The Weekend Tapestry Giveaway!

It's the weekend!!! Let's celebrate it with a mini giveaway! Again, I wanna thank Legends of the Spiral for the Giveaway code to allow me to be able to do this for you guys. Here are 45 codes for Merle's House and Storm School Tapestries. They are mixed up. So good luck!

*CONTEST IS OVER*

We will do this again tomorrow!

Feeling Bored? There's Facebook Games!

Facebook has a major draw, its games. I play so many different kinds of games on that site. Otherwise, I'd visit it once in a blue moon. I tend to play Facebook games when Wizard101 and Pirate101 has no new content for me to play with. And hey, they're FREE! Well, you can buy some of their stuff with real money, but it's not really required. Anyway, one of the games that I truly loved and did spread the word about was "Here Be Monsters." I started tweeting about this game months and months ago.

So, when I saw Spiral Radio 101's review on this game, I cheered. I felt that since I really liked this game, I wanted to expand on SpiralRadio101's awesome post and explain a bit more about this game. You know, I have been playing this game for a long time, so it has been a long journey for me. I started in London like everyone does, but now after finishing all of the London quests, I'm now in Nanjing. And that was only the second major city that I was able to unlock in this game. There's more major cities to unlock with new quests all over the world. This just goes to show how much content this game has. Because of that, I can share my own experience with this game.

So what is this game about? This game is about helping others by trapping monsters that are wrecking havoc and heal them from the corruption that's making their minds muddled. But we also focus on becoming the greatest chef in the world by learning how to make various food recipes as well as being the best trapper, fisher, alchemist, you name it! I mean that literally by the way. I am now a Junior Alchemist. And Mrs. Wong wants me to practice making hard food recipes, so I can complete in Iron Chef competition eventually. And Mrs. Wong is PICKY!!! You can earn badges for accomplishing certain tasks. Some badges are even secret badges that you gotta figure out!

You start with easy traps, but eventually you have to craft bigger, meaner, stronger traps like the one below. The Exorcist's Shrine took me a LONG time just to craft. Every monster likes certain traps and certain baits, so you have to make sure you have everything available if you want to catch a certain monster. Trapped monsters will give you ingredients. There are so many different kinds of monsters which drops their own unique ingredients and loot.

To make food recipes or bait for the monsters, you have to plant crops on your homestead and/or collect ingredients from monsters which requires you to travel all over the world and placing traps to catch them. You can literally go anywhere in the world, to Africa, America, South America, Australia, again seriously anywhere!

When you're tired of popping all over, you can take a break and fish!

You also are able to add buildings to your own homestead. At first I had a small cabin. But eventually I was able to buy a recipe for a better house and upgraded it! Now I have a decent, cute house. But someday I would like a Victorian House or something cooler. And oh did I mention that you can also own farm animals which also drops their own ingredients like milk, eggs, etc too? Well now you know!

But the best thing about this game is that you can add friends in it that are not on your Facebook list. 

This way you are not bombing your actual Facebook friends with invites and become annoying. 

My favorite things about this game is that they also tend to introduce new quests or content every two weeks. And they tend to give away free in-game stuff all of the time on their Facebook page which is pretty cool! Just make sure you like their page, so you won't miss out on their daily posts and free in-game stuff. Not only that, they also have a cool Wishing Well where you can hopefully win rare things and every week, you get a free gold coin to try your luck at it!

You can read more about this game from Spiral Radio 101 at: http://spiralradio101.com/?p=464 and you can try out this game at: https://www.facebook.com/HereBeMonstersGame?ref=br_tf

But you know I really wrote this post because I wanted to talk about other games that I also liked! 

Introducing The Tribez...

The Tribez is a cool game where you can help your friendly prehistoric tribe build up and expand. You can even hire super adorable dinosaurs to chase away the bad guys who tries to create havoc in your town.

Notice the farms, hot tubs, markets, and more!

You can see the dinosaurs roaming around to make sure the bad guys actually stay away!

