Mapping Pernon, Part Two

I may not last long because I had a pretty taxing Sunday night.

When I logged out last, I was in the SW quadrant of Pernon, Halcya State.   The Teleporter in Spire Isle (its capital?) showed me the names of all the Halcya villages, but I still have to run through them & get screenshots (& paint!).   Maybe I should go get a diet coke.  

So far I am really liking the looks of Halcya State.   IRL I'd rather live on a mountain than by the sea, but the little rivers & beaches are very charming.

Mapping Pernon, Part One

So here I am, running around at level 23.   I did all the Campaign quests in Altgard so it's time to move on to Morheim.   I like Morheim.   Except I get ganked there.   I am so unbloodthirsty in this game.   I don't think of my class as pvp competent, either.

I'm still running around Pernon.   I've decided I want to map all the villages.   As well as find the blue paint plant.   Yesterday I figured out that you get Guestpetals from fertilizing your friends' Guestblooms.   And none of the guys have any Guestblooms in their houses, so I used the Random option on the Relationship crystal & ended up at some dude's house where there were 5 Guestblooms.   I fertilized!   I got petals!

Decided to go to the guestbloom merchant in Pernon Plaza myself.   The guestblooms are expensive as shit.   I guess I know why no one has any!   The cheapest one was a little over 100k, which I could afford, but it only gives up bronze coins, which, as far as I know, only purchase stuff right around my level or lower, so the guys wouldn't really have much use for them.

The Butler Has Functions

Omfg.

Mochachocolata Gets A Studio

At level 21 you can teleport to Pernon (for Asmodae) & claim a free studio.   The quest to do this is given right where you land from the teleport.   There are a handful of different villages; the free studio is, of course, in the cheapest one.   You can move to more affluent neighborhoods, but then you gotta pay rent.  Anyway, this is the first time I've ever bothered to do the housing thing on any of my characters, so it was actually kind of exciting.

This is my front porch.

Aion, scenic views

I'm still running around the newbie zones taking pictures of everything.   As mentioned in the previous posts, we started off playing Asmodae but ended up playing Elyos since Ino sucks, but now that Diablo 3 has come out I'm pretty much the only one left here, so I'm back playing Asmodian.

I still have a bunch of Elyos screenshots to post though.   I figure I'd better post what I've got - Elyos & Asmodae both -  now so I don't get too mixed up.

At right is my Elyos Spiritmaster.   Yeah, I like that hairdo.   I don't know why.   I think it shows off her haircolor well.   Channon suggested that it looks like Princess Leia but... meh, I guess it could.   Since I have to stare at the back of her head all the time I picked a 'do that looks nice from the back.   Can't say as much for the outfits the characters wear in this game, though.

Aion: playing Elyos

Ino sucks.

He couldn't play Asmodian with us on Tiamat so we all rolled Elyos on the new server, Kahrun (I think that's what it's called).   It's kind of hard to make an Elyos character that doesn't look anime.   There are a number of preset faces that look super Asian, & the rest all look like Chun Li.   Even using the Advanced controls this was the best I could do.

She looks about as dangerous as that Asmodae I rolled in the last blog whose face I just couldn't stand after a few levels.   At least she doesn't look like she's ditching her 4th grade class to run around in the forest.   It's at least her algebra class.   Maybe even Alg II.

Anyway, this was the best I could do.

Return To Aion

Yesterday Ben informed us that Aion has now become free to play.   With no subscription fee required I no longer had an excuse to limp about groaning about how much I miss playing Aion & how it had the best soundtrack ever, blah blah.   There was my metal encased Collectors' Edition sitting in the CD rack right next to my bed.   I dusted it off, installed the game, & commenced with the 4 hours of patch.

My characters were still intact, although sporting some extra letters in their names due to previous server merges.   No problem; each character that had been moved had a Name Change thingy in their ingame inventory which was very easy to use.   However, because I had forgotten how everything went, I decided to roll a level 1.   Besides, the fun in this game is the sightseeing.   I wanted to revisit everything.

I had always used the same face on my Asmodae characters.   This time I thought maybe I should try something different.   There are a ton of looks to choose from in the character creation screen - seriously.   And once you've picked one of them there are a bunch of Advanced controls with which you can tweak specific facial features.   The Advanced controls aren't as extensive as other games I've played & generally speaking no matter what you do every toon's nose is going to look the same unless you go for waaay big or waaay small, but they're ok.   I picked a face I thought I could live with, tweaked it as much as I could, & started her up.