Mr Neverdie..... Sir

Now as you know, I'm new to this PE thing, but over the last day or so I've been reading about this "terrible conspiracy" that Mr Neverdie (Sir) had some sort of deal going with MA.

I just have to voice myself on this...... bear with me.......



..... almost there......



SO FUCKING WHAT!!! (excuse the foreign language there!!!)

Who in there right mind cares?

Mr Neverdie (Sir) is one of those people (never met him mind) that keep this sort of thing (PE that is) going! He appears (on the face of things) to be an avid gamer, passionate about his interests. If he wants to mortgatge his (real life) house to buy... well lets face it.... nothing... (virtually speaking) then let him. I'm sure it will be a success and I wish him so. Just cut it out and give the fella a break. At the end of the day.... would you have put up $100,000??? hmmm didn't think so!

I would put a "+rep" here, but I aint got a clue what it means, it just sounds good!!!

Rant over.... Laters all.

Day 12 - Lets go fly a kite, up to the highest height!

Well, not really fly a kite, but I had been told, by one of my trusted sources (thanks DaleJW) that there was a good mining spot (*not sure I should mention where*) anyway, what this dear friend of mine forgot to tell me was that there were more mobs enroute to this position than I'd had sesame seeds!

I tried several different ways round, getting the odd small loot from mining or MOB, getting killed more often than not, but not giving up. Now an interesting thing I ran into was this large mosquito looking thing... or rather a buinch of 6 of the buggers!!! damn they hurt. I realised after several attempts that if I could get to water, I could dive under and escape their nasty pricks (pun possibly intended!!!)

This was all good and well, but wasn't helping me get enmatter stuff!. I will keep trying, but I'm thinking of swapping to mineral mining (if I have enough PED) I'm not sure this will present any more rewards, but hell I'm gonna try!!

Anyway, as it draws closer to Christmas, I maybe lacking in the update arena, but rest assured I will return, to spread my stories and gossip.

In the mean time I'd like to thank all of you that have said "Hi" to me in PE and thankyou for you advice, help and assistance!

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy gaming new year.....

BIG BAD T.H.

Day 11 - Oh what a beautiful morning!!

It has been a couple of real days since my fantastic 134 looting session, and this was the first opportunity that I had had to get back on line.... damn you christmas parties!!!

I arrived where I had logged out the other day, wondering what I should do. I had read about mining and fancied trying it out. So I found a trade terminal, and spent some of my hard won loot buying the necessary Enmatter mining gear!!

I was a professional now... I had guns and mining stuff. I'd read about various strategies when it comes to mining and thought.... sod them.... I have my own.

Travel in a straight line.... kill stuff that gets in the way.... lay the odd mining thingy every 30 seconds or so.... hope for the best!

Now for the most part this worked. I was getting better returns than for just hunting, but nothing substantial, so after several hours of this and a fair amount of loot, I did some deals, got some peds back and retired for the night!

Day 10 - Forgive me father 'cos I have sinned!

It's been 5 real world days since my last blog. and I've managed to have a couple of sessions on PE. And what sessions they were!!!

Day 10, well, it started out as usual, I wanted to explore, so I headed towards the north East, where I hadn't ventrued before. After several run in's with big beasties and one time that I just died (damn that contaminated zone!!! <-- no one told me of that one did they!!) I got to Caravan!!! From there I teamed up with some fellas and got to Fort Zeus!!! I almost had a full house now!!

Anyway, I was bored of exploring.... I wanted to kill stuff.... (I'm not sure I'm the type of cuddly hamster you think I maybe!!) .... so I had in mind where I wanted to go, its my favourite killing ground you see!! (and no I'm not telling you where!!!... well unless you find me in game that is!!!)
I was happy killing stuff, here a mob, there a mob everywhere a mob mob.... when all of a sudden..... Kazam.... I hit the jackpot. I had just finished off a mob, a fairly small one at that, and all hell broke loose!!!

I had stars around my avatar.... the floor was glowing.... the little chat box had my name in it.... what the??? I realised pretty swiftly that I had been rewarded with a substantial loot!!! It totalled 134 PED, and contained 2 reasonably sized guns, some real life PEDs and some other rubbish that I can't remember! I couldn't believe my luck, after all the downs of the last few days I was on an up!

