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SO I am visiting Chesapeake.

Tyrath

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Thanks to a Whiterabbit talking about Pitmuck and making me curious. I guess at sometime in the long ago days I played here for a while around 2006 since I have two accounts with semi developed characters and gift bags from 06. Sure can't remember playing here though..... I did some exploring of this strange land and was surprised to see even though it is low pop that that there are more people than my home shards of Siege and Legends running around.

I scrounged enough gold from the accounts that have characters on them to buy a garg ship to use as a temp home while deciding if I am going to become a perm stain on this shard and place a house and had enough skill and iron to arm it with a few heavy cannons.... Must have spent some amount of time here to a smith into the 90s and GM alchy. I cashed in a vet reward for a shard shield to Ches so I could bring a character that could do more than play with ignots and hammers and as usual when I do a transfer forgot to put gold in the character transfer account LOL. So Lee arrived with a few basic items and a bank balance of ZERO so some quick hunting was in order to keep the stable paid and more importantly get the pet I had out stabled after the transfer. Then I went hopped on the shiny new ship with Big Stinky and went and visited this Pitmuck island, where I come from we just call it cresent island and it is pretty bland. Certainly no ICE CREAM on this island where I come from. After spying on the Goblins of Pitmuck for a bit I sailed on up to Ocrina Island where or as I call it on Siege Port Tyr and Tyrtown are. Was kind of hoping the keep spot would be open but was not disappointed when I found a keep there, it is a good location after all. After sailing around a bit I decided to try and communicate with the Natives of this strange shard. Someone actually at Brit Bank! and then someone else!! and then off to Luna. Perhaps I just met the shard freaks but my first impression is that RP is strong on Ches. That is a + for me. As expected there are plenty of great housing spot available including some of my personal favorites another + the people I met and talked to were friendly yep another +

Now I am going to log in and explore the dead tree tomb stone side of Chess looks like. While I don't PvP I do enjoy spending most of my time in the dead tree tombstone lands. Who knows maybe Ches is where I will spend my limited game time through the summer of 2016, I do like the shard so far.
 

old gypsy

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Thanks to a Whiterabbit talking about Pitmuck and making me curious. I guess at sometime in the long ago days I played here for a while around 2006 since I have two accounts with semi developed characters and gift bags from 06. Sure can't remember playing here though..... I did some exploring of this strange land and was surprised to see even though it is low pop that that there are more people than my home shards of Siege and Legends running around.

I scrounged enough gold from the accounts that have characters on them to buy a garg ship to use as a temp home while deciding if I am going to become a perm stain on this shard and place a house and had enough skill and iron to arm it with a few heavy cannons.... Must have spent some amount of time here to a smith into the 90s and GM alchy. I cashed in a vet reward for a shard shield to Ches so I could bring a character that could do more than play with ignots and hammers and as usual when I do a transfer forgot to put gold in the character transfer account LOL. So Lee arrived with a few basic items and a bank balance of ZERO so some quick hunting was in order to keep the stable paid and more importantly get the pet I had out stabled after the transfer. Then I went hopped on the shiny new ship with Big Stinky and went and visited this Pitmuck island, where I come from we just call it cresent island and it is pretty bland. Certainly no ICE CREAM on this island where I come from. After spying on the Goblins of Pitmuck for a bit I sailed on up to Ocrina Island where or as I call it on Siege Port Tyr and Tyrtown are. Was kind of hoping the keep spot would be open but was not disappointed when I found a keep there, it is a good location after all. After sailing around a bit I decided to try and communicate with the Natives of this strange shard. Someone actually at Brit Bank! and then someone else!! and then off to Luna. Perhaps I just met the shard freaks but my first impression is that RP is strong on Ches. That is a + for me. As expected there are plenty of great housing spot available including some of my personal favorites another + the people I met and talked to were friendly yep another +

Now I am going to log in and explore the dead tree tomb stone side of Chess looks like. While I don't PvP I do enjoy spending most of my time in the dead tree tombstone lands. Who knows maybe Ches is where I will spend my limited game time through the summer of 2016, I do like the shard so far.
A small goblin checked her inventory at the Pitmuck Snack Shack. "Mees habs ta wonderz whys nobuddie bin eatin da foodz mees putz onz da vender," she mumbled. "Itz free, butz itz lookie likes nobuddie eber gits hungrie enymoors." Sighing, she walked back to the apple tree and laid down for a late morning nap.
 

Don't Tread on Me

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A small goblin checked her inventory at the Pitmuck Snack Shack. "Mees habs ta wonderz whys nobuddie bin eatin da foodz mees putz onz da vender," she mumbled. "Itz free, butz itz lookie likes nobuddie eber gits hungrie enymoors." Sighing, she walked back to the apple tree and laid down for a late morning nap.
Back in the day nogo used to eat all your food... unfortunately your attempts to keep him virtuous failed and i am no longer allowed on that facet that your residence resides.
 

Don't Tread on Me

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Tyrath. Chessy is a great shard. While the population isn't what it used to be, there is enough of just about everything to keep a casual player satisfied. The biggest letdown, from my point of view at least, is the lack of vendor sales of quality equipment. It's very hard to buy weapons/armor/arties here as ATL has a much larger market and better prices (for sellers). There's a tread somewhere on here conversating about said subject.

Chess has some pvp but not so many PKers that you can't pull off a spawn without being raided...sometimes. A lot of times you can find hunts on general chat... which is nice. As you said, the RPing happens quite a bit. The silly stinky goblins have their thing as well as random player initiated things (aka the pirate post from a few days ago).

Also, we don't have a whole lot of douches either... which is always nice. Welcome to chessy!
 

old gypsy

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Back in the day nogo used to eat all your food... unfortunately your attempts to keep him virtuous failed and i am no longer allowed on that facet that your residence resides.
Icky recently heard of this, and told me to let you know that she misses you! :grouphug:
 

Tyrath

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I am a pretty self reliant player rarely use anything I can't make or obtain myself........ Just need to work my BS, Tailor and Imbue up. Only planning on transferring Lee the Mage Tamer over.

Could not be eating the foods and giving myself away on a covert spy mission ;)
 

whiterabbit

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yeerg well come, yoos went os wrong island PITMUCK aka horseshoe island
 

Tyrath

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Horseshoe Cresent all look same to me but I was on pitmuck I observed many strange dwelling like a garden shed house!
 

Zalan

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Welcome to Chessy. I recently came back to Chessy with about a 4 to 5 year hiatus. Wish I would of known about shard shields.

I went off and got 5 Decorative Canons. There sitting in my Mini Keep in New Maginica. Canons facing north, East, West, and South. In case New Maginica gets invaded again. Or in case my neighbor a get a little roughed. I figure a few Canon balls will keep the peace.
 
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