Valar Guild

December 30, 2018 Sunday Meeting

5:00 P.M. Eastern time (-5 GMT)

Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place

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Transcript work by Varda.

Attending (and spoke): (4)
    Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda (presiding)

Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership news:
Web:
Gaming:
    General report by Eonwe and others.
    Side chat: Heart of the Mountain.
Tolkien:
    Topic: Give suggestions for entry-level questions over the LotR.
After-meeting:
    Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
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Before-meeting
(times are in Central from Varda's Discord, so add one hour for Eastern. Example: 4pm Central in the transcript is 5pm Eastern)

VardaYesterday at 3:19 PM
Aiya Phar :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 3:20 PM
Aiya!
VardaYesterday at 3:21 PM
Nice cross-game place to see each other. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 3:21 PM
Very useful.
VardaYesterday at 4:00 PM
Aiya! It's that time once again
where we get together across games and non-games to say hi to our fellows
ArienVYesterday at 4:01 PM
Aiya aiyha :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 4:01 PM
Other people crazy enough to actually read the whole Lord of the Rings!
Aiya Arien : )
Others who think we can play in a manner that shows caring about our buddies instead of hurting or running over them.
You are all terriffic people that are fun to be around for years and years. Glad to get to be around you!
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:02 PM
Aiya Arien!
VardaYesterday at 4:03 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May all of you be having contentment and ridiculous amounts of dessert. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:04 PM
As if ridiculous amounts of dessert require Christmas!
VardaYesterday at 4:05 PM
Makes a great excuse. : )
And the twelve days of Christmas go from just before the winter solstice to New Year's. Pass the pie!
Any membership news you'd like to pass along? Meriadoc and Elwing headed home, but we expect to go visit Bilbo tomorrow.
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Web:
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:08 PM
Heya all.
VardaYesterday at 4:08 PM
Eonwe! Aiya! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! : )
Eonwe has been keeping up the Games Site, and we appreciate it, with all the reasons that could keep him away. Thank you!
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Gaming:
Eonwe, are you able to give the gaming report?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:10 PM
Aiya Eonwe!
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:12 PM
Sure.
VardaYesterday at 4:12 PM
Yay!
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:12 PM

World of Warcraft:
Don't forget to get your Winterveil presents from under the tree in Ironforge!
That's it for this week :}
VardaYesterday at 4:13 PM
That was a fun thing to do when we played WoW. Kind of miss that.

In Lord of the Rings Online, we have Winter Festival going, including the instance runs.
New horse, goodies, etc.
For the Legendary servers, we picked Ithil to be our main, although we will maintain a branch on Anor as well. Some plan to stay in Anor anyway. Some have moved characters to Ithil (free).
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:15 PM
You should play WoW more then :wink:
VardaYesterday at 4:15 PM
LotRO gamers for this past week by server:

Landroval:

Arien
Bregalad
Elwing
Eonwe
Lenwe
Meriadoc
Mirabella
Nar
Thranduil
Varda

Ithil:

Arien
Dis
Falco
Varda
Walda

Anor:

Arien
Dis
Varda

Thanks, but we dropped our WoW subscriptions and it's not even loaded on this laptop.

Also, in LotRO, one must ask...
if a Dwarf finds the Hart of the Mountain, can that Dwarf then be king?
Timbridhil wants to know because:
http://valarguild.org/varda/guild/NewsArchives/extras/2018/HartoftheMountain.jpg
Could be that Tim needs to learn to spell.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:18 PM
It's not exactly a deed to the throne, is it? You might expect to face some resistance from the current king.
or... Hart? What?
VardaYesterday at 4:18 PM
He's a graybeard. Tim can just get in line?
That there is a genuine Mountain Hart, on a mountain.
Trying to kill Tim of course.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:19 PM
Not as shiny as I expected.
VardaYesterday at 4:20 PM
Any other gaming news? Maybe Eve Online or other fun stuff?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:20 PM
Speaking of the Heart of the Mountain... what's the point of having a family heirloom if you're just going to bury it with one of the family members?
VardaYesterday at 4:21 PM
You know where it is?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:21 PM
According to the internet it was buried with Thorin, but I've not checked the book :wink:
VardaYesterday at 4:21 PM
That hart didn't want buried.
That's correct.
I meant, that could be one point.

