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We all need coffee.
 
 
Last night I was back on construction of the Shadowcaster.  I've got the garden mostly set up, though I'll have to feng shui it a bit until it looks right.
 
 
 
 
 
 
But I did largely finish the wheelhouse, I think!
 
 
 
 
The project is coming along, though I'm climbing up over 700 item decor and I still need to equip a few more armaments, primarily the indirect fire weapons, large artillery cannons that need to end up on the poop deck.  Otherwise, the whole thing's looking better!  I've got more controls in.
 
As a side question to people who have seen the thing, I was wondering whether I should go with a darker lighting scheme and light the thing artificially, or stick with the sunset motif I get from the current War sky.
 
Anyway, tonight will be more fine detail work and, hopefully, working on the last room that needs work, the armory.  Once the exterior is finished, I head into the housing plug I integrated to turn it into our assembly area and to add a few bits and pieces we need like a computer lab and an alchemy lab.
 
I'll make a video and a bigger post when the whole thing's done.  Until then, how are your plots coming along?
 
See you on Nexus, I have to get back to my real job.	
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Morning. Coffee.
 
Yesterday Rocio got a hold of some bones from a fellow tribemember to attempt his first regeneration of a sentient being.
 
His friend and matria protested at first. What if this person didn't want to be brought back? Rocio's response was there were a million ways to die on Nexus and 99% of those ways were stupid and pointless.
 
However the reanimated creature was wrong from the very beginning. Rocio tried to stop what was happening but it was too late and the half-formed zombie attacked him. His matria destroyed the beast with Pyrokinetic flames and in the process Rocio's hands and part of his tail received burns that will be slow to heal.
 
He also has a date tonight. Good luck explaining this one!	
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Morning. Coffee.
 
Yesterday Rocio got a hold of some bones from a fellow tribemember to attempt his first regeneration of a sentient being.
 
His friend and matria protested at first. What if this person didn't want to be brought back? Rocio's response was there were a million ways to die on Nexus and 99% of those ways were stupid and pointless.
 
However the reanimated creature was wrong from the very beginning. Rocio tried to stop what was happening but it was too late and the half-formed zombie attacked him. His matria destroyed the beast with Pyrokinetic flames and in the process Rocio's hands and part of his tail received burns that will be slow to heal.
 
He also has a date tonight. Good luck explaining this one!
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
 
Started doing some decorating inside my house last night. It's not working out like I want it. I may end up changing the house from the spacious aurin to the spacious human house. I am thinking the human house would be better for what I want to do inside.
 
Have a good day all. Work is calling :)	
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As someone with some experience in explaining injuries obtained during necromantic experimentation, I would recommend the old standby "I burned myself in the kitchen."
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I hope that's IC experience and not OOC. Rocio will go with some story about fighting the Strain...
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Hope she buys it. I still recommend the kitchen thing. Everyone's burned themselves in the kitchen.
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Yeah but that's not hot. If you're gonna make something up at least make it cool.
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Oh, this?  Yeah, so I was in the kitchen last night making dinner when an ICI Skurge assassin came crashing through the window and tried to kill me.  I managed to fend them off with my frying pan but in the process my hands got burned on the stove.  And then to make matters worse the oil from the pan splattered all over my tail!  It really hurts.
 
See?  It works :D
 
Edit:  Rocio wanted strain.	
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Oh, this?  Yeah, so I was in the kitchen last night making dinner when an ICI assassin came crashing through the window and tried to kill me.  I managed to fend them off with my frying pan but in the process my hands got burned on the stove.  And then to make matters worse the oil from the pan splattered all over my tail!  It really hurts.
 
See?  It works :D
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Rocio was just going to say he had a flame thrower malfunction while fighting the Strain. Totes believeable since he lives in Wilderrun.	
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Time for real post.  Though I need moar coffees!!!!11!1!
 
Morning everyone.
 
So I woke up this morning at 5 am, thanks to a furry alarm clock.  It's kind of an odd day for me since I have to go to a different office than the one I usually do today.  We hired a bunch of new people and now we have to train them (go figure).  So I'm sitting here looking at a map going "ok, if I leave at this time, I should be able to be there by that time....I think".  Yay.
 
There was no Wildstar for me yesterday, like usual.  I'll probably make it on tomorrow evening or Thursday but the beginning of my week always gets eaten up by RL stuff and other commitments.  Last weekend we nearly got Slavemaster Drokk down again, but had to stop because a few of our group members were starting to get tired and needed a break.  The hard part about being a guild that tries not to leave anyone behind is that we also have to accept that we're going to fail a lot before we succeed.  There's a lot of player skill needed for Wildstar, and players with slower reaction times or poor situational awareness struggle.  The consequence of NOT being patient and taking those people along however is that we start to turn into elitists.  I detest elitists.
 
