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Illikaal

I feel like all the people I grew up playing aetolia with these past 12 years are all having kids, gettin married, and its an eerie remind that i'm getting ooooooooold.

Teani

Illidan said:

I feel like all the people I grew up playing aetolia with these past 12 years are all having kids, gettin married, and its an eerie remind that i'm getting ooooooooold.

Speaking of age , this is my "baby":

Soon to be 18

Rhyot

Because people on shadow side know i've been working on a table for the past couple weeks (I'm enjoying woodworking as a new hobby) and asked to see pics of the results and progress as I went through it. So here you go!!

If ya'll have ideas on what I should make next, let me know!

Tedrunai

So when's the table hitting level 200?

Koda

A whole bunch has happened since I last played, one of the biggest of which was getting engaged! Wedding was supposed to be this fall, but the virus seems to have thrown a wrench into those plans for the time being. I'm on the left, the handsome lad to the right is the poor guy stuck with me forever.

Macavity

my cat....while I work over nights! He is trying to get to a straw while coming up under my work monitors!! silly cat!

Sryaen

Hello old friends and new! I know I've been gone for almost 10 years, so here's some recent pictures.

My fiance and I are big into the EDM/rave scene, so we usually go to two or three big camping music festivals a year. Pretty wild! I thought I'd have a few kids of my own by now, too! We recent moved from Kansas City to the San Francisco bay area, and I'm currently working as a sous chef at a Mediterranean restaurant. So if any of you have any recipes you'd like to share, please feel free to shoot me a message!

I'm so happy to be back and I missed this community terribly. ❤️

Elene

Since we're all about catching up and posting pictures after ~ >10 RL years of playing, here's recent pictures of me on holidays (man, do I miss being able to travel) and at work!

This is me in Korea! I visited an exhibition and they had nice windows.


This is me in New Zealand, after completing the Hooker's Valley Trail! Yes, I brought a plushie just so I could take a stupid picture up there. >_>


And this is a glimpse of me at work! I am a radiographer and an MRI technologist.

Rhyot

You might want to blackout the name at the top so you don't get in trouble for HIPAA violations.

Elene

Thanks Rhyot! No name included, I made sure of it, but if you want to squint real close, it says my patient's age: 49Y | Exam: 29-JUN-2020 (yes it means I took the pic today <_) MRI, Whole Spine | Location unspecified.

Dude has a really bad back problem. :X

Tedrunai

Went hiking for a week for our ten year anniversary.

An amazingly reflective lake.



The lake and hotel we stayed at; view is from hiking up a nearby mountain. The lake really is that weird turquoise colour - it almost looks fake! It's the result of rock flour runoff from being glacier-fed, apparently. The tiny little dots on the lake are canoes.



View from atop a different mountain. We were in the middle of a passing cloud so wisps of it are still visible.



Walking through the aforementioned cloud - very wet and could barely see anything.



Hiking up/through a bunch of glaciers.



After a triumphant (and very tiring) climb!



We weren't actually expecting to go hiking; we found a random trail on the first day and got hooked on the spectacular views. Ended up hiking about 20 km each day, much of it uphill. All in all, this experience convinced me that I really need to work off all the weight I gained being inactive and boredom eating during COVID-19!

Kiyotan

Coronavirus has me working from home, with a little free time to check out some of my old haunts. Anyway, here's my kid.

Teani

I visited a castle today (one of many here in Sweden). Here's a little something for you to enjoy:

One of the four corner towers

Some armor in the first chamber (of three) of the armory

A 360 degree view of the second chamber of the armory. These are all from the 1600s or earlier, as nothing has been added since the owner passed away in year 1676.

Morning stars hanging on the wall in the third chamber of the armory

Not many items remain from Native Americans from this early time period, but here lies a rather large portion of them (around 20% I believe they said?), in a chest, protected and looked after. They were obtained through peaceful trading between Native Americans and the early settlers in the Swedish colony "New Sweden", situated on the Delaware river.

Macavity

Teani said:

I visited a castle today (one of many here in Sweden). Here's a little something for you to enjoy:

One of the four corner towers

Some armor in the first chamber (of three) of the armory

A 360 degree view of the second chamber of the armory. These are all from the 1600s or earlier, as nothing has been added since the owner passed away in year 1676.

