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The Daily Grind...

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:19:27 GMT

This is my first post since I levelled, and my current exp is just over 16%. I took a couple of days off and slacked 'round a bit after that fervent last couple of weeks before I made 51, although I'm still trying to stick to my 1% a day routine if I can. Not much has happened really, the daily grind continues, but I am faintly hoping to make 52 around the end of July (I know lol, it'll never happen!), but if not then I will most certainly have it (I hope) by my birthday on Sept 19th. That's a full month and a half extra I've given myself for such problems as sheer laziness, fucking off (in and out of game), possible ISP and/or Lineage server outages, in-game deaths, and any other unforseeable snags in my levelling process. Wish me luck.
Having said that, I've decided for the first time since I started playing this silly game to seriously keep track of deaths for this level, I should have done it last level as I had some real doozies lol. I will post them all here so that I can easily keep track and add them up along the way. Today I had my first death at 51; It was a lag death in FV. So so far my current death count is *ONE*.

We've had a few good old players & friends return to game recently, most of which have been able to join our pledge: Hyrull, HamNCheese now Galliria, KarmicThorn now Scythic, and RiffRaff. XSNOWMANx (Dear old George) also returned to game but for some reason Juju won't let him in pledge, to which I and a few others say POO POO, especially considering the caliber of a couple of people already in pledge who were let in without question; he's a great guy from what I know and you really should give him a chance. WickedLiquid also returned after a very short break, but he wasn't gone near as long as all the others. WB guys, one and all!

Now for some exciting news, I've been meaning to post this for a few days now but haven't had the chance really and kept forgetting lol. But our dear Viggy-poos finally made 52!!!!! We have a brand new baby DK in our midst. Well earned and well deserved, Vig is one of the nicest and most helpful people you'll find in this game, hands down, and I'm very proud to have him as my very best friend, in and out of game. I love you kiddo, WELL DONE!!!!

StaryNight, Karmoth, 1337Meat, and MerryXmas have also all levelled recently and my congrats to them as well as any others I may have missed out^^

Ok then, back to the grind I go, I have some time left to play before I have to wake my son up for school at 6am. GL and play safe all. I leave you with a tidbit from a conversation between myself and 'Uncle Warfums' that should probably have been kept private LOL!

~Roo
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Those Rat-bastards...

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:07:32 GMT

Vig, Choung & CherryPopper got a 61 charm from Mummy Lord last night and guess who they gave it to as her level up gift? How incredibly sweet of them, they just made my morning...I can't believe they gave it to me^^ TY TY TY guys, sooooo much!! And it's my very first charm too....
JuJu gave me my nifty new title; for those of you who don't know it's a HIM song, and the title of their newest cd. I'm quite obsessed with them atm, they're really good. I had the pussies out so I thought I'd snap a quick pic:

You like? I do! K I'm really fucking tired, but Vig asked me to stay on for a few 'til he gets back...I'll go take a shower see if it wakes me a bit.

~Roo
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I am NOT a giant doody face =(

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:54:13 GMT

But I sure acted like one last night LMFAO!!! My exp has been merely TRICKLING in the last few nights for whatever godawful reason; if you can believe such a thing it actually took me 4 HOURS to gain a measely 1.2% hunting FV night before last...and I wasn't dicking around or chatting alot, and spawn was relatively decent. How fucking retarded is that? Stupid fucking game. If I hadn't paid attention to the time I was active I wouldn't have believed it either but oh well. But I have some good news, for those of you who actually give a crap:

At about 4:15am est, I FINALLY hit 51. Yay, go me, whoop-ti-FUCKING-dooooo! (waves finger around in the air). The only active people on in pledge at the time were ******** & *******, and neither of them said so much as 'go to hell Vis!' and I know they were there, so they can both go fuck themselves instead. Clip was on of course, but absent in shop mode as always. None of my friends were on, but I guess I kind of asked for that since I shut off all whispers & chat requests, and ignored letters and phone calls in order to level without distraction. It worked, despite Vig and TD being total pains in my ass for a while trying to get me to talk to 'em lol. I even told 'em to SHUSH on global... I love you guys, sorry I was such a bitch but I was bound and determined to get the damn level tonight, come hell or high water. And Vig, if you don't return to pledge I'm gonna have to do something very nasty to you that I'm sure we'll both regret in the long run o.o
That is all for now. Oh, I'd like to thank Pepsi Max and my homemade, chocolate-covered peanut butter bon-bons, without whom I'd never have been able to stay awake long enough to do this damn thing...

Now let's see if I can't manage to burn the Mama Tree down...
TTFN!!

