Playing on an Alt

I went online tonight...or last night? It's 1:30 am now, Saturday morning, but I started playing at around 10pm Friday night. Anyway, I went on RoM and played on an alt for a while, just to ease myself back into the game after a week of being away.
My alt's name is Sister Agatha. She is a Priest/Scout and a Cook. She is also an old woman.
You don't see many old looking characters running around Taborea. Even the occasional toon with white hair usually still is youthful looking and the white hair is more of a fashion statement than an indication of age.
Sister Agatha is truly old though. It makes me smile.
She has steel grey hair tied up in a very practical bun. Her face is worn and wrinkled, with sun spots on her cheeks. Her arms are skinny, her butt is big, her breasts are small, and she has a pot belly.
Of course building a toon with those proportions doesn't always present a pretty picture. It's quite obvious that most of the RoM costumes were created for players with, shall we say, more alluring physiques.
Take a look at the picture below...if you dare!

Isn't she lovely?

When I first got this outfit together -- I think it's one of the sets you get for completing FA or something -- when I first put it on her, I was embarassed!  I thought, "I can't leave the house wearing this!" I honest-to-Narfas hesitated to take Sister Agatha through the streets of Varanas! Then I realized I was just being silly and took her out.

Of course, what happens then? I join a party to kill Joblid the Giant Flower (more of him in another post someday) and one of the other party members is wearing the same outfit.

NO!! 

Yeah.

It was awkward. I told her it looked better on her but she didn't answer me. Huh. No buff for you then, Miss Prissy!

At any rate, I had a good time with the ol' Sister tonight, kicking gnoll ass and taking names. Perhaps she'll be my new "main" for a while. Everyone loves a priest. Especially a sexy one.  :D

Taking a Break

I’ve been MIA for a little while from RoM. Last Friday I logged on with Spiral and played Malatina’s Survival Game. Then I stared at my screen for a while and thought:
I could try more level 54 quests and see if I get killed again.
I could run another group of lowbies through FA or BG or NoM.
I could farm mats and level up my Tailoring skill.
I could do dailies to get closer to level 55.
I could recruit more members into the guild and chat with them.

~SIGH~

I found myself standing listlessly in Varanas Central watching other players run back and forth from the Auction House to the Mailbox to the Transporter and I realized that I didn’t want to do anything of those things. I just wanted to log off.
So I figured it was time for a little break away from Taborea.

MMOs are highly addictive but there does come a time when the daily grind can get a little tiresome. It happens to the best of us! The smartest thing to do is take a rest, do some stuff in RL (real life) that makes you happy, and then wait for that excited feeling to come back, that feeling that entering Taborea is going to be an adventure, not a chore.

I have been playing almost every day for close to a year now but I know that I am nowhere near ready to quit the game yet. There are more quests to do, places to explore, beasties to kill and adventures to be had. I still want to reach level 55, complete Kalin’s, Pasper’s, TT, HoTo and any other instance I haven’t done, make awesome super-statted gear that looks fantastic too, max out all my skills, and rebuild Medieval to the fantastic guild it used to be.

So I’ll be back soon, friends. Watch for me!

Introducing Spazzy

Many words have been used to describe the now infamous Spazzy: tall, hairy, smelly, ungulate. But the most common word is: retarded.

Born in the bitter cold of northern Siberia, Spazzy Kirill Dasherov seemed a normal reindeer at first. But a tragic accident changed the course of his life.
At three years old, little Spazzy the fawn tripped over an ice clump while staring up at the Northern Lights and fell down a steep embankment. He woke up covered in frost and with a huge bump on his head. He immediately trotted home to his frantic mother, Vixen, and reassured her that he was fine except for the persistent white fireflies that kept zooming in front of his eyes.

From then on Spazzy wasn’t quite the same. He had a tendency to stare into nothingness for several minutes at a time and made loud trumpeting sounds at random moments for no reason. Spazzy also developed an intense fascination with bells and parsnips.
As a young buck, Spazzy was never good at backgammon, crokinole or any of the other reindeer games so he was shunned by his peers. He flunked out of Santa School because he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, fly a straight line and because he told Mrs. Claus she should cut back on the gingerbread cookies.

