Yeehaw

I have been spending a lot of time in my Dorm recently. And also I have been on a bit of western kick. I mean westerns. Gotta love 'em. Chaps. REALLY love chaps. And the boots. And the horses! HORSES!
Ahem. Anyway. This afternoon after watching-- don't laugh! actually you can laugh, I do-- Bonanza with Adam West in it and getting a little silly with my friend ("It's BATMAN!" "No! It's Adam West!" "What are you talking about that's not Adam!" "Yes it is!" "No Adam's over there!" "Wait that's Pernell!" "No! It's BATMAN!" "Okay, okay. Be quiet so we can get back to Batman--I mean Maverick--wait! Bonanza. NO! Batman! Oh I don't know what I mean!") I decided to borrow a housing idea. Paige has this super dorm room that's a Marelybonian jail. Well here's my spin off on her idea, a la Wild West.

"Sheriff's Office"

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The Sheriff's office

The Sheriff's living quarters

Sheriff's Office

Okay what a really need to finish this off is a great outfit. HELLO! COWBOY HAT! I don't understand this... We have an indian headdress which goes with nothing, and yet no cowboy hat...

Tell me why

"Why do fools fall in love?" No. "Why you cry and why you lie to me?" No. "Why can't the English learn to speak?" No. "Why--" Are you finished? "... Maybe." Okay then.

Tell me why do they keep messing with my Spyglass?

Before

After

Stupid sparkle.

You may remember I crafted this wand a while back because it had no sparkle! I wanted it to look like a spyglass. But nooooo. KI had to put a sparkle on. Ugh, if you really want to improve the crafted wands, you could give them some better stats. (I mean it seems obvious...)

BAM!

Now... How am I going to decorate it?

~Heather

Fish n Chips

If you're like me, you're spending most of your time in Wizard101 in the Lunarium searching for pearls.

Don't forget this little beauty of a quest that I rediscovered when I was working on Kestrel.

It's called... "Keep Clam". *giggle*

Rutherford West in the Survey Camp is where you can pick it up.

It's got some lovely rewards!

Now, why do I have a hankering for clam chowder?

~Heather

Slapdash

Up here's a slapdash of updates from Wizard101.

I downloaded the Test Realm on my laptop and everything was loading up.

Here's a screenie.

Hehe!

I started gardening on my alt Vicky. I want to get her up to Prickly Bear level (4). :) They are the bestest.

Oh and she also got a new holiday wand from Mr. Oni.

I call it her "pea-shooter". It's too small to actually look like a crossbow. It's a pea-shooter!

Miss Darby got to level 20! Okay, this happened weeks ago, but still! It's a big milestone. 

Yay for her new princess outfit!

 Oh and I'm getting close to finishing up crafting for the CL observatory. (I hope they don't change anything. That would totally suck at this point.)

Gus is so happy! Look! He did a backflip!

All I need to make is 6 crystal street lamps. Woot! I'm on a role!

~Heather

Crafting Maniac

I had a really good time playing PvP last night. Before we got started, I got some tips (thank you Kevin) that really helped me out. 

I actually helped win a couple matches! Woot! New experience!

Will you be seeing me competing in the ranked matches anytime soon? Probably not. I don't really have a lot of time for the epic 4v4 warlord 6 hours battles. But I'll probably be jumping into the friendly MFP match a lot more. Which is good, because its another way for me to hang with my friends. :) And now I'm not freaking out about having a PvP ring in my house anymore. LOL!

In other news, crafting is going really well!

Here's what I've crafted so far, assembled in my dorm:

2 star icons, 2 sprig trees, 5 star chalices, 2 sconces.

Pretty good eh? Then I'll need to go get the 75k gold. Oof. That will be difficult. I'm really bad at saving gold. And I need a new super awesome farming spot, since I don't have one currently. 

So it looks like I've got some more work to do. Better get to it!

~Heather

The Chalice for the Palace...

As most of you probably know, I have decided to take the plunge and craft the new Celestial observatory.

Wow, have you seen Kevin's crafting list for this house?

Yeah it's a "project".

So I'm starting off with the Star Chalices because you need the most of them (8).

I crafted my first one a few days ago.

I really like it! It's so... "hooray for Hollywood"!

Plus it's a chalice!

Huzzah for chalices!

~Heather

Not a flashlight

I really like the new spyglass wand design in Celestia. That and the cutlasses! So epic!

So of course when I got to level 55, I went to the bazaar and bought a Insightful Spyglass.

Oh I really liked it.

Then one day I was playing with my friends and we had just finished a battle and we were chatting. Well one of my friends looked at me and said, "Oh look! A flashlight!" 

... *facepalm*

It's not a flashlight, its a spyglass!

It's a spyglass. Spyglasses are cool.

So I was sitting there suffering, no one realized the true awesomeness of my wand. *sob*

So I decided to craft a new one.

Yes I said craft. You can get wand recipes on the Floating Land in Celestia.

They are actually rather lame wands. They do less damage, have less critical rating, and don't have the sparkle that the dropped wands do. Actually the first time I saw them I thought, well that is stupid. Who is going to spend a ton of time and reagents for a wand that is lame-er than the wands you can easily farm for or buy at the bazaar? The people who want their wands to be recognized as a spyglass and not a flashlight I guess.

