November 7th marks the 2015 Extra Life 24-hour gaming marathon. I ("Niami") will be one of many gamers who will be participating again this year to raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Some folks will be playing board games, other console games, still others PC games. I'll be doing mostly online games of one form or another.

You can find out more about the event, and/or donate at this link.

Since the fibromyalgia makes my noise sensitivity worse, I will NOT join in the livestreaming that many others will be doing. Instead, I will be making updates throughout the 24-hour period to this page, so that folks can see how I am holding up, and what game I might be playing at the time. Stay tuned, folks!

Saturday, 9:10 a.m.

10:57 a.m.

For now, though, I am headed to Dragon's Prophet. The game is closing later this month, and this will be one of the last times I can enter the dragon tournament with my beloved dragons. Until that begins at noon, I'll be working with my dragons and generally running amok, saying goodbye to some of my favorite spots in the game. I'll also see about grabbing a couple screenshots for folks of a couple of my "babies".

1:05 p.m.

I didn't do as well in the tourney as I have in the past, but it is all good. At least "Derpy" got a chance to run amok a bit before we were knocked out. :D As promised, here are just a few of my many dragons over there.

Vesper, renamed to "Vesderp". He's a lovely lawnmower but more than a bit derpy at times	Shockwave Gale, renamed to "Gale Force Wind" A strong healer, and a decent fighter
Bloodred Coral, renamed to "Ben Grimm" I mean, really, aren't there similarities? :D	Eastern dragons are often called noodles So I named him "Pastafarian"
I call him "Daft Punk" Yeah, the band wears funky helmets sometimes too!	Poor Metron, he's a glorious dragon But obtained too soon before the end to do much

3:06 p.m.

5:31 p.m.

8:09 p.m.

In between grabbing a few bites of a very belated dinner, I am going to edit some screenshots of some of the house item goodies from the expansion, for the enjoyment of the EQ2 community.

8:38 p.m.: EQ2 Eye Candy, Round 1

First up, when the expansion hits, 4 tile/divider sets get turned into full building block sets. These sets will be automatically added to the appropriate carpenter recipe books (no expansion needed).

Halasian	Indium
Plain Sandalwood	Plain Fulginate

Next, level 100 carpenters will be able to faction in Maldura (crafting dailies and weekly, once the crafting sig line is done), so that they can buy a recipe book full of triangles for existing building block sets.

There are a decent number of handcrafted carpenter items to be made once you faction for the recipe book.

Whoops! The little mechanical spider/bug in the screenshot with the bookcase is actually a tinkered housepet, not a carpenter-made one.

Next up, the carpenter mastercrafted items. Again, you're going to need to do the tradeskill signature line and some faction work before you can get the book.

Sages get several items that can be written in ... oooh, parchments!!!

More eye candy later! Time to run amok amok amok!

11:09 p.m.

Sunday, 1:56 a.m.

3:52 a.m.

4:17 a.m.

Buyable Furniture, various sources

Buyable Housepets, slug trainer in Maldura

5:22 a.m.

6:39 a.m.

7:70 a.m.

I think I need to do some sort of single player game for a bit ...

Sunday, 9:10 a.m.

On the plus side, I raised $500 for the Extra Life Campaign. (Donations can be made year-round, but as of the end of the marathon, I am sitting solidly at the $500 mark.) Now for some sleeeeeeeeeeeeep in a pre-heated bed. Heated mattress pads are a wonderful thing.