The Menu Chat Challenge

Best graphic I've ever made, right here.

A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth and I were doing quests in the Last Wood. We were buffing to kill some roaming ice monsters when I saw a bubble - menu chat - from the sidelines, asking "Please may I join?" I was pleasantly surprised by this request, since many players don't bother to even asked, so I told them that it was okay.

When the two wizards, whose similar names revealed that they were being run by the same person, joined the battle, I received another pleasant surprise. I noticed that they had excellent gear and the best wands available in the bazaar, besides a concrete strategy. This revealed that they actually knew how to play. As the battle went on, we had a rather nice discussion, as far as menu chat can go, and we added each other, discovering that we were even on the exact same quest.

More recently, I logged on. My friend whispered me, using text chat, and I soon found out that he had received text chat for Christmas and was thrilled about it. As we talked more, he revealed that he'd been playing since the game opened, he was active reading in the community, and he knew about this blog.

Where's my point? Menu chatters are not necessarily the immature and inexperienced players many people make them out to be.

I was on menu chat for a year because I didn't lie about my age when I joined. At first I was clueless about what I was missing, but then Elizabeth joined. She was just barely old enough for text chat, and the difference was monumental. She made so many more friends. Sometimes people would walk up to her and start conversations, but more often than not, I was treated like an inanimate object.

Menu chatters are people, too.

And here lies the point of this challenge. Go without your text/open chat for a week, just to step into the shoes of the menu chatters. This can be disabled via the Parental Controls screen in your account settings page. To make this an organized event, Elizabeth and I have chosen to set the dates from January 5 - 11, 2014. Although I hardly relish the thought of adopting menu chat yet again, I will do it to raise awareness.

Will you do it with me?

- Sophia E

Avalon on test? I feel SO behind!

I feel behind. Yes, on posting too, but that's not what I'm talking about right now. I'm talking about how the new world, Avalon, is on the test realm, and I'm not even started with Zafaria yet. >.< Although, that doesn't mean I can't go on the test realm! So, now I'm working on wasting those free test realm crowns in creative ways. (Like: buying a teleporter of each color and making them all lead to jail cells in my various houses.) Random: now I can critical. And, why have I been so behind on posting? Because I've been devoting a good deal of my online time to the torment known as the Wizard101 Central Easter Egg Hunt. I mean, seriously, if you find an egg you get a super bundle! And since I don't already have a super bundle, I was really, really excited. So, after hours and hours of searching, I gave up. I'm back. Besides, of all the bundles, I prefer the Mega Bundle. (The sultan themed one.) Half because of the flute you use to cast. And I've always wanted to ride a flying carpet. But, I'm planning to step on the gas pedal for Celestia. I haven't been doing Celestia recently because I've been taking a break, going to the world of Wintertusk. One reason I like Wintertusk is that from a simple mob fight you can get drops that are better than the Grand gear. I'm not kidding. Critical gear, here I come! Oh yeah, and I know vengeance now. So, see ya in the Science Center tonight, with my myth friend Elizabeth GoldenThistle, in the Lincoln realm, if you happen to want to show up and maybe help us out. So, see you tomorrow for real this time!

- Sophia E

Two thirds of the way through Celestia!

Okay, so I finished those defeat and collect quests in Stormriven Hall, fought a boss, and got out of the gaze of that creepy eye. Then I ran around in District of the Stars talking to Preceptors and got a jellyfish pet. Its pedigree was higher than that of my awesome spritely satyr pet, so I looked up its talent pool on the W101 Central Wiki. It has only one selfish talent, can get spritely, and the rest are death talents. Hmm..... Maybe I'll send it over to my death wizard, Daniel DeathBlood, and he can get a super overpowered grand pet. >:) Click here to see the pet page for the jellyfish if you're interested. So anyway, Elizabeth GoldenThistle and I went and did the Portico (aka the Lunarium) together and it was kind of challenging, but we brought a level 42 fire menu chatter. (Named Dustin ThunderHeart.) We leveled up! We are now level 54 and I trained the Infallible spell (star aura). It's +15% accuracy and stun block for 4 rds. I plan to use it when I really don't want to fizzle, because that'll get me to 105% accuracy for my life spells. See ya, people!

- Sophia E

That was a fail.

Second blogging day? Ha! So much for that. But I will try to post on Friday this week. Really I will! Now for randomness. I am almost level 52. I found this Celestia quest tree somewhere on the W101 Central Wiki, and it turns out that I am almost done with the Floating Land! And what I said about  the surprise, that was supposed to be released on Friday? Not happening. At least not yet. I have another project on my hands, that is, another two. First, there's the fanfiction, which I've sort of been procrastinating on. I'll try to finish part two. Really! But it might not be all that soon. Second, there's something else that I've never mentioned before. I am going to draw pictures of my fanfiction main characters. Like, with pencil and paper. I will try to make them the most awesome drawings I have ever done. And get the proportion and shaping just right. Then I will color, take a picture, and post it here. Hopefully. Maybe. Okay, probably not. And I've added reactions to my posts. So reaction all my posts please! I see that somebody, that is, two somebodies, have done that already. As for the promised surprise, like I said is probably not happening soon, here's a hint as to what it is. Lights, camera, ACTION! And no outfit of the week this week. I've just forgotten. And thanks everybody for showing up at my party. It was so much fun, and my guest list must have multiplied itself by three, and loads of people came that weren't even on the list. So there were maybe 20 guests there. And my blog really has been added to the W101 Central blog list now!

So long,
- Sophia E