A whole new ball game.

Right, once i got my bearings I checked out my local smithy and got myself a nice white velociprey armour set. Which he goes on telling me they are very common in this parts. . .and that they are vicious in groups. Haha not that I'm going to let alittle nuisance stop me. I also grabbed a new weapon call a Katana. well looks like my ole Scythe of Menace but they assure me that it handles totally different. Right time to move out~!

My my isn't this piggy persistent. . . STOP sniffing my *toooot* will ya?

My excellent summer getaway house... lol

The local Blacksmith.

Off to the local market and pick up some survival gears. . . better to be over prepared than to be caught unaware. lol

OK ole granny here is the boss around this parts, all mission and hunts will have to go through her. Hmmmm lets try hunt for Babakonga in the Secret Forest.

After about 6hours, my boat arrived at the SecretForest, it was already dusk and its pouring heavily, but that does not dampen my spirit matter a fact I was in awe with the foreign surroundings. The elder was kind enough to supply me with a whole range of useful items, a few new to my eyes were; a StunTrap, a Deodorant smokebombs and tranquilizer bombs. Hmmm wonder what do they do.

Not knowing what a Babakonga looks like I went on looking around the map, but eventually i managed to track down a furry pink oversize ape.
Like reflex I took out my paintball and tag him, running around the map blindly, trying to figure out where the monster went is a frustrating scenario. One lesson which I know all too well in my pass hunts.

Fighting Babakonga (haha somehow Babakonga it just reminds me of bakaranger, truely comical) was more of a joke rather than a real fight, his attacks are easily avoided and almost all of his attack has a big opening at the end for you to pummel him. Some of babakonga attacks are rather hilarious but deceptively deadly.

A Bellyblock whereby Babakonga with suck in air and inflate his belly make almost impenetrable from the front.

Belly Flop, (shown above) one shall witness a gigantic leap into the air follow by a hard belly flop down to earth, face first. ouch~!! Others includes a 3 hit combo with by the end of the 3rd combo will have him lying down on his back gasping for air.

But I think by far the most annoying is the Fart attack...yes you heard me, the fart attack. There's 2 fart attacks. One is where he literally squat down and farts. Very easily avoided. The other one which is far more "dangerous" is when Babakonga goes into rage mode he will fart and his butt cheeks and nose goes red. Well bet you must be wondering what happens if you get pooped in the face. . . look below.

Yup. . . it stinks, so bad, that you can't even bear to consume any of your potions, dangerous if your life is low. But fret not!!! With the deodorant 5000 it will rid of you any foul smells or fumes. hahah bless the elder for packing this for me on this mission. Works like a (smoke bomb/farcaster.) charm. Smelly-fart-away 5000, works~!!!

Something new which they do things over is the way to complete a hunting mission is either by slaying the target monster, or you capture it. And there's a handy new trap called the Stun trap, easily made by combining Trap tool and Genprey fangs.




Once I planted the trap I stood back and let the big oaf walk right into his doom... 2 tranquilizer bombs later. . .



Phew. . . not too bad for my first ape hunt eh? and lookie this, the rewards are pretty good. Seems like folks here love their monster raw lol. Also I notice one can break Babakonga's claws and also damage his tail, (you wouldn't get to crave but u might get what his tail was holding...usually a bone or a bluemushroom or something)

And thats a wrap!!! For now. . .