Friday, August 30, 2013

Surprise! No Withdrawal

Ok, so since Wednesday I have not touched a game. That's practically THREE DAYS people!! Unless I'm completely isolated from my computer or internet, I am on some form of video game at least once a day. So three days is huge for me.

And the best part?

No withdrawal!

It sounds really sad, but when I first started W101, P101, WoW, EE, etc, I couldn't put it down. I would play out my battle tactics before I went sleep every night. It's quite sad, I get addicted quite easily. So these three days are very... therapeutic? Ok, I wouldn't go that far.

I also went out driving the other day. Couldn't stop thinking of this:

^^ Image credit to owner ^^

I'm also on chapter 3 of LOTR. Aragorn has already been mentioned. WHAT.

When I was little I used to call him Acorn. I don't know - maybe my speech impediment was worse then (it's better, no worries, I only trip over words on occasion but I know everyone does that).

§Emma

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Friday, August 23, 2013

Level 40

So just to give you guys an update so you don't think I've completely abandoned you: Skyta is level 40 and working in the Dustwallow Marshes. I really don't have anything else except that she bought a mount, and has switched her Specialization to combat (rather than assassination).

§Emma

Monday, August 19, 2013

Most Epic Anime People

(Note, this is all my own opinion, so don't judge.)

I'm going to do a total of five and find random pictures of them from google; so yeah, I don't own the images, the books and characters, etc...

So... onward!!


5) Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Ok, so one of the most determined people I know (*can recall), Ed's heroic characteristics definitely make him pretty epic. His powers of instant alchemy and protection of those he loves (yes, that's a power), are never ending in surprise.

4) L (Death Note)

For those of you who've seen Death Note, I don't need to explain. However, for those of you who haven't, L is a mastermind, genius, criminal tracker of the unknown. How do you track someone you can't see, don't know their location, and still manage to pick up on subtle hints you never thought worthy of your attention. HIM.

3) Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Talk about super strength of will and mind and pure determination of perseverance, I don't think Luffy could find a better first mate.
2) Kisuki Urahara (Bleach)

Ok, you don't want him to be your teacher. Especially if you're a Soul Reaper in training. You won't even know its this guy as your shoved face first into impossible duels that your best friend will solve (you've got no chance). I really want to learn this dudes history already!! (Sincerely, episode 72)

1) Xerxes Break (Pandora Hearts)

...
I'm done.
*walks away*


Nooo! Emily!!
(Image copyright to author. Scan hosted by mangareader.net)

So there you have it my friends!! I now need to find another category to do... 

Oh, and I'm not being sexist by not having any girls here. If I had to choose one it would be Erza Scarlet, but I decided on 5 so... Don't hate me! She's awesome! I swear, she's freaking amazing.


§Emma

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Journey to Sunstrider Isle, "You're a long way from home."

Hello everyone! Recently, I became bored with questing in Desolace, so I decided to page dr. google and figure out how to get to Stranglethorn (since I somehow had a quest there). The ending result? I traveled from the bottom of the Eastern Kingdoms all the way to the top. 

Duration: 5 hours. 

First I had to fly from Desolace back to Darnassus - took a while. It was nighttime so the sky was pretty. In fact, the first 2.5 hours was from 1:00 to 3:30 am for me. Finished it this morning. Guess you can say I'm tired XD

Turns out you can catch a ship in Rut'Theran Village to Stormwind City.

Here I go :D

I started out by going down to Stranglethorn - yeah, I had to trek through Elwynn Forest and Duskwood. That was fun -_- Anyway, when I reached Stranglethorn, I became bored pretty quickly. Not to mention I was chased by Goblins. So I decided, why not start my journey to Silvermoon City? I'm already on the Eastern Kingdoms, so why not?

First I had to get to the bottom of the continent, which would be Booty Bay. I strangely like that place. Very nice. Anyway, I took a griffin ride back up to Stormwind, ran down the harbor, and started swimming!

First checkpoint: the Wetlands.

Checkpoint: Dun Modr

Checkpoint: Athani Highlands

Traveling through Tirisfal Glades.
Deaths: 1

Swimming along the coast of Tirisfal Glades. Once I passed it, an invisible wall blocked me, so I had turn back and go by land. 

