A Few Choice Pictures

Our Friendly Neighborhood Bonekeeper

My Hydra about to take a bite out of Tomugawa

The Amazing Gravity Defying Mushroom

Item of The Day: Temple Guardian Statue

The Temple Guardian Statue from Grum Foultooth in Crimson Fields. Anybody who's been messing around on Mooshu has seen these statues staring at you from the other side of the Insurmountable Waist Height Fence and some of you have even said to yourselves, "I want that." Well, I've said that too and now I've got it. It's pretty neat in the wild but it's even more impressive when you can get a good look at it. I'd love to get a couple rows of these statues but it's limit-1, oh well.

Item of The Day: Solar Decoration

I made this on the Housing Station today. It's a lot taller then I expect (it's about three times the size of my character) and the flames around the outside rotate. Pretty cool, if you ask me.


Also: spider butt, it makes everything better.

Item(s) of the Day: Fire Salamander and Incense Plate

It's official, the game is messing with me. While looking for parchment, I got my third pet drop in 12 days: the cool looking Fire salamander.


I also got this neat Incense Plate from a quest in Tatakai Outpost.

Pets: part 1

Here's some of the pets I've gotten so far.

Black Spider

Summer Dragon

Happy Piggle

Grumpy Snowman

Defender Pig

Blue Cyclops

Bounceback?

I spent sometime on my Lowbie Life wizard and hit 10. I swapped in the new equipment my 37 Balance wizard had gotten while trying to get housing drops and headed over to the Life School to get my sprite spell. I happen to look over at the left-hand chalkboard and noticed this:


Cast a Bounceback. Sounds like it would be a reflect-type spell that would 'Bounce Back' the next spell cast against the target.
Was this a spell that was dropped cause they couldn't get it to work? If it ever existed, is it gone forever or will we see it again when they raise the level cap.

A trip to the Zoo and Pirates

So, I went to the zoo yesterday and took lots of pictures. A bunch of them came out quite well and I think this one is one of the best.

Now, this brings me back to the title of my post. Wizard 101 has a lot of great stuff in it but it's missing two important things: Monkeys (yes, I do realize gorillas aren't monkeys) and pirates (we have ninjas already, so where are the pirates). So to kill two birds with one stone, KI needs to introduce Monkey (and Great Ape) Pirates.
So, who's with me?

(disclaimer: I do think pirates should be added to W101 in time, but really I'm just being silly about the monkey part.)

That aside, I think a sea/island world would be pretty interesting. We've had Egypt and Turn-of-the-century London, a weird mix-up of Chinese, Japanese and possibly other Asian cultures and a fantasy styled norse/viking world. Wizard City and Dragonspyre seem pretty original to me. And Maybe we've got Celestia coming, which with it's Gobblers and fairies and witches sounds like it may have a fairy tale vibe to it. So, a South Seas/spanish main based world would, IMO, fit in pretty well.

Marleybone Big House Walkthrough

I promised you guys a walk through of my new house and here it is.
Not: I'm not done decorating, so really this is just a walk through of the island.

This picture was taken from the Spiral Door and shows most of the island.

Looking towards the greenhouse.

Looking towards the Main House.

At the foot of the bridge leading to the greenhouse.

Greenhouse and lawn at the top of the stairs.

Between the Main House and Greenhouse is an area that seems custom made for statuary.

There's a path under the bridges that runs the length of the island.

At the foot of the bridge leading to the Main House.

Behind the house there's a bit of open space for anything you may want.

Here's the entryway. Not much to say.

The second floor, plenty of open space.

Here's the entrance to the 'secret' room.

And here's the 'secret' room with all my looted Krokotopian artifacts.

The third floor, not as much room as the second floor but still plenty of room.

And last but not least the walkway leading from the third floor to the greenhouse.

random picture: enough buffs?

you know, I don't think that's anywhere near enough shields. Clearly I need more.