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Yesterday I played for the first time in a very long time. I was so disappointed after having my base looted on a supposedly friendly PVE server just because I was busy and let my timers lapse for less than a day that I stopped playing. Other players got asked in the server discord before their animals get sniped, but not me... Anyway, one of my previous tribemates has been playing with his cousin and I decided to join them on Aberration. I've been sick courtesy of plague season and didn't feel like doing anything else so why not. It's definitely different, and I find I'm liking the map a lot. Spinos everywhere, rock drakes are really neat and everything glows, what's not to like? I died to a ravager early on, then killed time leveling and getting basic gear until M came and picked me up on his rock drake. So I'm tribing again, but not as a leader this time. We made it back to their base without incident. Unfortunately, said base is much too small, but rude people built too close on one side preventing expansion and claimed they were there first, as people like that tend to do. M and his cousin E must have around 15+ spinos, 3 rock drakes and multiple random tames crammed into an area that would have been barely big enough for one giga to reside comfortably. Geez. Borrowing some gear and one of the spinos, I of course set off to do what I always do and find my first spino to tame. Normally I would just grab the first one I saw but with them in such abundance, and with a borrowed spino to make hunting easy, I took my time. A couple circuits of the lake yielded a level 300 male, max level for this server. Don't mind if I do! With a little help from M I got him down and tamed within sight of the base. Didn't get any high rolls to add to the breeding pool but hey, I've got my own ride. I then spent some time with my new butt wiggling face eater simply doing circuits of the lake killing pretty much everything so I could level up enough to make my own saddle. Yeah, I do like to do things backwards. Once I was done with that I spent some time exploring and quickly scouted a very nice, much larger area we could use to set up a breeding base. M's cousin E had picked the spot for their current one, and the new site isn't all that far but it is elevated. Either no one has gone up in that area yet or they didn't like the inconvenience of not being right on the lake shore. Either way, when I showed M later on we agreed it would be an excellent place to set up. M soon detected a high level spino which we decided to tame to add to the breeding pool, it turned into a bit of a mess. While I was out looking for it in the river, the admin gave us a whole 4 minutes warning before a server restart to apply a mod update. Nice. Made it back in ok and quickly located the 290 female spino, ironically roaming around in the 'woods' off from the river. M came to KO it and his computer crashed. Thinking fast I let the wild one chew on his spino while I grabbed his gun and darts and finished the job. Got her safely down, moved him and his spino over and had it under control until he got back in, then we headed back. And that was about all the excitement I had for the day, playing for the first time in months I was a little bit rusty and the area is completely new to me, but I did fine. I don't have a lot of free time to play but I'm looking forward to what I can do next. Priority is to set up the new base, and then I want spinos, rock drakes and featherlights. Our other old tribemate P might even join us at some point, the more the merrier, plus we need good bait lol. I don't expect to get too much done this week, probably mostly boring mat gathering and a little more exploring. Maybe on the weekend I'll try to get my first rock drake, we'll see.

