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Ditto Faces Old Scratch’s Undead Minions

Ditto and his crew continue their search for Ned’s grave, finally coming face to face with Old Scratch, a powerful skeletal witchdoctor! Ditto and his crew must face Scratches’ dreadful undead minions! This fight has some cool tactics involved, and I’m starting to think I need some ranged support, I”ll have to work on that.

I do love the terrible puns on all the gravestones we have to investigate – really funny…


What’s Up with Ditto’s Daring Adventures?

As many of my readers and fans know, Ditto and Miss Narrator have been doing a segment on the Ravenwood Radio and Pieces of Eight radio podcasts for… a very long time.  We have missed a few episodes lately, and it looks like we’re not going to finish tomorrow’s Tales of The Sea episode on time, either.  I just wanted to say sorry about that – nothing is wrong, Ditto is not leaving Ravenwood Radio or Pieces of Eight Radio or anything like that, it’s just some poorly timed technical issues, which are finally fixed, and busy holiday stuff.  I am working on new episodes now – we were hoping to get this Tales of the Sea out on time, but it will definitely be ready for next time…

Anyway – sorry for not getting it out this week, but we’ll be back up and adventuring very soon!  We love doing the podcasts, and can’t wait for the next one!
Ditto


Ditto’s Ship Contest Winners!! #Pirate101

I have gone through all the many, MANY wonderful contest entries that people sent in, and Miss Narrator and I have selected two grand prize winners and a runner-up!

As a reminder, Ditto asked people to send me a picture – screenshot, drawn, photoshopped, whatever you wanted to do – showing me why you need a new ship.  The top two winners get a special promo Admiral’s Bundle code with an amazing Marleybone ship, a Bulldog companion, and other great prizes.  We got so many fun and creative entries it was really hard to choose just two – that’s why I added a runner-up as well, who won some stuff too.   (more…)


Ditto finishes the Muti for Queen Tanei in Zafaria

Ditto continues to gather the ingredients for the special potion to cure the Ghostmane Tribe water hole, and returns to Queen Tanei when he’s successfully brewed the muti.  In the middle of all this Ditto accidentally gets into a street mob fight, which is usually fine, but in this fight someone ported to me and pulled in another enemy, then immediately quit the fight, which didn’t end well for me.  As a matter of etiquette, if you accidentally get pulled into a fight or accidentally port in and pull in more enemies, try to help out as much as you can, don’t just quit – sometimes that one extra enemy can push a fight from a win to a loss without a little extra help.


Ditto fights his way to the first Tombstone – Gunn’s Treasure

Ditto and crew need to fight their way through to find the first tombstone, looking for the final resting place of Gunn’s First Mate, Ned.  It’s a pretty epic battle, and another captain jumps in to help – it’s a great time! I love the combat in this game, it’s really exciting!  The quest for Gunns’ treasure is turning out to be a great adventure!!


Ditto brews a strong Muti potion in The Savanna

After defeating and curing Queen Tanei of the GhostMane tribe, Ditto needs to brew up a stronger Muti that will fix the contaminated watering hole and cure the whole tribe.  Ditto needs to gather a bunch of exotic ingredients and brew them all together with a bunch of strong Savanna magic.  Of course, knowing this game as well as I do, of course, gathering all these exotic materials must require lots of battles and jumping through all kind of crazy hoops, right?  Well, Ditto gets to the bottom of it…


Captain Ditto and his crew on the search for Gunn’s Treasure

Ditto and his crew are out searching for the fabled treasure of Gunn, an infamous pirate.  Ditto searches through Gunn’s house and finds a note that sends him to the Ruined Lighthouse, looking for another clue at the grave of Gunn’s first mate! The crew sail to the Ruined Lighthouse and begin to search for dear old Ned’s grave.


Ditto and Paige MoonShade versus Queen Tanei

After Ditto’s rather embarrassing defeat against Queen Tanei, he gets help from the one and only Queen of the Wizard101 housing and decorating scene, Miss Paige Moonshade.  With Paige’s help Ditto makes short work of Queen Tanei and saves the day once again!! This is a great battle and Paige is great help, she’s an amazing wizard!


Do you need a good ship? Win an Admiral’s Bundle for Pirate101

Captain Ditto here.  Are you a new Pirate, just landed on Skull Island?  Has Captain Avery gifted you with your first ‘Ship’, and suddenly you find yourself the proud owner of something resembling leaky barrels held together with shoestrings and tape? Is your hat more seaworthy than that poor leaky raft your call a ship?  It can be rough out there on the high seas, with pirates, brigands, batacuda and worse, all trying to take a bite out of your, um… hull…  So what’s a Pirate to do?  Fear not – The Admiral’s Bundle has the answer!!!

