I like the month of September. It's a perfect bridge between summer and fall. All of those apple recipes! (oops, wrong blog!)
Here is a nice distilled list of my gaming goals for the month of September. Also add to this list level my house to eleven. Ten came quick but I could only add two small rooms. Pfft!
My sister in law somehow knew I'm temporarily in superhero mode. She doesn't give birthday or Christmas gifts, but at random intervals she drops off huge bags loaded with (stuff).
This comic was in the current batch. $4.99 for a comic, eek. Also the paper is slick. I gave my library of comics to my son when he got his own place, or I could check pricing and paper quality. A comic should have a certain smell, that comes from that nice paper it used to be printed on.
Let me share my mother in law's phrase for passing on something to a child whilst everyone is still alive: I warm handed my comics collection to him. It will grow on you.
As for the story, it was OK. I'm used to comics and characters being way larger than life, and super dramatic about every single thing on the page. This isn't that.
I can tell that I'm flagging in World of Warcraft, now that I'm settling into a life of Dailies and Reputation grinds. I've many characters to level, and I always love that, but once I've done the same content say, ten times, it starts to wear a little.
What to do? Intersperse my Wow gameplay with other game play. Returning to a single player game you haven't played in a while should be simple. However, you've got to retrain yourself to using the interface. You've got to figure out where you are and what you're supposed to be doing.
Looking at what I still have installed on Steam, here's yet another fine edition of Where I Left Them .
Call of the Sea
Dragon Age 2 and Veilguard
I wanted to look at this and Veilguard which is also installed, but ran into EA wanting me to sign into my Account with them. I have a really old login, somewhere. Disappointing. Will obviously uninstall these if I can't play.
Oblivion Remastered
This one is a stunner visually, though my character is frightening and her hair looks like seaweed. She's only level 2. maybe I will re-start.
Fallout New Vegas
3 Minutes to Midnight
I did choose to start 3 Minutes to Midnight over from the start, as I was stuck in a garage in the previous play through and couldn't get out. Not quite in the mood for this one right now but will leave it installed.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
I had this installed but hadn't played at all. Somehow I missed the character creation options so I've got this wild eyed creepy girl till I do a proper restart. Graphically the game is beautiful. I'm starting with Mass Effect One, of course.
Here's the Training Dummy you get at the end of the Windrunner Spire dungeon. It's natural size is smaller, but some things look better at their maximum size. I went through the Windrunner Spire Dungeon last night for the first time. It, like most current day dungeons, seemed to go on forever. I recall thinking "I've been playing for half an hour and we aren't even at the first boss." There are four bosses in that dungeon. Yes, I'm doing Follower dungeons to be sure to get the Decor piece at the end, but still. I'm thinking of sending my Blood Elf Paladin in to get one for her house.
This morning I made a list of what I'd like my characters to do. Preferably this evening. Or sometime this week.
I need a boatload of Ghost Iron so I can have my Druid Transmute it into Living Steel for my Inscriptionist's Pandaria Decor.
Ath needs to do Neighborhood Dailies and Coiled Isle Fishing Dailies.
My L90 Warlock needs to do two Arcantina Quests, though I'm guessing the one in the Broken Isles is still bugged. I also finally noted that an NPC in Silvermoon gives dungeon quests and you can get 1k Rep with any of four factions. By chance she already needs to go in the Maisara dungeon as part of the quest line to get to the Coiled Isle. Hate that dungeon too, agh.
My main Paladin needs to catch up so she can try the new Story Mode version of the Ula'tek dungeon.
My Engineer struggles on in Kul Tiras trying to level Engineering. Need a million Monelite and Storm Silver Ore. At 128 and need 140. There are new recipes at 130 but each wants 15 Expulsom each. Mommy. I want my mommy.
Legion The Monk Order Hall: work on getting the three (?) new monks I've created to Dalaran and through the Monk opener and trial to get their weapons. Worst of the Order Hall Sequences. Round object buster, I say.
Seeing that at House Level 10 the Last Architect will offer a way to get exciting new decor from deep in his vaults. Scooting along on the house leveling, should be at 10 by Saturday or Sunday.
My Blood Elf Paladin added onto her second floor in an absolute labyrinth. She's got a much better Alchemy lab setup now, and can accomodate the green slimy things I'm picking up in the Coiled Isles, but need Housing Coupons to buy her Green Rugs pronto from the Amani Endeavor vendor in town. Before Tuesday.
Busy busy, busy.