ArienVYesterday at 4:22 PM
i ve been playing a bit in SwotR on a different server than the guildbranch of which i am officially rthe master now but i don 't see quite the point of having since noone is ever there

VardaYesterday at 4:22 PM
They tended to be open air type caskets, right?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:22 PM
It's hardly an heirloom if it doesn't go to the heir, no?
Just a loom then.

ArienVYesterday at 4:22 PM
after watching Solo on Thursday :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 4:22 PM
It's looming!
You do seem to have a lot of scattered bodies out there, Arien. : ) I think I'm scattered, then see you and Phar.
How was Solo?

Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:23 PM
Well I'm not in Middle-earth, so that's one less scatteredness.
VardaYesterday at 4:24 PM
You're in Valinor!

ArienVYesterday at 4:24 PM
It was a decent action movie if you are not really looking for consistence with the other Star Wars movies

Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:24 PM
True, but not doing much there.
It's a bit cramped.

ArienVYesterday at 4:24 PM
lots of special effects and trying to put too much into too short of a time
VardaYesterday at 4:25 PM
What's a little consistency? Movies don't seem to value it much.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:25 PM
I think consistency in Star Wars has always been a bit weird.

VardaYesterday at 4:25 PM
You guys should be digging a maze of tunnels.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:25 PM
Where would we leave the dirt we dig out? :smiley:

