Moon Fest Shenanigans: Happy Birthday, Kalley!

The entrance to the haunted house! Spooky!

It was Kalley's birthday, and all she wanted for her birthday was to play with her friends, so a big group got together and we hunted the World Boss Krayt for a bit (I joined a couple hours in, I'm not usually home from the barn till after the start time of most of the guild events.)

When we'd split the loot by some esoteric numbers lottery (and there was some great loot, too, plus I got like 65 processable hydros!) those of us who were still awake ran off to Kashyyyk for the Moon Fest stuff: there is a haunted house, a ghost attack, and riddles to solve, and as with so much else in life, it's way more fun with friends!

Boo, indeed!

The haunted house is filled with some amazing deco: some very spooky, creepy spaces: about as much scare factor as I ever want to deal with, but the decorator obviously had some fun! I ran around taking way too many screenshots, which I don't want to post here, so as to save some of the fun of discovery for the two people who may read this blog on the rare occasion.

The pumpkin patch in the lower floor of the haunted house.

Some of the Sith-O-Lanterns are interactable, and you have a chance of pulling out Galactic Moon Fest Coins, or ya might get a handful of slime, which gave me a good giggle the first time it happened. There are web-covered trees as well, that might net you some spider pheromone or just a nasty bite!

Probably the funniest part of the evening was finding an Ithorian  with a pumpkin hat on hiding in amidst the lanterns... that was hilarious! But even if he isn't there now, go, explore, it's fun!



After we hit the haunted house, we went and answered the riddle quest, which had a neat element of risk, that was fun, too: if you answered wrong, or were rude to the riddler, they'd summon a level 93 mob to put you in your place. Gotta love that kind of fun programming of the side-content.

Found the reward giver and got my pumpkin hat, which I have placed in my lab as deco, rather than wearing it. I hung it in the branches of the spooky tree I got as a reward for the Sayormi ghost raid. (Maybe if I had a particularly demon-horse mount, I'd try for a headless horseman look...hint hint, Gualara!)

So seeing that deco-ed house reminded me, there are just a couple things I really want added to the attainables list on Legends: the Gualaara, a Naboo critter from the Naturalist's Guide, that was added to the live game as a TCG reward mount: please please please make these mutateable! From Gualama, would make sense, but they are such cool-looking beasties...

And then, there's this...

I cannot tell you how much I have longed for a big, green rug like the ones the decorator used on the floor of this side room. From my first wander through Nym's Stronghold, on Lok, where I saw one hung on the wall as a tapestry... There are quite a few rugs that we as players cannot access in game, and it is immensely frustrating. I love that the dev team is adding new content and, Soon (tm), whole new worlds for us to play on and in, but can I beg a favour while you guys are at it: make some of these awesome, unachievable deco items available? The green rug, the striped pelt rug from the Collector's tents, the small runners, deco paintings and planetary tapestries we don't have... pretty please? With a blob candy on top?

Anyway, I had a great night running with the Chill bunch, and when I got back to my enclave, I pulled together a few lil gifts for our Guild Leader, as she is just the jam that holds this crazy cake together. I still haven't made her a Blackwing Rancor, but hopefully the two eggs I gave her will tide her over while I get back to work on it!

To Heck with Solo

Inspiration for the Moon Fest outfit.. Axkva is such a spiffy dresser.

Ran with the guild two nights in a row, as we are hitting my slow season at work (what do you mean no one wants to ride after dark from October to March, in the miserable, wet, freezing weather?) which means less in the bank for me, but tonnes more free-ish time.

So I jumped on board for a shorter Heroics run on Wednesday (yay more stat boosts: I've only run TK 4 times and all the rest twice, now. Lots more stat boosts to go!) and a really fun Mutant Rancor run last night: this is Witches of Dath content I had not gotten around to yet, and in a full, capable group it is not hard stuff to do. In addition, I got like 70 hydros of processing quality, and it was so fast. I want to grab a couple folks to run through that cave a few times a week: I would be able to supply not just myself but the processing market as well if I can make a habit of that.

The spiffy drop from the Mutant Rancor is a Nightsister Arm Guard and we saw three of them drop last night, in about 10 kills, which is pretty great odds. I scored one in the lottery, which was really nice, as I have been gearing up to make Aerys a spoopy new Witchy outfit for Moon Fest. :)

AV stands for Aerys' 'Vette. :)

I also hatched the Mooc I made last week while running around after the run: weird looking beastie, but so cute! Also finaly grabbed that deed for the AV-21 and gave Aerys her spiffy car back. If I ever needed proof that I am a car girl...

I have to find out which dev designed WoD and BM, because I wanted to remind them that they are great at what they do and that folks are still playing their content.  I kind of feel the artists who worked at SOE were never really given enough credit for their work.

Deco Demon

Osho looks so content, surrounded by all his toys and collectables...

I have finally been able to take some time and get a start on the deco work in the lab. I keep sending toon after toon out to break their banks and buy all the sweet deco items, and then just bagging them up and shrugging my shoulders: I'll get to it when I have some time.

It is really fulfilling to be able to get some of these spaces looking the way I imagined. :)

So I have a lot more to do, and spent too much money on components for the barn, but cannot bring myself to regret it. Eventually every house in my possession will be deco-ed up and pleasant to wander about in. It honestly was one huge regret after the game sunsetted: that I never did get all those spaces decked out.

What an inviting little lounge! Who knew the Wook was a social beast? 

Made a Borgax yesterday and a Whiskerback Widow today... if they sell, that should replenish the coffers nicely. Not that I am in any way worried about digital cash flow... got enough fretting about the real world creds to be arsed about SWG funds. It is an escape for me to blow creds in this game: yet another fine, completely statistically irrelevant example of how retail therapy does not need to involve real money to work!