~Roo
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OMFG!!!!!!!

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:18:06 GMT

Well if you can believe it I actually got a drop very early this morning, not 10 mins after Vig logged off to go to bed. I stayed on FI to finish up my %, was talking to recently returned game friend Jason (aka ThrowDown) when lo and behold, the Lineage gods decided to shine on me for once:

It's a miracle...I'm STILL in fucking shock quite a few hours later LMAO!! I think I stood there and just looked at it in my inventory for like 10 mins...long enough for my buffs to just about wear off anyways lol. Anyone who knows me know that I NEVER, EVER get drops...whether solo or with a party. But the most fucked up thing of all is the conversation we were having when I got the damn scroll...click on the screenshot and read it, you won't believe it either. And I SWEAR to you that is the actual conversation, with minimal editing out of unrelated rubbish. You can go ask Jay too lol, he'll tell ya. Notice poor Warf's lament about his shitty drop luck too...well damn; if I can get one, he sure as hell can. Keep hunting Warf it'll happen^^
And NO, I'm STILL not telling anyone my %...so don't even ask! I am gettin' kinda close though... Weeeeeeee!

~Roo
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PS: I am absolutely convinced that it was THIS that won us Diad Fort when we defended successfully last week, not the strength and unity of our pledge, or Anju's fantastic planning, or even the help from some great people from other great pledges...

I swear the damn cat was on steroids, he was literally batting DE's all over the place lol. WTG Kitty! I think we now acknowledge him as an honorary member of The Fallen, and not just as Eric's pet^^

I'm THIS " Fucking Close.....

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:23:59 GMT
...to just saying fuck it and quitting this game once and for all. Not only have I died 6 times in the last 2 days, but I have not been able to make up for one death before dying again, so now I have lost so much damn exp that I actually have less that the pic on my last post. And still no drops...talk about adding insult to injury! It seems I am indeed stuck in a rut that not only can I not get out of, but keep falling deeper into. I have died for a variety of reasons too, one or two of them being totally legit, but the rest are those WTF?!? type deaths that I hate with such a passion: several to LAG, the incredible all-of-a-sudden-non-working-brand-new-keyboard one, and my favourite to date: the baby biting my elbow while fighting FI drake & minos one. I swear, I am SO close to just giving all my shit away and deleting the account. Fuck that, I'll just give it to Vig, some of my gear is technically his anyway and he's helped me so much throughout the years he might as well have it. Let him get a leg-up for a change. However I, apparently, am too stupid to know when to quit. But if I regress ONE more % I'm done; end of story. Stupid fucking game...............

~Roo
Go Look at my MySpace Before I Rip Your Balls Off...

PS: HAPPY B-DAY JUJU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/RANT ON

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:36:25 GMT
Well the reason I hadn't posted in a bit was because I was working so hard at levelling. Every spare moment was given over to getting exp...even if it was only 20 mins in TOS while I was making dinner. And I made great progress:

That was a few days ago...I hadn't told anybody what my exp was since I was at 52%, I'm superstitious like that...I had been telling anyone who asked up until that point then I had a run of about 20 deaths right at 50%, so once I was out of that rut I shut up until I hit 75%, driving poor Viggy & NewHope up the wall in the process, then I told whole pledge, they just happened to be on at the time
After I made my announcement I vowed to myself to stay quiet again until I reached another 'key' percent, and started hammering out exp even more vigorously for the last 3 days. Things were going great 'til I told my hunting partner, the sweet yet lethal WickedLiquid, what % I was at. A little while later I lag died. Ok, that's it, shut up Vis! I continued later that night, or tried to at least...I got sick and missed almost the entire night of hunting and never came close to even making up for the death let alone adding more exp. So last night I logged on again, determined to make up the death and then some. Things went well for a good while; I made up the death and was close to getting another full % when pledgemates asked what % I was at. I was in such a good mood that I just answered automatically .....then realized what I'd done and asked them not to tell Vigs or NewHope LMAO!! But alas, I was to pay for my tongue slippage; I died a very short while later, just after having accomplished said %. *deep breath*. Ok, I asked for that one, I should have kept my mouth shut.....but I bet I can make it up and get 1 more% & save some face before bed right? WRONG. I'd ALMOST made up for it when BAM!, right in the middle of a drake fight the screen suddenly like 'flashed', for lack of a better word, and I was out of both mp and pots and dying, fast. Nothing I could do but stand there like a complete idiot and watch it happen. That split second's worth of FUCKING LAG destroyed my mindset and crushed all my hopes. I was SO upset I quietly burst out in tears when my husband (who had been watching at the time) left the room. I had NOT been lagging, the game was running smoothly, why does this shit always happen to ME??? I didn't tell anybody my % that time, granted, I was tired, but still....I was wondering why the damn drake was taking so long to die...FUUUUUUCCCCKKKK!! I HATE this fucking game sometimes, I SWEAR!!!
Current status: Sense of self-worth & accomplishment: GONE

