Haven't had time to post yet! Very sorry!

I spent most of the weekend working on Ize and managed to get her up to level 77 carpenter and adventure - yay!! Obviously the double xp weekend was a massive boost and a lot of help for her too! Whilst doing that I managed to stock up on my tier 8 harvesting resources - I noticed on returning to the game they had run down some and I don't like to use the guilds box all the time. Seems unfair on those with very little harvesting skills! I managed to grab a fair few over in Fens and lock them away in Gwenllyan's bank. I don't know what I will do when I eventually level her - she's like the spare bank for all my toons!! Talking about Gwenllyan I also noticed on returning to the game how low my shared food and drink box had got so I took a few hours out to stock it up a little - I've still got loads to do though! I managed to get her up another level. Such a chore are provisioners! You seem to get about 4 recipes per go and I tend to fill up my crate by about 50 % - I then spend the other 50 % doing writs because otherwise I would never level - nevermind she will catch up eventually. On bank holiday monday I really lacked time in playing (we went to a car show and then dropped off for a cream tea with mother in law and nan in law to be at the place we're planning on getting married) In the end I didn't get home until 8ish and although I logged on for a short time - some lag or something happened - I was kicked off and after trying to get in various times I gave up and rang my mum for a girlie chat instead!! I felt a bit gutted on Tuesday morning as I had planned to begin on Shingle but we received a phone call from Dave's dad saying his step mum's father had passed away in the night - so we spent most of the day around there. I managed to log on for the final hour of double XP though in between catching up on the housework and managed to do a littleon Shingle but not enough by any means for a nice ding for him. Afterwards I (not quite sure why) was looking at his persona window and noticed his harvesting levels were awful some in the tier 3's!! - I ran to the Isle of Mara and picked him up the Harvesting Signature quest - oh the joy of doing that one again!!!

On wednesday night I logged in and as usual checked my sales - another 7 PP arrived in my bank YAY!! and then I took Shingle over to Oakymyst Forest to begin the harvesting quest. I manged to get all the ding and decided whilst I was there I might as well keep gathering - I found a fair few tier one rares - although not great - still handy for my alts. Then real life invaded and I had to log again for the evening! What I have noticed about this game is - people sell rares for insane amounts but - the reality is you'll more than likely need them at some stage - when I have my harvesting sessions - I put all my rares in a seperate box and keep them - some have been there for years and I've never used them but I know the day I sell them - is the day I will need them again. Anyway thats my method!

Tonight I didn't have much chance to log on ... in fact I'm so exhausted I didn't have the energy - I briefly checked my sales a couple of times and had a quick chat with the guildies and that was all.

This weekend - I think I shall spend it harvesting - very boring but I definitely need to stock up across the board on my resources and rares and maybe just maybe I can get the harvesting signature quest completed for Shingle! Here's hoping! On saturday night the server is having a server party in Butcherblock and I'm really hoping to attend - these things are mad but sooooo much fun!

Anyway ... until my  next post....

Enough for now! x

Summer is arriving and for me in real life it begins next week! I'm leaving Everquest until the Autumn when like every year I return again to have another fab 6 months of questing and tradeskilling! Next year hopefully hitting the big 80! I will miss it and the kind members of the guild - my friends - but real life must come first and like always when I leave the game for the summer I felt an enormous pang of sadness at saying goodbye for the last time until September. Sadly my high hope at getting Ize and Shingle to 80 didn't happen this year but I have made enormous progress at least 20 levels since I returned to EQ2 in September last year. However this year it and the guildies did get me through the most horrid of times when I first became very ill last October. Since I recovered in the last couple of months my game time has been restricted again - work and real life taking over. It gets more restricted from here on in when the car events kick off next weekend for much of the summer and being volunteered to help out nearly if not every weekend.

So Ize is now resting in her house... Shingle is now resting in the guild hall and in real life, I bid you all a farewell and a hope of a fantastic summer for us all yet to come.

Until my next post....

