Sunday, September 28, 2025
5:00pm Eastern Time
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place
Attending: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf, Varda (presiding), Xavier
Topic: text
[4:01 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: @Bounder @Guild-friend Aiya! Valar Guild meeting time! Come on over to the meeting_place and have some tea!
[4:01 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: hah : )
[4:01 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:01 PMVarda: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
[4:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:02 PMVarda: Membership:
[4:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:02 PMVarda: Good to see Eonwe and Sandalf here with bells on. : )
[4:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:02 PMEönwë Valar: jingle jangle Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:02 PM
[4:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:02 PMEönwë Valar:
[4:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:03 PMVarda: Earendil and Elwing are here at our house. Much birthday cake has been consumed. One for Sauron (strawberry cake) and one for Elwing (chocolate cake). Also other fun stuff, but that's the important part!
[4:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:03 PMSandalf13: Happy Boirthday, y'all!
[4:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:03 PMVarda: Thank you from both of them!
[4:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:03 PMEönwë Valar: Happy Birthday to the birthday girl and boy :}
[4:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:03 PMVarda: hehe thank you from both.
[4:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:04 PMVarda: Today's meeting kicks off the week of the 28th Anniversary Annual Chat marathon!
[4:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:04 PMVarda: We try to keep the meeting_place channel occupied for the whole rest of the week into the next meeting. : )
[4:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:05 PMSandalf13: My friend SUsan is visiting from Lincoln, and tomorrow we are driving up to Saratoga, WY, to sit in the natural hot springs for a spell...then return home over the Medicine Bow Mountains back to Laramie, then south to home.
[4:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:05 PMVarda: Feel free to talk gaming, Tolkien, and friendly chat. : )
[4:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:05 PMVarda: Ohh sounds magnificent, Sandalf. : )
[4:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:05 PMVarda: We might consider the hot tub in your honor. ; )
[4:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:05 PMEönwë Valar: Pevensie?
[4:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:06 PMEönwë Valar: (Chronicles of Narnia reference for those who don't get it)
[4:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:06 PMSandalf13: I shall share some pix, if we get any good one...will post them here, so that should take a little time...Yes...the Pevensie children.
[4:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:06 PMVarda: Thanks for explaining that one, Eonwe. : )
[4:07 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:07 PMEönwë Valar: The four children in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are named Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie.
[4:07 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:07 PMSandalf13: Lewis wore his religion on his sleeve...Tolkien was much more circumspect, and open to differing opinions...overall, for me, at least, a better option.
[4:09 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:09 PMEönwë Valar: Tolkien was devout in his beliefs, but he disliked allegory. If memory serves, he kept reciting mass in Latin even when the Catholics went English. (edited)Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:09 PM
[4:10 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:10 PMArien Valar: aiya all
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMEönwë Valar: Heya Arien.
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMSandalf13: I wouldn't be surprised at all.
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMSandalf13: Aiya Arien!
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMVarda: Not all Catholics went English, but aye, true. Hard on those that wanted to keep what they found more beautiful.
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMVarda: Part of being a linguist too, I suspect.
[4:11 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:11 PMVarda: Aiya Sunshine!
[4:12 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:12 PMVarda: Folks, my Discord typing is grayed out for long periods before showing. Don't let my "pauses" or disappearance stop you. : )
[4:12 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:12 PMVarda: Eonwe has his hand ready for the gavel if that happens. : )
[4:14 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:14 PMArien Valar: I remember that catholics were regarded a rarity in scotland .. well , on skye at least. I know from a video of my all time favorite band, runrig, donnie Munro, the then singer , told that when they heard about catholics arriving in the village , he ran there with some friends to see how they looked like
[4:14 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:14 PMSandalf13: Tolkien loved his Latin, and the diagram above is one that I am sure Tolkien knew by heart...perhaps not that diagram exactly, but one very much like it. I think it is a pretty good representation...and Latin shows up as the base of all the Romance languages...
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[4:15 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:15 PMArien Valar: now we live two houses beside the catholic church ^]
[4:15 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:15 PMVarda: O wow. At least that should make good scenery. : )
[4:15 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:15 PMVarda: Thank you, Sandalf. Nifty diagram.
[4:16 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:16 PMVarda: Web:
[4:17 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:17 PMVarda: Looking forward to the works of the Valar Guild for the Anniversary! The Tolkien Site will be better for it. : )
[4:18 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:18 PMVarda: The anniversary itself is October 4. In LotRO, we will have our annual ride into the main towns (and elsewhere if we like afterwards) and shooting of fireworks.
