Vanquish the Betrayers! The All-Shaman Questing Begins...

Here I am asleep at the Inn somewhere on top of Razor Hill... What a hard day at the (Guild) Office!

Greetings To All Horde Shamans who are able to assemble inside the Demon Soul Realm!

This past Sunday at the time did not seem related to my Meta-Quest but now I have realized that this event is historic for two reasons:

I - This is the first time only the Shamanic members of the Guild had Quested together. It is important that Shamans Quest with me as I need totems for my Sigil charging ritual.

II - Every Quest no matter how small is historic because it is all part of the bigger picture of levelling up to acquire the aformentioned elemental totems.

III- Dorka accidentally drank her Earth Sapta brew without realizing she was to save it for her first Totem quest...We had to find something for all of us to do after all!

Well now, it is time to unveil for you the history of this unique Quest...

HISTORY OF THIS QUEST...

Here I am meeting Dorka for the first time... Dorka is another Shaman summoned forth upon my old friend Sliz's beckoned call. Since Sliz is a Mage and not a Shaman, she had to find one for me and thank darkness, she appointed the most suitable candidate indeed!

At this point, Dorka and I also met Woshaman for the first time. Woshaman is a Tauren Shaman and was summoned in a similar manner by Bowwtoxx. Due to the sensitive nature of my Meta-Quest, my colleagues in the Ars Virtua Artists'Guild have been very helpful with recruiting more Shamans to my cause because without my own personal Horde of Shamans, I will not be able to acquire enough elemental totems to complete the first major invocation ritual...Well on this day, I had to focus on a much more immediate and conventional Quest and this was known as...

QUEST: "VANQUISH THE BETRAYERS!"

DESCRIPTION: Kill 10 Kul Tiras Sailors, Marines and finally, the Lieutenant Benedict...

This Quest is not as easy as it sounds. I am speaking in the present tense as we have not quite finished this Quest at the time of writing...

Here are some portraits to show you how this current Quest is coming along thus far...

This is a historic portrait as it depicts the very first slain Kul Tiras Sailor.

Here is an action portrait of Dorka and I attacking a Kul Tiras Marine with lightning bolts while Woshaman heals us in realtime - and who is to say that the Horde's Medicare system is barbaric??

Here is a portrait of the 3 of us entering the castle gate of Tiragarde Keep.

Here we are inside the main foyer of the castle...with skeletal remains.

After some mighty tough battles in the foyer, we meandered inside the various dungenous catacombs that extended throughout the labyrinthine buttressing of this Castle of The Keep...

Here we have another lightning bolt action potrait of Dorka and myself... Once again, Woshaman provides the charity work as our designated healer while we attempt to kill off 2 Marines for our Questly quota.... Our focus at this point was on the Marines since we had already fulfilled our Sailor quota... It was during this identical point in time/spcae that we managed to successfully perform some "greed rolls" and earned us a Red Linen Robe each.

Roll out the Barrels! Hopelessly addicted to our greedy luck, we began trolling through the barrels for some extra lOOt...We had some spare time to locate free $$$$ since we finally managed to fulfill the slain Marine Quota.

Here is proof that I am now starting to die every Sunday. Once I had successfully met my third death to date, I quickly sought some Olden Style Southern Comfort from my local Spirit Healer in the Sen'jin Village Cemetary.

Here is a close up of my new neighborhood Spirit Healer. Being dead for several seconds has led me to contemplate the possible mounting of a ghostly invocation ritual/performance possibly involving a mass Shaman suicide as a method to help charge my Sigil with the full psychic force needed for entity activation...Hmmm..perhaps, The Guild will reserve this sacred rite for a later date... I still had to return to the Land of the Living as I had some Unfinished Business left to undertake...

Back in the Land of the Living, I managed to illustrate an action portrait of Woshaman healing my recently resurrected corpse...

I must say that I am addicted to action portraits! Once again, here is yet another action portrait of the three of us taking care of some rogue sailors...

Here is a slightly better angle of this action scenario... Since my dexterity and constitution was lost within the Fog of War at this time, an important development had temporarily escaped my consciousness... As soon as I had one peaceful second to myself, I noticed that there was no text-scroll mentioning that the Lieutenant Benedict still needed to be slain by our collective hand. Was Benedict in fact killed in my brief absence during death? Since there was no immediate record in my Quest log at the time and I also noticed that my primary chat-scroll foretold the wonderment that Agrezel felt since he also was curious as to the whereabouts of this Lost Lieutenant...hmmmm... a magickal glitch in the system, mayhaps?