This is just the FIRST world and there's still a lot of areas that I need to expand to. And I have been playing this game for months. There's plenty of content to play with! There's also plenty of quests that it's hard to run out of them! You can craft, build, mine, farm and more!

There's not just one world, but others! After playing this game for a long time, I only was able to get to the second world. Like I said, there's PLENTY of content to play with. And you can ship surplus things from one island to another using a blimp ship.

This is Marble Fjord, the second Island I was able to unlock.

This island is a bit harder than the first, but hey I'm up for the challenge!

You can play this game at: https://www.facebook.com/TheTribezCommunity?ref=br_tf

Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War

This week, I am trying out Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War. You can't go wrong with a pirate themed game, much less a POTC themed game! 

Yep, our favorite character is back!

Go forth, ship o' fleet!

WOOT! I won a ship battle and I won some booty!

Apparently you get your own island too! Time to make my island the best island out there!

 I called myself Red Handed Jill from one of the Peter Pan movies. ;)

And if you sail around, you can other players' islands as well which is pretty cool.

I even saw a Pirate Trading Post island.

So apparently my first quest line is about finding Jack! That naughty Jack stole my ship and disappeared right after "helping" me with a quest. So first I gotta build up supplies and make a new fleet of ships before going after Jack. Oh boy!

I'll keep you posted on how this game is going.

You can play this game at: https://www.facebook.com/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanIsles

Got any games you want me to try out? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

The Hoodoo Bundle Is Here!

The photo above was posted with mjziegler286's permission.

Apparently a bundle has been found in Walmart that has not been officially released yet. But it all makes sense now about Pirate101's vine video about the Witchdoctor's Lab as well as their Puppet Pirate comic on Facebook!

You can see the gear's stats and more at: http://www.pirate101central.com/forums/showthread.php?50041-New-Teaser!/page6

He's incredibly kind to post those images, so be sure to thank his posts!

Catbeard's Shame

I was working on getting Zeena, a companion, to be a part of my crew. While questing on the Zeena questline, we had to have a conversation with the Aquilan War God, Ares. Honestly, one of my favorite characters in this game is Catbeard. He's very witty and funny who makes me laugh constantly. The way he slaps his enemies with a dead fish is a hilarious thing to watch. But while chatting with Ares, it took a turn that showed me Catbeard's serious side that we rarely see. Catbeard's response to what Ares said to him just made me love him even more. I wished that I could give him a great big hug.

But you know we, the crew and especially Catbeard get to learn a very important lesson. It's never too late to try to repair the mistakes that you have caused.. It doesn't mean that you are a bad person. Without mistakes, you cannot learn to be a better person. This should be applied to real life as well.

First we helped Ratbeard redeem himself, Catbeard, but now Zeena. Who's next? We shall see.

The Tapestry Chase - Gotta Get All Of Them!

Thanks to the amazing Wizard101 and Lydia Greyrose, all of the Official Wizard101 Fansites are giving away Tapestries. What are Tapestries, you say? Tapestries are a pretty wall furniture that are also great shortcuts to areas or worlds. Heck, they all have their own unique look and they even look amazing up on your dorm wherever you place them. All you have to do is go up to the tapestry and it will prompt you to be transported and tada!

Every Official Wizard101 Fansite will be giving away two kinds of site exclusive tapestries. For example, my site, Stars of the Spiral, is giving away tapestries to Merle Ambrose's House and to Storm Storm School. Check every Official Wizard101 Fansite for contests or giveaway details. If they don't have any, just sit tight and be patient. They might be posting it later this month.

You can check the Official Wizard101 Fansite list at: https://www.wizard101.com/game/community/fansites

I have listed all tapestries that are available below. Once I know which official fansite is giving away which tapestries, I will add them. But if you find out information that we do not have here, please let us know by leaving us a comment below. Thank you!

