Screenshot-y goodness, part 2

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...behind the cut.



Here is Mel the Monk in her little green dress. (It's actually two pieces, which I believe the game refers to as a "robe" and "leggings", but it looks like a dress, so I call it a dress.) Here is the dress the way it looks when you get it - we were speculating that perhaps it was that color and texture because it's supposed to be sackcloth or something of that ilk, although I don't know, sackcloth and lace? Who knows. Anyway, I dyed it green the first time around, and then when I got another one at Yak's - which looked exactly the same as the first one, although it had better armor - I dyed that one red. Here is the red one, fresh off the press (I took this one last night at Beacon's Perch):



(Mel is so short that she looks like a child next to these big warriors. I expect somebody to take her by the hand and lead her away, one of these days.)

(Y'all do understand that when I talk about Mel in the third person I mean Mel the character as opposed to, well, me, right? Sometimes I think it was a little too confusing to have given her my name, but oh well. You guys are intelligent and I'll have to trust that you can sort out the difference.)

Like Tamaya, Mel also got to a new area last night - Tamaya got into the mountains, and Mel got out of them, into Kryta. The line between the snow and ice in the Shiverpeaks, and the semi-tropics of Kryta is a little too abrupt for any sort of realism, although I don't know how many people pay much attention to that. I was thinking that Mel still had a mission to do in the Shiverpeaks (besides the damn Frost Gate bonus, which is really hard to get and which we came tantalyzingly close to getting when I did it with a pickup group the other night) but I think I'm wrong and I'm actually all finished there, except for that one bonus. Col and I did all the group of missions last night that get you out of the mountains and into Kryta, in any case.

Mel is also getting really good at the business of being a monk - that is, the healing side of it. I did one of the Shiverpeaks missions (Borlis Pass) with henches - meaning without any other actual human help - and that meant I had to basically be a smiting monk rather than a healing one, because the henchmen, being artificially intelligent, usually won't attack unless you do. But the rest of the time I have tried to have her fuction as a healer, and I'm getting much better at it.