Celestial Observatory, Gardening and other updates

Logged into the game yesterday morning (as I do ever morning) and was SO happy to see that Test Realm had migrated to Live Realm!  YAY!  Means I finally got to use that mana mark I had placed by Buxley in Celestial.  ;)

I ported to him and hit "Buy" on the Celestia Observatory!  Yep yep, was able to buy that recipe even though I had spent some of the gold I had been hoarding!  Lucky for me mi Tio Alric Ravensinger was ITS (In The Spiral) also, he was at the Grizzlehelm Crafting station where you need to be to craft the house.  With him was Paige MoonShade -- hi dear Paige!  Many thanks Tio for the port!  Once quick "clicky clicky" and I was the proud new owner of the Observatory. :D

I was SO excited I almost forgot to tend my gardens O_O.  Not Good Cass!  I went straight to the Observatory and started decorating!  I certainly need to farm up some more Celestian furniture, for once things don't seem so overwhelmingly HUGE  lol. 

I did tend my gardens -- all 8 of them!  Yes I said 8! 

My pryro has gardens at 2 different homes (none at the Observatory yet ;).  One is in her wooded cottage, if you can call one plant a garden!  It's a Silver Trumpet Vine that just keeps giving me issues.  Should probably just plow it under but can't stand the thought of losing all the work I have put into the dratted thing. :'(

Life has one large garden in her MFP, it's all Silver Trumpet Vines, a mass of about 20 plants.  Once I finally run out of STV seeds will switch over to plain old Trumpet Vines. I seem to have more than enough of THOSE seeds!

Death has 2 gardens, one in her dorm and one in her Royal Estate.  She managed to get to Rank 9 Master Gardener just using 6 pots in her dorm room.  Decided it was finally time to expand her gardening abilities once she bought a home.  Sheis raising Fickle Pickles, King Parsley, Silver Trumpet Vines and a deadly Fly Trap. 

I have finally jumped on my Sorcerer a bit more and she has 2 planting areas in one home.  She is raising pink dandys and prickly bears. Pink dandelions seeds seem to very numerous on my wizards so she gets to have the pleasure of gardening them. She is currently Rank 6.

My baby Storm wizard is old enough to have her own Garden so I started her Sunday in her dorm with Pink dandys.

My myth wiz is on my second account and I decided she should start gardening too, so she is raising some Honey Sickles in her MFP.  And that's about the ONLY thing she has in the building!  Being the highest level wiz on that account and only being level 26 means she doesn't have a lot of gold for decorating!

My daughter ended up doing the Humongofrog thing yesterday morning so I was ITS for a bit before her doctor's appointment.  John LifeGlen and I farmed Calypso for a bit, we both needed gold BADLY!  I brought my baby life wiz in for the heals (level 11 O_O) and we had some fun taking down Calypso multiple times!

Then in the evening Alric and I farmed Optio Agenor looking for Celestian ferns.  Lady Blade joined us on her Pyro Autumn and we had some fun.  Then Tio had to go eat dinner for we switched to a Chancel run as Lady Blade wants to craft the Observatory also and needs sunstones for the job.  Before I knew it the evening had flown by and it was time to log out.  I was one tired wizzy!

Mi Tio was also VERY nice to me yesterday, beside being a port point and farming friend he gifted me the new LifeForce Blade from the Corwn Shop.  My Theurgist will be VERY happy to have it in PvP!

Until next time, have fun in YOUR adventures around the Spiral!

You know ...

one of the hardest things I find in blogging is catchy titles!

So, no title on this one, just a small update on what I have been doing, whats keeping me occupied and all that fun stuff.

Let's see SO much has happened since my last blog post I am not sure WHERE to begin.

Well I am a Merc for Hire over on Wiz101Central but have to admit I have not picked up many runs lately.  It seems the thread is well covered between very ACTIVE Mercs and our Friends. I do need to get my feet wet again with helping others out, as it is something I do enjoy.

PvP occupies a LOT of my time, not so much ranked right now but PvP parties and what not.  Kevin BattleBlood has created the PvP Party Forum over on Diary of a Wizard to let others know when a PvP party is planned.  We do these parties, and some have audio commentary (via Kevin's LiveStream page), to have fun, promote PvP as a fun activity, to teach AND to learn.  Just because I have a certain way that I play PvP doesn't mean its the ONLY way, and that's what these parties do, promote the learning of new styles.  I am a VERY defensive life wiz, but I have seen many offensive life wiz and each has their own advantages and drawbacks.

I have been working with Petnome and helping update the site with talents that are submitted by wizards around the Spiral.  And since test Realm is out I have been leveling pets and seeing what talents they have, my own pets and the Crown Shop pets. It's an wonderful feeling to find the last talent we need to complete a pet!

Speaking of Test Realm, my Pyro has decided that she will craft the Celestian Observatory.  She would like a PvP battle ring of her own.  Every once in a while she gets REALLY upset that Cass Life gets all the PvP action!  Speaking of crafting ... I have crafted the "Walkers of Natural Law" for my life wiz (2 pairs too!) for her to use.  The critical block they provide is AWESOME!  I have yet to have a crit get thru since I started wearing them!  My pyro is wearing "Pryo's Carefree Hat" as she LOVES to hit crit!  I might be crafting the robe also, I have bought the recipe but am saving my reagents for the CL house.  Death is wearing a set of crafted level 55 boots also, the name of which escapes me at the moment. O_o  Poor Cass Balance hasn't been able to do much lately, too busy with other wizards, she is even stalled in gardening at the moment as I concentrate on other things.

I have also helped mod RavenWood Radio for their last broadcast.  Leesha was unavailable so Fallon DeathSlinger was co-hosting with Stephen SpirtCaller.  I had never been a mod before, was glad we had an AWESOME chatroom that night! The nice shiny new banhammer that IcyWiz got me didn't need to get dull by use!

My First Wizaversary was this past Saturday (the 12th).  I threw a PvP party at my MFP that Lady Blade gifted me.  I had such a great time!  But I was so busy having fun I forgot to get screenshots!  So if you happened to be there mind sending me some?  lol  The only dim spot was someone decided to get report happy :(  I got reported at my own party for no reason, false reports are no fun!

So, I think that covers MOST of what I have been doing, and will try to be a much better blogger and update y'all a bit more than I have been.

See ya 'round the Spiral, and enjoy YOUR adventures!