If Propaganda Could Win the War, The Goons Would Prevail Tomorrow January 27, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EVE Online.Tags: Null Sec, Raiden
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But this is EVE Online, so we will have to do it with a huge blob of ships.
Yes, there was a lull for a bit in Deklein.
I spent the last week or so training up skills so that I might be able to do more than fly and wave with my alpha fleet ships. I think I can actually shoot the guns on my tech II fit welp fleet Hurricane now. There was a corp day where taxes were set to 100% and we all went out and ratted or mined to help the corp financial situation. And, frankly, I spent most of my gaming time over the week playing Rift.
Our corner of null sec seemed settled. (Map from the usual source.)
The Calm in Deklein and Branch
The biggest change for us was that TNT’s tiny spot on the map changed from purple to magenta.
But this appears to be truly a lull, a bit of phoney war between engagements. The war is not over. Jabber is lighting up calling the faithful for operations. Alpha fleets are forming up and I have to get my Maelstrom ready again.
And the latest post from Endie, the Goonswarm minister of propaganda has been made public. This is totally worth reading for a look at the situation from the Deklein Coalition side of things. Titled GoonSwarm Alliance Update – Vernichtungskrieg: War of Extermination, it opens up with a bit of history.
Once every year, on average, someone tries to destroy Goonswarm. In 2006 it was Lotka Volterra and in 2007 it was Band of Brothers. In 2008 and 2009 it was BoB in various guises, Against All Authorities, Atlas and Red Overlord. In 2010 it was, well, Goonswarm. In 2011 it was basically everyone in the Assault on Precinct VFK. Now, this year’s attack has come a little early.
And then it goes on to mock our foes, their tactics, machinations and motivations. It is humorous though perhaps not suitable for all ages.
Secret Raiden Plan Revealed
But the report wraps up with a call to arms for the Goons and their allies. A call to have alpha fleet ships positioned. A call to be ready to convoy back through the trail of tears if you get popped so we can continue to bring the fight to the enemy.
So far the only report I have seen is that we managed to take down a Nyx. This happened while I was at work, as usual. But there is already a video of the kill up on YouTube. [Addendum: Battle summary here.]
Hopefully I can get on and get into a fleet some time this weekend.
Meanwhile, I suspect that Hulkageddon V will be further delayed.
Now where did I leave that Maelstrom?
Items from the Mail Bag – Druken Home Theater Install Edition January 26, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in blog thing, entertainment, Mail Bag.Tags: Lord of Ultima, Namaste, Storybricks
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This column, while I try to do it regularly once a month, is really an event driven item. Generally it only occurs to me to write it when I either don’t feel like writing anything (when you have nothing to say, let somebody else say it for you I guess) or when somebody sends me something so ridiculous that I am compelled to put one in the “mail bag” category.
This month, it is the latter condition. So this month we’ll start off with the grand prize and then taper off into obscure stuff so the whole post will seem like a let down by the time you get to the end.
Sorry in advance to the focus of the end story.
Where DUI Meets Home Theater
I am no stranger to the sponsored blog post offer, but this one this one seemed to deliver a new twist.
I’d like to inquire about doing a sponsored blog post – about 150-300 words that talks a little bit about DUI law and links back to our site [redacted]. We provide premier Custom Design, Engineering and Installation for home theater and I thought we might be a good fit for your readers/visitors on tagn.wordpress.com.
That’s correct, we are speaking of a post about DUI law that links back to a custom home theater which would be a perfect fit for an online gaming blog.
So is that the best breathalyzer you sell?
(Apologies to McIntosh Labs, makers of completely awesome high end audio equipment which does not in anyway endorse this blog post or, I am going to guess, the selling of home audio equipment via blog posts about DUI law. But I am pretty sure that if they did make breathalyzers, they would be the best you could get.)
But this custom home theater site does have a budget for this sort of placement thing.
Our budget is around $15 for the post. Is this something you’d be open to?
Also we might be interested in a small banner ad if the price is right.
Our budget is $40/year
Woo hoo! That will get me a case of Lucky Lager and some pretzels to go with! I just love the puzzles in the cap.
