123798-morning-coffee-31815-this-week-on-nexus-edition

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Good Morning Everyone!
 
First coffee and cake!
 
 
My plans this week on Nexus are to level up Yalanna more and get Spousal's Vet Dungeons going. I haven't really been on the past two days, but will be on the rest of the week.
 
I want to get Yalanna at least to 30, she's 20 now, by Sunday. I need to start working on getting her Tailoring up, too. Then start work on her house. We will see how it all goes :)
 
For Spousal, I want to start learning the vet dungeons. It is enough to get the bronze in them for the attunement, but I want to be able to do gold.
 
What are your plans and/or goals for the rest of this week?
 
Have a great day!	
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I'm with you on the dungeons, so look me up when I'm in the game.  I'm hoping to be on tonight as soon as I finish the 0-50 TL;DR.  The Shadowcaster, the Blazing Saddles guild housing plot hangout, was featured!  Unfortunately, I wasn't in the stream at the time (on the phone with some engineers), so I didn't even get to see the stream chatter.  Then I had to hurry to band practice, where it sounds like our four new songs are coming together.  I'm starting to get a bit more reverb in that I think we can use the next time we play that nightmare room at the pizza shop.  We just decided that instead of overpowering the crowd noise, we'd just tune for the stage and let people come over if they want to hear.  Still, I got complements from the room, so last time wasn't too bad.  Let's see where it ends up.
 
Planning on being on tonight, though, even though I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing.  Also looking forward to hopping Domside one night a week with Ara when we get a day figured out.  I do honestly miss Trajan Spenser.  He's a great RP character to play, and I always wanted to work on the Villa Spenseri....	
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Morning everyone :)  It's a "hell week" at work for me this week with a bunch of big monthly/quarterly meetings/presentations I have to either be at or deliver, so precious little free time :(  I love what I do, but sometimes I wish my company was smaller.  It seems like every day there's some new executive I have to talk to about what we should NOT be inflicting on our customers.
 
I did jump into game a few minutes last night to get Jimmy Nutron's CREDD out to him from ThaydFest II.  So all the Exile winners have prizes now.  I have to try to get in tonight to mail out prizes to the Dominion winners for the Lifestyles contest.
 
Speaking of ThaydFest II, there was some really great feedback in the feedback thread yesterday.  I hope more people post their thoughts on how events like ThaydFest II can be even better in the future.
 
Anyway, I had best get going.  I've got to play in traffic this morning in order to get to the office by 9 am for the first meeting.  Which means I have a little less than an hour now to get all the morning stuff done and get out the door.  See you all once the daily madness is over :)	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
First coffee and cake!
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Halfway into spring break and starting to feel the pressure that I haven't gotten done nearly as much as I intended. Dx Got my car in so the AC can be fixed, have made some decent progress in DA:I, helped get another book ready for print, but haven't spent any time on our latest novel that's soooo close to the first major climax. And have barely played any WildStar! Oops.
 
Spent some more time on my engineer yesterday, between bouts of DA:I. Feeling the urge to build something on her housing plot, but I'm not entirely sure what. I need to cement some kind of RP thing for her before it'll come to me, I imagine.	
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Good morning folks! Here's some breakfast to tide us all over and go with that coffee and tasty cake:
 
 
(I wish I was having an English breakfast like that!)
 
Last night in WildStar the Daggers ran a Crimelords of Whitevale for achievements, and we ended up getting folks a few of them. :D Then I sat down and chatted with Dahk and Avidguru for a good chunk of time for the next episode of WildCast Podcast! It was a bunch of fun, and I was honored to be asked to join in for the fun. :)
 
This week my plans consist of a "Raiders Night" where we go and decimate a zone! Quests, lore, tales keys, datacubes, dungeons/adventures, primes, challenges, achievements... you name it, we'll probably be doing it! If you're interested in joining us tonight, hit up Myrick Renolds for an invite. :) 
 
Thursday is a normal adventure night for some of the new players we've picked up recently to get them seeing the content. Friday I'll probably spend some of the night playing some other games, and Saturday is a guild meeting and RP event, and then Sunday we're going to be doing some level 20 dungeons for our new members to do a "get to know you" thing. It's a busy week!!
 
Outside of game, but game related, I am hoping to decide on a title for an idea I want to try, and find my first victim, er, volunteer.
 
