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Tonight’s Tale…

I played for a while tonight and had such a great time!  I found SHOPPING!  I made it to the shopping district and was ooohing and aahhhhing in all the stores.  I bought a new hat and new shoes which both give me a damage boost (It’s so easy to understand what everything does I didn’t even have to look it up!) and I found the pet store.  The pets were all more money than I had, but there are some cute ones so I have to save my money!

I was dueling in Unicorn Alley, doing some fun quests for the various people there, and had found the treasure cards shop (this is the reason I didn’t have enough money for a pet, I think) and bought a few cards from myth, life, and death schools.  Well after some hard-fought battles, I officially decided that I am definitely a big chicken and want the security blanket of the ‘get my life back quick’ spells, so I have officially gone with Life as my second magic school.  Maybe later when I understand things more I’ll change my mind, but I think for my play style and delicate constitution Life School will be a good choice for me.

I’m almost level 5 right now and am preparing to fight what I believe it my first ‘boss’ fight, a nasty looking skeleton named RattleBones.  I’ll fight him tomorrow and maybe take some video of it – it should be very exciting.

Am I obsessed with Wizard 101?

I talked to the Headmaster, and he got me into a fight!!

So I got into school and was talking to the Headmaster and his Owl, a nice casual conversation.  Suddenly the sky got all dark and stormy and the headmaster had me follow him up into a tower to see what was going on.  I didn’t want to follow him – no I didn’t!  Nothing good can come of scary shadows and dark and stormy weather!

I did follow him though – against my better judgment – and wound up getting ATTACKED!  The headmaster tossed me right into a fight with this two dragon-looking henchmen while he had a little chat with some oily-haired guy named Malistaire!  One minute I’m enrolling in school, the next minute I’m using these cards and pips to summon fire cats and trolls and having these dragon-guys throwing sharks and giant scorpions and – if you can believe it – NINJA PIGS at me!!  Seriously!!  And I haven’t even gotten my books yet!

Luckily I did win the fight, though I think the headmaster cheated a little.  Some of those spells seemed pretty advanced for my first day – a meteor storm?  Really?

In any case, I’m now successfully enrolled and looking forward to actually exploring the school and more of Wizard City and, after that, the other realms of the Spiral.  I can’t wait to see Moo Shu – I LOVE Chinese Food!!  Two orders of Crab Rangoons please!

A Very Exciting World!

I was looking around in Wizard City and was really amazed by all the people there, flying on brooms or dragons, casting spells, or showing off their pets. I definitely know I want a pet!! And some day maybe a dragon! I can’t believe how alive and exciting the world is! I do hope there are other Fabricated Americans playing the game and that we can meet up!

I haven’t really started questing yet, I’m still learning my way through the halls of Ravenwood school. I am in the Fire School (so excited about that!) but I guess I need to choose a second school – not sure what will be best there? Anyone have any suggestions?

One last thing – outside of the game I am finding a HUGE number of fun Wizard 101 sites and fan pages that I’m starting to follow, sites like Diary of a Wizard and Mythspent Youth are great to read, thanks for making them!

My new character

Here is me creating my fun new Wizard 101 character, Digby Hexcrafter!  He is very cool, and gets to play with FIRE!