120510-12302014-morning-coffee-fateful-choices

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Well I'm still sick. I felt a lot better during the evening but nope I still need lots and lots of rest. As we close out the New Year a lot of us will be making huge resolutions to help us be better people.  But the truth is, it's not the big goals but the little Fateful Choice we make that impact how much we weigh, how much we save, and how much we stop smoking by 12/31 next year.
 
Life's full of little choices, MMOs aren't usually. That's why I like that Wildstar has one time Achievements. One alt has the Expert Investigator achievement However, I believe these one time achivements should also have titles because as good as I feel, I can't really share my Investiga-awesome skills with others.
 
I also wish they had more fateful decisions. This is hard in MMOs because you can't have everyone have alternative endings. One game I downloaded on my Ipad reminded me how much I missed Fateful Choices.  I took my character to a mage school where the headmage thoroughly warned me about Dark Magic. The characters were nice and friendly and sent me on a mission to a cave of spiders to collect a Spider Queen for a school project. On the way , I turned aside to a builidng and found a building that turned out to be a school of dark magic.
 
But instead of heeding the warnings I wandered around. "Don't go in there!" Said a dark Wizard as I opened a door. "It's full of Monsters. Some old Necromancer must have awakened them!"
 
"Sounds like a "Level and Loot" Opportunity to me!" I said, blithely walking in. After slaughtering everything inside I found a treasure chest and a floaty skull. The skull was all Magneto like and trying to attract me. And who am I to turn down loot right?
 
After that I go on to the spider cave, kill tons of spiders (Holy cow) Get my spider queen and head back to the Magic School to complete the project.
 
But the minute I got there, something was wrong. It was night. Several hours had passed and I didn't know what happened. Everyone was... dead?! I rush to the headmasters. He was lying on the floor.  The Skull I had picked up had possessed me and used me to kill everyone!  He proceeds to reanimate the Headmaster, possess him, then told me to go do some stuff. After I furiously attacked him in a rage, he one shotted me. :(
 
When I rezed back on the map, I rushed back to the school. There had to be something I could do! When I got there, everyone was back! They were alive! Thinking there was some glitch in the game I went back to the headmasters office. My heart dropped. The necromancer was still there. He said. "I reanimated everyone after you decided to die at my hand.  Now are you ready to do this?"
 
I had a choice. "Accept this quest from the person who murdered everyone?  Or Die."
 
I'd never been so thoroughly defeated in a game. 
 
Rocio will be doing his adventures on Thursday. It's kinda semi-closed RP but if you want to join I can still invite you ICly to see what he's going to do. RP in this game is surprisingly resilient.  Suki Stillriver's Teahouse and the Boulder are still popping strong and new Circles and guilds are forming all the time. I do my best to support them all.	
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Haven't really done on of these before but it was such an amazing couple of days I thought, why not? As many of you may know from several of my posts I have been sorely unhappy with Wildstar, with much of it revolving around the lack of low level PVP and then what I perceive to be silly decisions on the part of Carbine. Specifically the weirdness with costumes and levels/class as well as the ridiculous level cap on mining. Needless to say my time in game has been rather limited and then a wonderful thing happened.
 
I went to visit a place I had visited before Fernthorn Tavern, I just went in for a cold cider and found dancing and a show being put on by Howard Fern. So dance I did and friends were made and as if that wasn't enough. Howard gave me a job as a PR (still not quite sure what a PR is) advertising for his radio shows, (shameless plug forthcoming Howard Fern's Serious Rock Show Live From Fernthorn Tavern and Mish Mash Monday Live from the Black Hoods Bar in Thayd) which I started on Monday. Now you might say jeez Sno that seems like a great weekend, but wonderful? Well guess what it just gets better. Last night at the Mish Mash I fell in  love, we danced all night and then we talked until I fell asleep with my head in her lap.	
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			Awwwwwwww...  :wub:	
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Well I'm still sick. I felt a lot better during the evening but nope I still need lots and lots of rest. As we close out the New Year a lot of us will be making huge resolutions to help us be better people.  But the truth is, it's not the big goals but the little Fateful Choice we make that impact how much we weigh, how much we save, and how much we stop smoking by 12/31 next year.
 
Life's full of little choices, MMOs aren't usually. That's why I like that Wildstar has one time Achievements. One alt has the Expert Investigator achievement However, I believe these one time achivements should also have titles because as good as I feel, I can't really share my Investiga-awesome skills with others.
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Needless to say my time in game has been rather limited and then a wonderful thing happened.
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Rocio, I'm feeling ya on the sicks. x.X Woke up this morning and the mild cold had apparently decided to steamroll me through the night. Urgh I feel awful.
 
On the bright side, this happened yesterday:
 
 
Yay. Funny thing was, it was dinner time so I glanced at my XP bar to check my progress (thinking I'd maybe try and finish afterwards). It said I was at "100.0%" - what. xD Still 49 though, so I just raced to the nearest mob and wee.
 
Now I have two level capped characters and no real ability to do much beyond dailies with either of them. :S	
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Now I have two level capped characters and no real ability to do much beyond dailies with either of them. :S
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Lujate's dead on.  If you can handle the daily zones with a partner, then you can handle vet adventures.  Do those a bit to gear up and you're ready to try your hand at vet dungeons.  You can also hit normal mode SSM which is level 50, for gear.
 
The vet dungeons are hard but like anything else in game, with patience and practice any guild can beat them.
 
Just ask my guild.  At least twice a week (sometimes more) we take Daggers into vet dungeons and bash our heads on boss fights.  We work hard to learn the mechanics and while we may not win at first, we keep trying, week after week, until we do.  We ask our guys to give it everything they have.  No one gets carried - but every time we go back the improvement is obvious to everyone.  We're at the point now where we can complete STL and KV every time we take a guild group in, and we're starting on Skullcano this weekend.  And we're gonna keep rolling until we've mastered it all and we're standing on the doorstep of the Genetic Archives ready to take on a bigger challenge.
 
You don't have to have the best gear to win.  You don't have to have the best reactions.  You don't need to sacrifice all your free time or run three raid nights a week.  You just have to have a group that's got enough heart to keep on trying and never give up.	
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			Nephele, if not for that whole RP thing, you guys sound like guild utopia.	
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			Thanks, y'all. The biggest hurdle for the other half and I is just that I really don't want to pug. >_< But we've had a lot of trouble finding a fitting RP guild (just in terms of story that our characters would believably join), so we're still drifting on our own (with three other friends, one of whom doesn't like dungeoning nearly as much as us, and the other two aren't capped yet xD). I will keep hope, though. :3	
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