So yeah, we haven't finished vet STL or KV yet - but we get closer every time we go.  Our strategies are sound, it's really all just practice and execution now.
 
Tomorrow we're running a public group of STL normal, and we've had two folks sign up to go from the Entity forum, which is awesome.  Then Saturday is Dungeon Day for our guild, where we'll get together and run as many normal modes as we can so that everyone who hasn't seen something yet gets to see it.  On Sunday, another run at vet STL for me.  Should be a fun weekend :)
 
Anyway, I had better go work on my human disguise, since I have to go stand in front of people and talk today at work.  See ya'll later.	
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Rocio was just going to say he had a flame thrower malfunction while fighting the Strain. Totes believeable since he lives in Wilderrun.
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Omgomgomg!
 
I knew it! I knew it!
 
 
 
Yesterday I remarked about Rocio outfitting his lair with Exanite. As Exanite provides equal concentrations of all six primal elements.
 
He did this due to his observations that wherever the Genesis Prime, the paragon of life generation and regeneration, resided, the place abounded with the stuff. Acting on a hunch. Rocio also gathered plants rich in Exanite to replace those rich in primal life. He believed that working with the life force of these plants would give him a more balanced energy to reproduce any manner of creature.
 
 
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/game/loremageddon/	
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Rocio, that RP sounds intense. I find it kinda hard to follow the movements of the RP community on Dom side, mostly because I'm very much an outsider looking in most of the time. But I hope we are also raising the dead. :P
 
I've just reached about 300 on my plot renovation. When Drop 3 hit I decided that the old infrastructure I had built up wasn't going to work very well and so hit the dreaded Crate All and restarted, but it was super intimidating. The possibilities overwhelmed a bit and I didn't find my creative mojo until Sunday.
 
Since then it's been going pretty good. I'm working with a Resort Cruiser concept, kind of a battleship with commercial shops and a large central bar/lounge. I might share some screenies later.
 
I'm still a bit sketched out by Drop 3's other affects on housing, though. I've noticed new bugs that are quite frustrating, though they don't crop up too often... the two most annoying are when I'm working with an item and suddenly it despawns back to crate, or auto-places. The other annoyance is that  the CX has kind of destroyed bargain hunting. Although it makes looking for motifs easier (typing Medical will actually get me a listing now), it seems like alternate pricing is never revealed on the CX; consequently you have to fill out a bunch of buy orders and cross your fingers. Pretty bad system IMO, I really hope Carbine retracts this change because it's made decor hunting a lot less entertaining. There are basically no more "Oh sweet, look at the deal on this!" exclamations. :(
 
That said, I'm still happy with the game, and will enjoy building through the holiday season, while any news of Guild Neighbourhoods will be the next incentive to continue subbing into the new year. 
 
Although I might purchase DA:I today. Always good to have a gaming outlet that isn't creatively demanding! :p
 
 	
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Coffee! Gimme.
 
Stayed up way later than I should have.  A periodic RL errand ate some of my time so I got on later than normal.  I made the mistake of swinging by the BHB while I was steeling myself up to go do dailies and got sucked into a couple of conversations until shortly after 11pm :huh:.  In a misguided attempt to make some progress I worked a bit more on the Defile story.  So now I've got the breadcrumb for the Lightspire 20+ event  :D and crawled into bed around 2am :ph34r:
 
Oh and just to troll me, the boom box gave me one Elder Gem leaving me with 9 unconsumed :lol: (need 150 for the key, weekly cap is 140, today is reset day... I think).  At least it wasn't another transmat token.
 
Plans for tonight: Finish farming the EG I need for the key... maybe take a poke at Pyralos and see if I can get into a Lightspire group.  And of course be social when the opportunity presents itself.	
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Coffee! Gimme.
 
Stayed up way later than I should have.  A periodic RL errand ate some of my time so I got on later than normal.  I made the mistake of swinging by the BHB while I was steeling myself up to go do dailies and got sucked into a couple of conversations until shortly after 11pm :huh:.  In a misguided attempt to make some progress I worked a bit more on the Defile story.  So now I've got the breadcrumb for the Lightspire 20+ event  :D and crawled into bed around 2am :ph34r:
 
Oh and just to troll me, the boom box gave me one Elder Gem leaving me with 9 unconsumed :lol: (need 150 for the key, weekly cap is 140, today is reset day... I think).  At least it wasn't another transmat token.
 
Plans for tonight: Finish farming the EG I need for the key... maybe take a poke at Pyralos and see if I can get into a Lightspire group.  And of course be social when the opportunity presents itself.
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If you need Pyralos, give me a call.  I'm becoming an expert on that first stage of attunement.
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Hi Esper! And thank you on the compliment. I get a lot of compliments for my knack for storytelling and my ability to pick up on conflict story elements early on in the game.
 