I’m sorry, but at one point I was getting like $22 a month per link to put URLs in my side bar from a company trying to game Google Page Rank. (It was $30 a month when I was page rank 5, but I fell down to 4.) Granted, they stopped returning my calls after a while, but while it lasted that fat PayPal payment spoiled me and now I won’t even get out of bed for less that $10.
Still, if this sounds like a deal to you, I can put in a good word.
Also if you have some other sites just send them over and we might be interested in doing a sponsored post on there as well!
Just drop me a note and we’ll talk!
More Press Releases!
Laura at Cision US, Inc. dropped me a note to tell me that my blog has caught their attention and they are adding it to their database. I will be henceforth known and listed by them as:
Mr. Wilhelm Arcturus, Blogger of the Computers & Video Games Beat.
That is almost validation of my existence. And I love to get press releases!
Thanks Laura!
I’ll have to send her a thank you note.
Treasure Awaits, My Lord!
Lord of Ultima sends me a note reminding me that I have a daily prize waiting for me if I fail to log on for a week or so. That always prompts me to actually log on, collect my prize, check what has happened to my empire, which is generally nothing.
Still, this seems to be working for me. I have moved from around 350th place in the rankings to about 200th place by doing nothing. I play on world 31 which is a truncated world with extra small landmasses, so basically about three weeks into the game all available room to build on was taken. Since then the game has been a matter of waiting for people to give up so you can take over their abandoned towns and castles. This has been going on for somethings like six months! Whee, a hell of a ride! I’m sooo drunk!
Gamingo-go-go!
The Gamingo PR Team sends me lots of press releases about their browser based games. They just aren’t all that interesting to me. None of them would warrant a post by themselves. But since they are so nice and persistent and no doubt live for the days when I deign to acknowledge their existence, and never use DUI laws as a troll for links, here is a list of the games they mentioned to me in January.
It Is So Komplex!
Ioana Buliga, a musical name if ever there was one, wanted to let me know about her company, Lucid Philosophy, and their new free to play browser based game, TwinKomplex. Probably the coolest thing about them is that there offices are in the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. I am tempted to sing “Ten Tons to Templehof” and other songs of the airlift, which I learned in my mis-spent youth. Don’t ask.
Simply Unpronounceable
The site… or company… the email isn’t clear… named Gamelosophers wants me to be a partner in… something. DUI legislation maybe? All I know is that they are from Amsterdam and that they need a new name. Really. I once worked for a company called “Smarketing,” so I know.
Oh, and make your damn URL resolve correctly without the “www” prefix. Amateurs, I swear!
Amplify This
Emma with Amplified Media has… well… something coherent and possibly true to say about the site that implies that she or somebody at her company might have actually visited.
We love your collection of thoughts and stories on the world of online gaming. Your insights on the gaming highs and lows of 2011 was a great end-of-year piece.
If nothing else, that actually makes this email stand out from many of the others than don’t even get posted with a DUI reference. I might have to respond to that one and find out what opportunities Amplified Media has in mind.
Always End With Namaste
Kelly Heckman, Community Manager and Cat Herder for Namaste Entertainment wants me to know beta is still coming up and that they have forums now so they can answer all of your Storybricks questions.
And, judging from the side bar, they might be at GDC or something. I’m not sure I will make it to GDC this year. The usual source of Expo passes for Potshot and myself, Darren, seems to have gone off MMOs completely. Instead he is all philosophical these days and is, if I understand it right, about to launch an offensive on the Twilight franchise.
Hey, this last entry wasn’t such a let down after all, now was it?
Anyway, until next month, respect the mail bag!
Struggle in the Darkening Deeps January 26, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Instance Group, Rift.Tags: Darkening Deeps
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We were in Meridian again on Saturday night and primed for a dungeon. Last week was about moving the guild, travel, and a quick level. This week it was back to business. The lineup was:
- Jollyreaper level 23 mage
- Earlthecat level 23 warrior
- Zahihawass level 23 cleric
- Gizalia level 23 mage
- Hillmar level 23 cleric
We stayed in town just long enough to admire the locals while somebody assigned their unused soul points. Clearly, OCD is not a common group trait.
That guy again... with the hat...
Once soul points were assigned and we had sufficiently discussed how that unicorn mount looks like a paper cut-out, it was time to go.
LFG take us away!
The destination was the Darkening Deeps, which was way over in Guardian territory. So we decided to skip the overland travel attempt. That was probably a good thing.