Now being the greedy, penny pinching, scrooge type person I was I continued for a while with the old axe getting the odd loot, hoping that it would re-occur but to no avail! Nothing like my amazing 134! I was a happy hamster. I had money, I had weapons.... the world is mine!!!!

Anyway, It was late so I shuffled back into my toilet roll and went to sleep, dreaming of what was to come!!!

Day 9 - The fruit of my labour.

Now, before we begin..... I'm feeling ill..... not just a little ill.... very ill.... as ill as and ill thing on national ill day.... my stomach feels like someone has put one of those walrus things in it and stuck an oil barrel up its ass!

Anyway, enough of the complaining, last night I set out with a spring in my step, well actually I set out at a walking pace. I had read a tutorial about finding fruit and dung and it said you have to walk slow. I decided that I couldn't be bothered to systematically search one area so I just set off from Twin Peaks and headed towards a TP I hadn't got yet... kinda northerly in derection. I walked.... and walked.... and walked. Yep all the bloody way (* and yes it took ages and yes my finger hurt and yes I managed to watch Eastenders at the same time!*)

As I approached the new TP with nothing in hand and not really knowing what I was looking for (has anyone seen an image of fruit or dung on the web???) it happened....

This big white looking thing, well about the size of bunny rabbit (in relation to my avatar!) appeared on screen. I almost walked straight passed it!!! talk about not giving you much notice!!!

I click on it and up popped the loot box saying I had got 14 caroot (must be a play on words!!) I was so excited I almost went for a run in my exercise wheel!

As always, the first thing I did was check out the value.... and...... nothing.... what the... all that for a worthless piece of (I was going to put dung here but that might confuse!!) vegetable!

I was disheartened once again! oh well... at least I know what it looks like!

So off I went to the new TP, wandered around a bit, annoyed a few people, and then had a sneaky idea!!!!

[The plan]: Recruit a hunting team. Go hunting. Get them to kill the beasties. Claim the rewards (or part of them.... I'm not that mean!!)

So back to twin peaks I went rubbing my hands together in a "Mr Burns" esque kind of way! I managed to get one team member for Speedy's Sausage Skins! Disappointing, but still... worth trying out the plan!! I may then be able to repair my Axe!!!

Off we went.... found a beasty.... He killed the beasty (*cackle cackle*)... I get 90 pec!!! hurrah!!

Off we went again.... found a beasty.... he hung back..... I got killed!!! DAMN!!!

He must have sussed me.... he left the team and I was only 90 PEC richer. Not bad for a sneaky idea though!!!

I repaired my axe as much as poss and went to one of my secret hunting grounds!!!! I found a beasty.... killed the beasty(all by my self *big grin*)... got 2 PED loot...oooooooo

Repaired the axe a bit more.... found another beasty... killed the other beasty.... got 5.5PED loot..... damn that must be the best loot I ever got!!!!

I was on a roll!!!

Found another beasty.... started killing the beasty.... 2 other beasties joined.... I got killed!!! DAMN.

But.... the lesson for today is that things do get better! I now have a fully repaired axe, a fully broken one, a pistol (yep still got "the Pacifier") thats almost busted and no ammo (so yes the pistol is useless!)

At this point I was feeling more ill than a goldfish in an ice box so I turned in for the night, but had a sneaky suspicion that I would return to triumphant glory tomorrow.

Only time will see!

Day 8 - Wheres the nearest oxfam shop?

Day 8..... well what can I say? I was fairly tired, well infact my eye lids felt like they had the weight of a fat lady eating Mc donalds on them, possibly a bad idea to play PE, but I wanted to keep the hamster active!

So...... it was slow.... I didn't have much of a plan, I just fancied killin' stuff. Strolling through the glades west of twin peaks killing the odd MOB with not much trouble. I must have spent an hour or so at this game.... every now and again having to repair the old axe (I was completely out of ammo for "The Pacifier"), gradually using up most of my PED's and inventory (see previous post). This had to stop.... the ROI in hunting by myself was about 10%... not good enough. I get better returns singing Christmas Carols in July (Yes..... I have done this!!!)

I returned to Twin Peaks, and resurrected "Speedy's Sausage Skins" and started to recruit. I got one volunteer. So we set off... back to where I had been so successful the other night. This time things didn't go so well.... still not much loot and the guy I recruited wasn't as good as I had hoped. We didn't survive long. Lots of deaths and absolutely no PED's left.... I became disheartened and turned in for the night saying my fond fair wells to "Of" <-- that was his name... honest!

