WoW - Happy Hallow's End!

Happy Hallow's End from Gaelgrimma and Lollykin!

The Halloween celebration in The World of Warcraft, called Hallow's End, is celebrated with Tricky Treating at all the major inns, doing quests to play tricks on the opposing force, and quests and a dungeon to fight the Headless Horseman!

I re-subbed and started a new character, a Balance Druid Worgen named Gaelgrimma, about two weeks ago.  I hadn't planned on leveling her quickly, but as Hallow's End nears to a close (It occurrs this year 10-18-2014 though 11-1-2014), I became more and more excited to do the Headless Horseman dungeon which is only available to Level 90 characters.

Gaelgrimma hit 60 Sunday night and got her Flying License (WOO!) but progress has slowed since.  There was an update Tuesday from 6am until 7pm which only left me about an hour in the morning and one at night to play.  She got to level 64 by the end of playtime yesterday, but I am doubting that she will hit level 90 by the first on November. 

Gaelgrimma was able to complete the Hallow's End Achievement The Masquerade yesterday.  

Her guild-mate, Draco(X), helped by casting most of the costumes on her last weekend, but the stealthy Ninja costume was still missing so she offered up some wand transformation casts of her own in Stormwind's /2Trade chat chennel and the human she helped out with 5 different transformations returned the favor by buying the Ninja wand and casting her with the last transformation needed for the achievement!  

Nice people do exist!...Even in /Trade! Who knew?!
(Thank you Hellwhisper from Arygos!)

The Hallow's End guide I used can be found on WowHead

Pokemon X - Dusting it off

I was prompted to pick Pokemon X back up after receiving an email from Nintendo a couple of weeks ago promoting the new Pokemon games, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.  The promo email said that I could pick up a code for a free Shiny Gengar at Gamestop until October 26, 2014.  There was also a code for a free Pumpkaboo available via Internet through Pokemon Network until October 31, 2014.

Sweet. 

Pokemon 2014 Halloween promotions

WoW (World of Warcraft) servers were down for maintenance almost all day today, so it was a good opportunity to pick up the Pokemon for a little refresh.

I had left myself in Geosenge Town, but I am quite sure I remember being well past that the last time I played in May.  I actually checked my 3DS photos to see the last Pokemon photo I had taken.  I wonder for a while why I was back in Geosenge the last time I played.  I give up and decide to continue questing through Geosenge and into the next area.  I hop on Marriland's Pokemon X/Y Walkthrough to see where I'm at and where I should be going. 

After visiting the Pokemon Center and getting my special new Shiny Gengar and Pumkaboo (Yay!) from the delivery girl and saving, I head to Reflection Cave...where I immediately get lost.  I make the loop, forgetting that it does in fact loop back to the beginning if you don't choose the right path. 

The wandering did net me a new RARE Pokemon, Sableye!  He was a tough bugger to catch!! It took 4 regular Pokeballs, 2 Great, 2 Ultra, 1 Premium, 1 Nest, and the ball to finally catch him was my 3rd (and last!) Dusk Ball!  I don't recall ever having to use so many balls to catch a Pokemon!  He was down to less than 5 health and wouldn't go to sleep via Roserade's Grass Whistle.  It's always fun to catch a new one, though, so a great start back for me.