Now if all this wasn't enough, it's come on top of me being a bit upset about no drops that are actually worth a shit for the last few yrs. It seems the last 2-3 weeks, this last one in particular, friends of mine who hunt the same places I do have been getting some incredible drops, and I get NOTHING. A slew of 5% rings on FI, when others go there, hunt less time and get several a-scrolls. Others go to RV, for like 10 minutes, where I stayed for almost 2 weeks solid, and get beast summoner ammy's and black wizard staves...I get buds & roots of deep flowers and a beast summoner robe...totally useless objects. And yet another pledgemate hunts EG on PI. He does really well, gets these crazy drops, so asks me to go hunt there with him one night. So I do, we're there for almost 2 hours, absolutely NO drops and he dc's and leaves me standing there with his dires for 15 mins before I say fuck it, kill them and leave. They dropped shit too. The VERY next day, he goes back there solo and then with another pledgemate, they're there for half the time we were and get several crazy drops. Then, to prove my point, he goes back with a different pledgemate and once again, they get some GREAT drops. Yet another group of pledgemates (he was actually in this group too) kill AG and get a damn Titan belt. A party I'm in kills AG and we get DIDDLY SQUAT. So, having said all this I have come to one conclusion:
I am the ANTI-DROP SUPERSTAR

So that's it really. I don't have much else to say at this point. I'm sick of this fucking game; I'm sick of wasting my time playing for nothing when I could be doing something worthwhile like erm, I dunno, SLEEPING?!? We'll see what happens now...I dunno if I even want to log on I'm so disgusted.
Here's something you don't see very often:

Typically, I got pissed at a bot and decided to play around with it for a bit. Oops! Oh well, back to full law now. Yay, who gives a crap! Hope you enjoyed my novel.

Done.

~Roo
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No more wonky-looking post yay!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:23:09 GMT
Xanga support finally got back to me concerning the fucked up appearance of my last post to IE viewers, (apparently if you use Firefox it looked ok) and a lovely person named Natalia has corresponded with me and corrected the problem and it looks great now...still a little out of whack in one spot (which for some reason I can't fix) but LOADS better than it was, Thank you thank you!
~Roo

As the worm turns....

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:47 GMT
Well so far the St. Patrick's Day 'double luck/chance' event really sucks; by that I mean it is by far the WORST event I have seen in my almost 7 years of playing Lineage. Yeah sure there are a few extra items dropping here and there, mostly extra junk, but on the whole my luck in this game blows to begin with and I think it may have actually gotten worse instead of better during this event...maybe it's because I'm not Irish lol. I haven't had one 'good' drop since it started on Friday at 4pm even with all the extra hours I've put in over the weekend. For me a 'good' drop is anything that sells for 1m on it's own....I hardly ever get them. The event was supposed to end at 4pm today..that's right, St. Patrick's Day. How stupid; that'd be like ending a Christmas event halfway through Christmas Day lol. They must have heard me bitching because not 2 minutes after I said it in pledge chat this afternoon the monitor made an announcement that the event had been extended for 24 hours. 'Enjoy!' he says at the end...give me a fucking break asshole!!! So I'm gonna hop on shortly after I'm done with this post and play all night as is my custom, and I'm gonna stay up and play tomorrow morning to try get a drop because I'm sure I won't have gotten one by my usual bedtime of 6:30am...if I do you guys will be the first to know about it. Wish me luck.
Either way, I've been levelling pretty well the last few days I just wish I hadn't lost so much exp while on FI for like a week and a half up til the event started. I do really well there solo, but every damn time I gained around 1% I died, and it happened like 10 times so I really made like 0 progress for all my long hours and hard work. So fuck that for the time being. I STILL haven't managed to get an obelt as a drop, or get decent drops enough to sell to buy one either. KG rings are weight reduction atm so I'm using them. Hopefully I can get an obelt some way or another before they decide to change them again.
Anyways, here are some screen shots from the last few weeks; nothing spectacular but fun stuff noneteless:
This was a while back; ZAcidReignZ called the pretty bird up and dragged her to the beach. Was only him, me, Viggy and NewHope on at the time and it took us a while but we got it in the end. Dropped crap from what I remember:
Got this a couple of weeks ago, was the first time I'd fought the big kitty and although it was cool being such a cat-lover I felt bad afterwards. Don't remember what he dropped I was too busy crying =P

We got the resident TOI skank just a couple of days ago, her minions were more of a bother than she was lol. She also dropped crap..no charm bah!

