Day 1

The main task is complete and the "final" monster has been defeated. Final my ass. There's always another. The Cadeaus was a bitch. II squeaked out the victory in the final minutes of the allocated time. And really I feel a bit guilty about taking the rewards and partaking in the village's celebration in my honor. I didn't really kill the monster. All I did was chop off one of its' horns. How is that a victory again? It's still out there. It can still ram the ocean floor and cause earthquakes. What the hell are these primitive bitches celebrating for?  Simple people I suppose.

I also took on my first "Hard" request and took on a Purple Ludroth. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, that thing was shockingly vicious. It's like the creature's sole purpose is to poison as many other creatures as possible. If you get to close to it, it swipes at you with a poisonuous claw attack. If that misses you, it will do a small jump in the air, land with a belly flop. As it lands it emits out poison gas from it's pores in every direction, poisoning everything in the immediate area.  If you were are further away, it will just spit out poison blobs of... something at you. And finally if you're not in the direction its spitting at, no need to worry. It'll start running around like a maniac spitting poison in every single direction until it's tired itself out. How does evolution make something that useful? Is this for population control or something? What possible use does mother nature have for something like this? At any rate I can see why they wanted it dead.

That does lead me into yet something else I feel guilty about. It seems like every few times I kill one of these things, the Cheif's dimwitted son calls me over and let's me know that the same monster has now been spotted roaming the woods of the island. Apparently everytime I kill something big, it's family members come to the island seeking revenge for me. So I save the island from being destroyed by an earthquake, but soon it'll be overrun by monsters that would give Godzilla a run for his money. Yep, I'm doing the lord's work here.

So what happens when you die in Monhun?  Does it take you back to a checkpoint, or back to a portal town?

Day 2

Finally got around to killing that damned Purple Ludroth. Took me a couple tries, but like everything else "bitch got knocked the fuck down!" At least I think that's how the natives say it. Speaking of the natives, the local blacksmith made me some armor with some of the Purple Ludroth parts. I'm not sure I like it though. Sure it's strong, but the armor is really more pink than purple. This village is already a sausage fest. I mean, there's all of 3 women here. One is fat, and one isn't really native. Basically it's just a bunch of dudes.... most of whom are sailors. Yeah I'm just going to stick with the spikey red armor instead. I don't want to give off the wrong vibe here.

A bit later I went on a group hunt. Me and some other guy named Viktor went out to the Tundra to take on a Barioth. Barioth's are kind of a cross between a flying snake and a sabertooth tiger. Seriously, where the hell do these things even come from? IT's really a sight to behold though. It flies around, swoops down, and then clings to a wall, before it dashes off and strikes at you. It's a pretty nasty beastie, but Victor and I were handling it pretty well. At least we were until Victor fucking up and vanished.

Seriously, he just quit and left me to fight this thing?!?! Fuck man. That's Rule 328 of the Bro Code - that shalt not bitch out when fighting a giant flying monster with HUUUUUUUGE POINTY TEETH!!  It got rought. It ended up knocking me out twice. And on my final go-around with it, I couldn't even track the damned thing because I ran out of paint bombs, and kept running in and out the wrong holes and caves looking for the Barioth. On a slightly related note, do you know what the motto of the village is? "There is no wrong hole!" Yeah, I'm gonna lay off that pink armor. Anyway, I did finally find it and it came real close to killing me, but I got in a few good hits and once again the monster died.

Good times. Oh and happily, no Barioths have invaded the island once I returned. Maybe all that bad ju-ju will get stuck with Viktor instead.

SupremeAC said:

If you die on a quest you're sent back to base camp and have to track the monster down again.  3 deaths means you failed the quest.

Are there consequences for failing the quest?

Dvader said:

did you ever play MH iN peace Walker?

I have not played a Metal Gear game in over 25 years. So the answer is no.

aspro said:

Are there consequences for failing the quest?

