My bags are half unpacked, my cats are "speaking" to me again, I've had a couple nights of blessed sleeeeeeeeeep, Denmother's Trail Mix is long-gone, Facebook has way too many pictures of me that make me flinch (cameras and I hate each other with a bone-deep loathing) ...

That means it must be time for my inevitable brain dump from Fan Faire.

Yes, there is some crafting news, but not a huge ton of it, since Domino is pretty good about keeping crafters in the loop. So, instead of a tiny little crafting bit, you get my notes about anything and everything that caught my ear at Fan Faire.

Without further ado, I give you my Fan Faire 2009 Writeup.

I think I need another nap. {crawls into the nearest pack to do her Pocket Hobbit imitation and promptly dozes off}

June 27, 2009 - Hello from Fan Faire!

I will not be providing you with many details quite yet, as the panels with all the meaty information will be happening later today (all the expansion information had to wait until after the community address that officially announced the expansion), but I wanted to check in and give folks a couple details before I head off to panels today.

The sixth expansion for EQII will be named Sentinel's Fate, and it will give us our first look at what has happened to the land of Odus since the Shattering. Due to the extra TLC that is being given to the overall game experience, it is expected to be released in February 2010. Also planned for release at roughly the same time will be a new good newbie starting area, Frostfang (Halas!)

I already have a couple pages of notes from various features that are coming in the next few months (including the next GU), but I will not be putting together a more in-depth writeup until this coming week. I am sure I am going to be getting tons more information at panels today, and I want a chance for it to percolate, to get some clarifications, etc., before I present it all. (Folks are, of course, welcome to discuss what they have heard on our forums, I just will not put up a formal write-up for a couple days.)

For now, however, it is time to throw on the rest of the costume, package up a bit more of DenMother's Trail mix to hand out, and trundle down to the con!

~Mum

June 18, 2009 - Moonlight Enchantments Mini Live Event Announced!

Last month, folks on Test server noticed the appearance of some mysterious mushroom rings in various forested areas of Norrath.

These rings are only visible when the phase of the moon is right ... which appears to correspond to the 20th of every Earth month (PST time zone).

Those who wish to investigate where the mushroom rings may take them should therefore keep their eyes open this weekend, and around the 20th of each month in the future!

We hope this regularly occurring little mini event will give you something to look forward to each month. And if you happen to miss it one month, it's not long till the next time the rings appear!

Thus read a post by Domino in the SOE forums this afternoon. Those of you who saw my post about the Denmum Diaries, Vol 2 a couple weeks ago already knew this was coming, sometime, but until today, we had no idea of just when they would appear.

Even if that real-life thing gets in the way of you participating in the event this weekend, fear not! This little mini event will be occurring every month around this time, so there will be plenty of time to collect these lovely items.

What lovely items, you might ask? A lovely bounty of nature-themed house items. Check out the Moonlight Enchantments article for more details as well as five linked articles that contain lots of yummy pictures.

(Those of you planning on running alt armies through, now would be a good time to make sure that they already have access to the appropriate druid rings!)

June 16, 2009 - GU52 Patch Day!

The servers are still busy counting their virtual fingers and toes before allowing players to run amok in the new content. While we are waiting for them to unlock, here is a handy list of patch-related items here on the site:

• GU52 Patch Notes - slightly easier to read than straight from the patcher :)
• Furniture: Notebooks - a new furniture gallery page for the player-made notebooks, with reminders about broker searches, use notes, etc
• Quest: In a Bind - a short writeup on the Sage quest to obtain recipes for the notebooks mentioned above
• GU52 Crafting Preview - includes handy notes about several of the crafting-related item from this patch

Update: I would like to remind folks that neither live event (Tinkerfest or the Enchanted Grotto mushroom rings are NOT actually turned on at this time. At last check we do not have an ETA for either of them, which is why I did not rush with getting complete details up on them. I have images in-hand for both, and will be working on previews for both as soon as I find my brain.)

Update 2: (Yep, more than one update to a front page post - can tell it is a big patch day!) There is now a Furniture Gallery page up for the new carpenter items. (And the locations of the carpenter recipe book and the provisioner recipe book have been updated in the appropriate spots.) I have been adding new articles and editing old ones a lot today, and I am sure errors slipped past me. Anyone wanting to help proofread my gibberish can find links to stuff that I poked at today in this Help Wanted thread in the forums.

June 04, 2009 - The Denmum Diaries, Vol.1: Monument & Might

Two weeks ago I gave folks a sneak peak at GU52 crafting goodies before it was even available on the Test server. It took a bit of time for the update to reach Test, and then a bit more time for my eyes to stop whirling like pinwheels over it and the two Live Events we have been testing over there, then a bit longer for me to gather up my brains (they had leaked out my ears by then!), but finally, I have a more detailed GU52 Crafting Preview for everyone. Check it out in The Denmum Diaries, Vol. 1: Monument & Might. You may wish to also check back here in a few hours for an update, as Kaisha has handed me some lovely images that may get turned into an event teaser once I am more caffeinated!

UPDATE: on top of already having to add some updates to the bottom of the above-linked preview (including a release date!), I have made good on my promise of a teaser. You can find The Denmum Diares, Vol 2: Dreaming of Enchanted Grottos here. Yesssss, I am a cruel, wicked halfling!

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