Bubble Gums Journal - Entries 5 to 7

Day 5, Entry 5.
So today we had a red BPN, Some intruders had broken into a reactor substation and needed to be removed. Not the best of jobs for our team but no one else seemed to be around. We got needles to inject ourselves every ten minutes. That took some courage to do! Inside we where attacked by tank breed dogs, they died but we got a few bites! Searching the place we found some bombs and a black pool of energy between for pyramids, Arny or Luna said it was ebb related. Then the bombs started beeping rapidly so it was die or jump into the energy so I jumped.
We landed in a cave! Down a tunnel was a pool of blue ebb stuff dripping upwards so I touched it with my finger tip! My finger and death suit turned blue, permanently! Arny reckons it's a good thing which can't be good a he refuses to acknowledge Brainwaster's are a step up on the evolutionary chain from Ebons. Why else would we breed true? Any way it appears that the flow of ebb in the tip of my right index now flows differently. Then we all passed out probably from the radiation which is not a good thing as my flux has been impaired by it a bit.

Day ??, Entry 6.
We woke up sometime later still in the cave but our uni's had been taken by someone. Outside the cave was a sky with three planets floating above! No rain so we weren't on Mort anymore. Arny found tracks which we followed across a barren desert wasteland. Arriving in another cave the others got attacked by flying things that drained their flux. In this cave was a red pool of ebb stuff. Opposite to the blue so I touched it with my left index finger and got blown across the cover and all my flux went! Ouch is all I can say. Bit further in we found a SLA orbit to surface shuttle.
Nearby was a room with a starmap and another with a red pool of energy between triangle black pyramids bigger than in the reactor room. So after eating the food in the landing bay we called the void ship on the shuttles's com. The pilot seemed to be really fascinated with the word - interesting - as he said it repeatedly. Any way we are to tell no one about this place as it was classified. He said to put a little 1 inch black pyramid on our suits, go touch the black pyramid to make the pool black and jump in to get back to Mort. It was a bit more complicated but I worked it out first and left this strange world.

Day 42, Entry 7.
We woke up in a room belonging to the department if ebb. How we got there was classified and all our electronic gear was gone. But the end of my index fingers where still blue and red and the pyramid is still attached to the back of my right hand. After we left we got pulled in by cloak division they wanted to know what happened in the reactor and how we appeared over a month later! I won't lie to 'em so I told them every thing that had happened except what had been classified. Still feel a bit sick from the dog bites...

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The PATCH!

And so the pre-cataclysm patch has arrived and it did come to pass that the nutter (that's me by the way!) Returned once more to Azeroth.

I spent several hours yesterday sorting out my interface. Pretty much rebuilding it up from scratch, changing where I put my bars and ui elements on the screen. Rewriting my power auras procs. Still not happy but a few heroics should help me tidy up better!

Next came the playing with the target dummies and the full impact of the fundamental change to my class now hits home! Its going to take some time to get used managing focus rather than mana, a task made harder by having to learn new hot key sequences. It amazes me that after all this down time from the game I still remember what my old hot keys did! This problem will be helped out with a judicious use of heroics over the next few weeks.

So what else has happened and what are my plans upto the 7th of December, well thanks for asking me that me as it's a question I can answer!

1) I plan to hit the five man heroics pretty hard, just because I can build up on the justice points to improve my a but and to hit the hard cap going into cata, I'm pretty sure that there is a cap.

2) Relearn how to play my class obviously.

3) Pick up one of each pet useful for raiding and dungeons.

4) Get my guild sorted out, in our private channel we are thinking of just putting together for ten man raiding, which is actually fine by me.

5) See what events there atte running up to release date! I have already noticed the earth rumbling in Ironforge.

And that's about it for now!

Wisp

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Civ 5

Installed the game on sunday at 11:30, bad mistake as it meant I didn't get any sleep that night! Fortunately my decision to cut down on caffeine a few months ago paid off, two cans of redbull kept me awake all day at work.

Not really played a civ game since three, largely due to my wow obsession! And I actually am enjoying this version. The city states are a cool addition and won me my first game, as it turns out they get to vote on diplomatic victory! I was expecting the vote between the only remaining two sides to be pointless.

