A little plug

No not that kind of plug.

I'm here to talk about all the super contests that are going on with House-a-Palooza right now.

Yeah and before you go to sleep on me, hear me out!

You may have looked at the list of houses that are being given away (and  if you haven't, go do that now) and gone "Aw man, there are a bunch of lame old houses on that list." To you I say, don't be to simple minded! Some of the older houses are some of the best! And think about this for a moment; if every one has the 'cool' houses (i.e. MFP, MSP, CL observatory, etc.) then won't your having an unusual house make you more unique and interesting? I mean, who wants to be a copy cat anyway.

"But Heather!" You're saying, "Those houses have a dueling circle!" Okay be honest, how often are you going to use that circle anyway? You need at least one other person to duel with, and if you make the PvP parties argument I can say from experience that it is a lot of work to keep people OUT of those circles. People kind of tend to help themselves without being polite, or asking permission. Well personally I prefer to have fun with my guests instead of wrangling them.

Here are some houses that offer an interesting potential: 

Alia's giving away the Desert Villa. I personally love this house, and I made a video of a tour of my own. 

Isaac is giving away the Oasis Camp. I entered this one! I haven't seen this house done very often, because of it's interesting structure. But I think it has a lot of cool features!
Valerian is giving away the Tranquil Cottage. You know how much I love a Japanese house. This house would be a great mini version of something like what I've done in my MFP.
Paige is giving away the Royal Playhouse. This was the first house I ever got and it remains one of my all time favorites. Not too big, not too small. I also did a bit of a zen/mooshu/Japanese theme in it.
Kestrel is giving away the Wooded Cottage. It comes with Doug the Unicorn. 'Nuff said.
Jessica is giving away the Great Citadels. I can think of no better place for an evil lair. Or you could work against type and make it this really posh, fancy house that some really nice people would live in.
We on the Petnome Team are giving away the Island Getaway. It's a really cool house that I have spent a lot of time with friends in. It's like your own personal Indiana Jones adventure... with a beach!

So I encourage you all to go and enter ALL of the contests! If you do, maybe Mr. Weasley could be persuaded to part with some of his plugs....

~Heather

Nevermore

Nevermore will I be able to call Lenora little.

Because yesterday, she faced Malistaire, and with a big "OH SNAP!" defeated him.

But then she had to go do some stinkin' side quests. How come I never level up at Mali?

But she leveled up really quickly. WHAM!

So now when she randomly stands around in the pet hatchery, she looks awesome!

I can see her hair! It's been so long...

Lenora/Heather

Oh You Beautiful Doll

A couple days ago Lenora (FINALLY) leveled up to 48!

So Dworgyn sent me on the quest for Scarecrow.

It was very "vodo".

So I made my little scarecrow dolly and summoned scarecrow.
It freaked out a couple people. WOOT! I AM SO SCARY!

Yay! An AOE! HOORAY!

I also got a new Wraith pet. Which was only slightly cool, because then I had to wait 18 hours to actually get it.

Now Lenora is a big kid. She's got an AOE. She's got an awesome new pet. She's got a honkin' sword.

Level 50, here I come!

Lenora/Heather

The Death Ninja and Dragonspyre

After overcoming my Dragonspyre block, I have started working on Lenora again (whom I refer to in my head as "the death ninja" because of her cat/ninja mask she wore throughout Mooshu).

Well yesterday I zoomed through the Tower Archives, and got all the glow sticks glowin'.

Then we zipped over to the Plaza. Or as I like to say "DAS PLAZA!" I don't really know why but the German accent seems to really work there. My brain is so random some times.

 In "DAS PLAZA", Laszlo gave Lenora the experience she needed to level up! Yay! So now she's 45, the level of fashion disaster. Although Lenora doesn't look too bad.

I think that butt-kickin' sword and epic pet have something to do with it.

Lenora/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

Who needs Celestia...

...when you've got an Ianthine Spectre!

That's right! You heard it hear first folks. I finally got me and Ianthine!

Thanks to my friend for taking the time to farm with me over, and over, and over, and over again.

So, Celestia pre-quests are out on the test realm? I started doing it, but then I decided that I just want to wait till it goes live and enjoy it then. In the mean time, I am going to work on: more farming, pet leveling, and leveling Lenora and Nora.

