Completed the tournement I started last night, which ended in my victory, and I unlocked a couple of achievements as a result. I lost the first game, but won the other two. I then played an online game, and lost without scoring a single point. Rubbish.
Since Mr. Trousers has beaten my high score (by just 500 points – 245800 vs. my 245300), I had a go at reclaiming my crown. Not a hope in hell. After several goes, I only broke 100,000 once, getting something in the region of 115,000. Gah. My 1337 skillz are depleted.
Fancied a change and so dusted off my unplayed copy of Table Tennis and gave it a go. Completed all of the training sessions, getting a staggering 5 gamerpoints for the achievement. Tch. I then took part in the Amateur Circuit tournement, and totally thrashed the first two opponents. I won the third match 2-1, which was a lot closer, but I saved my game and quit for the day as it was getting a bit late.
Redd had a couple of things I didn’t have already today – a hospital bed and a judge’s bell. So I bought them. I still don’t have access to any of the items that my animals are asking for, so I hope they change their minds soon… Purrl is still ill. I’ve been giving her medicine each day, so she should be OK soon.
After a bit of wandering round, I realised I probably hadn’t completed the dwarf mines bit of the game, so I went back in. Found a Sprite, who conned me out of 100 Gold. However, I got it back after I defeated a boss and it joined my “party”. It’s crap though, and it died several times before I got to the Haunted Woods. Once in the woods, I found the girl from before (who had left me) and she …
Not much going on in Cheese today. Animals were still after stuff I don’t have, Purrl was still ill, and weeds were everywhere. Got a letter from Redd with this week’s password (as usual for a Monday), and also managed to catch a cricket and a bell cricket, neither of which I’d managed to net previously.
Stupidly forgot to play this again yesterday, so I time-travelled back to last night with the intention of visiting K.K. Slider. Only I got caught up in the flea market goings-on, and completely forgot that too. Gah. Purrl was trying to move out, but I tried to persude her to stay. It worked too, as she was still there when I wound forward to today. She did, however, get ill overnight. All my animals are still after stuff that I …
Still working my way through the Dark Brotherhood quests today. I had to go and kill and old man (who I never even got a chance to see), and then to infiltrate the Imperial City prison to kill a prisoner. This quest was interesting, as I had to go back into the prison the same way that I came out of it at the start of the game, some 100+ hours game time ago. Ace. Then I had to pretend …
After the last of the Mages Guild quest, I was awarded a magic chest which duplicates ingredients. I didn’t bother trying it, though, instead returning to my house in Bravil to dump a load of stuff, and then being told my Dragon Armour was ready to pick up from the Imperial City armoury. So, I went off there to get it. Most of the armour is an improvement over my current stuff, so swapped a few items over. I still …
Had another long bash today, notching me up to just over 100 hours play! I don’t think I’ve ever had a game rack up that many (recorded) hours before. Excellent. So I went and found Mannimarco, and killed him and all his followers. I got some great stuff on the way, including some boots that give me a 50% protection from fire, frost and shock (which, combined with my Weatherward Circlet gives me 60% for each). Added to my 85% …
Played for quite some time today. Spent a while wandering round, and went to Bruma and bought some new spells. Also bought some new armour, and then enchanted it. I have 85% shield at all times now, as well as a 20HP health bonus! Aces. That was enough time to get Traven talking again, and he asked me to go to Bruma to check up on the guild there as he’d not heard from them in a few days. I …
This appeared on the Marketplace this week, so I downloaded it this morning and had a play. It’s multiplayer only, and I had a game of 8 vs 8 capture the flag. Well, specimin. Or something. It was pretty good fun, but the controls seem somewhat, well, jerky, and the map was a bit small. Some lag meant the sniper rifle was almost pointless (which was a shame, as there were some great sniper spots). I also couldn’t figure out …
Played this for quite a bit this evening. Managed to get another achievement, but still need to get to 2001 without losing a life, and to destroy 10 bombs in 1910. Both of which seem somewhat hard… I also played against Trousers online. He beat me. Three times. However, I still have the highest score on my friends list (and I’m 44th in the world at the moment), which is far more important. Obviously.
Played, and won, a whole actual tournament today. Hurrah! It seems the best thing to do is just chip away slowly, waiting patiently until you get a good hand and then start betting slow (or everyone folds) and then hook a fish and reel him in. Or something.
Grr. Everyone is after stuff again. Can’t these animals go shopping on their own? Bluebear wants more modern furniture, Kody wants chic furniture, Kabuki wants a shirt, Rodeo (who now says “burgermoo”) wants a shirt, and one of the other animals wants some sort of fish. Can I run them all down with a lawnmower?