Season’s Greetings from Ellonnah and Voltage!

It was decided that this post would be a little bit unique and be written by TWO authors! But not just any two authors. You see, it turns out that WE’RE COUSINS! Yes, Ellonnah and Voltage are real life cousins. 2 geeks in a podracer that’s bigger on the inside (if you don’t get the references, we are close and are both geeks).

Ellonnah: This Christmas our families came together. It became mandatory when I was told that I was the only person Voltage even got a present for. How could I say no, right? I knew what I was going to get him, but for kicks, I asked him to pick 3 (or more) heromart.com items $25- and I would randomly select one to be his Christmas present. Secretly, he and my hubby planned just as awesome a present for me as I had for him!

Voltage: I knew she was a Cysero fanatic [Lonnah whispers: It’s true!], and that she was getting me something from Heromart. So I put 2 and 2 together and got 42. I did a little looking around and found the perfect gift: a shirt that had Cysero flying on a piece of bacon! I had to get it. I asked her husband for her size and got ready to order her present. Then, tragedy struck…

Ellonnah: Oh no! What happened?? (I legit can’t remember this part of the story…)

Voltage: They were out! DUN DUN DUN! So I emailed Heromart and asked when they would get more shirts in. They said they didn’t know if they ever would get any more. My plans had been shot down quicker than mauve space ship. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t think of anything. At the time, I had just bought a digital version of ‘Something About A Dragon?’ from the One-Eyed Doll website to try to win a poster, which I did. I had actually asked them to sign it, not realizing it was digital. They emailed me and, after a conversation, they asked me to pick a CD for them to sign and send. I was looking through the store, when I found the perfect present.

Ellonnah: And it truly was! I love OED so much. Kimberly is truly the bestest ever. Soooo, what did you get meee?

Voltage: It may or may not have possibly maybe almost could have been a shirt signed by Kimberly, OED’s guitarist!

Ellonnah: Oh my gosh, it is!

 

Ellonnah in the One-Eyed Doll shirt from Voltage, signed by Kimberly and Junior!

 

 

Best cousin ever, right?? <Chaos Lord Kimberly was here> Now… I was going to get my dearest relative an Artix action figure… BUT!!! (Right? Another “but”, always something interrupting our plans)… My husband was looking and said “A personalized Artix is only $5 more, let’s get him that one.” So we did!  With Daimyo “Arf”ing on the box in shar pei *cough* excuse me… *Sharpie, and a few other doodles, and a signature from Artix, himself, Christmas shopping was complete!

Voltage: I was confident the package would get here in time, because Kimberly said that they were doing a big Christmas shipment that night, but as the days passed, I got worried. Our internet had been freaking out that night, and I wondered if the package had gotten through. But all my fears were put to rest when I opened a package to find Monster, signed by Kimberly, 2 OED stickers, a note, a piece of Laffy Taffy, and Ellonnah’s shirt.

Ellonnah: I want a sticker! What flavor was the Laffy Taffy? Also, I am SO excited for you to be a Paladin HighLord with me! We’re totally the coolest cousins ever. Our Artixes should be friends, I think. I was also pretty excited to open your present when it got here. I wanted to see all the things Artix drew on it and if it was, in fact, autographed. AND IT WAS! Yay!

 

 

The Artix HighVoltage got from Ellonnah for Christmas

Voltage: I think that it was strawberry, Ellonnah. If you want, I can give you the other sticker when I get OoT. I used the other to personalize my Magic case. So, Christmas Eve day, I got a bag, folded the shirt so it looked like a plain white t-shirt, covered it with tissue paper, and put it under the tree. I was so excited. All I had to do was wait. I actually had just got out of the shower when I heard that she was going to be coming over early to talk about AQW (you lied, by the way. I kept looking out the window.) Seriously, she and Issac were the last people to come over.

Ellonnah: In my defense, we were late because we forgot your present… it was worth being late. I would love a sticker for my lappytop, though. Well, I think it is time to wrap this up. I hope you all had an exceptional holiday! What did you get for Christmas? Anything geeky? This is Ellonnah, signing off!

Voltage: And good news! Since I got the Paladin Highlord class, I decided to become good (/cheer). How did I do this you ask? I simply asked King Alteon to cut my knee. He has a good sword arm. Cysero made me a new leg, can’t even tell it’s fake. This is HighVoltage225, and I will post again in 2015. Allons-y!

Ellonnah and Voltage: And BATTLE ON!!!

Happy Frostval, everyone!

HighVoltage225 and Ellonnah

HighVoltage and Ellonnah showing off their awesome Christmas gifts from each other

So tonight, Royal BattleMage will arrive in the Swordhaven Rep Shop! I went all farming crazy like a boss and got Rank 10 last week. Thursday, I think.

So, Royal BattleMage

Royal BattleMage. It’s like….Blue Blood Titan! :O

is built for bosses and farming. I know what you’re thinking. “Wait, that’s Chunin’s job! *RageTown, USA*” But no. You have the option to farm or solo. How so? If the first skill, Enchanted Blade, is active, it won’t touch the other dudes. But if it’s not, you hit ’em all. That simple.

Dwightt, being the natural skeptic he is, says it’s “Unique, but let’s wait and see how it plays out”. But I don’t know what there is to be iffy about. Okay, there’s no heal, but that’s just okay. It’s got an over the top Arcane Shield (called Explosive Shield) that makes most incoming damage into MP, BUT! it also decreases the mana cost for each skill so when you’re running low, you use less.

Looks awesome! Gonna buy it right when it comes out, rank it up a bit, and then go do The Royal Wedding Finale! Let’s get to that next. Shaaalllll we?

INDEED WE SHALL!

Poster for Royal Wedding *cough* borrowed from the Design Notes.

The story so far: Princess Brittany and Lord Brentan are getting married. And it just so happened that King Alteon (Brittany’s Dad) also decided to go all Purple on us and become the 12th Chaos Lord while he’s at it. So it ended up here, anxiously awaiting the end. I don’t think they’re gonna kill him off, but fix hi,. Ya’ know what I mean?

We also got us some wedding rares.

This is female version, but I currently don’t have any screenies of the dudes. Besides. I think that’s Omni’s job.

Well that’s it for the wedding. For now, anyway. What is our next topic? *pulls note  out of big, full-sized Powerball spinner*

5th Upholder.

Awesome. So if you have an upgrade running through November 1st, 2013, or upgrade in the month of October, you get a 5th Upholder badge and 5 StarSwords! We got Green StarSword (my favorite), Galactic, Deep Galactic, Legion, and Chrono.

Chrono SS doesn’t really match the other crono-gear, so somewhere Alina said it’ll get changed. I think you merge it, but that might be the Green one. More details coming next week.

Next up, I think we have…Mogloween. This is gonna come tonight too, so I may be up late. If I remember correctly, I didn’t finish last year because of the stupid boss we all call reality. But there are some sorta epic things in the merge shop. Not to mention the Voodoo Brawler Hat in Yulgar’s which’ll fit some things perfectly.

Last note, Quibble the Coinbiter is going rare tonight! Last chance to get your Naval Commanders until NEXT year! And these ones are gone for-eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Oh yeah. AQW’s 5th Anniversary event is coming next week. We got Doctor Whats, Poison Ivy/Joker mashups, My Little Jedis and Siths, and a lot more unseen awesomeness.

Gonna be sweet.

Yours Truly,

Optional Geek, the dude with really sore fingers from writing all that in an hour.