More after the cut, including spoilers about certain fights. You’ve been warned.
Blizzard too Busy for BlizzCon? January 25, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in Blizzard, World of Warcraft.Tags: BlizzCon
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Reading that Blizzard won’t be holding BlizzCon this year brought up some mixed feelings.
On the one hand, aside from news and insight into Blizzard’s games and process, there isn’t much at BlizzCon for me. At this point the dance contest is the same old dances… and sometimes the same old contestants… every year. And the costume contest is neat but… well… if you are into it, cos-play pictures are half the reason to put Kotaku in your RSS reader.
But that is just my view. I try not to be one of those self-absorbed people who thinks that if Blizzard doesn’t have a big BlizzCon announcement to entertain me, they should just fold up their tents and go home.
BlizzCon is more than just a vehicle for announcements. It is a community event. And it is a hugely popular event. Tickets sell out like it was Madonna… or somebody popular if Madonna no longer fits that bill. 25,000 fans gather together in Anaheim, California and celebrate all things Blizzard. Or most things Blizzard. I heard that the Lost Vikings fan base finally gave up on their revival hopes.
And in that way, as a community event, it is on par with SOE’s Fan Faire and CCP’s Fanfest. It is a chance to bring your biggest fans together to geek out on the minutia of the game and let them interact with the teams that bring them the games they love. It can be an important and memorable experience for everybody involved.
But it is an expensive event, both in time and money. And while Blizzard has money, time is clearly something on which they are running a deficit. They have been quiet on Titan for how long? When did they last release a Diablo game? Can they afford to keep WoW on an 18-24 month expansion cycle?
And getting teams together to give presentations as well as just having a critical mass of your teams available to interact with fans can take big chunks out of your already mythical man months of development and testing.
I suppose we might be able to gauge whether time is their real issue by how far overboard they go with their April Fools jokes this year. Not that the such things directly impact the same people, but part of saying you’re too busy for something is showing that you mean it.
Why do you think Blizzard is blowing off BlizzCon this year? Are they really too busy with all their projects or is this a subtle sign that the next Modern Warfare title is already slipping and Bobby Kotick needs Blizzard to make up even more of a revenue shortfall on the Activision side of the house?
Next Stop in Middle-earth: Rohan January 25, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Lord of the Rings Online.Tags: Riders of Rohan
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File under “when am I going to find the time?”
Turbine announced the next point of expansion for Lord of the Rings Online. Players will be headed through the gap and into the fields of Rohan.
So far, Syp over at Massively has the best write up about the expansion I have seen so far.
Despite LOTRO not being in my currently play rotation, I am a lifetime subscriber (which seems like the best deal ever nearly five years down the line) and do peek in now and again.
And because Turbine always offers some pretty nifty pre-order incentives, I am sure I will buy the expansion despite the fact that my highest level character is still in the Mines of Moria, having only arrived there this past August. That just leaves the Mirkwood and Isengard expansions between me and Rohan.
It seems unlikely that I will catch up, but I am still excited about the new expansion. I look forward to more details.
Let’s just hope Turbine can stay away from the crazy mounts addiction that SOE has. It turns out that 25% of EQ2′s revenue is from mounts, so they are never going to slow down.
You Don’t Have to Drink to Play EverQuest… But It Helps… January 23, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EverQuest, Humor.Tags: Cocktails in Qeynos, eBay
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I was following up some bad idea that involved comparing the number of eBay auctions posted for various MMORPGs… primarily SWTOR and WoW… and the type of items listed when I felt I just had to throw EverQuest into the mix.
EverQuest turned up 755 items, though you get anything related to EverQuest II as well, including one odd item on the first page, an EverQuest Players cocktail shaker.
Makes the elixir that'll fix yer problems...
You can see the auction here while it lasts.
My first question… as when I saw EverQuest Zippo lighters or that Free Realms suggie thing (one company’s April Fools is another’s reality)… was “Why?”
Why can't I get one in game?
Who would make an EverQuest Players cocktail shaker? Was it created in celebration of something? A game milestone? An expansion launch? An admission that most of the community team had fallen off the wagon yet again? (Which I am pretty sure was when that snuggie idea came up.)
Unfortunately, the description on eBay is not very forthcoming.
