Valar Guild

July 29, 2018 Sunday Meeting

5pm EDT (UTC/GMT - 5)
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place

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Transcript work by Varda.

Attending (and spoke): (6)
    Discord: Anarion, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Eonwe, Varda (presiding)
    LotRO: Gorlim, Varda

Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership:
Web:  
    Tolkien Site: Articles
Gaming:
    General gaming report
Tolkien:
    Topic: Elanor and the Red Book(s?)
After-meeting:
    Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Before-meeting
(times are in Central from Varda, so add one hour for Eastern)

VardaToday at 3:55 PM
Aiya  : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 3:56 PM
Aiya!
VardaToday at 3:56 PM
Collecting the LotRO list now
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:01 PM
Arien poked
VardaToday at 4:01 PM
Thanks
Gorlim is helping us put a helpful link on Discord under LotRO-links. : )
List completed
AnarionToday at 4:04 PM
Aiya folks
VardaToday at 4:04 PM
Aiya Anarion!
Great to see you. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:05 PM
Aiya Anarion!
ArienVToday at 4:05 PM
Aiya all :smiley:
Aiya  Anarion :smiley:
VardaToday at 4:06 PM
Aiya Arien : )
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Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
A star shines on the hour of our meeting!
Membership:
Good to see folks here. Are you all finding Discord convenient?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:08 PM
Sure.
It's no AIM, but it works.
VardaToday at 4:08 PM
heh. Beats AIM just by existing, at least.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:08 PM
Sad but true :wink:
VardaToday at 4:09 PM
Leave messages between fights by typing, handy.
or when a buddy is offline.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:09 PM
Yes, the offline thing is handy.
ArienVToday at 4:09 PM
i quite like it that the various servers can have underchannels and  there can be various servers  next to each other in a convenient interface so you can switch from one to the other without problem
VardaToday at 4:10 PM
Agreed, Arien.
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Web:
Started back up on the Line of Kings, thanks to the new HTML editor.
So there's a small update for:
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/k/kings/kingsMan.htm
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/k/kings/KingsofArthedain.htm

Eonwe ValarToday at 4:13 PM
Heya all.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:14 PM
Aiya!
VardaToday at 4:14 PM
These are parts of the project for the Line of Kings.
Eonwe! Aiya!
Fantastic that you could make it. Congrats!
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:14 PM
Thanks. Glad to be here :}

VardaToday at 4:15 PM
As part of that continuing update , new small articles have been added for the Line of Kings:
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/a/Amlaith.htm
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/b/BelegKing.htm
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/m/Mallor.htm
Then I ran out of time before the meeting. : )
Also, trying to start into improving the site by adding diacriticals.
Being no computer genius, these are going in manually and takes a while, but it's happening.
Trying to be sure to add them to anything new going in.

Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:16 PM
What is a diacritical?
VardaToday at 4:17 PM
Those little marks above and below letters that we don't use in English, like the umlaut above the E in Eonwe.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:17 PM
Ah, those.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:17 PM
ë
VardaToday at 4:17 PM
That, aye!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:17 PM
I think we just call them accents.
VardaToday at 4:18 PM
An accent as I learned it is just a single slash going up, above a letter. Not the same thing. But it might be a synonym that I'd better learn, so thanks!
ArienVToday at 4:18 PM
Aiya  Eonwe :smiley:
VardaToday at 4:19 PM
Eonwe has the hang of typing those in, yay!
ArienVToday at 4:19 PM
how do you do that?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:19 PM
I think we call most of them accents, like a slash forward, a slash backward, that little hat thingy..
not sure if the umlaut is counted among them.
AnarionToday at 4:20 PM
Haha, definitely
ElrondToday at 4:20 PM
aiya
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:20 PM
Alt-137 for that, but in html code I would suggest using the HTML special code to not break anything/ensure it shows.
VardaToday at 4:20 PM
Aiya Elrond : )
ArienVToday at 4:20 PM
aiya Elrond :smiley:
VardaToday at 4:20 PM
According to the dictionary on accent: a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:20 PM
For fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic
    Diacritic
    A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω     (diakrī́nō, "to...
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:20 PM
Aiya Elrond!
VardaToday at 4:20 PM
Thanks
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:21 PM
first line of that article:
    "A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent –"
Accent works \o/
VardaToday at 4:21 PM
Eonwe, please let me know if I'm breaking the code. Just been copy pasting mostly.
Long as we know what we're referring to. Diacritic, accent, okie dokie.
ArienVToday at 4:22 PM
i cant do those ^^
VardaToday at 4:22 PM
Have to set up the keyboard for it, I think.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
ç
eh, not really an accent
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
But it is a diacritical mark.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:23 PM
then it counts!
VardaToday at 4:23 PM
yay!
Anyway, it feels good to have article web news again. : )
On to
Gaming!
Eonwe is currently digging up a table for HTML diacritical marks, because he is awesome.
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Gaming:
Lord of the Rings Online:
Servers are coming down July 30th for Update 22.4.1.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?665731-Downtime-Notice-Monday-July-30th-8-00-AM-12-00-PM-Eastern-(-4-GMT)
    Downtime Notice: Monday, July 30th 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)
    The LOTRO game worlds will be unavailable on Monday, July 30th from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release an update. Click here for the Release Notes.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?665730-Update-22-4-1-Release-Notes
    Update 22.4.1 Release Notes
    Here are the Release Notes for Update 22.4.1, released on Monday, July 30th.
    Of Special Note:
    Vacation in Frostbluff
It's worth making note of this post about Seasonal Instance tokens in prep for Monday as well.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?665662-Upcoming-Seasonal-Instance-Token-Cap-Information
    Upcoming Seasonal Instance Token Cap Information
    Hello! We are making a change in the next patch that we want to make sure you are aware of, and explain how to best get prepared for it.
    With our next patch, Thrang's Vault tokens will now always go into the barter wallet, and    have a cap of 40. This allows us to keep adding n...
Folks on this past week in LotRO:
    Arien
    Bregalad
    Celebrian
    Dis
    Fangorn
    Gorlim
    Ioreth
    Nar
    Orome
    Thranduil
    Varda

World of WarCraft:
This week's bonus event: Legion Dungeons.
PvP Brawl: Deep Six runs through Tuesday July 31st.
A new animated short is out: Warbringers: Jaina.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21964418/watch-warbringers-jaina-animated-short
    World of Warcraft
    Watch Warbringers: Jaina Animated Short - WoW
Also out: War of the Thorns - Chapter 1.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21964419/experience-the-war-of-the-thorns-chapter-1-now-live
    World of Warcraft
    Experience the War of the Thorns—Chapter 1 Now Live! - WoW
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:34 PM
(Jaina short has a nice song)
VardaToday at 4:35 PM
See this week's hotfixes.
ArienVToday at 4:35 PM
its an awesome song .. not just nice :smiley:
an epic song  :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:35 PM
Very true!
Must've hit that replay button a lot of times.
VardaToday at 4:35 PM
We have Valar reviews here! The Jaina song seems popular.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21973195/hotfixes-july-27-2018
    World of Warcraft
    Hotfixes: July 27, 2018 - WoW

StarCraft:
Patch 1.22 is out.
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/21965879
    StarCraft: Remastered
    StarCraft: Remastered upgrades the essential sci-fi strategy experience—the entire original game and its award-winning expansion, StarCraft: Brood War—from beginning to end.

StarCraft 2:
Starcraft 2's eighth Anniversary is going until July 30th. Get some bonus Exp and the cake portrait while you can!
https://starcraft2.com/en-us/news/21969710
    StarCraft II
    Wage war across the galaxy with three unique and powerful races. StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment for the PC and Mac.

