Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

 Neverwinter!  Icewind Dale!  Baldur's Gate!  THE HARPERS!!!!!

This movie is definitly a trip for 2.5 (the brown books) players about the Forgotten Realms.

But is it actually also a good movie?  The story starts with the bard Edgin pleading for prior release from jail, together with his companion, the barbarian Holga.  He is an ex Harper that turned to a life of stealing when his wife was killed by disciples of a Red Mage he had arrested.  Even though the parole was approved, before they heard the ruling they make a daring escape.

They arrive in Neverwinter, learning that their companion Forge became the lord there, and is the self-proclaimed uncle of Edgin's daughter Kira.  He is reinstating the High Sun games, and they learn he and the Red Mage Sofina had doublecrossed him years ago, resulting in their capture and imprisonment.  Fleeing the city, they recruit Simon, a so-so wizard they adventured with, and the druid Doric.  They must find the Helm of Disjunction, an artefact that can break the seals on Forge's vault, and where a tablet is kept that can bring back his dead wife.

Asking Holga's ancestors in a graveyard where the battle took place for the Helm, they meet the paladin Xenk Yandar who hid it in the Underdark.   They manage to retrieve it from the perils in there (that chubby dragon was hilarious), but Simon has trouble mastering the Helm.  They try another plan to enter the vault, but as they get captured they are brought into the arena (and say hello to the actors of the original DnD cartoon).

They escape the games and steal the boat Forge's treasure is on, but as they see the city being under thread of being wiped out by Sofina's magics, they return to stop her.  In an epic duel, and with the help of Kira, they manage to slip an anti-magic bracelet on her, but Holga is mortally wounded.  Edgin decides to resurrect her instead of his wife, as she has become a part of their family.  Crowned heroes, Forge on the other hand is now imprisonned in Revel's End...

So this movie was good fun, and surely worth the watch, and not only for the nostalgia as I mentioned at the beginning!

Back to Eorzea

Paint decompressions... that's how I should call it.

After painting, basing and varnishing almost 300 figures for the AHPC8, I'm taking a step back for now.

Not that I quit painting, but I just am turning down the speed, and work through the figures at a far lesser deadlined rate then the past three months. To that end, I'm also filling the "geek-time" with returning to my favorite MMO, Final Fantasy XIV.

Just like Noshi, who came out of her winter break for the game this month.  So that lines up nicely, and we can go on dastardly duo-ing the instances.  Or better, she rules them and I'm her wind-up minion being dragged along, as I'm way behind her, just rounding out the main storyline quests.  Now the whole gear grind and instance unlocking is upon me...

I finally joined her guild as well, in an effort to on the one hand get some old raid contents sorted out, but more importantly to not be solo grinding and queue waiting the whole time.

Now for the next weeks, my goals are on the one hand to level up my gear with my 'main' class of Red Mage(power to pouf and panache!) and on the other hand boost up the crafter alt in tailoring and botany to unlock at first the desyntesis parts. Because that way I can trash all the loot from the lower level instances, as well as push on in the end game content and "sponsor" the bloody expensive Materia VI's...

And try not to get to distracted by hunting down minions xD...