The Founding of Starfall

I wanted to write about Wurm Online as it is a game that really builds stories but I am not really a story teller.  Thinking about where to start writing was hard but I decided to start by going back to how Starfall came about.  It's not where we first started playing but it's as good a place to start the story as any...

Mbwakali, Wuuw and I lived on a mountain top that we called Mt Weeping.  It was a nice spot and we had carved it into a fairly good place to live.  Wuuw and I had been talking about making an island though as his boats meant he spent most of his time on the shore (he had even created a little shipworks down there).

I had deeded the top of the mountain and was building all types of buildings up there.  I was pretty close to finishing too and even commented with how many things were left to build:
[19:47:05] <Strandedrabbit> still have 7 walls, 4 parapets, a floor and a roof to do before I would consider this section done though.

It was 23/02/2013 and a nice sunny morning on Wurm.  I was tending the horses in the field when it suddenly went very dark.  I thought it was night at first but then remembered that it had only just gone morning.  Looking around the weather was very weird and stormy all of a sudden.  I looked on the world chat tab and saw that people were talking about an eclipse.

Looking up I saw orange / black blobs in the sky drifting down towards me.  They turned out to be meteors from an event that is caused by battles between the gods.

I stood watching as the first one came down at the side of our mountain and struck close to the bottom less than 50 tiles from me.  The ground heaved and walls were destroyed in an instant.  The tall stone wall 2 tiles away from me disappeared without a trace.  My health was knocked down drastically and I noticed that I had received a bad wound.

Looking up again quickly I saw that there was still at least 3 more meteors on their way towards me so I jumped on the horse that I had been tending and rode as fast as I could to the back of the deed as far from the impacts as I could.

During this time the world chat was going crazy:
[19:53:27] <Twiches> Did it just somehow go instantly dark?
[19:53:29] <Aaldayar> eclipse?
[19:53:32] <Esmeralda> Jupp here too
[19:53:36] <Psyhoduck> yeah wtf
[19:53:37] <Twiches> im scared
[19:53:40] <Ninosk> wtf?
[19:53:40] <Terraxis> oO
[19:53:45] <Fedotiian> well, time to hide in deed >.>
[19:53:47] <Aaldayar> see the orange thing falling i the sky?
[19:53:55] <Twiches> where
[19:54:03] <Terraxis> oO!
[19:54:12] <Ninosk> i don't see anything
[19:54:18] <Primedivisor> i saw it
[19:54:23] <Primedivisor> W of glittershore/safety
[19:54:31] <Terraxis> south
[19:54:34] <Terraxis> southwest
[19:54:53] <Twiches> What does this mean??
[19:55:19] <Psyhoduck> wtf i see a meteor ?!?!?!?
[19:55:19] <Ninosk> i see a fireball???
[19:55:25] <Ninosk> meteor!!
[19:55:36] <Ninosk> 2 meteors
[19:55:37] <Ninosk> wtf
[19:55:46] <Psyhoduck> 3
[19:55:50] <Kodiakjack> 3
[19:55:53] <Ninosk> omg
[19:55:57] <Psyhoduck> woooow
[19:55:57] <Ninosk> what does this mean
[19:55:58] <Kodiakjack> :O

The other meteors hit our neighbour Zet's place, our mountain and a little SE of the mountain.  I was trying to tell everyone what was going on while healing myself and answering everyone's questions.

I made the mistake of saying where we were and people from all over the server came to "help" which is their way of saying steal anything they can and take the precious glimmersteel lumps that can be mined from the meteors.

Wuuw and I went into damage control and spent the next few hours salvaging what we could and rounding up all the livestock.  We were even able to get a text message to Mbwakali to get him to log on and see the carnage.
 

Our deed and all the buildings on the mountain were destroyed beyond repair.  The shipyards was the only place left standing so it became our temporary base.

Once we had most of the stuff secure we went and scouted around the area to see how our neighbours had faired.  We found that Zet was our only damaged neighbour but his place was too destroyed to patch up for him.

There were craters everywhere it seemed and we found one that had hit the flat area and left a perfect circle hole in the ground down to water depth with a circle of rock in the middle just higher than the water.

Both Wuuw and I agreed this would be the perfect place for a new deed.  We even thought of the new deed's name... Starfall was born.