Monday (20 Dec) - Scratchin' For Game Time

Monday (20 Dec) - Scratchin' For Game Time

My email box is a lot more interesting than my game time at the moment so I am going to let Sis and DER take center stage.

Sis: For Your Reading Pleasure

Excitement abounds!

Lao learned a whole new level of engineering and is now clamoring for ore. Since she is not a miner Sis had to drag herself out of a long bout of ennui and start questing in the new areas so she could mine ore along the way.

Wow! Blizzard sure did a great job on the expansion. Narcissus has been questing for days and does not want to stop.

She started out in the aqua land (just to see herself and ship get attacked by a giant octopus). From there she found herself, not only in the grasp of tentacles, but in the mouth of Gnaws (set up by a nutter she should have known not to listen to) and in the mouths (with only her feet sticking out) of large Groupers that took issue with her killing them for their meat.
Blizzard has set up great story lines in all of the new areas that Sis has been in so far. She very much recommends reading the quests. In the aqua land she uncovered a very deep Naga agenda before she was invited by another quest to check out the Maelstrom in the middle of the ocean that Thrall was in the mist of trying to handle.

Now Maelstrom Narcissus loved. The shattering caused the world's pillar to crack and three fragments are now missing and are needed to restore some stability. On top of this Twilight Cultists are up to no good. Of course, since when are cultists up to any good? So Sis runs off and gets a fragment from the cultists and surprise, she finds Millhouse in the middle of their schemes. Now, you may recall Millhouse was also up to no good in BC and you end up rescuing him by fluke in one of the Netherstorm dungeons. In this one it looks like you can now kill him in a Maelstrom dungeon. Which Sis has not gotten around to doing yet.

For the next fragment she runs off to talk to the stone men. I am sure they have some other name, but she is horrible with names, so that will have to do. To earn their trust she needs to help them fight back the troggs (harry subhumanoids that are handy with clubs), bog creatures, and to rescue their leader. She does all this and they give her the next fragment. Woohoo!
Lastly she sets off to deal with the elementals, specifically earth elements that are trying to lay siege to her base camp. They are none too happy with the interlopers and are clumping the “good guys” with the cultists. Sis had to go around to several different earth elementals to earn their trust. Sis finishes with her last elemental and is excited to retrieve her last fragment only to hear that they will “speak” to the elemental mother. Thinking she missed something Sis flew around the cavern to see if any new quests would be listed to give her guidance… nothing.
Well, at a loss she heads off to Egypt.. err I mean Ulderman or some such place. Looked pretty close to Egypt though. On her way there her and her escort (which includes the same nutter from the Gnaws quest) are captured! A lot of climatic scenes in this new expansion. Sis frees them, and the son of a pharaoh, and starts a new quest chain for said cat pharaoh. Now she just has barely arrived here, but learned down in Maelstrom that the pyramid here is not just a pyramid but a weapon the cultists were trying to activate. She has not gotten that far in her questing yet, but did have a fun side quest going with Harrison Jones, the archeologist from the BC raid Zul something.. So far she got them almost blown up (and thrown up in the air while hiding in trunks), found a staff that pin pointed some sacred location (see Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark), and helped Dr. Jones destroy some rather nice statues of a pharaoh in their adventures.

All of this! And all in one weekend. Stay tuned, DER, for more! Oh, and Sis has been remembering to send Lao the ore she comes across.

Sis: The Next Saga

Well, Sis has progressed a little bit further. Still in Egypt, she has helped the King push back an invasion, but it is not yet over. The enemy has set up a new strong hold and that is where Narcissus will next have to assist. While she was doing this she got a side quest to exterminate some gnomes that became crazed due to a curse. This was fun. She first had to hack into the mainframe, which a computer said would be difficult but that it could walk me through it. Sis said ‘forget that’ and hacked it her way, with an axe. This helped her reprogram it and let her enter the power source/core and become a flaming ball of death and killed a thousand of crazed gnomes (no, really a thousand, that is how much the quest called for). I have screen shots of them flying aflame into the air, I will have to send them. Towards the end of this, ding, 84. But there is a quest here, a daily, that many people have commented how cool it was. There are these pygmy guys that sit three tall on each other’s shoulders in order to try to steal the cities dates. You job is to go out with a mallet and wack them apart. The audio and video make this a very cool daily to do. I have laughed each time.

Shortly after, while taking stock of her enchanting (which she needs to skill up on) and emptying her bags into the bank Wild came on. We finally decided to stay on Wild and Sis to do a dungeon, but this was a no-go. There was either a bug with the que system for random dungeons or maybe the dungeon server was down, but we could not que up. So next we took off to Deepholm/Maelstrom to blaze through some quests that Wild had. Sis already wanted to go back there since the Quest Achievement says there are at least 20 more out there that she did not find.

Wild killed off cultists, freed slaves, slew dragons, and went through two mini cinema events before Sis started to yawn and went off to bed.

DER: Sure, rub it in! Who is going to make 85 first???

Sis: Who knows. As of last night, as she left, I think Sis was about half a level higher, but I don’t think I will be on today, other than for daily cooking. So the field is wide open.

Wild: Wild had a blast with Sis Monday night. Although she had already done every quest that Wild still had on his to do list, she stayed with Wild to help him kill things. Every time I showed her the next quest I was going to do, Sis would fly to the spot where I needed to go to do the quest. What a memory! I had warned Sis that Wild's questing methods were likely to drive her nuts, but she remained exceedingly calm - except for that one time having to do with killing crocodile like creatures. Wild and Sis killed a bunch of them but Wild was not getting any credit for the skins I was supposed to get. Finally, Sis suggested that Wild might want to use the skinning knife he had been given when he picked up the quest. Oh yea, that might help. Wild claimed he was just getting a bunch together so he could skin them all at once. Right.

Monday night was the first night Wild has been able to quest and level since I left on the Monterey vacation. Despite the night of questing Sis still has a substantial lead. Wild retired for the night 15% of the way to level 84. Sis is already level 84 and halfway to 85. Don't think I'm going to catch her. She's got that crazed, obsessed look in her eye - the lore of Cataclysm beckons!