~Heather

My 'weekend'

On Thursday and Friday I had no rehearsals. So I got some ITS time! I went pet farming. I got a Life Scarab, a Dire Ghoul, a Red Banshee, and a Pixie Queen.

Also there was some pet leveling,

an 48 hybrid attempt by me and Bailey (no luck), and a couple of Mali runs.

I had a lot of fun! :)

~Heather

Ms. Evil

Hey everyone! How do you like the new template? Sorry about not being able to read the title, I'm working on a header.

Anyway, today I had a day off! It was nice because I had to work this weekend. So I decided, today is farming day!

First order of bussiness, get me a crab pet! So I take the alts of doom (Kestrel and my real-life friend's ice wizard,) and head on over to the Crazed Forest Spirit. It takes us a long time but my friend gets one! So we farm. And farm. And farm. And farm. And farm. And farm. Nada. He didn't even get another one. Grrrrrr!

Then we decide that all this farming would go a lot faster if he had some/all of his Grandmaster gear. So off to Snowcrusher, who was suprisingly lenent with us and gave up his boots after a few quick battles. So we head off to Yeva Spiderkeeper. We spend hours farming and get nothing! No nice new pet, no hat. Just a lot of Storm shoes, which I already have and things I can't use. GAH! SHE IS SO EVIL! So I take a break. I come back and in a few battle I have two Queen Spider pets and my friend has his hat. Woot! I will never farm Ms. Evil again! At least not for a while....

So now I'm back to farming the Crazed Forest Spirit. Nothing as yet. I will let you know when I get one! :)

Good luck with any farming you guys might be up to!

~Heather

The polls are in...

Here are your new student teachers!

Congrats to all my friends and new student teachers! You guys rock!

You might notice that my name isn't on that list. And it's okay. I knew when I saw Ronan's name on the ballot that I was in for a hard race. I'm glad just to have survived! So right now I just want to say a BIG thank you to all the people who voted for me. You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for supporting me! The cookies are on me! :D

I met up this Ronan in game this morning. He named me assistant, and instructed us (myself and Cody) to kill Cyrus Drake and throw him in the lava.

It was a good way to release my dissapointment (just a little! :)) of not winning!

Next time Destiny and I will PWN! ;)

~Heather

More Pets

Another pet filled day.

First off my mustard troll hatched.

Then my new Frostzilla hatched.

Then we went farming some more.

First drop was Storm Snowman!

Next with help from Kevin BattleBlood, Heather EmeraldFlame and Fallon ShadowBlade I got a Sliverback Wildclaw!

Then last but not least, my Orthrus leveled up!

Now it may cast a myth spell! Cool.

So now I can hatch, Dustin has dibs.

Although I need some serious gold. Aprox 98,000.

Right now I have... 1,199.

This is gonna take a while.

~Heather

History

Amber and Kestrel did it and I'm going to do it too!

Talking about my past.

Yep, it's been a long time.

Okay to begin at the beginning, I started playing by not playing. My friend was playing Wizard101 and I always seemed to end up over his shoulder, watching and remarking on how dumb it was.

"You could make a wizard too!" he told me. "Nah," I said, "It looks boring and addicting."

"You can have a unicorn pet," he said. "...really? Well... maybe I'll try..."

So I took the test and got a myth wizard. I named her Heather Raven.

So then I went all the way through the free trial areas and even though I wasn't convinced it was a great game I got a subscription.

After many battles with my two real life wizard pals (Death and Fire) we progressed to Krokotopia. We were enchanted by it's beauty and lore.

Then some more battles, we advanced to Marleybone. At first it was very cool because as you all know I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. But then it got really hard.

After some more grueling battles we traveled to Mooshu.

Which made me hungry for red bean moon cakes.

But I found Mooshu boring. So I plodded through mostly because my friends were nudging me too.

Then we hit Dragonspyre, which was by far the worst of all.

But we finally finished.

Then my friend who started it all (Death) deiced he was bored with wizard101 and stopped playing.

I was kinda bored too, now that I had "finished the game" what was there to do next?

Then a truly remarkable thing happened.

KI featured a blog post by The Friendly Necromancer on the log in page.

I looked at it for a few times before caving and clicking over.

I had no idea there was a community behind Wizard101!

