WOOT WOOT!!!! Emeraldflame Team Beats Warehouse!

Hey Guys! What a day it's been with the Emeraldflame family of wizards! First of all I want to say that our girl, Taryn, got her new Frog pet...he's so cute too! Here's a couple pics:

His name was after changed to just "Joey"...heh...

So, then later tonight I got Alric and Kaitlyn together, after having them both complete the pre-quests. I decided to do something a little crazy and run all of us through the Warehouse, and without EVER having a 4th wizard!

It was actually a lot of fun, though I had to tell a couple friends I couldn't talk right then that were whispering to me...sorry about that guys, but I know you understand too!

I won't go into too many details here, but for the most it was pretty easy as long as you pay attention to things and have a good crew.

It all went pretty smooth, though that second puzzle room tried to give problems(due only to the fact that there were 3, not 4 wizards,) but we got through there.

So we got to the top floor. I did take a Storm Elixir myself, added damage and accuracy there are not a bad thing to have, though not completely necessary...just thought it would help to speed things up a little. I had Alric take accuracy...yes, life has the best accuracy, but when you really need a heal you don't even want that tiny bit of fizzle to be possible.

Everything was going real good until the world messed up.

We were down to the last boss and all got disconnected...I was like "no freakin' way!" So instead of closing down I waited it out...a moment later all were back in, but the UI was missing; couldn't see cards or health, or anything....so I flew blind for a moment and then was able to do a control-G for everyone...cards came back, though things were kinda weird looking. Like we were all just standing there like we were anywhere, not in a battle stance...and we couldn't see the health circles around us or the boss. It wasn't a big deal, just not as cool looking as we would have liked. At least we could see our spell cards again!

I finished off the last boss with a Triton. Here are some pics of the battle as we killed the enemies off:

One Down:

Two Down:

Three Down:

Victory!:

After the battle we were all stuck in place due to the disconnect that had happened during it, so we all ported out to Regent's Square. A few moments later we all got disconnected again while getting our mana back. I hope these disconnects get fixed soon...I know I wasn't the only one that was frustrated with that tonight. I am just glad we didn't get completely knocked out of the tower when we were so close. It was a lot of fun though, definitely want to do that again...maybe with friends if anyone asks next time :)

One last thing, and I am wondering if anyone has seen or noticed this; one of the card decks seems to have either taken on a very odd new name or there is some bug with the name. I *believe* this was Deck of the Sage, now calling itself CL Deck 001...CL?...as in Celestia?...that really makes no sense, but I am thinking this is a bug...

I noticed the deck, first, while in the Warehouse. And then even after doing a total reboot of the computer and logging back in, it still showed that way. I went to check the Bazaar...they had 100 on hand....



Have fun out there & See ya in the Spiral!

Fire Serpents!

I have been trying for a few days but today was the day! I took Alric with me and we both got Fire Serpents. I ended up with two, which I will give to Fireslinger. Alric got one, which he will give to his brother, Luis. 


Something I noticed on each drop: around the time before it dropped we each got Blackrock's sword. This might have just been a coincidence, but it was odd, as it seemed like Blackrock was saying "be patient, young wizard, what you seek will come if you just stick with it a little longer."

See ya in the Spiral!

Advanced Pets: Day 2

Well, after my last two posts I feel like I started to get into some rhythm with things, and was actually starting to have fun again.

I worked on Emeraldflame, Danielle, and Alric, for pet training one pet each. After getting H.E. finished I joined up Savannah and Kaitlyn with Gabrielle(mom.) We finished off the Forum with the Father Drake Tower, made the quick trip back to the Drake Hatchery for a minute, then we were sent to see Ashley, the Fire Tree, who gave us the quest for Malistaire's.

We actually had enough time today to do Mali's. Computer issues were more eventful than the actual dungeon. Sorry, but I would consider myself a real veteran with that place. I really have done it too much.

With two Ice wizards it was made a little more interesting with the Gurtoks', but after that it was nothing at all. Really, the Gurtoks were easy, just annoying with their shields. Even with that it didn't take us too, too long at all.

