The Darknesss Creeps Closer - Hunter goes DK

Years have passed, wars been fought. The Scourge creeps closer than ever before. Itt has been quite a long time now since the powerfull agent Kel'thuzad was driven away from his standing. A glorious victory.

"As we carried on something seemed to be wrong, one after one of the ones that was there that day, seem to vanish, reports come from across the whole of azeroth, family dearest run away from their loved ones in fear, no one knew why."

As it lay in the back for abit, no one of the adventurers belived that anything was goin on, yet little did they know, one of their owns had a poisoned mind awaiting to blossom. and as the wrath of the lich king drew closer and closer, the poisoned individuals drew him closer, their hatred for their loved ones grew. Those few who still had some sanity, where the ones from the tales that ran away, to never be seen.

But it was to late to run, there was no escape from the dreadfull fate that drew the Peacfull Blood Elf Hunter closer. as the day passed as they always did, she little knew what her fate was, the lich king crawling closer, sending his mighty armies upon the world she hesitated to kill them, her friends slaugtherd infront of her eyes, not beeing able to move, nor wanting to act. her heart and soul was lost, as much as she tried she struggled to fight back, but it was to late, her skin was darkening, becoming white almost dead. She knew now, that she was dying, but her fate was not to be in peace, but to be in service for the Lich King and his army.

She wanted to run away from it all, to be far away from her loved ones that she still had around, that very night she decided to run away, several days passed, and weeks went on as she resided in Winterspring, a peacfull place, hunting, feeding and living on the things she alone made, far away from any living man, women or children. tho the day of the lich kings return drew closer as the days passed, the skies where painted red.

one day as she went out to gather wood she looked up to the skies, it was unusually red, dark and the presence of death along the lands. it was then she saw flying necropolis' in the skies, sending their undead armies onto the ground, in a wild rage she ran to see what and where they where, well ontop of a nearby hill of a small invasion army she lifted her bow, steadily aimed for what seemed to be some sort of commander, a big Abonomition commanding the minor ones around to slay creatures nearby, rip trees out of the ground and worse. she helt her aim for quite some time, unable to let the arrow go, slowly lowering it she realised, she had become just what they where, her bones showing from her dead white skin, her eyes had gotten a faint blue glo, her hair was undone, her chain armor was sitting loosley on, she decided to approach them in person, to see how they responded. would they fight? would they embrace? no matter she knew her life was over, Death was futile.

As she slowly walked down towards them she walked straight towards the Large Abonomition, as suddenly he heard snow crackling behind him he turned around swiftly and with a dark creepign voice yelled "Whos there!" but he suddenly silent, and all the minions around fell to their knees in the sight of her, kneeling down for her. Stopping sheslowly raised her head to look at the abonomition, His face was covered in fear, a great beeing of the scourge was frigthened at the look of her, he slowly walked backwards, his words sounded as if they where sneaking out of his mouth "Sorry... Knight Senitza... Me Sorry for yelling.. Don't Kill... My order to lead minions..." she decided to try as hard she could to say nothing, to stand still and not look frigthened, her dilemma was to either run, or stay to see what and why they where affraid of her.

The large abonomition called forth one of the minions, a small ghoul carrying a bag on his hip, the ghoul dragged a parchement out from it and and slowly reached it out to her. she took it and as soon as she held it the large abonomition said again "Read Knight, Master wants you to read and come"

On the parchement it said:

If you with your own eyes read this, you are chosen and have followed the right path, the path to death and suffering, endless pain, for you are one of the ones we want, the human kind are weak. we are stronger than ever before. 

you will come to us, you will get trained, you will be spreading death, and help the master to win the war. 

Your psat does not matter, your future is everything, you will serve the Lich King as a Death Knight.

She scrambled the note in her hands before setting it on fire in her hands crusing it, her breathing raising she felt the strong hatred for the lich king and his armies, for her  mind had not been completly tainted, her sanity was intact, her powers and her beeing was converted to what she would become. 

She Looked up at the abonomition as she grabbed for her axes, her eyes burning blue as she slowly started to walk towards him. 

