See Day 14: Place Swap
Thank you for indulging my month of relaxed posting! I had a lot of fun thinking about appropriate screenshots for each prompt.
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Showing posts with label 20 days of. Show all posts
04 September 2011
Day 15: A Fairy Tale Image
Thus concludes Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 14: Place Swap
Thank you for indulging my month of relaxed posting! I had a lot of fun thinking about appropriate screenshots for each prompt.
See Day 14: Place Swap
Thank you for indulging my month of relaxed posting! I had a lot of fun thinking about appropriate screenshots for each prompt.
02 September 2011
Day 14: Place Swap
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 13: A Fond Memory
I realize I am probably going to tauren hell for this, but if I could switch places with one of my characters, I would probably switch with my night elf. She's a priest, but in this case I might make her a druid >_> The reasons are many: she is tall, which is something I have never been, and the night elf is a more appealing model than the human. The Alliance overall has more appealing faction cities where I would like to live. Night elves live for a long time, which means plenty of adventuring, and they also have sweet face tattoos and really ripped arms. Here are some fun adventures Littleclover has had over the years:
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See Day 13: A Fond Memory
I realize I am probably going to tauren hell for this, but if I could switch places with one of my characters, I would probably switch with my night elf. She's a priest, but in this case I might make her a druid >_> The reasons are many: she is tall, which is something I have never been, and the night elf is a more appealing model than the human. The Alliance overall has more appealing faction cities where I would like to live. Night elves live for a long time, which means plenty of adventuring, and they also have sweet face tattoos and really ripped arms. Here are some fun adventures Littleclover has had over the years: |
| Yeah this is a little angsty actually. |
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| Having a nice chat with my BFF's guild charter-signing level 1 |
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| Getting all the achievements. |
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| A neat shot captured by Multishot (25 Fish) |
31 August 2011
Day 13: A Fond Memory
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 12: Inspiring Imagery
Me, with two guildies from my US guild. Both visited me at my place in the US, and one of them is the paladin I frequently mention healing 10s with.
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See Day 12: Inspiring Imagery
Go to Day 14: Place Swap
29 August 2011
Day 12: Inspiring Imagery
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 11: Profession of Choice
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See Day 11: Profession of Choice
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| Princess' room |
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| The sky in Dalaran during the Algalon event |
27 August 2011
Day 11: Profession of Choice
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 10: WoW Crew
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| Engineering |
25 August 2011
Day 10: WoW Crew
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 9: Character's Hometown
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| red light green light |
23 August 2011
Day 9: Character's Hometown
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 8: Vacation Spot
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See Day 8: Vacation Spot
Go to Day 10: WoW Crew
21 August 2011
Day 8: Vacation Spot
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 7: Screenshot of the Year
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| Feralas in autumn? |
19 August 2011
Day 7: Screenshot of the Year
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 6: Favorite Line
I know I've posted these both before, but both of them really strike me when I look at them. The Cairne picture was dramatically pre-lit by the storm, and is especially poignant because Cairne. ;~; The second shot is simple, and I like the repetition of the circles.
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See Day 6: Favorite Line
Go to Day 8: Vacation Spot
17 August 2011
Day 6: Favorite Line
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 5: Title of Choice
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| Don't dream it; be it |
15 August 2011
Day 5: Title of Choice
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 4: Greatest Accomplishment
Go to Day 6: Favorite Line
See Day 4: Greatest Accomplishment
Go to Day 6: Favorite Line
13 August 2011
Day 4: Greatest Accomplishment
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 3: Representing You
Although I have done some other major things I'm proud of (The Insane, the 10m Ulduar drake), I think this has to go to The Scepter of the Shifting Sands.
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See Day 3: Representing You
Go to Day 5: Title of Choice
12 August 2011
Day 3: Representing You
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 2: Player Housing
Go to Day 4: Greatest Accomplishment
See Day 2: Player Housing
Go to Day 4: Greatest Accomplishment
10 August 2011
Day 2: Player Housing
Thus continues Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
See Day 1: Favorite Hangout
I'll have to write about this some day, but uninhabited houses in interesting locations are super important to me. Here is a nice little cabin in Desolace where Aka likes to relax in her downtime.
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See Day 1: Favorite Hangout
I'll have to write about this some day, but uninhabited houses in interesting locations are super important to me. Here is a nice little cabin in Desolace where Aka likes to relax in her downtime.
