I was talking to Micchi last night and we had a good laugh over a time we’d been on when someone had caused a bit of a scene by the farm entrance.  I actually had screencapped and transcribed a lot of the incident because it was making me laugh… here it is, Micchi! 

The scene: Florapolis, late night (EST).  Two players, and one very helpful GM, try to assist a newbie who seems to have taken a wrong term somewhere around Stormwind City.  He was very concerned about the lizards.  Italicized lines were private messages.

After trying to help him for a while, the GM, Micchi, and I realized he was trolling riiiiight about… here:

Troll: Well I think that we need some sort of defense against those. There were a lot of monsters. They chased me around.
Micchi: That’s because they are a “reactive” monster.
Katie: Yeah, but luckily their battle plan seems to be chase you for a little bit and then run off in a sulk. So I think we’ll be ok.
Troll: Well if they invade the town, it’s not my fault. Fair warning.
Katie: No, your warning is noted.
Troll: I petitioned for Area Effect fire spells.
Katie: In the event of the Lizardpocalypse, no one will blame you.
Micchi: AOE Fire spells? I think he has high hopes for HKO.
Me: Maybe it’ll be on the PvP server.
Micchi: HKO PvP, you take 25 lollipop damage?
Troll: Wow a monster just chased me into the town and killed me.
Katie: Micchi launches projectile gumdrops. Critical hit!
GM: =.=
Micchi: LoL!
Me: Wow, you must be of special interest to their general.
(Somewhere around here, Micchi goes to bed.)
Troll: I’m scared to go back out there now.
Katie: Try the harbor. The starfish are much less aggressive. And you get mucus as a party favor.
Troll: Ew. That’s gross.
Katie: I think that’s what they drop… Yup, sticky mucus from starfish. But in their defense, they don’t really have arms, so not much to be done about it.
Troll: I don’t want to kill starfish. They didn’t do anything to me.
Katie: You could just play with them.
Troll: These monsters up here are hostile.
Katie: Tag, maybe.
Troll: I want them to die.
Katie: I think you’ll have to settle for making them vaguely dizzy.
Troll: Maybe… until my area effect fire spells are added.
Katie: I’m sure you’ll get by ’till then.
Troll: I’m just not going to go out there again without a healer.
Katie: You’ll be waiting a while.
Troll: Oh well! Goodnight friends.
(Exunt Troll)
Katie: Wow.

The last few days I’ve been waiting anxiously for the reopening of HKO… I can’t believe it’s almost here! I’m so excited to get in-game again and see all the new changes, the cities they’ve opened, to visit my farm, to see all my CB friends and make some new ones, to get chased around by lunatic scorpions….

I’m a little apprehensive, though - not about the game itself, of course, but because this will be my test run of running a Windows program on a Mac; this morning I booted up my family’s XP disc and installed it onto my computer with VMfusion. Visually it’s pretty cool, especially because of the unity feature that hides the Windows interface and just leaves me with the Windows application screens floating around with all my usual programs. I’ve never done it before, though, and I have no idea how fast or well it’s going to run. The installation seems to be going by veeeeeerry sloooooooowly, but I’m not sure if that’s normal, or because I should close some other programs, or maybe because I glossed over some configuration steps in my excitement to get the client up and moving which, not gonna lie, is totally possible. But even being able to get in and play tonight slowly rather than not at all is great, so I’ll take it any which way!

And of course, I’m worried someone will snatch up my name from CB, which would make me so sad. I can’t imagine getting used to going by something new, let alone forever and ever and ever. (Ok… at least for FB.) So I hope at the very least everything will run quickly enough to let me hop on and at least secure my name. If I can do that, even if it’s slow, I’ll be very happy… I can always figure out how to speed things up later.

But, of course… even in the worst case scenario, with a super slow client and a new name, I’ll still be getting to play HKO again! So no matter what, it’ll be a fun next couple days.