Uldak SoulReaper Steele

I had been playing Entropia Universe for about 4 months, dabbling in each trade (hunting, mining, and crafting) about equally. However, my most Epic Entropia moment occurred when I was working on developing my mining skills. At that point I had deposited a total of $100 into the game, allowing me sufficient resources for recurring "mining runs." Unfortunately, for about a week prior to my amazing find, most of my runs had been significant losses. On the evening of my birthday, June 29, I decided to buy 20 PED worth of probes and set out with my Finder F-101 to mine around the Ashi desert to try and make some PED back.

For some reason, I had the bright idea of mining the Northern area, where there was an extremely dense spawn pattern of about Lvl 9-13 mobs. I was dropping probes, bobbing and weaving in and out of mobs, when I was about to finish up with my run, banking another loss for the day. That is, until I dropped (literally) my final probe of the run. It wasn't a global, so when the claim came up in the loot window I thought nothing spectacular about the find. However, when I looked at the estimated size, my heart started racing. After looking up the average value of a "Large (XII)" claim size (about 40 PED), I knew that this find was the largest I've ever had while mining by about 30 PED. Boy, how I hoped that everything would be smooth sailing, but retrieving this claim was the most difficult task I've had to date in Entropia Universe.

Over the course of the next half hour, I dug up the claim little by little. Here's how I did it: I flew my Sleipnir VTOL almost to the claim and started to extract it. Unfortunately, an Atrox began to attack me. Since I was excited about the claim, I decided to tank through the attacks, continuing to extract. Bad plan. The second hit was a critical: FOR 77 DAMAGE. I was revived at a nearby outpost without my ship, but I wasn't worried: I still had my Valkyrie car, and began to drive over. However, the area was so densely populated that the Valkyrie was destroyed within 30 seconds, and was once again revived at the outpost.

The outpost was completely surrounded my monsters, so I couldn't travel anywhere on foot, and I didn't have possession of either of my vehicles. I even thought I would have to contact the Calypso rescue team; I thought I lost my claim for good! However, I must have been blessed, because within 10 minutes my Sleipnir was returned to storage (which I never knew would happen), and I was able to fly back over to my claim. After about 10 minutes of careful extraction, I had pulled 40 PED worth of Lysterium out of the ground, making for the most amazing, difficult, and triumphant, and overall EPIC experience I had ever undergone in Entropia Universe.