Check This Out (Episode 11)

Heya! Well, a lot of cool stuff has been going on, and I wanted to share some of that shtuffz out with you all! (And, really, it's just time for some serious housecleaning in my email inbox.) Therefore and thusly, it is time for anotherrrrrrr. . . CHECK THIS OUT!

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First up are a couple of crazy awesome interviews that other bloggers have done with me! Said what?!?! yup, someone actually thinks I'd make for an interesting interview. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaaaa!

Well, I appreciate these two thinking of me. Seriously. That's awesome.

1- The Life of a Wizard
2- Around the Spiral with Edward Lifegem.

And if you're into hearing more, there's always Spiral Live episode 15 that you can check out. :)

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Speaking of Spiral Live, Blaze Shadowhorn drew a couple pictures of ze Friendly Necromancerz!



Awesome! Classic Friendly Look! I have a mannaquin in my death house that still has that look going on. He's standing there saying, welcome, everyone, to the ultimate death dance party central. ;)


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Seriously, I love this dancer . . . so cool he has a sponsor now. I want a sponsor!



There's gotta be some nerdy company out there that would want my nerd all over their product. ;p (*points* I'm pointing at you cheddar cheese factories! You know you want some Friendly Necromancer cheese!)

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There's a new person on Twitter professing ULTIMATE FAN STATUS of The Friendly Necromancer. Behold Kevin Lionblood!

He sent me over a couple of cool creative things. the first one is a poem he made for me:

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I've also written you a short poem if you don't mind:
The ghouls and spirits start dancing,
The Death wizards start necromancing,
Even the Black Cat stops chasing the mouse,
Cause Friendly Necro is in the house!
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*clicks fingers*

WORD TO THE DEATH POETS SOCIETY! ;)

Next Kev had a parody he did to the tune of Party Rock Anthem:

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Friend Necro's in the house tonight,
You better get rid of all the lights,
And Katzenstein's gonna blow your mind,
We just wanna hear you.. SCREAMING!
Every day I necromance.. \(•.•)/
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HAHA! I'm filing that under creepy awesome.

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I got another message from Rylee Icehaven, who is a cool wizard playing through the game Angus Unicornpants style. SCHECK it out!

greetings again!
well i made it thru shirataki temple, now on to the ancient burial grounds!

it has taken me a while to get so far because i made a side trip to grizzleheim. kinda got stuck on scarl doomhowler so then i made another side trip to wysteria and got stuck on chester droors. but at least while i was in wysteria i got some spiffy new pigswick academy clothes (love the argyle socks!) and a cute golden piggle for a companion.

so now it's back to mooshu. plus i am up to lvl 38, almost to lvl 39.
oh and remember the crowns you so generously donated? i got some kirin packs and i now have a golden kirin to ride around on!

so things are going along. i still have my eyes set on the prize of dragonspyre but it will take forever to get that far.

see ya around the spiral!! i try to stay in unicorn realm just in case i might happen to see you in the bazaar someday. :)

best wishes to you and to angus!

rylee icehaven

That's awesome Rylee! You're catching up to me quick!

So cool to see people take on the Angus challenge. Speaking of that, I have to give mad props to Sierra Starsong who is not only doing the Angus challenge, she's also using the same character for pvp matches.

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Here's an email from Alura Dreamhunter about her site:

Hi Friendly,

I'm Alura Dreamhunter and have a group that helps wizards called The Well-Versed Wizards

I recently went to Wizard101. I wanted to start a fan site and it said to let you know about my site

http://wellversedwizards.blogspot.com/

We started the group on facebook and we post a lot there But i wanted to get the word out about our group

Hope that you can help us out by listing our blog and any tips and tricks you may have about blogging

I'm new to it.

Thank You , Have a Great Day and Happy Questing

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Question here from Cole Moontamer:

Hey Friendly,
I play, or at least I used to play Wizard101. About the time of Celestia coming out, I experienced some suspected hacking on my account (actually my brother) and a computer switch (to a Mac laptop) which really got me out of the game. Now, I'm interested again, at least in getting a Windows. So, what would you say to convince me to play the game again?
Sincerely,
Cole Moontamer (or the person that used to be him)

I'm not sure if I could say anything to bring you back to the game. That's totally up to you. I can tell you that you've missed 20 levels of content and haven't had a chance to experience any of the new Astral Magic spells. What you're missing out on is the first two parts of the new Morganthe story, Wintertusk, and a fun side world called Wysteria for your lower level characters. What you'll never be able to recreate is the experience of being in Celestia and Zafaria when they were alive and bustling with activity where every battle circle in every realm was full. :) Those were good times.

If you do head back into the game, let me know what you think of all that new content!

Peace.

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Got a quick note from Rachel Spiritwalker:

http://rachelspiritwalker.weebly.com/

please mention my new fan site! it would mean a lot! :)

There you go! :)

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This one comes from Kaito:

Hey Friendly! I'm Kaito from the Wizard101 Commons staff at www.thewizard101commons.com and we would like you to join our sites, be a part of the staff and hold some really fun contests for March Madness month! Many of our members LOVE The Friendly Necromancer and a lot of other Wizard101 bloggers and we would like to surprise them with you joining our site! Our site has a chatbox where you can chat with your fans and our members about your blog. You will also get to hold fun contests and more! If you are thinking about doing this, join www.thewizard101commons.com and reply back to this email with your Commons account and we will give you an official rank and tell you more about this!