This is probably the lowest point of my life as an entropian, but I am determined not to give up. I'll try and get back into it tonight, perhaps find someone who will team up for a bit, and hopefully gain a few PED's back, Either that or I'll be the one dancing like it's 3AM and annoying the odd person!!

The only other option is to cash in "The Pacifier!" (I can hardly stand to write this... *sob sob sniffle sniffle*) Can it be true that my first pistol will be my undoing....... Tune in next time to find out!

Fairwell my trusted friends!

The end of a long week.... My inventory.

I just found out that by logging into http://www.project-entropia.com I can get a list of my items. So for your viewing pleasure..... here they be:



Name Quantity Value Container
1 Colonist Standard Issue jumper (M) 1 0.00 PED Used
2 Colonist Standard Issue slacks (M) 1 0.00 PED Used
3 Exarosaur skin 1 0.10 PED Carried
4 FreanD Alpha BLP Pistol 1 6.02 PED Used
5 Goblin Armor arm-guards (M) 1 2.62 PED Used
6 Goblin Armor face-guard (M) 1 2.00 PED Used
7 Goblin Armor gloves (M) 1 2.71 PED Used
8 Goblin Armor harness (M) 1 4.00 PED Used
9 Goblin Armor shin-guards (M) 1 3.40 PED Used
10 Goblin Armor thigh-guards (M) 1 2.70 PED Used
11 Light BLP Pack 28 0.28 PED Carried
12 Project Entropia Cents 253 2.53 PED Carried
13 RepEdge Battle Axe 1x0 1 0.16 PED Carried
14 RepEdge Battle Axe 1x0 1 7.00 PED Carried
15 Urban Nomad Walker shoes (M) 1 0.00 PED Used
16 Urban Nomad White briefs (M) 1 0.00 PED Used
17 Vibrant Sweat 206 0.00 PED Storage

There.... that wasn't too painful was it!!

Cheerio big ears!!!

Day 7 - Oh what a night....

...Late December back in 2005....
Between this and my last time in PE I found out that I can get to a new continent.... Amethera!! oooooo the excitement.... I could hardly wait.

So job 1, get there.... no problem here, got to a TP, changed continent, selected Treasure Island (a ha me hearties!!!) and kazam!! I was there.

Now from my browsings on the web I remember there being a TP to the North East and a TP to the South west. So being a southener by birth I set off in a south westerly direction all the time admiring the scenery that lay before me and occasionally spouting some pirate speak at passers by!!! Oh how beautiful.... look at the pretty trees.... oooo a red blob!!

I couldn't resit..... Axe in hand a gave a final shout of "Shiver me timbers" and I headed towards what looked from a distance like a skinny mammoth. Yep, you know one of those extinct elephant things!!

I swung my axe like I had never done before, slicing and dicing the elephant as he zapped me with some sort of electrical tenticals. If I'd have had my hair any longer it would be looking like that professor bloke out of Back to the future!

Eventually with about 5% health left the bugger was dead. "hurrah!!!" I crowed in a pirate kind of accent... "...that'll be teachin' the scurvy dog...ha ha ha ha!!!" What no loot.... "darn the land lubber... I'll be dancin' the hempen jig before I show another powder monkey to davy jones' locker!"

At this point I was far enough away from my original TP to be closer to the one I was headed for.... I hit the T key and waited (A nice little trick even if I do say so myself!!)

"Ta da" I was at the new TP. (Works like a charm that one!!!) I had a wander, looked at a few residences and then decided to head for the other TP. I beamed back to my orignal one and then set off in a "Nor' Easterly!" direction... "We'll be drinkin' grog from an hogs 'ead before nightfall"

About 2 minutes into the trip, 2... I say again 2 little T rex's appeared. I had no chance... I almost got 50% health from one but as the pair of them showed me the door to Davey Jones locker.. I decided it might be better to try this again with some reinforcements!!

I beamed back to Twin Peaks... My old faithful stomping grounds and said "I'll be drivel swiggin' the poop deck of amathera another day".

Once there, I decided to reserect "Speedy's Sausage Skins!!" I got 3 recruits... one of whom I booted fairly quickly as he didn't follow 'me orders.... (Damn it I love pirates!!!) we had a good session of hunting till my axe decided to give up the ghost at which time the team dispanded as they didn't want to wait for my return.... (I heard EPIC's voice in my head saying I needed two axes!!!)

