Watchtower Hall Magic Carpet Ride

Hey Wizards! Sorry it's been a while since a post, I have been super busy and actually have a LOT more that I could post here but I am going to try and spread it out for you guys over a few posts :-)

A day or so before the big All-Star Meet & Greet hosted by myself and good friend, John, Lifeglen, he took Jadeblade and a few others on a ride around his house, via magic, flying carpets...hehe! So I wanted to show some pics of the ride they took and the up close views of the Runstones surrounding the property:

Big Bear Fort Runestone

Playing around with angles here; bet you didn't know lions could fly? ;-)

Lion Stuck in Stone.

Just Hanging around.

Floating mushrooms, mushrooms!

This is my favorite runestone here.

A closer look.

Ever had one of those days when it felt as if the rug had been yanked out from under you?

Gotta love walking on clouds!

As above, so below.

I'm not over the hill, I am over the roof top.

Hanging out in the trees with Cassandra Hexthorn.

During the party we had I had to go home for a minute to do something. When I walked in I had a really weird glitch, but unfortunately didn't catch a lot of it. I was seeing two of each pet in my house, except when I would open the tab to place items. As you can see here, though, the total number of items is completely messed up:

The number of items actually shown doubled!

And to end this little post I am throwing in these extra random pics:

Keira was with John at one of his friend's house and they put them in a tent; it was a really cool picture opportunity!

You might think this is a tent as well, but you would be wrong. This is inside a fountain at John's house. Cool that you can see the stars above the water :-)

Ok, wizards...more coming soon....so keep your eyes to the stars and your feet moving towards that next big adventure!

See ya in the Spiral!

To Catch a Spectre...

Save for a few little events of the past day I didn't get a whole lot done in the Spiral. It seems so many of my projects are sitting idly by, waiting for me to finally be released from pet collection and farming chaos(which has been mostly enjoyable,) to return to them.

Poor Luis has been stuck at the same level for a couple weeks now, I think. The Vampire Twins have been sleeping more than normal, although I try my best to get to them as I have enjoyed running the death pair and sort of relearning Death a bit in the process. As I have said before; it was never a favorite...although I certainly don't hate it, it just isn't "me."

Ravenwood Radio Episode 17, Live, was on this past evening and I nearly missed it and had no control over it. I would have been very unhappy if I had missed it. But as if to symbolically reinforce the reasons for me being a Storm wizard we had a pretty great thunderstorm here last night and a few hours before the show. I had been talking a little to Kevin Battleblood and had told him "we are having a pretty bad storm here...I hope the power doesn't go out." No sooner than I wrote that to him and BAM...transformer nearby was hit by lightning. It was not the first time that ever happened while living here and I had a good feeling it was going to happen...just by judging the direction of the thunder and lightning and noticing that the rain was not being sprayed through my window, as is normal during a storm here. I knew that the wind was strong to the north and just had a really good feeling it was going to happen.

So the power went out. My first reaction was to laugh at the fact of how ironic it was with my last words to Kevin. Then I went to get the candles and light them, make a call on my cell phone to the power company to let them know about the outage, and then get out the crank radio that was given to me for Christmas. I had specifically asked for the radio due to the last really huge storm we had here when remnants of Hurricane Ike made it this far north and knocked the power out for over a week. Batteries are such a nuisance, so having a crank radio-combination-flashlight was a relief to have available...just in case.

I love a good storm, I really do. I don't think many people really get that. I am one of those weirdos that actually likes to go stand outside and just get soaked in a warm summer rain storm, breathing in the clean air deeply and loving the smell of the rain in the air.

So, knowing this, was I not meant to be a Storm wizard? Other than those facts and my obsession with the ocean and all it's creatures, I also fit the description pretty much to a "T":
...I would like to add to the list of famous Diviners inventor Nikola Tesla, whom I had an odd fascination with in my teens, partly inspired by the rock band of his namesake, which inspired me to learn more about him:
...Oh, yes, he was definitely a Storm wizard....I mean look at all that electricity and he just sits there all calm and everything through it all.

