And I was in the middle of the battle in Helm's Deep, so why not take some silly photos? Also, I really like this medium crafted set, so I wanted to update my red outfit and use this instead of a previous chest piece I was using 😊 I wanted to mix and match pieces, and it was a little difficult to find some that were not too gold, and the silver didn't match as well as I liked it to, but I still like this outfit!

Also interestingly, the guards/soldiers liked to hold their spears like torches, holding them above the ground instead of letting them rest on the ground

The rock piles are also super tall, so hopefully they hurt the orcs a ton

That's right, I AM a burglar of great skill

Ceremonial Hat of the Elder Days

Fine Grey Company Wrap, walnut brown

Ice Flower Cloak, burgundy

Enduring Wildermore Armor of Combat, default

Shield-master's Gauntlets, burgundy

Enduring Wildermore Boots of Combat, default

Sealed Burglar's Dagger of the Third Age (it says minimum level 59, but no exact level beyond that)

Rhianlin Tanglebriar, in her natural habitat, drawn by the wonderful @captainderyn

I missed it. Not so much doing of it, but being able to check back on things like when I last cooked particular meals for supper, or just how many days (or how few) the latest loaf of bread managed to survive, or when I'd last did different non-daily chores.

So, yeah, first day of December, first day of resuming my Thing of the Day posts. I'll also need to restart my count for managing to keep it up for at least a year straight.

December 1 - Picked up some ebooks on sale, including both of Robert Silverberg's Majipoor trilogies, which have been on my wishlist for years but were waaaay more expensive per volume than I wanted to spend on just replacing books I already own in dead tree form. But with four of the six dropped to the ~$2 range? You damn betcha I got the full set of both. I've mentally tagged that for a re-read some time later this month - it's been over a decade.

Ran about half of my monthly backups today, still need to dig out the drives from my emergency go bag to update them as well.

Also, finally dusted off LotRO and tried out the new Mariner class, in addition to popping for the new River Hobbit race, because they can be mariners and I didn't feel like rolling another man, high elf, or stout-axe dwarf when there was a shiny new racial option (well, new as of August just past).

She turned out very pretty. Named her Windolen (after the usual dozen or so attempts to find a name that wasn't already in use by someone else):

The new hobbits have a ton of facial adjustment sliders that prior races didn't have, plus a lot of new hair styles, including a whole pile of braided/cornrow/wavy ones, which is always nice to see. I'm kind of hoping they have the ability (and decide to) retrofit the existing player character models with the new adjustment sliders. And some new hairstyles. Which yeah would be a lot of work to put in on a game that was released 15+ years back (and was in development starting a fair few years prior to that) but it would be nice to have the option.