Hearthstone:
Check these out:
The Boomsday Project: Lab Logs Part 2
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21953435/the-boomsday-project-lab-logs-part-2
    The Boomsday Project: Lab Logs Part 2
    Awaiting input. . .
    >>Dr_Boom.exe: LUM1, be a good Mech and get a Boomsday Project status report from Kangor and Rotspring. And make sure that Flark hasn’t blown up his workshop again. That kid reminds me of myself when I was younger.

Enter Boom Labs - Part 3
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21964702/enter-boom-labs-part-3
    Enter Boom Labs - Part 3
    Witness the thrilling conclusion in Enter Boom Labs Part 3!

That's the news from Eonwe's Games Site.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:39 PM
boom labs videos... silly, but kinda fun
VardaToday at 4:39 PM
: )  What is this? A game?
Any other news for gaming anyone would like to add? Eve folks, other?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:40 PM
It definitely takes itself a lot less seriously than WoW :wink:

ElrondToday at 4:41 PM
Eve Online:
War between Imperium Legacy and Northern Allies has been heating up. Been on quite a few fleets, destroyed two armed keepstars last week (think like the Star Wars DeathStar).
AnarionToday at 4:43 PM
Wow, EVE has changed since I last played

Eonwe ValarToday at 4:45 PM
Thought I had seen a different one, but this one works well enough: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_latin1_supplement.asp
You can also click around on the left menu and see other symbols you can use.
VardaToday at 4:45 PM
Thanks, Elrond and Eonwe.
Feel free to leave another link here at your leisure during the week if you like.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:46 PM
Enter the entity code in like you would for normal text, i.e. Eonwë and when the page is displayed it should appear like Eonwë.
ArienVToday at 4:50 PM
Eonw&eumi
Eonw&euml
VardaToday at 4:51 PM
Are you having trouble with this page showing the diacritical wrong on Eärendur?
http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/a/Amlaith.htm
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:51 PM
EonwË
hmm
ArienVToday at 4:52 PM
i ll ask Bruce about it .. what for do i have a computer specialist as fiance  :smiley:
at some point hehe
AnarionToday at 4:52 PM
My version of Firefox and Opera show  Eärendur
so it probably should be good I think?
VardaToday at 4:53 PM
Thanks, Anarion : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 4:53 PM
Unfortunately I'm probably the most computer tech savvy person in the house. That says more about the others than about me.
Eonwe ValarToday at 4:53 PM
Looks like it shows fine. I assume your HTML editor is adding in what needs to be added.
VardaToday at 4:54 PM
Excellent then.
I'm using SeaMonkey's composer, that shows at the bottom left in a clickable icon on its browser.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
It's very much like the Composer I used to use, so it's a very fast switch to use it.
AnarionToday at 4:56 PM
Oh, nice
VardaToday at 4:56 PM
Eonwe is a far better person at working with the code than I ever will be, even has a degree in it. : )
This is good for a nebbish like me though, heh.
wrong word there, just meant not good at doing this kind of thing.
ok, onwards. Any other gaming news?
VardaToday at 5:00 PM
Any other stuff anyone would like to bring up, gaming or otherwise? Suggestions for improvement, congrats, more gaming stuff? Arien needs birch in LotRO.
Then onward to
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Tolkien!
Anything such as links, topics, news you'd like to bring up for Tolkien?