As I pottered around from TP to TP, just causing the odd bit of mischief I came across a fella by the handle "007" offering an axe for sale.... I couldn't resist!! I haggled and haggled... and finally got one ( a very broken one I must say) for 4.5 PED. I get the feeling I may have been ripped off a bit, but I needed an axe.

Back to Twin Peaks for me!!!... Now with one good axe and one bad axe!! I sat around for a few minutes trying to recruit some members to "The SKINS" as I was now affectionatley calling my team. I got one guy who promptly called me a "cheater"... me... a cheater... I don't know how. As you guys are aware I've only played this for a week, I didn't even know you could cheat... (can you?) anyway at this point a fella by the name DaleWJ (*respect*) pipped up that he had read my blog. I was pleasently suprised.... word is spreading!!! It turned out his kid was playing at the same time (KYLE I think... please correct me if I am wrong!) after a few pleasentries, and DaleWJ giving his kid 500PED to go spend on a new weapon (very long... very pointy...don't want to get on the wrong side of that testosterone!!!) he agreed to go hunting with me!

He showed me some prime hunting ground.(ssshhhh its a secret!!!) and also mentioned that it was good for mining (mental note: bear this in mind for later episodes!!) We slashed and cut our way through several fair sized beasties... not much loot coming, but it was good experiance... all of a sudden things got better... I was getting loads of PED's (well loads for me... nothing like 500 but enough to keep me quiet!!), I even died once and DaleWJ carried on hunting while I repaired my axe and caught up with him.... and then it happened.....


I GOT A GUN!!!!


Yep, a real virtual full bodied imaginary firearm!!! ****Halleluiah **** <--- think Handel's messiah!!

Ooo baby... a nice little pistol it was too, all pretty and everything!

Just as all good things must come to an end... DaleWJ had to go (thanks to his: I'm sure beautiful wife who slaves all day over a hot stove, requesting his presence at the dining table!!)

So at this point I had to get ammo.... I cashed in all my not really useful things... basically anything that wasn't armour or a weapon and repaired the pistol and bought some ammo!!!

Now being the sensible, non excitable person that I am... I decided to take it easy.. Back to PA and kill a few small beasties!!!

And kill I did, with my 2 axes and new found friend "The pacifier!" <-- yes I named my first gun!! oooo shes a beaut!!!

As midnight approached, and the eyelids were closing I shut down old betsy (<-- yes my laptop has a name too!!! ) and headed for Lala <---- thats what I sometimes call my wife when shes not in range or hasn't got a solid object in hand!!!

Ta ra for now!

Day 6 - Team work.

Another day another dollar... well PED anyway. Afer yesterday's rather dissapointing start I had given this some thought..... I need to create a team... get some big beefy guys with guns.... go find that walrus thing..... and PAYBACK... oooooo yeh!!!!

So there I was, at twin peaks... asking around if anyone wanted to join Speedy's Sausage Skins. (Yes I really did call my team that!!!) I ended up with one person. Disappointing that no one else wanted to join up with the infamous "Speedy Pants" but hell I can't win them all. So me and my teammate set off in search of MOB's.... about 30 seconds later my youngest decided that it was time to wake the neigbourhood. So with a quick exit... not even a good bye to my team mate (sorry if you ever read this!!), I logged out.

Kids.... who'd have em? after several car journey's, lots of rocking, pacing the floor, changing nappies the little bugger fell to sleep.

Out came the laptop again. This time for good!!! (I hoped!) I was near to twin peaks.. so I thought I'd get a team together again. I then noticed my PM thingy flashing. So I read the succession of PM's from my worthy mentor EPIC saying was I about, did I want to join his team, If I did they were to the north, oh well maybe next time.

CRAP... I'd missed him, no worries I thought... I could see several people to the north on my radar.... One of them has to be him... I set off. after a few minutes I ran into a couple of guys having some fun with some big beasty. I thought I'd lend a hand... or rather an axe so I laid in. The beasty was dead (I dare say thanks to my professional weilding!!!) and what do I get???

ABUSE?????

er what... why????? Cos I lent a hand killing a beasty??? whats going on?

As it turned out these too guys were a little miffed that I had rollled up and started laying into their mother... er I mean MOB that was kicking their collective asses and saved their lives (ok maybe they could have managed) All I wanted was a quick "cheers mate" and I'd have been on my way but noooooooo, I got abuse.... various not very pleasentries so I gave as good as I got.

