Checkpoint Charlie

Securing Draenor marked a special point for me.

My early experience in Draenor saw Kallixta run up to level 100, build a nice garrison, and then reach the limits of my old machine. It just didn't have the horsepower. So I took time off.

My return was slow, but facilitated by my son giving me his old computer while he took off to Korea. Again. This was a much faster machine, but I had to re-establish atrophied gaming muscles.

I had forgotten how to play a paladin. Now I could certainly relearn, but I decided this would be as good a time as any to learn a new class. I had received a free level 90 at the start of the expansion. Why not experiment. So in January, I brushed off my 91 Feral Druid and jumped in.

And discovered fun. I'm still totally perplexed by how to AOE as a kitty, but I quickly adapted enough to level up and set out with Flying as my goal.

Which I succeeded last week.

As I was finishing up, I started thinking about "What Next"? I don't really know. I've a soft target of finishing So. Many. Pet. (44 to go) but that's more of something to do in between other goals. I need another goal.

One point is that Kallixta/Aldonza/Kallione is a different account from the one I'd started with, so it doesn't have the Achievement Points I had earned in my first few years. I might need to do some catching up.

One thing that has NOT happened has been the RP. I miss that a lot. My guild is quiet and I haven't really gone looking. Kallione's personality is still fluid. Maybe I can find something that will inspire my writing again. Until then...

Off Out and Around

Kallixta was finally finding her balance between doing everything herself and delegating to her followers. She realized that there were just some things you couldn't expect others to do for you.

Like cleaning fish.

And everyone knows you want to have the dwarf go underground, so Kallixta had to go to Kuuro's Claim herself. She wasn't going to tell anyone that despite being a dwarf, she wasn't all that comfortable below ground level. It probably had something to do with spending a lot of her youth with the Wildhammers. It usually came up when she had to explain why she got along with the Dark Iron Dwarves so well.

Still, she found her love for the Artillery Tower reassuring her dwarveness and love for things that go 'boom'. Wait, gnomes like that, too? Actually everyone intent on Conquering Evil should appreciate tools that accomplish them quicker, like that Steel Tusk.

Of course, now her followers have expectations. She isn't just 'One of the Gang' anymore, so her armor can't be just anything Off-The-Shelf.