I spent the day playing Aion. No, it wasn’t quite how I meant to spend my day. But there is double experience going on until the release of the new expansion and I am desperate to get my characters leveled to a certain point. In fact, it is part of my Day Zero Project goal list: get my characters to level 25+. Anyway, I started out solo-ing with Mei, my Spirit Master, because my D-chan wasn’t around and Mei was my lowest level character on that server. I got her from level 13 to level 17 within 3 hours. Not bad, if I do say so myself. There was a lot of running around going on, too.
Let me pause here and explain the adorable picture shown first. Danika is my newest character, a Templar, who was a remake of the first character I played… a Ranger. I remade her because I just couldn’t get a feel for the ranger class and it made me sad to not play my most beloved character in her Aion glory. D-chan’s character, Angeni, looks eerily like Danika’s ‘soul mate’ from our story: Phantom. I caught a screenshot of the pair standing next to each other just as the Angeni character automatically turned. It looks like they are holding hands! So cute.
One of the things I like most about Aion is how much control I have over the way a character looks. Each of my characters in the game, save for one, was based off of a character from one of my stories or games. It brings the story aspect into the game with me and makes me really want to play more. It was hard to figure out which classes suited each character sometimes but I think I’m happy with the results. But part of the fun for me is running around with D-chan, who did the same thing, and our characters run around together in game much as they would in our stories or role-play sessions. When I can capture that random cap? I go all kinds of fangirl inside.
Then, of course, there are the random things in-game that wind up cracking me up. We went back to the citadel to turn in some quests, drop some inventory, et cetera before moving on. As my character is standing there, I see this stampede of Krall swarm in through the gates. That was not normal and not supposed to happen. Which meant that someone had gone out, collected these mobs from the next area, and managed to lead them all back into the citadel.
Twice. I cracked up when it happened the first time and I was in another area of the game when it happened the second time. D-chan was there and managed to get a picture for me. Good times. FUNNY times. I am so going to do that randomly later. Usually I just like to collect a few mobs and run them in. But I wind up getting bored halfway there and slaughter them.
… I told you there was much geekery abound!
