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In addition to continuing LJ drama… I was a slacker for the long weekend.

So my ten plus hours of World of Warcraft on Saturday wound up being probably about eighteen or so over the weekend. Included in said WoWing was:

- Two full instances (Shadow Labs and Arcanium), to help scuba_mo, aka Basmon, with his key quest for Karazhan. I hadn’t completely run either before, even though I was keyed for Kara – I was pulled into the instances for the key quests both times.

- Twelve Netherstorm area quests cleaned out of my quest log with Basmon & Erich (aka Abudiabudie)

- Nine daily quests

- Respecced Tennetty, created macros for her shots, and worked on the timing for said new shots (this will continue this week before I go back into Kara… I don’t feel comfortable quite yet with it).

- Resupplied Tennetty after she picked up tremendously good equipment in Karazhan during last week’s raids. My personal haul on 2/14 included my new cloak, chestpiece, legs, and boots. Had to buy all new gems for sockets, get new enchants, and upgraded the enchant on my axe. All told, about 550 gold spent, so finishing the quests in Netherstorm to save up some gold was appreciated. I still need to get the supplies for my gun scope, and hopefully upgrade one of the red gems because nothing I was thrilled with was in the AH.

Her spiffy upgraded spec looks like this now: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eonar&n=Tennetty

- Rolling up little noob blood elf females on Eonar with the boys late on Saturday night, and just running around the starting area with the quests… mostly nekkid. Absolutely stupid, silly stuff – but fun. And yes, the threesome included a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead. We’re thinking we should totally make a silly named blood elf female guild for absolutely no reason other than to run around nekkid and tease other players online. If anyone else is interested for shits & giggles, roll up a female BE on Eonar, and then send a mail message to “Quela”.

- Levelled my lowbie Druid, Silverhoof, up one more level.

Yeah, I’m a geek. Slacker geek.

I did, however, be practical for a bit yesterday and went out to buy new clothes since my old ones were getting… worn (or are ready for recycling/trashing). We went straight to the mall, so I went to Lane Bryant. Bought three new pairs of work pants (yes… blue SIX… friggin’ salespeople, I TOLD YOU), two new twinset sweaters, and a new pair of pj’s. All costing about $230. There were a few other nice pieces, but nothing that really, REALLY caught my eye. I may look around at Macy’s and at the other plus-size stores in the area come next paycheck. My wardrobe needs an overhaul – and a cleanout.

But yeah – total slacker weekend. Which I honestly needed. I feel much better now, and feel up to tackling things again.

In addition to continuing LJ drama… I was a slacker for the long weekend.

World of Warcraft ‘accomplishments’

*gasp* Not fandom! Well… perhaps it is. Just – alternative fandom.

And because it’s going to be Greek (Tauren? Orcish?) to anyone who doesn’t play World of Warcraft… I’ll be a bit careful to explain things as necessary.

So my first character (“main”), Tennetty, is a happy level 70 Tauren hunter – max level you can have. But there’s still plenty of stuff to do once you HIT that level. Literally it’s like playing an entirely different game – the one to get you there, and then all of the stuff you do once you’re there (group battles, advanced quests, daily quests, etc.).

Said level 70 game was put on hold until after the wedding because I just didn’t have time to devote to it. Now that the wedding is behind me, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying blowing off steam and just killing time playing WoW. Got through all of my required quests that unlock some of the advanced stuff – and now I’m happily doing the 10-man raid instances with my guild. Until this week, my current weaponry/armor really only allowed me to do the first half of our current raid instance. This week, I was able to join the group for the latter tier. So I’m having a blast – getting some good gear, discovering gorgeous new places (really – one of my favorite things about WoW is just how beautiful the game world is… I can just go exploring and have a great time sight-seeing!)

This week, I was scheduled to run Karazhan both last night and tomorrow. Had some problems with my login, so my spot last night went to one of the other hunters in the guild – someone who hadn’t been to Kara. People were all worried when I logged on, and I said no – it’s cool. Get someone else geared. I’ll bring Tennetty over to the front gates and leave her there in case someone needs to leave and you need a spot filled. But it was seriously no problem. At this point, I’d honestly prefer to be able to try the Thursday night session, since it’s almost all new to me.

So I park Tennetty, log onto one of my lower-level alt characters, Kelima – a Troll Warrior – to do some questing/levelling. joined me on a hunter alt alt of similar level, and we cleared out a couple quests. I emphasize couple, because one specific quest took us nearly an hour because the drop rate on the items we needed to collect was so bad.

and here’s where the WoW experienced will know what I’m referring to a bit better…

So bad, in fact, that even with the two of us sharing the kill XP, I managed to completely wrap around my XP bar 1.5 times. DURING THE QUEST. I started at level 23 last night. Levelled upon turning in a quest to start the evening. Then we go do this quest in the Barrens (collecting three weapons, killing three named Quilboars in the Barrens… mid 20′s level). I wrap around, level, run out of rest XP as I’m still gaining XP – and then upon turning in the other completed quests in my log last night (I hadn’t turned in for a while – I had nine to turn in!) – I’m now 3/4 the way to the NEXT level.