- SO it is you and your kind, that took away my loved ones and drove me away from my home.

-No.. Knight Me only do orders!

- And stop calling me a knight! I am a hunter of silvermoon! I take no orders as a Knight of Death from the Lich King!

She started to run towards the assembly of scourge.

-So Be it, Me got army here to deal with traitor! Minions Form, Let her not escape alive!

as they started to run towards her she leaped up in the air landing ontop of the Abonomition, hacking his head he fell, thirsty for death as she had become she laid waste to the whole assembly they had there. 

Her goal was now to defeat the Lich King, and to do so, she had to become a Death Knight, she had to break free from him and to again seek her revenge.

Long Time no Update.

Ok so oughta do an fast update.

First off it is 17 days till Wrath of the Lich King release.

Second in my past times I have not been able to keep track on things. doing this and that at work aswell as in games and forums.

One of the things I have made in the times since last time is an Guide on Achievements. unfortunatly it's so far only available in norwegian. you can find the guide in the links far below.

Others than that I am happy to announce that I am fully ready for the expansion now, might be geek but hey! I got 2 weeks vacation from 13th november so im  set with pots and gold to make my way to level 80 playing the new heroclass Deathknight!

That's about it for this small update and soon the lichking knocks on your door..

Link to guide -  http://gamingnorge.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13764

It's now official!

Okay! the big news we all have been waiting for is now on a set date!

the 13th november 2008, blizzard will world wide release the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft. with over 10million active players if not more now, this will be huge.

Fingers tingeling, last year when The Burning Crusade was released, the stores opened from 00:00 to roughly 06:00. all over the world girls, boys, ladies and men alike, geeks and fanboys and what not gathering early, many hours before the shop released it to get their copy. 

I amongst one of them stood ready to get it early early early, with my preordered ticket in my hand in the freezing weather. this time however, I am gonna be earlier to secure myself an Collectors Edition of the expansion

Quote from blizzard about Collectors Edition:

We're happy to announce that World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King will ship in standard as well as Collector's Edition packages. The Collector's Edition will come in a special box that contains many exclusive extras to enhance your adventure into Northrend, including:

World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.
The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.
The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.
Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.

The behind-the-scenes DVD will offer developer interviews and commentary on all aspects of the creation of Wrath of the Lich King, as well as trailers and cinematics from the game, and even footage of panel discussions from BlizzCon 2007.

Collector's Edition owners will also be able to take their adventures from the computer to the tabletop with two starter packs for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game -- one for themselves and one to share with a friend. In addition, Collector's Edition owners will receive two exclusive tournament-legal World of Warcraft Trading Card Game cards to incorporate in their decks or trade with other World of Warcraft TCG players.

With the Collector's Edition-exclusive in-game pet, Frosty the baby frost wyrm, you'll be the envy of your guildmates and other players as you roam the expanses of Northrend.

A soundtrack CD with stirring music from the expansion pack, a beautiful coffee table book with exclusive concept art, and a Northrend-themed mouse pad round out the wealth of bonus items available in the Collector's Edition of World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King. Head over to our Wrath of the Lich King Pre-Order page now to learn more about pricing and availability of both the Standard and the Collector's edition.

I must say the most tempting here is that book, and the CD ( I love such kind of music) the pet will also be quite cool aside of my Death Knight.. Whats cooler than having a small cute rotten frozen flying baby dragon next to your Dead Knight arisen from the dead to spread plague and disease!?

here is also how the pet will look like (pic taken from MMO-Champion.com):

This will be an awesome day now lets pray I get one two weeks vacation as planned for this. it beeing november makes it good too, calm month at the store shouldent be to troublic I hope! 

the normal  standard box will have the CD's to install the game, manuall and all you need to play the expansion and lvl to 80 amongst others!. 

for more information about the expansion, and wrath of the lichking itself see either.

www.mmo-champion.com

www.worldofraids.com

http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/

now the hunt for a good name for my Death Knight starts! any sugestions feel free to leave an comment to this blog on what it should be =)!