Mom got her Ice ring(I believe...either ring or athame...lol,) so she just needs the other thing now. Next time it will be a speed run with her tanking and probably one of my Storm and one Life. Storm is so much better in there....no prisms to deal with, no shields to worry about...I mean towers are a joke.

I brought in Alric, my third GM Life, for the little bit of heal support for the group. It's just too hard for Balance to heal a group enough for several battles, while still giving the support spells it should.

We got up to the point of the two draconians you have to beat at about the same time to unlock the door. I left Kaitlyn and Alric out and had mom and I prepare a short deck for the two, so we could whip through them fast.
Mom's draconian decided to throw a tower up at the last minute when she went to hit, but she quickly took care of it...in time for the doors to unlock with no problems.

So we headed up and beat the Soul Servants, got our last rose, and went and listened to the "blah, blah, blah" drama from Mali, Cyrus, and Sylvia.

Here is where the drama with the computers started. Mom lives south of me by about 30 minutes and they were having a storm there. She has a wireless laptop and during the Mali fight her screen kept going black...I was really afraid she would lose connection.

Meanwhile, here at my place, it's dark out but there is no storm happening, and the sun seems to be peaking through the trees a bit. But, as we are fighting, the Wizard Graphics client on Kaitlyn's window goes out...and this is as I am only needing her to give Savannah a Bladestorm. So I closed Kaitlyn's window and I was like..."man, she needs this too," I mean just to finish the quest.

So I stalled the group a bit while I logged Kaitlyn back in and she was back in action and I furiously discarded to get the Bladestorm so we could finally end the thing. So we beat him and went back to talk to Ambrose and we all are done with DS now...thank goodness!

Now we will just be farming, and if possible we will finish up GH. We are up to Ravenscar with that. After this is done I doubt I will run Savannah with Gabrielle much anymore. It's sort of nice to have more of a mix of schools most of the time. Mom actually mentioned to me, that she will miss having Savannah there...as they have been sort of like "The Ice Twins," with their many matching outfits and horses.

Mom actually has a new look to her Grandmaster Ice, which is one I like on her, but it's not for me. Here's a pic:
...Cute, eh? She looks like an English Victorian doll...which I think she likes :)

After all that and selling things like mad....which will become the new norm...I took Alric, since he was out, and had him do some pet training until he couldn't anymore. I then did the same with Danielle. After she was finished I took the pair to finish up at Mirkholm Deep in Grizzleheim. They finished with that. Then I took them to Nidavellir, where it was about to be pet party-time.

I don't just go in and fight Jotun, I do all three dungeons, and now with the pet thing being so expensive, I decided to fight every boss in those dungeons instead of skipping any...including the one in the maze that is in there twice. I even fought every mob in there...it was worth it as some good snacks were dropped, along with other items.

I have a constant tab open in Firefox to this thread at Central. So I knew what pets could be dropped in the dungeons at Nidavellir. I am happy to say I wan't too dissapointed with it all.
It started with getting the Lifebat from Grettir in Winterdeep Warren, then I got Life Minotaur from from the Brownwood Tormentor in Helgrind Warren, then I got the Death Troll from Jotun's SCC in the Hall of Valor.

What I hate most is the time you have to wait for these to hatch, cause I would love to post a picture of all the pets I have got recently, but I can only show you the first two I got from yesterday:

Storm Cat:


Storm Snowman:
I really like the cat. I think I want to work on it and see what it gets at teen level, etc. I wonder if it might be a good derby pet...if I was going to do that. I think that would be a fun pet to race with the way they pounce/run...so cute! I hope I can get one for Danielle sometime, and a Snowman for Emeraldflame too. was going to try for the Snowman after I got the one for Danielle but got distracted.

What is cool, and incentive is that both pets give cards at Ancient...so it kinda makes you want to work on them.

After Jotun I didn't get to do much else. More maintenance tonight too...otherwise I'd be playing the Vampire Twins right now.

Anyway, sitting here yawning...so more later on...

See ya in the Spiral!