A little like Steve Martin
So this weekend, I run off to do the haunted house in Qeynos. My normal approach to nearly everything is to just charge in and see how it goes. Then, when I fail, I go back and take things a bit more slowly and think things through.
True to form, I died on my first attempt of the haunted house. Don’t ask me how. I’m just gifted that way.
When I go back and and beat it the second time, my first order of business afterwards is to check out my rewards. I popped on the skeleton head helmet and chuckled a little bit and then popped on the arrow head helmet having no idea what to expect. When I saw that I was literally sporting an arrow through the head, I just sat and laughed for a good 10 minutes before I could move on.
I didn’t spend a whole lot of time playing this weekend. Friday night, I was just too tired. I think I caught a little bug or something and I was in bed by 8 Friday night. I slept in on Saturday which is something that I never do. When I rolled out of bed around 11 Saturday morning, I still felt like ass. I logged on for about an hour, was still spinning my wheels, so I did the Haunted House and logged off.
Saturday night, I got invited to a Halloween Party by one of my co-workers. I didn’t go, but I kind of wish I did. He showed me pictures this morning and it looked hilarious. He dressed up as a female hooker and his wife dressed up as his pimp. But, I was still feeling pretty terrible, so I stayed home. I remember popping Fellowship of the Ring into the DVD player and hitting play. I woke up some 6 hours later with the prompt still up to swap DVD’s to the second disk.
I climbed into bed and ended up sleeping until nearly 1 yesterday afternoon.
I finally got online around 3 yesterday afternoon and actually had a fairly productive and enjoyable day playing. The first thing that I did was hit the broker. I had a fair number of collection quests missing only one item, so I thought I would see what they were selling for. I was both surprised and pleased that I was able to finish off most of them for next to nothing. I think I spent 10 gold and was able to knock out 17 collection quests. Turning those in was enough to net me both an AA and finish off my level.
So, at level 47, I sat there trying to think of what to do. I decided to try my hands at the jboots HQ.
I ran the first few legs without much trouble. I failed the Nektulous leg the first time because I absolutely suck at negotiating that zone, but I got it on the second try. Everything else through Zek, I got on the first try.
When I was running the Enchanted Lands leg, I failed the first attempt. I was at what I thought was the correct location and just couldn’t get an update. Finally, once the time had expired, I booted up PC#2 and looked it up. Sure enough, I was in the wrong location.
I gathered myself together for another go. The EL leg had been interesting because there were still sufficient green aggressive mobs to cause me to lead a rather large train through a joyous and merry chase through the woods.
I reached the leg where I had previously failed and set off in the right direction. As I was nearing the location, I spotted something from a distance.
Could that….?
Nah. No way.
There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, to give you an adrenaline juice-up during a timed event like having a 7 story epic named eyeball on your ass nuking the begeezus out of you.
Needless to say, I out-ran him and completed the journey.
The final leg in the Feerrott was interesting as well because every damn mob in that zone likes to lead off their attack by knocking you on your ass. I spent more time on my back than Amy Fisher did in high school. Still, I was able to complete with time to spare, so I am now sporting my new set of jboots.
All in all, I am at least starting to look like a dirge. I upgraded my arms as well yesterday, so now I am clad in all dark colors. My BP is a charcoal grey, my legs and arms are a dark forest green, my gauntlets are a very dark blue and the jboots are a rust-gold color. Sure beats the hell out of the “disco-fan-thing-gone-wrong” look that I was sporting.
When I finally logged last night, I was about halfway to 48. I figure that once I plod my way to 49, DoF will be much more around the right speed. I did spend a little time there yesterday dodging heroic mobs while trying to kill my skeletons and ghouls, but I didn’t get the quest completed. I figure that will be my first stop tonight.
On an unrelated note, I got some joy yesterday out of watching part of the San Diego Chargers vs Houston Texans game. I am neither a Chargers nor a Texans fan, but it was very nice to see that the air looked clear and the sky blue any time the cameras panned to the sky. Hats off to all the rescue personel who walked through hell for days on end and fought in conditions that I cannot even imagine.