Traveling through the Western Plaguelands. 

Eventually, I was forced to go through the Eastern Plaguelands (levels 40-45) if only to get to the other coastline and swim again.
Deaths: 2

However, I made a fascinating discovery: 

THE SIGN SAYS "TO QUEL'THALAS"!!!

Basically, there was this portal at the mountains in the Eastern Plaguelands that brought you straight to the Ghostlands :D
From there... You can figure out the rest yourself.

Destination: Eversong Woods

Deaths: 1 (by guards). 
As a ghost I went into Silvermoon City, I can live with that XD

Destination: Sunstrider Isle
As a goal to travel up the entire continent, I made it to Sunstrider Isle and to the top of Falthrien Academy. That dude kneeling in the middle of the place was neutral with me :)

Still not convinced? Think I faked all of it?












BOOM.
I should get a medal. But I wont (but I should).

XD

Next stop? GILNEAS! I can practically go wherever I want to in the Eastern Kingdoms now. I also have four places I can quest: Desolace, the South Barrens, Stranglethorn Vale, and the Western Plaguelands. Left, right, up, or down? Lol.

§Emma

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Just Another Day In The Neighborhood...

 So I was walking into the Ghostlands with Aroliana, and my iPod was on shuffle, when a LOTR songs came up with these lyircs:
Where once was light... now darkness falls.
Where once was light... love is no more.
Sung in the saddest voice ever (it's Gollum's Song, btw). It gave me chills...

Pandaren skeleton. Lovely.

 Standing on air. Totally natural. Nothing wrong here.

 Have I ever told you how much I absolutely LOVE those things??

 That would be an Undead and Blood Elf... Awkward.

Anyone else want a restraunt like this? Cause I do. Honestly, a giant pot steaming with rice and dumplings and all things yummy right in front of you so help yourself. That's now added to my bucket list :)

Well, I did get to ride a robot and beat up a bunch of goblins. Anyhoo, why is there a little girl here in the first place other than to be a robotic mastermind?!


In the end, today was extremely productive (well... my definition of productive). Skyta is level 33, I quested Everstyria to level 10 (one day! Not too rare, though), as well as jumped Aroliana from level 8 to 14 where she's now working on the Ghostlands (and hating zombies... nothing new). 

Right now, all my characters are in some depressing, "let's fight the zombies", barren area... and I'm not too fond of staying up till 2 am and then having nightmares... I think I'll write some tonight - either editing ABW or planning out Mievren.

OH! I haven't shared my smart moment yet, have I??

Well, two days ago I was hyped up on caramel iced coffee and blabbering on about my new book, Irunda, to my mom, talking about how I might want it to be a series or something, when suddenly I realized TRILOGY!!

Basically, Irunda would be book 3 of the whole thing, because all the characters from 1 and 2 tie together and there's SO MANY heart wrenching feels and GAH! I was freaking out. Anyhoo, Mievren is book 1, and some of it will be up on Figment. Irunda is there as well, too. You should check it out ;D

§Emma

Left or Right?

So right now, at level 33, Skyta can either start questing in Desolace and help the Night Elves... OR she can move over to the South Barrens and aid the Humans.

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Since it originally sent me over to Desolace, I'll start there, but I guarantee you, I will be back and quest through the South Barrens, because I feel bad just leaving them there.

WHY BLIZZARD!? WHY!? You should know by now I'm very indecisive.

§Emma

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Into Silvermoon City

Hey! So I've been playing WoW a lot lately, and I created a new Blood Elf Paladin (I had one before, and she was epic), as well as a new Pandarian Hunter (one of those too). So... Meet Aroliana and Everstyeria!


It's totally awesome and all, the only problem I'm having trouble wrapping my head around is that when I enter the game with Skyta I'm on the version for Wrath of the Lich King, but then I enter with Aroliana and I'm on the version of The Burning Crusade (which makes sense since she's a BE). And then, of course, when I enter with Everstyeria, I get Mists of Pandaria.

???

Anyhoo, Skyta's level 31!! Having tons of fun beating up orcs and goblins :p I'm ready to move on to a new plot other than the Night Elves battling the orcs for the purity of their land. At least the Humans have finally made an appearance :) New stuff! Yay!

