A giant THANK YOU to anyone and everyone who contributed!

On to the gaming side of things…

I haven’t logged into WoW in over a week. I think my last log-in was raiding a week from Saturday ago… yikes! It’s not for a lack of interest, simply a lack of time. Busy with work, busy with real life… but mostly busy with Going Rogue!

GOING ROGUE! Huzzah! City of Heroes’ first TRUE expansion pack has come at such a wonderful lull in the gaming world. The WoW expansion isn’t set to hit for months, The Old Republic is even further around the corner (c’mon, Spring ‘11!), and there just really isn’t anything new and exciting out right now.

BOOM! Going Rogue drops, and everything hits the fan.

It’s been a while since I was TRULY inspired to make a new character. Sure, I’ve made tons since CoH first launched, but only a few have I sat down and thought out more than simple “Yanno what would be fun/funny?”

I’ll have proper character introductions for some of my CoH toons in the near future. I’ve been planning a series of posts based on them for a while, and this is really the best possible time.

So, aside from some ramblings here and there, I’m hoping to get a few decent rotations on my posts. Dust off For Old Time’s Sake and add a few more to keep things fresh. We’ll see!

Work’s been busy lately, so I haven’t had the posting time I’d like. I’m hoping that if I get myself in a rotation groove, maybe even with some templates, that I’ll have a much easier time adding new content to the blog.

Now, if only I’d take the time to upgrade to Wordpress 3….

>.>

Could you please pass on the word about this fund-raiser? You see, one of my dear friends who I met through City of Heroes (Kozzma) found out that his father is terminal. Like… they gave him two days to a month to live… it’s that bad.

Well, Tessa and I have decided that we’re going to raise money to try and send him to visit his father before it’s too late. We ask for any little donation that you can give… but word of mouth can be even more useful! Please, if you’d advertise this… we’re trying to build funds as quickly as possible, since this is a time-sensitive issue.

I apologize for advertising with a post, but I figured this is the best reason to!

It’s okay, I know you want to cry a little. Don’t worry, I’ll post again tomorrow!

Anyway, I messed around on the Paladin a little bit last night, leveled a couple times, realized that Paladin + BoA shoulders = lawlmobs. Yeah, life is good.

The only thing that was missing was his STYLE. I mean, he’s big, he’s blue, he looked kinda cool… but a trip to the barber was in order.

BEHOLD! The IMPROVED Astarian!

I’m too sexy for short hair!

Also: he looks like a Klingon. Seriously, what’s not to love about Big Blue?

We’re going to break it down by character, just for fun!

Oh, and this post is super picture-heavy… so if you are on 56k: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!

Hit the jump if your ISP can handle my awesomeness!

Jaarka

Jaarka did some mad Heroics this weekend. The amazing crew at <Crits and Giggles> put together a few randoms (sometimes with a LFD PuG thrown in, but never anything troublesome) and he got a LOT of achievements. A lot. Like… 10. That I screen-shotted…. so maybe even more. Look!

Obviously, click to make it bigger - lots of goodness!

Right… so that was… awesome.

Oh, and who can go running around with Rep and Hart without having a Dance Party?

Right! And since I’m in the mood for picture spam (you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!), here is one of the raid group from the awesome ToC10 we ran in MY honor! Yay! Thanks, Rep! I had never been before, so she was nice enough to schedule one just to try and get me geared up a bit more! Didn’t really get much out of it… but apparently our tanks are rollin’ in the epics. Anyway, I DID get a few pieces (which I will search for and try to link later) but they consisted of a Leather Chest and a cool one-handed sword. Good stuff.

Right. The picture. Thought I forgot, eh? FOOLED YOU!

Epic Raiders. Yup.

So it was a great weekend for Jaarka. Lots of stuff accomplished. Lots of phat lewtz. Oh, and he even got a Jeweled Fishing Rod from the Dalaran daily. How do you like dem apples?

Astarian

Astarian is my newest, blue-ist alt. He’s a Space Goat Paladin, who’s going to be rocking the Retadin world with his giant… mace. Anyway, he made it to level 6 in one evening and was promptly challenged to a duel. What self-respecting lightbringer wouldn’t accept?

I don’t think even another Paladin was ready for this jelly. My body’s too Duel-icious for ya, babe!

Cuddlebunny

Ah, here we go. The beast herself.

Well, progress is moving steadily along. Traveling around with her faithful pocket-healer in tow (Hi, Tessa!), she’s been carving up the ankles of many Dwarf-land creatures! She’s hit level 18 and is excited to get a mount in the near future. Level 20 mounts are so awesome.

With her faithful bodyguard at her side (like she NEEDS one!), our valiant hero explores the dwarf-lands!

While running around, she managed to pull out a couple of achievements too, so as not to look bad in the shadow of Jaarka’s achievement-fest.

It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you earn them!

While tearing up Azeroth for lewtz and expees, she found it in her heart (the size of 10 Gnomes’ +2) to give Tessa a tour of the Deeprun Tram.

Apparently Tessa doesn’t like damp, rat-infested tram stations. Elves are so weird!

Well, that pretty much wraps up this huge epic weekend catch-up post. Oh! One more thing! Here is an update of my UI, now arranged in a pretty awesome fashion! I’ll see about posting a picture highlighting what all I use sometime later.

Dance par-tay with Tessa! Ouch! Why’d you slap me?!?!

Okay, okay. Enough with the picture spam!

Thanks for tuning in, folks! You can catch up with us next time: same bat time, same bat channel!

Cuddlebunny, AWAAAAAAAY

(I couldn’t help myself!)

The last few posts have been about World of Warcraft. Yippee! I really am glad to be back in Azeroth. And Outland. And Northrend. I digress!

Today we will shed some light on another major spotlight of my current gaming life: The Chrono Trigger Fan Fest Community Playthrough! *gasps* Wow, that was a mouthful.

Click the image to be directed to the CTFF page!

So what’s all of this about, you say? Epic RPG action, says I!

You see, the way this works is every day there is a new GPP (Game Play Point) described on the CTFF website. The idea is that everyone in the community who is “playing along” (see what I did there?) will play that section of the game, and save/stop where it tells you to. That way everyone is playing at the same pace and everyone will finish the game together!

For me, this has been a really great excuse to break out Chrono Trigger after a few years of neglect. I bought the DS release last year, but was yet to beat it. At this rate, I’ll have a New Game + save file by the end of next week!

So, I really wanted to throw a shout-out and a great big THANK YOU! to the awesome people over at Fangamer.com for hosting the CTFF.

If you’re interested in following along for the end, or just seeing some of the cool fan art, etc that is taking place, please click the image above to go to the CTFF website. You can also check it out on Twitter via #ctff.

Oh, and in case there are any CT aficionados out there -  today’s GPP is to complete Mother Brain and the Sun Stone. Huzzah for time-travel!