Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 13

I was out burning the carts on which these adorable little guys were storing some kind of dangerous plant, on the orders of my superiors, and oh look - I leveled.

Really though I spent most of this last session crafting - a little bit of all of them, due to some quests and some indecision on my part. There's some disagreement on the best armor for Chanters, which I want to make. For the moment I've settled on Armorsmithing, for chain armor, and alchemy. You can do all of them if you want in Aion, and who knows, I do enjoy watching bars fill up, but probably shouldn't burn myself out too fast.

The forum chatter about this game has gone pretty negative, slagging off the grind, which negative attitudes tend to infect my enjoyment of even single-player games, for some reason. My main motivation at this point is to see each new area, and that my Fallen Earth trial download is going pretty slowly.

Here is Saffie in her new crafting hat!

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 9

My raider friends had me go to a local farm and eliminate a variety of surprisingly adorable foes and oh look I leveled!!!

And then this popped up! It's time to go get my wings! I always knew I was destined for greater things, I just kind of thought that all my little math trophies would be more involved.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 8

Back from therapy for ten minutes, and oh look!

We mostly talked about what I might want to do with my life. In the immediate future, I want to knock on Tombstones and kill the angry spirits that appear. This will spur on my rise through the Asmodean military organization, one imagines.

While I was typing up this post the kind of wolf thing that I killed to reach level 8 respawned at ate me, and I experienced death for the first time. It's mostly reddish and embarassing.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 6

Oh look, I leveled.

This is me running away. I killed some goat-like creature to get this level. You can see this creature because three more of them are chasing after me. I have a couple magic spells, though, and these spells can heal me. One of them can even heal me as I run away.

It could also heal a friend, but I haven't made any of those yet. I'm sure crafting will come soon.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 4

Oh look, I leveled.

On my way to the promised first village I couldn't help pushing 3 at some more pretty little beetles. I also got a quest to collect the source of their glowing abdomens, so maybe they're fireflys, or whatever.

I forgot to say that Saffie is an Asmodean, which means, aside from the not living in light thing, that she runs kind of like one might imagine the link-formerly-known-as-missing would run. She's kind of like a Morlock, I guess, except with good hair.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Level 3

Oh look, I leveled.

Vandar told me I had fixed the Spriggs problem, and send me to report to this guy, who was also gruff with me, but with whom I leveled.

To be honest, I smote a lot of beetles on my way up here. The smite button is 3. I pushed it until they died, and then I pushed 4 to pick up their stuff.

Sometimes there is a beetle in my apartment, but it never has any stuff.