Mirgorod village official thread

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Here’s the story about our trip to Sodom. I'm sorry for all the mistakes here and bad grammar/stuff, but i'm little bit tired and can't write anything better..


There were only 2 of us who decided to make this trip – me(L0ck) and Rigeborod. We’ve been preparing for several days, been thinking about the options, like..like.. are we going to do the mapping during this trip, will we use the boats or take the wagon, also we were searching the maps, etc.We have decided to use a wagon, and don’t do the mapping during the road. Maps.. Maps.. Yeah, the maps. There were only 2 maps, our local Mirgorod grid map, and the Central Grid map. So, all the space between those territories we would cross with no maps, just going blind. It’s actually something about 4-5 SG between Mirgorod and Sodom, so, it was going to be a hell of a ride. Also, we had just one contact in Sodom, it was juhubert, their lawspeaker.

Few hours before departure I was running back and forth around the village finishing the Big Quest – “make some bronze armor for Rigeborod while our smith was offline for the weekend”. I was running, running and runnig, and then actually made it. The quality was the same as of my own armor (thanks to J&L for adding STR into the crafting formula) , so I took the new armor and gave my old one to Rigeborod (I was hit once, so there was minus ~300hp on my armor, and I guess as me being a warrior and Rigeborod isn’t, it’s better for me to have as much armor hp as I can get, and Rigeborod actually need just to survive the first hit to get a chance to run away if something will happen).
From now on – all the screenshots are clickable.


"Before the departure. From left to right – L0ck, Mithry, Atron, Rigeborod ".

Our wagon was parked at the northern dock, at the start of the Ember Road. We took some food, checked our inventories, I took a pipe with some tobacco and then we got OM (Oscar Mike = On the Move). The main direction of our travel was – South-South-West.


"Departure".

But, we were forced to move in the opposite direction, cuz of the geographical features of our supergrid. It was easier for us to go north along the road, and then turn east, to come around the rivers in the area and then turn south, moving down by the pure ground and forests. Oh, jeez, the forests..

So, we departured.


"Ehm.. Rige, we gotta be heading south..." (c) L0ck
It was great while we were moving thru the known territories, having a map around. But, this good sense of awareness, “tactical awareness”, it was rapidly changed by a sense of concern, little fear of the unknown. Who knows what’s out there around the corner? I’ve been travelling the unknown territories, but never this far away from home.

When I first time logged in this game, I was making the stone axes, gathering the roots, ate carrion (ehm.. dead animals killed not by me, but by someone else). So, I was really thinking about myself as a “cave man”. But I had no appropriate shelter. But this guy – he’s got it all.He’s a real cave man.

*speaks like barbarian* "%username% live teh cave, rawwrr!"

Grassland is definitely great, but soon or later you’ll be standing by at the river you need to cross. Or even several of them. And here comes the main advantage of the wagon – it’s not a boat, which you should take above your head all way long during the trip. With a wagon you can take some rafts and ride all way long with a good speed, and sometimes get rafts out to cross some rivers. So, with a wagon, you can move in the proper direction all the time, you’re dictating the heading, not rivers. Also, the wagon is a hell of a container. Huge vault. You can take whatever you need in it. Wagons rule!

"Maybe we should go like that all the way to Sodom? =) " (c) L0ck

"Raft is turning.. raft is turning.. into the pile of logs."

Oh, yeah, the wagon also contains some fodder for our ox, some fodder for L0ck, and some food for Rigeborod %).We haven’t ate even a half of it at the end of a trip, but, it’s still good to have some wherever you are.
Some time later we started to see some settlements. A lot of newbie ones, but there were also “the adult ones”. And all of them were looking abandoned. Lotsa holes in their walls, decaying stuff… No other words needed.

"A village of the drowned people. %)"

Also, we’ve met some of the villagers of such settlements. This guy must be chillin in the shadow of the big stone near the water:

"Communal farm Shining Path" -- "Even horses are dying from a hard work."


To be continued…

[Sarge]

cool dude

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Here you go, the second part of the story


During all those multiple crossing overs our ox was continuously trying to run away somewhere. And once he did. And we’ve lost him for some time. The bastard was hiding under the trees nearby.