Everquest Cocktail Shaker Set.
Items are made of metal – the Shaker says “EverQust Players” on it.
No other writing can be found on any of the items – no paperwork is included neither (I do not think it had any).
Item comes in a black box with foam molded to support and protect it.
CONDITION – New, but Box has Damage. Please see pictures. The items are in excellent shape, they were never used and were for the most part kept inside the box and protected. The bottom of the box is in good shape, but I do see the box has a very small dent near a corner, but the top part of the box is the worst of it, it has a blown out corner. Otherwise, this lot is a good one, the metal cocktail set is in unused, new condition.. it’s just the box that is questionable.
Glad to know it is made of metal I suppose, but I wonder what the story behind this particular metal vessel really is.
Anyway, if you are a real EverQuest die hard, you have six more days to bid!
(And shiny though this item is, the listing appears mercifully free of reflecto-porn.)
What Google Has Been Telling Me Lately – Spaceship Edition January 23, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in blog thing, entertainment, EVE Online.Tags: Civilization II, Google, Star Wars Galaxies
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Nobody at Google actually tells me anything… except that they seem hell bent on redesigning their UI across all of their apps so that they all match Google+. I am, frankly, not a fan.
But indirectly Google tells me things via the search results that get directed here.
Sometimes that can be viewed as just a message about the search terms in which this site ranks highly. Often those are the very obvious. Variations of the name of the blog tend to send people here.
And odd mash-ups of past topics also show up from which I am sure I could build my own version of The Road to Popehat. (Which I sort of do in my monthly summary most months.) I think searches like “Tom of Finland Harry Potter” would certainly get me started, as does “one does not simply cat tank into mordor.”
Some of these searches can be oddly specific, such as “swtor email in use,” which I am sure is somehow related to account creation.
But sometimes my site ends up not only ranking high in a search, but that search is apparently at least mildly popular. And from those I can derive different, more specific messages from Google. Currently Google is sending my three such messages. They are:
When is Hulkageddon V Already?
Easily the most popular search terms bringing people here revolve around Hulkageddon V.
People want to know when!
Hulkageddon is a player event in EVE Online when some players get together and blow up the ships of other players who, for the most part, would rather their ships not be blown up.
I put up a post about this right after the event was announced back in early November. At the time it contained all the information available and a link to the forum thread where future information would be posted. Two and a half months later, the post still has all the information available, and people seem to be getting impatient about it.
Of course I cannot tell if the people searching seek to actively participate in Hulkageddon V or if they just want a heads up so they can take an in-station skills break while it goes on, but there is clearly some desire out there for more information.
People Still Want to Play Star Wars Galaxies
Search terms around SWG emulation started showing up regularly the day after SWG went dark.
Connection to SWG Lost... Forever
These terms bring people to a post I did about SWG emulators that are out there.
All I can really say is that there is clearly some interest out there. The fact that such searches have been going up noticeably as the first month of SWTOR draws to a close might be a message, but the sample size is so small that any conclusions would be unsupported.
Civilization II is Still Popular
I do not appear to be alone in my love of Civilization II.
A simpler time...
Back in October I finished up my tale about getting Civilization II to run on 64-bit Windows 7. Things were quiet after that, but around mid-December there was a spike in searches on the subject, and Google has been delivering people here based on Civ and Windows 7 based search terms ever since.
Does This Mean Anything?
Probably only that there are a few people out there interested in a couple of topics about which I have written. Google sends between 600 and 1000 people to the site based on search results. These three just stand out in that variations on these terms have topped this list for the last month or more, and have kept those three posts on the Top Posts list on the side bar. That list is usually just the home of what I wrote over the last week, that post about the guild name generator, and various Pokemon related posts. People love their Pokemon.
Anyway, that is my read on what Google has been telling me of late.
The Annual LEGO Minifigure Round Up January 22, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, lego.Tags: Minifigures
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As happened last year, the new year seemed to be about the right time to try and round up all our LEGO minifigures and put them back into their original configuration.
That first means finding them all… and all their various parts. That gets tougher every year.
Laying out the minifigures
I tend to leave the minifigures in their initial forms. My daughter and a few of her friends however, like to take them apart to mix and match. And then loose pieces go missing, largely thanks to one of our cats who also loves LEGO.