Me, Vig & Faye were hunting FI and G-Mino popped up and rocked (literally) our world; I ran him around in a circle for like a half hour and then it ended badly with one of our party getting smooshed and g-mino going on a rampage...needless to say we said FUCK THAT and left it for players less wussy than us:
Here's Vig and I taking a break and having a relaxing moment chatting on 'our' cliff, we go there quite often:
And that's about it really, gonna keep levelling and hoping for a drop...I keep hearing whispers about Episode 6, I sure hope it hurries up not just so we have something new to play with, but because all the dummies who have gotten mad enough at the game to quit will most likely all come running back as soon as we get it. Miss (some of) you guys! Hurry home!

That's it for now...I can't help leaving you guys with the following picture of one of the word's sexiest rockers, Sebastian Bach, and my 4 year old son William. The resemblence is uncanny....he could be his dad! But jeez..I thought that was only a dream I had?! DOH!! lol: Trust me, this kid has the attitude to match; he is truly a little rockstar...and they don't call him 'Se-bitchian' Bach for nothing!!
~Roo
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Since Viggy posted I guess I might as well....

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:21:37 GMT

I haven't made a new Lineage post for quite a while, since last year to be exact, although I've been back in game since a couple of weeks before Xmas. I started off in X-rated, then when it fell apart joined Anju's pledge, TheFallen and that's where I've been to date. I really like it there, old friends, new friends, some in betweens, but no uber bad vibes and that's my main aim as a member of any pledge. My bestest friend Vigorous aka Boramere is in there as well, and that's always a plus, and I've really come to like and respect juju, he's doing a pretty good job of running the pledge, for a total noobface anyways^^
Gamewise I've been slowly creeping up the ladder in percentage toward 51, but as always it seems it's two steps forward and one step back, usually due to some silly boss death or suicide or a really annoying lag death due to game, comp or ISP. THOSE are the ones that really fucking piss me off. viggy sailed past me and made 51 last week (congrats again dearheart!), and I'm aiming for somewhere around the end of April...but knowing my luck I won't make it til the end of May instead lol. At least I don't have to worry about computer problems and any lag or trouble from that source anymore as I have a brand spanking new computer which is performing beautifully and has really shown me just how bad my old one was lol.
Here's something really fucking annoying though: for weeks I've had no drops, no drops, no drops; just the same old garbagy crap day in day out and was getting pissed about it. Then boom, a few days ago in RV I get this:

Which I have since found out is a)One of the rarest drops in game (yay go me) b)damn nigh unsellable (WTF?) and c)a really desirable item used in the crafting of the sword of silence. Ok, well that makes a lot of sense. If it's really desirable and ppl want the damn thing so badly why won't they pay adena or trade something decent for it? I seem to remember them being sold ages ago for a few million, now it seems they've become priceless? Fat load of good that does me as a)I am an elf who is poor and gets no drops, b)there are things I need that the sale or trade of this item could buy for me otherwise I may never get, and c)I have no interest or desire in crafting a sword of silence at the present time no matter how uber a weapon it may be lol.
If anyone is interested in the thing PLEASE whis or letter me in game or leave me a comment here. If I have my facts wrong please feel free to correct me as so far no one in game seems to know any more about it than I have written down here. The following is a list of items I am currently interested in acquiring just in case I hit the Lineage lottery or get a major fucking drop any time soon:

Ogre Belt

+8 Iboots, DF or NK boots

+7or 8 HOMR

+10 yumi

That's it for the moment, I'm about to log on and try slog out my required daily 1%...wish me luck, see you in game, good luck & good drops to all.
~Roo
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Here...again...Howdy Y'all!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:44:24 GMT

