{"id":128,"date":"2007-08-28T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2007-08-28T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:59:25","slug":"week-in-review-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/week-in-review-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on in the last week or so:<br \/>\n<b>MMO &#8211; WoW<\/b><br \/>\n<u>Grezzk<\/u> Level 69 orcish hunter. Farstriders server.  Blood and Thunder Guild<br \/>\nRan the first Hellfire Peninsula instance twice, and got some phat loot from that.  Cleared all the non-dungeon-group quests in Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, and I&#8217;m through MOST of the stuff in Nagrand, except for the stuff that *really* requires a group (to differentiate between that and quests that say they require a group and really just require a hunter and his pet. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAlso got a nice new ranged weapon, and should get a real elephant gun of a weapon pretty soon.<br \/>\nLevel 69 right now. 10% done on the way to 70.  If things continue at their current pace (and there&#8217;s no reason to think they won&#8217;t), I&#8217;ll probably ding 70 on either Wednesday or Thursday this week, maybe Friday, and I should have enough money for the riding lessons and manticore flying mount at almost exactly the same time as I level. (No point in getting it earlier, since you can&#8217;t get the mount until level 70 anyway.)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait to ding 70, simply because it&#8217;s going to open up so much more stuff to do without thinking about &#8216;is this getting me xp&#8217; anymore.  I&#8217;ve spent lots of time on little &#8216;non-earning&#8217; side projects in the past, but now?<br \/>\n* I&#8217;m going to run all the Outlands instances.<br \/>\n* I&#8217;m going to go to Mulgore and run all the newbie starting-zone missions for the Tauren to finally get my rep with them up to Exalted, so I can get a war kodo.<br \/>\n* I&#8217;m going to get a dragon (fine: netherdrake. whatever) for a flying mount.<br \/>\n* I&#8217;m going to figure out where the quest line is that lets me walk up to Garrosh Hellscream, kick him in the nuts, and say &#8220;man UP, for chrissake &#8212; you&#8217;re an embarrassment &#8212; you give &#8216;mamas boy&#8217; a bad name.&#8221;<br \/>\n* And aside from all that, there&#8217;s 3 more regions in the Outlands that I haven&#8217;t even touched yet, in terms of doing the quests and checking out all the cool content. \ud83d\ude42  That&#8217;s fine: I really like Nagrand &#8212; it&#8217;s a hunter&#8217;s paradise &#8212; so I think this will be a good place to ding 70.<br \/>\n<b>MMO &#8211; CoH<\/b><br \/>\nHaven&#8217;t done a ton in the last week or so, but the Brightsides have gotten a lot of play recently, and they&#8217;re lots of fun to play, so that&#8217;s good.  I think the last thing we did on them was the &#8220;Cape&#8221; mission&#8230; by which I mean &#8220;find a hero in Paragon City, beat them up, and take their cape.&#8221;  Funny.<br \/>\n<b>MMO &#8211; LotRO<\/b><br \/>\nLord of the Rings Online continues to impress me with the evocative setting.  The interface is a little unfamiliar to me, still, but it&#8217;s getting better.   Pretty sure I have one of every class and probably two of every race, just to play around with different stuff until I find the stuff I really like.  Also, it takes a lot of work in the character creator to come up with a halfling male who doesn&#8217;t look dumpy as all get out.<br \/>\n<b>Tabletop -Spirit of the Century<\/b><br \/>\nKate was in town and I finally got to run session of Spirit of the Century with her in attendance.   I asked her earlier that week to pick a good town for a pulp adventure and she said Hollywood&#8230; she was, unbeknownst to me, thinking &#8220;Noir&#8221; and not &#8220;Pulp,&#8221; but it worked out.  The story opened at the grand opening of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, with a big display of Egyptian antiquities that turned up missing&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; cue a car-chase (our first real use of the change mechanics that I like so much), a mook fight, the first use of the incredibly deadly explosion\/grenade rules&#8230; and a MUMMY!  Woot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on in the last week or so: MMO &#8211; WoW Grezzk Level 69 orcish hunter. 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