As you can see, I'm completely neglecting Katryel, but oh well. I don't want to re-level a Human Warlock (Darkdance was my highest leveled character thus far (a Human Warlock) - made it to level 36 before Blizzard closed my account for no reason >_<). So don't be surprised if I suddenly delete Katryel - I won't feel bad.

Ahaha, I feel so heartless.

Anyway, a while ago I had a great idea of a WoW fanfic, but it hasn't really taken form yet thanks to my lack of WoW knowledge/experience. Plus, it deals with concepts and names that I don't even know are plausible or not.

Here's what I have so far (not much I know), tell me what you think (I basically create a bit of my own history for each of the races - that's what I mean when I say I don't know if it's plausible):

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Chapter One
They named her Emberdance. No one really knew why - maybe it was because of her fiery red hair, or perhaps her obsession with flames, or could it have been her strong passion? Everyone was unsure as to the origin of her name, yet at the same time, somehow, it landed her a reputation she had not earned that led to a difficult childhood - but in the end that was what led to her uprising.
As a young Blood Elf child, Ember, as she was nicknamed, showed great skill with the bow and arrow. With the events of the Cataclysm and the rise of her impoverished people, she often ventured into the Eversong Woods at night, against the laws set by Lor’themar Theron, current ruler of the Quel’Thalas lands, to hunt for food she then gave to her starving kin.
Eventually she snuck into the army protecting the Ghostlands, changing her name to Feseron, keeping the Alliance forces at bay, away from their precious Silvermoon City. She was valiant, and many looked up to her as she lead the way to victory in many battles. This continued for a while, until it was discovered she was female, whereupon, to the great dismay of all of Quel’Thalas, she was sentenced to death...
Kaiamai looked up from the book, brushing a strand of her own red hair from her eyes. She looked up at her mother, cooking a pot of steaming rice nearby. “Is that true mama?” she asked.
Her mother looked down at her and smiled, her brown eyes shining with kind amusement, the way one looked a child asking a silly question. “Well I wouldn’t give it to you if it wasn’t.”
Kaiamai smiled. “Someday, I want to visit her grave.”
Her mother knocked the spoon on the rim of the pot to rid it of sticking rice. “Maybe someday.”

Kaiamai was not like the others of the Wandering Isle. She had no fur, she was not big and round, she did not have natural resistance to the native spirit-mushrooms. Her fingers were long and pale, her legs and waist slender, her skin pale and smooth and hairless, even her eyes were a bright violet compared to the round, brown eyes of the rest of them. No, she knew she was different as soon as she first looked in the mirror as a mere three year old child. At first the others had tried to hide it from her, but it was too, painstakingly obvious.
She was obviously not a Pandaren.
Finally, her adoptive mother, Chiyo, told her who she really was.
“You, dearest Kaiamai, are a Blood Elf.”
From then on, Kaiamai no longer had to train like those of the Pandaren children. Now she was taught how to use skills particular to her race, skills that other Pandaren could not do.
The one thing, however, that Kaiamai shared with the other Pandaren’s was her love of literature and writing, though she never shared this with many. Usually she burned her writings in the weekly Scorch Festival - the day when the Pandaren would burn the scrolls graffitied by the drunken monkeys near Morning Breeze Lake.  This way, only she, Chiyo, and Master Shang Xi ever knew of the writings.
Little did Kaiamai know that a deep, terrible secret was being kept from her. The Blood Elves, since the contamination of their precious Sunwell, the source of their magic and lives, were falling into a chaotic spirit, branded by the name The Wretched. Unlike the rest of her kin, Kaiamai did not show the signs of a chaotic spirit by the fact that her eyes did not glow an eerie green - they were eyes like a humans, she had whites, irises, pupils, and they were a stunning violet to boot.
The greatest wish of Master Sheng Xi was that Kaiamai would not fall for the same mistakes her brethren did, and still were doing.

