The World of Cord

This is a bit late, as my friends Tipa and Stargrace have already posted on this, but it was just too damn nice out this weekend to blog!

Well it turned out we had more than a full group (think we had seven people altogether), so we split up into two groups and went out to conquer the tutorial zone. It was fun, albeit a bit disorganized at first, as we moved our way through the quests and mobs. It sure was fun as hell, though, getting back into the groove of EQ, remembering the days when it was the only choice.

After dinging level 6 (think we were all within a level of each other so far), I had unexpected RL company drop by, so I had to make an early exit. The next day I checked the Nostalgia Forums to see how the rest of the night went, and it seemed that everbody finished off the tutorial zone and got to level ten or eleven and they logged out in the Plane of Knowledge.

So, Saturday evening I grouped up with a psycho Cleric of the same level (not part of our group) and we duo’d the rest of the zone quests and got to level eleven myself. Cord is now sporting mostly the Gloom chain armor, and a fancy new iron gloom dagger (sorry the exact name is eluding me right now. Tipa then came and showed me the way to the PoK book in the Moors, and I am now working on the armor quests that are from some of the original old-world zones. Remembering now how hard blue con mobs can actually be…I logged out yesterday in the middle of a corpse run in the Commonlands………..

Tags: Cordanim, EQ, Nostalgia Guild

So our little nostalgia group starts tonight on the Luclin server. I rolled up another little rogue (Froglok this time) on the Drinal server, which used to be Tarew Marr (my old server where my big characters are). This ones’ name is Minadroc and he is now level 6. I am doing this so I’m not tempted to play my “Nostalgia Group” rogue when nobody else is on.

Here he is fighting away still in the tutorial zone. I have switched to my old staple UI - AYA - which is still around and seems to work just fine

I can hardly wait for tonight to get with the gang and level our group. This is going to be fun…

Tags: EQ, Froglok, Minadroc, Rogue

Cord posing for the camera

Well, well, well…what do we have here? What a strange-looking EQ2 or Vanguard character! Obviously, it’s not Stargrace let me know about a small group of EQ veterans that were all making new characters on the Luclin server. The only other player I know (well sort of, through her blog) is Tipa. I thought, “What the heck? Could be fun!” so yet another Cordanim was born tonight on Luclin. He’s a Dark Elf Rogue that worships Innoruk. Right now we are going to be playing for a few hours on Friday evenings together, and hopefully only together. Right now we have Etha, a Halfling Cleric (that’s Tipa), myself - the Rogue, Ishbel the Drakken Monk (that’s Stargrace), Egat the Human Enchanter (a friend of Tipa from the EQ days) and a Warrior who I have not met yet. Guess we have space for one more…would be great to have a Shaman or Wizard join the ranks. I know Tipa and Stargrace are looking for that last spot to get filled, so shouldn’t take too long.

Tipa (ok, Etha) casting and showing off

This should be a blast from the past to say the least! Looking forward to the first session on Friday. I’m sure the three of us will all have some posts after that happens

So I pop into EQ2 for a few minutes just to look at the Riliss faction tradeskill quest I got last night (asked me to make some ale) and see if it was even doable…well, guess I ran into the wrong building…this is what happened…take a gander at the damage he did to me! LOL

Lesson learned…don’t randomly run into buildings, apparently even in an outpost that you’re not KoS in…

Well, all I can say about Mr. Dominus Rile is that you need to work on your attitude towards visitors mister…

Tags: Cordanim, Dominus Rile, EQ2

Huh?

72…that means “Yay, Cord dinged 72″! Nwadder and Cord had a great night starting off in Kylong Plains finishing off the quest, Challenge Rock with no problems at all.

We had a great time killing anything that got in our way with ease…but then took some lovely snapshots of the tranquil scenery at times as well…

Both Cord and Nwadder dinged their 51st AA points tonight (Nwadder actually beat me there by a bit ). I’ve started putting my points into the Brigand tree, concentrating on the poison enhancements for now. Seem to be working well so far.