During this torrent of expletives EPIC appeared.... He'd obviously seen the exchange of praise and thought he'd see if I was allright!! Cheers fella!!!

After I said my friendly goodbyes to the (*sounds like bossers but begins in a "T"*) he asked if I wanted to join his Team..... Just the ticket!!!

With him was a guy called JDaddy (*respect*) Nice fella, friendly enough. After a few "hi, how ya doin's?" we set off. Found beasty and kicked ass!!!! ooooo yeh!!!! and some loot!!! well PED's split 3 ways, nice..... more than I'd got before so I was happy.

This continued for some time, killin stuff, more PEDS, more killin, more PEDS. After a while I noticed that I was only receiving PEDs... why??? must be the team settings!!! honest to god... just at that very second that the thought popped into my head that this wasn't exactly fair... EPIC piped up about he'd split the loot at the end of the hunt.... I didn't even ask.... damn this guy can mind read too!!!

JDaddy occasionally healed me when I got a little low (Much appreciated fella!) and the hunt continued. Then it happened.... my axe was dead! damn you stupid axe. I mentioned this to the team and EPIC (god bless him) swapped my useless one for one that was 100% perfect.... (Swapped I tell you!!!)

The hunt continued!!! (for quite a while and quite a few PEDS!!) Then the new axe was dead (God I must be good to break 2 axes so quickly!!!) this time I couldn't expect to be given a new one. but EPIC came to the rescue again... This time I gave a few of My PEDs and the old axe in return for a brand new sparkling one!!!! and...... off we went again!!!!

We were starting to get some serious loot, I'd got up to about 10 or 11 PEDS in my inventory and I'm sure EPIC was loaded up with goodies... (Occassionally I saw some mention of a weird artifact being looted and joined in the congrats not even knowing what I was congratulating on, but hell it was fun!!)

Then during a rather fierce battle with several Bad guys..... I died... sob sob. This was in no way overlooked by JDaddy who had been frantically trying to heal me in the last few seconds but to no avail..... I was dead!)

I didn't want to hold up my Team, so (in true US Marine stylee) I said they should go on without me and I'd catch up, I knew their rough position so how hard could it be? Nope.... I think they'd had enough too... so after I revived, They joined me. At which point EPIC (oh mighty fair one!) shared out the loot! For my part I got 1 PED, some wool, and some Black rock stuff. All of which was worth a few PED's so I was happy.

We said our fairwells and EPIC and JDaddy retired for the day... Farewell.... until we meet again!

So as Day 6 was drawing to a close... I had quite a few PED's and some stuff to trade. It was time to call it a night!!! I went to sleep knowing I had accomplished something (various levels of different skills had come and gone!) and made a new aquaintance in the world known as Project Entropia.

Day 5 - Killin' time.

I have a weapon.
I have some armour.
I know what I have to do!!!!!
KILL STUFF...... bring it on!!!!

And...... i'm dead. what the f**k???? Some damn walrus looking thing about the size of my pet cat has taken me to the cleaners.

Ok so day 5 didn't start off too great, but I learnt a valuble lesson.... don't get too cocky to quick!! Start slow. So off I trundled back to PA and found some of those baby things that had previously been the bain of my life. This time, no problem. I spent a couple of hours kicking some serious ass, occasionally getting a bit of loot.... then it happened, my axe was dead... broken.... needed repairing and in the middle of a fight.... damn you stupid axe!!! I managed to run back to some water and drowned the insignificant piece of turd that 2 minutes before I had slaughtered the whole of his family, but was now seriously a pain in my butt! (quite literally!!) After this I got back to PA and counted my winnings....

Now bear in mind I have now been killin stuff for a couple of hours, I expected a whole host of goodies..... Nope... Not gonna happen...

I had a few ped, a bit of animal hide, a plank of wood and a weapon that was now next to useless.

I sold everthing, cashed in my earnings and found out I had about 3.5 PEDs to my name. Not great considering the axe needs 6 or so to be fully repaired.

Anyway, I repaired the thing and decided it was time for bed. I'm gonna have to think about this one if I'm going to get anywhere fast!!!

Day 4 - It only gets better.