ArienVYesterday at 4:25 PM
well one thing is at the end where they try to create a bit of connection to the other movies .. but i wont spoil it really if anyone wants to watch it :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 4:26 PM
Thanks. I will, eventually, maybe on TV.
ArienVYesterday at 4:26 PM
there are some good bits which i really enjoyed and as entertainment classifies as decent :smiley: , only three actors that really stood out as such
two on the baddie side as usual seems to be :)P
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:27 PM
I'll look it up somewhere when they get around to it in a Star Wars webcomic I've been reading.
They just finished going through Rogue One.
ArienVYesterday at 4:27 PM
all in all it was better than i thought it would bwe
be
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:28 PM
For the last few movies they've done I've made a habit of watching the movie alongside the comic :smiley:
I'm sure they'll do Solo at some point?
ArienVYesterday at 4:28 PM
oh yeah i expect so
VardaYesterday at 4:28 PM
Do they use screen captures? MIght have to wait for the Blu-ray to come out (CD, DVD, hologram).
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:28 PM
Yep, they do.
VardaYesterday at 4:29 PM
That takes a beastly amount of digging through the CD for usable screen captures. /tiphat
ArienVYesterday at 4:30 PM
i ve got the Blu-Ray actually
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:30 PM
Oh yes, it's brilliant.. and amazing what kind of facial expressions you can find if you freeze frame at the right places.
I think that DM of the Rings webcomic we've talked about took great pride in digging out all the frames in which Aragorn looks high.
VardaYesterday at 4:31 PM
Stills can really catch crazy between expressions as well as expressions. So much fun material.
heh
Do we have any other news, suggestions, comments?
ArienVYesterday at 4:34 PM
Not that i am aware of
VardaYesterday at 4:34 PM
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Tolkien!
I need your help. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:34 PM
Ominous.
VardaYesterday at 4:34 PM
We are about to enter a new year and we need to start back to trying to recruit, something I've backed off of and it's been hard on our numbers.
So, suggestions for entry questions being taken!
Let's see if we can come up with two for each of the LotR books.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:35 PM
Well, there's the old "how many elves at helm's deep" question...
VardaYesterday at 4:35 PM
They need to be something that shows the book answer over a movie answer, mostly, or the ability to think about the story.
heh, true.
That's one!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:36 PM
I think you asked me what Denethor saw in the palantir?
VardaYesterday at 4:36 PM
There's two for Two Towers.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:36 PM
heh
VardaYesterday at 4:37 PM
ahh, that sounds like an Eonwe question. I may have borrowed it from him. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:37 PM
could be :smile:
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:37 PM
I might've asked it. I think I was there for your test :}
ArienVYesterday at 4:37 PM
Speak of the Valar ~
Aiya Eonwe :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:37 PM
Could be, it was in the middle of a meeting.
Or just after it.
VardaYesterday at 4:38 PM
It was fun when we double-teamed the tests. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:38 PM
For Fellowship you could have something about Bombadil, or Bill Ferny...
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:38 PM
Great thing about having a News Archive is I can go check your join date and see :}
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:38 PM
I forgot, how did they pick up Bill in the movie?
VardaYesterday at 4:39 PM
heh, and the Recruit page for the tester.
um, how did they pick up Bill in the movie? Was it off-screen?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:39 PM
Was Bill with them in the marshes? Or Weathertop?
Or did they recruit him in Rivendell?
VardaYesterday at 4:40 PM
In the book, the Nazgul kind of ran off most of the possible horses for the journey, and Ferny charged a crazy amount for a half-dead pony.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:40 PM
There might be a question right there, if you ask where he came from in the book :wink:
VardaYesterday at 4:40 PM
and that pony hunting kept them from leaving in secret as planned.
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 4:40 PM
I don't remember Bill at Weathertop in the movie.
VardaYesterday at 4:40 PM
How many of us knew that from the book?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:41 PM
I did not anymore. The only details I remember is buying him from Bill Ferny and Ferny getting an apple in his face after looking over a hedge or something.
VardaYesterday at 4:41 PM
Another trick is to make the questions entry-style, not too hard (not too deep a trivia).
Waste of a good apple, Sam said. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:41 PM
