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I spent the better part of the evening doing my part to combat family drama and hijacking mom's computer so that Spence and I could twink out his mage somewhat.

Now, Warcraft twinks =/= your standard RP twinks. It just means getting the kid better than decent gear. Spence only runs instances with my guild (all friends and family) and the resellers market for gear on our server is very out of wack, so he tends to be rather under geared for his level. Given that I am not a healing class, nor a tanking class, this makes things slightly complex. The good gear binds to a character on pickup, so he physically needs to be in a instance with me and helping me kill these monsters.

We ran Scarlet Monastery and then I was feeling ballsy so we ran Razorfen Downs after. The loot at the end was mixed.

Illusionary Rod - This is the main reason I wanted to run the instance, because Spence had a crappy staff. Doan is THE caster loot piñata in Scarlet Monastery and I was very pleased to see it drop. Spence seems happy with it too.
Robe of Doan - Priest robes. Spence likes them only because they look like Doan's robes and the kid was excited to face a major boss that was also a mage.
Triune Amulet - ::siiiiigh:: Okay. It's a decent neck piece, but we were gunning for Whitemane's Chapeau.
Deathmage Sash - The only reason I tried for it was that Kate pointed it out and said "Good belt, it's worth a shot".

Mordresh Fire Eye, the boss that gave us a belt, is a great fight. I had never done Razorfen Downs, so Spence and I didn't know what to think when we stumbled upon him and his little "concert".

What annoyed me, though, was that while we got a nice round of loot from the mini bosses, the main bosses - the ones we had to work hard to keep alive through - didn't drop their big prizes. We didn't get Whitemane's Chapeau from Whitemane and we didn't get the Robes of the Lich from Amnennar the Coldbringer. And yeah, I realize that the robes are more warlock material (Merd was wearing them in her 40s), but we're at a loss as to what chest piece a mage can pick up at an instance and at his level. All the cloth appears to be priest or warlock.

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Slow Monday. Wish it was over.

Also wished that I could have gotten the first episode for the rerun project up, but family drama happened. Anyway, it will be the Fans episode, because it's so darn cute. There. I said it. HA!

This makes me nostalgic. Aw... it's Maniac Mansion. Wait. In NINE MINUTES? How on Earth do you do that? All of the storylines use timers - with Bernard, you need to have to wait for the police, with Wendy, Razor and Syd you need to do the mail thing and with Mike... you had to wait for the mail again, but for a different reason. And with Jeff you can do nothing, because Jeff is a dead weight. When you're less useful than Hoagie, you have serious issues.

::watches:: Okay, apparently, it abuses a glitch of some kind.

I'll agree with Mr. Gilbert in the article. The timer in Maniac Mansion is pretty awful, although I would expand it to the puzzles too. They make the game extremely irritating. You need to do X at Y time, or else Z will happen and then you can't win, unless you count "winning" as "blowing everything up". It's only fun the first dozen times.

( On an aside, I did almost right a fic for this series once. You need to see how insane it was. )

Of course, it should be noted that I came up with this insane idea in my first year of college and it never panned out. I've considered reusing some concepts in other projects, but nothing ever gels. Which is a shame, because I thought there were some interesting ideas in there. Note that I said "interesting" and not "really good". :P

There is a decent fic out there that looks at Dave and Bernard's relationship more in terms of canon. While I never agreed with how the rest of the cast was characterized, but the Dave and Bernard bits were good. I can't remember the name of the fic, but the plot involved them travelling to some place and having a tire blow out. The two struggle with their weaknesses as they try to locate a replacement tire.

I think I have it backed up in my backup files somewhere.