Fantasy Gathering A dash of wizardry and dragons

I probably should have written about this on the 1st but I wasn’t sure I’d follow through on it. I felt like I was starting to stagnate in the writing department and I figured that since May is six months down the road after NaNoWriMo, I could always try something more fun. So on the first of May, I decided that I should write 300 words or more per day. It wouldn’t be stressful and I could try to write some silly fun story just to give my imagination an exercise.

I haven’t missed a day yet. I also don’t limit myself to just 300. Just when I get stuck, I check word count and I always hit 350+ words. I shut Word down after because there’s no need to stress myself into thinking of what happens next on that day. hehe. I’ve been writing a fun story about Captain Leguile’s first mate going on some adventure in Eidolon. I haven’t thought far ahead at all and I’m just basically making stuff up as I go along.

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I know it’s been forever since I updated but I guess my interests turned to other things such as my Plants & Such blog now that the weather has warmed up and everything is growing.

I also scanned in my collection of pressed pennies: Pressed Pennies It started by ‘accident’ and has been growing since!

I finished editing my NaNoWriMo story so that it flows smoothly from beginning to end. I know that in the grand scheme of things, it has to be edited to death but I’m not looking to be published. I do have to look into the code that NNWM gave out in order to get a free-proof copy. It’d be neat to have my story in book form. After I finished editing, I felt like I’ve been stagnating so I’ve decided that for May, I have to write 300 words per day. It’s quick, fun, and not stressful… I figure I’ll write some little story through the month and it’ll be a fun way to exercise my imagination.

Other than that, things are quiet around here. 😉

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I didn’t expect to put much effort into playing my Earthguard Mystic in Perfect World but after talking to Melika and letting her know that I created a character and gave it a whirl, she logged in and then we were joined by a friend of her’s so we got a lot done.

I absolutely love the Devil Chihyu. He is incredibly helpful when attacking monsters. I also acquired Storm Mistress but haven’t done anything with her yet. And then I eventually got the kite to fly but it lasts for 3 days so… Gonna try to level up as much as I can.

It was really odd. As I kept leveling up, the monsters were still complacent. They didn’t bother us or anything unless we made the first attack. I kept trying to remember if this was the same for when I chose to be a human wizard last year. I was pretty sure that as you leveled up, you had to deal with monsters attacking you when you got too close to them.

One thing that shocked me was that when we got around to level 20, we entered an area to do a quest but we were suddenly being attacked left and right. It was really intense and there were a lot of monsters in a small area. They were very aggressive and re-spawned fast! It just seems rather sudden to go from all complacent monsters to a mob that attacked you left and right when you’re too close to them all. It doesn’t seem to teach you to slowly ease in like I experienced with the human wizard character. For people who are playing for the first time, it might come as a shock to them when they’re used to monsters ignoring them and then suddenly being attacked by two or three monsters and fleeing only to run into more. hehe.

I’ve reached Archosaur so it’s back to all the boring quests I’ve done before.

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Melika told me recently that there was a new race added to Perfect World. I thought I’d check it out later. I had no idea that the game changed from “Rising Tide” to “Genesis” and all. What a big change! After waiting a couple hours for the update to download, I went in and quickly created a character. I probably should’ve taken the time to customize it but I just wanted to see what they were.

I haven’t played the game for a couple months but I may just tinker with this character some just to see what he’s capable of but I may not level him up all that much.

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Riff might not be happy to hear this since he’s the one that convinced me to try Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited.

But… Wow! It is just terrible! Okay, Maybe I am rushing into my opinion of it but it is downright confusing. I have given the game three days and I still can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

I chose Khyber. Upon entering the game, you create a character, find yourself on a beach because of a shipwreck. You meet a thief and then you go through a quick dungeon. After that, you appear in Korthos. I tried doing quests but I keep dying. My magic, or ‘spell points’ goes to zero FAST. I have no choice but to use my staff to conk the monsters on the head and I keep dying. A LOT. Nothing ever recovers and I have no idea why.

I know in the sample dungeon, they said something about healing at shrines but those shrines don’t exist at all on the quests I’ve tried in Korthos. How the heck am I suppose to throw spells if it goes to 0 pretty fast? I don’t know. It seems to me that this game highly favors guilds, like you need to be in a guild as soon as you enter the game in order to advance anywhere.

I suppose I’ll keep tinkering with the game in the meanwhile in case I figure something out.

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