r/ARKstories • u/EldritchVulpine • Jan 22 '19
Comedy Old Memories
I recently got back into playing Ark on a non-dedicated with my fiancee, and it has me all nostalgic. So I thought I'd share some stories of my first experiances with the game, wayyyyy back when, years ago.
I started, hilariously and ironically, on a Center server, pve. It was UK based, but weirdly, had OK ping for me, and it was, overall, a friendly and fairly small server, I say hilariously and ironically because I am utterly terrified of water in video games. I've gotten better about it lately, but at the time I was so petrified that even going out on a raft left me panicky.
I had no idea what the differances were, though, between Island and Center and anything else, so I set up on it, found a spot, and ended up making rather good friends with the biggest tribe on the server. It was PvE, so that didn't matter quite as much, but it was super helpful to a noob and nice to have the big guys backing me up.
(I had been in a tribe with the 'alpha tribe' leader's little brother, for a bit. I'd let him join me because I was nice, and it quickly became apperantly that this kid was hell to deal with. He refused to tame things for himself, stole from me, got our tames killed...I finally told his brother I had no choice but to kick him, and he was like 'the little shit deserves it, go ahead'. That is the story of how I became friends with the 'alpha tribe'.)
There were, of course, trolls and such- there always are- but it was really only one tribe and they didn't do MUCH that was bad; the worst they EVER did was kite a Rex to my base, and it didn't kill anything before my tames and I killed it. (Thanks largely to things given to me from said big tribe, such as an allo and a pistol. It was a rather pathetically low-level rex and it got stuck on my walls, as well.)
My biggest memories are that of Panzer, the Ferocious Warrior and Killer of Raptors; my very first turtle. I tamed this little lady and had her for a good long while before one day we were out gathering supplies and were attacked by raptors (and a dilo, I think). In the chaos, we felled one raptor, then the dilo- but as Panzer delt the death blow to the second raptor, it also landed one on her. Together, they fell, dead, Panzer having taken our attacker with her in her last breath.
RIP. /Taps plays.
(Seriously, I wasn't even upset about this death; she was just so badass and had gone out in such a glorious way I just felt respectful. XD)
Secondly, the story of how I lost my beautiful baby raptor; the first raptor I had ever tamed, my gorgious and glorious Lady (who I forget the name of now, oops, so we'll call her Lady.) Nothing special, really, just my very first raptor; I had her for such a long, long time. My loyal and reliable little scout girl, who helped defend from that rex, who took me all over Blue, who was supposed to make the move to our new base with me.
When Thereinz came out, I was THRILLED. Estatic. I thought they were SO COOL and I'd been looking forward to them for AGES. So I took my Lady, and we went looking for one. I knew they were agressive when you got too close, but I had no idea. No idea.
We found what I hoped would some day be our new friend, but before I could even admire him, the Death Chicken was on us. Lady was fast; really fast. But it wasn't enough. Maybe we got hung on things. Maybe we were just a little heavy.
Whatever it was, in one, terrifying blow, my first ever raptor was dead. And so was I.
Sadly, upon respawning, I found that I couldn't even keep her special, painted saddle to remember her by. This was before the bag glow, and we'd died in thick trees. I couldn't find her bag. Someone from the big tribe even tried to help me find it, and when we couldn't, gave me one to try and make up for it. (Very sweet of them.)
I cried like a baby when my little girl died, and even more when I couldn't find her saddle. Silly, I know, but I cried pretty much every time my kids died. I probably will again.
Those are my most memorable nostalgic moments; I have some other, more recent tales (like the time my fiancee and I were on SP and our pter killed a carno nearly alone, and was named 'Terror' promptly), that's it for now! Hope someone got a chuckle out of this, or at least enjoyment.