I was floored when Pilotman told me that Curt Schilling’s in-game avatar was in fact still in the game, on the Thundering Steppes docks. I journeyed out to visit with him and talked with him a bit about politics, giggling goblins and his plans for the future.
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Green Monster Games and Other Ramblings
On the news that Green Monster Games is continuing to drain people from SOE, I have to wonder just what happened to Curt Schillings’ avatar within EQ2. It was supposed to be put in game somewhere after the ALS promotion ended… My guess? In a dark, secret room somewhere that players never see, Curt Schilling’s avatar is killed over and over by a horde of giggling goblins while the manacled avatars of Blackguard and Moorgard watch helplessly.
EQ2: Of Interagents, Vindicators and Glowy Things
I’ve done the D’Vinn’s Throne Room instance (a level 30-35 instance within Crushbone Keep that starts the plot completed in the 60ish instance Acadechism) a couple of times, but didn’t get a chance to get a good picture of Vindicator Crush when he arrives at the call of Emperor D’Vinn. Because I’ve been healing it with my defiler, Etha, and when you’re healing, in EQ2 as in all other MMOs in which I’ve healed, all you see is health bars.
EQ2: Five “Easy” Alternate-Rules Zones
The alternate planes of existence haven’t been opened yet in EverQuest 2. In EQ1, there was really no difference in the planes from any other zone, aside from there being a god or goddess lurking about. Some of them erased your levitation buff. Plane of Water (and Kedge Keep) required you had a water-breathing buff … Read more
EQ2: Staff of the Observers and Robe of the Oracle
Because sometimes I go to a restaurant, or a home, or a dank dungeon, that are without proper lighting fixtures, I now carry my own. That’s the Lumen 1000 Floor Lamp with Variable Bulb strapped to my back. And hello, I’m Reddy Kilowatt. Glad to meet ya. It’s got to be either a lamp or … Read more