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February 24, 2009

14:30
Wizard 101: Works in progress
So I thought I would have some dynamic pictures of PvPing but — turns out I didn’t actually TAKE any, so that’s out. Instead, I guess I’ll just have to show off my two wizard’s spring outfits. Because, if I dress them in Spring colors, Spring will come sooner, right? The idea, when dyeing outfits, is two [...]
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13:22
Atlus’ Neo Steam: F2P Fantasy Steampunk MMO
Atlus, maker of the Persona series and with a pretty long line of fun Japanese-style RPGs, is bringing their Steampunk MMO, Neo Steam, to our gear-strewn shores. Apparently Neo Steam has been available in Asia for quite some time, but the version we’re going to be getting has new content, more localization, and just better all [...]
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00:44
Sick Sixth Six!
Okay, Stargrace tagged me with a meme to post the sixth screenshot from the sixth subfolder of my saved screenshots. So that’s what I’m gonna do. All my file names are actually a hash code I made so I wouldn’t keep duplicate pictures so honestly, I don’t know what picture is gonna show here. This is from [...]
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February 23, 2009

18:00
EQ: A signature trip down memory lane.
Stargrace’s high speed romp through EverQuest has made me nostalgic. REALLY nostalgic. I remember when each new victory, the culmination of much effort, many tries, and no little creativity, would bring us just a little closer toward — I dunno. Guild status? That was part of it. The feeling that we were all a tightly [...]
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14:16
#bearraid: Revenge of the Bear
Based on last week’s run-through of the very bare beginnings of still-very-fluid Twitter RPG, I rewrote the entire thing from scratch. It has very solid underpinnings now. The timeline loop — rock solid. Fights with multiple monsters and players worked fine, though it was somewhat chaotic and I was having trouble keeping track of every [...]
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February 21, 2009

15:51
The lowdown on Wizard 101: What you need to know
There’s a lot of hidden numbers in Wizard 101. How do you know if a new hat you just got is really better than your old hat? Is accuracy more important for Storm wizards than it is for Life wizards? Is Crowns gear really the best gear? After trying on nearly every piece of gear I [...]
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February 20, 2009

14:37
#bearraid, version 0.0
I was just sitting around, waiting for a spot on the Trakanon raid to open, and I got to thinking, hmm… I should write that Twitter-based RPG I’ve been talking about. So last night and this morning, that’s what I did. Players can enter the game and whack on a mob until one of them dies. Doesn’t [...]
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February 19, 2009

19:15
Thoughts on a Twitter RPG
I was inspired by a tweet from Red Headed Tim this morning to think about what a Twitter roleplaying game might look like. Twitter, for those new to it, is, famously, “short messages continually answering the question, ‘What are you doing?’”. If that sounds only marginally interesting, I agree. What Twitter REALLY is, is a party [...]
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13:38
The clandestine Norrath/Dragonspyre connection
Norrath, the planet itself, wasn’t discovered by humans or elves or iksar or the ancient snake people or even the gods. It was discovered by the great she-dragon Veeshan, who chose this nondescript planet on which to raise her brood. She marked the planet with a swipe of her claws, claiming it as her own [...]
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00:47
Feeding less, Twittering more (or less).
I love the whole concept of using Google Reader to custom tailor my news, but it has just gotten to be too much. I found what I really looked forward to was new blog postings from my friends, and I would scroll through the blogs on the side looking for their updates first. I have [...]
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February 18, 2009

13:58
EQ2 Mish-mash!
Lots of updates to progressin EverQuest II and, unfortunately, not a lot of time to write about them, so here goes. I have three goals in EQ2 at the moment — finishing Heritage Quests for our guild, Nostalgia, getting Dina’s tailoring to 80 and also finishing the Rise of Kunark expansion by defeating Trakanon in Veeshan’s [...]
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February 17, 2009