Now, as some of you know, I started out posting my chronicles on the forum pages at Project Entropia BB. For some unknown reason I got a lot of feedback saying how nice it was. So... in the time honoured tradition of the web I created a Blog... This blog... to keep all the entries in, and for you, yes that includes the idiots that have killed me over the last few days to post their comments!

So onto Day 4. - It started out slow, I was near the rig so I thought I'd try again to get some oil, Why... I dunno, it just sounded like a good idea at the time. (Secretly I think I was hoping to become an oil baron or something!!) Anyway I got to the rig and found a group of what I thought were friendly people. Noone saying it was closed or anything nasty like that. My luck was in. I stood motionless looking at some daft screen that didn't do much for... well lets just say I watched East Enders, Coronation Street and some damn boring documentary on Some russion bloke I'd never heard of. Occaisionally I'd run around a bit, do a little dance, sing a little song... get down tonight ohhh yeh..... etc. Obviously I now understand, this sort of hocus pocus annoys a few people especially when you use gestures to egg them on a bit..... I didn't know... I'm a newbie! And when you threaten to stick a barrell up some where the sun doesn't shine of someone that has some fancy clothes and a rather pointy looking sword... well lets just say I ended up reviving and decided that I wasn't going to be in the next episode of Dallas!

So off I went, tail between legs, getting a little fed up now.... I'm not getting anywhere fast, the kids a crying... The TV is crap.... Porn was beckoning!!!

I strolled around a bit, and eventually after trying to find some fruit and dung (without success) ended up at twin Peaks, a new TP for me. At least I could get back to my old stomping grounds and perhaps sweat (still makes me laugh) gathering and a few MOBS (why I ask you... why???)

So there I was wandering, and someone, sorry I don't recall who said "EPIC" wanted to see me at one of the TP's. I was a little suprised. I recalled the name from a private message on the BB saying something about a mentor <-- don't even ask what I thought that meant at first... thanks Harry Potter!!!

Anyway I made my way to this TP and low and behold there was this Dude (he can only be described as such... Nice hat you see!!!) we chated for a bit and he congratulated me on my writings (Why... I dunno, but hell I ain't arguing) Then off he shot with a mention of I'll get you a weapon and armour.

I was pleased, but not convinced. Some stranger wanted to give me stuff??? My mum always told me not to accept anything from strangers!!!

Anyway, he came back and he did indeed present me with various fancy looking pieces of armour, not just one, but a whole damn suit of the stuff.... Now I'm cool you see!! He also presented me with an axe... saying something about it can be used to create something else. (I'll figure that piece of magic out later!!) Not only that, he gave me some cash! yup real Cash... Not millions, but hell it was better than nothing.

All he wanted in return was my body..... only kidding, He wanted to become my Mentor, which I found out, meant that he'd assist me in my life on PE. (sorry Mum). Great, so after a little banter and dare I say it sickening praise by me... I saw a red blob..... look out world here I come....I ran off towards the MOB (*snigger*) and started wielding. within seconds, it was dead. Pay backs a bitch, ain't it!!! Not only that, I was presented with some silver things just for right clicking! PEC's I found out.... not worth much but exciting all the same! I said my good byes to the One and only Greatness known as EPIC (*tipping my hat once again*) and off I ran... like a crazed mad man in a rather expensive glass selling emporium.

It was late, Time for bed, but I couldn't quit now.... I've got a weapon. I need to do some damage...I went back to PA and set off to find some small creatures to exact my revenge on. I found loads, the weapon worked like a treat and the armour, well I'm stil alive aren't I.

It was getting on for 1am, kids would be up in 5 hours, wife occasionally banging on the floor to shut me up when I jeered after accomplishing another kill, so off to bed I went!

Once again EPIC.... You are the one responsible for my continued interest in PE. I am more than grateful for you kindness oh great one.

Day 3 -Time to get serious!!!

This time I was fully prepared. I'd read on the net that I could get oil.... Oh yeh, this has to be worth it.

Looking at my map and remembering how long it took me to get anywhere yesterday I realised I was in for a long night. Off I set from PA in a south easterly (more east than south) direction. After a while I noticed that I was running into bigger monsters so it wasn't long until I revived at a revival point.

This time it was a new one which luckily got me a little closer or so I thought!!
I set off from the revival point due east only to be shot down from some where by something.

I tried again, this time I spotted a red blob approaching... fast... I turned to look... saw some big mother of a robot.... and died.