[4:19 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:19 PMVarda: In any game, feel free to screenshot fireworks (loosely defined!) and screenshot nifty shots of trees/forests or some particular nifty tree. (Do mushroom forests count? Why not?)
[4:19 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:19 PMVarda: And yes, I'm fine with all sorts of forests. : )
[4:19 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:19 PMVarda: Any other comments? Boxes pushed to the side so Arien can reach her computer?
[4:19 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:19 PMEönwë Valar: Add to Favorites
[4:20 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:20 PMVarda: That's one!
[4:20 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:20 PMEönwë Valar: Don't forget September 30th, this Tuesday, is the deadline for GSMU responses.
[4:20 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:20 PMVarda: Thank you, Eonwe!
[4:21 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:21 PMVarda: And he also takes responses here on Discord. : )
[4:23 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:23 PMVarda: On to
[4:23 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:23 PMVarda: Gaming!
[4:23 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:23 PMVarda: the gavel /spins to Eonwe
[4:24 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:24 PMEönwë Valar:
[4:25 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:25 PMEönwë Valar: World of Warcraft:
[4:25 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:25 PMEönwë Valar: This week's bonus event: Mists of Pandaria Timewalking. This week's PvP Brawl: Deep Six.
[4:25 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:25 PMEönwë Valar: A Deep Dive and Q&A for the Midnight expansion is coming October 1st. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24224373/join-us-for-a-midnight-deep-dive-and-qa-october-1
[4:26 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:26 PMEönwë Valar: Brewfest is running through October 9th. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24235740/make-sure-to-don-your-kilts-brewfest-is-here (You may have seen me and Phar talking about it.)
[4:26 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:26 PMEönwë Valar: Turbo-Boost comes to War Within Season 3 on October 21st. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24230698/launch-into-turbo-boost-october-21
[4:26 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:26 PMEönwë Valar: Landfall is live in Mists of Pandaria Classic. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24229242/mists-of-pandaria-classic-landfall-content-update-is-now-live
[4:26 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:26 PMEönwë Valar: Check out WoW Weekly for anything not mentioned above. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24235742/wow-weekly-midnight-deep-dive-incoming-twitch-drop-turbo-boost-on-the-horizon-and-more
[4:27 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:27 PMEönwë Valar: Check out this week's hotfixes. --- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24223774/hotfixes-september-24-2025
[4:27 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:27 PMEönwë Valar: Diablo Immortal: A new tale is out: "Crimson Mass". --- https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24226736/a-new-tale-crimson-mass
[4:27 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:27 PMEönwë Valar: Diablo 2:
[4:27 PM]Ladder Season 12 is coming October 3rd.
[4:27 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:27 PMEönwë Valar: Overwatch 2:
[4:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: Starcraft 2: Check out the update to PTR Patch 5.0.15. --- https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24227052/starcraft-ii-5-0-15-ptr-update
[4:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: Lord of the Rings Online:
[4:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: Update 45.5 is out.
[4:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: Two Legacy of Morgoth instances have been closed due to a bug.
[4:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:28 PMEönwë Valar: The next expansion, Kingdoms of Harad, is expected to release this fall. --- https://www.lotro.com/kingdoms-of-harad
[4:29 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:29 PMEönwë Valar: Gavel back to Varda.
[4:29 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:29 PMEönwë Valar: Add to Favorites
[4:30 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:30 PMVarda: catches gavel
[4:30 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:30 PMVarda: Thank you, ,Eonwe. : )
[4:30 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:30 PMVarda: Several of us have already pre-purchased the next LotRO expansion. Funny we all picked Ultimate.
[4:31 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:31 PMVarda: (It has two camel mounts not found anywhere else at this time. Good for Harad!)
[4:31 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:31 PMVarda: A number of the goodies are usable now, so it doesn't feel like such a long wait.
[4:32 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:32 PMVarda: Lord of the Rings Online this past week:
Peregrin branch (US RP-encouraged. Main) (7):
Glamdring branch (US normal):
Meriadoc branch (EU-RP)
Angmar branch (temp US VIP "Veil of the Nine"):
Mordor branch (temp EU VIP "Veil of the Nine"):
[4:32 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:32 PMVarda: StarCraft 2 this past week that I know of:
[4:32 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:32 PMVarda: Earendil, Eowyn, Fangorn, and Varda together. Also Faramir.
