Deeds for deeds for deeds

In the wake of my Ring-forges farming, I happened to join a pug raid for old Helegrod. While the raid itself is long and tedious (too much trash) I thought I'd seize the chance to get a Thorog kill for my hunter, since I've only ever been to Hele on my LM and minnie, and because the kill also counts towards the Eriador meta-deed which I'm still working on.


I ran into Silirien of From Dusk 'till Dawn, and got a couple nice shots of us giving Thorog some tender punishment.



I must say that was probably the last time I'm ever going to Helegrod though, it's still a bit too tedious to be fun. The immense scale of the instance (and bosses inside it!) is still awe-inspiring, and I wish Turbine will make something similar in the future. We need more enormous, ungated and non-linear raids!

The Ring-forges of Eregion

I have been slowly and steadily working on the new meta-deeds, and yesterday I was bored enough to go and finish another book in Volume 1. The deeds inside the last instance of Book 14 are counted towards the Eriador meta-deed, but my hunter (who is not my main btw) had never finished Vol1, so I had to do a bit of running before getting to the legendary Ring-forges.


In one of the corners there is a large fresco of the Lord of Gifts. It gives you massive DREAD.





The Champion of Angmar, Amarthiel, as lovely as ever <3. Now I just need to do it two or three times more to get all the deeds finished.

Victolyy

The Lieutenant of Dol Guldur is no more. The chicken used HIPS, but left us a nice chest of treshur instead.





I bid high and got myself a nice pair of new pants. Finally I get the 5-set bonus! And the set is pretty too!


Here's the 5-set bonus, if anyone's interested.

My boyfriend's reaction to this new Dev Diary:

I'm the GIBBERLING HORDE!

Me and my bf are trying Allods Online. It's a funny, free-to-play MMO, and I'm completely and unquestioningly in love with the Gibberling race. They're small, furry, and they come in threes. Fear the GIBBERLING HOOOOOORDE.

Music for merriment

I went and ripped a load of old NES, SNES and PS1 RPG midis into .abc music files, so that I could play them in last night's RP session - and most of them sound really great! It's a wonder how music designed for old high-pitched, beeping consoles can still sound so good, especially when played with better "instruments".

Okay, I may have some serious emotional attachment to some of the songs, but still, they're great.

Any tips on other old games apart from the obvious Squaresoft/Enix titles that have good soundtracks? (need midis)



I just love the creativity on the Laurelin server, the video above is one such player's original composition, played using the LotRO music system. *server pride*

New adventures.. again.

The new Moria Keg will take you to such wondrous places. And you'll lose your pants.

Lately I've spent a good amount of my LotRO time roleplaying. There has been a rather pleasant elf RP evening going each Wednesday for a while now, and I've had a good time there. First I just lurked in the rafters, but later I went there with some kin friends and had a lot of fun. I even went and made a couple character pages on the Laurelin Archives for my RP scrubs: Tuire and Lasse.


I'm actually looking forward to each week's session with a lot of excitement, since the RP in the Hall of Fire has been of rather good quality. I'm not a 100% lore buff myself (although I do set my standards pretty high), but I love the dedication some role-players show in their music and poems they perform. If you happen to play on the Laurelin server, have a look in the Hall of Fire each Wednesday around 7pm UK time.