Marleybone Warship

Marleybone Warship with Bulldog Companion

Yes the Admiral’s Bundle (Now available at Wal MArt for $29, a great stocking stuffer…) has an AMAZING Marleybone warship to make you the scourge of the Aether, a loyal and trustworthy Bulldog companion, a fancy Naval outfit to look the part, a great military saber, and a crows’ nest housing Add-On so you can spot trouble long before it arrives.  I have tow – yes two – of these fantastic bundles to give away to you, my wonderful fans and readers.  (In the purchased bundle it also gives 5,000 crowns, but the prize packs I have don’t grant that.)

So how do you win?  Well, since I only have two of these highly valuable prize bundles, I’m going to make you work a little for it – you need to show me how much you need a shiny new warship.  Take a screenshot, or draw a picture, or use Photoshop – do something to show me just how bad your current ship is.  Is it a raft surrounded by hungry sharks?  Maybe you’re in a rowboat trying to escape a warship? Maybe it’s a little X-Wing fighter trying desperately to get to that thermal exhaust port – it’s up to you, be creative and have fun!

Send your picture, and your pirate name, to dittopirate@gmail.com with a subject of ‘I need a ship!’ – Show me how desperately you need a ship, and maybe you’ll win one!!  You have until Sunday, November 25th at midnight EST to enter, and I’ll announce the winners within a few days (might need some time to go through all that artwork).

One entry per pirate, please, and make sure you keep those pictures safe and family-friendly.  And most importantly – have fun!!  Good luck!


Ditto Versus Queen Tanei – Take 1

Ditto is back and still in the Savanna, with a cure for the GhostMane Queen – unfortunately she’s not really into taking medicine (maybe she’s more into homeopathic remedies?)  and there is quite a fight.  Unfortunately for Ditto, she REALLY doesn’t want to take her medicine, and Ditto doesn’t fare particularly well.  I probably had too many cards in my deck, as I didn’t get the fire prism I needed until pretty late.  It’s a good battle, and like they say – you can’t win all the time.

Ditto versus Queen Tanei

The next video has a special guest star as Ditto looks for help to finally defeat the GhostMane Queen!


Ditto Plays With Phillip The Cat

Since people seem to like it when Phillip shows up in my videos, I wanted to make him the star of one, so here is me playing with Phillip… Happy Friday!


Ditto is Picking Fruit Now – Will he Make Pie?

So yes, after defeating giant bugs, Ditto now has to collect fruit and cook it, in order to make medicine to cure those pesky Firemane lions!  Ditto is a little nervous having to go into another hut to cook the medicine, since every time he enters a hut he gets attacked by giant bugs.. Lets hope it doesn’t happen this time!


Ditto is Catching Up on Stuff in Wizard101 and Pirate101

Ditto has had a VERY busy couple of weeks where I was not able to do much in game or even post a lot, but there are some important things that are happening in the worlds of Wizard101 and Pirate101 and Ditto wanted to make sure they were covered.

Wizard101 –

First, there is the awesome Prehistoric Bundle, and Ditto has a great contest going on with that.  It has the most amazing two person mount, an adorable pet, powerful new outfit and wand thingy, and a cool magic treehouse with magic eggs!

Next is the new Keeper’s Lore card pack, with chances to get three new armor sets, special banner weapons, a great new pet, new spells, and more!  There are some pretty cool things in there, and Ditto really likes the banner weapons, they look neat.

And finally, the amazing Tower Defense game Grub Guardian has been updated and released on multiple platforms – I love tower defense games so Ditto is very excited for this one!  And I love that I can play with Madame Jasmine!

Pirate101 –

First off we have the very FIRST monthly newsletter from Pirate101, with all kinds of great news and pictures from the Pirate101 team.

Sadly, since all good things must end, the amazing Boochbeard pre-sale bundle will be leaving soon.  Sunday, November 11th will be the last day you can buy this great bundle – and I can tell you, it’s definitely worth it!!

Also in Pirate 101, the test realm opened for the first time!!  It’s closed now – sorry about that, I missed it too – but this just means that there are already cool new things on the horizon, and I can’t wait to see them!!

That’s my big update for now, but Ditto will have lots of new videos and fun coming very soon – probably tomorrow, really… until then, have fun and play safe!!
Ditto P. Monster


Ditto Wizard, Savanna Exterminator?

Ditto finally collects all the staffs from the Ghostmane Tribe – boy did THAT take a while – and gives them to Tik Tik, who tells Ditto to go into his hut to see some evidence about the missing students.  Unfortunately, Tik Tik’s hut is infested with bugs.  Great big bugs. Something smells a bit fishy about this one…


Ditto gets a new ship and searches Flotsam for One Eye’d Jack!