Welcome back Roo!
Bloody Hell Fire!!! I've been offline for appx. 6mos...AGAIN! And I don't mind telling you that I am sick and fucking tired of the last 2-3 cycles of this 'online for half a year then off again for the next 6mos' bullshit, and will do everything in my power for it NOT to happen again...more for my own sanity and mental well-being than anything else as I'm sure most of you lot as reads this don't give a rat's arse whether I'm here or not at any given time. But anyway, as I said, I'm back, but bear with me as I have a lot to bitch about.
A fair amount has happened with me IRL while I've been gone, especially considering we went offline just 2 days AFTER my precious and still incredibly well missed cat Bootsie Collins died, the gods rest him, and just 3 days BEFORE my 4th son Sebastian Daniel made his grand appearance in the world, (such as it is here in shit town GA). I actually acquired 3 babies instead of 1; 5 weeks later we were given 2 beautiful kittens by our THEN best friends Billy and Michelle...(why we're not friends with them anymore I really can't tell you because I don't even know myself lol, try asking them if you happen to know them); 2 male kitties born right around the same time Sebastian was, one grey, one white, and in honour of the recently and so dearly departed grey & white Bootsie Collins we called them Bootsie and Collins. At 6mos old they're a right pair and have managed to help keep me from completely going 'round the bend in this madhouse I call a home. About a month after the baby's birth the car died and we lost our cable TV, effectively shutting me off from the world except for the odd ride to Wal-Mart for groceries. I have at least during this time had use of our super-shitty and majorly obsolete cell-phone which I can only really use outside because the reception is so goddamn bad, and have thankfully managed to keep in contact with my best, sweetest and only loyal friend to date, Bobby in Ohio, and my parents and daughter in Florida, who I don't think would give 2 shits and a fart if I dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow...and probably wouldn't notice for a while either, lol.
There's something I need to say here, something I really need to get off my chest, and it's to/for a certain ex-friend of mine (so the rest of you can bugger off and on to the next paragraph)...I'm not gonna mention any names but if you're reading this you damnwell know who you are. I still don't know exactly WTF happened, and at this point I probably never will, call me bitter if you like, but I don't think you realize just how much you hurt me with that fiasco you caused around mid-August, and remains as of yet, in my eyes, unresolved. I feel you used me and mine in more than one way, and once you got what you wanted and grew tired of keeping up your charade you cooked up a way to get out of it; but it backfired and I didn't have quite the reaction you thought I would did I? And if I'm wrong and this is the way you meant it to go then your heartless and immature actions speak for themselves, and no matter what you think, no amount of repentance on your part will erase it my dear, you just don't treat people like that and get away with it. The thing that really gets me is how can someone who claims to hate 'fake' people, liars and hypocrites so much actually turn out to be a little of all 3 plus some and still manage to live with themselves? And how can someone who swears to stand by a friend despite whatever might come to pass abandon said relationship as quickly and tactfully as if it were yesterday's garbage? If I did something to upset you I apologize, but you didn't have to blow me off the way you did, and still are. All you have to do is tell me. But whatever...to each her own I guess, lol. I've heard some interesting things about you curtesy of the local grapevine, and I have to wonder to myself, are you truly happy now that you have what you wanted all along? Are you absolutely sure about that?

So, I have essentially had a summer & fall full of heartbreak, loneliness & extreme anguish (what's new!). My husband has been at times an even BIGGER asshole than usual most of the time (which of course means I've probably been a bigger bitch than I normally would have been, lol); my dreaded and terminally stupid inlaws have been forever in and about our business as unfortunately they've been our only way around town. My bipolar/alzheimers/senile/holy roller old landlady has constantly been crawling up my ass about back rent and any other insignificant thing she can possibly think to bring up at the time just to hear herself bitch. We've had to deal with the AC going out, the lights being turned off, 100+ degree weather and extreme drought on top of it; Asshole neighbors and their annoying kid, and their stupid little dog they allow to shit in our yard; and endless upon endless hours of repetitious PBS bullshit since it's the only channel we can get without cable or satellite. And the car is STILL not fixed. How I have managed NOT to lose the little bit of my mind that is still intact I do not know...but I've come mighty close...let me tell you...*twitch*
But you know what? Having said all that I'm very thankful for the things I do have right now that we DIDN'T have this time last year: electricity, running water, warmth, food, a little money, an X-mas tree...a HOME...And that brings me to my kids, because if it wasn't for them (all the cool DVD's we've managed to amass over the last few years & several volumes of crossword puzzles along the way) I honestly don't know what I'd have done. I guess they've kept me focused and patient, even though they are little terrors from the very depths of Hades half the time, lol! So I will leave this off on a happy note, with the news I have been dying to impart since the beginning of June:
Sebastian Daniel Morris was born just after 9:37pm on June 1st, 2007. He weighed in at a healthy 9lbs 8oz, not quite as big as his 10lb brother, but still a hefty little chunk! We both came through labour and delivery without a scratch; no epidurals, major drugs or stitches necessary. I've been taking photos of him all along, which will be added to when I get new batteries for my now dead camera, lol. Enjoy, some will be in my pics section at MySpace along with some of my new feline sons and some new ones of the other boys as well within the next couple of days...check back I may get chance to put them up later tonight.
~Roo
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