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Captain Ditto delivers hornet stingers to Doctor Coop

Ditto has collected the wasp stingers and delivers them to Doctor Coop, who… takes them and says thank you.  So, the video has Ditto going through his character and talking about the game too, just kind of chatting about stuff…

 

An interesting note to this quest – ‘Doctor Coop’ is probably a reference to a former US Surgeon General C Everett Koop, who I actually met once, a long time ago…  I always loved his beard.  It takes a special kind of guy to sport a beard like that.


Ditto gets a postcard from Afghanistan!

A few months ago, Ditto held a contest and asked people to send letters to the troops with Operation Gratitude.  Well, Ditto got a wonderful postcard all the way from Afghanistan today!  A soldier, SPC Young from the 489th Eng. Battalion in Afghanistan, sent Ditto a wonderful postcard that has ‘The Faces of Afghanistan’, wonderful pictures of kids from all over Afghanistan.  The postcard says that Children in Afghanistan wear colorful clothes as many of them prepare for their first experience going to school!

 

Postcard from Afghanistan!

Postcard from Afghanistan!


Captain Ditto is hunting hornet stingers in Pirate101

Captain Ditto and Crew need to hunt down hornet stingers for a potion, and of COURSE, the hornets are huge and terrifying… Ditto and crew face down a swarm of giant wasps – I’ll admit, it kind of freaks me out a bit.

Of course Ditto was glad that giant hornets like this couldn’t possibly exist… Until Miss Narrator pointed out the Giant Chinese Hornet. It’s ok… Ditto did not need to sleep ever again.

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Ditto versus Maudit Soulban – Part 2

Like I said – this was a really long fight, but it was great! I could have hired more henchmen to make it go quicker, but I knew with the life henchman I was in OK shape, and I wanted to take him out on my own.  Of course, the life henchman got the final shot in, but that’s OK… this was quite a battle!

After I finally defeated the dreaded fire giant, I got the fire armor and headed back to the night of the flame and continued my quest…


Ditto versus Maudit Soulban in Avalon…

Ditto is still on the trek for living fire and has to convince the ‘Night of the Flame’ to return to his job. Unfortunately, the night of the wants nothing to do with the job and says his sister can have it – if she retrieves the armor from the giant, Maudit Soulban. Of course this means that DITTO has to face the giant – who OF COURSE is a fire giant who lives in – get this – the DREAD KEEP. Seriously? Ditto really just wants a sandwich, this is way too much…
Ditto grabs a life henchman to keep him healed up, because big fire boss fights are a pain – that definitely saves me, because this is a LONG fight!


Captain Ditto is looking for the Peacemaker for Captain Avery!

Captain Ditto gets a new quest from Captain Avery, seeking out some priceless antique guns made by Sam Colt himself! Ditto heads back to Cool Ranch seeking out Mac Draw, to find out where he can get his furry hands on a pair of Peacemakers…


Ditto’s Pirate101 Witchdoctor’s Pet contest winners!

Well – better late than never, here are the winners of my Pirate101 ‘Witchdoctor’s Pet’ contest! This was a fun one – I had no idea how creative folks can be! I asked you to create a Witchdoctor’s pet, something fun and silly, and you didn’t disappoint.  Here are the winners, who got randomly chosen prizes of Witchdoctor’s Labs, pets, companions, or crowns.

Dangerous Mike: the witchdoctor pet could be a soulreaver the chick spell but in a pet form. you would be able to change the color of it to anything. the talent would be summoning a spirit from the dead to help you it could be from mailstaire to a bumble bee wearing a cow costume with high heels and t-rex arms

<Sunny Luis Smith:  A green pet Yum and that its power is “distraction”, makes every opponent from attacking to Yum to distract them and the pirate attack Meanwhile are distracted, enemies that attack to Yum do not know that the pet resists a 99% (if you use “distraction”, resist)

Dark Colin Holystone:  My pet idea is a Poltrygeist it is a ghost juju chicken(all blue as ghosts look in pirate101 and with red glowing eyes) with two powers the first is the juju spel which at adult becomes big juju and at epic becomes Great Juju and the second power is that she blows a egg from which hatches a skeletal wyvern

Stormy Blaze Silver:  The pet to a witchdoctor pirate is a haunted banana and its power is that if the pirate was defeated, will be revived by the pet (only once) and transformed into a powerful gorilla for 50% more strong.

