Just waitin'... waitin' waitin'.

Everyone already knows by now that the new updates are live, but I figured I'd say it anyway. New updates are live. Just waited a pretty good amount of time for the patching and then *GASP* woe is me!

 Apparently one of the updates is if you're a f2p player, you're ushered to the sidelines since subscribers are priority. This includes crowns players who have gone past the 30 day limit of buying crowns.

Hmm... this is discouraging.

Oh well. For those who are allowed in the game, safe journeys!

Filming info for That's Life!: Ep. 3.

 [x-posted from official thread on W101C. Read it HERE]

Good news to those who hate to wait! I've decided that I don't need to level up prior to filming the classroom scene, so we can do this sooner rather than later. Here's the 411:

Date: Wednesday, July 14th*
Time: 1pm Pacific time (2pm Mountain time, 3pm Central time, 4pm Eastern)**
Place: Inside the Life School classroom.
Server: Wu (this may change depending on how crowded it is, but we are definitely meeting on this server)

• Filming will take from about half an hour to an hour tops.
• We will be in our noob outfits, no pets or wands will be equipped during the filming.
• Limit of 30 people (I don't think this will be an issue but I have to stress that there can't be too many people. I would really prefer people who have text chat since that's the only way you can hear my instructions)
• Note: I'm not sure just how many people will actually be seen on the screen at one time. If we cram together just right we might fit 15-20 but some people will be cut off. Either way, I will credit your wizards at the end of the episode. Please only arrive with 1 wizard per person, it would be very uncool of someone was left out because somebody wants double screen time :P

I think that's pretty much it. If anyone has any questions or comments at all regarding the filming, by all means let me know! I've already done a rough recording of the dialog for episode 3 and I can tell you right now this is definitely going to be the best one yet! I should be starting the script for number 4 soon but I can't make any guarantees about how good it will be. It will probably take a lot longer to work on than the others, but that just means I will be putting more thought into it. Also, a lot of extras will be needed for #4, so be sure to tune in often to my threads so you can know when filming will be. Thanks so much everyone!

*Date is subject to change, but most likely won't so no worries.
**Estimated time based on time zone differences, so that everyone can be in the same place at the same time. I got some people confused last filming party because I forgot to do the conversions.



Edit: And another thing! Here's a nice little review someone just gave my series :D

Four words to say about That's Life:

It. Is. Funny. AWESOMESAUCEFULLNESS!

I watched the videos last night, and even though I couldn't hear well (Volume of iTouch, I think), I was laughing hard. Then this afternoon I showed it to my siblings who were just cracking up! I got CODY to crack, and he doesn't laugh to easily. I think they liked the part when Moolinda was yelling at Zachary. Cody also liked the guiding light part. Vanessa liked when Autumn says: "Yeah. It felt really good!" when Zach asked if she insulted his mom. I personally like when Moolinda's like, "They're big, smelly, and throw really large thongs at your head" and "She's ruthless, agressive, and tries to seduce you with her bright pink lipstick".

I'm gonna be there for the shooting!


Thank you, writingnecromancer! <333

Test realm - Where it's cool to be a wizard.

For any grandmaster who wasn't able to get on the test realm, I got a bit of news for you about all the new updates coming to the spiral (besides the obvious addition of the quest line leading to Celestia).

• New stuff in the crown shop - A Grizzleheim themed house (FINALLY!) and a beastmaster outfit which does nothing but increase your pet's training points, so unless you don't care about your wizard's stats, it's pretty useless.
• New crafting recipes - Torald Wayfinder in Northguard can sell you a recipe for another Grizzleheim house. Gotta admit, after taking a tour of both of them, the outside of the crowns one is prettier, but all around the crafted one is better and costs 40,000 less gold. Only problem is you have to finish all other crafting quests before you can make it D:
• New pet vendor - Marleybone now sells some pretty interesting pets in the pub where Croaky hangs out.
• New friend options - You can now make it so that only your friends (and not their friends) can come to your house. Also, you can kick them out when you want >:D
• New pet changes - Prices for pet hatching has gone down. They also made it so pets who have spellcards DANCE when you use the spell! :D
• New Dragonspyre - Questing is easier in DS for a few reasons. The health of enemies is a bit lower, and towers have less levels on them. Also, you find quest items faster. Which is awesome for my necromancer since she just got there lol
• New other stuff - You can read about it on the update notes HERE.

A lot of people mistook the major update to be the release of Celestia, but really it's going to be quite a while before they open it up. In fact, the release of just these updates won't be till around the end of summer (sometime in August), so Celestia will be even later than that. I already can tell KI will be getting a lot of angry comments because anyone who went through the warehouse (which is very similar to Briskbreeze) was not too happy to find out they couldn't get into Celestia yet. The best advice I have for everyone is to be patient. It takes a lot of time and effort to create a whole world! Also, the more time they take to perfect it, the better our gaming experience will be. They want to make it worth our money, ya know.