I've been working on producing more wall of text posts, hope you're staying awake till the end!
Salaryn Andelmist
I had the clever idea of re-installing Morrowind and creating a new Salaryn Warrior character. Morrowind is where the name originates.
So easy! The whole purpose was to make the new character and get a couple of screenshots. Steam overlay, that mythical beast, somehow can't automatically overlay! You have to dig around in the Morrowind installation files and change a zero to a one, then yo! NOPE! I tried it! I used to be so comfortable rooting around in configuration files. Now, it's EEP!
I did make the change and still no shot of Nord warrior Salaryn. I don't think she was a Nord the first time around. The characters are a blocky fright (take my word for it). But the game itself, though I spent a small amount of time in it today, remains a wonder.
I'll have to ask Mr Programmer to look at it for me. Then the great and terrible Salaryn Andelmist gets another post.
Speaking of posts! I had been struggling to get ten posts a month on my game blog, and this post makes a total of 37 for August. Go go go!
Wow Various
Razorwind Shores has had an extra vendor for decor, though it's gone today. First it was the Grummlies in case a person needed more coffee cups. Then, yesterday, as I took down my whole outside garden (Alliance side) and decided that bits of Loamy Soil from the Niffen would make nice rows for corn, pumpkins, and blueberries to grow in, there was a Niffen vendor and I got six, my poor Horde character only having six coupons. When I raced back today for more, the vendor was gone. :(
I've been doing the daily neighborhood quests on the Alliance side, and have a monumental 209 coupons. Only five days till the Endeavor switch, so I must be strong and not spend them. They burn a hole in my pocket, they really do.
Noting the Renown Vendor on the Coiled Isle sells what looks suspiciously like a pine tree. They might even call it a Pine Tree. Everyone wants a Christmas tree who celebrates Christmas, but it is gated behind your having completed the new Raid. Hmm, like all of the nice paintings in the game are gated behind a raid. Easy to do if you're in a raiding guild, or are brave enough to try LFR. Dunno.
This week's Arcantina quest is bugged. You're sent to the Broken Shore to go through a portal, sneaking around inside a ship to gather items. When you try to enter the portal, it pops you right back out. I saw it happening to others as well. Might want to fix that.
Lanterns
In episode two, spoiler alert, the plot thickens and there are indeed aliens in the small Nebraska town of Rushville! More than one kind of alien, even. There's a bit more pushback from John towards Hal's bad treatment of him. With only eight episodes I don't see how the two of them come to work together as long as Hal is such an a&$. ( I swear like a sailor and more, but don't like to write the words, isn't that a hoot.)
The Witcher 3 Remaster
I'm still back struggling with the Witcher 1 against the advice of my son, who always said just jump ahead to 3, it's much better. With a free remaster coming to current owners of 3, on September 29, I'm going to load that up on Steam so I'm ready to jump in. It does look great in the video above.
Robocop Reboot with Dan Stevens
What do we think of Dan Stevens in a Robocop reboot? Yay! I liked the first one best, of course, but watched them all, back in the day. Dan Stevens is a wonderful actor, I just love him. He's a perfect core of humanity for whatever the Robocop of today's tomorrow may bring.
https://deadline.com/2026/08/dan-stevens-cast-robocop-prime-video-series-1237049398/
Whew, I was going to rant about how hard it was to finally get my email updated with all of the services who want to send a code to your bad email....
Saved! There's a new store mount for the low low price of $25.00 that lets you have access to your email and repairs, PLUS a little hidey hole up top, where you can HIDE. I had to really dig to get an explanation of the little window shown at the top of the mount with the green arrow. It isn't mentioned in this ad for the mount. I wonder if you can store snacks or something in there. Portable extra storage would be a plus.
I have self repair hammers crafted by my characters, and a mailbox in my house dining room I can pop over to any time, so this isn't for me. I can imagine lots of folk who don't have houses or crafty characters might love it.
The price seems reasonable enough.
Lairs are one of several ways on the Coiled Isles you can join an on the fly Raid Group to take down a single boss.
Available now is The Tidebound Grotto Lair featuring a fight with Nymrissa Wavecaller. Find the Lair location on your map and make your way over.
The entrance to the Lair is under water. There are large air bubbles near the entrance to keep you going while you get ready to go in.
Move up close and select your fight mode. I am such a weenie I chose Normal here thinking it might be easier, just as an introduction. Luckily, when I saw there were only two groups, one had five, one had twenty, I was able to correct course and get in the larger group for World difficulty.
