Ditto in the Science Center – questing and dueling!
Ditto is doing quests in the Science Center – he turns in a couple quests, then gets sent out to find engineering tools. In the middle of searching for the tools, he is attacked by vicious aqua-bots (Not to be confused with the amazing Aquabats!) Ditto is almost done with the Science Center, and very nearly finished with Celestia!
Ditto is turning on Galvanic Towers – Is that smart surrounded by salt water?
Ditto is exploring the Science Center now, and there is lots of science stuff… like these big sparky galvanic towers, for example! You know, it’s probably not all that safe to be playing with big electrical things surrounded by salt water, but we won’t think about that too much – Ditto got the job done with a minimum of singed fur…
And don’t forget Ditto and Chip’s great ‘Play Outside‘ video – it’s definitely worth watching!!
Ditto’s Video Bloggy Thingy – May The Fourth Be With You!
Well it’s been a while since I’ve done a video bloggy thingy, as I have been working with Chip on safety videos – we hope you like them. The video we’re currently filming requires a nice sunny day and it has been raining all week and we’ve got to wait to finsih it, so I decided to do a good old fashioned video bloggy thingy, where I talk about Twitter, Wizard1o1, and even a little Pirate101 talk!! I hope you enjoy!
Transcript:
Good morning everybody, and May the Fourth be with you! So it has been a while since I’ve done a video bloggy thingy. Chip has been helping me with more safety videos – we hope you like them. We’ve got a lot more coming too, plus a review of Avengers that shoud go up today or tomorrow – a Fabricated American’s take on The Avengers….
So what else? Well, for the Twitter report, I am up to 738 followers! So cool! I think I’ll do something fun when I hit 750, and something HUGE when I hit 1000! I mean, 1000 followers? Wow!
For Wizard 101 I am still in Celestia, but nearly done (I think) – I’m about half way through the Science Center and still need to do the Crustacean Empire, the Chancel, and the Trial of the Spheres, then it’s off to Zafaria or Wintertusk, I’m not sure yet – maybe I’ll take a vote?
As for the OTHER game, Pirate101, well I… [Sorry, still under NDA] …And you know how fun THAT is!! I can’t wait to start blogging about my adventures there!
That’s all for this week, stay tuned for lots more videos and fun! See you in the spiral, either with a wand or on a pirate ship!
Ditto explores the Lunarium! So sparkly!
Finally able to enter the building itself, Ditto and Madame Jasmine are stunned by the huge interior and all the sparkles! It’s so sparkly and shiny! There’s lots to see and, of course, lots to battle as Ditto explores the Lunarium and continues on his quest.
Ditto activates a robot and gets into the Lunarium!
Ditto finally defeats the three guardians holding three pieces of the incantation keeping the Stellar Protector shut down. Ditto returns to Koltan Gloomfane, who gives him the activation code for the out of order Stellar Protector. Ditto activates the protector and gets access to the inner sanctum of the Lunarium… Things are getting very interesting!
Ditto fixes a Robot in the Lunarium… Kinda.
Ditto finds the power core and sensorium in his first fight! With the power core he’s able to power the sentry robot back on, but it still can’t really do much more than tell him to go talk to some other guy, who long ago wove a ‘binding of lethargy’ upon the sentry. (Insert ‘that sounds like my mom/dad/brother/sister/cat on Saturday mornings’ joke here – I did…)
So Ditto talks to this guy, Koltan Gloomfane, who is actually really nice, and would LOVE to help Ditto, but there’s a problem…. Koltan gave the re-activation codes to his three henchmen, with names like Killy McKillsalot, Stabby o’Slashy, and Trogdor the Burninator. Ditto will have to defeat all three to revive that sentry… hmmm, the things they make you do when the warranty expires.
Ditto Enters The Lunarium!
Now that Ditto has completed his quest for the incredible Efreet spell, he is back in Celestia! Ditto has found all the proper pieces and fixed the Moon Portal, and it ready to enter the Lunarium! Once through the portal, however, Ditto is confronted with crazy robots run amok! What can he do to get through and find his way into the inner chambers of The Lunarium?
Ditto Casts Efreet!
