That's A Wrap, Folks!

Hey Gang,

So I have a TON of personal news to go over! Ready? Here we go:

I got about four characters through WinterTusk. These characters are Luke GoldHorn (my main, obviously), Diana GoldHorn, Patrick FrostHorn, and Valdus GoldHorn. Luke worked with Cassandra GriffinDreamer just like in the Test Realm, and sure enough he had his Phoenix Egg in his backpack in no time! It hatched, and I trained it to teen, and she (her name is Isabella, just like the random name my Phoenix was assigned in the Test Realm; I had no better ideas, so I went for it) got Fire-Proof which gives Fire Resistance. How do I feel about that? /shrug ... eh. I guess you could say I don't; I mean, it's not my favorite talent that I've gotten before, but whatever, right?

And look at this cute little guy! :)

Haha! You can see that I named him Taz after Taz the Tasmanian Devil (sorry for bad spelling; don't have spell check on school computers).

He already was used for hatching, too! I mixed him with Alric's Judgement pet, and I got the Crop Watcher, as I had said in the last post. Also, as I said in the last post, I believe that if you mix your level 58 pet with the Judgement pet, you'll get the build of your opposite school but it will have the colors of your school. For example, if you mix a Scarecrow with the Judgement pet, my theory is that you will get the Death Forest Lord. See how it works? I know, very confusing, but that's the way it rolls. No, this is not a glitch; many people, seeing this in the Test Realm, thought it was as such (including me) and reported it, but it turns out that this is supposed to happen.

By the way, for some reason, my font wont be in any other formation other than centered, so ... the font will be centered for this post from here. Anyway, back on topic; I've been working on training my Forest Lord as well! In fact, it is my Level 58 pet that has been leveled the farthest thus far! It only has 20 exp left until it reaches ancient (which for me is two minigames), and I'm really hoping it gets something awesome like Spritely. I'm not exactly sure if I want my Forest Lord to have spritely yet, because when the pet uses Spirtely, it would take my Guiding Lights. But currently it gives Health Gift (which I am happy with; it gives about 89 health at the moment) and Pip O' Plenty (Very happy with this; I really liked having over 100% Power Pips; currently it gives around 3%).

I've also being doing some Waterworks Runs. I had my first run on Diana with Alric and Sorcress Miklai on Saturday morning. I had some fun, and only left with 2 Mega Snacks and no Level 60 Gear. On Saturday evening, Luke ran a run with Cassandra GriffinDreamer. Before I entered the dungeon, I actually met a reader of my blog! I forget his full name, but I believe his first was Jason, so I just wanted to say thanks to him for recognizing me. He walked away with 2 Mega Snacks and his Legendary Hat. The hat, in my opinion, is really ugly. So I had that stitched, and I'm running low on Crowns. After buying henchmen here and there, a Mega Snack Pack to train my Forest Lord, and stitching some clothing, I only have around 700 Crowns. I really need to buy some more.

Anyway, what else is there to talk about? Oh, right, Valdus and Patrick! Well, when I started WinterTusk, Patrick was about 2 bars away from 51. At the end, with no side quests, he was Level 56! Now he's questing through Celestia with Valdus at his side. He reached level 58 in Stormriven late last night and got both his Ra spell and the Judgement pet!

Awesomeness! I remember this quest back from the Test Realm (ah, such an exciting time, that was). This time when I did it in the Live Realm though, it was a bit glitched. When Ra appeared to Patrick, the Frost Giant noise was playing in the backround. I didn't really care though; wasnt that important. Also, after reading through the quest to get Judgement, it kinda makes sense why you get that whole wild card affect from it when mixing. It's restoring Balance in a way, and you'll see that in the quest to get it that Judgement serves to Balance. Wow ... that sounds very philosophical.

Anyway, that's about it. Yesterday, after I only got four hours of sleep, I had to go to school and leave Patrick to finish Stormriven, and, who knows, maybe even make it to the Crustacean Empire by the end of tonight. I'm looking forward to having my final wzard through Celestia and to get back to questing through WinterTusk on Mycin and Noah and even Jotun and RavenScar on Gilroy.