Go to Day 3: Representing You
08 August 2011
Day 1: Favorite Hangout
Thus begins Saz of World of Saz's Through Your Interface: 15 Days of Screenshots challenge. You can find more participants here.
Go to Day 2: Player Housing
Go to Day 2: Player Housing
05 August 2011
Day 20: On the last day
This is the next day in Saga of Spellbound's 20 days of...WoW blogging challenge. You can find more participants here.
Catch up on Day 19: The Things Aka Carried
I don't know what would make me stop playing WoW entirely - until now my interest has not waned enough for me to give it up for good. There might be another insurmountable fiasco like RealID, or I may become too busy to play, or maybe the servers are shutting down for good. Although it seems to be a popular decision, I don't know if I would destroy or gift any of my stuff; it seems pointless to do either. I would give Akabeko a proper sendoff, maybe throw on my best duds and head to Mulgore or Grizzly Hills or Hyjal or whatever new zones there are to log out for the last time.
At first I didn't think I could write a piece without the prompting of actually quitting the game, but I toyed around with the idea of either promoting her and fading to black as her life comes to its happy and natural conclusion, or implying that she continues to fight the same fights over and over again, and is finally destroyed by them. Although I have read a few series that end that way, suggesting that the characters go running headfirst into the fray and meet their ends, and I love the heartbreaking poignancy of that sacrifice, I couldn't do it. Then I poked through a few fanfictions, got my head completely filled with present-tense, and sat down to write this. Not gonna lie, it actually made me pretty sad!!
~~~
When the summons come, no one is really surprised. She gets congratulations and backslaps from the other guild members. Fellow druids are more awed, and read the letter with reverence before turning wide eyes on her.
Dutifully, Akabeko attends the audience in her best armor, repaired and polished until the leather shines as if not stained by gore, and smells more like beeswax than death. She stands stiffly, like a soldier, and idly tries to remember how she is connected to the Archdruid in her clan while he talks.
"Long have you worked with druidic power, Akabeko."
"Yes, Archdruid."
"The Cenarion Circle has recognized your accomplishments." He lets out a soft sigh. "To become an archdruid requires intense commitment and struggle, more than you have known until now."
"I understand, Archdruid."
"You have been an instrument of the Horde. To join the Cenarion Circle is to fully renounce hostility against druids of the Alliance."
Her eyes flick only briefly to the night elves also gathered in the hall before she responds, "I accept, Archdruid." She hopes they can't hear the bloodshed in her voice.
That night, there is a tauren celebration to honor her raising, and the next day she is roused early for training. It is as difficult as Hamuul promised, and she struggles and questions her resolve and submits to more training. Akabeko has always existed as two natures: rage and serenity, motion and stasis. Now they teach her to combine them, and she finds peace as a dire bear and rage as an elder tree.
Her duties change; she can no longer storm threatening keeps with an array of allies at her back. Now she travels with emissaries, and instead of the colorful but serviceable armor of her youth, she wears neutral leathers designed to radiate peace. Rather than her beloved guild mates, she spends her time with trolls and night elves and worgen, all druids, all part of their powerful alliance. The trolls appreciate her grasp of their unique humor, the worgen find camaraderie in their bestial appearances, the night elves accept her insatiable wanderlust, and her fellow tauren find solace in talk of their home and culture.
Hamuul Runetotem dies. She attends his funeral and is given new responsibilities the next day as each Archdruid is elevated in the peculiar hierarchy. There is less time for travel now, and instead of checking on the Overgrowth in the Barrens or the Cenarion Grove in Desolace, she is spending more and more time in Moonglade, negotiating. Akabeko is considered patient and fair, although her methods can be fierce. In addition to lobbying for greater cooperation between Horde and Alliance, she becomes a compassionate ear for young and old druids alike.
She is getting older. The hot rage of her youth, tempered in her training, is now almost completely gone. She is all serenity. Her eyes change from deep red to amber, and her fur looks dry but still curiously organic. No one comments; who can say what powers consume those venerable archdruids in their waning years?
The wanderlust returns. Akabeko presides over two new archdruids as they are raised. She still tries to council Garrosh, now not so young, not so headstrong. When able, she walks around the Moonglade, and sometimes tiny shoots and flowers follow her footsteps. Many times she wakes in the night, indescribably thirsty. Her fur feels stiff and brittle and she's often taken with fantasies where her body is something else. She confides in a friend, an aging troll woman who also fought in Northrend, and is rewarded with a soothing but patronizing pat on the arm. Of course her body is something else; that's what druids do!