Still, you might be able to ask something about Bill if you keep it vague enough.
Like where they found him.
(Bree)
VardaYesterday at 4:42 PM
At Weathertop in the movie, they were camping in the dark. If they had Bill, he would have been on a tether maybe out of sight.
Bree would probably be a good enough answer, aye. Thanks.
ArienVYesterday at 4:42 PM
What ideas had Pippin idea about travelling to Rivendell when they left bree? Did the reality meet his expectations?
VardaYesterday at 4:43 PM
I haven't watched the movies in quite a while. Should probably do that again.
Arien, I don't know the answer to that.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:43 PM
Still got over a dozen movies recorded and The Hobbit trilogy waiting for me; I've still only seen 2 of them but I'll be watching all 3 on my extended dvds again.
Lotr movies can wait :smile:
ArienVYesterday at 4:44 PM
He wanted to stop for second breakfast , elevenses and so on
VardaYesterday at 4:44 PM
What ideas did Pippin have about Rivendell?
ArienVYesterday at 4:44 PM
hobbit walking tour style
but of course he had to learn that he was able to survive on much less food
as a bonus info it could be added that at least Bob gave the hobbits a bag full of apples   for walking , one of which landed on Bill Ferny 's nose .. thrown by Sam as they left Bree
VardaYesterday at 4:48 PM
Sam was pretty good about holding his temper. Do you remember why he threw the apple at Bill Ferny?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:49 PM
I have a vague recollection of him sneering at them over a hedge as they leave.
ArienVYesterday at 4:49 PM
Bill Ferny asked him to treat his poor old pony well
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:49 PM
Or a fence.
VardaYesterday at 4:49 PM
and his insult "stick-at-naught Strider"
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:49 PM
But Arien probably has a better answer :smiley:
ArienVYesterday at 4:49 PM
yep thats right
i wanted to add that actually but Phari came in between
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:50 PM
Sorry!
VardaYesterday at 4:50 PM
If we have trouble with these, they might not be the greatest for entry, but good for chat!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:50 PM
You know we can type at the same time :wink:
ArienVYesterday at 4:50 PM
yep :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 4:50 PM
No worries, Phar. I like that we can't really talk over each other here much.
I have a tendency to type in too fast, sorry for all those times, gang.
ArienVYesterday at 4:51 PM
entry questions ..in what way did Frodo's departure from Bag end differ from Bilbo's?
VardaYesterday at 4:52 PM
ahh, nice.
But does it require them to also know the Hobbit? If not, it works.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:52 PM
Less sneaky :smiley:
Oh, you meant Bilbo's departure in The Hobbit?
VardaYesterday at 4:52 PM
Sneaky a different way?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:52 PM
Well, people knew he was leaving, he just lied about the destination.
ArienVYesterday at 4:52 PM
not really really
because it is hinted at in the first chapter
VardaYesterday at 4:53 PM
He did actually go to Crickhollow
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 4:53 PM
...Fine, about his final destination :wink:
VardaYesterday at 4:53 PM
Frodo didn't even know that. He was just going to Bree to meet Gandalf and go with him to Rivendell.
ArienVYesterday at 4:53 PM
i think it is mentioned *he wanted to run away without a handkerchief as Bilbo had done long ago(
VardaYesterday at 4:55 PM
He did feel that way at one time, aye
ArienVYesterday at 4:55 PM
and then it sais somewhere else that Frodo *departed through the back and over the hedge as Bilbo had done *
although he was not aware of it at the time
VardaYesterday at 4:56 PM
Wasn't the question What was different? Sounds like some good What was the same. Could be another version of that question, nice idea.
ArienVYesterday at 4:57 PM
yeah could be that way round as well
But i think as far as differences go that is the only detail mentioned
In Lord of the Rings
VardaYesterday at 4:59 PM
How about something from Return of the King?
ArienVYesterday at 5:01 PM
Both Merry and Pippin arrived eventually in Minas Tirith. But how?
VardaYesterday at 5:01 PM
That's kind of long on the answer. Break it down a bit?
ArienVYesterday at 5:02 PM
How did Merry come to Minas Tirith?
How did Pippin come to Minas Tirith?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:02 PM
There's your two questions :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 5:02 PM
That would work. Use them as alternate questions for different tests maybe.
How about something from the ending? A number of people never quite finished. How do you catch that?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:04 PM
Scouring comes to mind.
VardaYesterday at 5:05 PM
That's a good one, as it was not in the movie. Completely different ending.
Or somthing from inside the Scouring of the Shire.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:05 PM
