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I never thought it would happen. Yet it did. Yesterday will be marked in history for the effect it had not only on Freeport, but also on Qeynos. In fact all of Norrath shall feel the repercussions of this incident. As I stood there, gazing at the fallen citadel, my heart sank. What of those wounded? With familes. Homes that once lay along the cobbled streets peaceful were now smashed, stone and rubble everywhere.

I wish that were the worst of it, but it was not.

I soon learned that Tayil N’velex betrayed my treasured leader, Lucan D’Lere. He is currently missing, trapped in the void. Deathkneell has crashed. Tayil D’Velex was ordered to steal the soulfire – and decided to claim it for herself, the wench.

What’s even stranger is that Murarr Sharr was apparently possessed by the void, as my informants told me later in the day. He was under the control of a man in the Bayle family which doesn’t surprise me in the least. That entire family is a little crazy. As such, the Claymore has also been stolen. For what purpose, we are unsure of yet.

The Queen herself, Antonia Bayle, decreed that Qeynos should help (yes, that’s right, you read it correctly) free my lord Lucan D’Lere. I practically cracked up laughing once I had heard that. I can just imagine the looks on those poor Qenosian faces when they heard.

That is none of my concern. While Freeport is without a leader, gangs of Juggernaughts have started showing up. Then there are the Dreadnaughts, who were sent to help protect and have decided to act as self appointed loot distributors. The Thexians also recognize no one but themselves as the rightful rulers of Freeport, and have added to the ruckus on the streets. I am not sure how long this disorder can last. While I am all for the occasional bar brawl and seeking havoc in the streets of Qeynos, having it come to my own doorstep in an area that is typically patrolled quite strongly by the Freeport Militia is not something I am keen on. What to do next, I am unsure. I overheard patrons of the Raven Mythic last night taking in those who had been wounded by the disaster, and healing them. At least that one location is safe from the disorder that is out in Norrath. As for the rest? Well. We shall just have to see.

Yesterday Will of the Tyrant kicked off, and wow. It was incredible. East freeport shows a crashed citadel, which you can see in person from West freeport. You can even see it missing, when you’re outside in Commonlands. The destruction was amazing. A job well done. There are new quests, on both the Qeynos and Freeport side involving this event, with two new titles, and two new relics for your home. You can complete the quests on each side, but be VERY careful doing the opposing side, as the guards are epic, and they do con to a level 80 character.

I’m so excited about Frostfell going live today. This certainly is a fantastic time to be playing EQ2. Have to head out for now but I’ll certainly have more to say on the matter later.

I did it. Yesterday thanks to the help of Kanad and Wpus, I managed to reach 200 alternate advancement points on my very first character in EQ2 (Ellithia, the mystic on Antonia Bayle). It was a really great feeling, to know that in February when Sentinel’s Fate comes out I’ll be working on the appropriate aa. When TSO came out I wasn’t even close to the maximum number of aa, so I wasn’t working on those chains until much later. It’s refreshing to be finished (for now).

As my previous post mentioned, that brings into debate who to play next. The one real problem I have with so many level 80 characters, and playing on so many servers. I think I’ve knocked it down to 1 character per server, and then play on whichever server my mood suits. I’m leaning towards the Dirge on Lucan D’Lere (thanks Amnerys for the suggestion), the Troubador on Oasis, and the .. well, undecided on Antonia Bayle. On that server I have the 80 mystic (who I consider completed), 80 templar, 80 illusionist, 80 swashbuckler, 20 shadowknight (quest character), and 1 bruiser. Any suggestions on who I should play? I realize that most people say “play what you like the most” or “play whatever makes you happy” – my problem is that I enjoy all of my characters on pretty much the same level. I love playing them all, if I didn’t I wouldn’t even have the character to begin with.

In lieu of having completed my main goal in game, I decided to log the dirge over on Lucan D’Lere and pick up a new craft for her. She was a provisioner, but my illusionist Seduisant is already one, and I don’t want two. I decided to respec her and took her to West Freeport to speak with the career counselor. I decided to go with a weaponsmith instead, and spent a few hours working my way back up to level 30. I wanted to use up all of that craft vitality before the new 6 year anniversary rewards come into game and I can replenish it.