After unlocking the power of Efreet and summoning him in DragonSpyre, Ditto is finally ready to control the awesome spell! Professor Falmea warns Ditto that he should only use the power of Efreet in an emergency, so what does Ditto do? Go pick a fight in Celestia so he can see what his awesome new spell does!!
New Video – Ditto’s New Spell Part 3 – Ditto Summons the Efreet!! #wizard101
After the epic battle to unlock the fire seal, Dalia Falmea teaches Ditto the summoning spell to summon the Efreet, and then sends him to DragonSpyre to learn how to control the massive power of this powerful spell. (more…)
Ditto’s New Spell – Part 2, the battle with Sothmekhet
Ditto has faced a lot of big battles in Wizard101, and there have been a few he wasn’t quite prepared for. This batted is one of the biggest and the one I was most unprepared for. It was also over 30 minutes long, so I couldn’t post the whole thing – what you see here is an edited 7ish minutes of the beginning and end of the battle. Everything in the middle is pretty similar – buff up, hit Sothmekhet with a fire dragon or helephant, and be disappointed at the overall result.
Ditto’s Battle with Sothmehket
Ditto’s New Spell part 1 – Called to the Classroom
After making level 58, Ditto is called to the Fire classroom by Professor Falmea! She has a powerful new spell to teach Ditto – but it’s not so simple! The power she is trying to tap into is blocked, and Ditto will have to travel to Krokotopia to release the block and set the power of this new fire spell free!
Ditto fixes the Broken Portal Piece.. next stop – the moon?
At long last Ditto has recovered the final portal piece – but it’s broken! What’s a monster to do? Well as your friendly neighborhood Archivist to tell you how to fix the last portal piece, and then plug it in and see what happens! With the putal humming nicely, where is Ditto off to next? Is it the moon????
And yes, Ditto was supposed to edit these two videos into one video, but Ditto forgot… so there are two videos and ‘the magic of television’ requires a little help….
New Video – Ditto makes Level 57!! But he broke the last portal piece… #wizard101
While turning in the final portal piece to Leland, Ditto makes level 57!! And now all I have to do is go to the archivist to figure out how to fix the final portal piece- I guess I should have been more careful with it!
Ditto’s final puzzle piece – Avalon!! This looks amazing!!
Taking a break from PAX posts to share the amazing news that’s sweeping through The Spiral!! Avalon is coming soon to the Test Realm, and it looks AMAZING! I can’t wait to see what stories and quests will be told in this rich new addition to the worlds of The Spiral!!!
Ditto Interviews Steve Spohn from AbleGamers at PAX East
I want to talk about this one. When I went to PAX East, I honestly had one main goal – to see or even meet Felicia Day. I’m a video blogger into gaming, so naturally I’m a huge fan and really respect how her work has helped to elevate internet media to the level is at today. So that was my PAX quest – sure, I wanted to see new games and meet cool people, but I didn’t have any plan beyond my quest for a brush with celebrity.
Well, leaving the main show floor on a search for pie, I came across a booth for The AbleGamers Foundation. I’ve known about them for quite a while of course – many people in the gaming community do – and I understood their mission, but I hadn’t really looked into it any more that, as I suspect most gamers hadn’t.
Ditto’s On the Floor Videos from PAX East
OK, so these videos were the ones that I wanted to post yesterday from the floor of PAX East, but I had a lot of trouble with the WiFi at the convention center and couldn’t post them, so here they are all in one place. These are just little notes and observations from the PAX floor. (more…)
The Storm Lord’s Temple, part 2 of 3
The second battle in the Temple of the Storm Lord, where Mark Swiftgem again helps me defeat the vicious foes who block the path to our goal – the final portal piece!
In this battle, Mark and I battle a Wing Fish and a Voltaic Eel, who prove no match for our combined forces! With the defeat of these two enemies, the gates barring our way into the inner chamber finally fall away and let us in to face our destiny!!
Ditto and Mark Swiftgem enter the Storm Lord’s Temple!
After finally having unlocked the Storm Lord’s temple, Ditto heads inside to defeat the evil minion of the great and terrible Storm Lord in order to get the final portal piece.
Of course with all the terribleness and scary summoning and stuff, Ditto decided he could use a little help. Fortunately Mark Swiftgem was able to join Ditto and help him get through the temple and face the evil badness inside!