What about everybody else? :D	
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Yesterday was baaaaaaaaad in real life. The consequence of this was that by the time I got home I wanted to not be awake. Not a really good time to ask around for what day people want to run on dominion alts. If people could send me a PM I can get an idea of peoples schedules. 
 
I don't know that I would put it on Saturday as that is RP night, but I would like to have both exile and dominion characters in that RP. 	
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Yesterday was baaaaaaaaad in real life. The consequence of this was that by the time I got home I wanted to not be awake. Not a really good time to ask around for what day people want to run on dominion alts. If people could send me a PM I can get an idea of peoples schedules. 
 
I don't know that I would put it on Saturday as that is RP night, but I would like to have both exile and dominion characters in that RP. 
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One day, Dommies might be able to come to the Shadowcaster and chat with us...
 
War story night would be more entertaining....
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That day seems pretty far off at the moment. I don't think there are too many bars out if the field, but there might be some structures in wilderrun that would make a nice place as a backdrop. 
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Morning or afternoon, all.
 
Other than trying to guilt Lamenth into telling me there's more decor to come, I've been trying to decide whether to renew and keep playing through Drop 5. I just read the contract run-down that Naunet linked and it's looking pretty neat. If there are decor rewards (or it's an efficient way to make gold/renown) then I'll have a decent reason to keep playing. Shiphands aren't enough to last 5 months, but mixed up with stuff like this, it could happen.
 
If I do decide to keep playing regularly, I'll start to work on Uta Gaus's place this week. It's going to be a low valley surrounded by obisidian rock walls, with a large temple built into the northern rockface (across from where you enter, though vision will be obscured). After building the academy I wanted to simplify, so going app. 300 pieces of natural decor should be more relaxing than uniform aesthetic builds, and leaves me a solid 700 pieces to make the temple a really exceptional place. The academy had multiple structures and decks so it was hard to dedicate more than a few hundred to each building. I overshot, and in the end I feel like most of the outside areas lack detail.
 
 
Aside from that, I'm having a real life conundrum. A BIG one. I mentioned this yesterday, but I'm mired in student debt. It's not a huge deal, the gov here is casual and doesn't harass me, and I have a distinct apathy when it comes to cash anyway (I'm pretty sure I have an ongoing 'surreal' issue where reality doesn't quite connect with the rational part of my brain). But of course, money to travel is nice, having a stable future is nice, and being able to fund my projects is nice.
 
So the issue is that I've picked up a job as an editor for a soon-to-launch website. I graduated literature and history degrees so this is within my field of interests. The pay sucks but it'll do good on my resume, and I get to work from home (good/bad there), and my relationship with boss and coworkers is incredibly laid-back. I actually dated my boss. It's fun.
 
But just as I'm starting to settle in, I get a job offer today from the government. This would effectively double my income, give benefits, security, government experience, blah blah. But the job is probably going to be some eye-scratching manual labour work. And not the tough, build-you-up kind, but the "cart these items to X floor" kind.
 
I'm so stuck right now, and chances are I'll have to make a critical decision over the next 48 hours. omg.
 
 	
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Morning or afternoon, all.
 
Other than trying to guilt Lamenth into telling me there's more decor to come, I've been trying to decide whether to renew and keep playing through Drop 5. I just read the contract run-down that Naunet linked and it's looking pretty neat. If there are decor rewards (or it's an efficient way to make gold/renown) then I'll have a decent reason to keep playing. Shiphands aren't enough to last 5 months, but mixed up with stuff like this, it could happen.
 
If I do decide to keep playing regularly, I'll start to work on Uta Gaus's place this week. It's going to be a low valley surrounded by obisidian rock walls, with a large temple built into the northern rockface (across from where you enter, though vision will be obscured). After building the academy I wanted to simplify, so going app. 300 pieces of natural decor should be more relaxing than uniform aesthetic builds, and leaves me a solid 700 pieces to make the temple a really exceptional place. The academy had multiple structures and decks so it was hard to dedicate more than a few hundred to each building. I overshot, and in the end I feel like most of the outside areas lack detail.
 
 
Aside from that, I'm having a real life conundrum. A BIG one. I mentioned this yesterday, but I'm mired in student debt. It's not a huge deal, the gov here is casual and doesn't harass me, and I have a distinct apathy when it comes to cash anyway (I'm pretty sure I have an ongoing 'surreal' issue where reality doesn't quite connect with the rational part of my brain). But of course, money to travel is nice, having a stable future is nice, and being able to fund my projects is nice.
 
