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Bloo!

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I finished off chapter 4 in Disgaea 3 over the last couple days, wherein Mao confronted his daddy issues, got turned into a mental child, and the princess Almaz was pining for showed up. Never a dull moment in the Netherworld.

Progress-wise, Mao’s at level 30 now and I’ve unlocked a bunch of stuff like a bigger classroom, a few more character classes, some more school clubs, and the Class World. I haven’t entered the Class World yet, and like many of the other features it won’t really be useful until after the main story, but I’ll probably go through it once sometime soon just for kicks.

Grinding has been fairly minimal so far, though new weapons are starting to get really expensive now. The really good grinding spot isn’t supposed to be until chapter 7, though…

Boom!

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Having finished Fallout 3, next on the list is getting back to Disgaea 3.

I made it through all of chapters 2 and 3 today, involving tracking down an Emeril-esque Home Ec teacher who takes cooking rather seriously (“Cooking means always risking your life!”) so that Mao could cook a dragon egg in order to open his heart and get rid of a fake hero’s title, and then beating up the netherworld school board.

Well, nobody claimed Disgaea ever made any sense.

Mao’s around level 25 now, with a bunch of others close behind, but I also created some new characters (a thief, an armour knight, a heretic, and a wind spinner), and some of them are lagging behind. It’s hard to get the xp and mana to split evenly.

At Least They Don’t Wear Capes

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Catching up on Fallout 3 over the last few days, I finally went down and completed the RobCo quest, though there wasn’t much to it. After that I headed to the Arlington Library to complete Moira’s quests, where I finally ran into the Brotherhood of Steel for the first time. Their Citadel was nearby, but I couldn’t figure out how to get in, as the intercom didn’t do anything.
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Pretend Love Is Better Than Nothing, Right?

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And it’s time to dip back into WoW yet again thanks to another timed event. This time it’s the “Love Is In The Air” festival, and I managed to complete the Horde gift collection part and a handful of achievements tonight. A lot of the achievements for it just depend on random luck in what you get from a gift you can only attempt once an hour, though.

I also still need to track down a dwarf hunter for the rose-petal-sprinkling achievement, but everyone’s staying in their home cities for the event. Shattrath, Gadgetzan, and Booty Bay were all deserted.

Where Was I Going?

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Back in Fallout 3, I headed towards the RobCo plant in order to finish off Moira’s quests. I took the opportunity to explore the southwestern area of the map in general, uncovering a bunch of other map markers. Most notably, I found Tenpenny Tower (apparently infamous, with the attention given to it in some forum threads) and a Nuka-Cola crazed woman who wants me to collect them for her.

I also ran across deathclaw enemies for the first time, and they’re tough indeed. Fortunately I have a new ally — the Mysterious Stranger perk. I picked it up on the last level up, and it’s turned out to be quite useful. Every time I use VATS for targeting, there’s a chance that this guy in a fedora and trenchcoat will show up and insta-kill the enemy for me, and it seems to happen around 10% of the time.

I then stumbled across Vault 112 inside an old garage, and apparently it’s part of the main quest to find my father. I guess I’ll pick up there tomorrow, having still not entered the RobCo plant…

Brrrr…

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Next up in Fallout 3, I found the settlement of Paradise Falls, which was filled with slavers. The front guard gave me the opportunity to join them and enslave other people, or to bribe him to be let in, but I went in with guns blazing instead, rescuing a bunch of people after a huge firefight in the inner part.

After that I felt it was time to do the DLC content, and headed off to its map marker. I found a few new places along the way, including the town of Andale, which was an odd, incestuous (literally) perversion of 50’s culture. Eventually, I got to the Outcast base and did the Operation: Anchorage missions. Not much to say about them since it was pretty much just a linear series of firefights in a simulated Alaska. I did get some power armour as a final reward, though.

I then resumed Moira’s quests, planting an observer to study mudlurks, and finding out the true history of Rivet City. I’m at level 12 now, and surviving pretty well now.