Disaster struck yesterday! Things went horribly wrong and right, during our last play-session. As we had three mateboosted crabs, we decided to go and find where the rock drakes' nests are. On our way down, we spotted our very first featherlights (they're very pretty) and I was very tempted taming one of them and carry my bulbdog the rest of the way with the crab. S and A managed to convince me that it was a dumb idea (it was), so I decided to maybe tame one on the way up instead. While jumping down, we came to a very pink zone, where the water looked extremely suspicious. A tested by stepping in with his crab and immediately lost a 100 hp, so I was right in not trusting that water one bit. We continued down, fighting our way through nameless (whenever one of our glowpets ran out of juice), seekers, megas, crabs, basilisks and rock drakes. As we had gone down in a bit of a remote location, we had some trouble finding a good spot to jump down from. In the end, we jumped down in the pink zone, by a really tall waterfall. Pants were pooped, because if we missed, we would've ended up in the pink water. This is the view from where we ended up (I believe we found the "proper" way by accident): We continued downwards and started seeing more and more rock drakes. S was a bit uncertain if we should continue or not (maybe she had a premonition of what was to come?), but we pressed on as our crabs had no problems dealing with anything we'd come across so far. We found the drake nest area not that far away from our landing spot and, as with pretty much everything on this map, it was beautiful: I really like that the zones are colour themed on this map. Nothing still beats the blue area though, that one is the #1 feast for the eyes. We jumped down with our crabs and decided to see if we could find any nests. I spotted two and went over to them to take a look-see, A told me to maybe check underneath the nest in case I didn't see anything, but I saw a glowing, beautiful egg perched where it should be. A jumped up the the second nest and found a second egg and we debated if we should nab them. His egg turned out to be a 175 and mine a 170, talk about stupid luck. We decided to go for it, I grabbed mine and jumped down. This is where things went very wrong, as I hadn't been clear enough that I had grabbed the egg before jumping down, which meant when the swarm came for me, A couldn't help at first because his crab got stuck on parts of the mob. There were so many rock drakes, it was insane! S smacked as fast as she could to help me out, but her crab took a severe beating in the process. My crab got so crowded, she started floating and I couldn't hit anything. With horror, I saw her hp bar go down at a rapid pace (she had 22k-23k hp before we started fighting as I had only leveled her hp to use her as a tank) and then S pulled back, saying her crab was dying, while A tried to help (he couldn't quite reach me). I started panicking and yelled at S to get back in and help me as my crab was also dying, unfortunately, I didn't realize how badly her crab was hurt (as she has a tendency of exaggerating how bad her tames are hurt at times, because she cares about them so much) and he died not long after. We killed the last rock drakes and Surimi, my crab, was down to 3k hp and I felt absolutely horrible for making S get back into the fray and lose her crab while trying to save mine. Meanwhile, A went and grabbed his egg and we dealt with the few rock drakes that came for him, while S was still being understandably upset. All of us just wanted to get back up again after this. S was now on foot so it would be even more dangerous for her and her bulbdog. During the fight, I didn't realize I was basically the reason her crab died, but it sank in while we tried to get up from the drake area, so I told her she could get my drake egg as compensation. Do you know what the little DireWolf said then? She said she wanted A's higher leveled egg instead! This made all three of us burst out laughing, calling her a greedy DireWolf, dispelling the sad mood from just moments ago. I really love these fellows, they're so silly in so many ways. We decided that we'd hatch both eggs and that she could pick the one she liked the most of them. On the way back up, I took it upon myself to carry S and try to keep her safe. Let's just say that we fought a LOT of critters on the way up, since they all wanted to have a taste of what I was carrying. When we got back into the red zone, I spotted a female featherlight and decided to try and tame her. It only took two Z-seeds as she was a level 40, so it went faster than I had expected. Now I had two things to carry; S in one claw and my spare bulbdog in the other. In the end, S managed to stay alive until we got further up, where there were more enemies. A asked if we should carry her bulbdog and gear back or he should teleport her back to us so she could continue her adventure. She wanted to come back to us so he teleported her. She died a few more times and she gave up when we had finally started seeing the mushroom forest again (the whole adventure had taken three hours...). I got her stuff and A got her bulbdog and we made it safely back home. A was really eager to hatch the drake eggs and asked if I had any nameless venom left. I didn't as I had accidentally force fed it to my crab while healing her. Oops... So an exciting and sad adventure for our little group. Next time we go down for more eggs, we'll be better prepared as to not lose another crab again. I've also taken it upon myself to find a new high level, PRETTY, crab for S so that's what I'm going to try to do today. Luckily, the gender doesn't matter at least, as we have one of each. Oh, and I also realized we need carnos for imprinting kibble, so I'll have to tame two of those as well. In the end, we lost a crab with okay melee, my spare bulbdog and gained two high level rock drake eggs and a very pretty featherlight named Tweet: