A mighty beard

Future generations will gaze upon my likeness and say, "What a mighty beard!"

- Pony

In other news: happy birthday to people that happen to celebrate their birthdays today! 

I'm sure the dwarf with the cake and balloons would be more than happy to celebrate it with you. Surely he has a keg of beer with him (can't imagine a dwarf without beer, really), so the party will probably be quite interesting, to say the least.

The Hobbit

 

 ...

Cappy gods

This post is dedicated to Dune and Cas, two very unhelpful captains.

Preparing for the new raid

Things that I need to do before the new fancy Isengard raid is released:

On a related note - I should probably buy some cake for myself tomorrow.

Trouble in Tuckborough

So we 4-manned lvl 75 Trouble in Tuckborough raid the other day. Originally we had 2 hunters, a minstrel and a warden but before the final boss I decided to switch to my captain, mostly because hunters can't really save anyone's life when things go horribly wrong.

Right. So I switched and thought I'd heal a little bit. Unfortunately they had decided that I was going to tank the main boss when I was away, so my poor little lvl 72 captain had to hold aggro against Godless, a hunter with 2.1k agility. I even buffed him, damn it.

I asked him to be nice... I should have known better.

XD

Oh snap! Someone left a couple of comments on my blog and tried to insult me (examples: #1, #2)!! Never before has anyone used such words to describe me... and frankly, I am amazed. The lack of creativity displayed in those insults saddens me.

It did make me think about the way I talk about some kinships, though. So here is a disclaimer: I do not hate any kinships on our server. However, I dislike several people in quite a few kins. Still, when I say "ololol, they're noobs/elitist jerks and they suck", I don't mean it seriously enough to even remember it 2 hours later.

Dear random anonymous person, I wish you were at least brave enough to say who you are. Feel free to roll an alt and send me a tell to talk about your issues, as I can't really remember saying anything about Gur Galad. I don't even know anyone from GG... /confused

FotC has already written a song about everything that I'd like to say, so I'm just going to post this and dedicate it to the people that think I hate them or their kin.



For my normal readers: honestly, I'll try to finish a picture tonight. Seriously!

S T.. what

The other day I had a rather bizarre dream. I woke up with a terrible song stuck in my head and all I could think was "wait, whaaaaat?"
Now, it would have been very difficult to just draw a comic about my weird dream, so I decided to add a few explanations. They're not that good but writing fancy commentary would take forever and I've wasted enough of my time on drawing cars and spruces. 

Right. Well, the beginning wasn't weird at all. I was picking flowers on a random meadow (I'm not quite sure where exactly it was but I assume it was somewhere in Estonia) and generally feeling good about everything. Can't really feel depressed on such a nice summer day.

At some point a bright red car appeared out of nowhere. It seemed a little suspicious, since normally people have to actually drive their cars to get somewhere. But these 2 guys seemed to have teleported there! That's not very normal... in fact, it's not even close to what I consider normal.

So I stood there and stared at the two men that got out of the car and started walking towards me. I had never seen their faces before but when they started talking, I recognised their voices and realised that Moose and Godless had somehow come to visit me. "Oh fearless leader," they said, "we come bearing gifts!"
Of course, I couldn't come up with anything appropriate to say, so I just stood there and looked stupid while they put a shiny golden crown on my head.

It would have been wise to tell them to gtfo and leave me be but they invited me along. So I shrugged and accepted the invite because getting into a car owned by two men that I had never seen before was obviously the most reasonable choice.
At first everything seemed fine but then one of them turned the radio on and started singing along.

The rest of our journey to ??? (I can't really remember where we were going) wasn't very eventful. I kind of just sat there and tried to pretend that our situation wasn't weird at all. But it looked very nice!

 

I just can't help but wonder what kind of a car they were using...

Birthday cards #3

As you can probably tell, my skills have improved a little bit. After completing the second picture I felt a little bad about the first one. Then again, kites are pretty awesome, so it should be fine.

Damn tricksy hobbitses

So I've been leveling my rune-keeper with someone else's hobbit minstrel for a couple of weeks. If all goes well, I/we will have 3 lvl 70+ characters by the end of the year. However, it's quite likely that laziness will take over again - not an uncommon thing when you're hanging out with Wardless - and we'll never level up again.

I don't really mind being in a fellowship almost all the time, but 1) he keeps dragging me to places that I'd rather avoid (e.g. Moria - it's called 'the black pit' in Elvish for a reason), 2) he keeps making fun of me and calls me a newb very frequently, 3) he outDPSes me way too often, which is kind of embarrassing for one of the best DPS classes.

l2type

I know he probably doesn't look like that irl, but I think it's good enough. Learn to type and stop destroying your keyboard!

A very sad Dragonborn

I've been trying to write something for this picture for the last 20 minutes. I can't find the words for it. I just want to play Skyrim again... and I can't.
fus ro dah, fus ro dah, fus ro dah

I'd like to thank Thorfinn and Thorfridrvfirdvrifr for comforting me.

Also, I'd like to slap Moose for the last night. My roommate told me she couldn't sleep because I was giggling all the time.

Loyalty

There are a few people that always speak of being so very loyal to their kins, including Fightclub. "OMG guys, I'd never abandon you! For me you're always the best!"
...
I remember a champion from Of The Relic that said exactly the same thing about their kin and told me that they hate people that leave their old groups to join other ones that run cool instances more often*... but now that champion is somewhere else. Leaving for greener pastures is evil, /rolleyes.

For me being loyal to your kinship means staying there even when there's just three of you and your kinmates are obviously trying to make you feel miserable, e.g. the huntburg** calls you a noob every day and the warden always tells you that your class sucks...

* You don't need 800 people to run OD! It only takes 12, nowadays even less! I've always been in very small kinships and I still have the right to hang out on the outskirts of the raiding community of Crickhollow. Hey, I've been in server firsts too... 

** Enjoy your purple robe, creator of "rinoviits". I didn't draw the flames on your cloak this time to make it look even better!

Introducing my kin

Last week I realised I haven't really talked about the characters I have drawn here, so I figured it'd be nice to actually tell you who those weird people are, starting with my kinship. So here's Fightclub in its full glory!

 I haven't seen Iri's main character for some time, but I swear she always seemed to be wearing very colourful clothes. I'm not quite sure why...

Look, I'm not a man, yet everyone tells me that I am one. It makes me very confused. This beard should not be there.
... hey, it kind of reminds me of Obi-Wan's beard...
...
I'm not a man!

Wardless is obviously too weak to play a tank, so he switched to his hunter. What a noob.
I always liked your warden more than your hunter!

Sato loves cookies and sacrifices dumb hunters to the almighty Cookie God. She's a brilliant healer, but shiny objects always seem to distract her.
Doesn't matter. She has cookies, so everyone likes her.

This is our kin leader. He's a great guy because...
... oh wait, never mind.
:(

Godless is a power hunter that stacks agility and hunts polar bears in his backyard. The other day he told me I can't call him a nerd anymore - apparently he's mr Arctic Nerd for me. Sigh.

Cas has an unhealthy obsession with huge swords.
He also tries to solo mobs that should not be soloed, e.g. balrogs, dragons, giant trolls... Cas, I'm not interested in 6-manning all of the raids in this game. Seriously.
(Blade of Elendiiiiiil!)

Is someone in your raid link dead? Must be Moose. Did someone pull 10 trolls without even touching the keyboard? It was Moose. Has one person in your fellowship not unlocked the raid or not discovered the entrance to the dungeon you're about to run? It's probably Moose. Did someone die 10 seconds after you started the fight? SURPRISE - it was Moose.

A couple of months ago Feath told me he had a cold from eating too much ice cream. I told him it didn't really sound very manly and he came up with a new explanation: he had been hunting beer in the mountains and had caught a cold there. His stories are always fairly odd... and amusing.







I might draw some other people next week to shut them up. We'll see.

Sorry, no comic

Sorry, I don't have a comic for you today. I hope I'm able to finish one tomorrow... or on Friday... or on Saturday... or next week... or...

I can post a few silly and/or memorable quotes, though.

A girl that is not a girl

Sometimes I hate my kin so much. /strangle

BNS

Cas, we're worried about you!

Zombie

I swear everything my sister plays sounds exactly like Zombie by The Cranberries.

My kin vs all other kins

 So do YOU have a good excuse for not being in our kin yet?

Chicken run

I'd like to thank those 4 people for that incredible Friday morning. I hope we're going to do that again because the whole run was full of win and 1337.

... I need to start drawing pictures about my miserable real life again, then I could use less colours and finish the pictures faster. Oh, and it'd be easier to understand what's going on. *sigh*

Whyyyyyy am I so dumb

Moose will survive

Cas: everyone knows this yeah?
Moose: this is vile maw... where's the watcher?
Cas: (slits his wrists)
Ward: yeah I thought you said we were doing watcher
Form: please don't die on the first scream
Cas: or the second
Form: Moose can do that, you can't
Cas: Moose will do that
Cas: no can do about it
Moose: o ho ho ho ho ho

An epic raid

 

I have absolutely no idea why people aren't spamming us with tells to get a chance to join our raids when obviously our raids are the most entertaining thing on our server. Honestly. 

Doing the dishes

I hate it. Just think of all the slimy things that float in the water... the slimy things that want to touch my hands and pull me under water. Eww.

LotRO = awesome, real life = forever alone

/sadpanda
Also, here is a link for people that do not understand the joke in this comic. 

Every day is exactly the same

This picture was drawn in April, back when we used to raid all the time. LotRO did not let me get any sleep for at least 2 weeks... but I loved it. Our raid group was the greatest guild that was not a guild that I have ever been in.
Thinking of those times still awakens the arrogant elitist in me. "Yeah, you're doing OD t2 challenges now, but we were the first ones to see the balrog on our server! You weren't even lvl 65 then!"

So this is what I did every day for several weeks in a row.

 

I still think we're the best players on the whole server. 

Holiday

So one of the Thors spent roughly a month outside and in cool places (might be worth noting he did that in real life, by the way). When he came back, I started the conversation with the most important question.

Form: so did you lose your geeky pale complexion?
Thorfr: indeed, I am now a hot brown surfer boy, if I may say so
Form: or maybe a guido
Thorfr: great, thanks
Form: alright, alright, no guidos
Thorfr: I've been working on this tan for 4 weeks and you're already trying to get to me

That's how I imagined his tan.

My god, where are yoooouuuuu

This picture can be applied to so many situations, e.g...
1) "Why isn't my internet connection working? WHAT HAPPENED? GOD DAMN IT, FFFUUUUUUUUUUU oh please start working again please  please please I can't live without it..."
2)  "Why isn't [name] still online? WHERE IS (S)HE?! YOU'D BETTER LOG IN OR I'LL oh please just log in I feel terribly lonely please log in please log in..."
... and so on. I think everyone gets the idea.

Birthday cards #2

A birthday card: José the Dinosaur

I drew this dinosaur for my friend's birthday. The original picture looks pretty terrible, but it was redrawn a few months later and looks a little better now. I think. I hope. 

It's one of my first drawings, so I think it's worth posting here. At least I can show everyone I've improved my 1337 skills. Back then I needed just 10 minutes and a stupid idea for a picture, now I need at least 2 hours and Inspiration. Drawing a pretty picture takes ages.

 

Misc

A scared cat and a sad red panda. There used to be a manatee on this picture, but it looked just like a huge grey blob, so I got rid of it.