Author: Laura Highcove

Update

Laura Highcove

So what’s been going on in normal life? The “destined day” looms. That’s right ladies and gents. On Friday, February 6, 2009, Matthew and I are signing the papers for our first house. Shock and awe!

And as normal, with moving comes boxes, and more boxes! Right now things are looking very messy. I’ve packed up most of the extra stuff so we can take down some boxes when we go on Friday. The rest of the stuff will probably end up just getting tossed into boxes (Of which we need more…) when we get closer.

We won’t actually be moving into the house until the weekend of the 20th. Or at least I will be. Matthew will be staying in the apartment until the Internets are up and working in the new house. Since he’ll be working from home, this is necessary. Hopefully everything goes fairly smoothly.

Shorty

Laura Highcove

This section is smaller than I thought, but that’s really all I needed to get done in this scene.  I’m not really any good at dragging things on just to drag them on. Don’t worry, they’ll be lots of fun in the next part.

Ooo plot!

Laura Highcove

I know this is a little delayed. I need to stop giving excuses and just post like I told myself I would.

Anyway, here’s another main character, Ben. He’s a bit of a goofball, but you learn to love him. I’m debating whether I should put minor characters on the character page as well. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which minor chars are important enough without putting the entire cast up.

Either way, Dakota’s up there now. Not like it’s a spoiler. No one has bright orange hair and then is expected to drop into obscurity.

And it begins

Laura Highcove

Emergency downtime on WoW means site update today!

The site looks pretty nice…at least I’m proud of it. There are still a few tweaks I need to do reguarding links, but you shouldn’t really notice much of a change. I’m just horrible at getting all the little things done.

Anyway, not much has happened in the story yet so I can’t really comment on it without spoilers. So enjoy.

New story!?

Laura Highcove

Back when I talked about nanowrimo, I mentioned I would be working on Silent Wings, my sci-fi story. Nanowrimo failed due to the release of Lich King, but I have still decided that it will be the next story I post here. I’ve also been working on a new site design for the new story. That’s ready as far as I can tell so I should be posting sometime in the coming week.

And no, it just happened that my previous story was Shifting Winds and my next is Silent Wings. Expect error titles such as Shifting Wings and Silent Winds. Either way, I hope you stop by to see the new story.

Christmas

Laura Highcove

I was all hopped up on finishing off Shifting Winds this week, and then I was suddenly reminded of Christmas. So as you can see, no new story posts this week. Hopefully time spent away from WoW will give me extra time to work on the story.

And Merry Christmas everyone!

Sartharion and Red Proto-Drakes

Laura Highcove

So after we cleared out Naxx and Maly this week, we left Vesperion up in addition to Tenebron. A night and a half of wipes, and we had that down as well. Seems like a long time, but when you stop to think about how we would spend weeks on some of the pre-LK bosses, it’s actually not that bad at all.

In addition to that, a group from our guild, composed of Kanu, Koho, Jaidon (formerly Manaburnlol) Hypnotiic and Rosalind have been chipping away at the [Glory of the Hero] achievement. Even going so far as to stack their group with a shaman for heroism (Lesia) instead of their tank (Kanu) to get the soon to be nerfed “Gotta Go” achievement completed.

So gratz to Koho, Jaidon, and Rosalind who currently have the 310% speed red proto-drake from that achievement, with the hopes that we’ll see more soon.

Lich King clear!

Laura Highcove

So it was quite the busy week for all of us. We did two runs through Horde cities and got a fair portion of our members their Black War Bears. Lots of fun and lots of lag. Still a few people who missed a boss or two due to the laggy disconnects, so we’ll be going back some day.

Cleared out Naxx25 again and picked up a new achievement and had some fun while we were there.

Then we headed to Obsidian Sanctum and killed Sartharion while leaving Tenebron up.

And finally we got around to taking Malygos down, getting many people their Champion of the Frozen Wastes achievement.

With that done, we’ve finished all Lich King has to offer in way of progression, so now it’s a month (at minimum) of finishing off achievements for cool prizes and shiny epix.

More dead things

Laura Highcove

Sartharion25 was finished on an off-night. Then for our raiding week, we ran through the rest of Naxx25 at nearly a sprint.

That done we broke into two groups to clear out Naxx10 just for some more gear. (I know…OOB farming gear. It’s craaaaazy.)