I also checked in on my Troubador on Oasis, and Paradise Lost happened to be making their way through Miraguls. I’ve only seen the first two named in this zone, being unable to really commit myself to their raid hours, but it was a blast. As luck would have it some troubador bracers dropped and I was able to pick up the pattern (thank you for that, Shadowgeist!) so the little troubador is now sporting her first piece of T4 gear. Pennie (fantastic healer might I add, one of the best out there, after myeslf, of course, teehee) sent me some tells as we calculated how many deaths I had knocked off of my Varsoon run by adding another piece of pretty good gear to the list. I figured one piece only knocks .5 of a death off, three pieces will raise that count by 2-3. We’ll see!

The troubador (and all of my other characters actually) need a LOT of alternate advancement points before Sentinel’s Fate comes out in February, but it gives me something to do, and I’m looking forward to it. Will I manage to get a second character to 200aa? Not sure. It took me so long (in my game hopping ways) to reach 200 on one character. We’ll just have to see!

Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself, see you in Norrath!

(( Book of the day, each weekend I try to take one book that I have in my Norrathian Library and write it out so others can enjoy it who may not be in game. Of course if you’d like to read it in person just head to the North Freeport mage tower, bottom floor, and look for the magical housing door. Name is under Ellithia. If you’d like to donate a book to my museum, please don’t hesitate to drop me a message, I’ll even send you blank books in return. Thanks! ))

A Tonga’s Guide to not getting Eated – by Valenoa

Getting eated am a serious problems among tonga todays. Dis book refers to being eated by other peoples not critterthings. There am several reasons that tonga have trouble wif getting eated.

– We am delicious. This am useful during dates but not as usefuls around hungrythings.

– We am very smallandcute and bigandugly things am jealous of that’s.

– Mousies love to wiggle. Dis am verycute too but unfortunatelies makes us goes down easiers.

Thankies to Linleezardshineybutt ((Linthel)) for helping me wif insides informations on thingies to puts in dis bookies and for not eatedings me and fors eateding dat one mans that kept bothering me’s.

There am manythings that yous should watches out fors.

– Trolls cause them eats anythings. While tongas will eats anything except other tongas and friends and stuffs, trolls will eats anythings. This am because their words for ‘cute’, ‘friend’ and ‘delicious’ am all the same so them gets confuseds.

– Leezards can sometimes eat smallthings. Them also has an additional reasons because them can be jealous of our fluffyfur. They eated us hoping to gain our powers of flufficute.

– Ogres can sometimes eated things too. Usually this will follows when them accidentally smushes someones. Then them mistakes them for puddings or applesauces.

– Kittehs can sometimes want to eat mousies cause it am thems instincts. Tries not to acts too cute or likes a mousie arounds them.

*crayon art of a kerra chasing a ratonga with a fork and knife across the commonlands. A speech bubbel reads “Oh noes!” above the ratonga and “Oh yeses!” above the kerra*

Even if yous watches out for these thingies, peoples can still surprises you. Watch out for these warning signs:

– Them keeps droolings on yous.

– Them tries to puts condiments on yous when yous not lookings. Even mores if its when you am lookings.

– Them am hiding split or fork or similar thingies behind backs.

– Them am reading recipe books and looking back and forths between yous and its.

– Yous see them eateding someone else.

– Them keep asking what yous eat. You am what yous eat after alls. It makes you taste differment.

– Them paws at yous or grabs yous tail when yous tries to walk. Them am playing wif food, be carefuls!

Even dates can turns out to be eateders. So ifs an date say you am delicious or them wants to eated yous or takes you homes for dinners make sure them means in goodway.

* crayon art of a drooling troll handing flowers to a suspicious looking ratonga*

There am many ways to avoids getting in this situations to begins wif thoughs.

– Avoids places where eateders congregates. Dis includes places they lives or like swamps and things.

– If you has to go to place that am dangerous, tries to choose a traveling companion that am more delicious than yous. then you can runs when them am being eateden. Frogyloks and fairies make good choices.

– Yous can also travels in large groups or wif verybig peoples to guards yous. If you knows a leezard or kitteh or something that you know will not eated yous (but be sures!) yous could travels wif thems. Then peoples think ‘oh that am their food me not bothers it’.

– Yous can flavors youself wif something badtasting to eateders. Yous may say ‘but then that will be ew!’ but remembers things that am badtasting to trolls and ogres and things am still goodtasting to cutethings. So yous can protects youself and be perfumed for that hot dates tonights too!

– Get stripies. Eateders can no eat things wif stripies cause usually will chokes on thems. If you no have stripies you may considers fur dyes.

