Saints!

Digitaltempest developed an obsession with co-op gaming and the result is keeping the streets of Steelport clean in Saints Row 3.

Flame (and Frost) On!

The Guild Wars 2 "Living Story" is coming to an end. We decided to do our part to help Braham and Rox unravel the mystery and stop the molten collaborative from doing whatever burny things they are doing. venturing into the depths with pickaxes in hand, we successfully got all the way to the final bosses, but, despite some reeeeeally close moments, we could not pull off a victory.

Finally, we had to be adults and call it a night, with Deacon tapping out first. On a whim, Nightxade decided to go on a  suicide mission to solo the bosses herself. Turns out that draw-in has a wide range. Not ones to turn down the challenge, Nizzo, Digitaltempest and Butter Rum gave it their all anyway and -- well the stars must have been aligned right or something because KUH-BAM! Oh the sweet smell of smoldering victory!

Too bad Deacon missed out.

Super Happy Fun Adventure Time Ball Box Time!

We were supposed to check out Guild Missions but got swept away with other adventures thanks to Moto and his new Super Adventure Box! We traded in our tokens and sat down with the princess, only to have her stolen away by the evil bad guy! Anita Sarkeesian is going to be so mad!

What did we do first with our pointy sticks? Why we killed innocent bunnies of course! We bounced our way through the pixel place and eventually succeeded in defeating world one. I am pretty sure none of us expected this damn dungeon to be so damn hard. Somewhere along the way, Deacon wondered how we'd ever achieved such victories decades ago

We didn't get far into World 2, with Nightxade tapping out first, and the others succumbing to the wrath of raft ninjas and crocodiles.

But we weren't done yet! Nightxade told Digitaltempest about a handsome new norn in town so of course we had to check him out. Unfortunately, Rytlocke wanted to see us first...

Honor of the Waves

Eir is upset and suicidal. We must save her from herself! After a short slaughter of Sons of Svanir to get to the dungeon, we hopped in and slaughtered some more. We are pleased to report that Eir learned her Sesame Street lesson and is no longer whining and plans to kill dragons with us.

Also, Digitaltempest finally got to be a kodan and then we re-enacted scenes from Deep Blue Sea.

Big Damn Heroes

This is how we new year!

"Wanna kill some stuff?" said Nightxade. "Sure!" replied Digitaltempest. "Just let me finish decorating myself with my new fancy white dye that I don't need to sell because I'm rich, bitches!" (paraphrased).

Then they went on a violent romp through Sparkfly Fen, cleaning out all those pesky undead, pausing to steal some platinum from a Champion Spider and her babies, swimming with a Champion Risen Megalodon.

And then, on their "just one more waypoint before bed" moments, they decided they needed to add a dragon to the count.

So they did.

All the toys!

 The Guild celebrated Wintersday with allll the toys and, as is customary, some nudity.

After ditching a Guardian who complained about our lack of numbers and our ability to beat a bunch of prissy princesses, we discovered once again that our true power is teamwork, listening to digitaltempest, and not inviting assholes to party with us.

 

Adventure time!

Finally caught up with Butter Rum and took her on an epic tour of getting lost, being cows and dying!

Oh and also giant giants!

Welcome to the Guild, Butter Rum!

And now we dance!

We got this

Missing a member, we decided to shout and got a nice person to join us for a second attempt at. Our new friend abadonned us when our lack of 80ness failed to impress him. That's okay. We can rescue Jennah without you!

We may have jinxed ourselves a few times, but we're convinced that the dungeon was much better this time. Still full of death, but... not quite as much. We once again completed it with just four and thankfully, we actually got to complete it thanks to the bug fix.

And this time we remembered to let Zojja help, too.

For fashion!

Nightxade decided she wanted new clothes for her Elementalist, and headed off to Fireheart Rise to complete the necessary hearts. Unfortunately, at only level 55+, she was too low to make it to the far corner for her boots, so she requested the aid of Digitaltempest, warning her that it would mean a lot of aggro and possible doom. Challenge accepted. Joined by Deacon Twoblades, they headed off to take on the Flame Legion, achieving their ultimate goal. Too bad the boots are ugly.

Lost Shores Event Weekend

ArenaNet introduced the first of their one-time events, The Lost Shores. We hopped over to the Southsun Cove, where the Consortium had stirred up the local wildlife for us to slaughter.

After much death and Digitaltempest leaving to find new and awesome friends to build bridges with, we ended up with some sweet loot and a great sense of accomplishment. We're so happy we could clear the beaches of Southsun to allow the tourists to come hang out.

Twilight Arbor SM

Surprisingly not as bad as the other dungeons, once we got past the Logan/Rytlocke drama.

Unfortunately, the relative ease of the dungeon lured Nizzo and Nightxade into a false sense of security, prompting them to try EM the next night with a pick up group.

Four hours later.....

Caudecus's Manor

It's okay Jennah, you can come out now.

Despite Digitaltempest's complaints and despite the lack of a fifth party member, we decided to recue Queen Jennah from certain doom at the hands of the evil Separatists. We initially had the expected trouble and a lot of the usual death and Priory Repair Scams, but every time we got too frustrated to try but once more, we managed to get it right and pull through -- with no thanks to Zojja or Logan, we should add.

Unfortunately, even though we beat all the odds to come out on top, the game bugged at the very end and we ended up with an incomplete dungeon.

The Mad King!

Act 2 of Shadow of the Mad King is here, so we explored the new dungeon. In the dark. There was a lot of giggling. A lot of flailing. And a lot of falling. A LOT of falling.

After that, we visited one of the many portals that appeared around Tyria and fought off angry candy corn and other monsters.

Ascalonian Catacombs

Our very first dungeon! There was much death and destruction and we donated a lot of funds to the Priory armour repair scam.

In the end, we were victorious in pissing off a lot of ghosts and helping Eir in her questionable task of obtaining a sword to help Loganand Rytlock be friends again. Also, thre was naked dancing. Of course.

Dedicated to enmity7

We finally got together for some Mass Effect 3 multiplayer action. We've MPed before and it was a lot of fun, but it could only be more so with friends. Our fourth member was AWOL so we dared open our private match to the public. We figured whoever was unlucky enough to join, would either ragequit after a few minutes of our insanity and noobery, or fall madly in love with us.

We were fortunate enough to get the mighty enmity7. First of all, he showed up with his krogran, which earns instant respect. Despite all the giggling from the girls and the claims from Deacon that he was just supporting us special kids to make us feel good about ourselves, we didn't do all that badly and we guess it was enough to keep enmity around. Then he proved just how awesome he was when the three of us went down and he took on alllll of Cerberus for a good 10 minutes with us cheering him on in spectator mode.

He actually stayed with us for another round, but did not come as his krogan this time, which was clearly a mistake -- though, by now, he had earned so much of our love that he had automatic life insurance.We would all drop everything to raise him whenever he died. Fuck the mission! Save enmity7!

We're not sure what enmity7 thought of us in the end. He was silent for most of the time, only ordering us to his support once, and confirming his dudeness when we expressed uncertainty. And then he was gone, like the wind. We am currently working on my shrine in his honour.