The group has found the Lost Tomb of Kruk-Ma-Kali, but it hasn't been without trial or tribulation.
After Vorian's death at the hand of a beholder, the party entered the Great Valley. There they encountered tribes of hobgoblins, who tried and failed to capture to them. The stronger tribe's spiritual leader and ally of the red dragon Khyrastryx saw the danger they posed, and tried to reason with them.
This was all for naught however, as a great wyvern spotted them on their way towards a mountain pass and flew to warn Khyrastryx. The dragon flew towards the group, trying to gauge their strength before committing herself.
Unfortunately, Chamele, perhaps overconfident in her abilities, launched a lightning bolt at the dragon, revealing herself and her power too soon. The dragon flew straight at her, snatching Chamele up in her jaws. Before losing consciousness, Chamele loosed another lightning bolt into the dragons maw. The dragon bit down, and then dropped Chamele to her death below. The other members of the group made a good showing in defending themselves, but Khyrastryx left them to recover as best she could.
The remaining members decided to hunt her down and avenge Chamele, and proved victorious. The druid's ability to nullify most of the damage caused by the dragon turned the tide of battle. The druid Aldoran then took Chamele with him back to Geanavue to be raised, using some of the dragon's horde as payment. The returned the next day to join Vorian, Kascannia and Cassandra back in the dragon's lair. It was then that the wyvern that they had seen previously attempted to bring the battle to them, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
From there, it did not take long to find the tomb, through the use of divine magics and knowledge that the bard and wizard possessed.
Thus far the dangers of the tomb have proven to be mere annoyances, though this is mostly due to resourcefulness and planning, and it remains to be seen if these will still be in abundance as they delve deeper into the tomb.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Adventure Packs and Coupons
Finally bought the adventure packs today on the last day of the 20% off sale. Also filled up my cart and used the democoupon1 for the 1st time so that I could afford all the sale packs with my current turbine points.
Now I have some new content for my alts to run, and my main to farm for favor and some of the cool loot I've been missing out on. Gem of many facets anyone?
Now I have some new content for my alts to run, and my main to farm for favor and some of the cool loot I've been missing out on. Gem of many facets anyone?
Monday, May 9, 2011
More news from a DDO player on a Mac
Just wanted to let everyone know that the latest release of wine has some more features for directx compatibility that seem to give DDO a little bit more of a boost, at least in my case on an older MacBook Pro (model 1,1 to be exact).
Some of the tools available to LOTRO players, including LotroBoost got me thinking about using symlinks myself. Because I have a slower hard drive in my laptop (5400 rpm), I was used to running DDO off of a flash drive, and usually booting off of an external usb hard drive for a little bit better performance. (which you can't even do on windows without hacks.)
But, using symlinks (learn more in linux or mac by typing 'man ln' into the terminal), I was able to split the dat files between my external hard drive and flash drive, and still boot off of the internal drive.
End result? Far less lag / frame rate drops in large areas like marketplace or outdoor areas, and improved loading times.
Some of the tools available to LOTRO players, including LotroBoost got me thinking about using symlinks myself. Because I have a slower hard drive in my laptop (5400 rpm), I was used to running DDO off of a flash drive, and usually booting off of an external usb hard drive for a little bit better performance. (which you can't even do on windows without hacks.)
But, using symlinks (learn more in linux or mac by typing 'man ln' into the terminal), I was able to split the dat files between my external hard drive and flash drive, and still boot off of the internal drive.
End result? Far less lag / frame rate drops in large areas like marketplace or outdoor areas, and improved loading times.
More news from a DDO player on a Mac
Just wanted to let everyone know that the latest release of wine has some more features for directx compatibility that seem to give DDO a little bit more of a boost, at least in my case on an older MacBook Pro (model 1,1 to be exact).
Some of the tools available to LOTRO players, including LotroBoost got me thinking about using symlinks myself. Because I have a slower hard drive in my laptop (5400 rpm), I was used to running DDO off of a flash drive, and usually booting off of an external usb hard drive for a little bit better performance. (which you can't even do on windows without hacks.)
But, using symlinks (learn more in linux or mac by typing 'man ln' into the terminal), I was able to split the dat files between my external hard drive and flash drive, and still boot off of the internal drive.
End result? Far less lag / frame rate drops in large areas like marketplace or outdoor areas, and improved loading times.
Some of the tools available to LOTRO players, including LotroBoost got me thinking about using symlinks myself. Because I have a slower hard drive in my laptop (5400 rpm), I was used to running DDO off of a flash drive, and usually booting off of an external usb hard drive for a little bit better performance. (which you can't even do on windows without hacks.)
But, using symlinks (learn more in linux or mac by typing 'man ln' into the terminal), I was able to split the dat files between my external hard drive and flash drive, and still boot off of the internal drive.
End result? Far less lag / frame rate drops in large areas like marketplace or outdoor areas, and improved loading times.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Pirate Hats
Well, now that the event is over, I don't feel like I am wasting time by putting togeather this image of my Khyber characters sporting their pirate hats.
Only one has any stat upgrade, and that would be the skullcap on my level 4 drow rogue/ranger. If I would have had more time, a heavy fort +15 intim helmet would have been nice.
I especially like my bard's hat though. But he'll still be wearing his pirate hat for the haggle bonus until I can get this one up to snuff.
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Only one has any stat upgrade, and that would be the skullcap on my level 4 drow rogue/ranger. If I would have had more time, a heavy fort +15 intim helmet would have been nice.
I especially like my bard's hat though. But he'll still be wearing his pirate hat for the haggle bonus until I can get this one up to snuff.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
We be pirates, argh!
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Having a bit of fun with the birthday party hats and the event! I haven't had much time to play it though. Tomorrow I plan on making a composite image of my characters in their respective hats.
If nothing else, each of my characters did get a +2 elixer of supreme ability from the egg hunt.
[/caption]Having a bit of fun with the birthday party hats and the event! I haven't had much time to play it though. Tomorrow I plan on making a composite image of my characters in their respective hats.
If nothing else, each of my characters did get a +2 elixer of supreme ability from the egg hunt.
Monday, February 7, 2011
How to remain sane while slaying...
Assuming your sane to begin with, you might be in the level 8 to 13 range and looking at the Red Fens slaying and thinking 'how can I even get to 7500 slayer in a decent amount of time to make it not completely worthless?' And maybe you can't.
Or maybe you only have short snippets of time to play, where you couldn't finish a quest, but can get something done.
For me, I mostly listen to podcasts, and some of my favorite ones are 'Actual Play' (AP) RPG podcasts, where 'traditional' sit down role players record their game sessions.
The best of these is RPGMP3.com, where they have several hundreds of hours of actual play podcasts, ranging from 2E AD&D to 3e and 4e, retro clones like Castles and Crusades, actual old school like Empire of the Petal Throne, Rolemaster, and Indie as well. It's a great way to hear some traditional RPG in our favorite MMORPG.
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Or maybe you only have short snippets of time to play, where you couldn't finish a quest, but can get something done.
For me, I mostly listen to podcasts, and some of my favorite ones are 'Actual Play' (AP) RPG podcasts, where 'traditional' sit down role players record their game sessions.
The best of these is RPGMP3.com, where they have several hundreds of hours of actual play podcasts, ranging from 2E AD&D to 3e and 4e, retro clones like Castles and Crusades, actual old school like Empire of the Petal Throne, Rolemaster, and Indie as well. It's a great way to hear some traditional RPG in our favorite MMORPG.
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