Taking the Spiral by Storm: Unicorn Way

Hey everyone!

So I put it to a vote on Twitter, and it seems like many of you would like me to start blogging about Wizard101 again!  This means I will be updating my Wizard101 Guides section and updating you guys on the news, but I wanted to do something more as well.

I have been wanting to make a storm wizard, since that is the only school I haven't tried out yet. Plus, I just got the Storm Gulture mount a few weeks ago when I was opening some packs.  I figured now would be a great time to create her so I can blog about her adventures!

I was thinking about buying a level 50 elixir for her and starting out in Celestia, but it has been so long since I've played the beginning of the game, I kind of wanted to experience everything again.  So here she is, my new storm wizard, Autumn Rain! (Name chosen via Twitter poll. Thanks guys!)

I skipped the tutorial and jumped right into questing in Unicorn Way.  Apparently the undead were taking over and my help was needed to help clean the area up. Lots of fighting of Lost Souls and Skeletal Pirates (I think that was for a side quest) and I was finally directed to Lady Oriel in the Hedge Maze.

Lady Oriel wanted me to find out why some of her fairies had turned dark.  I defeated a few to collect fairy dust and this led to the discovery that they had been turned dark by something undead......DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!

So we finally discovered that the source for all the dark fairy turning was Rattlebones.  I went to his tower to defeat him.  This was a pretty scary fight.....I had to defeat him AND a dark fairy at the same time!  Okay, this actually wasn't too much trouble.....until my internet died. When I logged back in, I had died too.  So I healed up and went back in and defeated him, no problems this time.

So that was the end of Unicorn Way......or so I thought. My next quest was to head over to Olde Town and talk to Sergeant Muldoon.  Apparently he wanted me to prove myself before allowing me to help him, so he sent me back to Unicorn Way to defeat Lady Blackhope.  This battle went pretty smoothly too.....except for the fizzling! But in just a few rounds, her and her minion we dead.  So next I will be heading to Triton Avenue.  I will leave that for my next post.

Before I go though, I would like to share my initial thoughts about storm.  The pro is that even the starting spells are strong and usually enough to take out these early enemies in one hit.......when they work.  The biggest con here is fizzling.  I always joke and say I'm the fizzle queen, because I seem to fizzle on all of my other wizards more than normal.  However, I think my storm wizard will take this to a new extreme.  There were several fights already when I fizzled 3 or 4 times in a row.  I have even fizzled with Lightning Strike on, which adds 10% storm accuracy to my next storm spell.  So yeah, questing this character should be interesting!

Anyway, regardless of the fizzles, I had a lot of fun starting the game over with a new school.  I hope you all enjoy following me as I take the Spiral by storm! See you soon and thanks for reading!

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The Two Musketeers: The Doctor and the Chicken

Ahoy Pirates!

I hope you all had a great week last week!  I actually had a lot of fun because Edward from ATSWEL and I had a chance to quest on our Musketeers, Edward Hawkins and Autumn Walker, in Pirate101 again!  Last time we quested, we were just about to fight Doctor Noh.  Did we succeed? Read on to find out!

So we headed out and sailed into the cotton candy vortex (as Edward calls it) and confronted Doctor Noh's ship.  We fought him and his minions and managed to capture him and bring him back to Egg Foo Yung. 

After that, we headed Khotan.  This dungeon has quite a few fights in it, but none are too difficult (in my opinion) until the last one against General Tso.  For some reason, this is the only dungeon in the game (excluding Valencia part 2, which I have not yet completed), that I have never been able to solo.  I always get killed in that last battle.  I think this is in part because there are so many enemies and my companions always seem to focus their powers on General Tso, who is immune to everything.  However, I wouldn't change the difficulty of the dungeon, since a challenge is always fun!

Anyway, I got off topic there.  After several fights, and blowing up a building, (gotta love pirates), Edward and I did manage to threaten General Tso's chicken, which made him surrender. Go us! :)

After that dungeon, we found out that we had to go to Subata Skyway to find the turtle balls in order to summon the giant turtle. So that is where we headed next. And that is where I will leave this post.  We did get much further than this, but I don't want to make this post too long.  I will make another post in a few days about our adventures in Subata Skyway.  