Ditto, still on the search for Ratbeard, needs to find One Eye’d Jack, who owes the Frogfather a favor and might know where Ratbeard is, so Ditto is off to Flotsam!  Ditto does get a new ship, which which is pretty awesome, but it’s not quite the same level as the cool ship I already have – it’s still nice though!  Once on board the ship, Ditto heads out to the amazing town of Flotsam and makes his way to the infamous ‘Black Spot’ tavern, where all kinds of crazy things happen!


Ditto’s Prehistoric Party!! Contest Fun!!

So Ditto has some prehistoric prizes to promote, and he’s positively… um… purple?  No that doesn’t work, purple clashes something terrible with Orange…  Anyway, Ditto has some great prizes to give away throughout November, including scaradactyl pets and mounts, magic treehouses, and a couple full prehistoric bundles! So how am I going to give them away?  How does a daily giveaway sound?  Sounds pretty exhausting to me, but for you, my fans, it’s totally worth it!  And how do you take part in this daily giveaway?  Send Ditto an email at dittocontest@gmail.com with the subject ‘Daily Giveaway’ with your wizard name, and every day I’ll choose a random winner and a random prize – you only have to send one email and you’re entered, you don’t need to enter every day.  It’s that simple (because I am a simple monster).

I’ll probably do some Twitter giveaways, too – we’ll see what happens!

Play Safe and Have Fun!!


More Help from Friends in The Savanna

Ditto has more help from Duncan, Lindsey Goldengrove and Seth Ghostsmith, taking on the Ghostmane tribe, hunting for tribal staffs. I did finally get all the staffs collected (It was over 25 fights!) and will have that posted soon!


Ditto gets Some Help in The Savanna

Trying to get through The Savanna and find the eight staffs to finish the quest, Ditto got some help from his twitter friends Duncan, Lindsey Goldengrove and Seth Ghostsmith – we had a great time and fought a few good battles.  It’s great playing with friends!


Ditto is Searching for Lion Staffs on the Savanna…

There are so many glowing lions around here Ditto feels like he’s in every season of Voltron all at the same time…   So Ditto is once again fighting the Fire Lion Ravagers out on the savanna, looking for guide staffs.  Ditto needs to find eight guide staffs, for some reason, and these guys drop the staffs about one in five times, so I’ll have to fight a LOT of them…This is one of those times where Ditto would certainly pay crowns to dramatically increase the % chance of the required quest item dropping.


Happy Halloween from Ditto! I’m a Puppy!

Ditto wants to wish all of my friends, fans, and followers a happy, safe, FUN Halloween with lots of candy and not TOO many scares!!  Ditto is all ready – I am dressed as a puppy this year, because I’m a monster all year round and I kind of want to change it up this year!  I’ll have to post pictures!!


Ditto Builds a Better Mousetrap!

Ditto is again begin helpful in the Savanna, making a mousetrap out of whistling torn trees to catch little squeaky mice!  It’s very cute – wonder if Oni are afraid of mice 🙂


Ditto’s Week 4 Spooky Contest Winners!!!

Here they are, the final three grand prize winners of Ditto’s Spooky Halloween contest!!  For this contest, I asked you to tell me what your favorite part of Halloween was, and I got some GREAT answers!!  I love doing the contests because I love all the fun and creative entries!!

Winner 1 – Connor Stormblade  – I like eating Halloween Candy.

Winner 2 – Scarlet Redgem – My favorite part of Halloween is decorating. My parents say I’m too young to go trick-or-treating, but I help out with all the decorating cause its exciting. I help put up cobwebs and spiders,ghost, little  gravestones. Our house always ends up looking the scariest.

Winner 3 – Paige DreamRider  –  She likes a little bit of everything – Quests! Jack O Lanterns!  Spooky decorations!  TREATS AND TRICKS 🙂  Ditto P. Monsters halloween surprises!

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who entered, it was lots of fun reading through all your entries!  As always, have fun and play safe!!


Reminder, Ditto’s Spooky Halloween contest ends TOMORROW!

I just wanted to remind everyone that I will be picking the last three grand prize winners for my Spooky decorating contest tomorrow (Sunday, October 28th) and there is still time to enter!!  Just check out the rules to the contest and send me your entry!  I can’t wait to see what you send me – I love these contests, people are so creative!!

Spooky Halloween Ditto

Spooky Halloween Ditto!


New Video – Ditto fights the Ghost Mane Tribe Again… #wizard101 #zafaria

In searching for the students, it turns out Ditto needed to fight the Ghose Mane tribe yet again to find some clues – he could have done this earlier, of course, but his guide tik tik whatever just didn’t think of it, apparently.  He’s really not very helpful as a guide.  He kind of just stands there and makes odd comments.