It is dusk, and Akabeko is on the shore of Lake Elune'ara. She is slowly walking toward the Barrow Downs. In her fist she clutches the cord of her seashell necklace - for the first time in her life it feels heavy and she has to take it off. She stops abruptly, and something prompts her to look down. On her finger, a tiny vine is twining from tip to base. She looks at the palm, where a curling leaf is sprouting.
"I am something else," she says, half-remembering. The words tumble from her, redolent with power, and where they land wildflowers spring to life. "Aaahhh," she sighs, and breathes petals. She is stretching, growing, shifting upwards. She raises her arms and a shawl of moss drapes her shoulders. She shakes her mane, and it rattles with the sound of autumn leaves. She wiggles her roots, which dig further into the ground, and laughs throatily, "Ha ha ha," and each syllable is a mushroom, an acorn, a sapling.
"You're back," she sobs happily, and the tears nourish the new growth around her. I was always something else, is her last thought before her eyes close and her bark stiffens. A breeze blows across the lake, shaking a seashell necklace hung amongst the yellow leaves of an unusual tree.
~~~~
Thus concludes the 20 Days of Blogging challenge. It took me over 3 months to get through it all, but I'm so glad I participated, both because it prompted me to share more with my readers and also because it made for some guaranteed content. Thanks, Saga!!
Catch up on Day 19: The Things Aka Carried
I don't know what would make me stop playing WoW entirely - until now my interest has not waned enough for me to give it up for good. There might be another insurmountable fiasco like RealID, or I may become too busy to play, or maybe the servers are shutting down for good. Although it seems to be a popular decision, I don't know if I would destroy or gift any of my stuff; it seems pointless to do either. I would give Akabeko a proper sendoff, maybe throw on my best duds and head to Mulgore or Grizzly Hills or Hyjal or whatever new zones there are to log out for the last time.
At first I didn't think I could write a piece without the prompting of actually quitting the game, but I toyed around with the idea of either promoting her and fading to black as her life comes to its happy and natural conclusion, or implying that she continues to fight the same fights over and over again, and is finally destroyed by them. Although I have read a few series that end that way, suggesting that the characters go running headfirst into the fray and meet their ends, and I love the heartbreaking poignancy of that sacrifice, I couldn't do it. Then I poked through a few fanfictions, got my head completely filled with present-tense, and sat down to write this. Not gonna lie, it actually made me pretty sad!!
~~~
When the summons come, no one is really surprised. She gets congratulations and backslaps from the other guild members. Fellow druids are more awed, and read the letter with reverence before turning wide eyes on her.
You are formally summoned to Moonglade to appear before the council of Archdruids.It's signed Archdruid Hamuul Runetotem, and the spidery handwriting looks like something the impossibly old tauren might produce.
Dutifully, Akabeko attends the audience in her best armor, repaired and polished until the leather shines as if not stained by gore, and smells more like beeswax than death. She stands stiffly, like a soldier, and idly tries to remember how she is connected to the Archdruid in her clan while he talks.
"Long have you worked with druidic power, Akabeko."
"Yes, Archdruid."
"The Cenarion Circle has recognized your accomplishments." He lets out a soft sigh. "To become an archdruid requires intense commitment and struggle, more than you have known until now."
"I understand, Archdruid."
"You have been an instrument of the Horde. To join the Cenarion Circle is to fully renounce hostility against druids of the Alliance."
Her eyes flick only briefly to the night elves also gathered in the hall before she responds, "I accept, Archdruid." She hopes they can't hear the bloodshed in her voice.
That night, there is a tauren celebration to honor her raising, and the next day she is roused early for training. It is as difficult as Hamuul promised, and she struggles and questions her resolve and submits to more training. Akabeko has always existed as two natures: rage and serenity, motion and stasis. Now they teach her to combine them, and she finds peace as a dire bear and rage as an elder tree.
Her duties change; she can no longer storm threatening keeps with an array of allies at her back. Now she travels with emissaries, and instead of the colorful but serviceable armor of her youth, she wears neutral leathers designed to radiate peace. Rather than her beloved guild mates, she spends her time with trolls and night elves and worgen, all druids, all part of their powerful alliance. The trolls appreciate her grasp of their unique humor, the worgen find camaraderie in their bestial appearances, the night elves accept her insatiable wanderlust, and her fellow tauren find solace in talk of their home and culture.