Elanor. What does that word bring up for you?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:04 PM
A flower, to start with.
VardaToday at 5:04 PM
Sam was going to name his first child Frodo, but
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:04 PM
Also daughter of Sam.
VardaToday at 5:04 PM
Aye, Phar.
it was a girl, so he asked Frodo for a suggestion.
ArienVToday at 5:06 PM
the flower on cerin Amroth wasnt it?
VardaToday at 5:06 PM
Frodo suggested that half the girls in the Shire were named for flowers.  Sam was worried that most of the names they had heard for flowers on their travels were too grand. He must have still been trying to honor Frodo, with that thought.
    "Frodo thought for a moment. 'Well, Sam, what about elanor, the sun-star, you remember the little golden flower in the grass of Lothlorien?'"
Right, Arien. : )
Haldir calls it the yellow elanor and says that it is a winter flower, but Lothlorien lets it bloom all year.
What did Sam's daughter, Elanor, do that was important? This would especially matter to JRRT.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:09 PM
Was she the one who collected the written work?
VardaToday at 5:10 PM
Right
She was the heir to the book started by Bilbo and continued by Frodo.
AnarionToday at 5:12 PM
Oh wow, that is one I would've never guessed
VardaToday at 5:13 PM
Why did they call it the Red Book of Westmarch?
ArienVToday at 5:14 PM
The West march of the Northern Kingdom ? maybe another name of the Shire?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:14 PM
If I recall, Elanor and descendants ended up running the new province of the Shire, Westmarch... married to the son of Pippin?
ArienVToday at 5:14 PM
And Red book because it contained important things?
VardaToday at 5:15 PM
Elanor married Fastred, who became a Warden of the Westmarch.
ArienVToday at 5:15 PM
and had a red binding mayube?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:15 PM
And the Red Book was the collection of writings of Bilbo and Frodo and the Elven stuff which they gathered together there, as the source of Tolkien's works :smiley:
AnarionToday at 5:17 PM
The book definitely had a red cover in the movies...(sorry).
VardaToday at 5:17 PM
Nothing to be sorry about. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:17 PM
Thought it was more brown-ish. Guess they look alike :wink:
VardaToday at 5:17 PM
In RotK, Appendix B, near the end of the timeline,
1482 is where Sam gives the Red Book to Elanor, as he starts his ride to the West.
He does this at the Tower Hills
So he does seem to have been on his way to the Grey Havens.
Anything else anyone wants to add? : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:20 PM
Well, according to legend, he did pass over to Valinor as the last of the Ringbearers.
And as we know, if legend is not contradicted, it's always true :wink:
VardaToday at 5:20 PM
It does say The Red Book, so it may have been one book.
Possible that it could have been more than one volume in a red holder, but I don't see any proof of such a thing.
All I find is that they seem to add pages to that one book.
AnarionToday at 5:22 PM
Hrm, that must have been a truly massive tome. Wikipedia says concerning the red book of the westmarch
:
    Bilbo had translated material from Elvish lore from the Elder Days. This work, Translations from the Elvish, by B.B., comprised three volumes, also bound in red leather. After the defeat of Sauron (the Lord of the Rings) Bilbo gives these volumes to Frodo. These four volumes were "probably" (according to Tolkien) kept in a single red case.[3][5]
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:22 PM
Ah, a single red case.
There's your red holder.
AnarionToday at 5:22 PM
But just cites RotK
VardaToday at 5:23 PM
So maybe more digging is needed.
ArienVToday at 5:23 PM
interesting wee trivia about pages and the red book which just sprang randomly to mind  :smiley:
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:23 PM
I'll go grab my rotk.
VardaToday at 5:24 PM
Interesting. Looking at Wikipedia, it mentions:
    Tolkien's inspiration[8][9] for this repository of lore was the real Red Book of Hergest, the early 15th century compilation of Welsh history and poetry that contains the manuscript of the Mabinogion. Bound (and rebound) in red leather, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the manuscript was well known to Tolkien.
ArienVToday at 5:24 PM
J. r. R. designed  *original pages of the red book * to be included in the published version of Lord of the Rings to make them more attractive to the audience . but he was too late finishing them and  Unwin and Allan werent quite happy with them
AnarionToday at 5:24 PM
Oh, Wikipedia actually cites specifically the Prologue, "Note on the Shire Records" and "Many Partings" in RotK
ArienVToday at 5:24 PM
i have seen them though at the exhibition and they look great :smiley:
facsimile they called it facsimile pages
VardaToday at 5:26 PM
Many Partings includes this:
    Then he (Bilbo) gave Frodo his mithril-coat and Sting, forgetting that he had already done so; and he gave him also three books of lore that he had made at various times, written in his spidery hand, and labeled on their red backs:
    Translations from the Elvish, by B.B."
Later in the chapter it says:
    "Collect all my notes and papers, and my diary too, and take them with you, if you will."
ahhh here!
The Grey Havens chapter:
    "In the next day or two Frodo went through his papers and his writings with Sam, and he handed over his keys.
    "There was a big book with plain red leather covers; its tall pages were now almost filled.
    "At the beginning there were many leaves covered with Bilbo's thin wandering hand;
    "but most of it was written in Frodo's firm flowing script.
    "It was divided into chapters but Chapter 80 was unfinished,
    "and after that were some blank leaves.
    "The title page had many titles on it, crossed out one after another, so..."
And below, Frodo tells Sam the last pages are for Sam.
Sounds as if it is one book.
Bilbo seems fond of red bindings. : )
AnarionToday at 5:35 PM
So there were 3 books of lore written by Bilbo, but the actual red book to which we refer was just one huge volume, not with a rediculous number of pages, but with very large pages.
VardaToday at 5:36 PM
The three books referred to earlier were books of lore, translations from the Elvish, apparently not his own writing.
Aye, "tall pages"
Now we need to find that Note on the Shire Records.
ArienVToday at 5:37 PM
tall as in hobbit - tall which according to Pippin and Merry was 3 foot six or 3 foot seven :)?
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:37 PM
tall writing.. isn't that a saying?
AnarionToday at 5:38 PM
Hopefully not that tall. It could also be a turn of phrase I suppose, but not one that is used today.
VardaToday at 5:40 PM
Tall story. : )
Still looking for the Notes on the Shire Records
ArienVToday at 5:41 PM
i think so ah :smiley: tall story which the publishing company thought which wouldnt sell very well :smiley:
ha .. little did they know
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:41 PM
Right, that's it.
VardaToday at 5:42 PM
in the Prologue, well in
AnarionToday at 5:42 PM
Could definitely be a turn of phrase, see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tall definition 3a.
Definition of TALL
    high in stature; of a specified height; of considerable height… See the full definition