"Ehmm.. L0ck, where’s our ox? " (c) Rige

We’ve been reading some runestones from time to time, and somehow managed to find some village. Both of us got out the wagon to look up the name of the village.. and then bang – it’s Mirror Passage, Keyn’s village! He’s our old friend, even before we got into H&H(maybe it’s he who brought us here, I’m not sure). So, it was very funny to go blind for about 1supergrid and manage to accidently find his village. Also, there were must have been the old 7C village somewhere around, if I’m not mistaking. But we didn’t find it.

- What is it? (c) Atron
*Rige and L0ck laughing out loud in teampeak channel and can’t answer anything else*

After this, we’ve continued our journey. And the forests were getting tighter and tighter, even pathless sometimes. It was me and Rige driving the wagon by turns, and when it was my turn to drive – we’re always skidding/stalling around trying to find the way out smashing our wagon on every single tree on our path.


"L0ck, I guess you don’t feel the external dimensions of the wagon yet, huh? 8)" (c) Rigeborod

Anyway, it didn’t matter who was driving, there were GIGANTIC amount of the trees on our path, so it was very exhausting ride.


"Oh no, not _again_... >_<" (c) L0ck

By this time, it was something about 5+ hours on the road since we’ve left Mirgorod. And all this road we’re driving completely blind, with no reference points (except Mirror Passage, but we’re not sure about its location, so it doesn’t count). There was also the village Prontera near Mirror Passage. Juhubert was far away from Sodom (as everyone else, I guess) , so we couldn’t get a party direction cue. But Juhu recognized the village name and gave us some directions. We’re on the right heading. But it was really late, and we set up a camp for a night, made some claim, fence (so our ox didn’t run away), made some warning runestone. And then we went offline to get some sleep.


"You can hide the wagon only under the large house" (c) Rige

While Rige was sleeping, I decided to go out for some recon mission. There’re ruins all over the world. Oh, and I forget to tell you about the cut trees everywhere. There’s really a shitload of them. Seriously. :\
During my recon mission, I made a boat, cuz I was tired of walking. I was floating around, and didn’t find anything interesting. Only the pure post-apoc everywhere.
We’ve got some directional/heading update on the next day. The new heading to Sodom was “200”, which means almost South-West. We disassembled our temporal camp and moved on.


"Thru the jungles"

Yeah, jungles. It was the most difficult part of our trip. But, thanks to J&L (lol, you can spell their initials as “jay lo” XDDDD), there’s not much of jungles out there. It was hard to watch for trees, especially in the dark. So, we were using NVGs to make our way thru. But, there were also the swamps! And they’re amazing, cuz you can somehow drive on it with a full speed!


"The swamp is a lie! There’s no swamps for us %)"

There’re some roads in the H&H world, and all of them are different. But, if the road is wider than ~500 tiles the creator will definitely place lotsa runestones around it with the signs “here’s the tuffest and biggest road in the whole world”. Jeez, guys, you’ve never been to Mirgorod!


"%username%'s Big Road. Ignorant bi~ simply haven't heard about it"

And then suddenly Rigeborod told me in teamspeak (we’re using teamspeak all the time, actually) – “Hey, L0ck, congrats, we’ve made it to the Central Grid!” I tried to look this place up on the map, but I failed. But, Rige was right, we’re in the right place, at the upper right corner of the Central Grid. And now all what’s left were.. ehm.. to come around the huge system of rivers and to go to the grid's east border, so we can go along the border amost all the way down to Sodom.


"Our course thru the Central Grid”

When we stepped on the ground of the Central Grid, the nice inner feeling of calmness returned to us, like it was at the start of the trip. The settlements we’ve seen on our way were looking more friendly for us. Here’s our goal, we’re almost there.


"yaaaaaay, we’ve made it!"

And here it is, Sodom. I sent some pm to Juhu asking him to come out and meet us. And then BANG! My game client just froze. Jeeeez. I’m trying to log in, but I can’t! I logged off on the Sodom’s claim. The only way to log in game for me was to log in on my hf. Jeez. At the end of our journey, I jumped all the way back to Mirgorod cuz of this bullsh~. Yes, I logged in, standing in the Mirgorod. Rigeborod is our chieftain and he tried to summon me with the skill, but it was saying “you’re too tired”, so I didn’t have enough AGI to jump that far. Jeez..Juhu suggested me to temporally join Sodom, destroy my hf and jump to the village. And this is how I managed to get back to Sodom. Well, at least we’ve made all the way to Sodom by our foot.
And here you go, I’m in Sodom


"Exchanging with our signs"

Then we got out the village to find Rige. Teleported thru the wall, met him and went to get our tour. But….


