Archive for September, 2014

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Secret Mondays: We’re Back In Business

September 23, 2014

The Secret World is back with new content, having released a new pack of Side Stories in their latest patch. I had to delay my return to the game for a week because I was out of town, but now I’m back and together with my usual Secret Monday crew consisting of Syp, Tententacles and my husband, we rocked more quests in Tokyo.

Side Stories: The Last Pagan includes six new missions, and seeing as big updates from Funcom seem to be so few and far between, once again stretching out the content by doing one quest per week feels like a pretty good idea.

Ricky Pagan

For our first mission, our party hit up new NPC Ricky Pagan in all his pompadour glory, and sought to reunite his lost gang by using THE ALL MIGHTY POWER OF ROCK! Oooh yeeeaaaah…

boombox

Like any mission, The Pagan had your fair share of fighting and kicking ass, but as you can see, much of it was also spent rollicking and jamming out to my swanky boombox. I ask you, what other game lets you do that…as part of the mechanics?! Oh look, my teammates are in combat and getting killed, but eh, let me just finish this song, okay?

people fighting

The mission even ends with a dance party…with ghosts. If this first quest is any indication, looks like we’ll be in for some wild, whacky fun for the rest of this mission pack.

dancing quest

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Battle Bards Episode 35: Dungeons & Dragons Online

September 16, 2014

Battle Bards

A new episode of Battle Bards is up!

A good D&D session doesn’t only need character sheets and an abundance of 20-sided dice, but atmospheric tunes as well.  What kind of soundtrack does the long-running Dungeons & Dragons Online have?  Syp, Syl and I investigate DDO’s score this week, in particular contrasting the old tracks with the newer expansion ones.  As usual, Syp stands mostly alone (oh, he’s so dramatic :P)

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D&D

Episode 35 show notes
  • Intro (featuring “Character Creation,” “Crafting Hall,” and “Wheloon Tavern 1”)
  • “Main Theme”
  • “House Dun’Robar”
  • “Yo Ho Ho, Surly Kobold”
  • “Untold Truth”
  • “King’s Forest 2”
  • “Eye of the Titan”
  • “Eveningstar 1”
  • Which one did we like best?
  • Outro (“Eye of the Titan”)