Never one to be pushed down, Spazzy moved to Paris where he spent several years working as a shoeshine deer. In his spare time he painted large canvases of multi-colored hoofprints that actually sold quite well in the French art galleries.

Then one fateful day, Spazzy saw a poster advertising a contest to win a new owner and become a “dignified mount of Taborea”. He immediately entered the contest and was surprised and delighted when he was chosen. He went eagerly to his new owner, Spiral.

What Spazzy lacks in brains, looks, talent, skill, eyesight and social skills, he makes up for with a whole lot of gumption. Spazzy can run 5% faster than any horse in Taborea and can race neck in neck with even the fiercest WarTiger. His loyalty is unmatched and his courageousness in the face of a pathway clogged with Naga is unbeatable.

I am very happy to have this retarded reindeer as my new permanent mount.
Welcome to Taborea, Spazzy!

Turning a Mistake Around

Today I did something stupid. I lost my fancy-awesome-super-statted Reef Bleeder dagger. I don't really know how. I had a mix-up sometime during the day where I accidentally equiped a 2H staff when normally I fight with a wand and a dagger. Then I switched back and forgot to equip the dagger. When I realized what I had done, I went looking for it and it was gone. Not in my backpack, not in my bank, not even in the vender Sell tab. Where did it go?  Is it possible that I could have trashed it?  Is it possible that my brain took a long walk off a short dock?

So after much swearing and gnashing of teeth, I decided that it was high time I switched back to a 2H staff anyway. People are always saying that you can't beat a 2H staff for magic damage, but I tested it and my wand and dagger did way more sizzling. But seeing as brilliant me trashed her dagger, I guess I'll try the staff.

Lucky for me I had just acquired a new Level 54 Blue 2H Staff as a quest reward. I spent some gold, some charges and loads of time and the picture shows the result. Not bad. I'll be replacing it with a level 55 weapon soon so I didn't bother to tier it up too much or worry about the stats.

But I should get some rune slots in there.  Maybe tommorow. It's 2:20 am here in Dum-Dum Land.
Bonus: The patch is coming tonight and hopefully they'll remove all the Snowflake crap.
EDIT: Check out the pic, I even look stupid. Doh!

Not a Total Loss

Ok, so Monday turned out to be kinda fun.  I got rid of my XP debt, then died AGAIN.  I guess I just don't learn.  Bought a God's Redemption Ticket and wiped it clear cuz I was just so frustrated.
Then I got in a raid for the Ant Queen.  I think I was one of the lowest HP's there, even though I was not the lowest level. I don't think the leader cared, she was just trying to get as many suckers, er, members as possible. 
So we all gathered and got naked (giggle) and some crazy knight attacked the Queen and spells started flying and giant ants appeared out of nowhere and then I was dead. 
But I looked around from my comfortable spot on the floor and noticed that quite a few people were dead.  I wasn't the only one.  Yay!  I'm not the only loser!

But the Ant Queen was also dead so they told me it was a success.  I had to get rezzed twice in order to sneak close enough to the corpse to loot the stuff for my quests since there were still giant ants there. I guess I was lucky since some people in the raid didn't finish their quests.

The picture over there of the dead bodies.  You can see in the raid listing on the left all the dead people have black bars.  And of course, the bodies lying all over the place give it away too.  :) 

And stop looking at my bum.  Bum-looker.  Cheeky monkey!

So after that madness, I did a recruit message for the guild and captured, er, I mean enrolled a few new guildies. They asked me if we could go through FA and I said sure thing, trying to be the cool high-level, totally nonchalent.
But it actually was a success! (Note my surprise.) I killed all the bosses and the two little priests only died twice cuz of adds, which was my fault cuz I should have asked the knight dude to watch them for me.
At the end, after Ancalon had drunk her fill of my fiery brimstone, I shouted WOOT and said, "I've never done that before!"  Whoops, blew my cool facade!!  :)