A Poem about Smoke?

One Single Impression:Smoke

This week's One Single Impression prompt was 'Smoke.' Well, I couldn't possibly write a poem about people who smoke, because I happen to know a lot of people who do smoke, and I wouldn't want to offend them, whether or not they read my blog. But that being said, the only place, other than our car--or anyone else's car, for that matter--that I know emits smoke is a building burning down. Hehe, so then I thought, what if I used 'Burn it Down' on someone's house? That would be most ebil.

So Anyway, I came up with a Shakespearean sonnet* that used the prompt: "Smoke." I needed loads of bandages after I wrote it though. Yep, it hurt that much. lol.

Into the Smoke only for you :)

Instead of seeing the beautiful sky of blue,
Towering and towering, the clouds of smoke did grow.
I looked around; where it came from I never knew,
'Til I saw that your window was burning aglow.

Thick, black clouds of smoke covered the way to your door,
Seething into my lungs, much like the depths of hell.
I burst in the ruins, and saw your burning floor.
I went around, and your name, I soon did yell.

I covered my mouth but the smoke just wouldn't stop,
But I trudged through the fire, and I ran to your room,
And saw nothing but our picture that soon did drop
Into the searing flames and its violent fume.

I tried to run, but the smoke had swallowed me whole,
Biting, gnawing into the deepest of my soul.

*A Shakespearean sonnet is a type of sonnet that uses the pattern: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Tips and Tricks on AQW: #1...

Fashion?

Fashion, you say? How can fashion help you out when you're off trying to battle with the ProtoSartorium, and nobody wants to help you? Easy. Well, perhaps in real life, fashion may not be able to help you get out, when a person wants to mug you, and in fact, it might just be the cause of why you're being mugged in the first place; but in Adventure Quest Worlds, I've seen that fashion actually helps a lot, when you're looking for a party to battle with; or if you just want to get bombarded with friend requests, instead of you bombarding some busy level 20 player trying to rank up his classes.

Aside from how high your level is and how incredibly wealthy you seem to be in your character page, you'll never pass off as one of the best and elite AQW players, if you keep wearing some passe, worn out armor from who knows where. I'm not a member, how can I get my hands on cool armors and weps? Who the hell said that you had to be a member to have cool armor and weapons? Yeah, sure, you might not be able to have the skills of a Beta Berserker or a Paladin; but that doesn't mean that you're not allowed to look cool. Truth be told, this is the part that I hate about AE games--but you can't blame them, because that's where they get most of their money that they spend on upgrading and adding more servers to the game from. But here's what I do like about AE games, like AQW: you're allowed free will to customize yourself. So, make use of what you have, and what you're going to get once your done reading this.

Don't just put on whatever you want; take a look at yourself first, and take a look at your surroundings. What's everyone else wearing? Right now, I guess, since AQW did not make a new non-member item for good aligned players, that everyone else has changed to evil. Everyone's strutting off in their dark crusader armor with their Helm of the Darklord. Looks okay, but you're not standing out, are you? At least this is tolerable, wait until you see some cocky level 18 player, wearing Water Draconian wings with the Shadow Cleric armor and some awfully awful helm. Now that's another problem there. Some armors might cost much, but after that, it'll be smooth sailing.

When I was just at level 13, I got with some level 11-15 people, and finished off the quests in the citadel, and bought myself the Inquisitor Guard, Captain, and Crusader armors. And as we were killing some guards, I got their drops, and there I was, looking all cool with my guard armor. I did the same with the captain, and got all its drops. And at level 15, I was getting bombarded with friend and group requests. After awhile, copying enemy armors was getting kind of boring for me, so I went and mixed up the items that I'd gotten from them. I actually looked pretty cool with my Short Captain Polearm and White Feathery wings, in my Crusader armor topped with am Inquisitor Guard Helm. And people were all "I like Your Outfit!" and "You look Cool!" "Where'd you get those?" So, it's really not enough that you copy a monster's armors, but basically just making use of what you have. I'm bummed, too, that non-members get nothing but petty items in the game, but let's make use of what we have. Or whatever we're allowed to have!

Poetry Time!

I Can Write?
Yes, aside from being a fairly great AQ player, I also am a writer/poet. And I still am working on getting my novel and some of poems published, but to somewhat no avail. Anyway, here's my ballad for last, last weeks prompt 55:Farewell at One Single Impression.

One Last Farewell

Farewell to you, my love, whom no one can outshine.
I say goodbye to you, the one who can’t be mine.
I say farewell, but why can’t I let go of you?
Struggle and front, forgetting you, I cannot do.

Though I can’t bear to see you walking out that door,
I find out soon that I’ll love you forevermore.
But now, as you are waving goodbye from afar,
Always remember that you are my shining star.

And through the fog, I see nothing but your shadow,
So then I try to turn, but my feet just won’t go.
I close my eyes, but there is nothing I can see,
Except this goodbye, that of which can’t ever be.

I say, “Goodbye!” but there’s just nothing coming out.
Farewell and goodbye are words that I try to shout,
But however much I try, I cannot hear a word
From the tender lips that I guess I think you’ve heard.

Death, fight me now for the soul I wish not to sell!
For my life be wasted on that one last farewell.

The Dangers of MMORPGs: #1 Girls

And this is just the First One

The other day, I thought that the citadel might be a great place to grind up on class points, as the crash site and the lair were getting way too boring. I mean, all you do all day for three hours straight is just kill some dwakels and draconians. Doesn't that get boring? Plus, you can freak out the people by dressing up as Inquisitor Guards or Captains. That's what I do.