Still, I think I got a lot of them back together.
Indiana Jones minifigures
Star Wars minifigures
Harry Potter, Speed Racer, and more...
So they are… mostly… back together and into their various storage drawers waiting to be taken out and rearranged again over the course of the year.
Who Drives Cash Shop Content… January 20, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in Dungeons & Dragons Online, entertainment, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, World of Tanks.Tags: Cash Shop, RMT, There is a point in here somewhere
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I was somewhat bemused at SOE introducing wings as a flying mount in EverQuest II.
I have such a long history of bemusement with SOE on that front. I have literally been complaining since the Desert of Flames expansion… the very first expansion… introduced lying carpets as a mount. I have posts more than five years old on the subject at this point.
So many things wrong with this picture...
And while the flying carpets still bug me a bit, I have gotten over them for the most part. Though the reason I have gotten over them is because much worse has come since.
The setup to a "frog in a blender" joke
And while ugly mounts pre-date the Station Cash store, the whole drive of mount mania… mounts with stats, hideously ugly mounts, hovering mounts, flying mounts, leaping mounts, gliding mounts, and now wings as mounts… seems to have been accelerating ever since the store went live.
As Raph Koster pointed out in his recent post on the free to play model, the ongoing process of buying decisions by the free to play players acts as a safety valve to keep the company from doing anything the comes across as too greedy.
The flip side though is that the cash shop, being an essential part of the revenue model, will have a sales quota to meet because people won’t buy your RMT currency if they cannot buy anything cool with it. You need a plan for every month, every quarter, and every year that lays out your sales goals and how you plan to get there.
It is nice if you can sell consumables, things that boost experience or faction gain. But if you’ve already drastically softened the leveling curve and handed out dozens of experience boost potions as veteran rewards in you game (I have even more unused potions sitting around now that all my characters are six year vets) that might not be enough. I am sure SOE sells some of those potions (though they seem a bit pricey for a consumable), but I am far more likely to buy a deed accelerator in LOTRO since deed are still grind-tastic and I do not have a pile of them already.
An expansion is nice to have, though I bet the cash shop only gets partial credit on those sales.
You can always juice things up a bit by having a sale on your RMT currency. The thought of everything in the store essentially being half off will get some people to buy, but only if there is something they want in the first place.
And on the flip side, you can always put things on the store on sale as well. We all read that splash screen that comes up with the latest sale items in detail every time we log in, right? Okay, maybe not. And most people won’t buy something they didn’t already want even if it goes on deep discount.
All of which has to lead the cash shop planners to focus on what people have bought in the past. What was a success before? Just looking around on the Freeport server, I am going to have to say that mounts have sold well in the past.
And if mounts were a success in the past, that is a big incentive to make more. And while there are no doubt people out there who will buy any new mount just to collect them all… and I speak as somebody whose main in WoW has 87 mounts… a lot more people will buy in if the latest mount is cooler than, or at least different from, anything that has gone before.
And so, as tough as it is for me to admit, wings on your character as a flying mount do seem cooler than just a flying mount. I am sure that sales will be brisk, and not just with people who name their characters something like “Stabzudead.”
So that will cover some part of sales quota. But eventually sales will slow and, to repeat that success, SOE will have to top the whole wings thing. And so the chain of events that lead us to wings goes on, and something new and more outrageous will likely replace it.
And so it is. Due to its success, we will likely see something in World of Tanks that will top the Type 59. And, if they sell well, I am sure that LOTRO will offer us more gear with stats.
Raph Koster was certainly correct in the summary at the end of his post in saying, “Free to play is not evil, it’s just different.”
It is just different, and one of the differences is who and what matters when a cash shop is part of the plan. If goofy stuff sells in your game, be prepared to see a lot more of it.
Meanwhile, I wonder what will come after those wings in the Station Cash store.
The Trip to Shatterbone and Stonefield January 19, 2012
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Instance Group, Rift.Tags: Stonefield
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As I reported last week, our server is being declared a “trial server.” We were being asked to leave Alsbeth. A server merge by any other name….
So when Saturday came around, it found Potshot, Earl, and I online in the afternoon, so we had some time to talk about the transfer.