VardaToday at 5:42 PM
Next to last page of the prolog
ahhhh, here we go.
A bit long to copy it all here.
The origin was Bilbo's private little diary which he took with him to Rivendell.
Frodo brought it back to the Shire along with loose notes , and added to it himself. Along with it:
    "But annexed to it  and preserved with it, probably in a single red case, were the three large volumes, bound in red leather, that Bilbo gave him as a parting gift. To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Felllowship."
Eonwe ValarToday at 5:48 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I must be off for the evening. I was good to see you all.
*It was good to see you all.
VardaToday at 5:48 PM
    "The original Red Book has not been preserved, but many copies were made, especially of the first volume..."

Eonwe ValarToday at 5:48 PM
Take care, good night, sleep well, and have fun.
VardaToday at 5:48 PM
Namarie Eonwe!
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:49 PM
Namarie!

There we go. Multiple volumes in a red case.
VardaToday at 5:49 PM
Aye.
When it became the Red Book of the Westmarch.
I recommend reading that section in the Prologue, too much to type here, but intriguing.
Including the mention of Barahir, grandson of Steward Faramir. : )
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:51 PM
I'm sure Barahir would've liked a hobbit named after him.
VardaToday at 5:51 PM
Might have had one, but this Barahir is Eowyn's grandson.
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 5:52 PM
Oh, right.
Different faramir.
VardaToday at 5:52 PM
I wouldn't put it past them since they did use Faramir's name.
Trivia item: Faramir and Sam shared a birthday.
A red-bound hammer marches to the hammerpad
thump as of a heavy book
the hammer returns
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After-meeting!
Free chat about anything. : )
AnarionToday at 5:54 PM
I like how Tolkien made Elanor an orginially elvish name
VardaToday at 5:55 PM
Flower in Lothlorien, aye. : )