Anyhow I tried listening to the radio but that bores the life out of me...no stations really play music I like...so I started to fall asleep...which is pretty much all I did during that week that the power was out. I mean what else is there to do at that point? And then magically at about 9pm EST the power came back on as I had just drifted off into REM sleep....waking me up suddenly with the sounds of fans coming on and blinding lights shining in my eyes. But I got straight up from my horizontal position and frantically ran to the computer to turn it on, in hopes I hadn't missed the show...I had not yet seen a clock to even know what time it was.

Thankfully I was actually early to tune in to the show.

It was a good show and I can't wait to listen to it again when it's available for download. I always seem to absorb it better the second, third, fourth(etc.) times that I listen to it. As fun as show nights are there is always so much going on around me at the same time that I can't really know all that was said in the show. So listening to it later is always a lot of fun too, especially when I can listen to it and be in game at the same time.

Anyhow, in the last post I had said I had some news to post. Mainly, at this time I will just give you a run down of the latest pets I have got. Here they are:

Blue Banshee:


Life Banshee:


This next one Kevin Battleblood, Ronan Dawn(as Cass Cloud,) a couple others who were in and out at varying times, and myself, spent hours and hours farming only for me to have to finally give up cause I just wasn't having the luck they were at the time and I was getting increasingly frustrated. I even went back on my own later that night and into early morning and tried to get this guy. Then, FINALLY, I got it that next day when trying to help mom to farm it as well:

Crabling:

Queen Spider(from Stephen Spiritcaller's beloved Yeva):

This past evening before the power outage I scored this little guy; The Brown Rat Magician:

And, finally, my most prized drop yet...the pet that I wanted before it even existed...and months and month ago; the Ianthine Spectre came to me rather easily(though after I had tried farming it several times before,) while farming with Kevin(I hope he gets his soon as well and will be there to help if he wants to try again.) My old Fire GM was the one to catch it...

...but I made sure my main ended up with it. She now has her favorite monster in teddy-bear-sized pet form to carry under her arm....just like I always wanted :)
I think this is one of the few dropped pets that I will definitely get the name changed on. Usually I don't care, but this one is like "my baby." I mean no one really knows how much I wanted this pet to even exist. I think it will possibly make a good derby pet, not so much a good battle pet. It has a lot of Epic slots under derby...so it has possibilities. But I am going to wait on developing it too much before I know more on what it can have and what I need to try to make that happen.


Well, it was a long evening, night and now morning...so it is time to finally go and get some real sleep.

I will see you all, later, in the Spiral!

Advanced Pets: Day 3

I really didn't get a lot of chance to do things this past day, at least not as much as I would like. I got two more pet drops, though. Another Silverback Wildclaw at the Coven...and then I got a couple Ice Birds from Nightwing in Ravenscar.

I got a few pics to show of my latest pets, and ones from the day before too:

Myth Sprite:

Silverback Wildclaw(ummm...one of 5 or so??? I really do wish they would drop to some other people when I am in there...how many do I need?...lol.)
Lifebat(really hard pet to use in Gobbler Drop, it's so small it doesn't get under things very easily.:

Death Troll:
Ice Bird:

Life Minotaur(my favorite of this bunch, though the bird is a close second. I just love that Emerald green toga and the glowing green eyes, even the wrist guards on him are so well designed...very cool looking pet):
Then I also got to level three of my pets up to Teen, which I am so glad to get them to that since I won't have to play games as much per day on each as they get older...even though it will take longer to level up. I mean 2 energy when they are babies and you have 48 energy...as I always say; "I am no mathematician," but that is 24 mini-games....that is WAY too much for ME on three wizards in one day. I am just not that obsessed with leveling to kill myself over it. Like I have said; it really isn't that enjoyable to me. I AM enjoying collecting the pets though...that part is mostly fun. Twelve games per wizard....that will be easier to deal with...and then just 8 games a day....ah, that sounds so much more relaxing. That is when you can actually use it as a break from battling/farming/questing.

