Down The Decorating Rabbit Hole

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So it’s been a while… because I’ve been decorating.  Previously I focused on fashion for good reason — if I focused on something else as crazily as fashion, there’d be no room for anything else.  For the longest time I had one lonely stronghold that I lazily decorated, but

The stronghold bonus is a gateway drug.  Just unlock them, they said.  You can leave them empty, they said.

So I unlocked them ALL.  I learned I definitely cannot just leave an empty stronghold.  For the last six months I FUSSED.  I started out with crafting and rep decos and then transitioned to buying cartel items from the GTN when I finally had cash.  Always Be Upgrading!

This is boring, on to the pictures!  The most “done” of my strongholds (that’s a lie, they’re never done) is the Kaas City one.  The theme behind this one is a military outpost for imperial intelligence, for briefings, meetings, and whatnot.

Note, I’ve tried to bring decent lighting to my strongholds so none of these images have been retouched.

Front entry

Just a boring front office, nothing to see, definitely not a secret military installation, carry on.

 

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Behold the Magneto Hat

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Yes, I know, I’ve been a posting slacker.  No apologies, been playing, not posting about playing.  Also been making awesome outfits!  Today we are going to talk about my magneto hat. It goes with all things gold and keeps the sun off baldy’s pale, pale scalp.

Patient defender hat
Noble Councillor’s set (with dynamic paladin pants)
Lucien Draay’s set (dark red/black dye, maybe deep red/black)
Hallowed gothic set (black/deep red dye)

For some of these I had to individually dye the hat (primary color, no secondary, so black/whatever).  Totally worth it.  You may now be jelly.

Consular Crew Party

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After months away, I come back, and realize that I haven’t finished all my consular companion quests yet.  Fortunately, the only one who matters is Qyzen, because you have to schlep somewhere.  Everyone else can be talked to on ship.  My quest log says Qyzen wants to go to Tatooine (or Taris, somewhere), so I get to the spaceport, summon him and…

What the HELL, dude!  Why are you in your panties in the spaceport?

I quickly pulled some gear out of my collections for Qyzen’s dignity and moved on to addressing the rest of my crew on the ship.

Pants?
Where pants?
Maybe they’re in the conference room.
Or the medbay?

What have they been doing while I was gone?

I will leave you now with the fun thought that in my stronghold, almost every day there is a random naked companion bugged out in there.

I didn’t cleanse you because my button stuck

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No, seriously, the cleanse button on my naga is sticking. So I used compressed air and it works… most of the time.

The next day, it was prime day. And what do I see? Razer peripherals up to 50% off…

We all know what happened next:

Shiny

Well except I saved so much money that I had to pick up one of these:

Pretty colors!

So um yeah, shut up, I’m stuck in this house and I deserve shinies.

Shocked By Little Jedi’s Choices

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The impossible has happened. Little Jedi is tanking on her Assassin (she is a big fan of stealth classes). And she likes it!

We all already know she’s good at it. She is my spawn, after all.

She runs in there screaming “Hey I’m Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!”

We can discuss later whether it’s good parenting or awesome parenting to let her watch Rick and Morty.

With LJ’s already considerable tanking skills, my healing skills, and dad’s pewpew, we attempted a veteran flashpoint – you know, the kind where you are supposed to be able to bring in 4 dps and bullshit your way through it.

We got Maelstrom Prison. It was not bullshit. We had a dedicated healer and tank and wiped. We looked up all the mechanics and were doing what we were supposed to be doing. Still wiped. Multiple times.

Dude, fuck that flashpoint right in the ear. If I get it again, I’m quitting and just eating the 20 minute lockout timer. As it is, we’re now afraid to do a flashpoint on the republic side in case we get it again.

The Family That Plays Together

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So the other night, I’m roaming around SWTOR and I send Little Jedi a tell.

Me: I’m bored.

LJ: What do you want me to do about it?

Me: RUDE.

OK fine, teens don’t want to play with their mommas. Whatever. Last night:

Me: Sup Nerd.

LJ: Excuse me but who is this?

Me: UR MOM (no seriously)

Me: But you were very polite when you thought I was a stranger

My bad for not giving her the names of all my alts.

What Comes Next?

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Awesome, wow!

Oh come on. You know you watched Hamilton on someone’s Disney+ account. Even my mom did. Get with the program.

Anyway, I teamed up with Hawt Twi’lek and killed all the things. Like this guy.

Haha dead.

She won’t respond to my flirts. Rude.

I think I finished the story for now and um, now what? Play through the story pub side next, then who knows? Little Jedi has her own guild and she is doing her own thing. I came back to a guild that basically didn’t exist, no big surprise there. Guild searching sounds like an extreme pain in the ass, considering I have no interest in dealing with millennials. LFG, minimum age 35. I had to check to see that I’m on Star Forge server, post-server-merge #3 (possibly further consolidation while I was gone).

Any ideas?

It Lives!

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Little Jedi’s new pc arrived, meaning the old pc is now in my sweaty hands. I admit that it was a JOY to just plug something in and have it work. She was back in SWTOR quickly after reinstalling.

We didn’t buy it just because it’s pretty but LOOK HOW PRETTY

Don’t worry, I still got my “PC building fix” – now with improved swearing. Between my old pc and her old pc, I have combined them into an awesome “super old but functional pc”. It’s definitely snappier than my old pc and has better graphics than her old pc.

Why don’t YOU have multicolor LED lights?

Get ready for the further adventures of Little Jedi (and, to a lesser extent, me).