Weekend (2 Dec) - The Incursion Huntress

Weekend (2 Dec) - The Incursion Huntress

Fist was out and about for awhile on Saturday night. On Friday I got a screen lockout, the first since I did the PC scrub and the reinstall of WoW. Sigh. I was only using two addons, Auctioneer and Postal, and now they are both gone, too. It's likely a computer problem, though, having tried everything else.

Fist, it appears, has fallen into an in between position again. She has no quests and no clear idea where to head next. The last place she was dropped at was in the Valley of Eternal Blossoms. Fist took a ride with the flight master at Mogu'shan Palace, but it dumped her into an area of burning buildings with no one about - and no flight master, either. Apparently, Fist has missed a quest chain somewhere. A little frustrated, Fist hearthed to Honeydew and called it a night.

Before she left, Fist did have an interesting encounter in Four Winds (Thunderfoot Fields, I think) prior to the above. She was rescuing people, which entailed killing their captors first. In the middle of one such battle Fist was ganged up on by what she assumed was two more of the usual level 87/88 mobs she'd been slaughtering all evening. They weren't. They were level 90 pvp npcs, and they were elite. The name of the mob was "Incursion Huntress."

I looked it up in wowhead. It's an alliance npc, and they hang out in Krasarang Wilds, well south of where Fist was. All I can think of is that a player kited it over to where I was. Unfortunately, I didn't think to grab a screenshot. Fist made a fight of it, getting the elite to about 25% before Fist died.

Fist is 40% of the way to level 89.

Saturday - Got another scare on the computer late Saturday night. Fist was in Halfhill doing some farming - it's not quite as simple as Fist had thought - when an urgent message popped up on the screen. "Microsoft Security Essentials has detected viruses on your computer. Click ok to clean."

That was alarming. But, hmm, I have a virus checker, Avast. It didn't have any warnings to impart. I managed to do an online check to see what Microsoft Security Essentials was all about despite some intrusive attempts to take over my browser and force that click. The program in question is a valid Microsoft product, but it is a voluntary free download, not something installed by the operating system. I checked my system files and it isn't even installed on my computer.

There was no way I was going to click that button, but I also couldn't get it to go away. I could kill the browser, but when I opened it back up the message would be back. So I restarted the computer and it went away. I had Avast run a virus check just to be sure and it came up clean. I had read that Microsoft recently lost it's seal of approval for their virus checker. It wouldn't surprise me if that was an attempt to get me to install their virus checker, trying to convince me that I needed it to get rid of a virus. The good news is that Fist was in game for almost two hours with no screen lockout.

However, Fist spent more time than she wanted doing little more than looking for something to do. It's really weird, but she has been forced to start flight path jumping to try and find quests to do. She finds pockets of three-five quests, but once they are done there are no suggestions leading to another set of quests, such as "take this chicken to Kentucky Fried and talk to Colonel Sanders." I'm used to having to delete quests from my quest book because all 25 quest slots are full. Not in Pandaria. Fist rarely has more than a dozen open quests, and way too often can count her open quests on one hand.

She called it a night in Kun-Lai Summit at a little out of the way place called The Grummle Baazar. There are three quests there, which is the sum total of her open quests.

Fist creeped along, increasing that 40% to 56% of the way to level 89.