One more mission, I thought, one more time, see if I can reach 12 before I go to bed.
Riiiiiiiiiiight. No.
So, I pass up some missions in Rome Blue (where I happened to be, and pretty much the only place I knew how to get around) for a mission in Galway Shire. It was worth a good deal of credits and I was saving up for a new doc nano. Now I'd missioned in the Shire once before... and got so lost on my way back that it took me damn near 3 hours to figure out where the hell Rome was.
Well, I've done it once, surely it'll be easier this time!
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. No.
Don't get me wrong. I didn't get lost on my way back from the mission like last time. No. I one upped that. I got lost on my way TO the frellin mission!
Actually, thats not entirely true. I found the mission alright. Was about 2 feet from the entrance. That was when I realized I couldn't actually MOVE to the entrance.
Let me backtrack a bit. Have you ever found yourself in a place that you're pretty sure the creators of the game never intended anyone to go?
Well, as I left Rome for this lovely mission I turned the direction my compass told me to go. And met a lovely fence.
Damn fence! I thought somewhat annoyed. Gonna take twice as long if I have to go around this stupid mountain!
That was when I had the bright idea of trying to bypass the fence right where it met said Mountain, and it was only about an inch tall.
It didn't work at first. For that matter it didn't work at second or third either. But right when I was about to give up and go ALL the way around, I somehow made it over the fence!
Rock on! I think happily.
I traveled a few more feet down the deserted road when the compass tells me to go directly over the mountain. No problem! And up the mountain we go. Slowly. Very slowly. It's way steep and I have to keep sidestepping. After several minutes (and the brief thought that it may have been quicker to just go around the damn thing) I make it up.
So there I am on the top of a mountain. And it's flat. And grey. And BIG. I begin running toward the mission.
After several minutes of encountering NOTHING, I begin to get worried.
Of coarse it wasn't until I made it to the other side of the vast mountain of death that I realized what was wrong. It wouldn't let me down. No matter what I did.
Well, I could try a /stuck. I think to myself. But thats silly, I can get down, I'll just keep running along the edge till I find a place thats not so steep!
So I run...
and run.....
and run.......
*I'm* beginning to get tired from watching my alt run forever.
Finally I see a place I can get down fairly easily, so I do. and find myself stuck at the foot of the mountain instead. Crap. I climb back up. And run.
I swim a river that is mysteriously flowing upwards and zone. Really have no clue where I'm at now. It flat, grey and boring up here. So I run.
I keep trying to get down to no avail.
As I'm running, I see another zone wall.
And pass it.
Interesting, I think, it doesn't come up here. Shibby.
After another millenia of running, and the realization that I can no longer feel the finger thats been holding down the "w" key, I try to get off the mountain again.
And it WORKS! Yay! Go me! I rock! I am the most rockin n00b on rubi-ka! I shall do a dance now!
So I turn myself around and head back the way I came, this time thru the forest. As I come up to the zone wall I saw earlier I encounter a new problem. I can't zone.
I hang my head in agony at my own idiocy. I didn't zone coming here, I won't zone going back, 'cause it thinks I'm still there. Oh hell.
At this point I cancel the mission, it's just not gonna happen. Then I turn and head the other way, maybe I can find a different zone that will let me thru. As I'm running thru the forest I notice a vast field ahead. Looks kinda funny. Looks almost... *bangs head on desk* incomplete! I can go no further.
With the mountain on one side (which I refuse to climb again) a useless zone on the other, and an incomplete playfield on the third, I head the only way left to me. Eventually I hit a road. Not that it'll do me any good, I'm totally blocked in.
As I hit the useless zone again I sigh in defeat. scream out something nasty to the empty world I am in, and /terminate. A graceful bow-out if I've ever done one.
The n00b hath been defeated by the game.
I picked up my remains, sat my n00b ass down, and camped out. If I'd had to run even another four feet to the reclaim terminal I may very well have gone insane.
--Kayten
That's fer sure.
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