Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum

-Tarrin, confirmed Beta-Account

Hey Guys

A question to all those who are adventuring in the far north of Aretia, I know there are a few of us up here. Do you know what the everloving hell is going on in the area around Kolyug? Over the last few weeks, things have been getting fucking weird.

I’ve been hunting in the north for some time, moving around the mountain-range, I think they call it Yugid-Mountains and up to Yari. There was one incredibly weird situation, I’ve uploaded a video on that and then I travelled south from Yari on the ancient road, just hunting, doing quests whenever possible and so on. There were some quests in Yaksha, asking to hunt down some wolves around the town but nothing too interesting, so I continued south. At that point, I’ll have to insert that the area is really friggin’ sparse, I mean, there’s nothing up here but trees, snow and more trees, with days spent simply travelling between villages. I love Road to Purgatory but I think that’s something that needs to be adjusted. Maybe, once the world is populated with more players there will be player-settlements or maybe you can get mounts when you are higher level, if so, great. Doesn’t change that the area is mind-numbingly boring, you could hyperborean. And I apologize for that joke.

Anyway, enough of my fun travels through snow-covered forests and forest-covered snow and onto the real subject of this thread, Kolyug. The first settlement that I saw ingame that I would call a city, with mighty walls, guards, a noble-district and slums, everything one would expect in a city. They even have some sort of magical sewer-system, preventing it from smelling like a train-station in the bad part of town, which is a plus. I mean, really, was that part of realism truly necessary? Some towns smell like absolute SHIT, and that’s in the far north, I don’t even want to think about the smell in southern cities.

Anyway, back to topic, or something.

Kolyug, maybe not pearl of the north but certainly immovable boulder of the north, and the fucking weird events around town. When I got here, things were mostly calm, there was some talk about a couple of idiots who had managed to get themself banished, I was asked to find out what happened to some hunter, which went nowhere without clues but that was it. Standard quest-faire, go out, kill game, come back, get paid, the usual, with some fetch and fedex quests to make things slightly more interesting or something. Nothing too exciting but hey, I got some EXP which are a precious commodity, plus money which is always good.

But then the quests mostly dried up and the city turned into some sort of paranoia-driven hell-hole where you couldn’t spit on the floor without a guard turning up and making sure you didn’t try to attack the town. Even the nice, big guy that ran the Adventurers’ Guild started polishing his club. No, not that club, you perverts, he had some friggin’ tree-trunk of a club next to his desk and a few days ago he started making sure it would be ready to bash in some heads. No idea what you need to do to make sure that a club is ready, I mean, it’s not like a club turns dull or loses it’s point and needs to be sharpened but who am I to ask, the guy is friggin’ huge and the club looks more like a mobile siege-engine than something wielded in personal combat.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right, the weird shit going on around Kolyug.

So, without a whole lotta do in the city, I ventured out, trying to scare up some game, maybe get some EXP by killing things and there was still the question of the missing hunter, even if I rather doubted that I’d find anything, the guy had been vanished for a couple of weeks at that point, out in the wilderness, without contact? Yeah, he dead.

But now there’s just no game to be found, it’s as if someone swept through the woods killing everything that might be worth hunting. Spots where I was able to find at least some wolves, maybe a wolverine or bear, all abandoned. Have other players made similar experiences? Are there other parts of Mundus where such a problem occurs?

I’m thoroughly confused and about to head somewhere else, not sure where, maybe further south, that would allow me to use the ancient road, speeding up my travel.

Regards, Tarrin

Leonidas, confirmed Beta-Account

While I’m not quite certain where Kolyug or any of the other places you talk about are, I’m currently working as a caravan-guard heading there. We are coming from the south and at the moment, we are crossing an insanely annoying steppe. There’s no vegetation other than some low grass and the only enemies we’ve seen are some bug-monsters the size of a great dane. The centaurs further south have talked about some vicious wolves but we’ve yet to see any of those.

The only thing that stood out in this blasted place was an ice-castle but when we tried to open it the place shattered, breaking into snow like some sort of frozen fatamorgana. No idea what that was about.

Maybe @Morgana can tell us more, I mean, she was active in the area up north so she should know more, right?

Anyway, this is Leonidas and I’m out.

Goliry, confirmed Beta-Account

Not sure about events up in the north but here, where I am, southern Aretia, there’s nothing going on, normal monsters, maybe a few more than normal and some of them seem to be young. We may want to let those be, allowing them to grow up into future sources of experience.

We’ll have to see in what way the game regulates enemies born/created with enemies killed, maybe the “void” left by enemies killed creates impetus to have more offspring amongst the rest? Or maybe the fewer predators, because, let’s be honest, that’s what most of us are hunting, create an overabundance of prey, allowing more predators to be born in turn.

Whatever happens to you, I think it is localised.

Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Can agree with Goliry, here in central Aretia, there’s nothing special either. It’s getting warmer, so yay, spring break or something but other than that, business as usual.

Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account

Mh, I might be able to shed some light.

We were heading out of Kolyug a few weeks ago and noticed a group of NPCs, heading out into the woods. They looked rather suspicious and we followed after them, curious what was going on.

We kept far back, remaining hidden and all that, just watching and i can tell you, those guys were insane. They mostly ignored the local wildlife but some suicidal monster, I think a wolverine, decided to go after them. And that was no small critter, that thing was the size of a small horse, want to guess how long it lasted? One-Fucking-Shot.

The lead-troll just casually swung his big-ass polearm and it looked like some scene from a comic being turned into life-acting, with wires suddenly dragging the monster back in a ballistic arc before depositing it in a broken heap.

After a couple of days of going south-east, things got weird, the monsters attacking them all had some fire-power and not in the colloquial sense but firebreath, burning claws and shit. And there were more of those monsters, a lot more. At that point, we decided that we wouldn’t be the cat and headed back, just trying to get away from one-shot trolls, burning monsters and all that insanity.

Not sure if there is a connection but I’d say it’s distinctly possible. Makes me glad that we washed our hands off that shitty town.

Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account

Now, I’m getting summoned like some sort of helpful spirit? Or maybe malevolent demon might be a better description. And, Ghostblade, I see the shitty pun you did there.

But I guess I can shed some light, so call me Bringer of Light. Or Morningstar, that would work, too…

And, as it works as a wonderful pun, Leonidas, your fatamorgana… I guess a tricky fairy, or maybe a mischievous elf, played a trick on you. She might even be called Morgana :P

About the stuff in Kolyug, I know that the guards were supposed to investigate some insane and insanely powerful spellcaster, if I had to place a guess somewhere in the high hundreds, maybe low two-hundreds but that is in no way an educated guess, who used an interesting combination of enchantment and a couple schools of magic to modify existing monsters. Why, how or who he actually was, I have no idea and I’m rather glad that I’ve been putting as much distance between him and myself, who knows what a guy like that would do with a Traveller, I mean, we are essentially the ultimate in lab-animals. And that is definitely not how I want to spent the rest of the Beta, I’ve got things to do, people to kill and continents to explore.

What you do with that information, not my problem but I know that I’ll expedite my journey to the west.

Gloinar, confirmed Beta-Account

Okay, I know where we won’t go, not if that crazy lady is scared enough to run. Nope, nope, nope, no thanks.

Shuigun, confirmed Beta-Account

Wait, Morgana, the one who asked people if they wanted to become test-subjects for her experiments with mind-magic calls someone else an insane spellcaster? Yeah, somehow I’m glad that I’m far, far away.

Good Luck, Have fun and all that jazz.