ArienVToday at 5:58 PM
just a quick mention about yesterday .. call it off topic member nes :smiley:
news
VardaToday at 5:58 PM
We are in After-meeting : )
ArienVToday at 5:58 PM
aye true :smiley:
Yesterday i had a rare saturday off in Inverness to attend something very special
That was the march for independence there attended by many many groups and a sea  of banners and songs  and people :)#
ArienVToday at 6:00 PM
Disregarding the political occasion it was an awesome and unforgettable experience if you ever been at something l ike tha
AnarionToday at 6:02 PM
Nice. I admit I had to google Inverness because I didn't know whether that's in Catalonia, Ireland, Scotland, or Quebec.(edited)
ArienVToday at 6:03 PM
Scotland .. although i am sure there is one in Australia and maybe one in Nova Scotia or else Canada
probably even in the States :smiley:
AnarionToday at 6:04 PM
There is indeed an Iverness in both Australia and Nova Scotia (well done!), but they wouldn't be very natural sites for an independence demonstration(edited)
I've never been at something like that, and I hope I'm never in a position to be, but I understand how that would be awesome
ArienVToday at 6:06 PM
:smile:
thanks Anarion :smiley:
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Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:12 PM
Personal gaming report!
Got 3 small-ish flashgames for you today. Well, how small kinda depends on how fast you go through them; one of them took me quite a while, yet I've seen 3-minute speedruns on youtube :wink:
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/temple-of-the-golden-watermelon/ is the first one! 3d platformer where you play a watermelon slice, making your way across a watermelon land, using pieces of watermelon to cross obstacles. Really weird, but fun :smile: Last jump is the hardest though!
I couldn't get the game to play on Firefox because of some web assembly thing missing, but it did work on Chrome, so keep that in mind if you're having trouble.
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/get-out-of-this-dungeon/ is the second game! Platformer, retro style. Make your way across the rooms, picking up different types of armor to get a few new abilities you'll need, and collect the gems to open the door.
It's the one that took me quite a while, but there's unlimited lives (and some well-placed checkpoints) so just keep going.

ArienVToday at 6:26 PM
Well i have to call it friends ;0
VardaToday at 6:26 PM
Good night, Arien!
We know it's night when the sun goes down. : )
ArienVToday at 6:26 PM
it is getting late . good night all together :smiley:  Namarie :smiley:
VardaToday at 6:26 PM
Namarie
Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 6:26 PM
Namarie!

