Amazing House Stacking

***Before I get started be sure to enter the contest (two posts below this) and win some awesome stuff!***

I had a chance to visit a friend of a friend's home where he's done amazing work to make his houses more than just ordinary.  This first house was made to simulate heaven.

I could try to describe it but it's probably best to just show it.  Here we go...  the stairway to heaven.

The first level of heaven.  If you look closely you might notice golden apples (hmm) and angels flying around the tree.

 Here is the second level of heaven... again with angels and cherry blossoms.

The 3rd level has a harp and grand piano and a single rose. (time to swoon ladies!)

P.S.  This is David DreamBringer's house

 Here's another home David built.  I've never even seen this one before!

 A neat little escape behind the trees

Standing on the edge of infinity

A really neat way to float items on the water.  Who doesn't want a grand piano floating in a reflecting pool?

 My friends opining about how epic it would be if all objects could be stacked.

He built a nexus of portals that go to each house from one location.

 He also placed a portal inside a fountain with plants around it!  Now that's epic!  Totally hidden until you're in it an poof!

Be sure to enter the contest in the post that's two posts down from this one.

Rowan's new book is out!

The Jump Boys

 

If you go to the link you can check out the eBook and read the first chapter etc.  This book is for all age groups but mostly middle-grade range.  Enjoy!

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Check out this month's Wizard101 contest in the post below and enter to win the Pot-o-Gold contest!

Pot-o-Gold Contest

The pot of Gold contest starts tonight! 

Our winners for the friendship festival are enjoying their mounts right now but this contest gives something totally unique...

Each code will grant the following items:
• Gold Kirin Mount (Permanent)
• Gold Wyvern Mount (Permanent)
• Gold Pieces (50000)
• Crowns (5000)
• Sun Palace House
• Hatching Elixir
• Additional Castle Elixir
• Major Gold Elixir

plus one of the following four pets (at random)
• Death Leprechaun
• Myth Leprechaun
• Leprechaun
• Lucky Leprechaun

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Friendship Contest Continued and Wiz Fun

Cure for the Common Quest

I was talking to a friend last night and discussing the repetitiveness of some quest lines in Azteca (sorry KI we still love you) where you have to defeat and collect from the same group of bad guys many many many times over.  Usually to collect you have to do between 4 and 8 battles.  For me one of my favorite areas was Krockotopia and of course Wizard City.  The two areas I think about specifically was the Hall of Champions which was very challenging at the time and also Nightside in Wizard City.  Those areas could be tricky to beat and require skilled friends to help you through.

We talked about some of the more fun and memorable things which pretty much always involved glitches.  I loved the invisibility glitch, the stacking glitch, the running in the sky glitch and yes, even the gardening glitch.  I think it would be cool to have some oddities and see what endless human creativity can do to it.  A little chaos in the system if you will.

I still think it would be cool to have a battle area where you maybe pick up random bad guys from different schools or have to puzzle your way across an area with traps that send you back defeated if you mess up, or where you need to use your stacking skills to construct a bridge over some dangerous spot.  Or there's always the idea that keeps coming back to me of having a dueling street where other players are randomly pitted against you in dueling style match-up. 

I am loving the new cards and spells though!  And I'll probably love the new clothes if I can get my wiz high enough in crafting to make it.

Friendship Contest

Don't forget to join the contest a couple posts below.  If the javascript contest widget doesn't pop up right away just wait a moment and it will probably show.  If not, you may need to enable javascript on your browser.  (don't worry, it's safe)
See you around the spiral.

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Friendship Festival

We're half way done the Friendship Festival contest.  We're loving the stories so keep them coming for big points.  JOIN OR ENTER IN THE POST BELOW!

Writing Fun

This past week I was writing a couple first chapters for a writing contest as well. It was pretty tough.  Rowan beat it up pretty bad and I fixed it with a lot of effort but the story itself was pretty good so it survived the trip to the story-hospital.  There's little better when writing than a good critique partner who is willing to be tough on you without being mean --sometimes as the writer it's hard to know the difference but you have to have a tough skin to accept the help and not get defensive.

Independant Writer's Online Conference

Anyway, I thought I'd mention that Rowan has a conference for writers who are thinking about self publishing.  It's called IndieReCon http://www.indierecon.org/  There is a ton of material going up starting the 19th and going through the 21st.  It will be packed with Q&A chats, helpful articles and stuff about how to self publish, how to market yourself and how to get started.  These are some major authors and they're breaking new ground in the publishing market.  So kick back in your PJs and surf around the site or join the sessions and live chats for some mega useful info.

Grubb Guardian Tough for Ice**On a totally different subject... have you ever tried Grubb Guardian using an Ice pet?  Wow, talk about tough!  Usually the best luck I have is upgrading a myth guy all the way and then adding as many as I can and upgrading them to frog or better.  Usually I add an ice guardian or two to slow the bad guys down.  If bad guys are still breaking through then you might need to add a fire or other guardian.  But there are some levels that are nearly impossible with a non-upgraded Ice pet.