Here comes our last post from total quarantine! Mom's workplace wants her back in the office on Monday, which is, unfortunately, her birthday. Sorry, Mom. :( These last few months sure have been a wild ride!
Speaking of wild rides, (sorry, couldn't resist) we've been finding loads of them lately on HI3. We'll likely hit 1000 total wilds captured yet this weekend!
We caught a taller wild than any we've caught before, a 21-hand stallion with Bend-Or spots:
We regrettably did not take any shots of Pepsi riding him or standing near him before selling him.
We also caught a shorter, lighter wild than we ever have before: a 7 hand, 114.2 pound stallion.
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| So tiny! |
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| He could barely move the cart! Sorry for making you try, little guy! |
Here is our 25th wild with a genetic stat total of 900+. Sadly, she is also the first to have no mane/roached mane.
I wonder if HI3 will eventually add a mane-modification feature to the game? According to the forums, it's a possibility. Even if they did, this mare might still be out of luck, as there is virtually no mane there to modify. At least she has a nice tail, an eel stripe, and pretty sabino markings.
The expert determined that she is a Grade Pleasure Horse. Here is Pepsi trying her out:
Now check out this little chestnut:
You're probably wondering why in the world I'm showing you this one, right? Common color, unglamorous build, low genetic stats...
...and the only thing out of the norm metrics-wise is a pretty nice turning speed. Her personality is what caught our attention! If you add those 6 numbers up, they total 514. This probably doesn't seem that spectacular, considering all the player-bred horses out there with amazing personalities. However, we've never even had a wild's personality trait total total crack 475 before, so 514 was rather shocking for us.
As an added surprise, she also paces! Despite her pony size, the expert deemed her a Grade Gaited Saddle Horse.
No ambling, but I definitely did notice how quickly she turns compared to most horses.
No ambling, but I definitely did notice how quickly she turns compared to most horses.
Next on the list is our 5th wild with a genetic stat total that cracks 1000. She's a beautiful ebony black mare with a long mane and dapples.
We were quite excited up until this point.
Oh no, that persona! Not a single trait on the right side of the chart. Though she isn't quite ornery enough to buck, her laziness and extreme skittishness make riding her much less fun. None of her performance metrics stand out either, but she looks quite pretty!
Our disappointment over Into The Moonlight did not last long. Later the same day, Bethany and Topi found some grey wilds while riding through Stone Forest. The first was a typical grey Stone Forest wild.
The second was a bit rounder and shorter than your typical Stone Forest wild, but because he was grey, Bethany was totally not expecting the Lucky Find messages that flashed across the screen. =)
Yay, our third lucky find is a really cute pony-sized stallion!
Even though he's only 5.3 years old, he has already gone quite grey - you can't even tell he was once grullo. What a difference from Cloudburst, who did not get his infinitum amulet until he was over 8 and still had not greyed that much. Evergreen's genetic stat total is not as impressive as our first two lucky finds' (Talvi's and Mariette's both topped 1000), but he sure is strong and sturdy for his size.
Make your breed guesses now! Bethany's initial thought was Connemara, since he looks like a large pony and doesn't have feathering. He seems a bit too short-legged and stocky to be a Connemara, though. Some of our other best guesses before consulting the BBB were Hucul Pony, Highland Pony, and New Forest Pony, but none of them seemed quite right.
He's a Highland Pony! The non-shaggy mane and lack of any feathering threw us off, but yes, we can see it now. Our lucky finds have all been from Europe so far: Finland, the Netherlands, and now Scotland! His performance metrics are not spectacular, but he is strong for his size. He's slow and lazy but otherwise quite pleasant to be around and ride.
Yay for a big barrel! For once, Pepsi's on a pony where there isn't daylight between the bottom of the girth and the top of Pepsi's foot.
A few days later, we found Bumpy!
If you glance at him quickly, he looks a bit like Starfleet. Look more closely, and you'll notice he is sooty, less leggy, and has a really, um, bumpy back end.
His genetic stat total is not great, but that muscular rear has given him excellent turning speed, the second best of any wild we've captured so far.
He's not skittish or ornery, and his laziness isn't quite extreme enough to cause slowing under saddle. According to the expert, he is a Grade Pleasure Horse.
Finally, here is our 6th wild with 1000+ genetic stat total.
To our delight, he was another pinto!
He's tied for 3rd place with Talvi when it comes to genetic stat total.
The expert calls him a Grade European Hotblood, but he is slow and lazy, not hotblood-like at all. At least he has a fairly powerful jump! Since he doesn't really strike us as the vampire type in any sense (and totally does cast a shadow), we have taken to calling him Taurus instead because of his stubbornness and bovine-esque coloring.
It's going to be really tough to choose our May equines!
I'll leave you with a few random fun screenshots.
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| Mariette and Pepsi surveying a herd at dusk. We did not successfully catch them all before it got too dark to see, so a few had to wait until morning. |
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| A wild impersonating an ostrich? |
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aerial view of another gorgeous manchado More shapeshifting fun! Here is Pepsi as a white raccoon entertaining a coyote.  swimming in a geyser pool as a regular raccoon  solving a puzzle as a bunny |
communing with Evergreen as a panda
making a tiger friend as a white tiger
happily chilling in a lavender pool as a moose
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