Valkyria Chronicles: Showdown at Naggia (1) I didn’t get a chance to work on this battle last week. My first try at it failed, but I always need to try it once just to see what the map is like. It’s kinda fun watching all my heroes die in valorous ways, only to bring them back to life with a L)oad. Like my first attempt, I took the first camp with Rosie, then brought Alicia and Hannes around as backup. Preparing the way with Alicia’s grenade thrower, we moved into the next camp in the next two moves, which put our tanks in the field – and fielded the enemy Valkyrur. ...

Quick sketch of the third floor of “Newfallen”. Since I don’t want to take down the first quest in my EverQuest campaign while I work on its redesign, I’ll have to show progress only in the Foundry itself. #Neverwinter #Foundry #Newfallen

I was surprised to see so much interest in a #Godville post :) Godville is indeed a game like ProgressQuest, a parody of MMOs where it seemed all you would do is just grind gear… forever. Godville, like, say, Kingdom of Loathing, goes beyond being a simple parody of a video game into actually being a real game. You don’t play Godville directly. You are a god (or goddess), and your hero (or heroine) will happily go adventuring on their own with no input from you. You can, in fact, create a character, set the game to true ZPG (zero player game) mode, and come back in five years and find your character has joined a guild, or several, raised a pet, built a temple, gained levels, upgraded gear and so on. ...

My pet finally hit level 30 in Godville, and I now can proudly bear the “Pet Trainer” badge and have someone to put in my ark when it’s finally built. Occasionally, Godville kills your pet and then there’s a mad scramble to get enough gold for a resurrection before the 60 hour timer expires. Pinky’s last death, I had gotten enough gold and was headed back to town when I was killed. So I had to go earn enough gold again. I didn’t get the “quick rez” experience bonus, but I did manage to make it in time and now… done! ...

Who says sequels never bring the goods? We’ve got a couple of good ones this week… and a couple new ones as well.** Build a Castle, Siege a Keep** by @GodOfHunters** Leaping from the silver screen to the black mirror, Azog the Defiler Orc King is here! Well, first you have to lure him out. The Defiler Orc King won’t take a landless adventurer like yourself seriously. If you want to fight a king, you have to BE a king. So it’ll be your job to plunder local trash heaps for building supplies with which you’ll have your own sturdy keep built. The Castle of Garbage. Fortress of Rubbish! Nonetheless, as the local trash dumps get thin, your castle rises up around you, finally attracting an army of followers and attracting the notice of the orcs across the river. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: Recapture of Bruhl. I guess the lesson here is, CAN a map be done just by buffing Alicia up to her scarf and seeing if she can just survive the run to the end? I missed an enemy ace in a tank, but got the one in the enemy base. I guess I should go back sometime and try to get the tank ace…. It was kinda grim that Welkin and Kreis had this big conversation about how they worked well together and got the win, when neither of them had moved from their spawn spots. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: Battle at Marberry Shore I didn’t expect to get a first time “A” rank here. There was lots going on, and it wasn’t until a couple moves in that I understood the map enough to figure out the winning strategy, and even then it took a couple moves to execute it. The strat was pretty simple, in the end. With Isara’s smoke bombs providing cover, Alicia, powered up with Welkin’s orders, just, nigh-invulnerable, ran to the end camp, killed the two defenders, and took the flag. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: The Batomys is rust! I did enough skirmishes to get my lancers to elite status, but didn’t get a new weapon for doing so. I thought I would be getting some new super weapon. I went into the desert fight vs the Batomys and the Valkyrie, but it still took three shots to take out a turret. Nonetheless, I’d been to the Church of the Sniper, and I had not been slacking (too much) on their training. Every time normal enemy troops showed, I spent command points on snipers to take them down. Save/Load until every one of their shots was a kill shot. ...

We’ve been off a couple weeks, but we’re back with four new foundry quest reviews for your adventuring enjoyment.** Darkly Dreaming {Chapter 1}** by @Fallensbane** A child has fallen into a sleep from which he cannot awaken. Followed soon by a guard and a farmer. Lord Neverember has kept this quiet, but if this keeps up, all Neverwinter may descend into panic. There’s a solution, perhaps, that can only be survived by the bravest of adventurers. Well, the bravest ones passed. But for some reason, you showed up. ...

DCUO: Lantern No More Flush with the legendary infusion of station cash that came with the new month, I took the plunge and changed my power set from Hard Light to Mental. Blighted took me through the new loadout, and I was following a Mental Controller guide online at the same time, and wow – this operates so differently. The instant power jolt has a thirty second cool down; it was more like three seconds on hard light. However, that gives lots more time to do debuffs and stuff. My damage is still pretty low – and I think my power output is even lower than it was before. ...