So a few days ago a wreckingball was left at my humble hearthvault hermitage. They had placed two hearthfires outside of my walls and
I couldn't see the scent of vandalism from when they had placed the wreckingball down (because of my low levels), so instead I just quickly disposed of the wreckingball and hearthfires and moved on with my day.
A nidbane was sent shortly afterwards.
I engaged the ghost and to my surprise it died within only a few punches.
It went a little something like this.
At this point it was pretty clear to me that whatever I had done these people were pretty butthurt about it.
I logged out for the night after successfully defending my teritoryah
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Some more time passed (at this point it had been about 4 days iirc) and I was greeted with a battering ram and a naked alt scouting my walls.
I have nothing in my vault, not even basic things like wood, tools (like a saw, important later) and even food. After reading over the patch notes on siege changes I realized that hand bashing the ram would take 4 RL hours or some dumb shit so I was forced to go out and gather materials for an archery tower.
Unfortunately, my first attempt to bring supplies back was a failure since on my way I happened to boat into the raiding party's knarr. There was one sombrero wearing bandit out by himself in the deep ocean. Bad luck for me (RIP my forage alt and his 2 traveling sacks)
At this point I was getting a little worried. I had seen the raider and he had seen me. This was going to make my future supply run attempts really really tricky.
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I knew of an nearby abandoned base that I would be able to gather more rope and cloth from for my archery tower. I had a plan. It was to yeet my fresh alt through the gates as fast as possible before they would have time to yell in Discord after entering their render.
Since I had no wood inside my walls I knew that I would have to do a few YOLO runs in and out to complete the archery tower. I decided to just wing and see what happened.
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When I arrived with the first supply drop of cloth and rope there was no one waiting for me. On top of that, they had even hand-delivered the wood that I needed right to my gates
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I guess their scout was slow to respond because I managed to open my gates and slip inside with all of the logs uncontested.
I thanked their scout character in area chat for the assist, and then I went inside my house to begin chopping blocks and sawing the remaining boards.
I had everything that I needed! I had won again!
Or so I thought.
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I immediately realized that I had no saw or any bones/boughs inside the walls. I would be unable to get the last 10 required boards to destroy their ram. I had to go back outside. At this point their scout character was back and watching me move around inside my walls.
This is when things started getting nuts.
I sent my alt outside on a log boat and strangled a rabbit for a saw. I then quickly made my way back to my gates where my main character was waiting with the gate key.
I went up on shore, I opened the door and as I was running inside the raider came out from off screen in a really fast knarr. I was fumbling with 2 clients open and so he was able to run in with me before I close my gate again.
These are from my discord messages to my friend:
The dude chased me inside my vault when I was running in.
He attacked me but I managed to go up and down the staircase until I lost combat with him. I slept in a bed but realized he would still be able to hit me in there if I was outlawed. I logged back on and he instantly re-attacked me. I got around him in my cellar and went back up the stairs while he was stacking coins. I ran straight out of my non-visitor gate and locked his ass inside lmao
And there he stood. Trapped in my walls, redhanded, with his knarr parked out front
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I hopped in my coracle in search of a safe place to wait out his red-handed status and to get my hands on more building materials/tools. My hope was that he would wait an hour, hearth home, and then I'd be able to hearth back inside safely with a full invent of archery tower bits.
I knew of an old vault nearby that was decaying and so I boated there, repaired some broken wall segments and waited out the hour.
During this time, more showed up at my vault.
I guess they realized that my character wasn't inside because they left shortly after in the direction of my main character. They arrived on screen, began bashing the decaying walls immediately, and I hearthed. Again, luckily for me, the trapped raider inside of my vault's redhanded must have worn off at the same time because when I appeared inside, he was no where to be found.
Safe at last
I now had a boat full of supplies and a quiver full of arrows with me inside of the vault. I crafted and loaded my archery tower and within 5 minutes the AD boys were back at my walls.
We exchanged words for the first time (I'm pink) and shortly after, they hearthed home.
The ram was destroyed within an hour, and I was able to sleep peacefully yet again in my lair.
Thank you for reading about my busy morning