[4:32 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:32 PMVarda: Any other games or membership news anyone would like to mention? I know we play other things. : )
[4:33 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:33 PMVarda: The GSMU/b> needs tended. : )
[4:33 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:33 PMEönwë Valar: For the record, "lottery", while a multiplayer game, doesn't count for the Games Site :}
[4:34 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:34 PMArien Valar: hehe]
[4:34 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:34 PMVarda: ok : )
[4:34 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:34 PMEönwë Valar: (No one's ever asked, just being funny :})
[4:34 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:34 PMVarda: Got smiles all around. : )
[4:34 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:34 PMArien Valar: i thought it was a means to collect money for charity :
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: It is, actually. Might get up to 20% of the take with some.
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMArien Valar: at least here in the uk
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: On to
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMArien Valar:
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: Tolkien!
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: A suggestion that came up from a member at our house who is looking forward to playing in Angmar in LotRO:
[4:35 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:35 PMVarda: With October and Halloween coming up soonish, what are some spooky places in Tolkien's legendarium? Any book.
[4:36 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:36 PMVarda: (Might even work spookiness into a forest story or article for the Anniversary. Mirkwood comes to mind.)
[4:36 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:36 PMEönwë Valar: There's the Forsaken Inn, that we know is Forsaken but we don't know why it's any more Forsaken than the rest of the land around it.
[4:37 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:37 PMArien Valar: Barrow downs, the old forest , mirkwood, Minas Morgul , dol guldur
[4:37 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:37 PMEönwë Valar: Bag End. I hear it's full of jools. Just gotta get a shovel and dig into those walls.
[4:38 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:38 PMSandalf13: I would vote for the Troll Shaws
[4:39 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:39 PMEönwë Valar: I don't know if the Troll Shaws would be spooky really, but certainly dangerous given it's not called the Fluffy Kitty Shaws. Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:39 PM
[4:40 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:40 PMSandalf13: I know that if I was hiking through the Troll Shaws, I would be looking over my shoulder almost every other second...seems spooky enough for me...the slightest unnatural sound would make me jump a mile!
[4:40 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:40 PMEönwë Valar: Although three lifelike statues might make a particular place feel spooky.
[4:41 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:41 PMSandalf13: I always wondered about the Forsaken Inn...the name must have come from somewhere...but Tolkien never talks about it except for that one mention.
[4:42 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:42 PMSandalf13: Do you suppose there was regular bus service between the Forsaken Inn and Bree?
[4:44 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:44 PMVarda: The Forsaken Inn was not on the regular ways that people took, I figure.
[4:44 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:44 PMEönwë Valar: At least not at the time of the WotR.
[4:44 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:44 PMEönwë Valar: It had to have been along some regular path at one time.
[4:44 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:44 PMVarda: The Trollshaws in LotRO has trolls on the roads at night, and others back in the shadows of trees, mountain, and caves.
[4:45 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:45 PMVarda: Aye, thus once used and then forsaken.
[4:45 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:45 PMEönwë Valar: Aye :}
[4:46 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:46 PMEönwë Valar: (For fun:) spooky adjective: strange, unsettling, or frightening in a way that suggests the supernatural
[4:47 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:47 PMVarda: Like Weathertop after it became known that the Ringwraiths appeared there!
[4:47 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:47 PMVarda: The Barrow-downs, with possessed corpses and walking arms.
[4:48 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:48 PMArien Valar: and .. fangorn .. and the wood of huorns if that counts
[4:49 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:49 PMEönwë Valar: While Ents and Huorns are a more natural threat, I can understand not expecting an attack from trees, and that giving an unsettling feeling to people not used to expecting that.
[4:49 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:49 PMSandalf13: Yes! There was regular bus service! [Image saved on Discord of bus with Bree destination.]
[4:50 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:50 PMArien Valar: hehe
[4:50 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:50 PMEönwë Valar: That bus is just there to deliver the strange news.
[4:50 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:50 PMSandalf13: With stops at the Ent Bank along the way...he he
[4:51 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:51 PMArien Valar: and Sunny Knoll
[4:54 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:54 PMVarda: Nice : )
[4:54 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:54 PMVarda: Pardon - had a blank Discord for a bit.
[4:55 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:55 PMVarda: Mirkwood was seriously spooky.
[4:56 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:56 PMEönwë Valar: Nan Dungortheb in the First Age. The one place I'm sure Elves wouldn't have minded taking a torch to.
[4:57 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:57 PMVarda: Mordor, from one end to the other.
