So the plague’s completed its circuit through our household, saving its grand finale for me on Valentine’s Day. Nothing says “I love you, honey!” like “Make way in the bathroom, I’m gonna spew!”
This meant that instead of lovely V-Day activities, I spent yesterday curled up on the couch, moaning to an empty house, and making mental notes to remind my kids of how they did this to me when they’re old enough to understand all of the fancy words I’ll use. The one good thing about being sick in this day and age is that I wasn’t a prisoner of daytime TV for my only means of entertainment, but had Netflix on tap and a computer on the lap. Jerry Springer ain’t got nothing on me.
It’s not like I did a lot, but I figured that if I was going to be stationary, I might as well log in to LOTRO and keep accumulating my free treasure picks every fifteen minutes. Good thing I did so, because it turned out that Turbine was merely running a low-level stress test on the event and turned it off today. Before that happened, however, I got just about everything I wanted from the event, including my helmet, two housing decorations, the side pouch, mask, and cave-claw pet (although I’m disappointed the latter can only be used every 10 minutes for one minute instead of staying out constantly).
The best part of the day came right at the end as I was wrapping up my efforts in the event, as I scored two mounts within five minutes of each other. The mounts are pretty rare finds in the event, but still easier to come by than other top-quality mounts in the game. Seriously, within five minutes I got a +68% speed, 250-morale pony AND goat, satisfying all of my travel needs on my Minstrel through the current endgame. I was really in shock. Plus, both mounts are cool looking — the pony is the cave-claw one and the goat has coins flying out of its butt.
Turbine said that the event will be coming back soon and over a weekend next time, so for those who missed out, here’s hoping you get caught up soon. Special shout-out to CSTM for a great Buried Treasure guide.
Nice one. The last glorious stomach flu I got was on Christmas Day a few years ago. While in New Zealand. Visiting my in-laws. Who then all came down with the bug that I got first.
Good times.
I can’t imagine living in a household where I am suffering from an accute case of Montezuma’s Revenge only to find my kid occupying the bathroom so she can tend to her farm of rubber duckies in the bathtub. It’s bad enough with such living by myself….
…I do hope you get better soon though.
Don’t forget to Clorox wipe your keyboard!
I had a gastro flu for the first time in nearly a decade just before Christmas and it took me out pretty hard. No fun!
In two days I never even saw the Huge chest once (only a few hours each day, though, since I was working in normal work hours). My mom got it twice and both times it just dropped 18 tokens (and she was in more hours than I was). My total stuff dropped from chests was a digsite and 2 copies of the Dowse emote. Meanwhile, another forlorn person who had been on till 4am had also not gotten a mount to drop and was pondering the murder of a kinmate who had gotten the goat for ALL their alts in a single day. That plus people openly lamenting the lack of PVP because they could not kill the person who stole their dig site or got to the berries before them. They seriously need to increase the number of berries or their respawn rate or both. We had as many as 5 people arrive at a berry bush at once, with others looking longlingly on from too distant to even try.