The fight is typical of any boss fight. I sent in my Paladin as she performs well in most circumstances.
I was pleased with the big rollout of rewards at the end of the fight, until I realized you had to roll for all the things. I have -100 Luck on any Loot Roll ever. I ended up with a couple of armor pieces an alt could use, and a cursed coin trade in object. Though it took no time at all to do the Lair, I can't say there's value in it for me.
I've been pondering my post style, and though I love it myself, perhaps some prefer lengthier tomes. It occurred to me this week I could have called this revived blog "Salaryn's Illustrated Adventures" rather than Continuing. I confess in the early days I used to blather on at length, but that just isn't me anymore.
I think more in terms of What nice, charming, fun thing can I put out to help anyone stopping by de-stress a bit? What can I share about the games and books and shows I love someone else might like? Because I can't actually type, what feels to me like lines and lines of text comes out looking like a tiny paragraph at best. Oops.
I offer those who would like to read in more depth my always developing sidebar. I have plenty of blogs listed where you can really dig your teeth into some thoughtful stuff.
As I've been thinking of it, I can add even more genuinely interesting reading by providing a list of my favorite gaming and television and genre sites so you never need feel like you came away without being entertained by someone, somewhere.
Eyes right, please, for the new site list I've titled Amazing Tales for Today and Tomorrow. I'll be adding to it no doubt, and the title isn't quite what I want but it will be in the same top spot for easy reading. Salaryn Andelmist
Today's post focuses on the two new profession areas created when I last leveled up. Speaking of leveling up, this is what I saw when I went to travel to my house this morning with my Blacksmith. Eh?
I was able to decorate the Leatherworker's area of the new cross shaped room pretty quickly. Someone on the Wow Housing FB page had shown their leather working area using Horde furnishings, which lean heavily towards leather as the decorative component. My Horde Paladin went on a shopping spree in the Razorwind Shores vendors. In a trice, a very cool looking area for a Leatherworker to spend her time creating.
Orgrimmar Nightstand
Stitched Pillow Rolls
Tusked Leather Tapestry
Closed Leather Curtains
Rolled Razorwind Leathers
Outland Mag'har Banner
Hide covered Wall Shelf (Enlarged and set low to the ground to look like a table)
Zuldazar Stool
Leather Valances (I like the way they look layered)
Hide Covered Wall Shelf
Orgrimmar Open Dresser
I had trouble finding inspiration for the Blacksmithing area, so whenever I was visiting a Blacksmith, I noted the basic things they had by them. Anvil, water, forge. Once I put a variety of tools on the wall in various sizes, it looked more like a Blacksmith might work here. The Amani Forgemaster's Workbench is brand new and finishes things off. The Sword is the Wooden Toy Sword from an Arcantina quest.
Farmer's Water Trough
Draenic Forge
Amani Anvil
Amani Forgemaster's Workbench
Shadowforge Grinding Wheel
Vilescar Weapon Rack
Hull 'n Home Dresser (Posing as a giant tool chest)
It was a short honeymoon at the Coiled Isle. Atherne has now done all of the things I'm interested in doing in the area. It's only World Quests and the Daily Fishing Quest to be done. I've moved her back to Zul'aman where there are still plenty of things to do. On her first run through of the area, I just did the campaign and moved on. Now to complete all the quests and achievements I can get.
My Paladin (Level 90) came to the Isle a bit later than Atherne so she still has plenty to do. She will be joined soonish by my Level 90 Warlock so I hope to get all the rewards, somehow, between them.
Back to Kul Tiras with my Engineer who never did any Engineering in Kul Tiras at all, it seems. She's at 122/180 but it is a slog. Several very cool House Decor recipes await, though. The Scrapper is my friend.
Dropping back even farther to Legion, my Monk Order Hall has gotten no work so I have three Monks, one brand new, working the their way through the Broken Isles.
Why hang around a bunch of snakes all day when you can go up and down the timeways to escape the grind?
It's time for another dive into the olde stuff! Who keeps this old stuff, anyway?
My favorite MMO character of all time, my Galaxies Doctor. Can't recall why I called the house Spy Central. It might be from her days running with the Rebellion.
As we know I'm not a spreadsheet person, so I created this character sheet that was supposed to mimic the setup of a character's "paper doll" to help me gear them up better. Missing the weaponry.
Atheren's Galaxies Rebus 2019. Don't see any answer key, so have at it as best as you can :)
Labeled ESO Best Cat Ever
Why on earth did I toss this game without playing it? Could be it didn't run on my PC.