[4:57 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 4:57 PMSandalf13: More specifically, perhaps Dol Guldur...
[5:00 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:00 PMEönwë Valar: For a period of time, the forests around Cuivienen would've been spooky for the Elves, given Morgoth and/or his servants purposefully stirring fear to try and catch a few of the unwary.
[5:01 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:01 PMEönwë Valar: Speaking of which, here's a related spooky story (shameless plug incoming :} )
""Morchaint"" by Eonwë-(Valar). "A couple lost in the fog, a horseman rides."
[5:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:02 PMVarda: Thanks, Eonwe. : )
[5:02 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:02 PMVarda: We have reached the hour.
[5:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:03 PMEönwë Valar: And here's something spooky for another reason :}
""In Your Dreams"" by Eonwë-(Valar). Love, Light, Hope... Sleep.
[5:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:03 PMVarda: We are about to enter...marathon time!
[5:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:03 PMVarda: So many great stories by Eonwe. Be sure to check them out!
[5:03 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:03 PMVarda: gavel drops its book on the hammerpad by accident as it looks up
[5:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: thonk
[5:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: the hammerpad returns the book, asking that it be read aloud
[5:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: After-meeting!
[5:04 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:04 PMVarda: Official Marathon chat!
[5:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:05 PMSandalf13: And I have a guest to attend to...unfortunately, she shares not my passion for the LoTR, so she is watching some football games on TV...I suspect I should be a better host. Namarie for now, and I shall try to return later...we will be heading out for dinner tonight with one of the folks who hiked Comanche Peak with me 5 weeks ago...wow...was it that long already? I am still sore! Anthony like Qdoba, so that is probably where we will go...
[5:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:05 PMEönwë Valar: Have fun :}
[5:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:05 PMVarda: Namarie and have a great evening! May Icy Hot come to your aid.
[5:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:05 PMSandalf13: Thanks!
[5:05 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:05 PMEönwë Valar: Or Hot Ice.
[5:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:06 PMArien Valar: Not tonight i fear .. i still am an od woman used to going to bed early even though i have holidays and we are in germany from thursday onwards
[5:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:06 PMArien Valar: ffor a week
[5:06 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:06 PMEönwë Valar: YouTube - Rookie Of The Year - Hot Ice Scene (The 3 R's)
[5:07 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:07 PMArien Valar: so i cant attend next sunday i fear ... except maybe a wave hi on discord
[5:08 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:08 PMEönwë Valar: Sleep well Arien and feel free to say hi during the week :}
[5:08 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:08 PMEönwë Valar: If you can :}
[5:08 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:08 PMArien Valar: will do
[5:08 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:08 PMArien Valar: Namarie
[5:12 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:12 PMVarda: Namarie
[5:13 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:13 PMEönwë Valar: I must be off as well, but I leave this for the start of the Chat Marathon: YouTube - The Greatest Adventure - The Hobbit Song
[5:14 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:14 PMVarda: aww thanks : )
[5:14 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:14 PMVarda: Just showing up and saying hi anytime this week contributes to the chat marathon. : )
[5:17 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:17 PMEönwë Valar: (Image of Aragorn slamming through the double doors.)
[5:18 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:18 PMEönwë Valar: Yep, come on in, just like that.
[5:18 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 5:18 PMVarda: That's the way to enter a place!
[7:08 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:08 PMXavier: Hihi !!!
[7:21 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:21 PMVarda: Aiya Xavier
[7:25 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:25 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Aiya, reading up.
[7:28 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:28 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Happy birthdays!
[7:32 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:32 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Ooh, that language tree looks interesting.
[7:33 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:33 PMAr-Pharazon-V: And appropriate for the anniversary theme!
[7:41 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:41 PMAr-Pharazon-V: hums Haradrian Nights
[7:48 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:48 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Caught up! Might as well hang around for the marathon, no need to shut down the pc until I leave home on tuesday
[7:48 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:48 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Spooky places that came to mind for me where Barrow Downs (already mentioned), Paths of the Dead, and Shelob's Lair.
[7:49 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:49 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Though the last one would be worse for my arachnaphobic father
[7:56 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 7:56 PMAr-Pharazon-V: YouTube - Prince and Princess - Aladdin - Arabian Nights for the earlier reference
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[8:14 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 8:14 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Yay, just got the new Direbrew mount
[8:18 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 8:18 PMAr-Pharazon-V: A brewfest mount like that... I'd usually assign to my brewfest-specialized alt, Calmoria...