So the issue is that I've picked up a job as an editor for a soon-to-launch website. I graduated literature and history degrees so this is within my field of interests. The pay sucks but it'll do good on my resume, and I get to work from home (good/bad there), and my relationship with boss and coworkers is incredibly laid-back. I actually dated my boss. It's fun.
 
But just as I'm starting to settle in, I get a job offer today from the government. This would effectively double my income, give benefits, security, government experience, blah blah. But the job is probably going to be some eye-scratching manual labour work. And not the tough, build-you-up kind, but the "cart these items to X floor" kind.
 
I'm so stuck right now, and chances are I'll have to make a critical decision over the next 48 hours. omg.
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I think the gov job would have a better future, at least a stable one. Physically I'm a strong worker and smart in a few different ways, so I could make a place for myself. But... it's Transport Canada. Chances are I'll just be a glorified mover or a pencil pusher in a dingy office, haha.
 
The current editing job does correlate better with my future hopes, but it's not what I want to be doing either. Something in the field of game design would be ideal, though I'd likely have to move to Montreal or Vancouver to get employment of that type.
 
I always imagined I'd be in something entertainment based, or a pornstar. I'm not sure how you develop a professional future for those, but I feel either way would require money and a move.
 
... maybe I should just take the stable job and focus on earning for the summer. Blech. :P	
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I think the gov job would have a better future, at least a stable one. Physically I'm a strong worker and smart in a few different ways, so I could make a place for myself. But... it's Transport Canada. Chances are I'll just be a glorified mover or a pencil pusher in a dingy office, haha.
 
The current editing job does correlate better with my future hopes, but it's not what I want to be doing either. Something in the field of game design would be ideal, though I'd likely have to move to Montreal or Vancouver to get employment of that type.
 
I always imagined I'd be in something entertainment based, or a pornstar. I'm not sure how you develop a professional future for those, but I feel either way would require money and a move.
 
... maybe I should just take the stable job and focus on earning for the summer. Blech. :P
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Hey everyone! Sortof exciting news. Delve Deep runs raids on Tuesdays/Thursdays/Sundays, and our progression team is currently up to Ohmna. Usually it takes us until Sunday to get back to her, but this week, our Tuesday raid team went 5/6! This means we'll have almost two entire raiding days for Ohmna, and I'm looking forward to kicking that big ugly worm out of the park. 
 
As to your question from yesterday Vic, to clarify, are you saying Dom guilds and people that can help new Dom-side players and alt-ers? Specifically RP? Or also in PvE/PvP content?
 
Mostly, I'd say its a matter of joining the two chat channels: WSRP and EntityLFM. That will put people in touch with the rp scene at large and also the primary channel people use to put together groups for worldbosses/adventures/dungeons etc. So far as I know currently, there are no public rp guilds Dom-side, the one I do know about (House Valesius), is very insular and rarely rp's outside of itself.
 
That said, we do have some bars and community events every week for rpers, most notably Chef Noriack's Cafe on Fridays, Fonenzo Rumpleshank's bar (usually two nights a week though I forget what nights), and I have recently started participating in a Settlement Authority RP on Saturdays, you can try talking to Florok Bloodoath for more info on that, but we mostly do fun/silly/occasionally serious rp out in Sunstorm Village, Malgrave. There are also other events that happen during the week, though I cannot remember them atm, and also, Golah Jo has recently started doing an rp shopping mall once a month, where people can buy actual in-game items from other players in an rp setting. 
 
If anyone is interested in PvE content, my guild Delve Deep is a casual PvE/Raiding guild, and so far as I've seen we've been very good about helping people level/attune/teaching fights/getting and crafting gear/etc. That said, despite housing a significant portion of the rp community, we don't accept anyone unless they have some interest in raiding at max level. 
 
I unfortunately don't know of a lot of other good casual guilds atm, but I think if a new player is looking for a Dom guild the best place to point them is the guild recruitment forum. 	
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			Ooooh, contracts!	
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			Doesn't look like anybody has brewed coffee yet today. I'm currently sneaking this during a meeting, but when I'm out in an hour I'll get it brewing unless someone beats me to it! :) (Which, please do! I don't have much interesting to talk about!)	
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			I'll make one	
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I'll make one
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Chua now thinking about science for Vic, yes?	
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			Goin to be honest, I never understand this "morning coffee" thing.....	
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Oli you making coffee???
 
I can't this morning! So hurry up about it already!
 
Derp, disregard :D	
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Goin to be honest, I never understand this "morning coffee" thing.....
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