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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