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Pluffina
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As some of you know, I have been on ROPEQUEST 2001. Now that ropes are spawning on Kraken, I decided I could not live with out my OWN ROPE, one I pulled from the belly of the beast my own self.
I'm a GM fisher, so I had a buncha nets ANYWAY, so Illiana and I got the boat, went out to sea, and threw about 15 in the water. Some MIBs, some T-maps, some near death experiences.....but no rope.
So I stared buying nets like crazy. I paid 8K for most of them, on one black netless day I paid 10K each, got some for less from friends....I spent something like 350K on NETS, and I have never even SEEN a rope for more than 250K and now they going for more like, what, 100 - 150K? BUT I DID NOT CARE! I wanted my OWN rope. So for a week Illiana and I have been shopping for nets, destituting ourselves for nets, hunting nets under 8K, spamming the bank for nets, buying nets, hurling nets into the water, and then screaming curses at the gods as we sailed home ropeless.
Then last night, Illiana and I set out armed with 18 nets and a deathwish. She had long gotten bored with killing a measly little poo-headed little kraken, and lobbied hard for throwing the nets 2 at once. SO we had been doing that and had pretty much lived and she was starting to make noises about how it would be better if we threw them in three at a time (did I mention Illiana is certifiably insane? No? let me insert that here) so I knew we HAD to get a rope this night or else Illiana was going to be hurling secure chests with 125 nets in each directly into the ocean and getting both of us immediately melted to bones by a veritable tidal wave of Kraken Spit.
So -- We threw a bunch NADA, NADA, MIB, NADA, MAP, MIB, NADA (usual pattern) and THEN! ... And THEN! I opened up a dead kraken --- and there it was! Shining like the grail, coiled and beautiful, MY VERY OWN ROPE! I lost my mind with joy! I was yelling OMG! OMG! and she said "Is it sulpherous ash?" (we had been keeping ourselves moderately sane by pretending what we REALLY wanted was suplpherous ash and dancing around screaming whenever a serp was dead empty save for 4 Ashes) and I tried to pick the rope up but the boat was too close to the kraken so I said BACK UP BACK UP so she said back one, and I pulled out the BEAUTIFUL ROPE and tried to set it on the deck for her to see, but I missed and dropped it on her head and it appeared for ONE SHINING MOMENT IN THE TRADE WINDOW just as she macroed BACK ONE again, and SUDDENLY! The trade window popped closed.....and.....and...the rope was GONE! GONE I TELL YOU! GOOOOOOOONE!
It was not in my pack, or in the sea, or in the boat or by my knee. It was not in a box or with a fox, or in my house or with a mouse. IT! WAS! GONE!
So after the usual complement of profanity and shrieking, we called a GM. I was hoping it was"under" the water or "in" the boat and he would be able to see it and pull it out. While we were waiting for the GM we threw in the rest of our nets. No rope of course. And NONE of the water els had POISON I could drink. I was really longing to drink a BUNCH of poison and just DIE and wander Sosaria as a ropeless ghost forever by this time. I moved everything in my pack, it wasn;t UNDER anything.
So GM Crim came and he had GREEN SPANGLY head gear on -- very cool looking, and he walked on the water and USUALLY GMs walking on the water perks me right up, I just LOVE that, but not this black day, no. This day I was in SUCH rope despair, and he looked around and could not see my rope -- no IDEA where it went he said, but was very nice for all that and obligingly sunk into the sea when he was done looking, saying blub blub blub and flailing his arms, and COME ON who WOULDN'T pay extra to see a GM drown, but it did my sore heart NO GOOD AT ALL. WEEP!
So we trailed slowly home across the water having spent a fruitless hour waiting for the GM and no rope to show and down 350K FOR NOTHING and I was gnashing my teeth and I accidentally gnashed my pack closed....and when I reopened my pack!!! THERE!!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF IT!!! PEEPING SHYLY UP AT MY, LOOKING TRUCULENT AND APOLOGETIC......WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rope!
