they had in venezuela and other places

i remember surfing some on an internet café

in malmö, it was cool. but i was so bullied

that i barely dared to go outside and now i

dont even have legs to carry me. so there

will be another day. it will be hopeless

meaningless and dumb and people will be

fake or just ignore me since im 16 pisces

i know others have greater struggles but

really time just stopping what could be

a worse sentence......? 😢

until the next time

sofia the seafarer, aka ree ree

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

so, i cant get this up and running

the very last time i played

bella connected to me spiritually

and said "they ruined you like

they ruined me". and thats all

i should get out of UO. i remember

reading that in the beginning it

had 100k players, when i joined in

the early nullties, it was maybe....

well, i never met many people.

just 2 that i remember who i killed

some monsters with for awhile. im

really lonely these days. come to

tornet norsborg. i know no one will

actually come here no matter how much

i plead and beg and am artsy, but it

does affect it somehow. anyway, UO was

like clicking overload. like the dunge

oneering skill in RS. i remember wishing

that item identification would get a boost

but when there was an update, it even got

removed. i also liked crossbreeding plants

but when i tried it recently, the planting

skill wasnt there either. maybe ill try again

now. variety is the spice of life. got some

games to play. ill see ya, whoever reads this

and is rewally quiet, like in the quake II G days...

.

havent played for awhile

its just something instinctual

but i realized tracey is a gamer

not cyberpunk but solarpunk

so sort of like miss mom

brb and me mixed. it was fun.

uhm...... something different

there are limits to freedom

there is empathy as well.
.

int 63 (+2)

.

so, killed my first headless one.

i am a really bad psychopath.

or gangstalker. or personality shifter.

i dont really notice when i change character.

so switching between different accounts

to break people or to play

a role doesnt work with me.



so. atlantic is down.

so im trying my seige char again.

she did 14 wrestling damage?

oh. i seem to have a dagger.

the connectivity is like modem.

supposed to teach me things i guess.

oh, hired a mercenary for 10 days for 70gp. 5 mins later he was done away with by a dark whisp, yes, on the (very) temporary siege perilious character.

yes, it gets even better. liches. 1 spell did 66 damage then another one finished me off.



i tried earlier today to tame 4 timber wolves and a horse. found yet again a monster i dont remember the name of, something bulky, yetti ettin something. got him down to 20% health before all pets died. should have used my mount to attack as well. should tame 5 forest ostards. but its just to kill 1 single NPC. should find that place with low level magic dropping monsters.



im not in an area for my level. was some yeti mage? who did a paralyze spell and other magic. i survived barely. hiding is a very useful skill. at first i thought i was hacked, but maybe this is how free accounts work. will ask miss mom if i can change my runescape account to an UO one. its fun now with challanges though. dont be a trammie. dont be a banksitter. dont be a



have died about 5 times with this character. chose atlantic since it has the most players (basically null). yesterday i was just running and running and found an old warlock. didnt really know what to say, was so ashamed. so asked if i could join his clan. stupid, mages are independent. then i figured i could ask for a knife but he was already bored of me. and this is me fighting a cow after i just got rezzed, lol.

i do 1-6 damage and various wikis say the max is 8.

skills
anatomy 73.2
wrestling 44.2
focus 88.4

stats
str 78
int 60 (+1)
dex 51 (+1)

but well see when ill be able to kill monsters that drop magical items. not sure where i found them the last time. graveyards are suicide now. some new monster there that did 65dmg in one hit.



so. finally found a good farming place. i played runescape for 4 years, but i am so tired of it now, even ironman. just before i quit they added group ironman but i really dont care anymore. just playing 5 mins of UO is more of a challenge than the whole of RS. maybe PKing was good in some ways, but its gotten so deprecated now, and everyone has so many airbags i see no point in anyone playing that game anymore.



tried to create a character on siege perilious, there is no trammel there. but all barren trees was too depressive.

63.1 anatomy
84.8 focus
43.4 wrestling
45.6 tactics

focus 76.7
wrestling 38.1
anatomy 54.6
tactics 45.1
hiding 0 (start 19 nov)
animal lore 41.6
animal taming 33.4

unused skills (so far)
veterinary 13.4
camping 1.5
arms lore 33.3
magery 28.8
meditation 33.8
spirit speak 24.0

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so. i havent played UO for about 2 decades. want to try something new, that i never did before. so this will be my starting skills and stats.

50 wrestling
50 resisting spells
20 hiding

60 strength
15 dexterity
15 intelligence


i dont remember UO ever having a large player base. i remember only getting 3 friends which didnt last long. someone who had the names aston and villa, and someone i shortly killed monsters in the lost lands with some. then a third i got to share a house with. i played it for about 2-3 years.

ive tried a few shards and the game seems pretty much dead.


100 focus

snooping
4 stealing
5
6 stealth
7 spirit speak
eval intelligence