[8:18 PM]Sunday, September 28, 2025 8:18 PMAr-Pharazon-V: but honestly, big puppy still looks best on her Edit Image with Apps September 29, 2025
[3:01 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 3:01 AMEönwë Valar:
[3:55 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 3:55 AMArien Valar: Morning Marahoners
[4:00 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 4:00 AMEönwë Valar:
[4:00 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 4:00 AMEönwë Valar: Morning :}
[5:22 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 5:22 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Morning Had some sleep as well, will do my Rumble session and then give a late report.
[5:58 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 5:58 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Personal gaming report:
[5:59 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 5:59 AMAr-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming, some older badges this week, but one I liked enough to play through it all again: Kongregate - Rogue Isles
[6:00 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:00 AMAr-Pharazon-V: A roguelite upgrade game with a bunch of connected islands. Hack through, unlock npcs to give you buffs at subsequent runs, loot gold, die, and buy upgrades for your basic stats, as well as armor and weapons. Dodge some attacks as well, and you'll be strong enough to take on the 3 bosses!
[6:01 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:01 AMAr-Pharazon-V: My advice: Focus on coin upgrades first, the more gold you get, the faster it'll go.
[6:03 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:03 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Blizzard gaming:
[6:07 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:07 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Hearthstone: Now at level 110 on the reward track. Almost Bilbo's birthday!
[6:08 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:08 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Chose Bonemantle Valeera as the reward tier class skin, for the rogue. Looked somewhat impressive, at least.
[6:08 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:08 AMAr-Pharazon-V: 5 still remain, but they're a bit meh.
[6:09 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:09 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Also got enough gold to buy a skin from the shop, and chose Secret Destiny Aranna for the demon hunter. Yay class skins!
[6:10 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:10 AMAr-Pharazon-V: As expected, a new quest event. Theme: Hallow's End. Rather surprising, since in WoW that's not for another month, but maybe they've got something else planned for then?
[6:12 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:12 AMAr-Pharazon-V: The three weekly quests revolve around: 1: undead, with zombies and deathrattles, 2: witch magic, focusing on spells and fire, and 3: vampirism, with healing and focusing on leeches. Seems appropriate enough.
[6:14 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:14 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Final rewards will be a random legendary and a warlock skin, but the warlock looks more like a demonic demon hunter. Apparently a blood elf who took the fel energy addiction a bit too far.
[6:15 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:15 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Brawl is Shadow Reflection: Build a deck of any size, the rest will be shadow reflections that copy the last card you play that turn.
[6:15 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:15 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Interesting balance is needed, since you need to play a normal card each turn before you're able to play the reflections, so you can't just stock up on them and go minimal cards.
[6:16 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:16 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Ended up with a druid imbue deck, with a legendary that buffs your imbue whenever you cast spells, along with some other imbue minions and some cheap spells to shadow reflect and buff the imbue further.
[6:16 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:16 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Worked often enough for me.
[6:18 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:18 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Warcraft Rumble: No new collection level yet, though a few more minis are leveling up and starting their final experience track.
[6:19 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:19 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Also got my last diamond slots for leaders through the Molten Core raid, and now I can start applying them to the normal mini slots. That'll take a while
[6:20 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:20 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Completed the pvp track, so that's done with for this season. Also got one more kill for the heroic sigil campaign, Ramstein the Gorger with horde.
[6:21 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:21 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Login reward track and darkmoon faire event are currently going as well, which will mean more gold and tomes!
[6:22 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:22 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Druid of the Claw and the Core Hounds are the ones that got a level this week. A few others are less than 10k away.
[6:23 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:23 AMAr-Pharazon-V: It mostly seems to be Cenarion minis that are leveling up. I think that's because they were running behind on stars, so when they show up in the grid I tend to put in a small xp booster with the purchase, of which I have plenty.
[6:23 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:23 AMAr-Pharazon-V: But that's fine, probably my favorite family anyway
[6:31 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:31 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Diablo 4: logged in for a moment to claim the free cosmetics from the starcraft crossover. Free stuff, always good! Some emblems, some weapons. The zerg crossbow looks interesting.
[6:32 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:32 AMAr-Pharazon-V: They also have Starcraft Legend skins for the classes for sale, but I'm not spending that amount of money on them. Also, as a druid main that'd be some sort of infested Tychus, and getting Tychus as a druid just feels a bit insulting
[6:32 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:32 AMAr-Pharazon-V: WoW: 6:33 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:33 AMAr-Pharazon-V: More raiding! Taking the shortened version of normal raid now, just killing the last 2 bosses, and focusing on heroic after that. We got the first 6 bosses down on heroic, and working on nr 7 now.