So as I was just battling with two Inquisitor Guards (Yes, at the same time), I thought that I'd do something unexpected for the day, and answer that all-capped plea for help, "HELP!" with the unneeded exclamation point. After I got all healed up and ready for whatever that person needed help with, I typed in the '/goto' command, and went straight to said person who was in need of help. It turned out that the person needed to beat the Inquisitor Captain two times for the quest chain. So, I went and beat up the Inquisitor Captain with her. And as the quest chain progressed, so did our innocent chatting.

I'm really not the type of person who engages into these types of chats, where crucial information about oneself is involved, such as age and country (Seriously, she even asked about birthdays, astrological signs, height and weight; I think she even asked about my IQ; but she didn't ask about my gender, of course, because I was in a very big Crusader armor then); but that day, I didn't seem at all like my usual quiet self. Soon enough, she was saying, at a multitude of times, how I was her type. And somehow, we winded up in the Guru Forest, fighting the Wisteria. The laggy connection started up again, and soon, the monster had frozen stiff, and we couldn't attack it. So chat we went again, and she, again, said how I was her type; she even asked me if I had a girlfriend. And that was it, I told myself. I did the only thing a guy like me in a peculiar situation like this could do: lie. I ended up telling her I was a girl in real life. She seemed to have taken it well, faking that she had to go, when in fact she had just transferred to a different server, deleting me in her friends list in the process.

I swear, if I ever get into a situation like that again, I will not touch my AQW account for one whole week. But anyway, I can say that I've learned my lesson here: lie about your gender? No :). I guess just be careful. And I guess that the same would apply if it were a boy who did this to a girl. But I guess that being guys, we would be too caught up in the game rather than the many women who also play it, right? ;) Club Penguin, anyone?

Nostalgia: AE's Success

Ugh-ness...

Since the day that my friends told me about the release of the much anticipated browser-based MMORPG that Artix Entertainment had worked painstakingly hard on--Adventure Quest Worlds--I couldn't help but to purposely--yes, purposely--neglect my other AE games accounts so I can play put my whole heart and soul onto my goal of reaching level 20 on it. And what do you know? I reached level 20. So, I now earned bragging rights ;). But soon things became incredibly boring with just me and 8 rank 10 classes. And waiting for a release each week was just so tiresome. So then I wondered what was happening at the other side of the Adventure Quest timeline. And before I knew it, I was riding my low-leveled Katana Mecha around Solonia, and after that, I went questing in Adventure Quest, plus, I even had enough time to kill to catch up on my Dragon Fable account.

I found it incredibly difficult to go and switch from an MMORPG, where anything can happen when you battle, to a turn-based RPG where you can actually calculate your way to defeating the ShadowScythe. First, I tried my hand at MechQuest. And I got so excited that I forgot to equp all of my heavy artillery; so I had lost to a mere Rusty Rat Mecha *lol*. But with that said, it went well, seeing as I did level up to 7. But after 3 hours of getting pummeled on and on by Master Twang at Energy Blade class, I thought I'd try something else.

And that's where DragonFable comes in. I read through the design notes, and saw that a lot had changed since just last January. Aside from Popsporcket and the blue mage, Warlic's, death, I hear that the clumsy Ash is about to start his own journey to becoming a hero, too. Good for him. So I went through all of the quests that I'd missed, plus the wars that happened. Now, here's the thing with DragonFable: you can't get into a Titan fight! For those of you who don't play DF, a Titan fight is when you summon your baby dragon's ultimate power to battle gargantuan sized monsters! Which would be cool...if it weren't for the fact that I am not in the possession of the sacred Dragon Amulet. But at least, I got to witness Warlic's awful death. And plus, I totally owned Xan's monster ;).

After I got tired of my worthless baby dragon in DF, I went back to long, long, long ago to the time when I first got hooked on to AE games. And that without the use of a time traveling telephone booth, which, by the way, was how Cysero got back to Battleon. Again, for those of you who don't play any AE game at all, the timeline goes as so: MechQuest(5,000 years before DragonFable), DragonFable(5 years before Adventure Quest), and Adventure Quest(Present). You see there was this reset thingy in MechQuest. Anyway, as I saw the login screen to my Adventure Quest account, my eyes widened with horror, as the last time that I'd logged in was 352 days ago *falls off chair*. And I remembered how difficult it was to log on back when AQW didn't exist yet. Darn! I hated that server cap, and I usually had to get up at 6 in the morning to log in. Yep, those were the days. So, yeah, I ended up fighting a few mutated leprechauns and an ugly old drakel, and then I got this super cool armor. And in the end, I ended up a level 35 mage *lol*. I've still got a long way to go.

Just Released in Adventure Quest Worlds

Great Stuff!

Hiyaz, everyone. Just thought I'd start a blog about my days here at Adventure Quest Worlds.

Well, I can’t say that the Quibble release was ‘that’ great. Quibble’s shop features MechQuest items, which are ultra-cool for gamers out there who really do play every game on AE. The only problem here is that there is only one non-member, non-AC item in the shop: the Skyscorcher. Later, AQW changed Soul Ripper from a member-only item to an AC item, worth 1000 AC (great…).

In other news, the Chaos Marsh came out today. I got loads of screenies (hehe). The Chaos Marsh showcases chaorrupted monsters such as the chaoruppted spider and the chaoruppted wolf. These monsters seem to be attracted to certain plants, which you have to quest for, fighting the monsters. It’s a good idea to be in a big group for faster quests. At the end is the Marsh Smell-O, the boss. Pretty easy, though; he’s no stronger than a dwakel warrior, but still fun to battle.

Aside from those, AQW has released the bank: 200 AC per slot and 4000 AC per 20 slots (See Valencia for Bank). Plus the item inventory is different now. You can easily sort throughout your items quickly. Plus, they even added the preloading feature. Coolness.