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Weekend fun

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Bellisin and Rosi visited this weekend (friends from EQ, used their character names to maintain their privacy) which was cool 🙂 We had some food at ours on Friday with them and Simes, went shopping on Saturday and then went to the cinema and had Mexican on Sunday.

X-Men 3 was ok, better than the second, different to the first one.  Certainly darker, less ‘fluffy’ than the first two, but too many holes to be a brilliant movie.  Enjoyable although slow paced in parts, especially for those new to the franchise.

Back to work tomorrow (boo) for four days (yay) and then Live Action Roleplaying for three days (yay) and a day recovering (yay) and then back to work (boo).  So a boo-yay-yay-boo kinda time ahead.

Tirranun – Trounced

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

Not looking so happy and smug NOW are you Tirranun. Amazing work from *everyone* tonight, Tirranun fell to the TNF raid force on our 3rd attempt. Perfect execution, grats to those that won loot. TNF’s first DoN dragon and arguably most challenging encounter so far. Grats also to Enchy and Swifit who took one step closer to their epics.

Battlemaster Bested us!

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

We nailed Battlemaster but were overwhelmed by the additional mobs in the script, but we’ve learned a little more and we’ll do better next time! The troop has a new nemesis, he’s brown and ugly and carries a big axe. We’ll be back.

The Burning Prince and the Two Headed Beast – a tale of two raids

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

TNF pulled off another first today, killing Zun`Muram Votal in Ferubi on their first attempt. This was only moments after taking out The Seventh Hammer, allowing Zabatiz to progress in his Epic. The whole run through Ferubi was much quicker than anticipated, so we dropped in on Velitorkin to ruin his day briefly, before heading to the Tower of Solusek Ro for our second visit to the Burning Prince. Solusek fell (although in a slightly scrappy manner) and another bunch of folk got Fire and full EP flags.

Finally, despite the late hour, a small contingent of TNF Raiders headed into the Plane of Fire, to play with it’s denizens, and killed Pyronis, Magmaton and Blazzax, before sleep finally took them. Grats to Loxado for officially winning our first ever TNF Elemental Loot.

TNF – Full EP Flagging for some members

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

I’m going to let one picture speak for this entire article.


Congratulations to those who are now fully EP flagged, thanks to everyone who continues to raid with us each week. Your patience, dedication and good humour are priceless. See you next Saturday.

TNF Progresses

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

It’s nearly a month since Agnarr fell, and the TNF Raid Force hasn’t slowed it’s assault on the Planes of Power.

We took a break the weekend after Agnarr due to server outages and downtime.

The weekend of the 28th January saw TNF take on the Mithaniel Marr line again. A very long but successful raid meant AD, HoH trials 1-3, and Lord Mithaniel Marr fell. We rounded off with Velitorkin (he was lonely).

For the first weekend in February, we focussed our attention on Bertoxxulous and his High Priest. A quick run through the Carprin event, and another successful spanking of Bertox ensued. We also completed the 2 Sol Ro mini’s that TNF hadn’t attempted previously.

And the weekend just gone meant another Tactics run, from a complete and very smooth MB, through our second ever Rallos Zek kill, and then a trouncing of his brothers as well.

All-in-all, an excellent few weeks for TNF, confirming that our first-time-kills of Bertox, Rallos Zek and Lord Marr are repeatable, and getting ever-more people flagged for the Chamber of Solusek Ro. We’ll be revisiting Agnarr, Saryrn and probably Terris over the next few weeks, as well as beating the mini’s in Sol Ro one more time each.

See you all there 🙂

Agnarr the Stormlord – Down

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These posts are archives of forum / blog entries I made on my EverQuest guild website. The website won’t be around forever, and I wanted the posts all in one place so I didn’t lose them, this blog seemed like as good a place as any.

Agnarr is a wuss! The kite team did a superb job keeping everything amused while we tidied up, keeping Agnarr busy while we chatted casually about how to kill him and rescue Karana.

Outstanding work from everyone in the TNF Raid Force, and then a quick(ish) clear or three mini’s finished off the flags for that evening.

Congratulations to those in the raid force who are now earth / water / air flagged.

Agnarr

Oops, Agnarr fell over.

Back to Work

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Back to work this morning after 14 days signed off. I wanted to come back – I can only imagine that suffering anxiety means the longer you stay off work the harder it is to get back to it, so I wanted to come back and deal with the issues directly. Usual back to work after a break stuff to do, cup of tea, catch up with people, read a thousand e-mails.

Grete’s taken up guitar lessons and singing lessons, which she’s really enjoying, and I know she’ll be good at. You can all come around and listen to us murdering Mull of Kintyre at some point. I’ll buy the cider with toe nail clippings for the full effect.

EverQuest is still fun – I’m going to say this even though most of you will have no clue what it means. My warrior character and the character’s of 5 friends succeeded in Tipt last night and we’re now KT flagged. It’s a huge achievement for us, and a weird feeling considering my wizard character has been flagged for ages (thanks to a raiding guild he was in) and has raided in those zones. But achieving it with friends is even more sweet.

Whether or not we’ll be able to repeat that Tipt run to get whole bunches of guild members flagged is another question. Takes about 2 hours to complete, needs a solid core of 3 or 4 players (tank, cleric, puller, cc) and 2 good dps classes to make it through, one of those classes needs to be a good backup healer, secondary rez is very useful, and good buffers essential because deaths are likely. That makes it hard to get 6 new people flagged every time.

Hillbillie’s b0rked computer

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One of the things that I love about games like EverQuest is the sense of community. It was there in IRC and FidoNet and it’s there in some MMORPG’s like EQ. You have to work at it, it doesn’t just happen, and you have to want it otherwise it may as well be just another video game. But there can be a sense of community, a feeling of knowing people you’ve never met.

Perhaps a lot of it is illusion – perhaps people you think you know are in fact totally different. But I suspect it’s similar to making pen-pals before the age of global communication via computer, and that often your impression of people you deal with on-line a lot is pretty accurate.

When I play EQ, it’s to socialise as well as play a game, some people will scoff about socialising with people you can’t see or actually hear, but I don’t mind, feel free, we enjoy it.

And so when one member of the community has PC problems, and can’t get them sorted for whatever reason, it’s usually frustrating for their friends, wanting them to get back on-line. Hillbillie’s computer is b0rked and there’s no sign of it being fixed quickly. However, I wanted to help, and I wanted to offer you the chance to help (not you the random reader who just wandered by, but you, a friend of Hillbillie, I don’t expect random Joe public to help!).

There’s a button on the right side of the page, Make a Donation, which uses Pay Pal to send Hillbillie some cash, so that hopefully he can get his computer fixed and get his ass back in the game.