Saturday, April 6, 2019

The Bridgeport Investigation


The Bridgeport Investigation

Wench is angry and frustrated. Tired of Zandalar, she decided to work on improving her position in Kul Tiras and fortifying her property to defend against the Alliance forces. There is a bridge crossing to keep watch on and there is an Alliance town on the other side of the river to be wary of.

Wench has killed the Alliance on her side of the bridge. Now she must traverse an Alliance haunted area that is very dangerous and heavy with Alliance forces.

[There are two cutscenes involved required to complete this part of her mission. Both require reaching two spots where there are not only Alliance enemies very close, PvP players are also close enough to could trigger the enemy Alliance defenders. The obvious intent is to cause players flag for PvP. Wench has been killed twice now by PvP players who are clever enough to cause the PvP to flag. Wench can see them waiting for Wench to make that small mistake. This violates the rules of play by forcing non-PVPers participate in PvP against their desires.]

Wench surprised herself the first time she tried her hand at the Auction House. She admitted that her first sale was a bit of coincidence. A highly priced weapon had had come into her hands that she could not use for herself. It was being auctioned for 100,000 gold. Wench thought that was plain crazy. There were only two for sale. Potential buyers came and went and the price kept dropping. Wench didn't know how low it would go before someone bought it. but she was sure happy when she finally got a buyer. How much did she get from the sale? 46,000 gold!! Wench went from having 57k gold to 103,000 gold!  Not five minutes later she sold her cache of fish and raised her gold total to 105k gold. Happyface  is now wondering if he should take back the 50k gold stake he gave her.

By the way,  there has been some criticism of Wench regarding her clothing - or lack of clothing. There is certainly more flesh showing than the everyday gear laden bear.

Not that it's anyone's business what she wears or what she doesn't wear, Wench chided her critics. Her response was a simple one, stating that she will wear the best gear she can get, and will add to that gear if it gives her an advantage. She doesn't wear a tabard because she does not belong to a guild. She doesn't wear a shirt because it gives her no advantage. "Practical" is her motto.

Special Section: Wildswench has a history that not even Wildshard knows much about. Her mother . . .  well, the full story of that period may never be told. However, some recent  sketches have come to light that may or may not shed some light. Take from it what you will

A Recent View of Wench
 
Wench at Work

Hard to Watch but that's her with the whip

This is Wench Being :Taught"

Thursday, April 4, 2019




Testing For Pics

The Gods of WoW have nothing to do with adding pics to enhance the posts that get published. That job goes to the writer who writes the blog and provides the pics.

Part of the problem is that there are literally thousands of pics to choose from and many are scattered over many places. There needs to be one place where captured pics can be stored as well as a method to copy or move the pic to this blog. That's the challenge. To date there have been some successes, though they could not be replicated.Testing is required.

Test # 0 - Pictures Library. This library is in two locations: My Pictures and Public Pictures. The default is My Pictures. No changes are being made to either location for the moment.

Test #1 - Local Disk E: Warcraftpics - this is a folder on the E: drive that has some warcraft pics on it. Can those pics be copied/moved to the Blog?

First, I have to click on the Insert Image tab. What I get is the entire list of every pic in that warcraftpics folder. Wa-la! No, not really. There are thousands of pics in there in no usable method to search for the right pics. Several attempts to define a way to tell has failed before.

What is needed is a folder that has only the pics needed. So one question is how to tell "insert image"  to pick the right folder to choose pics.

It appears that there is only two ways, neither of which will work.

Okay, maybe I'm on to something. I went into through the Progam file to Screenshots. I then did a cut and paste of the screenshot. And it worked!

Succsefulpaste to the blog 
Local Disk /programfiles /world of warcraft /retail /screenshots

Now I will try it with a post including a pasted pic.

NOPE - it didn't work.  The screenshot did post, but the pic was too large and was clipped and it wouldn't adjust itself - which it would if it were working right. So SIGH, still trying to figure this thing out.