Chain 218: Ragnarok Online

Chain 218: Ragnarok Online

Location: Geffen
Age: 17
Identity: Traveller (Drop-In)
Drawbacks: [+500] Too Many Novices, Rise of the Valkyries, Poring Invasion
Scenarios: [+400] Wings Of An Angel, Terror Of The Seas

[Free]      Communication Relay
[300/1900]  @clone
[400/1900]  Precision
[Free]      Too Weak to Matter
[Free]      Efficient Casting
[Free]      Haggler
[600/1900]  Expert Smithing
[900/1900]  Dual Classing
[1200/1900] Call Slave
[1400/1900] Transcendence: High Wizard
[1600/1900] Transcendence: Mastersmith
[1900/1900] The Thirds: Warlock
[Free]      Level 11 Cookbook

Well, now, this is a place I didn't expect to be. Though I guess I shouldn't be surprised, after Elona. And all the other video games I've visited so far. A world where basically everyone who wasn't basically a novice in training was pretty much slaughtered by the latest wave of attacks from the local wildlife, so at least I'm on the same level as anyone else.

Maybe it was a server wipe. On a server with a couple of settings tweaked pretty badly, like say the rate that Porings spawn (utterly unreal). Or maybe any time anyone gets particularly skilled, the most skilled gets wiped out by Valkyries. Of course, that last bit is supposition on my part, considering that I have a tendency to advance rather a bit faster than the locals, only to be attacked disturbingly regularly.

The Poring plague was handily dealt with by training novices as smiths and making sure better weapons carried the day, and making sure people didn't just let them sit around considering the sheer volume of them. And though I tried several different things to try and deal with the Valkyrie plague, the only thing that worked was getting wrapped up in a dispute between Odin and Freyja. Not exactly fun, no, but both would happily have destroyed the world in their conflict without blinking. Freyja ended up agreeing to at least not destroy the world until after I'd left it, after I created an opening for her to kill Odin during their conflict (and the ensuing destruction of an entire island as collateral). And when I hailed a ship to get me back from the ruined island to the mainland... I ended up on a cursed ship, ended up breaking the curse on the ship and its crew, ended up being thrown into the afterlife as a result, and then had to re-kill almost everything I'd killed in order to get past them and back to the land of the living.

Not the most fun time, I have to admit, but I feel like I did at least a little bit of good.