When Rocio first showed up with his Lifecaller staff leading what he called a Tribe for Nexus, he insisted that he was only doing what the Queen wished. Fellow Rpers who's characters still longed for Arboria decried Rocio as a cowardly traitor to the cause and his use of the Lifecaller staff to increase his abilities was heretical and an offense to the matriarchy.
 
This provided delicious conflict that I want to continue. Rocio was provided with even more encouragement when he heard the words of the Queen during the Council meeting of Drop 3 and is plowing ahead. Sending her a cryptic letter stating, "I am always by your side" Rocio continues to use his abilities and connections to other races to secure a great and glorious future for the Aurin race.	
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Good morning all!
 
I am here with my cup of coffee wishing i wasn't at my work desk. 
Last night there wasn't too much wildstar. i played a little on my esper alt until it was time to record the Podcast. Had bazeele on last night and had a great time talking about wildstar. 
still looking for a really cool theme for my house. i was thinking a high born Cassian house with tall ceilings and large fireplaces. maybe a huge formal dinning room where you can't see the other people at the table... maybe place a manikin or two out. 	
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Good morning all!
 
I am here with my cup of coffee wishing i wasn't at my work desk. 
Last night there wasn't too much wildstar. i played a little on my esper alt until it was time to record the Podcast. Had bazeele on last night and had a great time talking about wildstar. 
still looking for a really cool theme for my house. i was thinking a high born Cassian house with tall ceilings and large fireplaces. maybe a huge formal dinning room where you can't see the other people at the table... maybe place a manikin or two out. 
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Well, it depends on character concept, but what about a museum in a spacious Cassian house?
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i just bought the Spacious Cassian house i was using the Rocketship and had a command center down stairs and had a bar and hang out upstairs that would lead to a treasure room. I like the Idea of a Museum. hhhmmm Thant Can work. 
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This morning was the weekday staples of cold cereal and bad coffee. 
 
Leveling my Stalker has slowed and i only made one level last night. Only one to go though. I was leveling up my Stalker because the guild needs another tank, and my Stalker was already 36. Unfortunately, i guess Stalker tanks are in a really bad place in Drop 3, and my time might have been wasted. :(
 
Guild tried to put together a last minute vet STL last night, but we didn't have a tank. Maybe next time.	
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*rubs forehead* These forums give me a headache.  Well, people, not the forums themselves.
 
Starting a new housing project.  Should I be?  Probably not.  Still need to finish the ice cave on Tekunin, and the Dominion side of the base on Malzek.  Wrote up a giant article on housing design elements for WildStar-Core and the reddit downvote squad was in full effect - I'm not sure how much reach these articles really have because of things like that.  It sucks to put a lot of effort and thought into something to have it just fall flat.
 
Feeling guilty as of late in my lack of feeling like helping new guildies get attuned for GA.  The reasons are many - helped my old guild painstakingly finish Silver Screening for a total of 11 people over several weeks of effort, then another several weeks of bronze attuning.  My guild is already so full of melee that it's hurting our progression - we were stuck on Gravitron Operator all raid night Sunday, mostly because only 4 of the DPS were ranged.  We're already rotating people for non-progression, let alone tuning more.  It's a weird place to be where you're at capacity for raiding but don't want to turn away more active players, who inevitably are going to want to try raiding.  Blergh.
 
On the bright side, at least I got to do group content in Grimvault and The Defile with Pappy the other night.	
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*rubs forehead* These forums give me a headache.  Well, people, not the forums themselves.
 
Starting a new housing project.  Should I be?  Probably not.  Still need to finish the ice cave on Tekunin, and the Dominion side of the base on Malzek.  Wrote up a giant article on housing design elements for WildStar-Core and the reddit downvote squad was in full effect - I'm not sure how much reach these articles really have because of things like that.  It sucks to put a lot of effort and thought into something to have it just fall flat.
 
Feeling guilty as of late in my lack of feeling like helping new guildies get attuned for GA.  The reasons are many - helped my old guild painstakingly finish Silver Screening for a total of 11 people over several weeks of effort, then another several weeks of bronze attuning.  My guild is already so full of melee that it's hurting our progression - we were stuck on Gravitron Operator all raid night Sunday, mostly because only 4 of the DPS were ranged.  We're already rotating people for non-progression, let alone tuning more.  It's a weird place to be where you're at capacity for raiding but don't want to turn away more active players, who inevitably are going to want to try raiding.  Blergh.
 
On the bright side, at least I got to do group content in Grimvault and The Defile with Pappy the other night.
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Currently passing time digging through lore to start the next part of the story based on the new Loremageddon info on primal patterns. Rocio's spectacular failure sends him back to the drawing board and whatdoes he find scribbled there?
 
Yep. More Pell.	
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I'll ask Neph and Norah if we can get you into a chat channel to fill out groups.
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			New thread has been started. :) 	
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