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Oct 25, 2014

Right Back At It Again - Chapter 8



 

      "Wait - Can you repeat that again?"
        Josh gave the lady at the cash register one of his best smiles and proceeded to rattle off a long list of ingredients for his frozen treat.  Devon and Jeshika silently took their orders from the flustered employee with gratitude and sat down at one of the tables near the windows.
        It had been a week since we restarted the guild and we had finally gotten enough money to buy the old manor house on floor thirteen.  So, to celebrate this, Josh suggested that we should all go and get milkshakes.  It had seemed like a good idea at the time and I figured that I could use some time outside of school and my house; however, it seemed that Josh's only plan was to confuse the employees by asking for as many specific toppings as possible.

Sep 24, 2014

Right Back At It Again - Chapter 7

 
       "Five million yul?!"
        Jinx and I nodded and Gerg whistled, obviously impressed.  After completing the event quest, both of us had received the reward, which had been the apparently large amount of money.  At first, I wasn't sure if it was a lot of money, I thought to myself, walking a short distance towards the World Tree in the distance.  Each MMO can have a different rate of currency value.  In some games, a million would equal the same as 100,000 would in another.
        "So, what are you gonna spend the money on?" Kitty asked, taking her right hand claw off of her belt and fitting it back on.  She seemed rather energetic for someone who had just tattooed symbols on eight different people, including herself; then again, the process for placing a guild tattoo on a player was considerably easier in VRMMOs than in the real world.

Sep 15, 2014

Right Back At It Again - Chapter 6

This was a little marker drawing I did of the members of Darkness Falls in Scott Pilgrim format.  Sorry for the mis-coloring of Josh's and Garrith's hair; I didn't have any good brown markers.  Plus, it seems that I've forgotten Matt.
       I opened my eyes and smiled as I felt a slight breeze against my face.
       I was back in the plain where I had killed the event boss, Lunastra Fatalis, and it was absolutely beautiful in the daylight.  I thought briefly on the fact that the daytime and nighttime cycles were the same as the cycles in the real world; in SAO, it had made sense because there was no way to log out, but there was no reason why ALO couldn't follow the rules of most other MMOs and have an accelerated time cycle.

Beta Review of Chaos Heroes Online

I apologize if this review seems a little early, seeing as how closed beta started today, but I couldn't waste my time on the game any longer than I need to.  For those of you who do not know, Chaos Heroes Online is a MOBA, a type of MMO that was made famous by the game, League of Legends.  That being said, MOBAs have been popping up all over the MMO industry and it seems to be yours truly's bloody job to beta test each and every one of these wretched excuses for creative content.  Don't get me wrong: the characters in these games almost always have surprisingly rich backgrounds and origins.  Things that the games NEVER DELVE INTO; that's right, these games never seem to mention the character's stories or personalities outside of long paragraphs that you can read on the game's wiki or the annoying statements made by the character after each movement or attack.

Sep 9, 2014

FaceQ Avatars!



The entire Darkness Falls guild in FaceQ avatar form; the red squares are how they appear in real life and the checkered sections are how they look in ALO.