8-2-09 – Part 2

Posted on August 2, 2009September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

So it is the afternoon here. And I am now more awake than before.

Whee!!! First comment! By my dear friend, Alynia! After all, she IS the one who inspired me to get this thing going again, so I was excited when I saw an un-approved comment waiting there. And I approved it, so I’m so excited.

Anyway, on other notes: I was looking through the previous posts and realised that most of them were written back when I was in my twenties. I’m now 54 or something like that…is it a bad thing to feel so old? I mean, I found a TON of mis-information, such as Valnurana’s Temple still being at Mesmerium or calling Xhaiden Dale the Dakhota Hills. Of course, now that I am more informed on names of places, I’ve gone back and edited those to display correct information, so none of you younger ones get confused by my incessant babbling.

Other things: Not really. I don’t have much new information, except that my time in Achaea was cut about a month ago, so I haven’t been around as much as I usually was before. Instead of, say, nine hours a day, it’s now down to two. And people I know are a bit down about it..missing me and all. I mean, I WANT to be in more, but it’s just not wise at this moment in time because I’m fighting over my Internet connection with other family members and what-not (dialup..bleh).

So, in conclusion, don’t miss me TOO much. I’m still around and stuff. Just not as much, so I’m hard to find. Maybe I’ll re-evaluate it after a while and see if I can’t work something out.

Take care! -Sama M.

8-2-09

Posted on August 2, 2009September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Okay..for a special request from Alynia who is the second person to discover this thing and actually TELL me, I’m posting.

Now to get back in the mood…I was writing these in first person, was I not? I think so. So I will.

Things have been quiet. I got HR5 in the Druids, which is the BEST! Also, Alynia, a long-time friend of mine has come to stay permanently at my house as a sort of house-keeper you might call it (thanks for the inspiration, Alynia. I almost forgot this blog existed!).

So I made HR5, Level 81 and reached 2 million sovereigns in my bank account. What else? Not much. A huge credit and crown sale just started and I can’t do anything because my soul is penniless.

It’s late, and I’m tired..almost a zombie..and I must get going. Hopefully I’ll remember this thing a little more so I can get it updated more often than not.

Take care and sweet dreams (which reminds me.. I also joined Valnurana’s pre-Order – The Emnia Ecstasia).

-Samakhulis Moonflair

P.S. Where’d the Moonflair come from? I was bloodlined to Aohara, if you didn’t already know.

10-24-08

Posted on October 24, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

I freaked myself out! While searching on lore about the Ka’ahlen Swamp in Xhaiden Dale, I saw my name pop up on a Google search! Well, I’m one to try and follow directions and not give away quest solutions, so I went in to the link to see what I had given away. Turns out it was just a hint that the quest described existed. Whew!

Anyway, big news!! I’ve killed my first grizzly! I’m so excited! Actually, they aren’t that bad, except when they take a bite of your head. Now THAT hurts. I’ll have to go back in the logs to see how much one of those types of attacks hit for. I don’t quite remember. But it was something around 600-800hp. A lot when they’ve already worn you down to 1200hp total. And they’re a little quicker than you might expect. Probably 110-120% faster than I am at regaining balance as an Atavian. So they can hit two times to my one every once in a while.

Eww…it’s almost Mayaween (obviously to correspond with Oct. 31) and there is festivity decor to be sold in New Thera. Well, I bought a jack-o-lantern and a scarecrow for my grove. Well, the scarecrow is going to last through the holiday, but the pumpkin is only good for 5 days, meaning that it will decay before the actual holiday rolls around. So I’ll have to buy another. Anyway, I was just resting to regain endurance here while typing this out and I saw the jack-o-lantern grin dark and wickedly. Even though it didn’t move. Freaky. I suppose waiting around in one room for a long time will cause things like that to happen.

Okay, update – I turned 31 about 6 months ago, and I’m on level 75 (Almighty) and 55% through it. Wow! I may hit 80 pretty soon here, in which case I will gain stability while flying! I can’t wait. And I’m 1606 lessons in to Groves, which means I have 130 left! I’ve never gotten this far in a skill before. I haven’t gotten my hypercure yet, but it’s coming soon. I mean, 8.5 lessons per regular credit = 16 credits to trans in groves, with a few lessons left over! Woo! And I can probably get 2 credits per day if it is a good day, and one if it is slow. And on top of THAT, there’s October’s lesson bonus of one lesson per credit-lesson conversion, meaning that each unbound credit is worth 9.5 lessons! Which doing the math again, comes out to 14 credits instead of 16! A HUGE savings of 2 credits worth. Haha.