Anyways, that's pretty much it. I'm off to the test realm to splurge with my fake crowns XD

Safe journeys everyone!

Oh. My. Bartleby.

Holy heckhound, the TEST REALM HAS OPENED!

Celestia, here I come!

That's Life! - Filming Info!

Since not many people read my blog I don't see any quandaries with posting this here even though I have a number limit for filming :P But I think it's important that people in the Wiz101 blogosphere have a chance to join in :3

I left updates on the original video thread but its not guaranteed that everyone will look at it so I decided to post here. This is what you'll need to know to be in it.

The info for filming is as follows:

- Date: Tuesday Jun. 22nd
- Time: 1pm to whenever (not sure how long the segment will take, but should be NO LONGER than an hour
- Place: Life school in Ravenwood (meaning IN the building, not in front)
- Server: Wu (may change during filming depending on how crowded it gets, but Wu is where we will be meeting up for sure)
- Who: Anyone. No level requirements, no school requirements. During filming we will be in our beginners robes, no wands or pets.
-Again, I have to stress that there can't be more than 30 people in the scene, not because I don't want that many but because of lag issues and cooperation issues. I can't imagine any more than that being able to follow directions as I say them.
- We can have a cast party afterward in Life tower, and anyone is invited! But that's if everyone would like to do that

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please feel free to reply to this post or message me on wiz101central (username: throughthespiralgate). Also,  it would be a really big help for me if you could reply with the name of the character you will be using that day so that I know the difference between RSVPers and extras, and so I can credit you on the finished project. Either way, hope to see you there!

Safe journeys, everyone!

Oh. My. Bartleby. - Themed housing!

Soooooo, remember that one time I mentioned school-specific housing?

Well, KingsIsle is graciously giving us said feature this month! *Rubs hands together greedily* This is the moment we've all been waiting for! (Or at least I have.) What a perfect Christmas present!

The downside: they're expensive. Either 10,000 crowns ($20 USD) or 100,000 in-game gold. So either spend all your time and effort farming bosses for the money or spend real money. Weigh your options well, friends, because these houses look AWESOME.

 "Velcome to my house. I'd like to have you for dinner tonight.You know, cause I'm a vampire. Vampires suck blood. I want to eat you, okay? Jeez." 

*Jumps up and down excitedly* I can't wait! I can't! Though I'll have to, they cost a lot :'(

Success! - In the Danger zone!

Thanks to the cooperation of over 50,000 Wizard 101 fans, anyone who is a member of Wizard 101 Central and a fan of Wizard 101 on Facebook will receive a special pet: a Danger Hound!

And, they're going a step further and for each additional Facebook fan we will also receive free gold! *Jumps up and down excitedly* I will be that much closer to getting a house for my sorcerer!

Let's all continue to work together so we can all be rich! Muahahaha!

Mounts - The best thing since sliced bread.

      After waiting and waiting all day (due to hanging out with a friend and then the patching taking forever) I GOT MY VERY OWN FOREVER MOUNT!

      And after using it for all of half an hour, I can already say... how in the heck did I ever get along without it? So many unnecessary battles that could have been avoided if I could go as fast as I do now. So much time I could have spent doing the important things rather than taking forever to get from one place to another (although the new port stones they added to Mooshu and Marleybone help a lot with that issue as well). And all this euphoria only costed me 5,000 crowns!

      By the way, all of them go the same speed, but the brooms are the cheapest. The animals are more expensive just because of the novelty of them being... well... animals :P If you're thrifty like me and you don't mind the cliche of a witch on a broomstick, I highly suggest buying one!

      Downside: hate to say it because I don't like to complain when everything's pretty much perfect, BUT... all the people riding around on their mounts makes my eyes go crazy! Everyone whizzes past so quickly it always catches my attention and confuses me. Also, the sounds of people mounting/dismounting gets pretty annoying after a while. Other than that, it's good!

      I think I will take a tour around the spiral on my new ride, tomorrow :D

New Stuff - Mounts, crown shop and quests. Oh my!

Mounts.

Yeah, that's right. MOUNTS.

They have arrived in Wizard 101.

You know what I'm gonna be saving up for? A MOUNT. Cause yeah, that's where it's at.

And it's taking an ungodly amount of time to patch. *Pulls hair out*

MOOOOOUUUUNTS!


EDIT: Is it wrong that I look forward to this WAAAY more than hanging out with my friend to celebrate my birthday?