[6:34 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:34 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Hitting a bit of a gear wall, so I could use some heroic loot. I'm at the season maximum for this week with some crests as well, which is a first for me. Where am I getting all this stuff?
[6:37 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:37 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Anyway, got enough renown with the raid faction to grab a new mount and pet. Vandal's Gearglider just seems to be a new skin of that disc mount, but Zo'ya the broker-like cat thing (Purrkin) is pretty good! Big for a cat pet, though.
[6:38 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:38 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I put him on the pilfered sweeper (roomba) toy that all cat pets gravitate to, and it just dwarfed the thing while sitting on it.
[6:38 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:38 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Weekly quest is timewalks this week, which I've gotten a few done of. Will get the last one on tuesday. If it's just normal raid reward, I doubt it'll be useful for me though.
[6:39 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:39 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And there's also a delves quest to get some done this week, so naturally I went for that as well. Indeed I have been doing plenty of delving this week.
[6:40 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:40 AMAr-Pharazon-V: Got ranks 6 and 7 on the delver's journey, unlocking the Quad Glider customization for the delve mount as well as a void color scheme. Also got Brann from level 95 to 99, so he's almost maxed.
[6:43 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:43 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I think my undercoins are well over halfway as well for the new cosmetics this season, but the last target will be the flickergates achievement, as I'm at about a third of the 100 needed. I'm pretty sure one spawns each delve, though, at least at high tier. If they do at lower tiers as well, I might spam lower tiers at the end to get the remaining gates after my other delve goals are complete.
[6:44 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:44 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And finally... Brewfest. So much Brewfest.
[6:44 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:44 AMAr-Pharazon-V: 3200 tokens are needed for all the new cosmetics this year, and there's also 2 mog sets to be gotten from an hourly cooperation and boss event at Brewfest, as well as a new mount from the dungeon boss.
[6:45 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:45 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I've been doing the event 3 times a day, the dungeon boss once a day, and the initial quests and daily quests with 5 characters every day.
[6:46 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:46 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I also used to do the daily keg run with each of them, about 10 minutes each of focused riding and shortcuts to get up to 30 tokens per run. So when I realized I could get tokens from the barrels in inns all over Dragon Isles and Khaz Algar with multiple characters instead, I dropped the keg runs.
[6:49 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:49 AMAr-Pharazon-V: After 6 days out of 16, I'm now at 2000 tokens, after visiting the barrels with my main, and my two highest alts, the pandaria remix characters. 2 more rounds of barrels should be enough to get me to 3200 with just the dailies on the remaining days.
[6:50 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:50 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I did get some rewards though! Got the new Brewfest Bomber mount from the dungeon boss on my most recent visit, and a whole bunch of appearances from the event boss.
[6:52 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:52 AMAr-Pharazon-V: 4 out of 5 of the Dark Iron weapons from the epic reward bag, along with some duplicates which I shared out to some other players present, and from the blue reward bag I got the full Brewer's Basic mog set and half of the Brewer's Blue mog set. No duplicates there, so I wonder if you can only get those you don't have yet. In any case, 2 pieces to go from that set, so I have good hopes.
[6:53 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:53 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for this week!
[6:54 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:54 AMAr-Pharazon-V: I've also started my anniversary drawing. Not gotten too far yet, but at least I have a clear picture of what I want it to look like now.
[6:55 AM]Monday, September 29, 2025 6:55 AMAr-Pharazon-V: And now I say Namarie, though I will remain in the room for the marathon, but I do have some other things to take care of, like a bit more sleep
[12:53 PM]Monday, September 29, 2025 12:53 PMArien Valar: oof , enough of an afternoon deboxing , sorting through and sorting rubbish on a positive note: I have found my Gollum statuette and the remaining lost Tokien books
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[12:54 PM]Monday, September 29, 2025 12:54 PMArien Valar: but was also amazed on what i still have and collected over the time
[12:54 PM]Monday, September 29, 2025 12:54 PMAr-Pharazon-V: Gollum was hoarding the precious books.
[12:54 PM]Monday, September 29, 2025 12:54 PMArien Valar: aye probably hehe
[12:54 PM]Monday, September 29, 2025 12:54 PMArien Valar: precioussss