DeadEye Daniel: The FearRat, a Ferret that got “scared to death”  so bad it has rotting fur with a solid white streak of hair going down his back and front.  Unfortunately he has a bad habit of following any armadillo pets around, falling down their holes and losing its tail.  This Ferret, known for liking shiny things breaks into houses and “infests” his deathly scare into them so when the users wear the jewelry they turn into the undead. The undead then turn in the “shinnies’” to the witchdoctor and help the FearRat get more gold!

Eccentric Elizabeth Sharp:  Skeletal Parrot – name – Toxic Bombardier. Poison pouch around his neck – With an eye patch .He rasps instead of squawking.  Power –  poison droppings. He poops – ok, drops – green slimy thingees that poison the enemy.

Patrick: My idea for a witchdoctor pet is similar to the enchanted armament in wizard101. It would be floating bones, and those bones can do anything. The bones would be different colors, and as it levels up the bones get sharper and bigger. A power would be that they can form into a sword, summon things, form a skeleton (like polymorphing), etc.

Thanks again to everyone who entered – stay tuned for more contests soon!  As always – Have Fun and Play Safe!!


Ditto’s Wizard101 Mannequin Contest Winners

So here they are, at long last, the winners from Ditto’s ‘Name that Mannequin’ contest, in which contestants gave me clever names for their mannequins!  There were some pretty funny ones, too – I definitely laughed at many of the entries, I love how clever my fans are!

Here are the list of winners, all randomly chosen as usual. All winners get a set of mannequins and a bric-a-brac elixir for their castle, and everyone has been notified by email.  Congratulations to all the winners!

  • Cameron Dragonbreath – Anakin (the mannequin) and Padme  – This is hilarious!
  • Blake Irontamer – Woody and Bo  – Cute Pixar reference!
  • Brittany Thunderspear – sassy Sylvia and motionless mike  – Clever
  • Morgan Dragonheart – Shrek and Fiona – Another great movie couple
  • Vanessa Dawneyes – Ron and Hermione – So cute together!
  • Miranda LightSpear – Malistaire and Darla  – Aw, classic Wizard101 romance!
  • Talon Spiritforge – Woody and Willow  (Get it? Wood Names! Ha!)
  • Corwin Redflame – Wall-E and Eve  – Another great Pixar reference – they do romance so well!
  • Taylor Soulhammer – Hansel and Gretel  – Great literary reference.
  • Katie Griffin – Steve and Eve   –  Random and Rhyming, outside the box, I like it
  • Corwin MythCrafter – Wesley & Buttercup  –  As you wish!!
  • Leesha Seawhisper – Sonny & Cher  – You’d have to dress them in sequins...
  • Elizabeth Gem – Meathead & Gloria   – This is a FANTASTIC classic TV reference
  • Patrick – John & Jill  – I guess Jack was busy?
  • Fred Boom – Fred and Wilma  – You’d need to put them in Azteca…

Thanks to everyone who entered, and don’t forget my Pirate101 contest, which ends this Saturday at midnight EST!


Boss Fight Video – Ditto versus Nosebiter in Cear Lyon

Ditto is still adventuring in Caer Lyon and has to face down the dreaded ‘Nosebiter’ to recover some important artifacts! With a terrifying name like ‘Nosebiter’, you might think Ditto is worried, but Ditto has a secret weapon!!  Other than his awesome Pyromnacer skills, Ditto also has… no nose!!  So Nosebiter has nothing at all to bite!!

Chagan Nosebiter is a 10,100 health fire boss with a Whiptail Pantera as a minion.  I grabbed a life henchman early in the fight, because I assumed that Nosebiter would cheat, like many of the Avalon bosses, and being fire I knew he’d also be tricky to land a lot of damage on.  He didn’t seem to cheat though, and he fizzled an awful lot – I think the fact that I don’t have a nose really threw him off his game!

The fight goes better than I expected, and Ditto gets the artifacts needed to become ‘Handyman Ditto’ once again, breaking out the spackle for a quick repair.  It’s a touch job, but somebody furry and orange has got to do it…


New Video Bloggy Thingy plus new Wizard101 and Pirate101 contests!!

Hi everybody it is the Ditto with a fun video bloggy thingy – with contests!!  Yay!  And yes, Ditto said ‘contests’ as in multiple, so stay tuned, this will be so much fun!!

