Although our EQ2 group doesn’t start until next week, I spent a bit of time preparing by doing collections (I have six to be turned in now), and made a few other characters and leveled them up a bit. I think I’m actually going to go with a shaman for my main character, to get the group a healer, and I never really played one before even back in EQ1. My enchanter will be my soloing character for non-group days.

Today I also finished off Machinarium, an adventure game by the same guys who did the Samorost games. It’s the story of a little robot separated from his girlfriend, the thugs that harassed him, and a plot to blow up a tower, but it’s all revealed in-game without any words at all. It’s fairly standard use-everything-on-everything adventure fare, but the solutions are a bit tricky in some places and I did have to resort to the hint system a few more times than I would have liked.

And also, back in WoW, I lucked out and found the final book of Arcane Magic I was missing just minutes before a server restart, right after I woke up this morning. I’d picked up the previous seven books fairly casually, but this last one took a few sessions of waiting around before I finally got it today. And for all that effort, I got…an elemental pet. Nothing useful, but I seem to be addicted to collecting pets…