With the higher volume of page viewers and such I have decided to extend the contest. Please visit the contest blog posting and enter. Please enter often and please make sure to mention the contest in your post/link on other sites so that they too can see the contest and they can enter too.
Due to the knee surgery and complications that came of it I have decided to extend the contest deadline until the end of August. So the new drawing date will be September 1st. So please make sure to mention the blog and future podcast wherever and whenever you can. I discourage using the WoW forums or Trade Channels as you have seen from my previous posts that could get your account suspended. But other chat rooms and such are great if you can tactfully mention the blog for the contest. Don't forget to email me your contact information as well as posting the web address to your link in the comments of the contest.
Good luck!
Remember to PIMP YOUR NOOB!
Sunday, June 28
Saturday, June 27
THANK YOU!
I just want to thank everyone for their kind words on Twitter these last two weeks. With my knee surgery and my account suspension I have been a little busy to make too many blog postings.
I looked at my www.statcounter.com account that tracks my page views and such. And to my surprise I actually broke 100 page loads on Saturday June 20th with 116 page loads! Couple that with 82 unique visitors to the blog that day.
I am so happy that the blog seems to be running as well as it is. I hope that it continues to go well. Make sure you enter the contest here. And please comment on any of our posts, we love to hear from our fellow noobs.
I looked at my www.statcounter.com account that tracks my page views and such. And to my surprise I actually broke 100 page loads on Saturday June 20th with 116 page loads! Couple that with 82 unique visitors to the blog that day.
I am so happy that the blog seems to be running as well as it is. I hope that it continues to go well. Make sure you enter the contest here. And please comment on any of our posts, we love to hear from our fellow noobs.
Friday, June 26
At the stronghold… Original Fiction by Xan
Stepping through the porthole comes the wizard, a miniature man, a silly looking human in chain mail, and a giant. The paladin stands up from his chair at the table where he was eating a nice feast. The wizard waves the travelers over to the table and motions them to have a seat. With another wave of his hand, the food magically expands to fit their ravenous appetites.
“How much longer do I have to wait to destroy the evil plaguing this land?” Came the immediate reply of the paladin to the wizard. “These three aren’t evil.”
“Patience, Solcloud Genus you will have enemies aplenty to destroy in no time. Please let these three catch their breath. They have been part of a slave train for many days now. They were on their way to Gleorn, just as you were. I think we owe them some background, wouldn’t you agree?”
“As long as I can make evil pay soon!”
“In time, I promise you.”
The wizard sits at a high backed chair to the head of the table and motions the travelers to eat their fill. The giant tears off a chicken leg the size of the small man with his left hand and begins to devour it, while he reaches for a drink and a roll with his right hand. The little man gulps, trying hard to stay out of his ravenous way.
“Damn, he could eat me if I don’t watch myself.” The small man mutters in a different dialect.
“I don’t eat little ones like you.” Came the deep voice of the giant in the same tongue.
“A giant speaking the language of my kin? Now that is a sight!” The little man shrieks in the common language of the land. “The name is Beasley.” He cleverly looks around and continues on the strange dialect he previously spoke in, “Beasley Quinn Silvermoon of the Northern Silvermoon’s not the South.” He continues to speak in the more common tongue “I don’t recall traveling with the likes of you, or you.” He gestures towards the silly man trying not to get his mis-fit armor or his hands dirty with the food.
With a full mouth of food and a chicken leg in his hand, the giant begins to speak, waving the chicken leg in the air. “Well said my halfling friend! I am Zander Adalstein, The Noble Stone, Son of “the Indefinite”, Adherent to the teachings of Othr, Professor of the ways of…”
“OK, I think we get the idea.” Solcloud waves his arms in the air at the sound of such stupidity. “Obviously you may look like a half-ogre, but you definitely have the name of a halfling. St. Cuthbert strike me down if you don’t break the mold!” The Paladin turns to the thin man, “Please tell me your name is short and sweet?”
Startled, the man looks up from trying to eat without getting his hands dirty. He politely lifts his hand up to motion he has food in his mouth. He quickly chews to clear his mouth then dabs the corners of his mouth daintily before speaking. Solcloud rolls his eyes impatiently as he awaits a reply.
“I am Mayvn Dyse. However, life is too interesting to ‘dies’ just yet.” He snickers at his own humor. Even the halfling looked at him funny by the lack of humor in this man. “I am a bard by trade. But as you can see, I have been ‘liberated’ of my position and my clothing.”
“Ah, yes, after we have all finished our meal,” Philomar interrupted. “I will change that for you. However, for now, please, eat. You must be famished traveling for days without food. It is a wonder I found you alive. I now see why you all passed out when I attacked the slave train. Moreover, obviously your memories of how you were captured also elude you. Most who are without sustenance can suffer memory loss. Please eat and regain your strength.”
