Shartak update! Completed circut of Shartak

So as you can see I have successfully swum around the entire island of Shartak. Just, not in one trip.

Swimming around the Isle of Shartak

I'm making progress in my goal of swimming around the entire island of Shartak. I so far have made it past the farthest point I got my last attempt, and I have managed to avoid cannibalistic natives, angry outsiders, and ferocious sharks. Not much further to go and I'll have made it around the entire Island!

To the east, always to the east.

On the island of Shartak there is a conch shell rumored to hold great power. There is only one of these shells on the island and it is passed by blood from person to person. (You must kill the conch bearer to obtain it.)

What are the conch's powers? I don't know. I have yet to obtain it, though truthfully I haven't been looking for it as I care more for the hunt then for anything material.

Perhaps someday I will blow the conch!

Dr Oleg I'll get you!

I log in today to find that I have been under attack! Thankfully the person wasn't able to finish me off... Who are you Dr Oleg?

Well I did a bit of sleuthing, and I found that Dr Oleg has only killed 3 pirates. So he is not a major PKer. And yet... I see that one of his most recent pirate kills was a member of my Anti-PK clan the Bloody Jewel! Is this guy a Jewel hunter? What did we do to him?

I don't know the answers to these questions, but perhaps someday I will find out.

I tried to track were Dr Oleg went but with all this water around it's hard to find a good trail. (I found his tracks at one point, but they just went into the river, and I couldn't find them again on the other side.)

But who knows, Shartak IS an Island and chances are I will run into this Dr Oleg again to exact my revenge!

Fresh Water

If you don't remember, Shartak is a jungle adventure MMO you can play in your browser. Here I am at the river by the shipwreck getting some water for the adventure ahead.

In the days ahead I plan to continue my exploration of the island. Here, let me show you my map.

As you can see, I spent the last few weeks swimming the west coast of Shartak. I was unfortunately attacked by a shark somewhere around the southern part of the island. Injured but not dead I managed to make my way to York but unfortunately before I was able to get healing a hostile outsider killed me.

Thankfully, the native shamans here on the island weild incredibal powers. They have the ability to draw your soul back to your body and return you to life. That is why I am now back in the NE part of the Island.

This time I plan to try and swim the east coast of the island. I will keep you update on my progress in the days ahead.

Shartak special!

Haha you know I was so excited to the new update to one of my favourite web-based MMOs that I was just going to make a blog talking about the new updates. But then I realized, I don't think I have talked about Shartak at all yet!

OK well Shartak is a lot like Urban Dead. You get an action point every 20mins that you can use to do a variety of things like filll up bottles of water, gather fruit, trade with merchants, etc. etc.

Well, I usually try and use my action points to kill people. :) I'm a pirate so I kill everyone else but pirates. Oh yeah, thats the other interesting thing about Shartak. There are a lot of different groups you can start off in. There are a few different native groups, a few colony's, and a wreaked pirate ship. :)

This is how Shartak looks regularly:
But check out what Shartak looked like after I enabled the option for the reskinned Shartak!
The water the beach the jungle. Everything looks great. :) It doesn't take away from the text-driven gameplay it just adds to the experience. I am really happy with the upgrade. :)

Most of Shartak is jungle.. and it looks fantastic.