Coincidentally (or not), in the Kansas that the quartet (and ka-tet) went through, all humans were wiped out by a "super flu".
The Dark Tower may be the most insane seven books I've ever read. Many elements of our real world were used in the story, but twisted and deformed.
I know, the world in the story "has moved on", which makes sense. Apparently this world was like ours a long time ago, but even more advanced. Then something happened. Few details were given in the entire series, but clues point towards a global nuclear war. Kinda like Fallout, but without the vaults and even further into the future.
In this world, civilization had reverted to a medieval sort of government, but in the "present time" of the story, even that had eroded into chaos. The last technological advanced city, Lud, was a scene of complete madness. What was once the last bastion of knowledge and technology was finally overcome by an organized army of marauders.
The final remnants of these civilized people were forced into further insanity when the marauders took control of the forgotten computers below the city. Though they didn't know how to use the "dipolar" computers, they did know how to activated the also forgotten sirens that were supposed to be used in case of air raids.
Using these to blast drum beats from a ZZ Top (a rock band from our world) tune, they made the degenerate descendents of the original occupants of the city think they have to make human sacrifices to appease the gods whom they imagine were playing the drums.
In the end, the AI of the machines were awaken by the protagonist and his group, allowed them board his monorail and killed everyone else in the city. And for what? It wanted to commit suicide because it knew it was going mad and could not repair himself, and he wanted to bring everyone with him. The protagonist and his party were allowed to live for a while longer because they could tell him good riddles, which he enjoyed very much (think of it as his last supper). In the end, the AI was "killed" by dead baby jokes and other American tasteless humour before he could crash into whatever was at the end of the track.
Stephen King has a very unique style, no?
It seems like Runes of Magic has nothing much for lv40+ players to do. I'm at lv30+ so this is getting closer. Before I continue to grind more I'd like them to add more content for the high level people. I can handle the grind but I need something to look forward to.
There are quite a number of things they need to fix too. Crafting, for example, is as painful as the grind in Lineage 2. Just a lousy Basic potion takes more materials than is worth its effects, and crafting it doesn't raise my skill much. So I'm just sticking with gathering materials to sell. Right now almost all materials sell well, but the very high level stuff are, strangely, in less demand. Maybe it's because few people actually craft high level stuff. So now my Moxa Extract is stored in my house and not being sold.
I'm getting a copy of DoW2 and The Last Remnant.
This parrot can DANCE!
Some guy smashed his car into the Queen's Day parade in the Netherlands. The following pics are in a less serious tone. I didn't make them, but posting them here to show everyone how low the Internet can go. Schadenfreude. These pics make me sad. But some, like the second and fourth pic, did make me smile.
These are some of the actual uneditted pics.
Crashed into a national monument. He went with a bang. 7 dead and 11 injured, him included.
So the Northen Lights are caused by really violent electrical space tornadoes.
Replaying HoMM III a little. I've been trying a few campaigns, but I was disappointed by the lack of a Necro campaign. Probably locked. It's been so long since I last played, I've gotten used to the style of HoMM V. In fact, I miss having the hero's turn in battle. I keep forgetting to cast spells because I've become dependent on the hero's turn to remind me to use the spellbook.
Getting really dependent on the Hide skill in Runes of Magic. It allows me to become invisible and I've been using it to sneak into areas filled with mobs around 5 levels above me.
Exciting.
Even on the most populated server, Artemis, the area I just snuck in, Snowhorn, was empty. Maybe it's because it was night time in the US.
I don't believe I will be using any other classes, though Mages seem pretty strong. I just watched a level 14 Mage solo Anglie, a special boss that other classes at his level can't solo. Of course I can solo it, but I'm level 33. Pfft... 1 crit from me takes out half its HP.
Running out of quests, probably because I missed out a lot of exp by not killing monsters while completing my quests. Sneaking around means not killing monsters means no exp. I have to watch out for the best repeatable quests and grind for them, in order to compensate.
My secondary class, the Priest, is leveling pretty well because I have been turning in quests with it. All the reward exp goes to my Priest, so it actually levels faster than my Rogue. However, the secondary class cannot outlevel the primary class, so I feed the Priest side exp all the way till it's almost full before giving the exp to the Rogue.
The reason is that I hate grinding with my Priest. I very much prefer using the Rogue to kill monsters (mobs is the mmorpg term) because it's faster. My Priest takes about 5-8 hits of my one and only attack spell to kill a mob of my level; my Rogue can kill in about 5s any mob 2 levels above me. I'd rather have too little exp on my Rogue and use it to grind for more exp to catch up with my Priest, than vice versa. Plus my Rogue has the Treasure Hunter skill, so I get more loot when I kill mobs with it.
How I have changed. I used to prefer summoner classes above all, and healers if that isn't possible. In Lineage 2, I played only as a Bishop, which was the ultimate healing specialist of the game. There were other healer-type classes in that game. Next in WoW I went for the only summoner class, the Warlock. When I switched server, I used a healer again. The Shaman was a hybrid of healer and AoE buffer, and it was quite flexible. I could solo quite well and I was good at party healing and buffing.
Now I'm using a Rogue. Yes there is a Priest side but I hate using it. It's only good for providing some heal spells for my Rogue. A few of the Elite skills (skills available only for dual classes, and each combination has its unique Elite skill) were actually useful.
For example, the level 30 Elite skill for my Rogue side allowed me to use Sneak Attack in battle. Sneak Attack does a lot of damage, stuns the mob for 3s and causes Damage-over-Time (DoT), but it can only be used from behind the mob and outside of combat originally (ie only to initiate a fight).
With the elite skill, I can use it anytime during a fight. At first I didn't know it was of any use. During a fight, the monster always faces you and is able to turn around instantaneously. How was it of any use?
Then I realized these mobs have a problem - we can walk through them. Therefore, I can walk into them and face their back from inside them! Now I have a stun skill that I can use anytime I want!
Only catch is its cooldown time, which is 10s.
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