Hamuul Runetotem dies. She attends his funeral and is given new responsibilities the next day as each Archdruid is elevated in the peculiar hierarchy. There is less time for travel now, and instead of checking on the Overgrowth in the Barrens or the Cenarion Grove in Desolace, she is spending more and more time in Moonglade, negotiating. Akabeko is considered patient and fair, although her methods can be fierce. In addition to lobbying for greater cooperation between Horde and Alliance, she becomes a compassionate ear for young and old druids alike.
She is getting older. The hot rage of her youth, tempered in her training, is now almost completely gone. She is all serenity. Her eyes change from deep red to amber, and her fur looks dry but still curiously organic. No one comments; who can say what powers consume those venerable archdruids in their waning years?
The wanderlust returns. Akabeko presides over two new archdruids as they are raised. She still tries to council Garrosh, now not so young, not so headstrong. When able, she walks around the Moonglade, and sometimes tiny shoots and flowers follow her footsteps. Many times she wakes in the night, indescribably thirsty. Her fur feels stiff and brittle and she's often taken with fantasies where her body is something else. She confides in a friend, an aging troll woman who also fought in Northrend, and is rewarded with a soothing but patronizing pat on the arm. Of course her body is something else; that's what druids do!
It is dusk, and Akabeko is on the shore of Lake Elune'ara. She is slowly walking toward the Barrow Downs. In her fist she clutches the cord of her seashell necklace - for the first time in her life it feels heavy and she has to take it off. She stops abruptly, and something prompts her to look down. On her finger, a tiny vine is twining from tip to base. She looks at the palm, where a curling leaf is sprouting.
"I am something else," she says, half-remembering. The words tumble from her, redolent with power, and where they land wildflowers spring to life. "Aaahhh," she sighs, and breathes petals. She is stretching, growing, shifting upwards. She raises her arms and a shawl of moss drapes her shoulders. She shakes her mane, and it rattles with the sound of autumn leaves. She wiggles her roots, which dig further into the ground, and laughs throatily, "Ha ha ha," and each syllable is a mushroom, an acorn, a sapling.
"You're back," she sobs happily, and the tears nourish the new growth around her. I was always something else, is her last thought before her eyes close and her bark stiffens. A breeze blows across the lake, shaking a seashell necklace hung amongst the yellow leaves of an unusual tree.
~~~~
Thus concludes the 20 Days of Blogging challenge. It took me over 3 months to get through it all, but I'm so glad I participated, both because it prompted me to share more with my readers and also because it made for some guaranteed content. Thanks, Saga!!
30 July 2011
Day 19: The Things Aka Carried
This is the next day in Saga of Spellbound's 20 days of...WoW blogging challenge. You can find more participants here.
Catch up on Day 18: My favorite outfit
I get really self-conscious showing pictures of my bags because people inevitably react with shock that I keep so much shit around. Do you worst...!!
Go to Day 20: On the last day
Catch up on Day 18: My favorite outfit
I get really self-conscious showing pictures of my bags because people inevitably react with shock that I keep so much shit around. Do you worst...!!
Go to Day 20: On the last day
24 July 2011
Day 18: My favorite outfit
This is the next day in Saga of Spellbound's 20 days of...WoW blogging challenge. You can find more participants here.
Catch up on Day 17: My favorite spot
Most of my favorite inspirations come from tier, specifically because it is designed to match and evoke a certain image. I'm not super familiar with other matching sets, but I do have a certain fondness for the Twill set. My DK-banker sports 8/8 full Twill and a Diamond-Tipped Cane. /flex epeen
Akabeko has the following druid sets:
Lately I have really liked druid tier; even Lasherweave grew on me (although that helm...eehhhh). T12 is the first in a while that made me say wow, what? The helm looks like a dog cone (obligatory worgen joke), and it's incredibly drab, neither fiery nor green.
