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Relaxing weekend and Aliens
Apr. 2nd, 2007 08:35 amThis weekend I got in some nice relaxing. I changed the litterbox, I cleaned up some of the godawful clutter that's threatening to take over the house. Tammy and I went to JoAnn fabric and bought containers, which she is going to use for beads and I'm using to hold little plastic fantasy figures for my D&D games. I got up to Black and Read, and dropped a fair bit of money on books about imaginary monsters for my D&D games, as well as a few other games (such as BESM 3rd edition) to read up on.
Sunday I was going to go to my Origami group, but I just sort of blew it off in hopes that my wife's beading group wouldn't happen and we could go see a movie. No luck, but it did let me update my laptop (new version of ZoneAlarm, new version of winRar, bought a license for winRar, etc).
I also continued in my descent into depravity - i.e., World of Warcraft. :) Tammy tempted me into it two weeks ago, and I've been playing along with one character, but this weekend I decided to create a Mage Draenei, a race that my wife had been playing. They're really an odd departure - the rest of the game races are pretty standard stuff - Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Orcs, Minitaurs, Undead, Trolls and evil Elves. But the Draenei are aliens. They're blue colored, they've got tails, and they're basically refugees that have crashed into the planet, littering the landscape with pieces of crystal machinery and shards of the hull. This has infected some of the local wildlife with wierd magical radiation, and some of the quests have to do with trying to fix that.
What's also wierd is that the main city for these folks is basically a big chunk of the spaceship - and it's wierd inside. There's strange sloping spiralling bits, and the architecture plays hell with my spacial sense - I wasn't entirely sure I'd be able to find the way out of it without magical help.
So, I created a mage, and ran him up to 10th level. That's one of the cool things about WoW - they've got it set up so that getting to 8th level is really quick and fairly easy - you start off learning that if you hit the feed lever you get tasty advancement pellets, and it teaches you how to use the game nicely. At first you've got one quest at a time, but later on you start getting a lot and you have to figure out what order you want to work on them in. It's a lot of fun.
Anyway, so that's my weekend. Fun fun. I hope you had fun too.
Sunday I was going to go to my Origami group, but I just sort of blew it off in hopes that my wife's beading group wouldn't happen and we could go see a movie. No luck, but it did let me update my laptop (new version of ZoneAlarm, new version of winRar, bought a license for winRar, etc).
I also continued in my descent into depravity - i.e., World of Warcraft. :) Tammy tempted me into it two weeks ago, and I've been playing along with one character, but this weekend I decided to create a Mage Draenei, a race that my wife had been playing. They're really an odd departure - the rest of the game races are pretty standard stuff - Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Orcs, Minitaurs, Undead, Trolls and evil Elves. But the Draenei are aliens. They're blue colored, they've got tails, and they're basically refugees that have crashed into the planet, littering the landscape with pieces of crystal machinery and shards of the hull. This has infected some of the local wildlife with wierd magical radiation, and some of the quests have to do with trying to fix that.
What's also wierd is that the main city for these folks is basically a big chunk of the spaceship - and it's wierd inside. There's strange sloping spiralling bits, and the architecture plays hell with my spacial sense - I wasn't entirely sure I'd be able to find the way out of it without magical help.
So, I created a mage, and ran him up to 10th level. That's one of the cool things about WoW - they've got it set up so that getting to 8th level is really quick and fairly easy - you start off learning that if you hit the feed lever you get tasty advancement pellets, and it teaches you how to use the game nicely. At first you've got one quest at a time, but later on you start getting a lot and you have to figure out what order you want to work on them in. It's a lot of fun.
Anyway, so that's my weekend. Fun fun. I hope you had fun too.