Like SupremeAC mentioned aside from the money the only other consequence is the loss of time. Later battles take upwards of 45 minutes (hell the early battles can also take that long if you have weak equipment and don't know what you're doing). If you repeatedly fail, that's a pretty major time investment. Very easy to get frustrated, though I've been lucky and so far there have only been 2 monster battles where I failed more than once.

Day 3

I had kind of an unusual experience last night. I decided to focus a little more on the group hunts last night, so I went to the port to look for any hunters interested in grouping up. I've only got a Hunter Rank of 2 (totally not an indicator of my ability as I am completely awesome) so I thought it might be hard to find anyone who was low level. Another hunter showed up though who was right around my level, and a few minutes later two other hunters arrived. I was so happy to have a full party, I quickly chose our target and didn't even bother talking to them.

We ended up hunting a Nibelsnarf. It's kind of giant mole monster. It spends most of its time tunneling under the sand, popping out from time to time to attack. It's not terribly difficult, but it's got strong armor, and has a very annoying habit of blasting focused sand storms at anything in its way. It takes a little time to kill, but it's usually a more relaxed hunt compared to the monsters I've been hunting lately. Not this time.

You see, those two other hunters who joined my party were these two bad ass pros that are on a level I never knew even existed. One was weilding a long green glowing sword. It looked like something that would make a Sith lord shit his pants. The other had some kind of projectile weapon that I'm not even sure what it was. It looked like she was throwing some kind of ninja stars though. That's particularly impressive if you're aware that the only project weapons are bows and rifles. Anyway, the weapons looked impressive, but I didn't know how impressive they were until we got to the Nibelsnarf and the entire battle lasted about 4 minutes. This is normally a 15 to 20 minute battle, even with a full party.

Once we got back to the port, the other newbie fighter announced he didn't play with cheaters and left to go back to his home village. These guys weren't cheating though. They were just doing a low ranked hunter a solid, by trying to push me through to the next rank..... and they did. I feel just a tad bit guilty about not earning the rank on my own, but I do know I could have gotten through it on my own in time. These guys just saved me some of the tedium.  So.... Hunter Rank 3 ladies and gentlemen!!!!!!! Now the real battles begin

Well, finally got me some sharqskin and repaired the mask.  Next time I manage to get some game time in I'm going after the Cadeaus.  I care little for fighting the beast, but it seems to be blocking my gateway to more interesting creatures.  I'm probably also in for fighting a lot of Quropeco's, as I nead 2 something-something beaks to upgrade my hunting horn  

What weapon class are you using Robio?

aspro said:

Yet another classic quote that taken out of the context of gaming sounds absolutely deranged.

Monster Hunter is Japanese. It's probably still deranged in context.

Day 5

I wasn't have a hell of a lot of luck fighting that Crimson Qurupeco due to that Deviljiho that it summons. It turns out that's the name of the giant behemoth that it summons. That thing really is the stuff of nightmares. It sprays what looks like electrified blood. ELECTRIFIED BLOOD!!!!! God, I am so not ready for that thing. I can't honestly imagine every being ready for it for that matter...

What I ended up doing was joining up with a few other hunters who had found a guild request for killing 4 Qurupecos. Two regular and two crimsons. These were slightly smaller ones and they were in an area that they couldn't summon anything like the Devilhijo. Four of them are still pretty freaking tough, and I'm sad to say that I was the lone person who fainted during the battle (but just the once). The good news was there were tons of spoils, and lots of Crimson Q pieces. Enough to make a new breastplate and new helmet. Finally I'm getting some real quality armor. Of course that created a whole new problem.

Could someone explain why the blacksmith can't show me a picture of what he's going to build me before I commit to it? You see, the Qurupecos are still birds and the armor ends up bright and feathery. My helmet is actually a native american headdress. I look like Chief Jay Strongbow now. And with all the sailors that run around this little hole in the wall town, it won't be long before someone asks me to start up a Village People tribute band. OH well, strong armor is strong armor...