An unspeakable horror happened about a week ago while I was hopped up on steroids to help me get through chemo. My good buddy, Calrain, said he wanted to give his big, fancy newly crafted spice crawler a spin . . . and I was all for it! PUT ME IN, COACH! I'm going to drive that magic hoover-mobile over all the spicy sands of the Deep Desert!
Cal did just that, and . . . I paid the ultimate price. Not only did I visit the bowels of the worm, but I went down while wearing all my good gear I had amassed and we lost the spice crawler. Ooph. Big hit! If I could replay that moment for you, it'd be incredibly cringe inducing in the following ways:
- Look, I should have never been in that spice crawler wearing all my good gear. I don't know what I was thinking, but if I was to blame it on something, I'm gonna blame it on the steroids. Brash! Bold! Caution to the wind!
- Why did I go down with the crawler?! I could have easily popped out and ziplined myself to the side to escape the worm's jaws of death? I just didn't think about it for some reason. (Can I blame this one on chemo brain? It's the perfect out for me lately when I do dumb stuff.)
Regardless, I remember saying "worm! worm! pick me up! worm! WORM! CALRAIN! IT'S A WORM!" and just recoiling into my chair, lifting my legs off the ground, as Cal missed the opportunity to snag me up by a hair, and I was swallowed whole. Immediate regrets were felt. I was wearing a full set of T6 gear with a bunch of T6 tools in my backpack, and it was all gone in an instant. (I wish I would have got a screenshot of the moment.)
Luckily I had some pretty good T5 gear from the latest update (I love the capstone Swordmaster set of clothes), and we had enough components to rebuild the sand crawler in about 30 minutes. (Cal even felt bad enough about the compact compactor that he gave me his pattern /hugs.)
Since that time, I've been on the quest to rebuild my gear up once again, and I'm doing pretty good with that. In fact, we've been out again in the spice crawler and played it much safer -- dropping worm agro, hovering over the spice crawler, taking our time, etc.
So, long story short, we're back at it and at some point this will be a most forgettable road bump in our trailblazing path of glory.
OH YEAH, also, I decided to do some questing on the side and finished up all the capstone quests for each of the class types. I had finished Swordmaster and Bene Geserit already, but I decided, what the heck, I might as well finish up the Trooper, Mentat, and Planetologist. Much to my disappointment, the capstone quests didn't award me with more gear, but it did unlock styles for each of them. On second thought, no, I'm ok with that. There's nothing worse that taking up inventory space with clothes I won't ever wear. No biggie.
As for what comes next, well, I guess it's welcome to the grind . . . building up my T6 gear set again, playing the Lansraad event, and farming the ever-precious spice.
Happy Dueling!
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Was a definite learning experience buddy :) Memories are always a good takeaway. Still kinda feelin major guilt about watching you explode..... but, at least as far as grinding materials, for helping to build your T6 set back and get both Tipa and I into a set ourselves, we're well on our way. Spice is life.
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