I had logged back in to Entropia some hours later and had gone into the 'service centre' of the outpost that I was still stranded in, to see if there were any available aircraft this time in the auction. Luckily there was a Sleipnir vtol in good condition going for a very reasonable buyout price, so I bought this a few seconds later, plus some oil to fuel it with, then went outside to spawn my latest aquisition. Seconds later I was inside the Sleipnir and was presented with an amazing view of the inside of the cockpit that looked almost real, or at least believable. Once again I was ready to continue with my TP run. Hopefully the vtol would make my task easier, and a lot quicker... I pressed the 'right shift-key' on the keyboard and went strait upward, then stopped after a short while to check the printout of Eudoria so as to see which TP I was nearest to. I also took this as an opportunity to enter a 'small ad' for Entropia Star into the open-chat, because a few green dots were showing on the radar dial. After all, my main task is to promote ES, but I don't have an estate yet so cannot use the in-game ad terminals - and this is a PED-free alternative way of doing it... ;) The nearest TP seemed to be somewhere called Billy's Spaceship Afterworld, so I pointed the vtol in that direction and pressed the 'R' key. All of a sudden I was really going forwards; it really was like flying, and the view of Calypso below me was amazing to say the least. I arrived there some time later without any mishap, in a surreal looking location with parked spacecraft strewn all over the place, but my task was to get TP's and not dawdle too much, so I quickly ran onto the teleporter so as to actually acquire it, then went strait back to the vtol in order to get the next one. Once again I entered the 'small ad' for ES into the open-chat via ctrl-v (I had already highlighted and saved it to the Clipboard) as there were some other AV's there, then once again went vertical before heading towrds the north-west of Eudoria, as there was another TP near the coast called Skiron. Along the way I passed a large hill fort and then a gathering of Maffoid's down in a very deep valley, but eventually found, and then landed at Skiron. So now, I had acquired two more TP's - but this was only the beginning, as I knew there were many others to get. After Skiron, I then went onto Camp Phoenix, Fort Ithaca and then Fort Argus, which has a huge pyramid building in it, throwing a bright lightbeam into the sky. My final port-of call for the day was a desolate looking place near the north-east coast called North Space Base, although there didn't seem to be a 'space base' as such, so I thought that maybe this is some future plan by the creator's of EU... I then 'picked up' the vtol an put it back in my PI, then checked to see how much fuel I had used after all this flying ;) I almost couldn't beleive what I saw, as very little fuel had been used up, which was good, as I was now fairly confident that I could go on to get all the TP's throughout Entropia before having to buy any more from the auction... Till the next instalment.
Thanks Rose ;) I thought that the asteroid next to the lightbeam made a really interesting composition, so that's why I took it. BTW - when I spawned the Sleipnir, it nearly fell over because of the silly place that I placed it on =)
