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...