This is the first battle – we had to do two big battles before we could even open the gates to summon the final boss…
Thanks to Mark Swiftgem for the help!
Ditto’s New Puzzle Piece – The best one yet!! Monsters!!
And here it is, at long last – Ditto’s fourth exclusive puzzle piece for the Wizard 101 Puzzler! I have to say – this is the most exciting piece I’ve seen yet – it’s monsters!! It looks like some creepy zombie thing and some kind of hairy horned monster to me! What does everyone else think?
Prospective Puzzler Participants:
Ditto finds all the Storm Shards… And a bug?
With all the Storm Shards found, Ditto has to find an ancient pedestal and interact with it – but has Ditto found a bug? There are two ‘blocks’ to interact with, but there was no text explaining what they did – so I pressed one and got struck by lightening!! Yikes!! The second interaction does something too, and then I head back to Vassik to see what comes next!
Ditto finds the second Storm Shard, tries for a third
Still hot on the trail of Storm Shards, Ditto finds one just laying on the ground – that was easy. The final shard, however, looks like it will prove more difficult, as the conscripts that are supposed to drop them are, as is normal for Celestia, pretty stingy with their drop rate…
The Wizard101 Puzzler so far…
Ditto knows he is not supposed to post the other website’s puzzly pieces, but we’re so close, I figured people would like to see what we have so far… Here’s what it looks like!
Here is all the pieces we have so far - oooh, it looks so handsome!
And yes – Happy April Fools Day everyone!!!
In Defence of the Trolling Stone
As most Twizards know, Wizard101 had a countdown timer on their launcher and website all week, counting down towards today. Well, today came, and we learned that we got a fun awesome brand new pet! the same Pet Rock we got for last April Fools, but with cute disguise glasses on.
When I saw him, I thought he was very cute, as well as a clever April Fools gag, especially with the name. It wasn’t some earth-shattering new game feature or uuber-pet, but for what it was – a silly April Fools gag – I thought it was fun, and I know we all had fun with the build up and anticipation.
And I think that’s where it went a little wrong – all that anticipation, all the exciting things going on in The Spiral, and today’s reveal may have seemed a little anti-climactic. When people started seeing what it was, there were some notes of open disappointment and even near hostility in one case that I saw. I think some people had built it up in their heads so much that the reveal of a minor (though adorable) tweak to last year’s gag pet was a serious letdown.
The Noble and Bespectacled Trolling Stone
Well I just wanted to defend the noble and bespectacled Trolling Stone. I have over 350 videos and over 400 blog posts, so I feel that I can say, with some authority, that creating any kind of content for public consumption is hard to do. Now, creating a new pet for Wizard 101? New artwork, new animations, new spells…. Way harder than making a blog post, that’s for sure! So how much effort do you want KingsIsle to put in for what amounts to an April Fools gag? Really, I think they made it easy for everyone – the price and stats are exactly the same as the Pet Rock last year, so if you already have one of those, unless you have a thing for little animated glasses, you don’t need this one. If you missed out on the Pet Rock last year, you’re in luck – you got the ‘Deluxe Model’, complete with funny glasses.
In short – this is a fun, cute April Fools gag, nothing more – I don’t think we have any reason to be disappointed in something we didn’t even know EXISTED 24 hours ago…. I know it’s easy to feel disappointed by something like this when KingsIsle cranks out so much awesome content, but let’s be honest – KingsIsle never said ‘Super Awesome New Pet coming March 30th’, and even their announcement page is completely tongue in cheek (and really funny).
So enjoy your rocks in all their various forms, or don’t – but remember, it’s April Fools and it’s all for fun – taking an Aprils Fools joke too seriously is almost as silly as taking advice from a bunch of felt and stuffing….
Ditto is Searching for the Storm Shards
So to recap, Ditto is searching for the missing Portal Piece, and that piece is apparently being held by some big scary titan thingy. So Ditto has to find these storm shard pieces, then summon the big scary thingy, then try not to get eaten by the big scary thingy, then get the final portal piece… Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
All I want to know why we can’t just, like, plan to blow him up or something, since we’re summoning him and know he’s coming? Maybe I just like blowing things up a little too much…
Ditto Monster's Bloggy Thingy 