"Screw you, guys, you won’t get a tour"

Some time later the server was up again, and it got rolled back. Jeez! Rigeborod was standing at the upper right corner of the Central Grid again, the Nople sign got lost, we’ve lost our wagon with the ox, but still got the Mirgorod signs. I asked Juhu to give me a boat so I could get Rigeborod back to Sodom. And I made all the way back thru the Central Grid to grab Rige back. It was him driving the boat on our way back, cuz it was really late (like 2 am) and I was exhausted after this boat trip thru the whole grid. Anyway, we got back, and Juhu organized some really great tour for us, showed us the Sodom in all its glory. Jeez, Sodom is a real city, it’s not just a village! It’s huge! And we were very amazed by it. It’s really nice to see such monumental stuff in this game. I can’t show you other screenshots from Sodom, sorry


"At the beginning of our tour, Sodom Plaza"

When the tour was over, me and Rige jumped to the Gauss village near by to make some contacts and have some chat. Rige stayed there, and I headed to the Constantinople.



"The Center of Constantinople, Embassy of Sodom"

The Embassy of Sodom reminded me the Deepscorn Hollow from the addon to Oblivion game. Same style, I guess %)

Yeah, the last thing I forgot to tell you. When we were forcing our way thru the forests, I thought… Why don’t we have an air balloons to travel thru the world? XD Dunno if anyone suggested this earlier, but, I guess it’s cool idea %).

Well, yeah, it was really nice trip, and I’m glad we've actually made it. Thank you guys for helping/watching/reading!

Don't forget about the screenshots being clickable.

[DatOneGuy]

Wow, that was a cool story.

I'm impressed at such a long journey, I wonder if anyone has ever made one so long before (and recorded it).


I hope most of it wasn't forest, it's such a pain.

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Wow, that was a cool story.

I'm impressed at such a long journey, I wonder if anyone has ever made one so long before (and recorded it).


I hope most of it wasn't forest, it's such a pain.

Thank you I hope we'll never see again guys on forums saying "you don't hear much about good russians" %)))

Yeah, forest was really some pain in the arse. And it maybe was the most part of our path, a half at least.

[Sarge]

Yeah, really cool story, I enjoyed reading it. You guys have balls to travel that far man, well done.

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Yeah, really cool story, I enjoyed reading it. You guys have balls to travel that far man, well done.

Thank you
But, well, it was just something about 5 supergrids which is not that much, i guess.. It's not even the half size of the present world, so..
Actually, i didn't expect us to make this trip just in two days, but we did



Also. When we came back to Mirgorod, we've found some scents around. Some guys took stuff from us. We've found them and then killed them by summoning with scents.
Don't ever steal, guys. Just try to ask, we could of give such stuff (scythe, etc) for free if we can, and we usually do. It's social game, try to socialize, do not force us to summon you on hf while you're offline, we can't really talk that way.

[juhubert]

very nice to see your trip journal proper translated. the google translation made me laugh hard sometimes, but surely didn´t transport any useful meaning. so thank you again for doing the translational work. i sure did enjoy reading it as i did enjoy your brief wording, when we met at Sodom. so if you ever got the time for a visit again, feel free to drop in.

Thank you I hope we'll never see again guys on forums saying "you don't hear much about good russians" %)))

well, we always strongly divided between the good, the bad and the ugly

and as in rl: an asshole is an asshole, no matter what race, religion, nationality, age or gender it got

It's social game, try to socialize, do not force us to summon you on hf while you're offline, we can't really talk that way.

THIS!!

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Thanks, juhu

Mmm.. Some of our guys decided to extend our road to the south, and they want to lay it all the way down to the Central Grid (5 supergirds O_o). Kinda ambitious plan, but doable. There're some "regular patterns" in supergrid's structure which allow that kind of the road building - the SG's bodrers seems to have no rivers crossing it, so you can build the road along such borders. Dunno if we'll even reach the borders of our SG, but.. we'll try.

There's the example based on the map of the Central Grid:



Same thing you can see at the center/top of our map here:



So, if this assumption is right, we can do some really solid road, without crossing rivers.

[juhubert]

you aue assuming correct. since the supergrids are lone maps in itself, just stitched together. so you won´t find any river, mudflat, cliffs or similar crossing the borders between supergrids, so your best bet would be to bouild a road on the very border.