I should go to bed. It's late... er, early...

Hydro Hunting and Humbugs

Not that I need to but I wanted to kill a little time tonight, and I can always use more hydros, so... it was fun. I got a full ent buff, grabbed a med buff and jumped to the Graveyard, outside of Grey Fox. On my way in, I checked to see if I still had admin on Erebus's house, and I do... I may randomly deco it at some point, just as a nice thing to do for him. :)

The hunt went well: not exactly challenging. I do miss running with a DPSer... /sigh. And the Graveyard is, pardon the pun absolutely dead, now that the World Boss Krayt is such a better place to farm hydro spawns (and DNA, now that I think about it... and learn specials...)

My list of stuff I gotta get on with is just getting longer, although, to be honest, it's more that I keep forgetting I wanted to do some things, and so they fall off and then get added back. It's dumb, especially considering how good I am at actually scribbling down the stuff, you would think it would stick in  my literary memory better, but no: if I don't write it out by hand, as soon as it leaves my finger tips, I forget. :P

Anywho. Partnered up with Bugly and we killed like 24 dragons, and timing was good: jjust as my energy started to flag, I finished the extractor and popped home to offload. I got a boom on second stage of Aerys' Kliknik. I will be finishing it with as high a muta as I can find: would love to make an Acklay as my first app mutation back in. :) We'll see. It has like 18 hours on it, at least.

I also gabbled a bit at my roomies about stuff. I wish to god I could get even one of them playing with me. :( I'm so lonely... :P not really, but... ya know, it would be fun to run with folks I actually know.

World Boss and Waste Beasts

Went for my first run with the Guild last Thursday. It was a revelation. I felt like such a noob, all over again. The bosses are super hard to kill, if your strategy is not solid or your comms are not optimal, you will die so many times... We managed to kill 2 of the Krayts, and I was really regretting not staying specced for BM Medic, as I would have loved some of the hydros off the ancient spawns... Ah well, I know for next time!

Aeys and Sliggy oggling the new Krayt Wold Boss. Sheesh. he's a big'un!

One of my guildies helped me a tonne getting my comms issues sorted (sort of) and then was up to helping me price out some of Hoggle's old space parts, which was very sweet of him. I might make a few creds here and there off the RE'd stuff. The saved other pieces are not even close to server max anymore, due to power creep, (more on that in a later blog) but I may use them to figure out how to craft for space (eventually, in the far future... and in my copious spare time..;. lol) Anyway, I had fun hanging and chatting with him and another fellow, but he said something that got a bit under my pecs, explaining why he didn't like a particular dude on the BM side of things, because he just bought his supplies, did not go out to harvest stuff, and I was like, um, and?

Like, how do we support the economy if we don't spend our creds? and how do we contribute to the awareness that enzymes and such are desireable without being willing to buy them? I am still pondering how bootstrapping it is the only valid playstyle: without a big, generous guild backing you, or a massive jumpstart like I got through Hoggle, how does anyone do it all by themselves? I am boggled, and also painfully reminded of this huge flaw in the American mindframe. I  did not choose to challenge that thought at the time, but it's still bugging me, so I very likely will have a convo with him soon about it.

So am over on Aerys buying DNA, partly because of that, and partly because I really need it: I have a lot of enzymes burning holes in my backpacks... :)

I'm concentrating on mutations, because I can: did more market research and am flat out appalled egg prices have sunk to where they are. Wanna make a billion in beast crafting, start with 2...  ah well, I spent more funds, I have 40 20s in stock and can afford to run through a few more experiments: I am nowhere near breaking the bank, even after spending 200 mill on deco.

I deaked on a bunch of stuff on Sunday: will have to make other plans later but not this week: prepping for a big event in the SCA this weekend, and another the next, and cramming in new students left and right (before they all fade into the cold drear of the fall/winter seasons). I will squeeze in a bit of play till Friday, but then am off for the weekend. Next week more of the same.

Reconnection

It has been a very long time since I checked back into game, and much longer since I updated this blog.

I am currently taking advantage of a rainy, lazy day to log back in and see how things are. While a new BM event is being planned for the end of this month, I am unfortunately booked to be away that weekend, and likely will be travelling during the hours the event is on. /sad

Anyway, I can make a few beasts in the mean time and load up a vendor or two. So popping in, I can see that the Corellian small city idea did not fly, so I moved my whole lot to just outside of Tyrena, near a wee river, and only a minute out from the shuttleport of west Tyrena and a lil Reb guild city called RUFF. It's not bad, and I'm still figuring out where I can put what to keep my BM workflow easy and logical. I also really would like to get the rooms and shops deco'ed the way I had always wanted. I grabbed a half used journal to set up as a game notes journal and as a basis for this blog, moving forward.

Need to blog my thoughts about cities and communities in the game, before too much time goes on.

More soon. :)

Galactic Moon Festival

I have long enjoyed the seasonal activities of the various festivals that were added to the game in the later years. I can't decide which of them I enjoy more, but it's always fun to wibble away at the daily tasks, and buy cool deco with the tokens.

While I have only been dabbling away at the game in the last couple of months, I did get logged in for a couple of hours last night and do the Trick or Treating. Today I fought a couple of the other waves of ghosts, in hopes to get one of the loot drop paintings. I wasn't successful, so I just ran off and did a couple of steps of one of the Wookiee quests in between. I paid some exhorbitant price to get a couple of the loot paintings, just to have them. :) I'll keep doing stuff, but I think I have the ones I want. :)

There is apparently a haunted house I still need to find, and do that stuff, and with this publish they also gave us another mutant, so I will be digging through my stuff and making some attempts at canines and equines. I need to remake Pwneh anyway. :)