15:25
Wizard 101: Orin Grimcaster update
Just got an email from Mr. Lincoln, the fine-feathered tech contact for Wizard 101, about my troubles getting into Orin Grimcaster’s lair, the Fleshless Tower: Good Morning, Sorry that took so long! I have gone into your character and reset the quest. You should be able to get into the building now. If you still can not [...]
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13:47
Bringing Balance to Wizard 101
Agh, I have SO MUCH STUFF TO TALK ABOUT! I won’t even get a chance to write about EQ2 today :/ Cool outfit, isn’t it? Total trash, aside from the boots which are a marginal upgrade from the Crowns boots I was wearing. The danger of dressing to kill is that it isn’t actually that much [...]
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13:16
Runes of Magic claims 450,000 players
Runes of Magic has been getting a lot of attention from the blogosphere lately. Though obviously heavily inspired by World of Warcraft, this Taiwan import adds multi-classing and many other little twists to the basic formula. It’s been in beta for months, goes live in March, and today sent me an email saying they had [...]
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13:01
*Anthro* MMO Earth Eternal launches new web site
There’s a slim possibility I may have been dismissive of Sparkplay’s Anthro (not Furry) MMO, Earth Eternal, in the past, but – Okay, I just have to get this off my downy-feathered chest, here. Earth Eternal is a Furry MMO. I understand why they are trying to distance themselves from it. The Furry sub-culture has gotten [...]
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February 16, 2009

07:26
Adventures in Monopoly: Revenge, Part III
In last week’s episode of Adventures in Monopoly, Scottie made his way back from the Old European Monopoly set over a vast cardboard ocean in the hold of a Lego pirate ship. To the shock and amazement of his friends, though, he appeared healthy and very much alive, though he had been killed during Bear’s [...]
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February 13, 2009

15:26
The time is now…
Today the Unix time stamp hits 1234567890. Today, all Unix/Linux geeks around the world are writing scripts like this one: import time while time.time() < 1234567890.0:    time.sleep(0.25) print "The time is",time.time(),"!" Seriously. Gotta do it.
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14:16
EQ2: Wings of the Void? WANT. Also, Flower.
The new Legends of Norrath set, Against the Void launched yesterday. I want to get into LoN, I like collectible card games, but I just worry that to do well, I’ll have to sink serious money into cards. That’s what finally got me off Magic: the Gathering — but at least I got to keep [...]
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February 12, 2009

17:10
Free Realms out in two months
According to Massively, Free Realms, SOE’s kid-friendly game, will be out in April for the PC and some time in the fall for the PS3. I would love to be more excited about this game. I looked at it at the Fan Faire and it is beautiful with fantastically whimsical art direction. What I didn’t see [...]
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14:31
Beta News & More
City of Heroes is currently running their Valentine event, the one time in the year when heroes and villains can come together and luuuurve each other. Visit Pocket D, the rockin’ night club presided over by the hip DJ Zero, his power vendors Chill and Dram, and somewhat alarmed mission-giver and part time DJ Scratch [...]
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February 11, 2009

13:36
Wizard 101: World beyond Dragonspyre due out in summer
Professor Greyrose of the Ravenwood faculty confirmed that there would be a new world to explore this summer, and that it would raise the level cap beyond level 50. As you adventure through Dragonpsyre, you will be able to complete quests and receive amazing new items. Once you reach level 50, you will not be able [...]
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08:07
EQ2: Two girls ready for LOVE!
And oh yeah, we finished clearing Veeshan’s Peak and then cleared up to the Maestro in the Shard of Hate! First time the experience is new. Second time, it’s like, can we skip ahead to the part where I get something :) No, it was fun, just not much to write about. Afterward, I bought the [...]
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February 10, 2009

14:32
Wizard 101: Crown of Fire
Malistaire death number one, and counting. Killing Malistaire with the quest to kill him might actually just give you his robe; last night, Thomas got his, while his son’s character got a balance robe (not sure if it was the one Balance wizards would get), and I got an athame off of him. So either [...]
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February 9, 2009

