Dororthy Parker was a famous wit in her time, known for her biting humor and speed. Still there was some humility in her work because she often said that she was sure that Oscar said it first, which was a funny thing to say. And she was talking about Oscar Wilde.
And when it comes to experimental music, sometimes with the darker tones, many guitarists will wonder if Jimi did it first. Jimi Hendrix was known for his genius work and influenced so many musicians then and still today.
Okay! Things are improving on every level. Come with me and I’ll take you through what is going on.
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If you were to come to my house, you’d turn left. Then you’d wander down a few hallways, doing some sightseeing. You’d come into a fantastic fantasy of fabulous flora. From here you’d see a leather curtain that isn’t so easy to see.
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Now the long, and new, hallway. Something is going on down there. Compelled and curious, you’d move forward to see.
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Ah, a military and martial setting. Six Pandaren Monks are there to greet you, bow and to allow passage.
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“This is silly,” you think. A whole bunch of bunnies and one duck are hopping up and down the stairs. The Noblegarden Rabbit does still leave eggs; tiny colorful eggs, to be exact.
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Ruffle! The old boy seems to have mounted one of his Bastion brothers and is hopping up and down the stairs.
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Finally at the top of the stairs, you made it (!), even with Ruffle hot-dogging the screen, you see a clear notice of an Event.
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Now THIS screen shot is so much better than the LAST screen shot from my prior post. It has light. We have light from above and torches and candles to brighten up this bloody room. Now we can see the Tattered Banners waving in the breeze and the weapon shields on the back wall.
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So — what is this anyways. Once upon a trial I thought that I’d make a battlefield in miniature like you’d see the generals make during the Revolutionary War. But no, not now, that is no fun. Now it is more like child’s play with tin soldiers lined up like you might see in Nutcracker or, at least, along those lines. Now I can have some humor, like the Giraffes from the flank hiding behind a row of corn but they are too tall and look right over the top!
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Having friends over to look (I like it!) somehow, they feel the need to solve the problem or add to the concept. A chessboard layout with a King and Queen sitting on an elaborate pavilion to watch the war or move the whole thing to a much bigger room! I’ll take (steal) their ideas and make them my own if I like their ideas. So far, I’m pretty happy and merely want to expand on the current ideas.
Sadly, the Bunnies and Ruffle with friend may have to go, I’m up against the pet decor limit! Still and always, as you can see, the lighting made all of the difference.
I can tell you a few things, but I can’t tell you everything. There are lots of variables when it comes to this new Decor tool.
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I put up two beds. One in the air and flat, one in the air and vertical. The flat bed held my Baby Blizzard Bear just fine. This surprised me a little bit because a while back, I’d made a room with ramps and platforms out of rugs and the pet would fall through even as I stood on the unit. So – the Pet Bed is solid. If you have a tall character for this screen shot, one can jump and hit their head on it! I have placed a Pet Bed on a table with a staircase and the pet moved up and down on it fine.
The vertical version, the spider simply slid out of the bed, fell to the floor, and began roaming about.
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Next test was changing the walkers to flyers. The flyers were fine with flat or vertical, they did their job and flew about.
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Now I pushed the vertical Pet Bed to the wall, a typical choice when designing.
The flying pet would roam about and then fly through the wall; it saw no barrier there. And it looked terrible. However, I can imagine covering that wall with Creeping Ivy and then when the flyer disappeared behind the wall, it would look natural and would break up the predictable roaming pattern. I think so anyways, it might be worth trying.
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Finally — what about the ceiling? I had flipped the rug, so to speak, so the face was down. But when placed on the ceiling, I saw no pet at all. I think that “up is up” and the pet existed above the ceiling and out of sight. When I lowered the Pet Bed down a few feet, then the pet pathed in view at the top of the room (flyer).
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There has to be a whole lot more to this Pet Bed business because each pet seems to have its own roaming characteristics. Some pets roam very far, like the Nordrassil Wisp and some just fly in very predictable short paths like the Whelplings. The walkers seem to honor the wall but the flyers blip right through the barrier. Height is different too; the Dragon Kite pet might have its bed on the floor but settles down up at the ceiling.
So, if there are any Pet Bed rules, I’d say that each pet must be assigned and tested but, in general, cats are cats.
I’m excited to add the Pet Bed Decor with the roaming Nordrassil and Hyjal Wisp to my serene nature room.
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The Sea-Glass Baubles that you see floating in the room have a purpose. They are holding a pet bed inside of them so that I can get the wisps to be higher up in the air. I have plenty at ground level and a few that are floating, roaming higher.
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These wisps also do a cool thing. Now and then they’ll throw out a droplet of magical water, and a tree will come out of the ground and blossom. Then it will fade away. It is very easy to miss but we’ve got magic!
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I have a Trading Card Game pet that I bought on the Black-Market Auction House during Warlords of Draenor when I had a ton of gold! It is called the Dragon Kite. And it is a kite; it looks like it is held in place by a string. On the Pet Bed side, we don’t see a string. If my player has the pet out, there is a string.
After changing my ceiling to Vault, I now have a dragon flying in my serene room! It is way up there even with my Pet Bed set at ground level.
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One step led to another, so there is a dragon outside too.
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And there is never too much in housing. I have a dragon up over my house too.
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It is fun finding a new little thing in Housing and using it and getting to know it. I recommend this wisp very highly for any home.