WoW Themed Wallpaper

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Figured I'd update fast with an wallpaper I have made. nothing special to say about it really.                     

Medusa's Power!

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I got Medusa's power in my fists and my hands! 

Turning people into stone.

the picture above is the same girl as I used for the "Good and Evil" one, this time I shreded her beauty and turned her into forever lasting stone!

I was... Pure... In Old Times!

"What to do.. Where to go... So many choices... Every single one of them leading to suffering.. and.. Death!"

So the decision is now final!

Wrath of the Lich King rolling closer day by day, the unkown of exactly when it will hit! World of Warcraft moving in to it's "Third age".

There are several new changes in the expansion wheres most know of them, or atleast the major ones, as for example level cap raised to 80, the introduction to the new hero class the Death Knight. I will be making an Death Knight and has now decided on what race (or im 98% Sure)

I have chosen Orc Male, regardless of the poll and what ive thought off before, reason for this is, when making my Death Knight. I want it to be.. Brutal and mean looking.  I am horde so I went through all races to see. Troll male is just crippled, not mean looking and I dont see it evil that an rastaman with glowing eyes hits me dancing some weirdo dance, troll female is same as male only they dont look crippled, was an ok choice but again the weapon size is abit small. Blood elf male and female are the ones I thought off most. male was a choice i thought of for a long time, however weird animations made me take it away despite the arrogant mean persona they are. the females ... well.. having a Two handed weapon that looks like a small one handed one makes you cry inside. to be a mean Death Knight holding a butter knife with two hands.. just no. Orc female.. well they stand so weird when hitting, if you walk up to an enemy facing it straight on and start to attack it, well your char will look really weird as she stands abit tillted. taurens where both male and female a valid choice, but failed due to beeing abit to big, aswell many helmets look abit weird on them, they are huge and mean, weapons sized with small cessna airplanes that they wield and smash around then in a grinting madness of cold breath. after slashing their cessna planes around they call for their mounts.. and the big huge tauren steps onto a small thing looking bone horse half its size that screams in pain as the tauren rides off..

wait what? ok so left are Undead male and female, and orc male. Undead male.. good classy, big weapons, far to big for the mount, however. the fact that it seems horde side is infested with undead's of all classes from before also I find their animations to be sort of.. dull.. that goes for female aswell. left with the winner the orc male, the have huge armor, weapon size far enough OK and animations not to weird nor to cool, their running animation is also in my opinion the coolest ingame. on a horse they might be ABIT to big! but hey they make up for it in the rest. now seeing Death Knights have abit different presets of hair and faces etc upon creaing it seems, it MIGHT change but I doubt it. So now its back to more nerve wrecking waiting for the expansion, its like waiting for presants on christmas eve really.. 

The movie Wanted review

No Spoilers ahead

Time for a fast new blog! Today its about the movie in theaters now named Wanted, starring  James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson, Morgan Freeman as "Sloan", Common (musician) as "The Gunsmith", Thomas Kretschmann as "Cross" , Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky and not to forget "HAWT!" as always Angelina Jolie starring as "Fox" (oh irony right there mrs.foxy)

Anyhows I don't want to put so many spoilers in here now seeing and respecting that the movie have not yet come out yet in all countries aroundthe world. Fastly here though I can safly say its one of those movies again  you just "got to see"! just like Iron Man. the storyline in the movie is in my optinion sometimes quite blurry. however it is of course an action movie, and the impressive gore and shooting scenes I found it amusing to watch brains flying with a bloody mess in slow motion up close. ok you cant see the brains but there is alot of blood. the unreal feeling one somtimes get when they "curve bullets" is an example of what makes the movie both cool and daft at the same time, personally I liked the movie quite alot, the trailer can make it seem quite daft and "oh yet another hoparound shoot'em up movie" one can sort of say that it is so, however thus its somewhat blurry storyline, it sure has its aha moments, humoristic moments aswell. this is althought not a movie you watch if you want to be thrilled!