Old Notes. Just liked using the Wow Stationary I must have gotten in a physical box purchase.
My son drew this picture of me as a gamer when he was young. :) Have always had it by my PC, but lost till I found this.
The Dog Ate My Homework
And that's why no post on my experience with Surges today. There I was, set to go in the area where I think surges often happen. The Forum.
I didn't know that inside the Quest Log there's a tab for Events and when they happen. There it was, though, with a mere 15 minutes for me to wait till the next one.
How useful is this? No idea how long it has been around. What really caught my eye was down in the far bottom left Player Coordinates. Boink!
Is it on the regular map, I wondered? Yes! All of those coordinates people toss out all the time can now be decoded in game, by me. Yow. It will also give the coordinates where your cursor currently is, so you can pixel hunt for those hidden locations with your cursor, then ooze over. Remember I never have used add-ons anywhere. Very cool!
The part where my dog eats my homework, aka I don't get into a surge, is, I got disconnected, had to log all the way out of Battlenet, and when I got back:
There's a Lanterns Podcast! I watched part and will catch the rest. John Stewart might be my new Lantern.
Yay it's Terrific Tuesday in the Neighborhood. I used to dislike Tuesdays in Wow because of all of the downtime.
Now, I look forward to the Postman Quests in the neighborhood:
And a new weekly quest in the Arcantina. This one takes you into Icecrown Citadel, a place I've never been. A bit ho-hum. A nice Ebon Blade Banner for a reward though. I like any quest that rewards decor. Gimmee gimmee.
This week I should be doing "Surges" in order to advance my character, but reading about them on the forums they seem as if they take a long time including wait times of some sort. I can only imagine they feature wave upon wave of Ula'tek's Children. Zzzzz.
Lairs are another new thing? I have seen no hint of them. I'll need to look these up to see how I can speed through.
The Tortollans are surprisingly featured on the Isle. I slightly dread them as they seemed gleeful and tortuous in BFA.
There's a decor vendor on the Isle whose items can be had if you have done certain quests and achievements. There are always achievements to be driven mad over, but those quests! There are like five I can find nowhere, so I'll have to look each up and see what is required to get the quest. No raids, please please please.
All the points for today! I hope you enjoyed this wall of text.
Lanterns, the new HBO Max series began last night and I haven't seen it yet. I'm trying not to look at headlines about it, but sneaking into my awareness is that there's a detective story and mystery at it's heart. Modern mystery reading me loves that, but comic book reading me expects a different type of action.
From Comic Connect, how perfect is this cover of Hal Jordan having to give up his post for another? It's a theme of the new show as well, but not quite the same.
I'll be watching the new show tonight. Wish I could find my Green Lantern Action figure to have by my side while I see the story unfold.
From IMDB
Another picture post, for die hard fans of the quick and pretty. Here are the books I've purchased this year that fit as science fiction or fantasy. Six are by authors I've never read, the others are all well loved favorites. If I love an author I tend to buy anything new by them. No reviews for these today, just that time honored post among the bookish, a lovely tower of books.
Ta da, here are the new rooms I've built on after finally reaching level 9 for my house. It seems many people are at level 12 with stored up points. I have plenty to work with where I'm at at. When housing first came out I knew I wanted profession rooms.
I'm not sure why, but the only such rooms I created were for Alchemy and Engineering. With the addition I just made, Engineering moves upstairs to a large space, Tailoring, Enchanting and Jewelcrafting have a room, and Blacksmithing and Leather working share space.
I had painted myself into a corner with my existing layout, and there were only three spots where I could add on rooms. I did not want to disturb or change any of those.
My kitchen was way overcrowded and there are many things yet to collect for it. I considered a medium octagonal room, but a better solution was to build up a level and work on a second floor. The under the stairs area seemed perfect for kitchen storage. I love how that is shaping up.
I like to decorate the stairwell landings with "curiosities" so the huge Loa statues are a starting point for that.
Welcome home.
Second floor, new addition. Future home of the Mechagon Room. It currently occupies an L Shaped room on the first floor.
A Tailoring, Enchanting, and Jewelcraft workspace. Brand new, lots to add. Nothing done in the Blacksmith/Leatherworking room yet. It is a cross shaped room so I have three directions I can go on the second floor when I level up, someday.
The new layout for these rooms:
It looks like my son will be playing the Wow Forever game version when it comes out, so I decided to look at my Classic Era characters to r...
