Separated At Birth: Beatles Edition

With apologies to Potshot… Since we raid Freethinker’s Hideout every few days, I finally got around to doing some of the quests for that zone — Thermal Shocker to accurately judge the placement on the third named (when it just barely is in range to fire, you’re in the correct spot), and the Hand of … Read more

EQ2: Knights of the Round….

The sky over the Commonlands was the color of galvanized aluminum… Appearance armor: Pristine Melodic Xegonite with Nightchord hat. Much of this weekend and the last one was spent catching up to the guild on the Swords of Destiny quest. I made a mistake with the Claymore quest; I didn’t focus on it at the … Read more

Remembering Kunark

The Butcherblock shuttles with the ship to Kunark waiting offshore They don’t have boats in Everquest any more. I guess it’s faster to zip around the world via the Plane of Knowledge, or the translocator gnomes now. Back in the first couple of years of Everquest, you went from place to place in boats. I … Read more

EQ2: Fashion Challenged

I didn’t really want to wear a bathrobe everywhere. What I wanted were some clothes that said — hey! I’m a bard! Let’s have a sing-a-long! I needed some clothes nobody else would wear… and they had to look distinctive. I found a couple pieces of various trash sets — ‘woven engraved’ (all lower case) … Read more