Have a good day! See you in class!

P.D.

Something ... Not WinterTusk?

Hey Everyone,

Again, I apologize for the formatting. School computers. It will be reformated when I get home from school (around 3:15 EST), so come back then if this bothers you, but if it doesn't feel free to read it now.

Anyway, so before I get into WinterTusk, I just kinda wanted to share something with you.

Gee Luke, go ahead!

Really? You wouldn't mind?

Well, it really isn't that important to me, but I'll listen to you blather on about your miserable life.

Ok! So for the newer readers of my blog, I used to play the game with a great friend, her name was Paige Whisper. It's funny; if it werent for a lot of things (this blog, the Late Night Wizards Group, The Friendly Necromancer; and even Wizard101 if you want to take it that far), our friendship wouldn't have progressed as far as it did, let alone exist. We met in DragonSpyre when Mycin was on his way to GrandMaster. We both had great manners, and that's how we became friends. Then I was testing Late Night Radio, my old podcast that didn't even last a full episode, she helped me test it out.

So she got on Skype and we started talking on there. We became better friends, and things just sorta clicked. During the summer, we leveled some of our wizards together, which included Noah and Diana (her character's names were Kiley Dusk and Ryan RainCaller, who was in fact a girl). We took on a challenge together too; we wanted to see how fast we could level a wizard to Legendary in. It wound up only taking two weeks, and that was before Celestia came out (this all happened in about August).

Then Celestia came out in the beginning of October. We were extremely excited for it. But in a way, Celestia's what caused her to pass away from the Spiral. As excited as we were about it, she isn't one for change, really. In fact, she hates it. So with all the change that came with Celestia (as much as we're now used to it), she was uncomfortable to say the least. We rushed through it, burning out her life force of the Spiral. Looking back on it, I wish I had convinced her to prepare more in the Live realm rather than test it out. She might have stayed for a bit longer, then.

We made guides for people and the like. But part of me feels that her loss from the Spiral wasn't my fault. It was Celestia that helped, and for that I very much dislike it. I feel like that's what's stopping me from leveling Patrick. So by the time we had gotten through Celestia on the test Realm, she didn't want to do it again on the Live realm. It's way too grindy, I agree, but I feel like it's only because KingsIsle wanted to make it a long world. They wanted to keep us busy. But it would also get very repetitive, and after every time I go through my W101 soul feels weaker.

So, eventually, she stopped playing Wizard101. She stopped logging in as much. She stopped logging on to Skype. I got my iPhone, and they couldn't recover her cell number off my old phone. So now the only time I can see her is when I log on to my IRL Facebook, which I'm constantly deactivating because, well, I hate Facebook (by the way, if you've been trying to add me on Facebook, me being Luke GoldHorn and not my IRL profile, it's probably piled up with all my other requests. I check that Facebook maybe once every three or four months). But the thing is, our friendship goes beyond Wizard101. It's much more than that. We don't have much in common; I like in the country, she lives in the city; I'm a boy, she's a girl; she like Life School, I like Fire. But my point is, even if you have an infanite amount of differences with someone, one thing that you both like can bring you into a beautiful friendship that blossoms like an amazing spring flower that's colorful and bright.

Ok, so enough of that. I just felt like it should be shared with you guys. Yesterday, I finished up Jotungaard with Cassandra GriffinDreamer (more on that tomorrow), so it just reminded me of Paige. She may be coming back; I'm trying to convince her. But I just wanted to write a post dedicated to her.

In other news, as I stated, I finished WinterTusk! I really want to get into the Live Realm now and wipe out GrizzleHiem on my alternate characters so they're ready and set. I'll post my opinions on WinterTusk tomorrow and strategies on how to beat the dungeon tomorrow; the four final bosses (the sons of Ymir) cheat, and I have to say that I was quite impressed! I also saw Icywiz's banhammer in there! IT WAS HUGE! I also got my level 58 pet and my blogaversary is coming up this week!

So I gotta get going. I'll see you,

P.D.