Now we move on to the problems. The game had to be installed via steam. Barely noticed the first time but as I had to reinstall it once this was painful due to stupidly slow download speed. Then it turns out the game is seriously unstable on my machine, hence the reinstall. Too get it working almost reliably I have to play in windows mode using the direct-x 9 version rather than 11.

So many hours into my current game as the English on a archipelago map (almost feels like cheating) I am still enjoying the game, and hex grid rather than squares is another cool improvement.

As this is my first entry from my new phone I am really curious how it's going to format!

Wisp

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Woot - Winterspring Frostsabre!

An hour and a half this morning from 5ish and the last vanilla rep I could complete pre-cataclysm is cleared :)

So I got to buy the Frostsabre, which came with an unexpected bonus!

 

 Wisp

Bubble Gums Journal – Entries 2 - 4

Day 2, Entry 2.
Our First BPN was to go clean some trains. The maintenance staff had been eaten by something. Cool! For some reason the others seemed to think that cleaning trains for 50 credits, split four ways, is beneath them. Morons don’t they understand we have to proof our worth to the great SLA Industries before we start getting better jobs. Well the eaters turned out to be baby carrion, now carrion jigsaw pieces. A nut job frother threw a grenade at the carrion while we were in combat, so Luna shot him – she really hates frothers! He hurt the healer so had to die! Looks like we were allowed to kill this one...

Day 3, Entry 3.
Today we got a job to protect some guy for 4 hours. So he starts a few fights by being a jerk and then a group come along and shot him! Even in ebb beast form I couldn’t do more than scratch em! They left and then Arny fixed him. He had a phone call and then all hell broke loose two people entered the club and opened up with the assault rifles. We got the jerk out and a car turned up with Black Night Opps, The jerks escort turned out to be an ebb user and killed him, we killed the scum. That’s all there was to it. BPN failed but 5 dead Black Night scum, so I can live with that!

Day 4, Entry 4.
I was on telly!!!! We got an execution warrant for a Stormer who’d done something bad to the company. In a downtown waste land we crossed paths, with barney blasting him and Luna shooting him, and me performing a perfect “Bubble Pirouette” for the killing blow live on TV! Afterwards Barny invited us all around for dinner. He’s weird, while my rage bubbles just beneath my bubbly attitude, his is buried deep beneath an ice-cold surface. So once we’d eaten I had to get out of there leaving him with the two ebons who were talking crap. After all I hadn’t been laid for almost 24 hours!

A HORRIFIC Realisation!

Ok while doing stuff on Thursday I started thinking about wow and the pressure I'm getting to hop over to the horde side. Something that’s highly unlikely to happen because on the one hand I have no intention of creating a new main, having put way to much time, effort, heart and soul into Wispcat to replace her. And I have no idea what horror a faction move will do to my reputations and alliance only things like my mounts!

Anyway (I start way to many paragraphs and sentences with that word! I wonder why?) I was thinking about what I would lose by degenerating Wispcat from a night elf into a blood elf. In fact a double degeneration cus high elves are a degenerated night elf as well... And it hit me I would not be able to get my Wintersabre mount... SHIT! My Wintersabre mount, with the mass vanilla wow changes due in cataclysm, some of which may even happen in the upcoming patch, means Blizzard might remove the faction from the game...

So rather than wait till the patch I'm back to playing wow early! My interface is a mess as a lot of my mods no longer work, being a good 6 month out of date, I can't remember most of my skills but I'm back. Doing almost nothing but running from Wintersabre Trainer -> White Furball Village -> Chasm full of Giants -> Wintersabre Trainer. I don't need to fix anything in order to do that! Just another 27 more trips to go at an average of 3-4 an hour (depending on other people being around).

As a distraction from this farming a friend who is hunting northrend rares for the Achievement Frostbitten did locate the spirit bear which I went and tamed. Adding GhostBubbles to my stable.



To finish off the patch with NO MORE MANA is likely to hit 6th or 13th of October and I'll be back posting stuff about the game then. Because I know all my imaginary readers have missed me talking about wow :p

Wisp