– Learns to runfast. Dis helps especiallies if in a groups. Remembers that yous no has to outruns the eateders, just everyone else also running from the eateder.

*crayon image of an iksar gagging up a ratonga, some of their stripes still stuck in their throat.*

But what if you does all these thingies and still gets in a bad situations? How am some ways to get out of its? Sometimes it am depend on who am trying to eated yous.

– There am first the obvious ones that you can stabbies or magics them to deaths. Some good places to hurts them am thems face so them no can eat goods or their happybits cause then they falls over. Cept then they am not really happybits anymores.

–  You can trap yous clothings. Most things will tries to take off yous clothings before eateding  you, and then the trap springs and you runs away! Running away nakeds am a small price to pays.

– Put lots of sharp thingies in pockets. If they bites you right offs to avoid the traps them will cuts them mouths. Poison candies in yous pockets also works and have other uses.

– Though it will not work on verymean peoples that am jealous of cutes, you can tries the cuteeyes. You can also tries to flirts wif them though this can be dangerous in its own ways.

*crayon art of a ratonga running away from a ogre who has a mouse trap clamped over his lips*

But oh noes! What if yous already got eated? If yous has, then yous better has a light on yous cause otherwise will be hards to reads this. If you was eated whole, yous still has a chance!

– Well if yous has a light and it am fire why you not burning thems instead of reading dis bookies dummys!

– You can stabs them from the insides and tries to cut yous way out. If no weapons, than just try scritchieclaws. Try to poke a hole in the bottoms of their tummy so all the juice flows out into thems.

– You may tries tickles. If yous can tickle them enough them will laugh verymuch and may vomits.

– If still on way down, wrap yous tail around thems tongue and pull it down wif yous. Then they will chokes on it.

– Yous can call homes and teleports. But that only works if yous has lots of concentrations. If you am a veryneatrogue like me’s, you can uses the escapes.

– Summon all the thingies and pets you has. It will fills up thems belly so muches that them will pop!

*crayon art of a ratonga in somethings belly, carefully holding this book up and shining a light on it.*

Even though them am verymean, eateders do has uses sometimes. Sometimes yous can finds one that am yous friend and knows difference between friends and foodstuff, but me cannot stress enoughs that yous must be carefuls. Watch for warning signs listed earlier in dis bookies.

Otherwise thems can serve a number of purposethings.

– Them can eated dates dat yous dided not has goodfun wif or that won’t stops bothering yous.

– Thems can gives you insides informations on hows to escapes.

– Them may gives you neatthings in exchanges for luring other peoples you no likes to dem.

Remembers dat being eated am a constant threats to tongakind and dat we must be constantly vigilants so we am not all eateden.

Me hopes dat dis book helps yous avoids or escapes being eated. If it no does, then goodbyes.

*crayon art of Valenoa laying on a pile of various carnivors with x’s over their eyes*

Calreth and I happened to be running through Sinking Sands on our way to an achievement, when we stumbled over someone doing the Rahotep heritage quest. During the final portion you have to spawn the armies of Rahotep himself and then defeat them (and him of course). The heritage quest was a lot of fun back when Desert of Flames was the final expansion, but I haven’t done it since then.

I love exploring in EQ2. These days there’s not a whole lot I haven’t already seen before (and some times, many times before) but it’s always fun and there’s always something to look at. Anyone have some favorite areas that they love to explore? Have a spot that you stumbled onto unaware that it was even there? When DoF first came out I wasn’t too thrilled with the expansion. As later expansions were released, I fell in love with it. In fact I would say it’s my favorite expansion now. My least favorite would have to be Kingdom of Sky. Flying around from island to island as well as having to take a portal up to reach any of the zones just seemed so disjointed to me, and I don’t like how the zones don’t exactly flow from one another.

I’ve been having fun in EQ2, I moved three of my characters over to Lucan D’Lere to be with a group of friends who play there. That does mean that I’m once again playing on three servers (Oasis, Antonia Bayle, Lucan D’Lere) but by now all of my close friends are quite used to me bouncing around and it doesn’t seem to cause any issues. I don’t know how much time I’ll spend on LDL, but it’s a fun (very quite) server to hang out on.

Aside from that, this week is deadlines for work so my time in game is very small compared to normal. This will all fix after the 4th, which I am looking forward to. More later! Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself.