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Ditto’s Big Announcement – Second Wizardversary Party!!!

Hi everybody, it’s Ditto.  I know, it’s been like a week, but Ditto had a cold and couldn’t really make videos.  Well, I could have made videos, but they would have been full of sneezing and a very funny voice (as opposed to just my normal funny voice)

Well, I am feeling much better today and want to announce ‘Ditto’s Second Wizardversary Party’ celebrating two years of playing Wizard101 and blogging about it!!

The party will be held on Friday, February 17th, and will start at 8pm EST, but will last a few hours so lots of people have a chance to come and hang out.

The party is in my ‘housing complex’ – I have 5 pretty large houses all interconnected with portals, so there will be plenty of room.  We’ll probably spend the most time between my Sultans Palace and Sun Palace, as both have dueling rings and I figured we could have some PvP fun too…  All houses will be available and, as per my usual, poorly decorated…

Currently the plan is for friends to port to me and friends of friends to port to them.  I’m also setting up a port bus, more details on that closer to the party (as I still have to figure it out and set it up)

Ditto riding a new Kirin mount

Ditto riding a Kirin mount!

The BIG news for the party (other than the fact that it is my party and will be fun) is that I have got codes to give away for the new Kirin mounts!!  That’s right – I will be choosing random people at random times throughout the party and getting them Kirin mount codes!  How cool is that!  Special thanks to Kiersten at KingsIsle for that!  Friday, February 17th, Ditto’s second Wizardversary!!!  It’s going to be a great time, I hope to see you there!!!

So, Ditto has a cold…

So I’ve been fighting it all weekend, but it’s time to face the truth – Ditto has a cold. Miss Narrator helped me with lots of nutritious food and orange juice and this very yummy herbal tea she makes me, but I’m still sneezing and talking funny… Well, funnier than usual, at least.

I did get to play the game a bit over the weekend and had some fun doing Floating Land quests, but I didn’t get to record any of it because of the sneezing and stuffy nose. And tell me this – how do I have sneezing and a stuffy nose when I don’t have a nose? I’ll never figure that out.

I’m sure I’ll be back to normal soon and have more exciting videos posted. I wanted to post something about Pack-A-Palooza too, because that’s going on now and there are cool new pets. I’ll try to get that out soon, too.

Ditto on the Beach, and who is this guy?

After fighting all those big wildclaw things, Ditto heads back to the beach to talk to the quy who sent him out there, because he really can’t remember what he was fighting them for…

Ditto faces Wildcrag in the Ruined Villiage

After my narrow defeat of Bristleclaw, I went to find his buddy Wildcrag, to see if reason and diplomacy could still prevail.  Unfortunately, Wildcrag immediately tried to eat me – these floating land folks are kind of mean!  This fight was even more intense than the Bristleclaw fight, and I’m glad I chose to put a few shields and pixie cards in my deck – I’m pretty sure the only reason I survived this one was that I got lucky and got a critical heal when I needed it most.  Overall a great fight…

Ditto faces Bristleclaw in an epic boss battle!

I made short work of the bats and found a creepy cave that was the home of Bristleclaw, a huge Rank 10 boss with an annoying fire minion. This was a very hard fight, and I was very close to defeat before I was able to deliver the awesome killing blow and knock Bristleclaw senseless…. This was an awesome fight, actually, and I’m happy with the video…