Someone made me drink a buncha brandy this evening so this post is going to be disjointed and pointless.

NEVERTHELESS.

I had a ton of fun tonight.  Zealot’s (the alliance Pain Train is in with Black Shields and Blood Thirst) town was raided by a previous allied clan.  I’m not sure what their beef is except they must be SO CRAZILY JEALOUS.  I totally got smoked in the first five seconds but I got a mount and a 1H and shield and tried to help after it was apparently over (Yeah, I suck but you can’t fault my dedication!).

Later, Jesse and Drem and Ken and Dan and I wandered around hitting mines and harrassing AFKers and random defenders in towns in Darkfall’s massive world.  I love getting the special ore from mines that don’t belong to me.  It’s like Christmas without the tree to clean up or presents to buy.

I also got a PvP lesson from Loc Legend.  I dunno if I mentioned him before but he’s another at the top of my Cool Motherfuckers from Black Shields list.  I believe I horrified him by my PvP UNprowess but he was patient and nice anyhow.  Plus he can take a joke like no other.  I heart his guts, yo.

All in all, Darkfall is super fucking win right now.  Though transfers are tomorrow and I dread to think what Friday will bring for me (death, dismemberment, and DRUNKEN DEBAUCHERY?!) I’m loving this game.

Also, I love you.  Yes, you.  The one in the back with the weird tic.  You’re adorable.  *kiss*

Darkfall’s been pretty enthralling lately since Jesse got us into Pain Train.  I’ve made a couple new friends in the alliance (though it seems like a lot of them aren’t partial to new people or girls h up their testosterone-aimed games).  My favourite so far is Dremlock StraightRocked.  We’d actually met him a couple of weeks before when Dan, Ken, and I were out on a new player hunt in Human lands.  Now, I’m not always the best shot but I’m usually quick to spot people and ninja-eyed him while we were running through the woods high-fiving each other on our last two newbie conquests.  We hauled ass over to him and started prying the top off our can of Been-Playing-A-Month Whoop Ass.  He turned around and within four minutes crushed all three of us.  He messaged me to say we’d probably picked the wrong newbie and all I could say was that at least we’d died bravely.  *grin*  Anyway, he’s an ultra cool guy and teaches me PvP tips and takes me along to sieges too.

On the PvE front, we’ve been hanging out in PnT’s city crafting and exploring the surrounding areas.  One of my favourite aspects of Darkfall is that you don’t know much about a mob unless you’ve fought it before.  It’s terribly exciting to ride up on a bear or spider or four-armed abomination and attack without knowing how difficult the fight’s going to be or what it will drop or what you’ll get from skinning.  “Oooh, let’s kill it” are currently my most uttered words (followed closely by “MotherFUCK, I died” and “Where are the Swiss Cake Rolls?”).

Travis bought me Fallen Earth to try out and that’s been taking up most of my day time.  It’s an mix of FPS-type combat and normal MMO questing and crafting.  I’ve made several Dark-Tower-themed characters and, of course, a Gankis Khan incarnation.  I’m not terribly fond of how tedious the levels are but the story has been interesting so far.  It’s hard to make the transition from Darkfall to Fallen Earth so I spend a good portion of my play time irritated that I have to keep moving out of first person mode.  It’s always fun to hang with Travis, though; we’re all about the highbrow shit talk.

Unrelatedly, my scarf knitting has come to a screeching halt as I woke this morning to find the puppies had opened a velcro-closured messenger bag (WITH WHAT THUMBS I WANT TO KNOW), shredded all eight skeins inside, chewed up (and must have swallowed ’cause I cannot find them ANYWHERE) a set of circular needles with cable, and demolished Robert’s scarf that was half knit on said needles.  I cried when I saw the mess.  Guess I’ll be starting on the puppies’ sweaters earlier than I’d meant.

Perhaps that was their plan all along.

An uninteresting and horrid facet of my fucking ridiculous procrastination issue is that I don’t do things unless I have ALL the tools I might need to do them (and I especially love it if I have to run out to buy them ’cause then I’ve expended all the energy I was going to use to actually do something on buying supplies for it and put it off ’til tomorrow).  For instance, it’s difficult for me to do the dishes if we don’t have dish soap, dishwasher detergent, JetDry, scrubby sponges, and one of those brushes that dispenses soap when you push a button near the handle.  I don’t know why those are so important when my dish-doing is usually comprised of a rinse and place location in the dishwasher.  But I just don’t feel right if I don’t have every single item on my list ready.  JUST IN CASE.

“What the fuck does this have to do with Darkfall?” you ask.  Good question and watch your mouth or I’ll wash it.  First off, it totally explains my lack of posts.  I haven’t been doing anything interesting ’cause I’ve been getting all the tools I might possibly need to play.  This entails getting stats up so I don’t die in two hits (my god, I’m so tired of seeing Brownies and even more tired of seeing people coming to chase me away from their Brownies).  I’ve been leveling my tailoring and then making ass-tons of Cloth Armguards to get my Trueforge Armor to 55.  I’ve also been leveling my magic and picked up Earth magic, Spell Chanting, and Witchcraft.

Moving on!  As it turns out, a good friend of ours from EVE is playing Darkfall as well.  Jesse is BADASS and hella fun, though I think sometimes our filthy humour and mouths quietly horrify him and make him glad he lives far away.  It also turns out he’s in a superamazingholyshittheyfuckedme clan who happens to have kicked out the nubcity clan we’d joined in the beginning.  I’d only heard the story from the Supreme General of nubcakesclan, inc. and it was gratifying to hear that we weren’t the only ones who thought he was a directionless douchebag who never divvied up loot.  Anyhow, we’ve been hanging with Jesse a ton and he’s shown us cool new places to farm, taken us to hamlets to steal their mine contents and harass their citizens, and generally been a kick ass pal.

So there you have it.  Aside from the knitting I’ve been doing, this is how I’ve spent the past couple weeks. 

God, I love this game.