Chapter Two
Feseron Theron groaned for the millionth time as a fresh stack of parchments was thumped down on the golden hued desk he sat at. He leaned back, tucking bright, blonde hair behind his elongated ear rimmed with silver earrings, glaring at the top page titled Trouble at the West Sanctom.
“From your father, sir,” said the attendant, a youngling Blood Elf barely a hundred years.
“Yes, thank you,” replied Feseron, though he really wanted to snap. Once the boy had left he did. Snatching the top paper and scanning it over, he exclaimed, “Damned Dwarves!” Some Dwarf ambassador was acting as a spy and needed to be stopped. Maybe he could do it...?
He shook the thought away. No, his father would insist he send a military trainee to take care of it from Falconwing Square, someone already on that side of the Dead Scar. Everyone avoided that trench filled with rotting undead.

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And that's all I got...

Yea? Nay?
Likely nay.

§Emma

Out of Ashenvale

Recently, I was able to renew my WoW membership - so for most of next month I'll be questing with Skyta (my Worgen Rogue). She's level 28 now (leveled twice last night), and just got to the Stonetalen Mountains where the Goblins are fighting the Gnomes - it's hilarious to watch.

Anyway, orcs killed her four times - it's pretty depressing. Maybe I'll get some screen shots up later. This is just an update! :)

§Emma

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Cutest Anime Couples

(Note, this is all my own opinion, so don't judge.)

I'm going to do a total of ten and find random pictures of them from google; so yeah, I don't own the images, the books and characters, etc...

So... onward!!


10) Gil x Oz (Pandora Hearts)

Ok, I don't usually ship two guys, but you have to admit that Gil and Oz have a relationship that's very hard achieve. Even if it's not really a "I love you" kind of one, it was very sweet to see Gil (SPOILER!) cut off his arm to save Oz.

9) Yachiru x Kenpachi (Bleach)

Again, less of a ship and more of a "they're so adorable!" thing. But I mean really... The relationship, again, is the one you love to see: when the big guy has a heart and the little one is the comic relief.

8) Naruto x Hinata (Naruto)

Though it took me a while to find an image, I think this one works. I haven't watched or read Naruto in a while, and when I started I was shipping him with Sakura, but in the end I think Hinata is just the better one for him.

7) Ichigo x Orihime (Bleach)

Though I know some of you may ship him with Rukia, I honestly can't see it - the relationship just isn't the same. Rukia and Ichigo are like Gil and Oz. I'm hoping and hoping that Ichigo ends up with Orihime.

6) Cloud x Tifa (Final Fantasy)

Shhh, I know they don't end up together, but that's why it's called a ship!! That scene if from the FF movie, Advent Children, and was not as nearly as sweet as it should've been. Oh well. Though I know Cloud was with Aerith, it seems that he's shipped with Tifa more.

5) Nami x Zoro (One Piece)

Ignoring Fanky over there, I think Nami and Zoro would be great together. However, I don't see any couples actully coming together in this anime, because that's not what it's about. However, nonetheless, I ship these two.

4) Xerxes x Sharon (Pandora Hearts)

Ok, Break is my favorite anime character of all time. If he doesn't end up with Sharon or if either of them die, tears are going to be shed and computers are going to break and people are going die. Make sense much??

3) Erza x Jellal (Fairy Tail)

So I know one of my friends is not going to like this, but I think it works. Erza, being her awesome self, deserves someone that sacrifices his life for her (not metaphorically that is - literally). Yeah, Jellal is pretty evil, and he tries to change, and he does, but some haven't forgiven him for that. I think he needed the forgiveness Erza gave him, even if he didn't realize it.

2) Alice x Oz (Pandora Hearts)

Ok, this one makes me sad. Through the entire series, Alice is constantly hitting on Oz. I mean, she kisses him when she meets him, admits to liking to dance with him, saves his life above all others, bites his cheeks, and they were in love in a past life. OZ YOU IDIOT!! *sob sob*

1) Lucy x Natsu (Fairy Tail)

Ok, this is definitely my biggest ship. It's so blatantly obvious they like each other, and everyone else sees it, but they just pretend the other doesn't know (which they don't). Not to mention they're adorable, they're the perfect fighting team, and they constantly make fun of each other (comic relief).



And these are some funny images I found while trying to find the couple images.



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This dude is epic beyond belief.


I think next I'll do just the 10 best anime characters (in my mind). I don't even think I have ten, so I'll use some that I've heard of from other people. Suggestions? I think you already know who #1 is going to be XD

§Emma