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A dog walk lunch Walking with the dogs early Sunday morning and collecting young herbs, deep frosted fruits still on bushes and mushrooms. We call them Winterpilze, winter mushrooms. The cultivated form sees no light and is grown in a special room with a special atmosphere and well known: enoki. I prefer the wild forms however. Tasty soup.

Grandma taught collecting food and herbs. She was 16 in World War 2 as a nurse. She was hiding and fleeing all the way from the Baltic to Germany. Bet I learned more about nature spending a week with her in summer breaks than in all the years at school.

Was reading about this, and toyed a little with the idea. I've a small TCP server to sniff the request from the gameserver... well, it's not garbage but there some binary data, and without a log of some real action between client and server, this is not the real way. Tried to disassemble Tincat2.dll and well, it's not easy. I'm not so good to understand assembly code on the fly, but seems really difficulty. Then I had an idea: why not remove completely Tincat? Writing a new Tincat2.dll file would be easy enough if there were some documentation of the APIs, but I understand that also having the interfaces and structs is out of question, isn't? Having that, and writing a new tincat client dll, would remove the legal problem of emulating a server: we are writing a new one from scratch

Small update: I encountered one death today. Reason, when trying to clear the area around Xantiar, one of the young dragon buffers moved my seraphim to a side, just when I was going to click at that particular dragon. Result, the conversation and the fight with Xantiar triggered and that wasn't fun in an area with lots of baddies. So it was goodbye to over 60% of SB. After returning to that area, I was able to take out all dragons as well as those pesky human "game keepers". Surprisingly, the Carnag was a lot less of a hassle to kill. It became a bit tricky when he summoned those fire elementals, but this time I took them down first as he was leeching a lot from them and after that he began teleporting. Which I was able to counter with an AS - PS combo. That fight was followed by a journey through the swamp; which isn't really my favorite area. One reason is that dreaded lightning whiping out your screen for a few seconds. It's already a pain when doing one on one fights, but with multiple opponents and even the Miasma it's terrible. Not to mention, the major fights are done with either a companion or guards nearby, resulting in NPC's blocking your access to those who try to hurt you. Still, Miasma is down and I'm back in the desert. Despite the death, I was having fun for quite a while. First with the bugged cavenear the Octo; in which monsters spawn at a much higher level as outside. And although they were 20+ levels above me, I was able to kill them quite fast: After dealing with those, I expected a hard fight with the Octo. I managed to clear the area from Harpy's - which are doing that blinding spell - before triggering the fight. That certainly helped, but despite that the fight itself was fully under control the moment I was able to fight right under that monster: After that it was Xantiar and I've already told how that fight ended. So, that leaves me at level 43 right now, with the first bit of the main quest done and ready to pick up that scroll. With the Desert being more my favorite area, as it's open, it won't be too hard to continue. However, I'm also wondering if I should consider a restart. One reason for that is my chosen skills; I got the feeling Toughness isn't really kicking in at level 26, given that it's only giving a +1.x% change atm. The other reason is that I'm still doubting about the last skill. If I do a restart and if I do drop Toughness, I could indeed pick Concentration and Warding Energy Lore for the Warding Energy shield, which in turn will give me an extra defensive buff as well. I know that when I do that restart, I will be able to correct some mistakes I made; despite it's also a loss of time. I think I'll sleep things over for the night. Thorin

ta Dah... my first attempt at Thai Red curry chicken noodles... pretty yum yum... that bottled sauce does miracles gogo