If you want to include appendices, who was the last ringbearer to leave Middle-earth? :wink:
VardaYesterday at 5:05 PM
I'd like to but not all books include the Appendices. : (
Sam : )
ArienVYesterday at 5:05 PM
Who were the mainl leaders of the "hobbit rebellon" against "Sharky's Men"?
VardaYesterday at 5:06 PM
That could be tricky. How would you answer that?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:06 PM
Who was Sharky? :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 5:06 PM
ahh, that's more entry like.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:07 PM
Who killed Sharky?
VardaYesterday at 5:07 PM
That could work too
ArienVYesterday at 5:07 PM
ah better ^^ but to answer your Questions . the Gamgee family who alerted the Tooks and then Frodo and Co took things in hand
VardaYesterday at 5:08 PM
I found a lot of people had trouble with everything around the Scouring. Maybe that's a topic we should explore at a meeting sometime.
I was surprised how many had trouble with what finally happened to Saruman.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:09 PM
On whose front door did the war of the ring finally come to an end?
VardaYesterday at 5:10 PM
Would that be one the movie would also answer?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:10 PM
No, because it happened in the Scouring :smiley:
ArienVYesterday at 5:10 PM
What happened to Saruman when Gandalf spoke with him after the Battle of Isengard?
VardaYesterday at 5:10 PM
Was Aragorn reluctant to try to become the High King?
Ahh, aye, Arien. What was the first punishment Gandalf meted out to Saruman after the Battle of Isengard?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:11 PM
When did Aragorn get his sword fixed?
VardaYesterday at 5:11 PM
hah, that works too.
ArienVYesterday at 5:11 PM
the breaking of his staff ~
VardaYesterday at 5:11 PM
Or where was Aragorn's sword repaired?
Aye
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:11 PM
...wasn't the "where" also in Rivendell?
VardaYesterday at 5:12 PM
These need to be easy, but also not in the movies.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:12 PM
or did they do it in Lorien?
ArienVYesterday at 5:12 PM
Rivendell
VardaYesterday at 5:12 PM
yes, reworking the question. It was repaired in the forges at Rivendell.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:12 PM
Right. They showed it in Rivendell in the movie as well. Just... later.
VardaYesterday at 5:12 PM
So, maybe not so good, since the movie did show Rivendell. The timing question is probably better.
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:13 PM
Or was that just the EE?
VardaYesterday at 5:13 PM
Lots of people watched the extended, in fact, I would be hard put to it to figure out what was and was not in the Extended movies.
Well, it's that time again. Please feel free to message me in Discord or email more possible entry questions. : ) Thank you for your help and food for thought!
the hammer holds out it's stick arm, a pen held in its little stick fingers
the hammer scribbles on the hammerpad
the hammerpad looks up in shock at this vandalism
whommmmp!
the hammerpad has whomped the hammer, which staggers back to the shelf
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After-meeting!
Free chat about anything. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:17 PM
looks at scribbling on the hammerpad
What does it say, precious?
VardaYesterday at 5:17 PM
The scribbles are notes on entry questions. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:18 PM
that works
VardaYesterday at 5:18 PM
At least that's what I had in mind. : )
Eonwe ValarYesterday at 5:18 PM
Well, at least it's not "Ash hammerpad durbatuluk,..." :}
VardaYesterday at 5:19 PM
lol - could have been!
Never know what may come from within the gavel shelf.
ArienVYesterday at 5:24 PM
hehe
dances with other gavels
VardaYesterday at 5:25 PM
Nice
Beornings join the dance, shuffling and making deep bass counterpoints
ArienVYesterday at 5:26 PM
and honeycakes after for refreshment
VardaYesterday at 5:26 PM
Ohh, and a complete turn back to Merry Christmas. Well done!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:26 PM
Merry Gavelmas!
VardaYesterday at 5:26 PM
hehehe
ArienVYesterday at 5:27 PM
:smile: .. its actually a trait on the Beorning make honeycake
VardaYesterday at 5:27 PM
Aye. And it's book-correct.
Now I want to play my Beorning. : )
Sooo suggestible
ArienVYesterday at 5:28 PM
hehe :smiley: i played mine a bit last week :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 5:28 PM
: )
Serious about the request for entry questions. Anyone reading this that wants to toss some this way, please feel free. Otherwise you just get mine. : )
Been doing this since about 1997. Could use new thoughts.
ArienVYesterday at 5:29 PM
sure Varda , will keep it in mind :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:30 PM
Well, I hope some of our suggestions were useful, at least.
ArienVYesterday at 5:30 PM
at least as inspiration
VardaYesterday at 5:30 PM
Thanks. Even it not used in the exact form, it gives great ideas for tangential questions, because Tangents are Us.
Aye.

