Hearts for Atlas: To day, Are you open kiku?

I promised Atlas hearts and smiles when he finally began working. Got all the email issues sorted, wrote workarounds so the salespeople could still read their email and I am being very careful with him. He’s earned his name; he really does have the whole world on his shoulders. The security guard didn’t like the … Read more

RL: Raid on ABAC.com

(I wanted to head this rant with a picture of my trusty little mail server, Atlas, but he and I are not speaking at the moment, and the digital camera was out of power. So for no real reason, a gratuitous picture of Dina as a Square-Enix heroine.) About two weeks ago, our email provider, … Read more

EQ2: Waiting for Godot

The English Lit nerd in me wanted to try an experiment… What would a play be like if it were performed in EQ2? I wrote up the first scene of “Two Gentlement from Firiona”, but found a lot of Shakespeare’s puns and wordplay didn’t work in text. Shakespeare is too complicated, anyway. I chose to … Read more

EQ1: Hatchet the Torturer Dead, Ding! 75

Oh yeah, we killed Hatchet first try tonight. I got some new boots, Boots of the Fallen Saint! On to the last boss in Tier 1 of the Demiplane of Blood, Redfang, soon. Got an invite to an Icefall group just as I was camping, so I guess I’ll be trying for 75 tonight after … Read more

EQ1: Hatchet, Serpent’s Spine, and the Path to 75

It’s a pretty small community of EQ2 bloggers; I think we all know each other by now. But there’s no community of bloggers for the original EverQuest. Sure, Mobhunter is still going, and guilds still do their updates… but for the real bloggishness of someone detailing their character’s travels and travails through the game that … Read more