IN ONE THREE HOUR SESSION OF WOW.

All the while both of us are having to constantly throw out food, grey items, etc. out of our bags because they’re now constantly full, but we’re far enough away from town that neither of us really wants to run to just clear out bags.

Seriously… WTF? Not that I’m complaining (other than regarding the drop rate of those effing weapons)… but insane.

So yeah, with really only about 5 hours of play time, i’ve gone from level 21 to nearly 26 with Kelima this week. Not too shabby.

Of course, now she’s out of rest XP, so I’ll have her parked at the inn for a couple days to recharge. I need to work on my pet with Tennetty – I’ve been neglegent about feeding Mousedeath lately. I’ve had him since level 28, and recently his loyalty is back down to 3. Not good.

Never piss off a cat. Even in WoW.

*sigh*

Thus ends my geekdom for the day.

*gasp* Not fandom! Well… perhaps it is. Just – alternative fandom.

And because it’s going to be Greek (Tauren? Orcish?) to anyone who doesn’t play World of Warcraft… I’ll be a bit careful to explain things as necessary.

So my first character (“main”), Tennetty, is a happy level 70 Tauren hunter – max level you can have. But there’s still plenty of stuff to do once you HIT that level. Literally it’s like playing an entirely different game – the one to get you there, and then all of the stuff you do once you’re there (group battles, advanced quests, daily quests, etc.).

Said level 70 game was put on hold until after the wedding because I just didn’t have time to devote to it. Now that the wedding is behind me, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying blowing off steam and just killing time playing WoW. Got through all of my required quests that unlock some of the advanced stuff – and now I’m happily doing the 10-man raid instances with my guild. Until this week, my current weaponry/armor really only allowed me to do the first half of our current raid instance. This week, I was able to join the group for the latter tier. So I’m having a blast – getting some good gear, discovering gorgeous new places (really – one of my favorite things about WoW is just how beautiful the game world is… I can just go exploring and have a great time sight-seeing!)

This week, I was scheduled to run Karazhan both last night and tomorrow. Had some problems with my login, so my spot last night went to one of the other hunters in the guild – someone who hadn’t been to Kara. People were all worried when I logged on, and I said no – it’s cool. Get someone else geared. I’ll bring Tennetty over to the front gates and leave her there in case someone needs to leave and you need a spot filled. But it was seriously no problem. At this point, I’d honestly prefer to be able to try the Thursday night session, since it’s almost all new to me.

So I park Tennetty, log onto one of my lower-level alt characters, Kelima – a Troll Warrior – to do some questing/levelling. scuba_mo joined me on a hunter alt alt of similar level, and we cleared out a couple quests. I emphasize couple, because one specific quest took us nearly an hour because the drop rate on the items we needed to collect was so bad.

and here’s where the WoW experienced will know what I’m referring to a bit better…

So bad, in fact, that even with the two of us sharing the kill XP, I managed to completely wrap around my XP bar 1.5 times. DURING THE QUEST. I started at level 23 last night. Levelled upon turning in a quest to start the evening. Then we go do this quest in the Barrens (collecting three weapons, killing three named Quilboars in the Barrens… mid 20′s level). I wrap around, level, run out of rest XP as I’m still gaining XP – and then upon turning in the other completed quests in my log last night (I hadn’t turned in for a while – I had nine to turn in!) – I’m now 3/4 the way to the NEXT level.

IN ONE THREE HOUR SESSION OF WOW.

All the while both of us are having to constantly throw out food, grey items, etc. out of our bags because they’re now constantly full, but we’re far enough away from town that neither of us really wants to run to just clear out bags.

Seriously… WTF? Not that I’m complaining (other than regarding the drop rate of those effing weapons)… but insane.

So yeah, with really only about 5 hours of play time, i’ve gone from level 21 to nearly 26 with Kelima this week. Not too shabby.

Of course, now she’s out of rest XP, so I’ll have her parked at the inn for a couple days to recharge. I need to work on my pet with Tennetty – I’ve been neglegent about feeding Mousedeath lately. I’ve had him since level 28, and recently his loyalty is back down to 3. Not good.

Never piss off a cat. Even in WoW.

*sigh*

Thus ends my geekdom for the day.

Title: Streams of Memory (1/?)
Author: Measi
Paring: Ten/Rose
Rating: PG for now, prob. up later
Spoilers: Assume through S2, none in this section
A/N: Started last spring for a prompt challenge (now long forgotten and lost), but never finished. Inspiration is taking this a slightly different way than I expected, and I blame the Doctor and Rose as well as RTD by default, since he’s the overseer of the madness… and therefore, also the BBC. Which means they own it, and I don’t. (thus being my disclaimer).

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