Well, here are the grads, pictured below(click to enlarge, of course):

I started to go through Big Ben to farm snack with Kevin Battleblood, Ronan Dawn, and Kevin's friend Allan...Kevin must have got disconnected or something about halfway through, but the rest of us continued. We got to the top and killed off Meowiarty and company.(By the way, Kevin; you missed, yet another Bolt by me ;-) )

Anyway, Ronan found this great glitch up there. It's in about the center of the room there, you walk up to it and actually end up in the air.. It was pretty fun to play with for a little bit. Here is a video of that:


I will tell you what is really awesome for me: in the last two nights I have had some old friends show up on Wizard. These are guys I knew back in the beginning. So it was especially awesome to hear from them again....really made me happy. Their wizards are Blaze Rubyleaf and Blaze Moonsword....both Fire guys, of course...lol. We use to have some really great and hilarious conversations back then. So I hope to see them pop online a little bit more often now with schools being on vacation and with the new content being added. I know that for Moonsword, especially, he was getting kinda bored...so hopefully the new stuff will make him want to come around a little more. I have thought of them both often and how simple things were back then...before I started blogging or before I even knew there were Wizard blogs.

Yes, everyone, there are people out there that really don't know or care; they just play the game and occasionally might google something they would like to know about...then they find one of us bloggers...and after that they may not pay much more attention again, unless we can answer another future question for them. I have actually bumped into quite a few of these people in-game that never read blogs and probably wouldn't know one blogger from another.

I know when I discovered it I didn't take to blogging immediately either. And I very casually read Friendly Necromancer's blog without really thinking a whole lot on it. More or less I found his blog to be a good reference tool for a little bit, but never thought more about it than that. I would say what probably got me more into doing this than just him was also the first Ravenwood Radio I listened to, and then seeing the real personalities of these people come out. So I started to pay more attention and read more on TFN's blog...I mean at the time I didn't even really know or think about what his main character name was...even though it's listed at the top of his page. At the time it was just something I read on occasion.

Well, later today id the big Ravenwood Ball, So I hope to see you all there!
...with all the Twitter talk about how people are having such a hard time figuring out what to wear for this thing...it makes me think I might be the most under-dressed person there....I don't know. But I do like the outfit I chose; it's very traditionally wizardly. I could be Merlin's daughter with that outfit on... And, hey, you guys will get to see Emeraldflame's hair for once!...heh...

Until later, friends:
See ya in the Spiral!

Good Times in the Spiral!

Hi guys! It was a wonderful day in the Spiral, with the exception of servers being brought down mid-afternoon time here. And tonight my Internet went out, so I am actually writing this in WORD, which I have never used since getting this computer...LOL!

Today I was wanting to get a few more of my Grands pushed through Grizzleheim so that they would finally gain access to the Ravens. Well, I planned on taking a team of three through Ravenscar, mainly so I could hurry that many through, and also because two of those wizards are not real great fighters on their own(meaning their attack style is too slow and/or weak for my taste.) I wanted to make sure I had at least one really good attacker in the group with a big AOE.

Well, on my second account I only have two real attackers; Ice and Storm. Ice has already went through, so I didn't want her just to tag along. So I looked at my second Storm, Danielle Thunderblade, and I see she hasn't even made it as far as Ravenscar yet. It really can be tough, at times, keeping track of this many wizards.I have thought lately how nice it would be to only have one and how much more simple that would be...at least in some ways. But I know I would get bored too. I really would run out of projects with only one.

So, I figured I better get Danielle caught up with H. Sandwalker(Balance,) and Alric Dreamhaven(Life.) So I took Danielle and Alric(because having a second makes things go faster,) and went and rushed through Saavarstaad Pass in about 45 minutes to an hour. Then went and took care of Vigrid Roughland in almost the same amount of time...which was when the Live realms came down, very suddenly....I mean there really was no warning and I was in the fight with the boss to get the key to Frostholm...at least I was not IN Frostholm yet. All that showed was some box came up in the middle of the game screen saying that the servers were down for maintenance...WHAT?!?!...at the highest traffic time of day and without any warning?