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First – the twitter report! It has been a while, but Ditto now has 1873 followers – wow! Pretty close to two thousand now!  That is so amazing, thank you so much to all my fans and followers!  I’m going to do something cool at 2000 followers, so stay tuned for that!  Oh, have you noticed the changes in Twitter? Seems like a lot going on there, huh?  I think I like it so far…

Next – the games!  Ditto has been bouncing back and forth between the Wizard101 and Pirate101 test realms, because there are lots of changes coming!  Ditto does really like the Pirate101 companion changes – it makes me feel more like I have a cohesive ‘crew’, and I don’t have to worry about my level 3 mouse fencer popping up in a critical fight and getting one-shotted.  I do think it’s a cool change so far.

In Wizard101 – I’m still trying to make it through Avalon – it’s fun but I don’t think the overall story is as engaging as earlier ones.  Not sure why – it’s not a bad thing, and maybe I’m not playing it often enough to get the whole ‘big picture’ story… it is fun though, and I love the scenery and the Monty Python references…

So that leaves us with… contests!   I have two, and all details are written in the description as well, but here they are:

In Wizard101, I have a bunch of Mannequin codes to give away – each grants a male and a female mannequin that you can decorate your house with – fun!  All you need to do to enter the contest is name them – give them clever names, like ‘Archie and Betty’ or ‘Jack and Jill’ or something like that – come up with a clever pair of names and send that – plus your wizard name – to Ditto’s contest email (dittocontest@gmail.com).  The contest ends on Saturday the 26th at midnight and winners will be chosen randomly the following day.  Winners get the mannequins plus a castle bric-a-brac elixir.  Easy!

For Pirate101, I have codes for random Springtime Pets and the Witchdoctor’s Lab – these are pretty great!  For this contest, I want to combine the two things into something funny or silly – I want you to tell me about your idea for a Witchdoctor’s Pet, including one witchdoctor pet power.  For example – the pet could be the voodog, a black dog wearing a tophat, and his power is to dig up bones and reanimate them into a skeletal… whatever they were before they were bones.  Could be a Skeletal Pirate, but could also be a Skeletal bunny or a skeletal chicken.  I want these to be extra silly and fun.

For the Pirate101 contest you have an extra week (I’ve learned my lesson not to end two contests at the same time), so send your entry, with your pirate name, to Ditto’s Pirate contest email (dittopirate@gmail.com) by Saturday May 3rd, and I’ll choose the winners the next day, on Sunday the 4th.

So that’s my contests – the email addresses and details are listed here in the description, so have fun with them, and good luck!  I can’t wait to read what you come up with!

Have Fun and Play Safe!!  PLOX!


Ditto’s ‘Something’s Fishy’ contest winners!!

Here they are – the winners of Ditto’s ‘Something’s Fishy’ Contest!  I love my fans – I got so many great, fun entries, such great ideas!  Here is the list of randomly chosen winners, in no particular order – each winner got a random housing item (Fishbowl, Pagoda Gauntlet, or Winterbane Hall) plus a bric-a-brac elixir! (more…)


It’s Handyman Ditto in Caer Lyon! Thrilling Teleporter Repair in Wizard101!

Ditto is still running around in Caer Lyon in Avalon, and Ashlyn Brushtail sends Ditto on… get ready for it… a HANDYMAN quest! Yes, it’s the amazing Handyman Ditto again, seeking a book of ancient teleporter knowledge, and then heading out to fix the Caer Lyon teleporter arch. Ditto is getting good at this stuff…

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Ditto teams up to face Felethus Barka in Wizard101

Ditto is still questing in Caer Lyon in Avalon, searching for paints, and has to face Felethus Barka, a rank 11 boss. Ditto wanted to try the new ‘Team Up’ feature, and it worked very well, even though Ditto was playing very early in the morning it found me someone to group with pretty quickly, and we made short work of the boss and his nefarious minion.s


Captain Ditto mastering Ship to Ship combat… Kinda

So Captain Ditto and his trusty crew are seeking out medicine to cute that Lone Ranger chicken guy (I think… Ditto is easily confused) and to do that, he must engage in thrilling ship to ship combat!

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Ditto’s April Wizard101 Contest – Something’s Fishy!!

So it’s time for Ditto’s April Wizard101 Contest, and it’s a good one, with some really fun prizes!  In fact, the whole contest is based on one of the prizes, because it’s just so much fun, it makes me smile every time I use it – I’m talking of course about the ‘Fantastic Fishbowl’!

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Ditto is back in Avalon, and he’s a bit rusty…

So after a couple weeks of computer issues Ditto is FINALLY back in Wizard101, questing in Avalon… Of course, since it had been a little while since Ditto had played, his re-introduction was… well… problematic. This duel was kind of a hot mess, I didn’t have any fire prisms (and of course I was fighting fire), I hit the wrong spell first turn, and I overestimated the damage over time last round, but in the end I was victorious! Yay Wizard101!


