Lord of the Rings Online: Hobbit vs Troll

If Bilbo could see me now, why, he’d be talking about how he (with maybe a very little help from a certain gray-robed wizard) kept three trolls arguing until morning light turned them all to stone. He wouldn’t approve of what I do at all, why, not one little bit. “Un-Hobbit-like!” he’d yell. “It’s just not how things are DONE!” he’d exclaim. “Even the Old Took would think twice! And then twice more! And then have a good smoke about it!” ...

January 19, 2009 · 6 min · 1164 words · Tipa

EQ2: The Loping Plains Haunted House. Scared yet?

Loping Plains hasn’t seen THIS much action since the Freethinkers threw that Christmas party and the Pumpkin-Headed Horseman barfed seeds and pulp all over Mayong Mistmoore. Everyone was talking about that for months. So anyway, Ettie and I head over to Loping Plains to see what’s up. Some goblin over in Freeport was talking up stuff about some “really cool” thing over there, “a lot of fun”. So I asked the gobber if, like, I was going to die or something. “No, no, no, you no die,” said the gobber. “Be fun, you. You just go graveyard there, fun time!” ...

October 24, 2008 · 5 min · 993 words · Tipa

EQ2: Eitholi, Blade of the Fae

What takes two hours to do, results in a blade nobody will use, and no status at all? That would be the signature quest that ends in Eitholi, Blade of the Fae. Here in the dressing room, since Etha – now known as Ettie – can’t wield it. Green glows are uber. Too bad the stats aren’t! It wasn’t a total wash. Ettie got enough AA experience from all the subquests that she dinged 30 AAs, and, after finishing the Wisdom/Ritualist AA line, is heading down the Stamina line, which includes a very cute little buckler attack. ...

September 24, 2008 · 5 min · 860 words · Tipa