Worlds:

Wizard City Commons - Wizard101 Central

Wizard City Nightside

Wizard City Bazaar - Wizard101 Central

Wizard City PvP Arena - Duelist101

Wizard City Merle's House - Stars of the Spiral

Wizard City Gamma's Tower - Spiral Radio 101
Wizard City Library

Krokotopia Oasis - Spiral Radio 101

Marleybone Regents Square - Petnome

Mooshu Jade Palace - Valerian's School for Wayward Wizards

Dragonspyre Basilica - Paige Moonshade

Celestia Base Camp - Mercs4Hire

Grizzleheim Northguard

Avalon Caliburn

Avalon Tome of the Nameless - Mercs4Hire

Avalon White Owl Tower

Avalon Crystal Caves - Legends Of The Spiral

Avalon Outer Yard - Ditto Monster

Wysteria Pigswick Academy - Ditto Monster

Schools:

Fire - Valerian's School for Wayward Wizards

Ice - Legends of the Spiral

Storm - Stars of the Spiral

Myth - Petnome

Death

Life - Paige Moonshade

Balance - Duelist101

Pirate101's Year of the Horse Celebration!

Pirate101 is celebrating the Chinese New Year with amazing Horse Related Crown Shop Companions and Mounts!

But hey, that Aquilan Pegasus Mount is only unlocked if you finish a certain quest in Aquila. Once you complete the labyrinth, the side quest "The Wings of Change" given by Polyeagos in Delphos will become available. 

You should start this quest which will help you unlock the Pegasus mount in the Crown Shop.

The mount is normally 10k crowns, but with this sale going on, it will be HALF off! But this sale is only available until February 2nd. So grab it while it's available. Good luck!

200,000th Views!

So.. My blog has hit 200k views. What a wonderful milestone! You know, I've been thinking a lot lately about Wizard101 and Pirate101. The milestones we can work on in-game are multiple. And hey, they help us stay busy, even when the game is not full of new quests and worlds.

For example, in both games, you can max out your characters. Aim for Warlord on your Wizard in Ranked PvP. Get all of the badges from both games. Level all of your Pirate101 companions to max level. Those are the typical challenges.

But you know you can make your OWN challenges. I always found it to be more rewarding if you compete with yourself than with others. After all, who knows you best than yourself? You know which areas that you need to improve on. I always believed that if you challenge yourself, it makes your mind think better because you have had to learn how to think in a new way.

You can decide to, for example, not level up any of your Pirate101 companions as you quest through the game and reach Level 65. You can decide to use the same FIRST GENERATION derby pet for all of your wizards and get to Pet Derby Warlord that way. Don't limit yourself by relying on what's already available. Use your imagination. The challenges that you can give yourself are endless!

You can apply this in every area of your life. Even blogging. Don't limit yourself by talking about what's available like the typical news from Wizard101. But talk instead about what COULD be available, what you would love to happen and bring in a brand new subject that nobody has thought of before. It doesn't even have to be limited to words. You can sing it, podcast it, video it, draw it or anything you can think of.

  

Like Albert Einstein would say, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." How else did people invent new things? Definitely not the ones who were lacking imagination. Go forth and give yourself new challenges today!

As for our blog's awesome milestone today, I want to thank you all for helping me achieve this milestone. This wouldn't be possible without your kind support and visits. You are the ones that makes this blog great!

Islands In The Sky; An Pirate101 Poem

Islands in the sky,
just Old Jim Bones and I,
watching ships sail on by,
sailing between islands in the sky.

Watch the sharks circle the islands,
put the sword in my hand
and to battle I'll cry,
here I'll make my stand.

Throw dem Old Jim Bones and watch them roll,
fighting the fights like in the stories you have been told,
stack them up like bowling pins in the streets,
let's watch them fall down beneath our feet.

Wading through the reeds,
dancing on our toes through the trees,
finding freedom by the ring of the steel,
oh this is the way you should always feel.

Everywhere we'll roam
for the sky is our home
with a sword at our hip,
there's nowhere we can't go with our ship.

Islands in the sky,
just Old Jim Bones and I,
watching ships sail on by,
sailing between islands in the sky.

-Kelsey Fireheart