Slightly delayed post compared to usual, but hi hello and happy Spring, everyone! I hope the past month has treated you well, because the first Saturday of a new month is coming up real fast, meaning it's time for another art party hosted by my guild, [VS] Verdant Shield!
For those who aren’t familiar with art parties, they’re a concept carried over from Final Fantasy XIV - in-game get-togethers for artists/writers/creatives of all types to hang out, chat, and create together! Get your favorite character/look together, head to the location, find someone that catches your eye, and create! Afterwards, everyone posts their creations in a shared tag (ours is #VSArtParty) so others can see, interact, and share! Tl;dr: the ‘goal’ of an art party isn’t to be drawn, but to draw others, and share with the community!
Time and /squadjoin information is under the cut, but will also be posted again via reblogs as the squads go up on the day of the party!
Location Information:
While scouting out more Ascalon-aligned locations to even out the spread, I remembered this little corner of Fields of Ruin. It houses a grave of one of the characters from the Ghosts of Ascalon novel - and for trivia purposes, everyone who's done Icebrood Saga has met another character from that novel: Ember Doomforge! But this isn't about Ember, it's about Killeen, and her lovely little resting place protected from the Brand. It's very easily accessible just by scooting up the marked path from Tenaebron Waypoint, which is in itself up in the Northwest corner of Fields of Ruin!
Time & Squad Details:
As we always do, we’ll be having two parties - one on EU servers and one on NA ones - with an hour break in between. People tend to arrive early and/or jump between accounts as soon as the break comes up, so don’t be surprised to see tags and announcements going up ahead of schedule!
The first party will be on EU servers and begin at 9pm Central European Summer Time (aka 3pm Eastern Daylight Time or 5 hours before in-game reset). I’ll be hosting on my EU alt account, so to join either /squadjoin or whisper Ashelin Falstaff for an invite.
The second party will be on NA servers and begin at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time (aka 1am Central European Summer Time or an hour before in-game reset). I’ll be hosting this one on my main account, so to join either /squadjoin or whisper Beldahvia for an invite.
Closing Words:
My apologies yet again for a) being delayed in posting this, but also b) posting this in the dead of (NA) night - I've been a bit sick the past week and lost track of time, but we're here now! I do feel like a broke record every time I say this, but thank you to everyone who turns out to these events - you guys are what make everything so memorable and fun! Have a good rest of your week, and I hope to see you all there on Saturday! ♥
It was exactly 6 years ago Enya made her first steps in Tyria. Years later she has grown to be perhaps my most imporant character. I'm so thankful for all the inspiration and joy she has given me. <3
Happy Birthday Enya!
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silliest movement bug ever. not sure what even happened or what may have affected it lol. but my controls were all messed up, my character was slip sliding around in a very strange fashion, and was completely unresponsive to slopes and drops in terrain... instead I would just run straight off the surface and end up floating in the air in the same fashion as a cartoon character would after running off a cliff.
It did allow me to get some cool screenshots though. I'm not sure if this pose is just a frame from the basic jumping animation but it looks neat!
Nektarius developed some serious trust issues during Tribulation Mode of SAB. Not even the flowers are nice to you in this mode.
THEY F**KING EXPLODE IN YOUR FACE!
So what does a good Friend like Rolan do? Right. Having some fun.
Nekt is fine. She had fun. Sure she cried a little and screamed during Trib. Mode,... but she is fine. At least she managed to beat both worlds. And in the end both laughed.
But it will take some time until Nekt is able to trust Flowers in SAB again. (And Rocks. And Barrels,... just everything.)