Dry Dock: A Virtual Interactive Adventure – Level (Day) 3 & 4 – Freeport, Bahamas – [04/12-13/2018]

Good news player, a reward awaits you midway through this level! To unlock this perk, you simply need to make it through one “training” mini-game. Rest assured, you will be able to pass this with no issue as it is made up mostly of recycled content from previous versions of the game. The only players who will have difficulty with this level are level 1s, and they likely will be on a separate server from you by this stage.

Training Mini-Game

Consists only of answering a series of questions asked by a specifically programmed NPC, who may appear to think this entire level is as ridiculous as you do, there will be however nothing he can do to assist you in bypassing the game so you will have to simply play. Don’t worry, you’ll pass.

Once training is complete…

Congratulations! You have unlocked a secret reward play area! Perks for this area include pure fresh air (a drastic increase in hit points), water, and uninterrupted sunshine…

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Translation for my non-geek friends: yesterday Amras and I realized we simply could take no more of the heat, noise and smoke (they’re welding a lot on A-deck), that comes with drydock. I had had a near perpetual migraine-level headache since arrival two days before, neither of us had slept (sleep is, rather difficult here). We’d finished our training and we had one night left in the Bahamas.

In short, we were outta here.

We booked a room at the Pelican Bay Resort down the street and spent the rest of the day and night wandering through palm trees, exploring local markets and taking advantage of the swim up bar that came with the resort pool. It was a totally selfish and yet totally necessary action. I wasn’t kidding in that ‘player advisory’ that I posted a few entries back, dry dock is not for the faint of heart, and usually entertainment would not be involved – we are only here because they wanted to make sure we had the extra training for any possible post-dry dock inspections we might have in FLL at the start of the next cruise.

The escape to a real resort made all the difference in the world, the excess stress washed away by palm leaves and crashing ocean (and one particularly entertaining pelican)…leaving us actually well rested and refreshed enough to come back and face the final day of drydock (the only request the HR had of us before we left was that we be back before 9am, we were back by 8:15).

At 1:00 today the Captain called the final disembarking annoucement stating that all contractors and individuals not sailing with the vessel were all required to leave. Whether we are ready or not (and we will likely still be putting last minute things together even as we sail) dry dock is over…

Ready or not, here they come!

Game Complete!

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