Proposed Holiday Expansion
Main Story Instances:
Dungeon: The Polar Express
Trial: The North Pole (Santa Claus)
Dungeon: The Isle of Misfit Toys
Trial: Mother Earth’s Yard (Heat Miser and Snow Miser)
Additional Trials:
The Unending Pumpkin Patch (The Great Pumpkin)
The Lit Window (Ramses)
The Great Dragon’s Parade (Nian)
The Final Solstice (Horned God)
The Unending Pumpkin Patch (Extreme)
The Lit Window (Extreme)
The Great Dragon’s Parade (Extreme)
The Final Solstice (Extreme)
The North Pole (Extreme)
Mother Earth’s Yard (Extreme)
Regular Raid: The Hinterlands
Grove 1:
- The Hollow Trail (Grove 1, Tree 1)
- The Barren Arch (Grove 1, Tree 2
- The Clearing (Grove 1, Tree 3)
- Christmas Town (Grove 1, Tree 4)
Grove 2:
- Independence Day Town (Grove 2, Tree 1)
- Uncle Sam’s Office (Grove 2, Tree 2)
- Easter Town (Grove 2, Tree 2)
- Unforgiven Reasons (Grove 2, Tree 4)
Grove 3:
- Thanksgiving Town (Grove 3, Tree 1)
- St. Patrick’s Day Town (Grove 3, Tree 2)
- Valentine’s Day Town (Grove 3, Tree 3)
- The Toy Factory (Grove 3, Tree 4)
Alliance Raid: Halloween Town
Raid 1 - Halloween Town
- The Graveyard
- Pumpkin Patch
- Spiral Hill
- Jack’s House
Raid 2 - Darker Corridors
- Halloween Town Center
- Witches’ Shop
- Finlkestein’s Lab
- Treehouse
Raid 3 - Oogie’s Domain
- Masked Entryway
- Slot Machines
- The Contraption Room
- The Final Roulette Wheel
To my Jewish mutuals - a sincere question:
Okay, so to make it super plain: I’m very much not a Jew in any way shape or form. I share no family lines with anyone of the physical ethnicity, and I don’t subscribe to the faith. And I also want to make it clear that by asking (and probably rambling a bit too) I in no way want to claim or minimize any of you or your experiences, on any level.
So, I grew up in a city with a pretty sizable Jewish population. Heck, there’s a big freaking menorah every year on the island of the rotary that I passed going to high school, and a temple like… maybe a mile and a half away from that, tops. So I grew up surrounded by it, and I honestly loved it so much. I became disillusioned with xmas at an early age (for unrelated reasons, looking at you, Sister Elaine and capitalism), but Hanukkah always brought me a special kind of happiness, even if I didn’t (have a chance to) participate in it other than acknowledging it.
As I’ve grown up more (I say like I graduated last year in 2004 >.>) I’ve continued to admire the holiday more and more. And I’d like to know if it’s okay for me to celebrate it, even though I’m not a part of the faith. If it’s not, I understand that, and I’ll continue to support my Jewish fellows of all stripes just as much I have before. If it is, I’d like to know where I can learn to celebrate it properly, and if there are things I should refrain from participating in for… well, whatever reason.
I’d sincerely love to hear your feedback. Please feel free to answer by tumblr’s messanger or by adding your response in a reblog.
I love you all, and I hope the new year brings you all joy.
Come help this little snowman build the BIGGEST SNOWMAN TOWER EVER!!
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FUCK YEAH!! \o/
IT’S STILL GROWING!!
We’re still going! And we’ve got three twitches streaming it:
https://twitch.tv/luckiselki
https://twitch.tv/MystikBlu
https://twitch.tv/darklightraven0
I love my server.
La-hee
In original Ronkan, with translation
Ronkan
La-hee
Toen I havifvola
Hee tunedomo valo
Toen I havifvola
La-hee
Toen I havifvola
Hee tuenamadio
Tumeda
(choir)
La-hee
Undi sizit
Pela bapam
Sala modis
Tumeda hea
Tumudonet, tumudonet
Nadio masomiska novayo
Hee cankayao
Translation
Awaken! (hello/greetings)
To you I bring tidings
Rise and understand (and accept) this I bring
To you I bring tidings
Awaken! (hello/greetings)
To you I bring tidings
Rise and hear with your heart
(and) Your soul
(choir)
Awaken! (hello/greetings)
Under the trees (of the Greatwood)
Interred (covered/buried) in the ground (foundation)
Entering/entered spirit
Your soul stirs
Your being, your being
Memories from forever touching (in contact with)
Rise (and) hold them
Ran a bunch of Trust missions last night and–
As some of you have rightfully pointed out, Alphinaud’s not the only one who pulls this…
Reblog this.
If you do not care what gender your roleplay partner identify themselves as.