That title might be a little sneaky, like those bait articles that you see online.
I’m here to crow to the sky about the terrific Hyjal Wisp and its brother the Nordrassil Wisp.
To be used as Decor via the Pet Bed system.
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I tried, I really did; to get a screen cap but it was merely a tiny lit-up dot in the grasses.
Indoors, roaming, you know these guys. You’ve seen it everywhere in the game since you bought your first subscription. It adds magic to the area. If you have any kind of grassy area or water effects, it is worth taking a look.
I’ll try not to get too wordy here. This is my new mount. As you can see from this screen cap that it is a great looking mount and that I have 867 mounts. That mount number means that at one time I was a mount hunter but at some point, I got saturated and decided to not “go for” mounts.
But I did go for this one.
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This mount is won by fishing. Or rather earned. Once your rep on the Coiled Isles with the fishing guy gets high enough, you can purchase this fishing rod. It is loaded with fishing stats. My current one also has the Grand Line enchantment which means even more Perception and that I can get two treasure chests when they show up.
With this rod one also earns “Venom”. You catch fish and the venom number goes up, then you turn it in for a currency. One needs 2500 of the currency to buy the mount. One can get about 100 in half-an-hour, so 25 half-hour days of fishing which is half-a-cup of coffee in my world. I started on the Coiled Isle but learned that I could gain Venom while fishing in the Eversong Woods and those fish could be well sold!
In this screen shot, please note that I have 120 Venom right now, ready to turn in for currency.
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One motive, besides a cool mount, was that my guildmates often show off their ho-hum KSM mounts. Well, I KNOW that they don’t fish and that won’t have THIS one!
Here is a “live shot” if you will allow. That venom on the chest really does drip, it is animated. Beautiful, no?
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One reason that I’m posting is that I am oh-so-very disappointed that the designers at Blizzard did not follow through with the entire job. When I am mounted, my buff bar shows “Venom Serpent – Purple” and not Sea-Dwelling Isle Serpent. This is a huge blow to the “show off factor” on my new mount.
“Wow, what mount is that?” then “Oh, some serpent thing”.
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I have a flashy mount macro that gives me a rainbow long tail when I’m flying and so on. When I did the copy/paste naming in the macro, it automatically changed to Venom Serpent – Purple. How odd.
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I do appreciate the fishing in Season Two. I liked the dailies and the humor of the Tortollen. I liked the mount and enjoyed the journey to get it. It is a terrific show-off mount because not many people will do the fishing, they’d rather be doing other things.
And, I am sad to say, my buff bar does not reflect the name of the actual mount. I’d guess that it is so far down any list at Blizzard that it will ever get fixed.
At this stage of tackling my massive Level 12 housing layout, I have at least something in each room!
Now it is time to expand and fill in and add new pieces.
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The outdoor view is always better from higher up. The wonderful globes continue to dominate, and I have a few “in the air” things to expand the view a little higher than just ground level. For a whimsical reason and no more, there is a little chess board on my lawn.
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We now have lily pads. I did put a frog on it but the point was the lily pad itself. Gone are the days of using a comfy cushion with little tufts of grass poked in the middle to fake it. The cost is still five decor points, so you only see one.
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The new Brewfest Wreath is on my front door. It was the first thing that I bought from the new holiday vendor. I like it, it is quaint.
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Indoors I have the Dark Portal pushed way down and scaled way up. It should look like he is crawling out of the Chaotic Void Maw. I had to add two candles to feature him or her a little better.
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The decor rewards from the current raid are slowly making it to my inventory. These two guys are pretty bold. For the most part I don’t really like them so much as that they are new! We have downed Ula’tek twice on Normal and got in some pulls on the Heroic first boss.
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I’m glad that I came over here to post this image for this blog posting. The little holiday tree is made from Duskwood Sagebrush, stacked and scaled to make a unified tree. My final touch was to add the lantern on top since I don’t have a star. I thought to myself, “This looks pretty good, it lights up the wall and adds to the piece”. But now, with a screen shot, I see the warm light of the lantern has darkened the top of the tree and so it will have to go away!
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New rooms, corners, walls all need a good look. I’ll be honest, I’m starting to like my house.
Maybe one of those things where everyone knows but me. While I was being Neighborly, I came across a guy who was selling a new decor item (to me). A stack of mugs! He was just down the road from the main middle area of Founder’s Point. And I remember one decorator putting cups in the sink. So: here y’go.
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The other new thing, to me, was a Griftah guy outside of Smuggler’s Cove. He was selling three new things.
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Along with the Holiday Decor Vendor, I wonder what other additional things have been tucked into the recent patch.
Yes, by golly, you can put those globes outside. If you landed at my cornerstone, would you be interested?
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Come at night or use the Inky Black Potion. Right now, it looks like, “Okay, he found the Tortollan Endeavor vendor.” We need trees and plants and fountains and water.
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And I AM using the new turtle guy stuff. I like the streetlight style lamps, it is subtle, but they have an animation to them, maybe like a lightning bug is inside.
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I have some room to do stuff:
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I finally have a neighbor. A returning guildie plopped down a plot near me. Here is the view from HIS yard! I hope that I’m inspiration and not obnoxious.
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So far, so fun. What made the indoor version really work was the butterfly assortment and that they could path around. Outdoors they are stationary and small and not worth the decor price. And so, well, it just isn’t as good!
