*cries* Why won't you let me play???

Urgh, so I'm once again kicked out of my game :P

I got back in after my earlier issues and promptly teleported from the lab to do some other quests in the area, but obviously I have to return at some point. Went back in, finished off some stuff, but now I'm once again waiting to get back in.

Away from that for the minute, I have to say that this area is damn hard. LOTS of elite mobs in the area and the regular mobs pack a punch. Loads of quests are requesting 5+ groups to do which at the moment I just don't have. Might have to ask my guild for some help with them. I feel this area is rather difficult for your regular player. Maybe it's because I'm spellslinger and they aren't the tankiest role that I'm having issues, but I am dying a LOT.

Not much to report on today aside from my issues with this lab. I'm level 48 and so close to 50 I can taste it. Really wanted to reach it tonight, but this lab doesn't seem to want to let me. I do keep getting calls from my home-girl Drusera about various bits and pieces. And i ran into this little joy.

See the green and red caretaker? One always lies and the other always tells the truth. Ever seen the movie the Labyrinth? Yeah, it's basically that scene with Sarah and the doors, only this was Lyghtning and the consoles that had to be turned on in a certain order from the instructions they give you. The achievement I felt at cracking it was immense. Even if I was ready to punch them both by the end.

Also did a quest to grab some eggs from a ship wreckage and that was an acrobatic feat worthy of cirque du soleil. See that green water? Yeah you go in that you die pretty much. So I had Lyghtning leaping about, using her Wall ability to make jumps I was missing, nearly overshooting some leaps, all to grab some eggs for a blasted Chua.

And in my lab, aside from the crashes, i have the following bugs. See that floating console. See it? I'm supposed to activate that. HOW? It's above me. Even on Rexy I can't reach.

And this happened while I was running. both Lyghtning and Rexy fell into this blue void. We fell for a bit and then died. Fun times to be had in this lab.

Site Layout

So currently I can't access the game at all. I'm in Western Grimvault and I am stuck. I can't log on. Everytime I do the game crashes. It's been laggy on me for about an hour before, but nothing game breaking. Well now i just can't get in. It crashes as it's loading. Thing is though i don't know at this point whether it's something on the servers or on my computer :P

So in the meantime i may update my layout. It's very basic at the moment and i think it needs more Lyghtning on it lol.

Grimvault lives up to it's name

Seriously this place is grim.

The Strain is EVERYWHERE. Like a whole landscape of weird mutant animals and eyes watching me. Literally The Hills have eyes here (to quote a movie title)

But there is work to be done and one of Lyghtning's first tasks here was to drive a tank. Oh hell yeah! I loved it. Those strain nasties didn't know what hit them when I started launching rockets assaults at them!

Awesome section was awesome.

My next task was to raise the morale of the troops. Now i realise that EVERY other player will have to do this task, but I couldn't help but snigger at being told that seeing me would surely raise their spirits. Of course it will. I'm rocking an off the shoulder coat and booty shorts. That combo will probably raise more than just their morale.

Oh and I have to kill these things. Starship Troopers brain bug anyone?

Drusera and The Caretaker...I'll ship that

Odd right?

Usual fare of this is a Drusera centric post so expect spoilers to the game's story and lore :) I'm level 46 at the time of writing this.

So as I mentioned in my last post, my wonderful pal Drusera called to say she had more to show me. So after wandering round Malgrave, I hopped on over to Illium to visit my new-found god friend.

And I have to say I was somewhat surprised to see Drusera getting rather friendly with The Caretaker. I mean this isn't the first time she's seemed familiar with him, but the last time he was trying to kill me. In fact this time he was trying to kill me, but me being the kind friend I am, reset some of his circuits and suddenly, BAM, he remembers Drusera. He also stopped trying to kill me which was a nice bonus.

So yeah...I can totally ship this. I mean heck, if my sister can ship Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson from One Direction together, I can totally ship this. It needs a ship name though. All ships have names. The aforementioned one goes by the name Larry Stylinson on the great wide internet. I'm going to dub this one Carsera for now. Unless I can come up with something better.