There are also a couple other things I would like to mention before I go.  First, Edward and I will be hosting an NXP event this Saturday, April 8th. You can read more about it here: Fansite Festival NXP Event. Also, look out for a new Merciless Jennifer post later this week.  Until then, thanks for reading and see you soon!

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Fansite Festival NXP Event

Hey everyone!

The annual Fansite Festival is almost here!  It will run all day on Saturday, April 8, 2017.  This year, Edward from Around the Spiral and I will be holding an NXP/Scrip farming event in Pirate101.  You can see all the details below.

Date

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Time

2pm CST - 3pm EST

Hosts

Autumn Walker (Secrets of the Spiral)

Edward (Around the Spiral with Edward Lifegem)

Where

Meet in Avery's Court, then port to Calabria Skyway in Valencia

Realm

One Eyed Jack

Contests
Twitter Retweet Contest - Follow this link and retweet the tweet. There will be one random winner chosen who will receive 10k crowns!
Screenshot contest - During the event, take a screenshot of all the ships fighting and tweet it to both
@SecretsOTSpiral and @AroundTheSpiral.  We will choose 3 winners as follows:
First prize - 10k crowns
2nd & 3rd prize - Hoodoo Bundle
The winning pictures will also be featured in our recap posts!

We will be farming Martin Chambers and the surrounding ships for NXP, scrip, ship equipment and gold.  It will also be a great place to meet new friends and hang out with old ones!  These events are always a lot of fun!  Everyone is welcome, regardless of level.  Just be sure you have access to Calabria Skyway either by membership or crowns.

For more information about the Fansite Festival and other events that will be held throughout the day, you can see more at the following link: http://fansitefestival.com/.  I hope to see you all there!

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Merciless Jennifer Part 2: Permadeath Discovered

Hey everyone!

Well, it has been awhile!  I had some time last week to quest on my pirate, Merciless Jennifer.  If you remember, I am using this pirate as an "experiment" pirate of sorts.  The goal was to exclude companions from my crew once they died in battle.  How is it going? Well, keep reading to find out.

Last time I posted, I had just reclaimed Avery's amulet from Finn Dorsal.  Then Avery sent me to track down Captain Gunn's treasure to get a chalice for him. I tracked down Ratbeard in the Kraken Skull Tavern cellar, where we hat to fight his minions with the help of Mormo.

After we defeated them, Mormo joined my crew.  I also visited Madame Vadmia and recruited Grimtooth.  I grabbed my raft and headed out to Traitor's Cave.  When I got there, I discovered the spirits of Ratbeard's crew.  Yes, he had betrayed them by poisoning their food!  In order to get them to help me find Ratbeard, I had to help them each with a quest so they could "move on."

I decided to do Moe's quest first, to find a necklace he had lost.  The quest started out fine.  I got the necklace, no companions died.

However, it led to another quest to track down the Dutchman's Gold Hook.  I fought some ships and talked to some people and eventually found out I had to go find the Marie Celestia.  This is where the trouble started.

 There were 3 fights on the Marie Celestia, a spooky ghost ship. (By the way, amazing job on this KI people! I love the whole game, but this is one of my favorite areas!)  The first fight, all the mobs decided to gang up on Bonnie Anne, and after a couple critical hits, she died.  Buh-bye Bonnie! :(

Still, I had 3 of my companions left, so I tackled the next fight.  I lost Kan Po in this one.  Down to 2 companions now.

The third fight was going better at first, but before the end, both Mormo and Grimtooth had fallen.  I was still able to complete the fight by myself, though it was a close one! However, I did not attempt to do the rest of the dungeon with only my pirate.

So I guess that is the end of that challenge.  My conclusion is one of two things. Either I am bad at Pirate101 or companions really are just THAT important to the game.  I am thinking it is actually both.  I am going to continue with this character, but with a new challenge.  I have to find the poll and check which one got the second most votes.  Once I do that, I will continue questing, finish that dungeon and make an update post.

Until next time, have fun! See you and thanks for reading!

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