Slashing Dragon has posted the next entry in his day-by-day chronicle of playing Ultima 9 for the first time. This time around, he invested much of his effort in getting to Paws…and beyond:

Paws is a miserable town build upon a deadly poisonous swamp, several islands with trashy houses connected by planks. I wandered around talking to the inhabitants, certainly most of the fine people of Britain ignores their real status or just are playing a blind eye. I MUST CORRECT THIS.

…but I wanted to continue south, Trinsic is my favorite city on Britannia, I want to see how they’re faring!

So I pulled back and continued southward, then I found another bridge with another Troll, but this one doesn’t want gold! I tried fighting him but I was being beaten… it was time to run like a brave warrior! I went east with the Troll running behind me, saw a forest but it looked dangerous so took a turn when I feel into the swamp and became poisoned… the Troll looked at my misery and went back to guard the bridge.

He…didn’t make it to Trinsic:

I reloaded my game and explored Paws again, then I decided it was time to valiantly trounce the troll, knowing in my Spirit that no other choice was possible. I killed him!

So with the troll out of the way I continued my journey to Trinsic, then I met an armored enemy who beat the crap out of me twice… I need better equipment! I decided to head back to Britain to get better weapons and armor…

So he instead followed Lord British’s advice, which he obtained during the first day of playing the game:

Yet, I don’t feel confident to get through to Trinsic, so I decided to proceed into the first quest assigned to me by Lord British: going to the dungeon north of Britain.

I left Britain through the east gate and journeyed north, I met the girl in charge of the Shrine of Compassion and tried to find it when I met what I think was a wisp, it lead me into a cave with mild treasure. I then went into a nearby lighthouse where the keeper wants me to fix some domestic stuff with the other lighthouses and ships crashing… I might get to it if I have some time after dealing with the major issues affecting Britannia. However I found a sextant in the lighthouse, should be handy

He didn’t actually make it into Despise, though; presumably that will happen on Day 3.