OOC: I just recently went through a hellish month that still leaves me wondering if I'll make my rent. Life throws some stupid curves at you and just liek in the game, when you survive things that look hard or near impossible to overcome, especially with the help of family and friends, you just grow stronger. That was this month for me in a nutshell and the good news is, I start a new job in late November! What does this have to do with the game? Well, actually, quite a bit. The major thing is, I probably wont have to quit Lin at the end of this last period I bought. Second, I will be working an entirely new schedule that puts me in time with most of my pledge (and former pledge) friends. I miss a lot of big hunts on weekdays cause I play when everyone else sleeps. If it wasn't for my Aussie friends, I would have little company most of the time. Funny thing is, outside of this game, I would have little reason to spend hours hanging out with kids less than half my age. It puts things into perspective how I understand younger people and just what the hell is going through thier hormone ravaged minds. LOL. OK, they aren't that bad and I was probably worse at that age. I was stuck playing games on Nintendo like Mike Tyson Boxing at 13.. I hope they never take for granted how lucky they are for what they have. Now I officially sound like my parents.. gah.. Now onto my BIG SILLY HUGE INFOMERCIAL of an UPDATE!
First, as any of you who have been following my blog from early on know I have a storage knight named Vistiro who was my first character. I have many fond memories of this knight and he was always fun at seiges. Things really got slow for the old man though and leveling was just insanely expensive for him compared to say my wonderfully amazing DE. So, there Vistiro was happily selling wares in Giran as a shop when i just happened to notice a whisper on the screen: "Hey, will you trade the +5 mage cloth for a +4 Sov Cloak?" Well, I was always thinking Vistiro was meant for seiging.. but this was a sign.. ok it was a guy who needed to trade for lack of cash, but who am I to deny his destiny.. So here is the "Official" In game story of "Vistiro's Promotion"!
It was a balmy day that day in Giran. I (Vistiro) had just made a trade for this shiny beautiful Cloak. I tried to put it on, but something was not right. So, as was the usual for my suave happening self, i went to flirt with the mage twins in the potion hut south of the Cross where they make the mage clothing. So I finally bucked up and asked one if she would like to go to the dog races, but she gives me this answer..
After a few long... seconds, I decided for a new life!
Well, the transformation began... and the re-birth of Prince Vistiro!
Through lots of lvling and hunting red and yellow mops for the last 2 weeks, I now have a new seige pledge called the Mithril Kings! Look for this guy at a dwarf near you!
He just recently made lvl 23, so its not yet time. Right now he is recruiting help for the lvl 15 quest which has been near impossible due to large spawns of Lastabads in SWL. My first solo attempt didn't even make it to SWL as I was walking by MLC and got this newb killing duo... although I venzd and brought back "Thy name is Vengence" Xazu to take care of it.
In SWL finally, i kept seeing all kinds of lastabads. Although I can handle most of them mano e mano, I can't take groups with a pitiful low lvl prince who even buffed is only a dex of 19.
I was lucky to get Blackshot to help my cause, but tradgedy struck and while we were fighting a BK pack a Lastabad troupe with a General in tow made junk of our defenses unprepared for such an attack! It was swift and before we knew what happened, the general had taken us both down. Luckily, I dropped my really only completely worthless item, a dwarf shield! :D Xazu was quick to return and lay down the law. Blackshot came back too and was screaming for the blood of the General. After killing off many a mop near our site of death.. the Lastabads came out of hiding.. One by one Xazu was tracking the General. "You can not hide Devil! Bring out the evil you project of our kind! This De will teach you what it means to be a real Dark Elf!"
.. and closer..
and right as i got to the General, along comes a fuming mage with summons in tow to exact his revenge as well!
Since I was on Xazu and had some haste to burn i went to DI for a bit, and once again, what is it that these mops are watching out there??
Back on TI my new prince met with a kind stranger that unloaded some gifts onto the fledgling prince. After a long conversation with the mysterious knight named Voltor he parted with some sage advice on leveling and some general tricks. I'd impart this info if I could remember it all. Its been a few weeks and I've not exactly been able to get into doing this lately.
When Vistiro made lvl 15 he returned to Giran to talk to his lady friend, but she was still uninterested and Vistiro confided in a local on TI about his woes..
Now after a couple weeks of leveling he is now at lvl 23! Almost able to take those castles!
Although the pledge is generally just for seiges and the ocassional hunt group, just ask to join like this guy did!
Now to the Halloween Event!
Here's some pics of the early ongoings of Oren when everyone was getting drunk just for being in town!
As per usual, Xazu makes the most of the candy and really loves that brave candy! Next month be looking for Revenge of the Dentists Event!
Then I was invited to a Werldern DM and teamed up with Magicme/0SX and it was a blast!
To finally catch up on this blog.. Last night I took advantage of al this buff candy and went with fellow pledgemates to DI to kill bosses and we spent more time getting killed than killing... so there was a bit of frustration after killing 3 unis only to get owned by more than half the other bosses.
To finish up, the odd sighting for this week: How often does an orc archer drop this?
Allrighty, enjoy the event! Go get some bosses! I want to see pics of shiny pumpkin heads!
Team Vistiro~ Xazu, Zadarach, Fael, Vistiro