I guess we must have killed Benedict because in almost no time flat, I was dutifully following Woshaman back to the Razor Hill Inn in Durotar for some R&R (Rolling dice and Revenge planning)... I believe that Dorka must have also likely been following me... On another note, you can see an example of some Guild Spam (from another Guild and not ours) in the scrolling text... Maybe here, Dorka can finally find some Sapta on tap.

For those who exist in other dimensions similar to the World of Warcraft, you might find this particular portrait to be of particular intrigue and worth your curiosity. Here we are checking our mailbox for deposited scrolls...As you can see, the mailbox is that very visible box with the mail icon down there on the ground. This mailbox was placed right outside the local Inn on Razor Hill... It was definitely time to recharge for next Sunday. For those who exist outside of my dimension, the "zzz" icon above my profile portrait means I am at rest...

What better way to bond with your Guildmembers than to share a bed with them?

Here is a slightly more distant portrait of the three of us on the bed at the Inn. You could say this was one Hell of a Shamanic sleepover!

Woshaman disappeared for the night so Dorka and I found our "final" resting places...

I only took this portrait in order to show the lovely beadwork near my bed.... I mentioned I belonged to an Artist Guild, correct? MUA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

My Coveted Earth Totem Quest...

Here is a picture with my very first spellcasted totem known as a Stoneskin Totem that conjures forth the Earth elementals.

Here is a picture of our Guild's newest Tauren Shaman, Shacow.... Shacow was distilled out of the pixellated ether by Ars Virtua's founder, Suffragist. In this picture, I ensured that credits for both ourselves and our created Totems were revealed where credits were due...

GREETINGS MEMBERS OF THE HORDE'S SHAMANIC ELITE!

I finally have earned my very first Totem as of last Sunday!
I can hardly contain my excitement!!!

I will not waste any more time with this idle banter! I ask that you now scroll down this blog-scroll and read all about my epic Call of Earth Quest...

History of this Epic Quest for the First Totem...

Here is a random portrait at the very beginning of my Totem Quest with a passer-by named Chone and some Lillith archetype with a hellbent taste for bondage and corrosive cackling...At this time, I was waiting for Sliz to join me by the fire pyre...

Sliz finally arrived and our first contact since the previous Sunday took the appearance of a spectral summit. It is true that our most fundamental bonds as a Guild actually do revolve around the spiritual nature of our being but usually, our natures are never this publically revealed to anyone outside our Guild? Perhaps this was a Near-Death experience of sorts and a foreshadowing of more corpse-releasing that was looming just yonder over the mountainous horizon.

Here is a portrait with another passer-by named Beaste...At first he looked like my new Shamanic colleague, Shacow but I guess all Taurens look somewhat alike at first glance.

Here I am with Sliz about to walk through a pool of water for the first time. We had to backtread through this pool at least once since I realized half-way (and half-witted) through the scorpion hunting quest that I was also supposed to loot them in order to acquire their tails as a pre-required bounty...

At last! Shacow arrives at the den to help me with my first Call of Earth Quest...I did not rejoin him until a bit later though since I still had to fulfill my Questing rites as a pre-initiate with with Sliz...

My personal Shaman Trainer named Shikrik offers me Totem training as soon as I can get ahold of my very own Earth Totem... However, she wants to charge me 95 gold so I had to sell off some of my leather at a Merchant in the den of the Valley of Trials... After amassing the sufficient funds, I further realized that I could not train anyway until I was at a slightly higher level... Therefore, I had to kill and loot some more to acquire the necessary Savings Account and Level up my prestige in order to be worthy to receive the most sacred of Shamanic training...

Here I am with Sliz attacking a Felstalker in the Burning Blade Coven. The Felstalkers had many things to offer us including lootable gold, prestige building experience and one of them even contained a tiny Gold Medallion but I did not find this item with Sliz...in fact, we had no idea a lowly Felstalker would even carry a medallion... It was just a matter of time before both of us became disoriented and lost and we felt that we had to return to homebase and wait for Shacow who remarkably was more experienced than both of us (probably due to the fact that Shacow was directly channeling his mighty guru, Suffragist).

Once again, I resorted to swimming aimlessly in pools of water as a last ditch effort to find endarkenment.... In this case, the pool that I am wading in here is inside the Burning Blade Coven...if only I had the Medallion at this time! ARRRGH!

As a kind of "Trophy Portrait", I have decided to show you one of my fresh Felstalker victims... I must clarify that although the Felstalker is conventionally classified as a "demon", this base creature should not be confused with the far more intelligent and divine elementals and entities that are known to our Magickal Elite as daemons. My Sigil Ritual Metaquest represents the highest form of arcane Daemonolatry and my tribute entity that I will invoke/evoke at the endgame point (the addicted peons tell me there never ever really is an "endgame") of this Metaquest will be treated with the utmost of respect and veneration!

