Nashuya fighting the Spore King in the Ark of Harclave solo adventure. They give you a heroic buff which allows you to take on groups of yellow heroic mobs and bosses, like this guy. She hit thirty by the finish; and a couple of days ago, Etha hit thirty alchemy; and a little further back, Dera made 30 and then 31… so a lot of my characters are mid way through. Of course, SOE is just about to raise the level limit. ...
So there’s this new TV reality show called Unan1mous. The basic idea; lock nine people away, and promise a prize of $1.5m to the person who gets the unanimous vote of the others. The catch is, each day they do not choose one person to receive the bonanza, the pot lessens. I suppose after a couple of weeks, it’s down to ten bucks and a rusty quarter. Do they really expect the contestants to be so greedy that they just don’t decide in the first five minutes to pick one person to win, and split the pot? ...
The first screen of the new CE news page. Will add more as I finish them. Some might consider using pics of the guild as a kind of a cop-out for a news page. If you’re not in the picture, why would you care? Well, I AM in the picture. So that’s why. I dunno. Take a good look at this picture. Don’t read any further, just look at Matriarch Shyra in all her dead glory. ...
Tonight I finallty got a chance to explore Splitpaw in EQ2. The entire thing scales to your party level, but with Dera mentoring Nashuya, that was no problem. We came, we saw gnolls, we killed gnolls… Dera probably wished she had chosen a different title right about then… Actually, that’s Nashuya with a gnoll illusion on. One mission sends you in disguise… but they’re not fooled, they know who you are. Other missions include a solo arena showdown (Nashuya won it easily; Dera had to quit after round seven) and other stuff that really wanted a full group. ...
Nationstates is a weird little game. Although they don’t call me a dictator, everything I decide is passed, so what’s the difference? I am dismissing most issues brought to my attention because making any decision sends the nation veering off into bizarre tangents. I just KNOW that if I took any decision on the mandatory organ donation policy from this morning, that either roving bands of government agents would be lurking about at accident scenes, or millions would die from an absolute lack of donor organs. ...
I bought the second season of Battlestar Galactica and have to wonder… if the breakaway portion of the Fleet truly wants to save humanity, why are they leading the Cylons straight to Earth? They should lead them somewhere else… Anyway. It’s been nineteen hours and Befallen - or rather, Befallen/Faydark or FayFallen or whatever the new server is called. Well, probably it will just be Befallen, and Faydark will fade away. ...
Here’s how you look like in EQ2 and here’s your new .sig! All in one, compact, package! Just like you! Along with some commemorative Anguish armor :) Sorry it took so long! Oh yes… if you ever do end up playing EQ2, you owe Ironchief ten gold; Zefara likes to be held snugly before bed; the Gnashtooth gnolls demand the return of their young scout Wrathtail, whom you have renamed “Fluffy” and keep in a cage in your room; you like the ‘Hawks for the Superbowl; and you never start a sentence without the word “dude”.
This was a long post filled with gems of eloquence and insight, but it was lost because I had work to do and my session timed out. EQ2’s Update #19 went live yesterday. This patch introduced a new newbie experience - characters level 1-19 now start out as their final class, get their class-defining abilities (like dual wield or heavy armor) from the start, and depending on their starting city, get different newbie quests. From today until next week, characters may also transfer free to a server of their choice, as next week, many servers merge. Lastly, the new armor, spells, weapons and other sundries made by crafting have simplified recipes; the raw materials craft the final item directly, without subcombines. Already existing recipes have not been changed (yet, anyway). ...
Last night, I was just gathering tier 3 resources in Thundering Steppes to prepare for Etha and Dina blazing through their twenties in their respective tradeskills. As mentioned before, when I’m not doing much, I participate in the Faydark community channel, “Heritage” (ostensibly for coordinating heritage quests). And… they mention that SOE is consolidating servers. Faydark, mine, would be merged with Befallen, which by some wild coincidence is the server my son plays on. This follows the bizarre coincidence of Morrel-Thule, my EQ1 guide server, merging with Erollisi Marr, my play server. ...
Though in a couple of weeks, Nashuya could have been a Shadow Knight from level one, here and now, you still have to level to 20 before you learn the mysteries of pain and suffering. Perhaps best to lead up to it, to talk around the subject… to make someone beg for it. But gosh durn it, doesn’t she look cute in that anime gear. And people criticize the SOGA models! ...