So it had a happy ending. BUT IT WAS VERY TRAGIC WHILE IT LASTED!
Love,
Pluffy
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I'm a GM fisher, so I had a buncha nets ANYWAY, so Illiana and I got the boat, went out to sea, and threw about 15 in the water. Some MIBs, some T-maps, some near death experiences.....but no rope.
So I stared buying nets like crazy. I paid 8K for most of them, on one black netless day I paid 10K each, got some for less from friends....I spent something like 350K on NETS, and I have never even SEEN a rope for more than 250K and now they going for more like, what, 100 - 150K? BUT I DID NOT CARE! I wanted my OWN rope. So for a week Illiana and I have been shopping for nets, destituting ourselves for nets, hunting nets under 8K, spamming the bank for nets, buying nets, hurling nets into the water, and then screaming curses at the gods as we sailed home ropeless.
Then last night, Illiana and I set out armed with 18 nets and a deathwish. She had long gotten bored with killing a measly little poo-headed little kraken, and lobbied hard for throwing the nets 2 at once. SO we had been doing that and had pretty much lived and she was starting to make noises about how it would be better if we threw them in three at a time (did I mention Illiana is certifiably insane? No? let me insert that here) so I knew we HAD to get a rope this night or else Illiana was going to be hurling secure chests with 125 nets in each directly into the ocean and getting both of us immediately melted to bones by a veritable tidal wave of Kraken Spit.
So -- We threw a bunch NADA, NADA, MIB, NADA, MAP, MIB, NADA (usual pattern) and THEN! ... And THEN! I opened up a dead kraken --- and there it was! Shining like the grail, coiled and beautiful, MY VERY OWN ROPE! I lost my mind with joy! I was yelling OMG! OMG! and she said "Is it sulpherous ash?" (we had been keeping ourselves moderately sane by pretending what we REALLY wanted was suplpherous ash and dancing around screaming whenever a serp was dead empty save for 4 Ashes) and I tried to pick the rope up but the boat was too close to the kraken so I said BACK UP BACK UP so she said back one, and I pulled out the BEAUTIFUL ROPE and tried to set it on the deck for her to see, but I missed and dropped it on her head and it appeared for ONE SHINING MOMENT IN THE TRADE WINDOW just as she macroed BACK ONE again, and SUDDENLY! The trade window popped closed.....and.....and...the rope was GONE! GONE I TELL YOU! GOOOOOOOONE!
It was not in my pack, or in the sea, or in the boat or by my knee. It was not in a box or with a fox, or in my house or with a mouse. IT! WAS! GONE!
So after the usual complement of profanity and shrieking, we called a GM. I was hoping it was"under" the water or "in" the boat and he would be able to see it and pull it out. While we were waiting for the GM we threw in the rest of our nets. No rope of course. And NONE of the water els had POISON I could drink. I was really longing to drink a BUNCH of poison and just DIE and wander Sosaria as a ropeless ghost forever by this time. I moved everything in my pack, it wasn;t UNDER anything.
So GM Crim came and he had GREEN SPANGLY head gear on -- very cool looking, and he walked on the water and USUALLY GMs walking on the water perks me right up, I just LOVE that, but not this black day, no. This day I was in SUCH rope despair, and he looked around and could not see my rope -- no IDEA where it went he said, but was very nice for all that and obligingly sunk into the sea when he was done looking, saying blub blub blub and flailing his arms, and COME ON who WOULDN'T pay extra to see a GM drown, but it did my sore heart NO GOOD AT ALL. WEEP!
So we trailed slowly home across the water having spent a fruitless hour waiting for the GM and no rope to show and down 350K FOR NOTHING and I was gnashing my teeth and I accidentally gnashed my pack closed....and when I reopened my pack!!! THERE!!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF IT!!! PEEPING SHYLY UP AT MY, LOOKING TRUCULENT AND APOLOGETIC......WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rope!
So it had a happy ending. BUT IT WAS VERY TRAGIC WHILE IT LASTED!
Love,
Pluffy
Visit Plush by Pluffy, a UO Decorator's Website