This went on for a while until I realised I wasn't getting through. Just too many of the damn things.

Time for a new tactic..... The oil field is fairly close to the coast, so I thought.... right, just swim... robots can't swim (or can they). and off I set.

I eventually realised that if I hit the F3 button I could automatically move without holding the "Q" key. This was great, I could set my direction and go make a cuppa, go to the loo, watch David attenborough's animal planet that was on at the time and.... nope still not there yet. yawn....
After a fairly long time I looked at the laptop only to find I'd been killed! What? noooooooooooooo!!!! how did that happen, I'm in the water, I thought robots can't swim.... can they??

I looked at the radar and saw several red blobs round and about.... what are they? I sat and waited and eventually some small little piranha thing passed by... You have to be kidding!?!?!

So I revied my self only to find I got closer.... Thank god for that... I was on the verge of tears and think I'd have slit my wrists if I'd have been sent back to PA!

It wasn't far now, but I wasn't sure exactly where to go. Luckily there was another player at the revival point who, it turned out, had already been to the oil rig (where the oil appears!!!! apprently!) and was willing to take me.

So off we set, in convoy. We had a couple of attempts each time being killed by some big T-rex looking thing (damn they are nasty!) until eventually we made it. Horrah!!! Lets get some oil..

I'd have been happy to share it with my guide but for one thing, there we already a group of people here... one of which came running up and sent the message.... "Rig CLosed"... and so the chat then went something like...

ME: "Why?"
Her (yes it was a female!!) : Cos I want the oil.
ME: Thats not nice, I need it too <--- What for I didn't know, but hell I wasn't about to just walk off after all that!
Her: Approach and Die
ME: Now thats not nice at all... Wanna shoot it out <--- Yes I was bluffing I didn't even have a hanky let alone a weapon!!

At this point I started to approach the rig. I could see the player in front of me. All of a sudden I saw something appear in her hands.... It was long and pointy.... kind of grey.... a little shiney.... (I was getting even closer now).... BLAM I was dead!

Her: Told you
ME: Craaaaappppppp

Back to that revival point I went, this time alone, but I knew the way. So after a couple of attempts I managed to get back to the rig (Not too close this time!!!!) I looked over the ledge to find everyone being eaten by one of those T-rex things.... arrrr vengence is sweat I thought only to be disappointed that my assassin ended up killing the damn thing before it had a chance to eat her!!!
Lesson learnt there then.... Don't pick a fight with someone until you have a weapon! I had learn't my lesson the hard way, so this time I just kept my distance, watching this thing move up and down. Occasionally another player ended up with the same fate I had (Not without warning I must say). Eventually my now fairly freindly assasin had decided that the rig was open.... I rushed forward... and.....Nothing.... "Wheres the oil" I proclaimed over my ever trusty chat. "It just appears" came the reply. "Where???" I quized, "On the ground" came the almost obvious reply.

So I sat and waited.... and waited.... and waited, until.... MR T-rex appeared... I ran for my (virtual) life and hid behind a small building of some sorts hoping not to be found. Initially Mr T-rex ignored me... Probably cos I wasn't a great deal of a threat, but once everyone else had been made into lunchen meat (Including my now friendly assasin) he turned his attention to me.

I was up a bit of an incline and initally the monster stopped at the bottom... not for long... The blighter found a way up and after trying to do a Laurel and Hardy act around the building I was close to, he decided it was time to make chop suey out of me. And thats where I called it quits for the night.

Day 2 - Not as Newbie as day 1.... surely!

So after my not so triumphant day one exploit, I knew what I had to do. Lunch time at work came round so I browsed for tutorials. Found a few, but also found a map!!! Woohoo! I have a map.. I can't fail now.

So with some extra knowledge and a map that night I got playing again. This time I thought.... right lets explore a little, I'll get to some of those other teleports (TP's). So off I set from PA and headed kind north eastish. After several attempts (damn those MOB's) and about an hour and a half I finally made it to "Billy's spaceship afterworld".

Not quite as exciting as I first thought but hell, I have another TP. My only concearn at this point was the size of the place. It took me 90 minutes to go about 2 cm on my map and theres another god knows how far to go before I get all the TPs. But off I set again, this time due east towards Camp Phoenix. But this time, a little wiser, so I got there within an hour.

Again, not much to rave about, I still didn't have any weapons or artifacts of interest, but I still had my 57 units of sweat.... yippee!

