Come for the games, stay for the drama.
I finally got sick of the default skin for this blog, and after having skinned the Prophetic Fate version successfully, decided to go for a new look here. I had this vision of an illuminated (like monks used to do) title against parchment. So step one was: make a nice parchment texture. So what is … Read more
Yes, Dryroot has become a nation of Dance Dance Revolution fanatics… Dryroot has left the South Pacific and joined a Germanic region with left-leaning politics. I THINK DDR stands for “Deutsche Demokratische Republik”, but that is probably a) not what it stands for, and b) poorly spelled. Nonetheless, it’s a small region where I can … Read more
After two delays and controversy over the plutonium shipped along with the probe, New Horizons lifted off today on the first leg of its ten-year trip to Pluto, Charon (pronounced SHAHR-ON I found out this morning, not KARE-on, as I’d pronounced it), and the two smaller moons recently discovered. Nine hours from the Earth to … Read more
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
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