I’m thinking…I have a spreadsheet I use to budget my Achaean bank account. Maybe I should attach that somehow. Put it on a public drive somewhere or something. It’s really useful, actually. I have categories for lesson credits, artefact credits, housing, credit sales, mounts and general spending. Plus there are a few columns to allocate where free or unallocated credits will go (if I win or buy one not from either the housing, lessons or artefact funds). It’s not perfect, but it’s really quite useful, as I know that I can’t just pull all the gold from my bank account and spend it frivilously on lessons. I used to, and I still don’t have any artefacts. Of course, the way to do artefacts is to buy them online, but I don’t want to do that just yet. I don’t have enough stupidity to waste real money on that sort of thing.

Okay. I think this is getting long enough. Ta-ta for now!

10-19-08

Posted on October 19, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Here, I’ve done it again! It seems I can never keep on top of this thing. But oh well. Okay, so I was wondering how I was doing blog-wise. I read a help file on questing a few weeks ago and found that publishing answers and guides to quests is a huge violation and can result in permanent kicking from the entire game. Yikes! So I went through all of my posts and it seems that I’m alright. I mean, I could be getting pretty close to the line by saying which denizen gives gold and such, but I haven’t actually given any information on how to get the gold, so we’re good there.

On another note, all’s going well. For starters, I found a hidden village south of the Muurn river valley about 2 months ago. Can’t quite remember what it’s called, but it sure was interesting. Then I was taken to the bottom of Manara Burrow, into a hidden tunnel and down into a lava-filled place. Not sure what THAT was called either, but I at least died there.

Progress note: I’ve almost transed in Groves. I’m so excited. I gained my golem probably a week ago and just received harmonic dampening about 2 days ago. Now all I have left is hypercure and portability and I’ll be transed! Less than 50% left in the current skill level. As for meta, I’ve gotten my jaguar, which has been REALLY nice, since now everything dies in about 2/3 as many hits.

Apart from the war and my progress, not a lot is happening, so I’ll hang it up here.

Oh, that’s level 74 I think. Things are starting to slow down experience-wise.

6-5-08

Posted on June 5, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Early in the month, I spent my time learning the Grove skill from the dear Druidess Nixxe. After attaining the Rain ability, we discussed a few things before she moved on. That was in the early month.

Later in the month, I travelled to the deep Southern Vashnars where I climbed Mount Nicator to enter Erymanthus – The flying island above the mountin. I had visited it before while gaining my Voyager status, but it turns out I had not seen it all. I had only experienced the lower level of Erymanthus above the misty ascent from the gates. Here there was a waterway and a huge forest. But after wandering around some, I came upon a steep rise of a mountain. Finding that I could climb it, I did and discovered at the top a village known as Arcadia, where winged Atavians live. Of course, me being an Atavian, everyone there made me feel welcome.

Arcadia was reached by first wandering around the Erymanthus forest for a while, and then finding a cave, which I entered. This cave deepened into a long tunnel, which came out on the face of a hill. Climbing the hill, and following the path, I soon came to the gates, where I was greeted by the gatekeeper and addressed as “Dear Sister.”

Inside were somewhere around four to five different levels of city. Each level contained guards and archers. The first level consisted of the Plebians. Second was the farmers. Third level was the royalty. Fourth level was a market (in which the merchants did not sell anything). Fifth level was a university. In the middle of the university was a path that led to the top of Erymanthus and into the clouds where Lord Vastar’s Arcadian Temple was located. The temple is called the Sky Tower in which Cassandra, the healer-priestess resides. Of course why should I tell you about it. You can read it all for yourself at http://www.achaea.com/lore/Arcadia.

Welcome (First Post)

Posted on June 2, 2008September 5, 2019 by samakhulis

Welcome to this edition of Blogspot. Here I’m hoping to create a decent blog based off of the MUD Internet game Achaea, primarily the character Samakhulis of the Druids.

So…the deal is that I can’t stand surfing and finding AngelFire and Yahoo Achaea sites with all of their advertising and bragging, such as “My name is Smiktethor and I have (somehow) transed in all of the skills and have 5000000 credits to my name and I’m the strongest ever, even though I can’t prove it and blah, blah, blah….” Also, I’m tired of searching for help on certain aspects of the game and finding someone’s forum thread that gives some big log on the fight they had last month (yesterday).

I hope to accomplish a little more than the above, such as giving a detailed history/personal log without all of the extra junk.