I am thinking that KI must have had some kind of little emergency or something, I mean for them to yank servers down at that time is really odd. And apparently the Test Realm servers went down then too. Maybe there was no connection, but it sure was weird.

So I went and caught up on Law & Order and House. My DVR is constantly backed up. I am lucky to have it down to 70% full right now.

Finally the Live servers were back and I was able to get on and finish up Danielle's fight I got kicked out during, then went to Frostholm. I remember when I hated that place. Now it's such a breeze. I don't think it took even 30 minutes. But, of course, I had two GM's and I've done this how many times now?...not just for myself, but helped friends with it too.

I had so much stuff backed up on my wizards...seriously, I do really wish KI would release the new mount and gear and let us buy it with GOLD! But I have a feeling they will be more Crowns-only items. My wizards banks are overflowing and they can't carry much more these days, and most all of them are at the gold limit. It makes it really hard when I want to go help people out and, even, just hang out having fun farming with friends. I know; to many it's like "oh...poor you...I don't even have enough to buy a cheap mount/house"...Yeah, I know :-(

I actually wish I could give you some of what I have cause I donno what to do with it sometimes. But this comes from running through so many wizards and having most all day to do this stuff. I do wish that they raise the gold/coin max, but mainly because of how expensive the pet hatchery will be. Most of us GM's are going to be farming the Ravens like mad to keep up with costs. At least that will give me somewhere to waste my money o_O I know it will be some fun, but honestly, those games get boring very, very quick, and the same games over and over...only four to choose from, and it really isn't fair that they specialize in different stats to begin with. I mean what if you are only good at two of them?...or maybe even just one? Then you get a lopsided pet...or hope that you can catch the stats up with snacks so it's even.

Anyhow...I was moving stuff around in banks, selling and what-not when our beloved Pet Master, Edward, asked me if I was busy and if I could give him a hand. So I ported to him to help him finish off a quest, then continued to help him with a bunch more in Dragonspyre. It was a lot of fun, we had a good time! :D

I am starting to believe in two things now too, one I already knew:

1: I was meant to be Storm and my good luck with accuracy often proves itself...tonight was insane; I hit at least 5/6 Wild Bolts in a row, and with only the 10% Keen Eyes added to the Bolts and my Grand gear(15%)...which brings me to my second and and newer belief...

2: I now believe in that Grand gear. BUT, even though I can see it working with that it does not mean I won't switch to my "tank" gear now and then, especially if I am totally by myself. Sorry, but having a little resist for everything and a little more health has been very useful for living through a battle when not in a group. And, honestly; my accuracy/luck(I would call it luck) has always been pretty good on casting...and without additional accuracy boosters. I compare myself to other Storms I've seen that fizzle like my Fire wizards do. Which, by the way, my Fire Grand is wearing all Grand gear now and it really has helped her immensely. Dragon seems to work almost all the time now. But at least with Fire you can afford to lose that bit of health...it's a little hard with Storm when you can't even have 2000 health as a GM and there are people in Marleybone with more health than you...I mean THAT is pitiful....makes you not even look like a Grandmaster.

Well, both Edward, his friend, and myself were shocked when those Bolts kept working. I always had a theory that the more you use a spell the better your chances. And if it's been a while since you used it it almost seems to need a short warm-up period. Though I do know at least one person out there will dismiss that...but I am talking from experience here....this is something I've been at a long time and for more hours than you can shake a stick at, so I've seen a lot more than most in a shorter amount of time.

So, while we are in DS my new friend, John Lifeglen, from Central whispers and tells me he is having a pet show in a little bit...wait...what?...Yes, a pet show!...and in the Live realm, at that! So I immediately must tell Edward: because the PET MASTER must go to a pet show...of course! So I ask Edward if he knows him and he doesn't have him on his list and I tell Edward what is going on and Edward says "have him come here." So I got to introduce Edward to John...which I know was a great connection being made there. So many of these people on Central sort of see each other more in passing through threads there, and they don't always get to meet each other, so that was cool.

