Wall of text incoming - TL;DR - Tried to trade and it went poorly. Skip to the last paragraph before picture if you want to skip the details.Played a bit on and off all day. Mostly getting screwed over trying to trade. I figured I'd save some time and post a topic on the wildshadow forums about buying a pyramid ring for 10 life pots and just casually bump the topic every day. I dont have the funds to actually use the ring, but I'd have it and once I banked enough FG I'd 'purchase' it from myself, just like the life pots I posted about a few back. Actually these are those same life pots.
So anyway I'm bumping this topic each night and eventually someone sends me a /tell in game. Hes fine with my offer of 10 life pots, but not willing to go first since its a multi window trade. That's understandable because neither was I. At this point I'm like oh well back to farming, but then he says if I trade the life pots for an Inc, he'll do 1 inc+6 life pots. Single window trade. More work then I wanted to do, but I figured why not, shouldnt be that hard to get an inc for 4 life.
So I put up a topic on jsp and on the wildshadow forums, no bites. Then I spot someone selling a single Inc for 4 life. Perfect. Send him a message in game and he says "1 min oryx." Cool this should end up being an easy trade after all. 15 minutes go by and I send another /tell letting him know I'm on his server by the vault portal, in case he forgot about me. He replies "4 man oryx, going to take a little while." Ok no problem I can wait. I'm tabbing in and out waiting for him to show or send me a message. After 30 minutes more I hit him up again - User offline. I try every minute or two for the next 10 before giving up. At this point I'm not mad because anything could have happened. His internet could have crashed, or he might have even died and raged quit before logging back in.
So knowing I just wasted a large amount of time I start heading towards the realms to begin farming again. Before I make it in I noticed the chat "Selling Inc 3 life." Well holy shit, just that quick and easy I trade for the Inc for 1 less life pot then originally intended. Made up for the giant waste of time.
Here's where I get a little irritated tho. I message the guy I was buying the pyramid ring off of telling him I got the Inc, and asking where we should meet. No reply. That's fine I'm afk in game all the time. I send him a message every ~5-10 minutes for the next hour while farming. Never heard back from him. The game never said he wasnt online, but I know it auto kicks you after like 20 minutes. I'll always wonder if he was trying to scam thinking I wouldnt get an Inc, and giving in to going first. I'll never know for sure tho.
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On to the farming update. Mostly doing the same old stuff at this point - UDLs as much as possible, occasionally getting sucked into doing a sprite world or snake pit, and trying to get to pentas before anyone else notices so I can snag all the loot. I also nearly died twice. Inside the Manor dungeon I find the secret room. I'm not that experienced with these but I figure its just 2 coffins that dont hit back. Kill em, get loot, move on. A ton of bats come out and I wasnt ready at all. End up nexusing with only a tiny bit of health left. Second close call was in Abyss. I figured now would be a good time to start farming these, and if I took my time I'm sure I would have been fine, but I'm trying to rush through. End up nexusing there as well.
Time played(includes that trading mess, 55 wasted mins) - 131 mins
+6 def
+4 att
+2 wis
+3 dex
+8 spd
+1 vit
Bow of Fey Magic(oryx)
Tradeables:
250fg (adding 200fg for saving a life pot off that inc deal)
9 def
8 spd
9 dex
Coral Trap
cSword
T5 Tome
T9 Bow
T10 Bow
T10 Wand
T10 Leather Armor
This post was edited by KakeWalk on Apr 27 2012 11:10pm