Month: October 2011

I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW RP forum. This week starts the arc that leads into the Bastion of Twilight. It’s a bit of an interlude between the action.

I had hoped that the rumors about the new WoW expansion were not true. When it was confirmed, my stomach sank. I’m not certain that I will continue to chronicle Alayne’s adventures after Cataclysm. I’ve never been overly fond of Cataclysm (though it has its moments) but Mists of Pandaria? I’m having a hard time urging myself to even buy the game when it comes out, let alone feel excited enough about it to want to chronicle it in Alayne’s Story.

The Burning Crusade, for all its tacked-on ending, for all its complete ret-conning, was a great expansion. Wrath of the Lich King was decent even though Blizzard ripped the big action out of the players’ hands and made them all bit characters in a long-running melodrama. Cataclysm had strong potential. But panda bears? Freakin’ panda bears? A melee priest class? A watered down talent system? Pokémon? Seriously? The same exact system that Square-Enix tried to pull off and had blow up in their faces rather spectacularly? A new continent that has been mysteriously hidden for ages? In a world that has been criss-crossed a dozen times? Mother of God! With the technology in World of Warcraft, has there not been a single Christopher freakin’ Columbus? Double-you tee eff, srsly! “But, G, it was hidden by magic…” Magic is a hack-writer’s excuse to ret-con. If there really was a hidden continent behind some kind of magical shroud, then it should have been referenced. “We can’t sail beyond the Great Barrier in the Western Sea. Any who try find their ship returning to Kalimdor.” See what I did there? It’s called “planning,” “foreshadowing,” and “outlining.” Maybe Blizzard could look those concepts up.

I’ll probably only get MoP because I’m a guild master and my guild may decide to go for it. At least its some new raid encounters. I doubt I’ll be playing it because the game itself is enjoyable (it hasn’t been for a while now) but because my friends play it. Once they get sick of it and go to something else, well, can’t really say I have much reason to stick around Azeroth myself.

I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW RP forum. This week takes us through the rest of the Grim Batol encounters.

Working on the Firelands arc now. I completed the interlude last night (it’s quite brief). BlizzCon is this week and I’m hoping they’ll announce the next expansion so I can start making some decisions about what to do in the future.

And now, back to work.

I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW RP forum. This week’s update is late because the WoW site has been down for several hours.

This week, we start the Grim Batol encounters. I have just finished writing the Blackwing Descent encounters and am working on the next arc in the story: Firelands. Yes, I realize this leaves Uldum and Throne of the Four Winds hanging but I plan to use those as interludes between Firelands and whatever is coming in the next patch.

And now, back to work!

I’ve just posted the latest update to Alayne’s Story over on the WoW RP forum. This week’s update starts the battle between Alexstrasza and Deathwing that is part of the Twilight Highlands storyline. It also begins the build-up for Grim Batol and later Bastion of Twilight.

I finished writing the Bastion encounters last week and got most of Blackwing Descent done. I forgot to update the counter on the site, though. I’ll just leave it as is since today is reset day anyway.

And now, back to work.