Every now and again I noticed something about me gaining experiance in one skill or another. Great.... no I must be getting somewhere!!!

I spent another couple of hours getting some more TP's namely Hadeshelm to the north (A very long way that took most of the 2 hours to get to) Then it was time to quit for the day. Damn time flies when you ain't got anything better to do than play Project Entropia!

Day 1 - Yep I'm a newbie!!!

Over lunch at work I came across a link to PE and my curiosity got the better of me. I soon found out that it wouldn't cost me anything so that was good enough for me. I downloaded the installer and set it downloading the rest of the game. It took most of the rest of the day as the connection here at work aint too good.

So after the kids we put to bed and the wife was watching Eastenders, out came the laptop. I registered for an account and got the game loading! As the game loaded I sat with baited breath for what I expected to be a short time online as I wasn't expecting to enjoy myself.

Initially I was impressed with the splash screen. For a freebie its pretty good. I've seen worse when I actually paid for a game.

The first thing I had to do was create my Avatar. A fairly quick process cos I didn't really care what he (not she cos the wife would be jealous) would look like. Then into the game.

Ok, what do I do now??? So I pressed a few buttons and gradually found out how to access most of the menus etc. I also found out how to walk(Yep I'm a genius!). This must have taken about 30 minutes or so before I became comfortable to start wandering. I walked up to a few grumpy little avatars and started using my new found skills.... ooohhh yehhhh Disco Dancing.... I couldn't get enough of that, well for about 10 minutes any way. I'm sure I p*ssed of a few people so sorry to who ever you were!!

Then it was into the world... Using my radar I found a few red blotches and made a bee line. Ok so this may have been a mistake because about 10 seconds after meeting a rather larger than expected "Red blob" I died. sob sob

Back to my starting point. This time I was prepared. I stuck close to some other players and followed them to see what they did. I soon found that they were sweat gathering. Now I had to laugh.... "Sweat gathering"??? Couldn't Mindark have come up with something a little less gross. but anyway. There I was watching these glowing figures doing something. I had to ask, so my first chat session with the other players began. It went something like...

ME: "What ya doing?"
SOMEONE: "Sweat gathering"
ME: "oh" <-- with a slight smile on my faceME: "Why"
SOMEONE: "To get sweat"
ME: "OH" <-- ask a stupid question..... get a Stupid answer!
ME: "How do I do it?"
SOMEONE: "Right click on the MOB, then Right click again"
ME: "OK, thanks"
ME: "Whats a MOB??"
SOMEONE: "the bad guys"
ME: "Of course.... MOB = BAD GUY I can see that"

At this point I was getting excited... I could gather sweat. Or so I thought. I spent another 30 minutes frantically right clicking on "MOBS" to no avail until I finally realised what I had to do. Get close... Right click so I glow a little... when finished glowing.... right click again and green stuff squirts out of my arms. The thing was, I was still not getting anything but I didn't no this at the time (I didn't notice the messages in the chat box saying so!!) Until.... Wham, up poped some box saying I had got a bottle of sweat with 4 units in it. "Yippee" I thought... So after this success I carrieed on for an hour or so and got up to 38 units of sweat.

Now it was time to go get a gun. I was bored of "sweating MOBS" I wanted to kill something (or even better someone!!!!)

So, off I trundled to what I now know is Port Atlantis or PA for us "experts" or at the time "the place I started from" to find a trader of some sorts.

Once there I bumped into an ever such a nice fella who basically informed me that the amount of sweat I had was practically worthless. Can you imagine my heartache at this???? I had been playing for over 2 hours and got nothing, zip, nada.

I was going to jack it all in but thought, "no, come on, you are better than this. Go get some more sweat and then buy a gun." How long could it take for heavens sake!2 further hours later and after various attempts I was up to 57 units of the stuff. Still no where near what I needed but It was midnight now, so I decided to jack it in for the night!!

The Blog is live, ooohhh yeh!!!

HI, I'm Speedy Pants.

I decided to chronicle my first few days on line in the world of Project Entropia to give people who haven't tried it yet an idea of what they can expect.

I'm not going to tell you what Project Entropia (PE) is because:
A) its all over the web
B)I'm not sure I know the full extent of it yet.

But I will tell you that I am cheap. Yep, I don't want to spend a penny and thats what first attracted me to Project Entropia over any other MMORPG.