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Of scales and slime pits... After last week’s epic battle against an Indiana Jones-style boulder trap and various drakes and kobold lords, what could possibly await us in the cavern below the tower ruins, from whence came the acrid stink of dragonbreath and fear? Could it be……? We sent Wenner, the halfling thief, to check it out. He crept around turn after turn, beckoning the rest of us after him. We cautiously followed. At the entrance to a room we could not see the end of, Wenner went bouncing through like a maniac, alerting everything inside to our presence. ...

Tipara, member of the Sinestro Corps Okay, so in SOE’s DC Universe Online, people are getting random superpowers by being infected with some superpower thing cooked up by Brainiac. You wake up one morning, you have superpowers. Maybe you have to escape from Brainiac’s space ship, but whatever. With DCUO’s Lords of Light (or whatever) expansion pack, you can have Green Lantern or Sinestro’s powers. Including a power ring. Note power ring on my character below. ...

Stargrace of MMO Quests interviewed me about gaming :) Reshared post from +Stephanie Morrow A new monthly feature I’ve added to MmoQuests, hope you all enjoy it as much as I did writing it! Congratulations +Brenda Holloway, it is well deserved. Embedded Link MmoQuests.com » Feature: Inspirational Girl Gamer for November – Tipa Feature: Inspirational Girl Gamer for November – Tipa. Posted by stargrace in Of Interest, Real Life. It’s time for a new monthly feature here on MmoQuests, one inspired by an email I had received… ...

Tirelessly defending kobolds. Huh? Turbine pushed its “Vault of the Artificers” update live today. As well as enabling the new Artificer class to be unlocked through gameplay, the update brings a new “Challenge” dungeon system. Whether this is similar to World of Warcraft’s upcoming Challenge dungeon system is unknown. DDO’s version is a first person real time strategy system. We’ve seen adventure-themed tower defense games such as “Orcs Must Die”, now we get resource gathering and management in an RPG context. ...

Beware, Joggers Today’s run was a little better than Monday’s. 5.3 mph vs 5.2 mph, so when I say a little better, that’s what I mean. However, I ran nearly all the first two miles without any sort of walk break, and only needed maybe a 30 second walk before I headed into and finished the third mile. When I finished the 5K, I was more exhausted than I usually am, but in just a couple minutes I felt great. Warmed down with the walk home and some stretches and Wii Fit-taught yoga poses. ...

Dragon in the Tor Modern MMOs have trained me to believe that no matter what class I play, I’ll be able to solo anything without trouble. That’s the compact MMO devs make with their players. So my natural tendency is to just pick a target and wade on in. You just can’t do that in DDO. You have to know your place, and my place is in the back. This means that sometimes stuff dies before I can get to it, or I have to take out my bow and snipe stuff from the periphery. I just can’t take aggro. But sometimes my role means I get to take the lead. ...

* After biking through the course for the Manchester Road Race this morning, I really have to hand it to the course designers. Sure, it would be nice if it weren’t partially up the side of Mount Everest, but the steep ascent only lasts for the first couple of miles, after which there’s a steep DOWNhill followed by a flat stretch of a couple miles and then another downhill race to the finish line. ...

Today I visited the Bulls Bridge in Kent, CT. The bridge crosses over the Housatonic (HOOS-a-tonic) river onto a large island that splits the river in two for a ways; a more conventional bridge leads off it the other way. The Bulls Bridge is currently one of only two covered bridges in the state. When the Comstock Covered Bridge is rebuilt, there will be three again. Kent is in the beautiful Berkshires that extend north of here through western Massachusetts and up to Vermont, where they become the Green Mountains.In album Bulls Bridge (14 photos) ...

I didn’t expect that a series about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf living together in a Bristol flat would actually be a really compelling drama. I just had this idea it could only be a comedy. “Being Human” is a really great show. Aaaaaand the home page contains a spoiler. Which I didn’t know until I linked it. Embedded Link BBC - Being Human - Homepage of the official Being Human website from the BBC ...

Last night I finally got around to watching Terra Nova, which had the cop actually do some detecting. The producers had the perfect opportunity to get the annoying teenager and his girlfriend eaten but screwed it up again. I’m hoping they don’t wait for the season (series?) finale to make him dino-chow.** Also watched the start of Glee**. This is a show I love so much, or loved. They had one of the winners of The Glee Project finally show, but the part of the episode I watched was just painfully unfunny stuff about Sue Sylvester trying to kill all the arts programs in Ohio while Elphaba and Mercedes are trying to recruit the girls from the Glee club to form a rival club. This show may have lost its core of friendship and good humor forever. Well, it was a good two years.** ...