News from Egypt

[kathygnome]

Things are progressing well in Egypt. We have been robbed of the opportunity to work metal. Still don't know whether it's been moved further up the tech tree or whether Pharoah has just pulled it so we won't waste time on things that were already (well) tested in beta 1.

Our guild decided we wanted something new and interesting, so we decided to unlock obelisk construction, pretty much by ourselves. And we are now just finishing up the linen for it. Last night was crazed, with one person churning bricks and virtually the entire rest of the guild feeding him boards (brick boards wear out) and straw.

Everyone else is working on beehives. I gather we need to get them in order to unlock something else, but I think it's chariots which are really kind of silly for a few weeks of beta. There are rumors that you need glass to unlock ore and metal, which would suit me fine because with glass comes bugs. Maybe Faris and I can convince the guild to unlock horticulture so we can play with flowers.

In personal news, I visited my sculpture, which was an eye of horus made out of straw and grass with a barrel of mud as the eye, and last I checked I had 39 interesting and only 1 eyesore. Click and zappage! And I turned in something else that I can't even remember. But either way, I'm now fifth level. I started my acro test and I'm already bored to tears with it. I remember this from Tale 1. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. It's just too much of "who wants to acro" and drive by wiggling. And takes way way too long. I'll pass it and hopefully never do acro again. Other than that, I need to build a puzzle and do more meet and greet. The meet and greet is kind of difficult, but I know there are a few granddaughters around 7 lakes. I'm working on getting cooking, but the veggies are ungodly slow. I've done the easy ones, ground through carrots, and now I need to find a good cabbage spot and worse figure out the trick for garlic.