Morning stars hanging on the wall in the third chamber of the armory

Not many items remain from Native Americans from this early time period, but here lies a rather large portion of them (around 20% I believe they said?), in a chest, protected and looked after. They were obtained through peaceful trading between Native Americans and the early settlers in the Swedish colony "New Sweden", situated on the Delaware river.

I have always wanted to go to Sweden!!

Teani

Hope my pictures inspire you to make that happen, @Macavity!

By the way, here are some more, courtesy of my travel company since my own battery died and I couldn't make the most of it myself. 

Lances inside the nearby church

Vaulted ceiling in the church

Workbenches and tools left behind by workers in 1676, in the unfinished ballroom

King's room

Unfinished ballroom

Hallway with painted ceiling 

Stigandr

I don't know if the stars lined up perfectly or what, but the coincidence is unusual. Recently in the game, my character did this little project of analyzing the water works and sewers of Enorian. Two days after it was complete, I landed a job at a nearby Water/Waste Plant (today).

Apparently I have homework now to take care of every night, and a new career to look forward to.

Ayastia

Are we playing catch up? Here are my babies 

Stigandr

Work feels like a fortified compound and I love it.

Lin

Oh hey I shot a bunch of Russian dudes there on Goldeneye

Stigandr

Stop putting grease/oil down the drain. It hurts your local wastewater treatment plant.

Rhyot

The fuck is THAT?! Did someone take a dump in a reservoir??

Also, how the hell do you clean THAT?!

Stigandr

That's all the oil/grease etc that people throw down their drains.

It get's run through a few filtering/separation processes. Regardless, it causes damage to the machinery.

@Rhyot The last stage once all the bad is separated is it's ran through a UV process. It scrambles the DNA of any bacteria/organisms that may be left over and makes them harmless. Aside from that, a few nitrates are released, and solid wasted get's turned into "cake", which can be turned into fertilizer.

Rhyot

When you say oil/grease.... are we talking like vegetable/corn oil and grease like bacon grease??

Or something else entirely?? Cause I'm guilty of pouring vegetable oil down the drain.

Stigandr

All the above. STOP PUTTING VEGETABLE OIL DOWN THE DRAIN, GOSH. @Rhyot

Rhyot

How else am I supposed to dispose of it?!?!?! I don't want to just pour it into my trash bag!!!

Have you ever carried a trash bag that's sloshing around with liquid in it?!?! I mean..... I guess I could just keep the empty bottle of vegetable oil and then use a funnel to put it back in when I throw it away. WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME DO MORE WORK?!?!?!

Phoenecia

We have green bins up here for food garbage. Take a paper towel, wipe down your pan, toss the paper towel in the green bin. 

Saidenn

Here we have a dumpster for trash (and everything else) and recycle bins with a 16-page printout on the outside of what, how, and exactly how much you can recycle.

Sryaen

Lol, yeah. The county I live in in California is pretty strict about what waste goes where. Recycling can only contain certain stuff. Green waste (food scraps, bio stuff). Trash can only contain anything that's not recyclable/compostable. As Phoe said, you can use a paper towel to scrape off like bacon grease and use it later for cooking (i.e. heckin' bomb tamales). Warmer climates may not do as much damage to your plumbing as colder ones, but I'm sure it still causes an issue as it gets down the line to a wastewater plant.

When I was living in Kansas, this kid at my old work poured like 3 qt of bacon grease down the floor drain and jacked up our plumbing. I wanted to strangle him.

Iadra

Rhyot said:

How else am I supposed to dispose of it?!?!?! I don't want to just pour it into my trash bag!!!

Have you ever carried a trash bag that's sloshing around with liquid in it?!?! I mean..... I guess I could just keep the empty bottle of vegetable oil and then use a funnel to put it back in when I throw it away. WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME DO MORE WORK?!?!?!

Stigandr

@Rhyot I takeit a step forward and sponge up whats left with a piece of bread, then eat it. Unusual, but I like the oily gristle left over from when I cook.