John left to finish setting up his show and Edward, his friend, Daniel, myself as Emeraldflame, and my Alt. Keira, went to fight some bosses in the Crucible and go through Grimcaster's tower. It's always fun to visit Grimcaster; he's so cool...I want to shrink him and make him my pet and carry him around under my arm like a teddy bear xD (Yes, I really do have an odd obsession with those type monsters.)

After the tower we went to John's for the show. He had a stage at his house, made of rugs propped up on some crates in his living room. So we all took turns there showing our pets on the stage. I have so many of my pets spread across my wizards...not one wizard has a really great collection of them since they have been somewhat sorted to wizards they fit best. Keira really has few pets, I never really realized she had so few until then...lol. My first Life Grand has a lot more, but I can't be on her and be Emeraldflame as well.

Let me tell you John has an AWESOME house, and without it being rugs everywhere too. Nothing against the use of the rug glitch, but I also like a house that is well put together, interesting...and one could actually stand to live in if it were real. John has obviously done some great Bazaar Sniping, and perhaps gotten some really great drops too. One really unique thing is that from house to house he has no duplicates of any item! That, in itself, is amazing! His main house is the big Marleybone Mansion, and that place can hold a LOT, so it's really awesome how he has so much stuff there and then in his other homes too.

I took a few pics of items I really liked that he had. I should have taken other pics, but I didn't want to just stand there while everyone was running from place to place, exploring. Here are a couple items I really want BAD:

Fire Pit(in the middle of the pic and in front of me:

Then there is the Marleybone or Grand Tent...this is something I have wanted for a long time since I sort of collect tents...hee!!! ...

...I know very few people who have this and I always love to see it since it's the only tent you can actually go inside...so cool!

I haven't had a lot of time to work on the twins lately, so they are still on Hyde Park. I did get them to level 28 tonight, though, and they did their Spell Quests. That was a real nuisance and a bore. I mean fighting Freddy Nine-Lives two separate times....I mean that is 18 battles! But I did take a video of Esmee's go with him....this made me wish I had Hyper-cam so it could be sped up(though I would rarely want that any other time.) But, please take a watch here of her go with him...



Animate acquired:


Other news, well the other day I helped out Kevin Battleblood with his comic, Mistblood, along with quite a few other people. Of course I can't and would never give away anything from that(what will be in a future page of his,) but I can say we had a lot of fun, and it was quite interesting for me to run three wizards doing different things at the same time...it was a fun, sort of, chaos for me. I enjoy being able to help him out with his comic, so I hope I can continue to do that for him. Here is a picture of most everyone who participated(not including my alts)....not the best pic, but I had to take it fast...

It was great fun to meet everyone and friend all the people from Wandcast and Wizard101 Info Kids, as well as seeing everyone else there.

That's it for now - See ya in the Spiral!

Fun Morning!

Friendly Necromancer made a stopover at the Carnival this morning, and I met some new friends. Ronan and I disguised ourselves as Gearheads for a bit.





Then I was off to Chelsea; cause you absolutely HAVE TO go to Chelsea Court, as a Gearhead...I mean it's their home, right?!?!...lol. I ran around up there next to my brother and sister Gearheads and did a few fights with some of the folks up there. It was kinda funny cause I actually got caught, which I figured would probably happen since I was goofing around...so I was prepared with prisms. Three others joined me immediately, cause who doesn't wanna fight alongside a Gearheard during a Gearhead vs. Gearhead battle? Good old Storm Lord finished off the remaining evil Gearheads and the day was won!

Then it was off to work on Alric and Kaitlyn for a little bit. Balance and Life make a very interesting combination. I think I might have a little fun with Youkai when we go to do Tree of Life....should be interesting.

Then I saw that there was a blogger party so I got on as Emeraldflame to go check it out. Nice little bunch of people there. There was even a small dance-line with the Three Musketeers...haha! Amber Unicornflower seemed to have been the target of a mad scientist who made her clones...take a look...





All at the party wish everyone out there a Happy Easter!