Spyglass FTW. 

So now I have a wand that is most definitely a spyglass. Yay! I feel better now...

~Heather

So Crafty

If you've ever tried crafting beyond Krokotopia, you probably have encountered every crafter's bane. Black Lotus. It's evil. Pure and simple. The problem is that you often need it for crafting quests. Or for something really cool that you want to craft. Well unless you're going to drop thousands of gold at the bazaar sniping them whenever you can find them, you're probably going to resort to farming for them. "Where do I go?" you're asking (or maybe you're singing if you're familiar with Hair). Well it just so happens that I have my very own top-secret black lotus farming route! Today it becomes top-secret no longer! Because I'm going to share it with all of you my readers. Yeah, not sure how wise this is, but I'm doing it anyway.

This route takes place in the Tatakai Outpost a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far---oh wait. That's Star Wars.

Well there you have it. I have relieved my greatest crafting secret to you. Use it wisely young wizard.

~Heather

Children of the Resolutions

New Years resolutions. Can't live with 'em. Can't live... Well I could live without 'em, but anyway. My resolutions! Here they are (the in-game ones, you probably don't want to hear all my boring real-life goals) in no particular order:

1. Spend a week without using text-chat. <- Why? Because I can. It's good to step into other people's shoes. I think might blog these adventures too.

2. Finish decorating my MFP. <- This will take forever. Can I complete my house in only one year?!

3. Hold a huge party in my completed MFP. <- Sounds easy, but is much harder than you think. I've had little success hosting events in the past. Maybe I'll be able to actually hold a real party this time.

4. Get another one of my wizards to legendary. <- This will probably be Victoria. Or maybe Kestrel. I dunno I really love Ra so I'll most likely be working on Vicky. Yes I call her "Vicky" in my head. I'm just typing it this time.

5. Get another of my wizards to Grandmaster. <- 99% sure this will be Lenora. She's already 44. I just have to get over my Dragonspyre block.

6. At least start crafting a Watch Tower Hall. <- I love this house. I really do! I am just really intimidated by all the work it will be. Crafting one stepping stone does count as starting. I am banking on that.

7. Continue to work on always being as polite as I can to the other people in the game. <- Yeah... do unto others... and all that jazz...

8. Work on keeping my mouth shut when people are out to bug other players. <- Yeah. Ahem. I need to work on not getting involved in unnecessary drama. It is... well, unnecessary!

9. I want to work on being a support player. And helping others and being generous. <- I'm hoping this will come back to me tenfold. Nah I'm kidding.

10. Remembering that this is a game and I do this for fun! <- This one's a toughie!

Well that's all I got for this year. Happy New Year once again.
~Heather

The Year in Review! (*echoes* iew iew iew)

Thanks Mistheart. ;)

Well I'd say that this a been a pretty good year! Let's review my resolutions for 2010, shall we?

To get Victoria to be a grandmaster

Mission accomplished: January 4th, 2010

To have one of my other wizards be a grandmaster

Mission accomplished: May 12th, 2010

To finish all of my crafting tasks as Heather AND Victoria

Mission more than half way done.

Heather completed Master Artisan on February 16th, 2010 and Grandmaster Artisan on December 12th, 2010. As for Victoria.... weeeeell she's one quest away from becoming a Master. But I decided that all those Black Pearls would be better spent on crafting things for my new house. (More on that later.) So she's on hold for a while.

To read a fan fiction story

Mission accomplished. I've read some fan-fictions this year. I couldn't really name specifics...
To write a fan fiction story
Mission accomplished: January 26th, 2010
Legend of the Death Shark plus I started another longer fan fic: The Wandering Conjurer. Err... that one is yet to be completed.

And that's just the tip of the iceburg! Good heavens. I did a lot this year. I got to work on the petnome team. I got to legendary and got Medusa. I hit the one year mark for both playing Wizard101 and blogging. I met a whole herd of great people, and I had a whole bunch of fun. Thanks everyone to contributed to a wonderful year. Here's to another fantastic one!
~Heather

Hickory Dickory Dock

I have this love/hate relationship with crafting.

Some days, I love it.

A while back, I had one of those days.

I took a trip to the best crafting anvil ever...

 ...and made myself a clock!

 Oh I really like it. It even has a tick-tock sound effect! I can hear it practically all throughout my house!

~Heather

Wanda

Remember waaaayy back when I crafted mannequins on the test realm?
Well, guess what I just made?

Welcome back Wanda!

You'll find a lot has changed.

Oh man it's so awesome! I've wanted one for a really long time! Now, I have one. :)

Hmmm, now I need to start collecting reagents for Woody....

~Heather

They're Grrrrrrreat!

My new favorite food ever.

AmbrOs!

I love these snacks because they increase you're pet's evenly.

Also I have a lot of myth pets, and they all like them. :)

I highly recommend them for your pets.

~Heather

Sir Craft-a-lot

Oh yes after a reagent buying spree at the bazar, it has finally come.

Take a look at that badge!

Oh yeah baby!

Now, I will I ever craft agian?

Probably not! At least nothing with a black lotus!

~Heather