Go to Day 19: The Things Aka Carried
Catch up on Day 17: My favorite spot
Most of my favorite inspirations come from tier, specifically because it is designed to match and evoke a certain image. I'm not super familiar with other matching sets, but I do have a certain fondness for the Twill set. My DK-banker sports 8/8 full Twill and a Diamond-Tipped Cane. /flex epeen
Akabeko has the following druid sets:
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| Thunderheart |
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| Cenarion |
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| Feralheart |
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| Genesis |
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| Nightsong |
Go to Day 19: The Things Aka Carried
18 July 2011
Day 17: My favorite spot
This is the next day in Saga of Spellbound's 20 days of...WoW blogging challenge. You can find more participants here.
Catch up on Day 16: What I miss
This is a surprisingly hard question in-game. Although I do write RP-style stories, my game time is mostly spent idling wherever I happen to be when I tab out and get distracted, or in the location I need to be to do whatever I'm working on. The closest I ever came to having "a spot" to hang out in was during WotLK, when I would fly down to the old night elf arches over the lake in Crystalsong. The scenery was gorgeous, the music was peaceful, and I could idle and chat forever.
My current hangout is Orgrimmar, but my favorite spots are either Thunderbluff or Silvermoon. Both have the convenience of major cities, but both are a million times more attractive than Org. TB can be a bit confusing at times, but with a flying mount it's a breeze.
IRL, my favorite spot is typically tied to the presence of someone I care about, but since I am a bit of a homebody I do like to hang with friends lolling on the couch or dancing in the kitchen. I am currently fond of my stout little couch, which is great for lounging and napping. On weekends I use it as an epic desk chair.
Go to Day 18: My favorite outfit
Catch up on Day 16: What I miss
This is a surprisingly hard question in-game. Although I do write RP-style stories, my game time is mostly spent idling wherever I happen to be when I tab out and get distracted, or in the location I need to be to do whatever I'm working on. The closest I ever came to having "a spot" to hang out in was during WotLK, when I would fly down to the old night elf arches over the lake in Crystalsong. The scenery was gorgeous, the music was peaceful, and I could idle and chat forever.
My current hangout is Orgrimmar, but my favorite spots are either Thunderbluff or Silvermoon. Both have the convenience of major cities, but both are a million times more attractive than Org. TB can be a bit confusing at times, but with a flying mount it's a breeze.
IRL, my favorite spot is typically tied to the presence of someone I care about, but since I am a bit of a homebody I do like to hang with friends lolling on the couch or dancing in the kitchen. I am currently fond of my stout little couch, which is great for lounging and napping. On weekends I use it as an epic desk chair.
Go to Day 18: My favorite outfit
12 July 2011
Day 16: What I miss
This is the next day in Saga of Spellbound's 20 days of...WoW blogging challenge. You can find more participants here.
Catch up on Day 15: Wallpaper
This has me stumped! I know I miss queuing for heroics solo, confident that I could heal anything while half-paying attention and be done in 30 minutes. I unfortunately need badges at the moment, but I am sad that I don't look forward to heroics anymore because they are so freaking long. Even when I can queue with guildies, I feel like I'm losing a lot of time.
I miss some zones that have become a little less beautiful, like Loch Modan and Azshara. I miss secret quests that you stumbled on by chance, rather than being directed to the area by an unrelated but well-meaning quest. Although I am mostly down with the quest updates, and the ease with which you can get a zone quest achievement, I want there to be more quests tucked away, to be sought out or stumbled upon at random.
I also miss attunements /ducks tomatoes. I know that predates Cata, but there it is. Even if it were just a quest chain requiring some heroics or what-have-you, even if it were account bound, I would like to feel like I did a little bit of work to break into the big bad raid instance.
Go to Day 17: My favorite spot
Catch up on Day 15: Wallpaper
This has me stumped! I know I miss queuing for heroics solo, confident that I could heal anything while half-paying attention and be done in 30 minutes. I unfortunately need badges at the moment, but I am sad that I don't look forward to heroics anymore because they are so freaking long. Even when I can queue with guildies, I feel like I'm losing a lot of time.
I miss some zones that have become a little less beautiful, like Loch Modan and Azshara. I miss secret quests that you stumbled on by chance, rather than being directed to the area by an unrelated but well-meaning quest. Although I am mostly down with the quest updates, and the ease with which you can get a zone quest achievement, I want there to be more quests tucked away, to be sought out or stumbled upon at random.
I also miss attunements /ducks tomatoes. I know that predates Cata, but there it is. Even if it were just a quest chain requiring some heroics or what-have-you, even if it were account bound, I would like to feel like I did a little bit of work to break into the big bad raid instance.
Go to Day 17: My favorite spot
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