::epic quest::
Yesterday in WoW I was going to get the 6 emblems I still needed for my new gloves and call it a day. I took a random group and ended up in the Pit of Saron, one of the new instances implemented in patch 3.3, which happened a week or 2 ago, so they are still very new and popular.

The rest of the group wanted to clear the entire instance, which is unusual, usually anything that can be skipped will be, as only the bosses drop the coveted emblems. After a bit I gleaned they were after an item that drops on trash mobs and they really wanted it! I thought it was an item that you could use in combination with emblems to get something special. I was not sure I wanted that because I wanted my gloves and getting such an item would mean I had to save up my emblems!

About halfway through the item actually dropped! It was a battered hilt. "This item begins a quest", said the tooltip. Everyone roll need was the order and so I did. I won the roll. There were groans and gratzes and I politely said "cool" in party chat ;p. I linked it in guild chat with a questionmark and there was a lot of excitement. Hmm. We finished the instance and I started the quest. What followed was one of the most awesome epic questlines I have ever done. I did it all in one day, I just couldn't stop.

First you take it to the Sunreavers in Icecrown at Quel'Delar's rest to ask them what it might be. They don't know and send you to Korialstrasz (aka Krasus), the red dragon consort at Wyrmrest Temple. He knows of a book but the Silver Covenant, the Sunreaver's rivals, got it first. Darn! You need to go to Dalaran and ask for help in getting it. Luckily this person is in the Filthy Animal inn, center of Horde life in Dalaran. You are send into the sewers to gather information. You end up killing an informer for the information they carry. Then you have to infiltrate the Silver Covenant order. You need to get a tabard. You get this from the guy who does the laundry in exchange for some help. So you help with the laundry. All in a day's work for a hero.

Now it gets fun. The tabard is enchanted and you get a disguise when wearing it so you can go into an area that's normally closed off for members of the Horde. There you get the book of a scribe. You return with it to the Sunreavers in Icecrown. Turns out the blade they are guarding and your hilt are Quel'Delar! Blood-Queen Lana'Thel of the San'layn (not a clue who they are, Scourge bad guys anyway) pops up and tells you a bit about the history of the sword before she destroys it.

The Sunreavers are now determined to restore the sword as it is part of their heritage. You are send to first reforge and then to temper the sword in 2 instances. But alas, the blade is not restored! Woe! A geas prompts you to go to the 3rd of the Icrown instances. When you enter Uther the Lightbringer is there and warns you to stop. The sword escapes and attacks you (if you know this you will bring a friend with good armour, I got a random passerby to help out). Then you conquer the sword and Uther tells you to cleanse it of evil in the Sunwell. Okay why not.

You travel to Quel'Danas. The people there are not impressed and ask you to prove that you really carry Quel'delar. Okay. You hunt down the corpse of Thalorien Dawnseeker, the original owner, and have some sort of vision where you go back in time and help him defeat some Scourge. He is happy you helped him and hands you the certificate of ownership (nah, he gives a blessing). With this you return to the entrance to the Sunwell.

You get to go in. This is epic. The Sunwell is blazing and you meet with Lor'themar, better known as "that guy who rules Silvermoon, what's his name". You throw the sword in the Sunwell and there is a spot of bother because Silvermoon guy thinks he can pick it up but it is YOURS alone. Once this is cleared up you return to Icecrown to talk to the Sunreavers. The sword is yours!

Of course, as a Shaman I can't wield swords. So the sword goes into the Argent Crusade vaults and I got to pick up a really bloody nice mace instead: Cudgel of Furious Justice. And I also got my gloves ;p

::dustbunnies::
Gosh, it's been a while! Lots of things happend since the last entry, a lot of it more of the same. Such is life. The big change is my move, I finally traded my shoebox apartment for one the size of at least 2 shoeboxes! This is amazing and great. I made a trip to Atlanta and met a bunch of formerly virtual friends. That was a lot of fun. I visited my first con, that was hilarious.

Now that winter is approaching and the days get shorter I get crabbier and play more WoW, which alternately cheers me up or makes me more crabby. Work is as always a necessary evil. The lottery gods seem unwilling to release me from its plight ;p

My love for FMA is still intense but hasn't been properly fed for a while which makes me sad. I reread a sad fic last weekend and it's still affecting me. I now mostly collect old fic for my psp or iphone.

So all in all nothing earth shattering but a sign of life, which is posivte, right? Right?

::quick update::
Not much posting happens right now, I'm spending time on Facebook and Twitter perfecting the art of expressing myself in short sentences and role playing. Fun stuff!

::also::
Kokoro no junbi. It means something like preparing for a date or get together, Japanese people need time to mentally prepare for this and don't like to do things with friends right away on the spur of the moment.

It also means that I am somehow Japanese apparently. My Kokoro no junbi is sky-high ;p
(I've been going through files on my Macbook, doing some cleaning up and finding all these snippets of text I'd saved.)

::amusing::
From the Penny Arcade forums, on Harry Potter:
Some of the spell names bothered me because their Latin referencing technique was so derivative. Some of the names were cool and hard to get the etymology behind.
Then she'd drop a name on us like Fenrir Greyback. I wonder if he's a werewolf?

It's obviously part of some kind of secret werewolf identification act.
Once you get bitten you're required to change your name to something so obvious that a bricked monkey could realize that your a werewolf.
We should enact similar laws for pedophiles. Then they'd have to change their names to Pedo Toddlerfondler or something along those lines.

::trufax::
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of ever having a different past.

::machima::
I'm a big fan of the wow machima made by Nyhm. There seems to be a little uncertainty if he has quit making them or not This one is bloody awesome:



"How it feel like, I'm asking cos' I gotta wonder, to get your ass kicked by a girl hunter?"

::late::
This is a holiday video but it's really cute:

::wow woe::
I had a very good WoW weekend, not to much time spend on it but enough to get some nice things done: a proto drake mount (Green); a crawfish pet (Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box); a crocodile pet (Toothy) and a new title (Champion of the Frozen Wastes). But this morning I check the guild website and the officers pulled the plug out of it. Damn. What now? I'm not sure actually.

::nura::
Another new Pullip! This is Nahh-ato, the Arabian genie. Now dressed in Barasuishou stock, until the Gothic stock has been replenished ;p I'm working on that.