I started reading his blog, I started reading Jessica's blog.

I was hooked and knew I had to write my own.

Just for myself, not thinking anyone would read it, I started logging my adventures of me and my Balance alt Victoria.

Here's my first screenshot ever.

I'm not going to step you through every important thing I've learned as a blogger but here are a few milestones:

First post

First event attended

First comment

First holiday

First major fail

First documented dream about Wizard101

Gosh I love Wizard101.

~Heather

Storm Lady

So today I was working on Kestrel, in the Crystal Grove. Eww spiders!

Anyway, when suddenly... woot ding! Level 48 baby!

Woohoo!

My professor paged me, and I came running.

Teehee, he just said "Gadzooks"! I love this frog!

Then I went and summoned a storm lord.

I went and tried out my new spell, look!

4,256! I love storm!

Here she is, the all powerful Kestrel!

I love my new stormzilla pet, Jessie. He hops like a bunny! :D

Kestrel/Heather

Spring Cleaning

I was thinking that I should freshen up the blog a bit.

And what better way than a new header!

So I'll let you all pick which one you want!

#1:

#2:

#3:

#4:

The old one:

~Heather

News

Today I am not feeling well. Actually I am feeling pretty yucky. Anyway, I decided to take sometime and get back into the Wizard101 groove. So I took Kestrel, (who is now level 45 thanks to my friend who has been playing her along with his icy,) outfitted her in the DS crowns gear, dyed it to look nice, and went off to MB to finish some side quests. Let me just say that I love being a storm wiz. I have unlimited power! Muwahahahaha!

In other news:

• I am now judging my silly photo entries! Yay! I got more than one! :)
• I have been neglecting my Student Teacher campigan. I will be working on that! So right now my goal is for one person to vote for me. Yeah... I need to work on this.
• I have yet to make my new Life wiz, there's something fun to do on a rainy day soon!
• I haven't been reading any Wiz101 blogs or anything... so what's been happening?

I think that's about it. Yep! :)

~Heather

Home again, home again

Thanks for all your patience guys. I am back to blogging. It's been a stressful couple of weeks, but I am back now.
So, I read the announcement! Wow! I can't wait until June!!! (Although Celestia should be astral not underwater, but whatever.)
Now I have a big list of things to do:

1. Go find reagents for David.
2. Read up on all the blogging I missed
3. Renew my twittering
4. Listen to all podcasts I missed
5. Get back on DOAW
6. Farm for easter items
7. Farm for my level 50 deck

I think that's about it. Well I've got a lot to do so I'm going to get busy!
~Heather

I've got a Nemisis!

Meet my nemisis. Yeva Spiderkeeper. I cannot tell you how many times I killed he in order to get my hat.

I killed her yesterday, for old times sake.

Yup, same old Yeva. Evil as ever.

~Heather

Did ya miss me?

Okay, after a wee break from the computer and wizards (which was spent in front of the TV. I know, sad.) I am offically back in the game. So I'll bring you up to date on what's been happening.

• Victoria got an awesome holiday crowns staff from Malastaire.
• Lenora leveled up and is now level 10.
• And Heather has been working on updating her houses.

That's about it. Okay, now I'll be working on the game some more, and I'll have lots to post about.
~Heather

Grandmasters Galore

So one day, not to long ago, I was walking through the Basilica when I happened to notice a ton of people gathering down in by Zeke.

So I headed over.

Look at them all!

It seemed to surround a dude called Justin WindRiver.

What where they doing?

Victoria

Luck

Victoria has reached the level of perfection that we all strive for.

Yes, it's true she is now a Grandmaster.

Wow that was fast!

The lucky pup even got her "Malistaire's Tunic of Torment" on the second try!

I didn't even have to dye the colors to match.

So now I am in the process of farming for her grandmaster shoes and hat.

Well... what now?

On to my next wizard I guess.

She's storm!

Heather and Victoria

48

I stayed up on new year's eve and worked my way through the Labryinth.

Then something magical happened.

Victoria became level 48.

The next morning I started to work on the quest to get my new spell.

I zipped right along.

Then I summoned a... um, Judgement lady, and she gave me

SUPER POWER NOVA!

And my awesome new pet,

Lady Tiger.

We are unstoppable!

Watch out Malistare! We're gonna getcha!

Victoria