After the dingage and a few quest turn-ins in the Fens of Nathsir, we were both getting a bit sleepy, so decided to log with Nwadder still just 10% from 72 himself! We’ll get that for him tomorrow I will leave you with a screenshot of the two of us posing in front of the statue at one of the outposts near the Lake of Ill Omen. Damn, we’re good looking

Today was a bit of a lazy day for me around home, since I got back from my trip around 3AM…Lori and the boys let me sleep until around 10AM and they were gone when I woke up running around to Kyle’s bowling league and Brandon’s guitar lesson. So, I decided to jump into Vanguard for a bit and xp with the Ranger…

Now, I’d been working on three quests to kill Pitiless Tigers for a few days, and they seem to be the rarest mobs in the area…I would keep getting tired of hunting for them and just log out

Well below is a shot of Cord pulling what ended up being the last one I hopefully will ever need to kill!

I am having fun with the Ranger, for sure. I really enjoy the ranged attacking, and yet he’s still a great melee class when in close. I can take down two equal-level (to me) ” o o ” mobs without breaking a sweat…three, however, as I found out twice today is a crap-shoot LOL.

Faydai was online in Vanguard today (possibly one of the last times I’ll see her in Telon) getting ready for her guild scavenger hunt. Would have loved to join in on that one, but think I am going to be in Norrath tonight with Nwadder doing some Kunark questing.

Later days, and see you in one world or another soon!

Well, I made it…third time in the last month. This time it’s for our monthly management meeting where I get to tell all the other management how well our division did in March

I love coming here - it’s a great little city, with an awesome downtown (I can only describe it as being similar to a European town with sidewalk cafes, cobblestone roads, etc) and lots of things to do and see.

Here’s a picture of the Liberty Bridge, which is located downtown, and is a 355-foot-long, 12-foot-wide suspension bridge that spans the Reedy River in Greenville. A very cool thing to see, and walk across…

I’ll be down here today (Thursday) and Friday, heading home late tomorrow night. I hope to get downtown tonight to Barley’s Taproom, one of my favourite stops while in town for some local brew

Hopefully, I’ll also get a chance to get online from the hotel room tonight - just not sure which world…

Ok so now I’ve had to wipe out my whole blog since the upgrade to 2.5 and redo it all.

The good news is the proper URL is working at http://blog.worldofcord.com

If you have anything else linked (such as worldofcord.com/blog, etc) please change your links to the above one as the old one does not work anymore.

The bad news is it will take me a while to rebuild the pictures into the right directories…sorry about that…bear with me

I love technology…I love technology…

Well, being the type that always likes to be totally up-to-date, I just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.5 and hopefully everything is working fine
I also updated to Mandigo 1.32 (same theme I’ve used for ages, but with some fixes and updates.

Please let me know if you find something broken or not working. I will be adding back some of the widgets I used to have over the next few days as I find their updated versions.

Sorry if you tried hitting the site over the last few hours - I shut it down to do the proper backups, etc.

Well, I posted a couple months ago that I was coming back to the online gaming world, and I did - I really did

Nwadder also came back to EQ2, and we’ve been slowly progressing through some Kunark content. There was a while where I wasn’t seeing Nwadder online, so I decided to try out Vanguard for a bit, using my Station Access pass (figured I may as well put it to good use…)

Decided to roll up a Ranger there (with Stargrace’s help and suggestions), and have leveled that “Cord” to 14 or 15 (can’t remember LOL) and also he’s working on the Outfitter tradeskill class. A very fun class to play in my opinion, if you’re looking for something with some diversity in a solo class. Of course, being a ranger, he’s acquiring some awesome ranged attacks, but is also very capable at close range if I don’t feel like kiting mobs.

Here’s Cord the Vanguard Ranger at level 10 (I need to remember to take more action screenshots):

Cord, admiring the scenery by night in Kojan

I also have not forgotten about Norrath…Nwadder and I were on a bit last night, but before that, I took the opportunity to get Cord to level 73 in Woodworking as well as Minadroc to 63 in Carpentry. During the woodworking session yesterday, the April Fool’s joke in-game surfaced. I didn’t spend any time on it, but apparently the devs came up with a quest where you had to kill a Rat King or something and here was the reward…I’m sure it was not really equippable, but it sure looks like it would be a nice cloak LOL - take a gander at the Cloak of Gigglegibbery:

April Fool’s Joke - 2008

Tags: April Fool's, Cordanim, Minadroc, Stargrace