MY TIME HAS COME! My first Totem related quest known as the Call of Earth was dicatated to me literally ("literally" as in via text-scroll transmission) from Canaga Earthcaller. Not only did Canaga create this wonderfully articulated scroll for me to read and absorb, he also made the visionary (hallucinagenic) Sapta brew for me to drink once my first Rite of Passage had been completed...

In this portrait, I had scrolled down the scroll to read more about the side effects of the Earth Sapta Brew that I was about to drink in a matter of an hour...

Once I had returned to the Burning Blade Coven with Shacow, I had my first taste of virtual mortality... The Felstalkers had the better of me...sigh! This portrait is historic as it depicts me "dying" for the first time. By "dying", it is merely a rather painless process where my immortal spirit is forcibly evacuated from my corpse and moved to the nearby Cemetary....All I have to do once I am dead, is to roam the Medieval Metaverse as a Hungry Ghost in search of my resurrectable body.

Fortunately for me, Shacow also fell Six feet Under and so he knew where our old bodies (corpses) were located. So, we were lucky in that no depraved individuals stuck around for some good old corpse camping while we were gone...phew!

Well, there was one beastly cretin who attempted to camp by my corpse so I took my rightful revenge on my killer and leveled the karmic playing field somewhat...

As soon as we finally located the Medallion, Shacow and I made haste and departed from the Coven...it looks like Dorehynia and her consort (no nametag was revealed)were hoping to find a reasonable reproduction of the original Medallion that we had just scored...heheheheh!

BEHOLD! I HAVE EVOKED THE MINOR MANIFESTATION OF EARTH!

Once we had returned the Medallion to its rightful owner, we found a secret passage to the hidden region reserved for Shamans (I think) known as Spirit Rock. Eager for contact, I guzzled several gulps of this foul-tasting Sapta Brew and almost immediately afterwards, my first of many psychedlic trance visions were beginning to enfold...This portrait I think captures the exact moment when my sense of reality was on the verge of being alchemically transmuted towards the sublime visage of an Earthly Elemental that I was to come to know later as the Minor Manifestation of Earth.

Finally, the Minor Manifestation of Earth appears before me...


Here is a portrait of Shacow and myself having direct communion with the Minor Manifestation of Earth...

I must say I was awe-struck by my first conventional elemental visitation since I took a few portraits of this encounter.

This portrait shows the scroll that was passed to us by the Minor Manifestation of Earth. In order to fulfill our Call of Earth Quest, we accepted some rough quartz from the MMofE (as I now affectionately call him) and was instructed to return this quartz to Canaga so he could use it as the heart that would power the first Earthly Totems. These two Totems would be given to us as soon as Canaga had the quartz so we rushed back to The Den in the Valley of Trials...

Here is the moment when the Minor Manifestation of Earth offered us our own shards of rough quartz...

THE SECOND CALL OF EARTH QUEST HAS BEEN COMPLETED! Canaga Earthcaller accepts our tokens of quartz for our newly acquired Stoneskin Totems. Canaga must be a Master-Mason since it took virtually no time at all for us to receive our customized gifts. Perhaps, Canaga is directly related to the Totem Ancestor!

This portrait shows more of the scroll offered by Canaga...Shacow is also visible in this portrait... The time had come for us to test out the placement and configuration of these Totems...

In this portrait, you can see the Totem listed in my inventory...

Here is another historic portrait for the archives. Here I am casting my first Totem with Shacow. We both noticed that the placement of an Earth Totem such as this Stoneskin one seems to appear right in front of us but to the....er...front and right of us.... I think Shacow is right when he said that each Totem element (Earth, Fire, Water and Air) will have a different default placement in relation to the spellcasting avatar Shaman. Once we make it to level 30 and have all the token Totems from each corresponding element, it will take us at least one full rehearsal to figure out how to configure these Totems in conformity with the Sigil's basic skeletal pattern.

Here is another pic of Shacow and myself proudly displaying our first Totems.

Here is an informative portrait of Shacow inspecting my first Totem in order to test its eventual placement/configuration in the Metaquest's first major Sigil charging ritual.

Is it not yet evident that we are proud of our accomplishment on this sublime Sunday? Here is yet another angle of us with the Totems.

As mentioned earlier, we are testing ways to destroy and re-cast Totems in order to determine configuration possibilities...

Here is one last portrait of our Totems...Somehow, we managed to make cryptic icons appear over our Totems. Mine has a crescent moon, and Shacow's Totem has a skull...hopefully this is not some bad omen for him!!!

PHASE ONE OF THE METAQUEST IS COMPLETE...FOR THE HORDE!