Eonwe ValarYesterday at 5:32 PM
OK, time for me to be off. Take care all, good night, sleep well, and Happy New Year :}
VardaYesterday at 5:32 PM
Namarie Eonwe!
See you next year. : )
fireworks! A natural for Varda
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:33 PM
Namarie, happy new year!
And happy new year in advance to all of you :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 5:33 PM
Happy New Year : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:33 PM
I might hit Discord after the fireworks die down, if I remember to, just to say happy new year to people here :wink:
VardaYesterday at 5:34 PM
Good idea!
I may leave it up just for that. So many time zones!
The sun never sets on the Valar Guild. : )
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Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 5:45 PM
Personal gaming report! Let's find some flashgames.
Well, it wouldn't be Christmas week without at least one Christmas-themed flashgame, so here it is.
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/escape_from_christmas is the first game for today! A sort of interactive novel thing, where you choose dialogue options to go from one room to the next, helping Santa get his stuff and escaping from the mansion.
    Escape from Christmas - OneMoreLevel.com
Not very long, but fun to explore, and see all the things that await you in the different rooms :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 6:02 PM
fishes? Are there fishessss, Precioius?
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 6:02 PM
In the rooms? If there are, I've not found em yet...

ArienVYesterday at 6:04 PM
just got another Horsie from a chest :smile: , Faltharams Steed :smiley: (LotRO)
VardaYesterday at 6:04 PM
Grats!
ArienVYesterday at 6:04 PM
thank you :smile:
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 6:04 PM
Grats!
ArienVYesterday at 6:04 PM
I never get that lucky in WoW hehe
Anyas wife always gets the mounts and topgear hehe
Anyhow . bedtime ^^
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 6:09 PM
Namarie!
ArienVYesterday at 6:09 PM
Namarie all :smiley:

Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 6:21 PM
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Beranek/tales-of-nebezem-gnomish-plot is the second game! Part of the Tales of Nebezem games, a bit longer than one I linked a couple of weeks ago.
    Kongregate
    Tales of Nebezem: Gnomish Plot
    The northern lowlands are governed by the Order. The Order states that all people are one large family and children belong to the whole society. In this story,...
A game of puzzles and interactions and items to collect. The story is that you're taking a child to the Children's Home, but there are goblins on the way with a different plan...
to find out what, play the game!

Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 6:57 PM
The last one is https://www.kongregate.com/games/IncredibleApe/escape which is a simple game, with one button.. escape. Use escape to jump from side to side, the longer you hold it the higher you jump. Stay ahead of the laser, avoid the spikes on the walls, and see how high you get!
    Kongregate
    ESCAPE
    Originally created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 21, / ESCAPE \ is a fast paced vertical wall-jumper where up is the only way out.
though, frankly, any key should work...

Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:08 PM
Blizzarrrrd gaming!
Still getting xp, nearly all classes over halfway now... so slow :wink: Brawl this week is Gift Exchange, whereby gift boxes appear on the board with 4 health, and whoever brings them down gets a random discovery - at greatly reduced mana cost - from the class on whose side the box was sitting. Had a bit of trouble, but then put together a priest deck with stat-manipulating spells, allowing me to get my own boxes as well as the enemy's. Once the gifts started coming in, it usually snowballed into me dominating the board even more, to win the game.
Using that idea, I even got a quest done to win 3 brawls.
Heroes of the Storm:
Level 326 now, 2 levels gained. One of them was from Garrosh, with my first or maybe second time playing him, after getting no familiar heroes to choose from in brawl... and it actually went pretty well. He has good positioning control and an interesting cone ability. Something to keep in mind for the future!
Brawl this week was a new one - as far as I can remember - with a Triglav Protector mech for each team, and they only respawned after both went down, which means that if you can kill the opposing one early while yours is still pretty healthy, you can make good use of the advantage.
And with the right abilities as pilot and gunner, you can really use that thing to destroy enemy team and base. Pretty fun!
Almost done with the first round around the game board for the winter event. Completed all the special event quests, and am one quest, one square on the board even, away from finishing it and getting all the fixed rewards.
If I can get another round across the board after that for another chest, would be nice, but it's not as important as that first lap.
So yeah, one more to go :wink:
Rewards have been pretty fun so far, with sprays, banners and portraits of the special toy versions of certain heroes, so worth doing at least once!
Starcraft II:
Continuing the war chest. About halfway through Phase 1 now, with almost 2 and a half tiers of special building skins unlocked, including the main base buildings and the refineries. Slowly my bases are starting to transform, and look really nice :smiley:
WoW:
Last week of the raidbreak! And it's been pretty useful, in the end, since holidays with family have been taking up more time than I anticipated and I needed to shuffle around some weekly activities to different days of the week.
Winter Veil gifts have made it under the tree in Ironforge and Orgrimmar! Collected them with 16 characters this time, more than ever :smiley: Next year will be 18 at least after I make my Dark Iron shaman and Kul Tiran druid! New gifts are a toy armor set for both factions, and a new hearthstone toy, this time winter veiled theme.
When you hearth with it, you get a bit of blurry snow around you and you dance with a christmas hat on for the cast. Bit more silly than the Horseman hearthstone, from Hallow's End, but it fits the occasion. I'm actually quite curious to see what the Lunar Festival one will be like, I have a feeling I'm gonna like the theme.
Weekly this week is pet battles, and I did a lot of them indeed. 5 pvp battles for the weekly, completing the achievement to win 10 pvp battles with an all beast team. I went pretty silly and simple with a team of 3 different Zandalari raptor hatchlings from Pandaria, which was actually pretty successful.
I did not get the mission-starter which supposedly drops from those battles to unlock a special pet vendor, though. Maybe I need to do more pet pvp fights now and then, or maybe I can just wait until I start to collect enough charms to actually make use of the vendor, and then fight fight and fight some more until I get the item.
I'm sure the droprate can't be that low, can it...?
VardaYesterday at 7:32 PM
Surprise!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 7:34 PM
Other than that, I continued doing the pet battle world quests with various families. Completed beast, and even had a few fights with Flying. Which means that several tamers are now over halfway finished. It's going well!
Hmm, what else...
Ah yes, winter veil hats!
I actually got the finely-tailored green one from Varimathras by accident while going for my now weekly normal Antorus raid. That got me curious to see what else I was missing, which was a finely-tailored red (I already had normal green and red) which I was able to get in a couple of attempts from the second boss in heroic Court of Stars, now soloable and farmable.
So now I've got both of those too!
Then more world quests! A few new ones from Kul Tiras, but that's a rare occasion now. I did get the 4th Sabertron from Stormsong through a world quest, leaving just one for the achievement. I hope the next time it comes up it's the missing color :smiley: I also did more Darkshore world quests for service medals, and ended up getting over 100 medals by the end of the week. Now that's slowed down a bit, though, since at the moment neither war front WQ area is available to alliance in Europe.
So over halfway to the krolusk mount, but gonna need a bit more time :wink:
And finally, I actually got some story progress down! Completed Zuldazar's quests at the Tortollan camps and Nesingwary's hunting base. Solved a murder mystery, and helped the Shark loa get his revenge on some nasty naga!
Also dove into Vol'dun, getting a few quests at the alliance camp which unlocks a bunch of more quests from the loa Jani all over the Zandalar continent, but those can wait for later. I did do a wanted quest at the Terrace, and the 6 quests at the Ashvane area in the south of the zone.
I've also gotten every non-mission flightpoint for alliance in Zuldazar and Vol'dun, as well as completing the achievements for exploring both zones.
Just Nazmir awaits, with some more areas to explore, and some quests around the edges of the map. That will be for next week!
And that's my report for the week :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 7:43 PM
Thanks, Phar. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:40 PM
Namarie!
VardaYesterday at 8:40 PM
Namarie!
Ar-Pharazon-VYesterday at 8:40 PM
And if I forget to log in tomorrow
happy new year :smiley:
VardaYesterday at 8:41 PM
Happy New Year!
I may be with family
VardaYesterday at 10:42 PM
Crashed
VardaYesterday at 11:37 PM
Good night
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