Friday, July 31, 2026

Secret World Legends : Disassemble the Occult Attractor

 While I could go across country following the games tidy arrow to your next destination, I try to follow a road to lessen jump scares and crowd attacks.


 

The Occult Attractor looks innocuous enough.  The area nearby is full of wanderers.

 

Every time you try the wrong decoding sequence, something is attracted.

 


 


I felt I had the sequence right but these guys kept popping up. Finally, the little musical notes that let you know you've completed your mission sounded.   

Immediately the waypoint for the next Mission "Tresspassers" with an objective "Find Old Tom".  I'm just working on one mission at a time so I made my way along the road to a safe place.

 


  I do love the maps in this game.



 

 


From The Archives : Post Ideas For the Original Salaryn's Sword

 If you dig deep, you can find anything.   Here are post ideas for my original blog.  All fascinating stuff!

Salaryn’s Sword Post Topics

 

More Moria Madness

Moonlight and Crystals

Fungus First Hall quest loc

…..

RMT

SOE Cash

Star Wars

WOW

 

Gamers Bill of Rights

 

DS List

 

New DS games incl Adventure Co and Ubisoft and bringing in new gamers

 

Add blogs and sites

 

360 live

 

Note that last item.  I have an old cartoon that must be talking about 360 Live, which I don't remember at all.  The cartoon is ratty, but then, the blog wasn't called Salaryn's Nice Things.

 


 

 

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Secret World Legends At The Junkyard, Barrels Placed

 I took the recommended screen resolution but the toolbar and all printed text and icons are really small.  The barrels were right there on my toolbar!


 

Tier 2 completed with ease.

 

Thanks to a video I watched, I knew right where the Tier three barrels were.  Problematically for me, who doesn't like things creeping up on me from behind, the junkyard patrol bots were nearby.

 

Aside from this, the  mobs were getting too close to the barrier and damaging it, so I hopped out into the middle of them and bam!   I was doing well till this guy showed up.  I got him before he nailed the barrier though.  Just barely.

 


 

 Next up, Men In Black Vans Tier 4.

 

Salaryn's Sword Ciphers

                                                   Salaryn's Sword Ciphers

Testing out a cipher program.  Here's the cipher to unscramble.  It's from a Wow Midnight Quest.   I've used the puzzle generator before but hmmm, not so sure its working right.  Try anyway!  Enjoy.

 


 

 Wfc aqqsah vf paes vps ykxdfg vf axxkxv gs cinkis a rshvakl tfy yksndklo xkgqnsvfl ypf vplix xlkmmklo

dkhv yknn xfnes fch qhftnsg. 

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Secret World Legends Still at the Junkyard, With The Barrels

 

This game still looks so good.  F11 to take screenshots.  In theory, F to interact.  I'm picking up green barrels, though, and I can't set them down by any of the four nearby barricades.   Figuring out the controls is half the battle.

I thought I was farther along than this, but maybe I got stuck and backtracked to complete some things I hadn't done through all three tiers.

I'm scared as always, thanks to ambient noises and the way monsters here rush up on you, usually in groups of five.

Good times. 

World of Warcraft: Characters In Play

 I hop between characters all the time.  These are the ones I'm currently playing:

 

90 Druid Doing the Opening Quests for The Curse of Ula'tek, which releases August 11.

 


 

 

 

 81 Engineer  Working on Kul Tiran Engineering leveling for the Decor Recipes for this era.  This means mining and more mining for Monelite and Storm Silver ore.  While I'm at it I'm doing World Quests that give War Resources.  These buy me more Kul Tiran Decor from vendors, plus the World Quests count toward the Travelogue and Endeavor totals.


 

81 Warrior  Working to get Twilight Highlands Wildhammer Reputation to Honored to get one last item.


 


 

90 Warlock  My most Powerful character is taking on the Arcantina quests.  They seem to appear infrequently? I've just done three and am hanging out hoping for more.  New ones are coming with next month's patch.

 




 

 

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Wow's Emote System : More Than Chickens and Trains

 There's always someone, somewhere using the /train emote in World of Warcraft.   There's also /chicken.  I knew there must be more so I finally looked it up!

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_emotes 

 How useful, you say.

Not all emotes have animations to go with them.  Atherne tested a few in the pouring rain just for you.

 

Train


 

Chicken


 

Beg


 

I also tried Challenge and Highfive for this test with no animations at all displayed for those, just a line or two in chat to represent the emote.

What in God's name do I plan to do with these?  Thanks for asking.   I plan to get pictures of the emotes that aren't gross, and capture them on a sunny day.  Then, I have a library of my character with different expressions I can use in comics I create in Microsoft Word (can be done).   Because I'm the only one of eight kids in the family who can't draw, and it is so unfair.   Because I like cartoons :)

You, the reader, are endlessly entertained.  So good, right? 

Secret World Legends Mission ATC Tiers 1-3

 Yay for accessing my inventory items by double clicking.  I now have a dog companion.   All I need to do now is pick up the toy spy plane, ...