Be they male, female, trans, or whatever else is out there.
If you are a friend, you are a friend. If we ship our muses together, we ship the heck out of our muses. I don’t care if you are a female playing male, a male playing female or whatever is inbetween.
You are precious no matter what you are. And I love you.
I find a lot of arguably mean things funny, but there’s a special place in my heart for hardcore hipsters who insist they love tea despite having no idea how to brew it and just choking down that hot bitter disaster while insisting it’s God’s gift to man
My man Tanser over here gulping back scalding mugs of $40/oz organic loose leaf white tea that he steeped for half an hour before his holistic underwater basket weaving course at Lord Wiffleton’s Combination Waffle House And Taco Bell: I dunno I just prefer it over coffee I guess I’m just different
Okay, I’m getting questions so here’s what’s up.
Y'all are thinking of the water as n ingredient- what you gotta do is think of it like an oven.
Think about baking cookies- you can have all the best ingredients, all the perfect measurements, all the right consistency- but if the oven is too hot or you leave the dough in for the wrong amount of time, you don’t have cookies, you have sludge or charcoal.
With tea, the water is the oven.
White and green teas are delicate and prone to scalding- IE, the cookies burn easy. Put the water to a low boil, with small bubbles- tiny, like pinheads- and pour the water onto your leaves in the teapot to steep for 1-2 minutes- one teaspoon of tea per cup of water. Then strain the tea without squeezing the leaves- squeezing and crushing releases more of the natural tannins, which are healthy for you but taste bitter.
Likewise, the shape of the leaf can alter the taste- whole leaf teas are more expensive and take longer to steep, but have a subtle, pleasant taste that can have a lot of layers to it.
Read which are granular and crushed up are called Fannings- they’re typically cheaper, as they’re the castings that come from whole leaf tea processing, and they steep faster, but they also turn bitter easily and cloud the tea’s color. Fannings usually have a strong, bold flavour compared to whole leaf variations, but lack complexity.
Next are oolong teas- oolong teas come from the same plant as white and green teas, as well as black tea. The difference between the four is the oxidization of the plant- the Tea plant.
Oxidization is the process that causes the leaf to change color- white teas are the least oxidized and black teas are the most oxidized.
An oolong is a tea leaf that isn’t quite oxidized enough to be called a black tea. It usually has a reddish color to it, and can steep any color from amber to deep red. It also has a good but of caffeine in it, and a more bitter taste than green or white tea. I personally enjoy oolongs because the ones sold in my area tend to have a sort of woodsy-fireplace kind of taste.
To prepare an oolong, take one teaspoon of leaf per cup of water, and bring your water to a medium boil- the bubbles should be the size of the tip of your finger, no bigger. Pour the water onto the leaf and steep for 3-5 minutes.
Again, be sure not to squeeze the leaves while straining.
Black tea is the most oxidized leaf, and also contains the highest concentration of caffeine.
Black tea is also sturdy and hard to bruise, so to prepare it, you can bring the water to a full rolling boil and steep it around 4-5 minutes.
Black teas also tastes the most bitter of all the variations I’ve listed, so be aware of that. Depending on how they’re processed, though, they can have a wide range of warm, smoky flavors.
The darker the leaf, the longer it usually needs to steep, and the more bitter it is, but the more caffeine it has.
The smaller the leaf, the cheaper, faster, and stronger the flavor, but also less subtle the taste.
Good green teas are typically bright, vibrant green.
White tea, contrary to the name, produces pale yellowish or greenish tea.
Herbal teas are 1 to 1.5 teaspoons per cup of water, at a rolling boil, and should usually steep at Least 5 minutes.
Again, contrary to the name, Herbal Tea isn’t technically Tea, as it doesn’t actually contain Leaves from the Tea plant- these are called tisanes by detail-oriented nerds like me.
Herbal teas can be made of anything from dried fruits to flowers to vegetables, spices, and garden herbs, and don’t have any caffeine unless intentionally added.
Herbal tea also doesn’t release the tannins that green, oolong, and black do, so it doesn’t typically turn bitter with time.
Do be careful not to steep too long, though, because it can turn too strong and pungent to drink.
Each tea blend is different, and is specifically designed to be prepared a certain way to get the intended taste, so these guidelines will vary from tea to tea, but the important thing is that you find something you genuinely enjoy.
It doesn’t matter if what you like is some fancy expensive matcha or a cheap dollar store chai; as long as you enjoy it, there’s no wrong choice.
To beat the metaphor: Please don’t force yourself to eat burnt cookies!
Enjoy what you put in your food hole
Is this a bad time to point out that sometimes it is enjoyable to drink burnt tea because it is has that particularly tanniny bitterness that overwhelms all other flavors?
Hey my friendo as long as that’s the recipe you crave