by pumaFGT » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:04 pm
Several months back in W6, a large group of friends and I decided to start playing Haven & Hearth. I had only minor experience with the game, but enough that the rest of the group looked up to me as a leader. We spawned a fair distance away from a huge village and had tons of great natural resources and had a great time. We erected several houses, got some crops going, and were just about to start hunting when, one morning, we woke up to find a runestone outside of the area. The Republic of Melsonia was evicting us, as we were only a few hundred squares to the south of their southern border. It wasn't bad. They gave us some supplies and sent us on our way with no deaths.
For several hours we scoured the world map for somewhere we could inhabit--anywhere that we could lay down and call our home. Finally, on the other side of the world in a peaceful looking area was a large, triangle-shaped island created by three intersecting rivers. The Triangle, we called it, and we headed there on our boats. The journey took nearly two hours to complete, but by the time we arrived, it already felt like home. The houses and farms sprang up rapidly. Hunting was great. Many a boar, fox, and deer fell to our low quality slings. When, one day, a guy in a pumpkin mask showed up.
Part of the Pumpkinheads he told us in broken text talk, so abhorrent we could hardly understand him. If we didn't move he was going to kill us. His linen clothing was not intimidating, and after some trash talking he left. Feeling the pressure, we started to build our palisade. It was a slow process, since none of us had thought to raise INT, and we weren't finding any good curios out on the rivers. That's when a guy in necro robes and a Dhelm showed up. He was Russian.
We all knew and feared Dis, without ever having interacted with them. They're scary, right? What if this guy was a member of Dis? What if he was going to kill us all? "I'll be back later," he said, "with some stuff." Some stuff? We all thought we were going to die. We frantically built our palisade, but we were too late. Two boats approached our settlement an hour or two later and three men with weapons got out. "I brought the stuff," the original person said, and began unloading chests out of the boats onto our land. The other boat had a metal cauldron and grinder. The chests were full of high tier curios and food. Needless to say, we were very surprised.
We kinned him and his friend and lived merrily for another week. By this time I was rapidly losing interest in H&H, but was forced to log on when a friend informed me that the pumpkinheads were back, had broken our completed palisade with their bare hands, and killed two of our members. We planned a revenge. They would be back, they said, but we would be ready.
What happened next was very swift. We messaged our friend and explained the situation. Two guys came up, hid out in our houses, and waited for the pumpkinheads to come back. We stalled them at our gates with trash talking--they had swords out, so we knew we weren't in danger of ranged fire. While they were distracted, our friends came out of the houses, loaded up bows, and one-shotted both of the pumpkinheads in a matter of seconds. Needless to say we never had a problem again.