Fallout 3 spoilers, of course (since I know at least one other person out there is also playing it right now ;) ):
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Megahome, Sweet Megahome
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School’s Out
Continuing on in Fallout 3, I headed back to Megaton and started doing some quests for some annoying woman putting together a guide to surviving in the wasteland, which involved heading to a nearby supermarket and clearing it out of bandits. It’s a sign that I’m finally getting better at surviving that I can take on a group of them now, albeit not all at once.
After that it was mainly just some exploration, discovering the area of Grayditch, taking care of the super mutants with the missile launcher I mentioned earlier (a tough fight, but there were only two of them and I could dodge the missiles), and I went back to the Springvale school, where I’d earlier been chased off by bandits.
This time I was able to clear the outside and inside of the school of bandits, and cleared out an ant nest underneath the school as well. Allegedly there’s another Vault down there somewhere, but I can’t figure out how to get up this ledge I saw. I guess I’ll have to come back later.
Between the supermarket and the school, I’ve been able to collect a fair bit of equipment, sell off a bunch of it for bottle caps, and repair my weapons and armour enough that they shouldn’t be in danger of falling apart for a while. I’m still only level 4 now, but my survivability is gradually getting better and better.
Back To The Wasteland
Getting back to other older games I still have yet to finish, I resumed playing Fallout 3 tonight. I hadn’t really gotten very far before, but today I managed to explore a bit further and ran across two more towns, Big Town and Arefu, where some besieged survivors have been holed up and tasked me with helping them out, of course.
Getting around has been rather dangerous since I went with a high-INT/CHA character who’s not so good at the whole fighting thing, and I died a few times to relatively weak monsters, but at least once you’ve reached a marked place you can fast travel to and from it without having to risk traversing the wasteland again. I also ran across a couple of super mutants north of Big Town, one of whom had a rocket launcher. I’m not quite ready for them yet…
I found one of the bandit settlements harassing the towns in a cave, took out a few of them, and saved for the night while still in there. There’s a few radscorpions I still have to kill, and I’m running a bit low on ammo…
I Am The Weather King
Getting away from WoW for a bit, I hopped back into Fable II tonight in order to go through the Knothole Island DLC released a little while ago. And as if I wasn’t rich enough already, I was treated to an instant gain of over a million gold as soon as I loaded my save.
The island turned out to consist of a series of three quests, each of which led to a temple that changed the weather after completion and that changed the terrain of the island around a bit. The temples were fairly easy, with a bit of an overreliance on timed orb switches, and you had to leave the island and come back between each one in order to start the next one.
There were various island-specific items to gather along the way, but the only ones of any real consequence were some new augments and weapons with a larger number of sockets. With those, I’m even more overpowered than I was before…
There was a crypt that gave me a chance to resurrect my dog, having lost it in the main quest, but I opted not to. The consequences of my choice should remain, and I would have had to sacrifice an innocent villager to do so. That halo over my head isn’t just for show!
And that was about it for the island, and I ended the night in the way all gaming sessions should end, by having sex with my wife. Overall, I’m not sure the DLC was really worth it, though. There wasn’t really any challenge or enough new or interesting to it.
Yawn
I played a bit of WoW tonight, finally finishing off the Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms achievement and doing a handful of Netherstorm quests. None of them were particularly exciting though, and I felt like I was getting a bit bored again, so perhaps my return to WoW was a little premature.
Oh well, there’s still plenty of other games to play. And by plenty I mean way too many, of course…
I Hope It’s Not The Radioactive Cobalt
Today’s WoW session was a mixed bag of things, starting out with leveling an alt a bit. I don’t really intend to play them a lot, but it might be useful to get them to the point where they can do some mid-level crafting.
After that it was back to the Outlands, where I gathered enough adamantium ore to claw my way to 350 blacksmithing, which later on in the day let me make some nifty new cobalt armour for myself. After finishing off a few quests in Terrokar and Blade’s Edge (mostly in areas I can now fly to), I headed off to Netherstorm and started working on the quests there.
I only got a handful done before I got the itch to try and get fishing up to Grand Master level, so I headed back to Orgrimmar and fished for a bit. I even managed to fish up Old Crafty, for an achievement, so I then headed to Northrend to see what I could find there instead. In the end I wound up with six or seven stacks of good food items, a blue dagger I caught on one cast (no stats or sockets, though, but worth a bit of gold), and made it to 350 skill.
And then it was back to the Plaguelands for a bit, originally just to finish off one quest but I discovered a handful of other quests I hadn’t finished and worked on them for a bit. I’m now only 8 quests away from the Loremaster achievement for the Eastern Kingdoms…
Living Underground
It was another day spent in WoW, and I managed to clear out three dungeons this time: Sunken Temple, Wailing Caverns, and The Deadmines.
Sunken Temple I actually had to go back and do a second time, since I ran across the big boss but he wasn’t attackable, and I hadn’t realized that something else I did later on made him attackable; I thought I needed to start a quest line elsewhere or something. Ah well. I’d done Wailing Caverns before, but it was so long ago that it apparently didn’t record it as an achievement. And the Deadmines is really an Alliance dungeon, so there wasn’t much to do but rush through and kill the boss.
I also finished off a bunch of other miscellaneous quests, primarily around Blasted Lands. I’m now within 35-45 quests of finishing off the Loremaster achievements for Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. It might still be out of my reach though, if a lot of the remaining ones are for high-end raids or PvP. This list of easily-missed quests should come in handy.
Whodaman?
Continuing on with the Great Dungeon Cleanup, I finished off Uldaman tonight. There was really only a single quest left, but it was annoying since it required entering the instance twice and flying all over the place in between. At least the instance part is fairly short. I also took the opportunity to knock off a handful of other overlooked quests while traveling around, as well.
Next up, Sunken Temple. That’s probably as high as I’ll be able to go by myself until I gain more levels.
Gnomes Are Confusing
I didn’t really feel like starting anything new, so I wound up back in WoW last night, and I took the opportunity to finish off the Blackfathom Deeps and Gnomeregan dungeons and prepared for Uldaman by finishing off the quests that could be done just outside the instance.
It was actually the first time I’d been to Gnomeregan, and the layout of it is a bit confusing at first. I managed to stumble into the end boss earlier than expected, skipping a big chunk of the dungeon, but it seems to be meant mainly for Alliance players anyway. I’m still missing one quest for there, since a ring I need didn’t drop, so I’ll have to come back at some point
Relapse
And since I still had some time to kill this evening, I popped back into WoW just to take care of the Zul’Farrak quests I had queued up. They were, unsurprisingly, fairly easy at my way-too-high-for-it level, though the pyramid fight did get a bit hectic just due to the constant stream of enemies.
That completed seven quests in my log, and I only picked up three new ones as chained quests, so I’ve freed up four quests slots, at least.