Beasley and Zander engaged in an eating contest that lasted several hours. Mayvn, being more refined and with a napkin in his lap, sipped soup and tea with a pinkie towards the sky. The giant and the halfling leaned back in their chairs beaming like lions after a good hunt. Mayvn sat in awe and disgust at the lack of table manners displayed by these ‘guests’ at Philomar’s table. With a wrinkled nose, he clears him mouth and begins to speak with more flamboyance. “Let me apologize for these… oafs and their lack of manners. That was a wonderful meal.” He again pats the corners of his mouth with his napkin. “I hate to sound under appreciative, but you mentioned being able to change me…umm…us out of our rags into something more appropriate?” Mayvn looks at his armor and smells the sleeve, obviously repulsed.
“How much longer do I have to wait to destroy the evil plaguing this land?” Came the immediate reply of the paladin to the wizard. “These three aren’t evil.”
“Patience, Solcloud Genus you will have enemies aplenty to destroy in no time. Please let these three catch their breath. They have been part of a slave train for many days now. They were on their way to Gleorn, just as you were. I think we owe them some background, wouldn’t you agree?”
“As long as I can make evil pay soon!”
“In time, I promise you.”
The wizard sits at a high backed chair to the head of the table and motions the travelers to eat their fill. The giant tears off a chicken leg the size of the small man with his left hand and begins to devour it, while he reaches for a drink and a roll with his right hand. The little man gulps, trying hard to stay out of his ravenous way.
“Damn, he could eat me if I don’t watch myself.” The small man mutters in a different dialect.
“I don’t eat little ones like you.” Came the deep voice of the giant in the same tongue.
“A giant speaking the language of my kin? Now that is a sight!” The little man shrieks in the common language of the land. “The name is Beasley.” He cleverly looks around and continues on the strange dialect he previously spoke in, “Beasley Quinn Silvermoon of the Northern Silvermoon’s not the South.” He continues to speak in the more common tongue “I don’t recall traveling with the likes of you, or you.” He gestures towards the silly man trying not to get his mis-fit armor or his hands dirty with the food.
With a full mouth of food and a chicken leg in his hand, the giant begins to speak, waving the chicken leg in the air. “Well said my halfling friend! I am Zander Adalstein, The Noble Stone, Son of “the Indefinite”, Adherent to the teachings of Othr, Professor of the ways of…”
“OK, I think we get the idea.” Solcloud waves his arms in the air at the sound of such stupidity. “Obviously you may look like a half-ogre, but you definitely have the name of a halfling. St. Cuthbert strike me down if you don’t break the mold!” The Paladin turns to the thin man, “Please tell me your name is short and sweet?”
Startled, the man looks up from trying to eat without getting his hands dirty. He politely lifts his hand up to motion he has food in his mouth. He quickly chews to clear his mouth then dabs the corners of his mouth daintily before speaking. Solcloud rolls his eyes impatiently as he awaits a reply.
“I am Mayvn Dyse. However, life is too interesting to ‘dies’ just yet.” He snickers at his own humor. Even the halfling looked at him funny by the lack of humor in this man. “I am a bard by trade. But as you can see, I have been ‘liberated’ of my position and my clothing.”
“Ah, yes, after we have all finished our meal,” Philomar interrupted. “I will change that for you. However, for now, please, eat. You must be famished traveling for days without food. It is a wonder I found you alive. I now see why you all passed out when I attacked the slave train. Moreover, obviously your memories of how you were captured also elude you. Most who are without sustenance can suffer memory loss. Please eat and regain your strength.”
Beasley and Zander engaged in an eating contest that lasted several hours. Mayvn, being more refined and with a napkin in his lap, sipped soup and tea with a pinkie towards the sky. The giant and the halfling leaned back in their chairs beaming like lions after a good hunt. Mayvn sat in awe and disgust at the lack of table manners displayed by these ‘guests’ at Philomar’s table. With a wrinkled nose, he clears him mouth and begins to speak with more flamboyance. “Let me apologize for these… oafs and their lack of manners. That was a wonderful meal.” He again pats the corners of his mouth with his napkin. “I hate to sound under appreciative, but you mentioned being able to change me…umm…us out of our rags into something more appropriate?” Mayvn looks at his armor and smells the sleeve, obviously repulsed.
Thursday, June 25
Mo-Moments #6: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate...
Do you play with fire?
Does your WOW character(s) play with fire?
Well I don't know about you but I like my fair share of fire/fireworks, while we are all being safe of course.
Ahhh, I remember ditching school back in Chicago (when someone says Chicago or any major city they are from it usually includes the area or region surrounding the major city... FYI) to go to Indiana to get some real fire...um never mind. Don't tell anyone ok!
Well to my point.
Do you get excited about the WOW holidays or the special events they have year round?
Are you one that is completing every quest and achievement to get the special mount? (if you are, well you do deserve a mount and then some other gifts and a drink on Mo!)
The latest Event/Holiday is Midsummer Fire Festival.
I always like to look at thing from both sides of the story; pros/cons salt n' peppa, you know what I mean?
The fire festival or fire festivus i like to call it, it is related to the Festivus holiday.
One great reason for everyone to do at least the Horde/Alliance Bonfires is that you will be able to go all across the land of WOW, explore, PvP if you are on a PvP server, and I would like to take this time to thank the rogues and druids that were following my every step the first day! Thank you very much, gang banging is what I look for on Sundays!
