So, I haven't posted here in a week or so.

Firstly, happy new year! :D

Was home visiting with family and friends up until a few days ago, and didn't play any while I was gone. (No internet there.) But I came back with a determination to work on LyricKitten.

Bruser (my dad) and I have been doing ID90* daily, since Bruserbow and Lyric reached level 90. It's getting easier and easier, and Lyric can even solo in there...so long as she doesn't get 3 groups on her, lol. Bruser is wanting to start doing ID94 soon, but I'm still leery of being able to finish that one in time, especially since they could take out my poor long range mercs easy. (That's what I always hated about 94. Sooo hard when you first try them, and just aggravating when you can manage it easy soloing three groups and they spike your squishies.)

Decided to buy the Santa Outfit. Found a decent price (that wasn't 350mil or whatever it was at first) and decided to just get it instead of wasting more money on the item mall trying for it. I'll just have to get the Santa Hat later. For now, the temporary ones are still there so I'll worry about it some other time. (Or once they go away, lol. Depends on how much I wanna do the Santa thing really. Probably won't worry about it much until next year.)

LyricKitten is now level 97! Got there Saturday evening. I think I'm going to try and pull at least one level per weekend now. I can do it. It's not too hard to make sure she gets the kills, especially with her DoT** skill. And if I can manage a level during the week, even better! Finished up Volcano Vally (finally) and am now working my way through one of my favorite places, Yggdrasil.

I've been avoiding Santa Villa lately, which I know I'm going to regret a week or so from now when it goes away on the 11th. But it's just so monotonous and boring! Especially since Lyric gets no experience on the first two floors and can't manage on the third one. I don't know how anyone can do it more than the hour ticket. And two wipes me near completely out of stamina. >.< It's a blessing and a curse, cause I want the rewards, but can't stand the bordom of it to do it longer than an hour. (And sometimes not even then.) I've still been picking up my daily tickets for the mistletoe, so maybe I'll pull an all day thing in SV one of these days before it's over. (I wonder how much loot you could get with no stamina... HarmonyKitty has lots of stamina pills if need be, but I don't really want to use them all up in there.)

Lyric is finally starting to make some money! I've been buying Dragon boxes with Harmony's collection points and enchanting everything but weapons--which I am selling on the market, since I am not worried about leveling her crafting skills and could really use the money. (Not to mention the 600k-1.5mil I can get out of each one. Not a bad deal in my book, since I can get nice weapons from the IDs or just wait until Conquerer's...which is what I think I did with Harmony, once I discovered the IDs.) And I've been getting lots of things to sell, much to my disappointment. Not that I don't like the making money bit, but higher plus equipment would be nicer. Especially since alllmost all her mercs are in the 90s now. (Just got her Princess, Monk, and Viking to go. And her Cannoneer, but it'll be a while before he's all caught up, as I just got him a few days ago and he's working through the 60s.)

Also, I need a name for my Cannoneer. I've based her group's names on Avatar: The Last Airbender, if anyone knows the show. I'm thinking of naming him 'Bumi' just cause of his....out there nature. And he really doesn't fit any of the gAang or the Fire Nation kids.

But anyway, just an update. I hope to start updating this journal every few days or so with what's going on, so keep an eye out! :)

*individual dungeon
**damage over time.

Just a rant

What is it about being a girl gamer that makes guys act like jerks? Seriously. I know that a girl gamer is rare, but just because I am a female doesn't mean that I am suddenly fair game and OMG wanting to cyber-date you. ...That is sooo not why I play. I play to have fun, *not* to look for a date and meet people. Point of fact, I am happily in a relationship right now, and *not* looking.

Don't get me wrong, I like meeting new people, and my guildies are the best ever, but yeah... Every now and then, some random person comes along and just really rubs me the wrong way, or starts flirting like crazy, and then yeah...all I wanna do is block them and go somewhere to cool down.

I got a help request today that I replied to, and the person whispered me asking more questions. (He was only level 31 and definitely new to the game.) But yeah, soon idle questions and chatting, turned to flirting and him asking for my real name--which I won't give in game unless I've known you for a while. My guildies know it (and most only recently), but I trust them. Some random person I've only been talking to for ten minutes? Yeah, no. I told him to call me 'Kitty' and left it at that.

He finally went away and left me alone, but that trend seems to happen a lot when other players realize that I'm OMG female, that it just gets really annoying anymore.

Also on that note, my guildies are awesome. My guild leader offered to go beat 'em up for bothering me when I ranted in the guild chat. Not that I couldn't go after him with Harmony (or Lyric really, since he was so low), but it was a good feeling no less. I'm so glad to be in TBS. :)