I’ve wrapped up the calibration marker missions. So, what now?

This is a shot in D’ni Rezeero, heading back to the emitter from the spot where you get your marker missions. The bottom circle with the dot in the center looks just like the calibration markers. It’s blinking here, and so not fully lit. The top one isn’t lit at all, but it looks like it will be once the graph is full. To me, it doesn’t look like the graph has gone up since the calibration missions began, but it’s hard to be sure. Also, there are two more doors there, marked with the Great Zero symbol instead of the KI symbol. Those doors still won’t open.

My KI now gives me my position inside of the Cavern, in the same three-part coordinate system that the markers reported when they were collected. But, I was wrong in my guess that the Nexus links would give their link locations after the calibration. They still show up as three sets of zeros. I knew that the machine had been calibrated already, but I think I still expected a bit more when I completed this. I wonder what uses the coordinate system will have. Like they said in the Cavern Today podcast, there’s nothing in the Cavern or in the Ages that doesn’t end up having a use.

So, now I have a choice. Yeesha said to follow the Path of the Shell next, but I’ve done all that I can for that, until the DRC releases more. There are two other Paths that the DRC have released, both with Bahro caves and Bahro stones. I can’t imagine that the DRC want us following these paths, but Yeesha said to look for the shell, not the spiral from the group Path, nor the mark from the Pod Ages. In the mean time, I could try to see if the Relayers are still around, and maybe hook up with them. I’ve also heard that there’s something related to the Bahro in the scarred Age, Minkata.

Monday
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When I got here, I told my parents that if I started shaking, it was because I didn’t have an internet connection. Not that I’m an addict, or anything. :) I’m in Roscommon, MI, in a house on Higgins Lake. It’s not really rustic. It’s got electricity, running water, a stove, washer and dryer, and even a dishwasher. I’ve just made a cup of instant cappuccino. It’s got cable TV, a VCR, and a DVD player. It doesn’t have an internet connection, and I don’t have a car. and dropped me off earlier today. This will be good for me. Let me get the online nerdery out of my system first, then.

Chatting with clued me in to a bunch of Relto pages that I had missed, even though I had been through their Ages. I picked up some grass and a bench from Eder Delin, some rock islands from my Bevin, and these funky trees from Er’cana. I’ve been running a lot of the marker missions for the Great Zero Calibration, and that has been a bit of a challenge. Two things have inhibited my progress: 1)The game keeps crashing. No matter what video driver I use, the game crashes. It does seem to crash less when my laptop isn’t plugged in to power, so I can only think that there is a heat-related video card issue. 2) Jumping for beacons. It took me a ridiculous amount of jump attempts and some conversation, but I have discovered that it is much easier to walk off of the edge closest to the beacon than it is to long-jump at the beacon. I’m about halfway done with the calibration marker hunts, and I intend on finishing them. Also, I wonder if I should be posting these in the URU Live forums. Frequenting a game’s forums is a whole new level of addiction, and I’m not sure that I want to make that step. Then again, how many people are really reading this here?

We’ve spent the day grilling, chilling outside, watching both water and fire… it’s been quite relaxing. will be coming back late tomorrow night, which will be cool. I would bet on some Apples to Apples. I’m here until Thursday, so we’ll see if any more thoughts bubble to the surface between now and then.
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Thursday – Horoscope
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Don’t cross a bridge until you come to it,” advises the old adage. But is that really a good idea? The fact is that the world belongs to people who have crossed bridges in their imaginations long before those bridges existed. Let that be your guiding thought in the coming weeks, Taurus. Start visualizing, contemplating, and building in your mind’s eye a certain bridge you want to make abundant use of in 2008.