Not only do you explore, complete the event quests, get XP if you are low level, gain gold if you are high level and it will give you a chance to work towards the exploring achievements.
Anyone can do that even if you are not into the achievement system.
One of the many resources out there, website and blogs, from Twittering I was reading wowgrrl's tweets and you can check out the blog at http://wowgrrl.com/
One of the good blogs out there, has a link to WowWiki, for Horde and Alliance.
Check out the other wonderful wow blogs, there are plenty but it is always great to check other peoples views.
If you are a new WOW player or someone like one of my guildies that was away from the game for a while, well I have many guildies like that but it is a great way to get back into the game.
Along with the easy part of each holiday or event come with the not so easy part; the tasks/quests that usually take groups. Let me tell you I have not had any luck doing these on pugs on my main server and yes I may quit too soon but if you do not care about getting the "meta" achievement I believe the experience WoW players like to call it. I call it special cool looking drake mount achievements. Either way, it does take time and patience and at best good pugs/groups to complete. There will be many that say I am incorrect but for me I do not have any desire to complete them and it is great for those that do complete them.
So at least visit your main city, check out the quests, do the one you want and abandon the one you don't, like Mo did!
Happy fire boys and girls and be safe, play with fire but don't PLAY with fire!
Thank you
Does your WOW character(s) play with fire?
Well I don't know about you but I like my fair share of fire/fireworks, while we are all being safe of course.
Ahhh, I remember ditching school back in Chicago (when someone says Chicago or any major city they are from it usually includes the area or region surrounding the major city... FYI) to go to Indiana to get some real fire...um never mind. Don't tell anyone ok!
Well to my point.
Do you get excited about the WOW holidays or the special events they have year round?
Are you one that is completing every quest and achievement to get the special mount? (if you are, well you do deserve a mount and then some other gifts and a drink on Mo!)
The latest Event/Holiday is Midsummer Fire Festival.
I always like to look at thing from both sides of the story; pros/cons salt n' peppa, you know what I mean?
The fire festival or fire festivus i like to call it, it is related to the Festivus holiday.
One great reason for everyone to do at least the Horde/Alliance Bonfires is that you will be able to go all across the land of WOW, explore, PvP if you are on a PvP server, and I would like to take this time to thank the rogues and druids that were following my every step the first day! Thank you very much, gang banging is what I look for on Sundays!
Not only do you explore, complete the event quests, get XP if you are low level, gain gold if you are high level and it will give you a chance to work towards the exploring achievements.
Anyone can do that even if you are not into the achievement system.
One of the many resources out there, website and blogs, from Twittering I was reading wowgrrl's tweets and you can check out the blog at http://wowgrrl.com/
One of the good blogs out there, has a link to WowWiki, for Horde and Alliance.
Check out the other wonderful wow blogs, there are plenty but it is always great to check other peoples views.
If you are a new WOW player or someone like one of my guildies that was away from the game for a while, well I have many guildies like that but it is a great way to get back into the game.
Along with the easy part of each holiday or event come with the not so easy part; the tasks/quests that usually take groups. Let me tell you I have not had any luck doing these on pugs on my main server and yes I may quit too soon but if you do not care about getting the "meta" achievement I believe the experience WoW players like to call it. I call it special cool looking drake mount achievements. Either way, it does take time and patience and at best good pugs/groups to complete. There will be many that say I am incorrect but for me I do not have any desire to complete them and it is great for those that do complete them.
So at least visit your main city, check out the quests, do the one you want and abandon the one you don't, like Mo did!
Happy fire boys and girls and be safe, play with fire but don't PLAY with fire!
Thank you
Wednesday, June 24
Blizzard Apologizes...
Well, I got my account restored. When I received the last email from Blizzard they activated my account again. But their email was unclear and I replied back to find out what was going on and this is the response I received from BLIZZ:
Thank you for your follow-up e-mail. I wish to apologize if my former correspondence was not more clear. Initially your account was disabled, not closed, as a result of the advertising. As I previously mentioned, this is standard when we see cases of mass advertising for websites. Your account is currently valid and you should have no issues logging in. I removed the lock at the time of my previous e-mail, and simply issued a warning for the account. This should have no lasting repercussions on your account as we simply wanted to make you aware of our policies. :)
Thank you for your patience and interest in World of Warcraft. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
Thank you for the apology Blizz. I am just happy I am able to play again and I guess I will no longer advertise my blog in the trade channel.
Thank you for your follow-up e-mail. I wish to apologize if my former correspondence was not more clear. Initially your account was disabled, not closed, as a result of the advertising. As I previously mentioned, this is standard when we see cases of mass advertising for websites. Your account is currently valid and you should have no issues logging in. I removed the lock at the time of my previous e-mail, and simply issued a warning for the account. This should have no lasting repercussions on your account as we simply wanted to make you aware of our policies. :)
Thank you for your patience and interest in World of Warcraft. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
Thank you for the apology Blizz. I am just happy I am able to play again and I guess I will no longer advertise my blog in the trade channel.
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