EverQuest Nostalgia

Before I was the blue-skinned beauty I am today, I was pretty into EQ. I played mostly shorties 🙂 Etha, second from right, a 66 druid, was my first EQ character. She joined United Norrath Coalition at 19, and grew to be the raid officer of that guild, back when the planes of Fear and … Read more

A Trip to Darnassus

I’m building up my leatherworking and I need LOTS of leather. Wetlands seemed like a good place, so I went to the excavation site and decided to thin the raptor population. Sometimes a night elf would come up to me and say something. It took me awhile, but I finally realized from the way they … Read more

Nationstates Update

My economy was crumbling, people were unhappy: I had to make deals with big business. My utopian vision of a Dryroot where free peoples sustain themselves in small, nomadic communities became a relic that had to be abandoned. The environment is still wonky, led, I suspect, by pollution from nearby industrial nations, but I will … Read more

Ventrilo Wine

Prosthetic Feet will require Ventrilo for major raids from now on. So, my challenge is to get this working with Linux. I used to use Cedega, but that stopped working for me. It was one of the many oddities I faced with Ubuntu. It worked, then it stopped working. Nothing I did could make it … Read more

WoW update

Kanda turned 60 a few weeks ago, but I didn’t post about it until now. There’s the Truefaith Vestments that took ages to make. Those shoulders are Devout Mantle, part of the tier 1 priest set. I have the gloves, bracers and boots for that set, but another guildie has the robe, and those shoulders … Read more