We decided to go with Shatterbone, if only because the “saved you a spot” message gave us a glimmer of hope that there would be less likelihood of issues. And if there were issues, I would at least get a blog post out of “what do they mean when they say they have ‘saved you a spot?’”
I changed the guild message of the day announcing where we were going and then, because we had time and wanted to face any issues early on, Potshot, whose character Zahihawass is the guild leader, transferred his character and the guild over to Shatterbone.
And it worked. Only, we suddenly found that those of us remaining on Alsbeth lacked a guild channel. And the guild MotD went with the guild as well. Kind of a “well duh” moment, but now we were committed.
At this point, 4 out of 5 of us had the news where we were going, so we started transferring characters over. The transfer worked, and when we logged into Shatterbone, we were reunited with the guild. We kept our progress with the current guild quest and, aside from the fact that we all had to have our ranks restored to their previous level, there was little to do once we were over.
The Guild Log Shows Transfers
I left Hillmar behind on Alsbeth to watch for Jollyreaper when he showed up. When he did, I gave him the quick run down and we were both over on Shatterbone in a couple of minutes.
I did end up having to leave a character behind. I had one level 7 alt who did not meet the minimum level requirements for a transfer. I will probably just delete him, as I understand that the Trial Server conversion will leave him stuck in Meridian unable to do anything.
Anyway, we all ended up together on Shatterbone on Saturday night. Potshot decided to swap out his rogue, Hakawati, for his DPS cleric, Zahihawass in the group mix. I suspect this was because we had finally learned how to spell and pronounce “Hakawati.” So the line up for the night was:
- Jollyreaper level 22 mage
- Earlthecat level 22 warrior
- Zahihawass level 22 cleric
- Gizalia level 22 mage
- Hillmar level 21 cleric
Potshot had proposed a master plan for the group to help us see more of the world. We were going to try to travel overland to enter dungeons going forward, unless we were unable to get to them at out level. So, for example, last week’s trip to the Iron Tomb was overland. But before that, the Realm of the Fae was way over on the guardian side of the world and there was no way we were going to be able to get there without a serious, and probably all night, effort.
In furtherance of that, and because we were right at the lowest level for the next instance, we decided to make the night a travel and explore night.
The goals were modest. Travel to the main encampment in Stonefield, Granite Falls, which would put us in the general area of our next overland dungeon trip, the Deepstrike Mine, and then run around, close a couple of rifts and do a few quests as a group to get us all another level before we attempted Darkening Deeps, the next instance on the list, though one to which travel probably won’t be an option.
The travel portion was not a big deal. Most of us had been there before, though I hadn’t been back since they added in the new travel portal.
Travel into Stonefield
We got to Granite Falls, grabbed the travel point and the local quests for closing rifts and killing rift creatures and then began to look around.
Welcome to Granite Falls
Rifts turned out to be few and far between. It was one of those nights when we really could have used a zone event, but the planar creatures seemed to be otherwise occupied. We knocked out one rift we found, but spent more time fighting the local flora and fauna that beings from other planes.
Dude, don't feed the trolls!
Finding the planar population rather lacking, we headed back to Granite Falls and picked up the quest chain that takes you through the graveyard and crypt just outside of town.
I’ve been through that quest line twice already, once solo and once as a duo with Potshot on other alts, and it is really one of those areas where being grouped is better than solo.
A group of five might have been major overkill, but there is no shortage of undead to slay down there. Getting everybody their last bit of grave moss was the only challenge. But we wanted to do something to maybe get us all another level and maybe a bit of fresh gear.
It is never a mystery when you level in Rift
After that, we dropped the quest line, popped another rift that showed up on the edge of town, then started talking about gear and currencies. It started with the planar gear vendor in Granite Falls and what to buy and where to get more planarite and the special stones for the purple gear. I think after that four out of five of us are now using the Rift Mobile app on our iOS devices to gather more planarite during the week. I know I do my scratchers before I go to work and when I get home every day.
Then we moved on to what to do with all those damn unique snowflakes in our bags, which lead us back to Meridian and the World Even Merchant.
Turn in Unique Snowflakes here
After which we were feeling about done for the evening. There was more discussions about gear and crafting and who was working on what and how much it was going to cost for a guild bank, but the actual adventuring portion of the evening was over.
So we should be leveled up, geared up, and lined up for another instance this coming weekend.