D'awwwww, they remember each other!

Anyway, while they got friendly, I had the job of getting datacubes away from Strain monsters. Found out some really interesting lore too. Turns out the Eldan tried to kill the Entity, otherwise referred to in this blog as, Malevolent Presence or 'huge-ass-scary-monster-thing'. They failed, obviously considering the chat I had with him recently, and he killed them all. That's right, the architects of the universe didn't just vanish, the Entity killed them.

Although I did sort of meet one Eldan, though he's been transformed into a monster by the Strain and tried to kill me. Which he nearly did as when Drusera told me to keep him busy, that resulted in me charging around the room, firing my pistols in any direction and screaming 'I'm going to die' over and over.

I mean she's a god and I'm the one having to keep the humongous monster over there 'busy'. He also called me a pet. I would have loved to have kicked his ass over that, but the aforementioned running and screaming then happened. No ass kicking. 

There is also a really fun mind bendingly frustrating platforming section to this part. I love platform games so I enjoy the parts of the game that take elements of them and incorporate them into this. I just hated the fact I kept missing the damn things and falling back to the bottom.

After my trials were over, Drusera told me that the Entity is kept in the Lightspire she created. Now I'm curious to know whether that is the name of her tall bright tower (aka a light spire) or whether that is what it's called on this server as I'm on the Lightspire server. If anyone knows please do comment and update me :) It's one of those little things that will really bug me otherwise lol.

Now if you don't mind, I've been wandering round Grimvault and as it's dawn here in England and I am slowly watching the sun come up, I think it's time I headed off to bed XD

Malgrave and Artemis Zin

Been finishing up on some quests in and around Malgrave and is it just me or is the zone chat REALLY quiet round here? I mean almost every player I see is Exile so I suppose that doesn't help and any Exiles I see tend to be in my guild. Are people still on the lower levels? I thought most people would be around my level, at least those in the first wave of players would be. Got a few group quests hanging around, but i'm not even seeing anyone talk let alone say they're looking for a group.

Anywho, away from the chat or lack there of, I ran into a rather interesting quest involving an Elder cube controlling some pell. Artemis Zin rocked up with her cameras and got absorbed by the cube, Kevo went nuts at me...and then things seemed to go back to normal. Is this foreshadowing? I feel this is foreshadowing. Either that or it's a really random story segment lol XD

Got another call from my home girl Drusera, so Lyghtning is getting her pink assed booty shorts over to Illium to go and check what's going down now :)

Team speak issues and WIND SURFING!!!

No post yesterday...so sorry XD I literally spent an age trying to get Team Speak working on my computer so I could talk to my friends while playing. Finally got the damn thing sorted though and yay for being able to talk to others while playing! Even if said people haven't bought dinosaur mounts. I mean really, who cares about any of the other mounts when you can ride a dinosaur :)

So not much happened yesterday...though I did spend an awful lot of time dead. And this wasn't through mobs, or anything like that. It was through me throwing myself off of cliffs. Admittedly once or twice it wasn't my fault. Once I was getting chased by a dozen mobs, took a wrong turn and fell. And another time I got picked up by a tornado and the land was a loooooooooong way down when it dropped me off lol. Other times it was totally my fault because I wanted to see Rexy fly XD

But I did actually get a quest in the middle of all of this where I HAD to throw myself off the cliff and then wind surf all the way to the ground. That was pretty damn cool :D

Also got a fifth costume slot :D So i spent about an hour going through ALL the costume pieces I've collected up till now and deciding which looked good and which didn't XD Still not 100% happy with costume number 5. Think it might be because she's in booty shorts, but i wanted something a little different to her others. We shall see :)

Anywho, enjoy the pretty-ness of the area I'm in :D Look at all the crystals. Or as the Lopp would say, the shinies.

Drusera's music

Because I loved this piece in game. When a piece of video game music makes you pause playing and think 'wow!', then it's a good piece of music :)

I really like Drusera's character lol XD