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  • Bluecoal Diaries — 02272015

    So many chores to do around the garrison. This place would fall apart if I weren’t keeping up with things. There are work orders to pick up it seems like constantly. And then there are the things that need gathering like the ore in the mine and the herbs in the herb garden.

    And there are all the missions that keep coming up. I have to assign the right people to those. And occasionally  someone gets fussy about it.

    The good news is in the middle of all this up keep I’ve managed to do a few more interesting things.

    The guy in the guild was working on a raid group for killing off Tarina the Ageless in Gorgrond. So I went over there an helped with that. That was quite a fight. Once we quit dieing and got a method down we were able to take that thing down. I can’t say that I got much more out of it than some gold and a high repair bill. And of course some experience killing off that thing. I’ve heard there is another big guy in Gorgrond to hunt down but I haven’t followed up on it.

    I finally knocked down the Lumber Mill. I haven’t been getting much use out of it. Most of the time it sits idle. So I decided that it was time to replace it with a more functional building. I had Gazlowe put up a Tavern. They call it Frostwall Tavern. There were visitors in there right quick trying to get me to go get things for them from one dungeon or another. This is not sitting well with Warmaster Zog. He’s not keen on my ability to take care of myself in a dungeon. I really think this is just him being over protective. But maybe he’s right. I guess I need to put a little more time in over at the Barrack’s training dummies.

    After we upgraded the Tavern a bit this Troll named Akanja showed up calling herself a Headhunter. I thought she meant to she actually hunts heads. You know Trolls. She quickly put me straight. She’s like a employment broker. She tells me that she will go out and scout for people to come work at my garrison, I just have to tell her what skills I’m looking for. So I took her up on the offer to find a new recruit and she brought me a choice of three. I ended up with a Holy Paladin named Auriel Birdsong. She seems capable enough, though she’s going to require some training up. She also can work over in the Herb Garden when there aren’t missions for her. That’s good. Get her a little experience there, then maybe find her some missions to head out on.

    As I mentioned Warmaster Zog is not really happy with my performance in group situations like dungeons and raids. It’s making it a little tense in the Town Hall. This week High Overlord Saurfang showed up and is standing not even ten spans from Warmaster Zog. This would be ok if Saurfang weren’t trying to convince me to go take care of something in Black Rock Spire.

    It’s looking like I may need to take some training from Zog. I think that’s the only way he’s going to ease up on me and let me see more action. Not that I have that much time for it with all the garrison up keep there is. Still a little change of pace would be good.


  • Bluecoal’s Diaries — 01312015

    While it has been a busy week. It has not been very productive. Most of this week has been taken up with chores. Some of those chores have become a little more time consuming since the Mine and the Barn were upgraded early in the week.

    Upgrading the barn is just a step to the final upgrade. Right now they can produce fur and feasts. But what we
    really need are Savage Blood and the foreman there tells me he can’t do that until it gets upgraded one more
    time.

    The Mine upgrade has not been bad. We opened up another shaft and so are getting much more ore and stone from there. We’re finding some carts with a variety of items in them, including some Archeology fragments. I’m hoping to find enough to start getting an idea of what the history of the place looks like. Draenor is so different that what was left of it as Outland in my timeline. The only thing about the new shaft is that we keep having to deal with Goren in the tunnels. Like they found a new hole to tunnel in through. It’s a bit annoying. I’m told that I might be able to get someone to patrol the Mine if I upgrade it again. I guess these guys don’t want to work in dust. What do they think this place is a 5 star resort?

    The Warmill is finally starting to produce gear for the followers. They don’t do it regularly but every once in
    while I find they’ve left me a nice piece or two to hand out. As a result the followers are better equipped for
    some of the missions they are being asked to go out on.

    I did take a couple of the followers that were working in garrison building as send them out on a few missions. They needs a bit more experience. Things are starting to heat up and I want them ready for anything. Besides there is a bit more going on and more hands are needed in the field right now. Better they be out there taking care of business than hanging out here working in a cushy garrison building. They’ll get soft. Now if there aren’t any missions that need them, well then they are going to work. I don’t have time for lay-abouts and hangers-on.

    Especially with the various campaigns popping up. This week we headed over to Shadowmoon Valley. They called it the Sargerei Campaign. At least I got to do something in Shadowmoon Valley besides fish. That was a nice change. Supposedly this little campaign was all about trying to disrupt the rise of Socrethar. There’s a bunch of Dranei over there that are turning against their own people in favor of the Burning Legion and they are trying to raise some demon or something. They think Valen was a fool. I don’t have time for such traitors. Really. Feel the same about my own people.

    And what is up with this disguise thing? Really? Infiltrate? Seriously, that’s just not satisfying. That disquise
    is uncomfortable and it smells. What have these creatures been bathing in? I don’t understand why we can’t just go in and be straight forward about it and wipe them out. What is the point in letting such traitors continue?

    The campaign was more challenging than I expected. I did get some help from the garrison when I called. At least they were on the ball. Still the commanders are calling it a success. We were able to bring back some intel for them and while they aren’t pleased with it, they are glad to have it.