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Lu_Muja/dead-detective-vs-nine-deaths-cat is the third game! Part of a point and click series where you solve crimes in a zombie society, by gathering and combining clues into conclusions (though it is possible to get the wrong conclusions). In this case, it's about finding an infamous burglar and preventing the theft of a painting.
    Kongregate
    Dead Detective vs Nine Deaths Cat
    A new installment in the quotZombie Society Dead Detectivequot series!
    Answer the challenge of the Nine Deaths Cat, the best thief in all of Zombie Society!
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Ar-Pharazon-VToday at 7:03 PM
Blizzard gaming!
Hearthstone:
Fire Festival is over now, made good use of the double rewards. Even got a new legendary, the hunter minion Emeriss.
Brawl was not against other player this week, but against 2 elemental lords (Ragnaros and Ahune) tag-teaming. One with a hero power to do 3 damage to a random enemy, and one with a hero power to do one damage, and if a minion dies from it, summon a minion.
I got through it with a jade druid deck, ramping up multiple minions for Ragnaros while making sure they were at higher health for Ahune. Once it got rolling, the multiple enemy heroes with a lot of health didn't really matter anymore because I could just keep on pushing out jade minions until they went nearly 20/20 in stats. I was aware of possibilities of jade druid before, but it was fun to really push it into the higher levels :smiley:
Druid's also the first hero to reach level 55, unlocking my first golden River Crocolisk. A really useful minion in basic decks, I'd been using the river crocolisk in several, and have now upgraded one to golden :smiley: Fun to see gold take over a bit more in my decks.
Heroes of the Storm:
Level 291 now. The one level was my 15th Artanis level, getting him to gold. When they're at 15/gold I usually switch to a different hero for that franchise/type, which in this case will be Dehaka. I'm pretty clueless about Dehaka but I'm sure that the next time I get something for Starcraft or Warrior I'll try to figure out a build for him. It looks fun, though!
Brawl was the garden arena, use random heroes to collect 100 seeds before your enemy does to break their core.
I actually found myself in 2 brawl rounds with all 10 players forcedly playing Gul'dan, which is a rather low chance. Was fun though, since it is a hero I'm familiar with.
WoW:
Nothing new from the old raids, though we did establish that pets too can be traded freely between partymembers when they drop in the legacy loot system, which is good, because I'm the only one who needs the snobold. I won't need to solo it :wink:
We had one alt-raid (though I used my main) in normal Antorus, where I actually picked up quite a few missing appearances. We really didn't do much normal before switching to heroic, it seems, so a lot were missing, though every bit helps :smiley:
The alt-raid for tonight was cancelled though, with only 2 people interested/available. Which does not seems promising for the future.
And by future I mean the next 2 weeks or so because after that everyone will be busy in Battle for Azeroth anyway.
Which I'll be missing a few days of at the start, since we've decided on a date for my brother and I to visit my parents on vacation, which will be 16 to 19 of august. But that's fine; it'll allow me to do some allied races and undercity stuff in the first few days, and then skip the actual main story in Kul Tiras etc until I get back, after the larger player crowds have passed through and things have calmed down a bit :smiley:
Weekly quest was mythic dungeons, which I had been dreading a bit because of the loss of artifact traits, and my daily heroic karazhan being more of a pain; but I actually completed the quest pretty fast with a group doing Maw of Souls 3 times in a row. Could only get loot once, but they did count for the quest, and it was quite short :smiley:
Finished the Gilneas starting zone for my worgen! He's level 15 now, and resting in Darkshore after completing the evacuation to Teldrassil, and purchasing the worgen-only raven pet from Lor'danel. He can rest there for a while, and will probably join my other low level alts in Ironforge at some point for stuff like Winter Veil gifts. I hope to level him further one day, but that goes for all my alts :wink:
War of the Thorns, leading up to the battle for Teldrassil, has arrived! First questline, ending up with unlocking the Darkshore world quests, 4 a day, giving random pieces of a set which is different for each class. The appearances are the same as from boosts or the garrison salvage yard, though, so there's always other ways to get them. That said, I did complete the entire set except one weapon through the world quests, and have completed 11 out of 12 (I think?) possible WQs, though that is not related to the missing weapon, because the rewards are random.
And just in time I think I managed to shake off the habit of checking all the WQs on the broken isles, merely checking the pvp quests for marks of honor, and elite quests on Argus for possible Army of the Light rep.  It may not save much time, but makes the whole thing a lot less frustrating, especially with BfA coming up.
I also finally got the paragon toy for the wardens, the warden disguise cloak. So now all that's left is a mount and toy from Army of the Light, and the Highmountain mount. One less emissary I have to bother with :smiley:
And I'll end my report with saying I went back to transmog hunting in old instances/raids, for the first time in a long while, going back to the BC raids I was already going through. Picked up a few new items, which is always nice. I'll only do this until BfA comes out, though, at which point leveling and questing through the new expansion will be a higher priority. But I aim to get back at it when things slow down again :smiley:
And that's my report for the week!
Oh, no, wait, small Starcraft II mission: Played one training game to get the new portrait :wink: Haven't missed an anniversary portrait yet!
*mention, not mission
And that's my report, I think!
VardaToday at 7:44 PM
Thanks, Phar.
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