scatterguns

Collect some thoughts, write them down.
Had a slight achievement revival and made Pilgrim in the first 3 days of the festival. Took a break from shooting at things, and slipped back into the paladin shoes. Krakenoah the pilgrim. Tank spec in my PVP gear am now at about 30K unbuffed health. Tiddly by high end standards but still rather thrilling here, and comforting too, when your being shot to bits in your 12k attack-power mail at 75. particularly enjoyed the first day of the festival when all the achievement geeks logged on to get their stuff together. I didnt realise how many people on Nordrassil had got the Insane title. Too many. We may not have any world beating raiders or arena types, but we do have achievement chasing down to a fine art!
Depending on how my time breaks down this weekend, I might have a burst of levelling with Fear, and get to the hallowed 78 mark (at which point I can put on my crafted Resillience outfit, and offer some serious threat in the brackets). Saturday night is the annual Motorhead gig, and next week is the christmas Fitup in my home venue, so the playing I do in the next few days will be my lot for a couple of weeks. I had 3 days fitting up panto in East london last week, so Christmas is here for us in theatreland. Am currently at work purely to provide a ladder for a florist decorating a christmas tree in a foyer. I love these calls. I don't even have to foot the ladder, as I have a Casual in for that. This may be the worst attack of 'Health and Safety' I've seen all year, but its a close call...
Making the switch to a Gaming pad from my regular rather shit keyboard is pretty much done now too. I am developing some decent "twitch" with Fear, although you do have to stand still occasionally on a hunter more than you do on a paladin, I am learning to dance about all over again and loving it. Beastmaster hunting has been excellent through from 10 to 70 in the Battlegrounds, but now I'm having my ass handed to me by survivors and marksmen, so I may have to go back to the drawing board. It is amusing watching people trying to kill my raptor though, and he seems to hold people's attention quite well. I may well get dual spec for Fear, just because I love respeccing so much, and being BM is always going to be attractive for the big pet, but we will see. I was in WSG yesterday, howling down everything I had onto a Paladin, but he wasn't getting even remotely scratched. Now, he was 79 to my 75, but thats just not cricket is it? He was Protection Spec, with two druids backing him up (one of whom I took down, before you ask) and he was actually just invincible. We had a paladin, but he played like a lemon, so it was game over once this Blood Elf took the first flag. Unfortunately, we still played all the way to 25 minutes! Thats how it is in the brackets, and it's been very interesting time spent in them with Fear. At 39 its rogues, at 59 its Death Knights, at 79 its Paladins. Feels like 19 and 29, where a lot of the twinking goes on, is actually quite well balanced (and my apologies go out into the twisting Nether for all those guys watching me be truly bad at being a 19 rogue. Its tougher than it looks!). However, as mentioned above, at 78, I'm going back for his head. Oh, and that blasted Tauren Hunter who was on his team as well.
Have been playing a lot of Magic: the Gathering lately which has been very cool. two of my colleagues here at the house have got into it, and we've uncovered a web of people in their thirties who own cards but never seem to have played the game and are interested now we are! I have a lot of time for sit-down-at-a-table games, I still play a lot of BloodBowl and Space Hulk, as well as Scrabble and Carcassone, so getting back into MTG has been a treat. Last night we sat drinking in the bar at the Royal Festival Hall and played, and if that isn't a good combination of the convivial and the geeky, then I'm not sure what is... We're thinking of starting a league, but running that sort of thing requires a bit more than enthusiasm, so we'll wait and see.