January 31, 2011
Caelixi’s Crazy Cartography 2
Hey again folks, time for another peek into the adventures of Caelixi, the eager young Elin explorer and sorcerer extraordinaire.
There are risks to mountaineering and reckless exploration. Occasionally your curiosity might overcome your better judgement, and you may take a look into places best left unseen. This happened to me while climbing the mountains near Pora Elinu. I saw the edge of the map, and wondered if, since Arun is a continent, the ocean lay in some form over the rocky range. Up and up I went, until suddenly the map vanished, and little Caelixi and her horse were plummeting into oblivion. Hang on tight Caelixi!!
Sad (and ironically) to say, life would have been simpler if she'd died... Since falls no longer kill you but rather drop your life to 1, she hit the bottom... kinda... and lived. The bottom, however, was a place no one wants to find themselves. Unable to move, unable to use teleport scrolls or recall to Velika, you're literally stuck under the map. Well, that is, until you relog to see if that will help. Then you find yourself ABOVE the map! In fact, if you were in the beta and looking up at the Eye of Balder on Wednesday before the beta ended, you may have seen a little Elin on the sun:
Stuck standing on the sun, still no access to portals, I had to resort to using the "unstuck" option from the system menu. Good times!!
So last time I mentioned getting up onto the mountains near the entrance to the Celestial Plains. From there, one can get *Almost* anywhere in Arun. I say almost, because there is one zone that you will need to be a little more aggressive in your climbing to get to, but we'll get there in the coming articles!
From the aforementioned climb you can simply head North until you leave the Plains behind. Now, there are multiple access points in the plains, and if you chose one closer to the Velika side, you might have a bit more of a challenge, since there is a small zone directly behind Velika that is simply an empty basin. The textures are copy/paste and simply repeat on and on, but it looks like it could be used for something in the future, there is certainly a large chunk of unused real estate.
If you continue North though, you'll see the forest below you become jungle. The first place you'll have the opportunity to drop down to the ground is actually very close to the entrance of an open world instance, whose name translates roughly to 'The Goat Locker'... I'm serious! It's full of pirates, hanging fish, huge skulls. In the furthest bowels is the pirate ship, which many of you have seen so in an effort to save photobucket bandwith I'll leave out.
Though it's fun to go down and take a look around, staying up in the mountains will produce more results! Further North you'll discover mountains that are even higher than the ones you are on, and have a really cool mist effect.
It's tricky, and may take a few tries, but there is a way around the valley floor if you cleave to those misty mountains. Eventually you'll come to a point where you won't be able to proceed further, which is a bit of a disappointment. The zone below you, however, is one of those which I mentioned last time that hadn't been added to the beta. There were a few NPC's, but no mobs whatsoever. Next time I'll give you a tour of the impressive and frightening looking zone.
There are risks to mountaineering and reckless exploration. Occasionally your curiosity might overcome your better judgement, and you may take a look into places best left unseen. This happened to me while climbing the mountains near Pora Elinu. I saw the edge of the map, and wondered if, since Arun is a continent, the ocean lay in some form over the rocky range. Up and up I went, until suddenly the map vanished, and little Caelixi and her horse were plummeting into oblivion. Hang on tight Caelixi!!
Sad (and ironically) to say, life would have been simpler if she'd died... Since falls no longer kill you but rather drop your life to 1, she hit the bottom... kinda... and lived. The bottom, however, was a place no one wants to find themselves. Unable to move, unable to use teleport scrolls or recall to Velika, you're literally stuck under the map. Well, that is, until you relog to see if that will help. Then you find yourself ABOVE the map! In fact, if you were in the beta and looking up at the Eye of Balder on Wednesday before the beta ended, you may have seen a little Elin on the sun:
Stuck standing on the sun, still no access to portals, I had to resort to using the "unstuck" option from the system menu. Good times!!
So last time I mentioned getting up onto the mountains near the entrance to the Celestial Plains. From there, one can get *Almost* anywhere in Arun. I say almost, because there is one zone that you will need to be a little more aggressive in your climbing to get to, but we'll get there in the coming articles!
From the aforementioned climb you can simply head North until you leave the Plains behind. Now, there are multiple access points in the plains, and if you chose one closer to the Velika side, you might have a bit more of a challenge, since there is a small zone directly behind Velika that is simply an empty basin. The textures are copy/paste and simply repeat on and on, but it looks like it could be used for something in the future, there is certainly a large chunk of unused real estate.
If you continue North though, you'll see the forest below you become jungle. The first place you'll have the opportunity to drop down to the ground is actually very close to the entrance of an open world instance, whose name translates roughly to 'The Goat Locker'... I'm serious! It's full of pirates, hanging fish, huge skulls. In the furthest bowels is the pirate ship, which many of you have seen so in an effort to save photobucket bandwith I'll leave out.
Though it's fun to go down and take a look around, staying up in the mountains will produce more results! Further North you'll discover mountains that are even higher than the ones you are on, and have a really cool mist effect.
It's tricky, and may take a few tries, but there is a way around the valley floor if you cleave to those misty mountains. Eventually you'll come to a point where you won't be able to proceed further, which is a bit of a disappointment. The zone below you, however, is one of those which I mentioned last time that hadn't been added to the beta. There were a few NPC's, but no mobs whatsoever. Next time I'll give you a tour of the impressive and frightening looking zone.
Filed by TERA Fans News at 10:42 pm under Uncategorized Tagged Access Points, Beta, Cartography, Continent, Curiosity, Elin, Good Times, Hey, Judgement, Last Time, Mountaineering, Mountains, Multiple Access, Oblivion, Peek, Png, Rocky Range, Sad, Standing On The Sun, System Menu, Tera, Tight
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