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LOTRO: Archet After The Fall
Anyone who has played a human in Lord of the Rings Online will be intimately familiar with what I recount here. Be that as it may, I must start somewhere, so I now begin to tell the tale of my human hunter named Wolfbow.
Once you complete the starter instance, which takes place in a small town named Archet, you are placed in the “real” game world. Archet is not the same town you started in. It was terribly burned during the invasion, and as you would expect, the world has greatly changed around you.
 Archet after the burn |
The first few quests I picked up were: Burying the Dead, A Threat from Spiders, Disease Among the Boars, and a quest started after I had previously killed the Marsh-Fly Queen. The quests are pretty straight forward. I had to find the bodies of three men and bury them, kill 10 diseased boars, and kill some spiders over at Quigley’s farm.
The spider quest led me to finding the famous dwarf Bali just before he died. It ended with me killing a big spider named Iornaith in the spider infested tunnels beneath Quigley’s farm. These quests netted me around 90 copper per quest, better shoulderpads, and a better helm to wear.
 Burying the Dead |
Finishing these quests earned me level 10 and some nice new skills to go along with it:
 Spider Caves |
 Bali the Dwarf is dead |
The next couple of quests sent me to the town of Combe, one of which was to find a ranger named Toradan, who wants me to help find the missing ranger Amdir. With these quests, my stay at the little town of Archet it at an end.
Gaming Again
My 17″ Macbook Pro finally arrived and I now have it setup the way I like it. It has been a long wait, but I can now get back to gaming. I decided to start with Lord of the Rings Online. Since LOTRO requires the Windows operating system, I had to setup a dual boot configuration on the Macbook Pro. I decided to install Windows XP, even though it won’t use all 4GB of RAM that is available to the machine. The game runs great on high settings at 1920×1200, even though the 9600GT 512MB video card isn’t all that great of a card these days.
I have a level 37 Champion on the Windfola server, but I decided to start fresh, so I rolled up a human Guardian that I named Strongg. I wanted to try out a class in the game that I had not played yet and Guardian was one of them. Humans start in the Archet area, so my game introduction had me escaping from a cell and then helping a Ranger named Amdir to rescue some kidnapped hobbits.
Once the introduction is complete, I found myself in the town of Archet, eager to find some quests and get to work. I didn’t have far to go. Amdir was wounded in the battle, so I had to help him with defense of the town. The first few are you typical newbie quests that have you go out and kill wolves and boars so that the town’s sheep are kept safe. Once those are done, I was sent to a hunter’s lodge where some things needed to be done. Seeing this lodge brought pangs of nostalgia to my heart because the lodge reminded me of my beloved Everquest’s Surefall Glade and the lodge that can be found there.
One of the farmers outside of Archet had a boar problem that he wanted me to help him with. A boar named Old Bloodtusk needed to be killed. I remembered this boar from the time that LOTRO first went live. There was a line of people waiting to kill this boar and each time he appeared it was a general free-for-all contest. This time, however, there was not another player in sight and he was waiting for me when I arrived.
After running several other quests, none of which were very challenging, I came to the last quest in the “game introduction” line. Brigands were attacking Archet and I had to help Amdir defend it. The town was in flames when I arrived and it was filled with battle. I worked my way through the town, finally arriving at the final showdown, which culminated in a fight with Eogan, a servant of Angmar who was responsible for all the problems in the area. I dispatched him with ease and ended the quest line.
