Northern Janost Forest

I've been so busy having fun playing RoM that I've been forgetting to blog about it! But that's a good sign, isn't it? The game devs are doing their jobs to keep an ol' veteran like me entertained.
They opened up a new zone in the game, Northern Janost Forest. Don't let the banal name fool you: NJS has some of the coolest mobs in the whole game. I was blown away by the creativity of the beasties sent forth to destroy my mage butt in this zone. It seemed as if I spent more time gawking at the mobs than trying to kill them.
First of course are the ubiquitous skippers, giant Blue Butterflies flapping lazily through the air. But watch your step! Masses of snakes slither through the grass, not only many giant Withered Jarias snakes with their red and black stripes, but also their tiny offspring. This is no place for the heebie-jeebies!
There are also dragonfly-like creatures named Babels, whom I'm assuming speak in tongues no one can comprehend, plus giant slimy snails and adorable Sharptooths. There are Lakosos in the lakes, basking in the sun with some truly strange dinosaur creatures that will gladly tromp on your liver until it comes out your nose.
Then there's the gliding monkey-dudes with their big bat ears, who spend their days doing backflips near the lake. And there are humanoids too, elven psychos that hide amongst the trees and pepper your backside with arrows when you're innocently gathering Thorn Apples. (Yay, level 56 mats! Thank you!)

But my favorite mob in the new zone is this handsome fellow, a mysterious creature with the unfortunate name of Dimstar Pukari. (Did his mother not realize how much he was going to get teased?)
The Pukari looks like an enormous Fail-Salad that someone has left lying in the forest. Or perhaps a cross between a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree and that bizarre thing you made in pottery class when you were 10. They wait patiently while you tiptoe towards them....
...then raise up their retarded grass hats and blow gobs of spittle on your face as they try to make you tomorrow's fertilizer! The teeth on these little mental patients are enough to make a grown dentist cry.
Luckily for Spiral, Mr. Not-The-Brightest-Star-In-The-Heavens was easily subdued by a taste of some old fashioned fireballs. The reward for successfully annihilating a living leafy nightmare?  One Link rune! Woot!!  (The devs are laughing at us, I know it.)

Many more stories to tell you when I find the time to write them. I've been taking screenshots and saving them up for when I can tear my fingers away from WASD and put them on ASDF JKL;! Stay tuned...