Ditto gets the Hoodu Bundle and trains new skills!

Ditto has made level 20 and gets the new Hoodu bundle, with a great outfit, a cool spooky ship, and a cute monkey witch doctor companion who is really good!
Ditto also meets with Morgan Lafitte, his Swashbuckler trainer, and gets trained up in some new skills and powers!


Ditto versus Whiptail Panteras again in Wizard101

After his embarrassing defeat, Ditto goes back to those nasty Whiptail Panteras for some payback. This time – thanks to a wonderful lack of fizzles – the fight goes a lot better for our furry hero!  It’s a good fight, and these panteras are nasty!  Opening up the fight with two stormzillas – not cool!!


Back in Pirate101 – Ditto seeks out Merriweather and makes level 20!!

After their disappointment at Scorpion Rock, Ditto and crew head back to find Merriwether and see what he knows about this mysterious ‘Captain Blood’ – sounds like a scary guy!!  Merriweather doesn’t know much, but sends Ditto and crew to talk to the sheriff, Rooster Cogburn himself, to get more information on their elusive foe!

I also realized I made level 20 in this video, which is a very big deal!  I’ll be training up and getting some new equipment soon!


Displacing Beasts – Nasty battle with Whiptail Pantera in Wizard101

Ditto finds Ashlyn Brushtail to repair some armor, but she needs Ditto’s help (of course) – she is surrounded by these nasty, scary, terrifying monsters called Whiptail Pantera, which are like giant cats with big blades on their tails, and of course they are storm…  of course.

This fight is pretty intense and, thanks to some poorly times fizzles, it doesn’t go all that well…


Ditto fights HobGoblins in Caer Lyon

Ditto is back in Wizard101 and have to fight nasty little HobGoblins to recover some stuff for some guy… Ditto doesn’t remember who, honestly – he should play more.

So after several big fights, Ditto recovers the armor and returns it to Steward Kay, only to be told it’s too dirty and needs to be refurbished… like that’s MY fault!


Ditto’s Friendship Festival Contest Winners!!

Here they are, the winners of Ditto’s fun Friendship Festival contest!  The entries in this one were SO great, everyone really captured just what I was looking for, and I laughed out loud at a lot of the entries – Miss Narrator thought I was crazy, laughing to myself…  but anyway, it was hard, but I have finally chosen five grand prize winners, who win that great Chariot mount, and then I had so many entries that I loved, I chose three runner-ups that won both of my Teleport Tapestry prizes.  The remaining winners were chosen randomly and each received one random teleport tapestry code.

Grand Prize winners (And runners-up):

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Ditto plays HearthStone as a Druid

So Ditto has been playing ‘HearthStone’ lately, and decided to make a quick video.  Well, Carl recorded me accidentally, but it came out pretty good so I decided to post it.


So Hearthstone is a digital Collectible Card Game (CCG) from the same people who made ‘World of Warcraft’, so it’s well done and it’s definitely fun to play.  The mechanics are pretty simple and it’s easy to pick up – but there’s a lot of strategy involved too. You start with one mana and get another each turn, similar to pips in Wizard101, and the cards have a lot of different abilities.  One of my favorites is ‘Taunt’ – creatures with taunt protect you, your opponent can’t attack you directly if you have a creature with Taunt on the table.

Your character has a special ‘hero ability’ too – I think mage is probably the strongest hero ability – 1 direct damage fireball – but I like druid a lot too, giving your hero +1 attack and +1 shield. I’m not a fan of Warlock – it’s ‘draw a card but pay 1 life’, draw a card is important in this game, but if you’ve got a well built deck you shouldn’t need it – at least not at the cost of a life.

Overall I’m having fun with it so far, so there will probably be more videos soon, but for now, back to Wizard101 🙂


Captain Ditto faces the Scorpion Queen! Pirate101

Deep in the caves under Scorpion Rock, Captain Ditto and his crew have faced hordes of scorpions, ghost cowboys, and more!  Now they face their most fearsome foe – the Scorpion Queen herself!!

This battle is incredibly fierce and Ditto’s crew fights to the last man – literally – to defeat the arachnid foes (Did you know Scorpions are arachnids, not insects?) and find the piece of Marco Pollo’s map.  However, in the end the crew finds a plot twist worthy of a Shyamalan movie – one of the good ones, too!!