19:10
Wizard 101: How many times must Malistaire die?
The last instance in Dragonspyre is a grind that ends with Malistaire’s defeat at your victorious, albeit blood-soaked, hands. He hands out a robe. One out every seven times, it will be the robe for your school of magic. That same instance contains the bosses who drop the class-specific ring and athame, too — 1/7 of [...]
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14:51
Wizard 101: This ain’t the Summer of Love
Um, sorry for the Blue Oyster Cult shout out. Scratch that. I’m not sorry. Blue Oyster Cult RULES. And there ain’t no angels above. Cuz things aren’t like they used to be. And this ain’t the summer of love… Um, sorry. This post isn’t about my favorite band. This is about Wizard 101’s newest heartthrob, Valentina Heartsong. Valentina: [...]
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February 8, 2009

06:59
Adventures in Monopoly: Revenge, Part 2
All this next week will be back to regular adventures in regular MMOs. This comic just forced itself to be written, so what could I do? I’m weak, I admit it. Poem is in many ways similar to Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The font used is RPG Script and was donated for general use [...]
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01:19
AiM: Behind the scenes
I was working on the next Adventures in Monopoly comic, and thought it would be fun to show how I created the first panel. I wanted a boat going over an ocean, and I wanted the ocean to be a game board. I couldn’t find any good ocean game boards at Toys R Us despite all [...]
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February 7, 2009

13:21
Giving Monopoly the respect it deserves
Undoubtedly due to the recent upturn in Monopoly fandom due to Adventures in Monopoly, none other than Ridley Scott of “Black Rain” and “Legends” fame is planning on directing a big-screen adaptation of “Monopoly”. He has not yet contacted me on how I could work with him to write a mind-blowing Monopoly script, but I [...]
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February 6, 2009

14:18
Adventures in Monopoly #4: Revenge
The story thus far: After an attempted coup that leaves him imprisoned, Bear escapes and rounds up a gang of ne’er-do-well tokens and takes over the entire board in a legendary crime wave that leaves trusting and lovable Scottie dead. Scottie’s friends Car and Hat, following their friend’s wishes, took his body to Germany and [...]
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February 5, 2009

14:32
Music for a Meltdown
Some of you may know about the HUGE turmoil in my personal life that happened yesterday, and if you don’t, well, be thankful :) Upshot is, I didn’t finish the comic I was doing. BUT! I come bearing tunes instead! While recording my story for Saylah’s Game Fiction Podcast, I ended up with my Rock Band microphone [...]
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February 4, 2009

14:23
EQ2: Setting Free the Bear
We started Veeshan’s Peak last night, but it didn’t go all that well. We were supposed to clear up to the Taskmaster, and then finish it on Thursday. As the night wore on, we were just going to clear up past Nexona. And then at the end, we would have been happy to just have [...]
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February 2, 2009

14:17
Weekend Gaming, such as it was
This weekend was filled with “real life” stuff, leaving little time for gaming… but I did get some time in now and then. I went ahead and made a kinship (called, unsurprisingly, Nostalgia) on the Windfola server in Lord of the Rings Online — just to make it easier to talk with everyone. I’d prefer to [...]
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January 30, 2009

06:56
Wizard 101: Take THIS, Thomas!
Thomas Lionblood has been having a bunch of fun, bringing magical artifacts infused with Death power to the verdant green of the Life school. We Life wizards will no longer put up with this blatant disregard for the power of Life. So here I am with my new Life staff standing in front of, oh my, is [...]
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January 29, 2009

08:34
Adventures in Monopoly: Darkfall, Part III
The End… OR IS IT!?
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January 28, 2009

14:00
EQ2: Dragon Wars
This isn’t Veeshan’s Peak. That’s Thomas Lionblood, the Friendly Necromancer, on the left, though. If your MMO doesn’t have dragons in it, it’s just not a fantasy MMO, is it? You can take out wizards and plucky farm boys and enchanted princesses and evil kings and all that, but if you lose the dragons, well, you’ve [...]
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