Woke up very early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep...not sure why especially wierd since I like my saturday lie in's!! Anyway I came down stairs and logged on whilst I made myself a cuppa. Checked my sales and noticed more of Ize's ex house items had gone! yay!! More money for new ones! Then I logged straight to Shingle and carried on crafting for a couple of hours until I reached 75 sage! yay!! I then decided to restock my provisions crate in my shared bank so I logged into Gwenllyan and spent a couple more hours on her and managed to level her to 65 Provisioner. I don't think I've introduced Gwenllyan yet. I don't play her that much I use her just purely for food and drink and also her bank as spare slots for non essential items... very handy seen as I seem to be a big hoarder or junk hehe! Anyway I started her late on and never managed to catch up with Shingle and Ize so she is 10 levels behind them but tbh that doesn't concern me seen as she still makes the level 70 food now anyway. I know eventually when Shingle and Ize hit 80 she'll start to catch up. I think I will adventure her at some point but really I have all the DPS I need with Shingle and my newbie toon, Magrazella. Anyway so that took me up until about lunchtime and so I switched to Ize all excited at playing her again and we went on a journey together to continue the quest given by the Queen. I managed to carry on the Questline for about couple of quests but then I had to kill mobs two levels above me - this would have been fine seen as Ize is rather Uber but they we're linked so after a few attempts I quit and headed back to Fens to carry on the quests there. After that time just went, Ize managed to clear a lot of quests and pick up some new ones so I'm really pleased with her progress. I logged off for a well earned break at about 6PM and made some dinner in preperation for our grouping this evening.

The grouping went really well we went to The Deep Forge and I picked up a shard YAY! only 36 to go lol! There we're about 4 wipes sadly but hey I'm still learning! I really struggled with the power side of it as Ize's power seemed to constantly drain in the last boss fight - will need to work on that one!

When the group was done I headed back to Fens as I realised I was nearly 90 % up XP so I did a few quests and leveled before I logged for the night!

All in all an impressive day - tomorow's task in between organising the sunday lunch... level Ize to 76 Carpenter and then back to Shingle - although I really have to update his spells and that depends on my money hmmmm may have to rethink that one!

I logged in this evening to find a nice sum of coin to do a little crafting with. As ize didn't get the opportunity to do that little bit of crafting in her work shop as she'd have liked on the last occasion I logged on she was quite happy to sit in her workshop and make some furniture. Happily Ize managed to restock her furniture crate full of lovely goodies and reached level 75 carpenter too. 

I'm also itching to begin a new character *eyes roll* (yes again) haven't got round to it yet but may do over the coming weekend. I'm thinking of this one being on my second account - not sure what profession but tradewise alchemist - this would help for Rattias with his spells, hmm will have to have a proper think. If not I shall plod on with Shingleshanks, I believe he needs to do a little crafting to catch up on his spells he makes and maybe I will take him out adventuring in the Kunzar Jungle too.

 

After a long day in the depths of Fens of Nathsar I finally hit 75!

Now I can move on to doing the shards ... and finally find out what on earth everyone in my guild ... Light of the Wolf ... is raving about.

I'm told that until I am level 80 I can only get one shard per instance but hey one shard is one shard and by going in those instances I'm gonna level to 80 quicker and be mightier than before. In fact its quite scary the closer I get to level 80 the more likely I'm to see Tolmar ... now that is scary!! 

Didn't get time to make any furniture today as I'd planned. A long day in the battlefield and I really could have done with making myself a cup of hot chocolate and working alone in my workshop for a few hours but I didn't get back to the guilds hall till dark and after taking off my clobber - checking my sales - getting rid of some of the junk I had on me and getting myself a well earned drink at the bar I think all I have the energy for is to put my feet up, write you this little note and think about bedtime ... of course I must remember to feed all my pets too.

Perhaps I'll rest tomorrow and stay closer to home. Maybe spend the day crafting in my workshop downstairs.

Goodnight for now.

                                                                                                       Violina Bowsprings 20 Dirge


Violinia Bowstrings was found under a large tree cradled in a leaf where her parents had placed her in safety. She grew up along the other children of the forest in the care of the Matron and other elder fairies. Now it is time for Violinia to leave the nursery and join the ranks of Queen Amree's guard.

Whilst singing songs from her heart she glides across faydwer in the hope that one day she will find the truth of her parents.

She is currently learning the craft of Jeweller.