the acting I'd say is quite ok, I have always liked James McAvoy's acting, he always seem to be a "pussy whimp gone bad" for some reason, in wanted that really is the fact. there are some parts that has acting that is less and abit off. wont tell why as it would spoil. but you will probably find out when you see it, all in all the acting IS infact good, you dont get the feeling looking at angelina jolie as the same persona as I find her to be in many movies, in wanted she is abit .. how to put it, seemingly "shyishly" and not as dominant i'd say atleast.

the movie is safly recommendable! I wish I could write more about the story and whats what and how this and that, but if you are gonna see the movie or thinking off it, go see it! all different opinions I heard some newspapers shredding it as bad and crap, all I know that has seen it says it is surprisingly good. I guess newspapers are still having old farts loving man to man live acting on a scene still rather than movies. 

From me the movie gets a dice roll off 5. 

Space explosion

hey ho

Time for a ninja adding! tired as hell I thought it'd be a great idea to try making an space explosion!

ok so I know how to make the explosion, two ways. one where there is space and one where the planet kind of just explodes. in this image I combined them two to see how the outcome was.

I was sort of satisfied with the outcome, To tired right off making it to boher about the buggery stars I would say it look quite ok. the loss of stars here and there and black spaces is what drags the result down, when seeing images of space and stars where galaxies show, they are -never- completly white, aswell as when looking at the sky stars are not white, stars are the twinkling ones that are other "suns" that blinkle in diferent colors, plain "white" ones are planets. this means the stars around the explosion itself was quite good I think (those stars that are there) comared to other space images id say the alikeness is so on so. the explosion itself went good I'd say, the planet in the middle and explosion around it.

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The space thing is something I wont let go off. once I got time again and am not tired, I am gonna try to make planets coliding to get an nice outcome of that, the image i made here one dont need to be skilled to do, without tutorial or with its a quite simple one, you can get it harder, harder often mirrors into an better result aswell.

so stay tuned for more updates! more to come!

Photoshop and me.

Hey

so this is my first post ever on this blogg! here it all starts. Here it all begins. purpose of this blog is to post things on things I do and make aswell as other personal and semi personal things and also will be about World of Warcraft alittle bit! so keep tuned if you are interested, I will be trying to update it atleast every sunday.

This post will be about pretty much photoshop, its been several years now that I have been "playing" around with photoshop, trying this and that, everything from drawing in the start when i used it as paint, to starting to drawing this and won a contest in "Habbo Hotell" when i was like 14 or so, now im 20 and my photoshop level has rised from basic to what atleast i'd say good advanced, I now try to find tutorials of various ranges from advanced to knowledged expert levels to become better. I have not so long ago made an good to evil picture of Po the panda in Kung Fu Panda. I was happy with it but it was missing something about it in general.

before I post the pictures I'd want to add that my photoshop experience and training is only from a few texture tutorials in start, it was 5 years self playing with it and I could handle making quite good forum signatures before I started using text tutorials and then other tutorials to moving on, so I was novice leveld when I started using tutorials.

the picture shown below is the Kung Fu Panda one, my first shot on the tutorial making an Good to evil transformation. it sounds and looked easy, but getting it to become good as I wanted it and for it to look nice, it aint the easiest to do, id say you would have to be atleast advanced skilled to get an good outcome easily.

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Then I was quite satisfied with how it turned out, The picture was nice to make, it had the "good evil" look sort of already, the manipulation and editing made it just better. angel on one side, raging zombie on the other!

so I was wondering abit and decided to give it another go, this time more experienced on how to I decided to google and find a girls face, I found one in high def and decided to try out again. the result on this image was quite alot better I think atleast seeing that its a person, aswell as I myself think I got a quite evil look for it, aswell as a nice "goodside" look.

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Again there is of course a clear difference in the good and evil side, the text adds abit more "coolness" effect I think, bad things about this one is that I didnt tweak the eye wounds as much as I should, overall outcome on it I find good atleast.

Link to the tutorial: http://www.steelfrog.com/good-and-evil/ 

Check it out for other nice tutorials and games & Design.