I'm back!

[Non-L2 related post ahead]

Another delay between posts, I just got back from Germany! As some of you may or may not know I recently purchased a car and went to Germany to pick it up...along the way spending a week there on holiday and visiting Oktoberfest.

Germany's alot of fun, and I think I'm compelled to say that they have better drivers than the states! They seem to drive faster, more agressively, and possibly safer since their lanes are (or at least they feel) narrower than ours! Also...they actually use the left lane just for passing unlike us where we just obnoxiously sit in the left lane and drive slow even when the whole lane is open in front of us ><

...one thing the trip also taught me is that I can no longer complain about the price of gas in New York! Gas here in NY is generally between $2-$3 USD. Gas in Germany is was roughly about $1.40 a liter, which at today's exchange rate is 1.99095 a liter. It's roughly 3-4 liters to a gallon, so that comes out to 7.53 a gallon in USD. OUCH!

Anyway the trip was so much fun, I would definitely do it again in a heartbeat. Now I just have tro wait 6-8 weeks until my car gets back to my local dealer here in NY...here's a few photos for those who are interested:















[Some Aleena News!]
I was recently interviewed by Stratics! For those who are interested you can find the interview here

A link also managed to make its way on to the main lineage2.com community site page (thanks for mentioning this to me Relamyr!)

Lastly, my ss of Piewacket's rare accessory made it the official lineage 2 site as well with a story on the GenCon/Indiana meet and greet.

Anyhow, that's all for this short update! I will be attending the Ziff Davis Digital Life show this evening at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center after work so back from lots of beer, germans and fun cars and back to the day to day grind! Woohoo!! =D

Small infos on misc stuffs...

A friend of mine from my old clan recently had the opportunity to attend the GenCon in Indiana and visited the NCSoft Booth, and also attended the meet and greet at the brewery afterwards. I would've considered going also had it not been about a 16 hour drive from New York to Indiana (lol!) Anyway, for people that managed to attend, NCSoft rewarded those people with a special unique accessory (I forgot to ask him what this is called in his inventory)



(and yes, I know I'm wearing tank armor in this ss, I know it's bad, but I wanted to try it for a few days, and really...I don't think it even lasted that long)


PM Piewacket on Bartz if you want a closer view of it!

What else...it seems that in Korea or someplace oveseas they are distributing a Lineage II Prime Edition that includes a statue, and the second art book!! (some of you may already own Ark- The Art of Lineage II, first edition).



These photos show the Dark Elf Statue, I've also seen a few photos of a Light Elf Female in Blue Wolf Robe statue as well as a Human Male in Zubei Heavy Statue (You can find them on Mondes Persistants )...although the other two were already out of box, so I can't confirm that those are alternate package options for the Premium Edition...Anyway here's a few photos that I stole from someone else's blog of them!! woohoo!! (lol!)

Aleena's August

As August came to a close, it signalled the end of certain things. In the United States it symbolizes the end of summer with the coming of our Labor Day holiday, traditionally celebrated with parades and veterans rememberance, displays of the flag, as well as the end of wearing white shoes/skirts (the exception to the rule being "winter whites"). Anyhow, the end of August also end my short stint being hero, and I hope you will allow me to indulge myself a little further and post additional screenshots of stuff that's been going on with me on Bartz (sorry I don't have much "general lineage news" to post. Stratics, l2vault, l2warfare do a much better job covering that than I ever could).

It's been a very eventful month for me, in addition to being given hero I've been granted the priviledge of holding one of the clan's Baium Rings (see screenshot from previous post). During the course of the year I've turned in the Pagans quest about five or six times, and EVERY time I've received an Enchant Armor (S Grade) from the quest. This one last time, I finally got something different.

About time, imo!

Anyway, on my last day being hero I got some farmers killed one last time just because I could. Byebye cancel stick :( most fun weapon in the game!


And I very blatantly abused hero chat on my last day, I think if people could add an extra selection of what chat to see in their windows (i.e. general, shout, party, clan, alliance, trade, hero voice), they probably would've wanted to add one saying "aleena voice" so they could shut that off. However, I'm sure I added to alot of people turning off hero voice this month :) In either case, I do occasionally get PM's from people who read the blog and I never get a chance to post them, so here's a few who actually didn't absolutely HATE me being hero this month (and no, it's not me talking to myself on an alt!)


I get alot of grief in hero chat, especially from the heroes in my clan/alliance. So every few days I would get random PMs asking something along the lines of "why do all the other heroes hate you so much???". Well, to be honest I give them alot of ammunition to make jokes about, but I think (at least I hope), in my clan/alliance it's all in fun and I think that their comments are meant as such because for all the roleplaying and joking around I do in ally and herochat they're meant mainly as entertainment. Somepeople like to trashtalk and just be stupid in general, I roleplay sometimes to pass the time. At the end of the day it's all about what keeps you playing the game and keeps it interesting.

Lastly, we recently attempted a Valakas raid, which was aborted about an hour or so in. We were moving along at a good pace, however since we started the raid about 2 hours later than originally anticipated it began to infringe on alot of peoples' personal obligations and prior engagements so as we lost a number of key classes we were forced to cancel it. However, I still managed to get a few screenshots.





And my personal favorite:


That's it for now, thanks for visiting again!