Thanks a lot Friendly!!

Thanks for the invite! I'm so busy lately that I don't think I could swing a staff position, but I will definitely check out your site. :)

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Here's one from Emmett G. aka Kane Deathwalker:

Hello Friendly,
I am writing you today in hopes I can get my fansite " Beyond the Spiral" listed among your page. I have been playing Wizard101 ever sence they openned their doors in 2008 and I love every minute of it. Now a days I just help people on the facebook page with questions as well as in the game itself while I decorate, search and hatch pets as well as farm and harvest along with other things, but mostly I just enjoy helping others out in their quest to defend Wizard City against Malistaire, Morganthe and whomever else that decides to corrupt the spiral.
Please take a look at the site and tell me what your thoughts are, suggestions or anything else that may be helpful.

~ Beyond The Spiral ~

Thank you for your time in advance and will be looking foward from hearing from you in the future.

Glad I could get your site listed over in my links, Kane!

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This one comes from Brian Frostcloud:

"Helloo! I am a real fan of your website and I wanted some tips on how to look good and still have good stats. Here is a pic of my character now.


He looks good eh? Anyways do you have any tips? (BTW level 36 or 37) Thanks!

-Brian Frostcloud.

PS: Could we meet someday?"

Sorry I haven't posted about this, Brian! Looks great! I bet your character is completely different looking now. (Seriously, it's been a month or so.)

Yup, the best place to catch me is at the Ravenwood Radio after parties, so be sure to tune in to that podcast! Those after parties are a good time.

peace.

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And that's probably enough for now. hehe. Thanks everyone for all the awesome energy. Keep up the good work, and have fun with what you're doing.

Happy Dueling!

Check this out! (Episode 10)

Heya!

I've had a few things come across my inbox that I'd like to share/address with you all. You know, stuff I think you should check out! (If you haven't already. :)) So, that means it's time for another CHECK . . . THIS . . . OUT!

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First up, it's a contest going on over on mywizard101site in conjunction with their podcast Spiral Live. Basically all you have to do is send them some fan art. Although it says, "send in your picture by this Friday December 9th." They are still looking for a couple of entries for that contest, which actually features a crown prize from me (among a few other prizes).

Word has it that they will be closing the contest this coming Friday (16 December), so if you want a chance at 1,000 crowns, send those "Spiral Live" related fan art pictures in to spirallivepodcast@gmail.com

Best of luck Spiral Live! It's tough starting up a new podcast, so I hope you do well and get a few more entries.

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Ravenwood Radio 54 last week was a lot of fun. That episode has not yet been posted to their Itunes page, but keep an eye out there. Ravenwood Radio 54 also signals the MIGHTY RETURN of a Friendly Necromancer segment, and judging from the reactions in the chat room, it looked like it went over well.

I thought I'd go ahead and put my segment up on my google docs page for you all to download since there were a few people that asked for that. CHECK IT OUT!

Hope you enjoy my interview with a few of my pets, and thanks again Sierra Starsong for sending me in a segment idea. Feel free to e-mail segment ideas to thefriendlynecromancer@gmail.com.

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Next up is some awesome fan art I received from Esmee Nighteyes. Check this out!



Wow! Nicely done. She calls it my "congratulations for being in a Wizard101 commercial" gift! That's awesome.

Esmee also noted that as she was going through the Wizard101 Fan Art she noticed that a few of them were "retraces" or "recolors" of the Bleach and Ouran High School Host Club manga. And she asked if I considered that "fan art" or if that was in bad taste.

You know, I'm not 100 percent sure if that is or isn't fan art, and really isn't a question for me, but I'm sure Professor Greyrose would be interested in hearing about any particular issues of that nature. Probably the best course of action would be to send her an e-mail and point out the offending pictures that might be someone else's work.

I'm trying to think like if someone drew a more well known western character from Disney, but put them in a Wizard City outfit and environment, would they accept that? It's hard to tell.

Again, not my call, but THANKS FOR THIS FAN ART! I love it! I'll have to put it on my header for a week or two or something. It's pure awesome.

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Hunter Moonbreath sent me this e-mail:

"Hey friendly! You are epic. I was wondering. How do you beat enemies that are really hard? I have mannaged to make it through with some friends. So how do i do this by myself? Its hard when my friends arnt on. Also what do you do when your a fire wizard like me. I am also playing as my Death any suggestions? Hope i meet you in the Spiral! ~ Hunter MoonBreath"

Hey Hunter! NO YOU'RE EPIC! I once gave some suggestions for soloing towers in Dragonspyre as a fire wizard, perhaps that advice will help? Check that out!

In the end, it's all about deck construction and knowing what kind of spells your enemies are going to throw at you. Sometimes checking out the wiki on those really hard bosses will help give you a leg up on what to expect.

Best of luck!

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Next up is an e-mail from an anonymous wizard:

"I am writing this email for two reasons; one from your site i have seen you have amazing pets, and two you seem like the guy to ask when it comes to anything wizard101. My problem is that i have just begun to care about my pets and i am trying to raise them to have good talents, but so far i keep getting useless talents. I had a few questions that i was hoping you could answer. First does the value of the snack, i.e the number on the snack image, matter? I got a mega snack pack once and got epic talents to appear but after i ran out my pet started to get common talents, i assume there related but figured i would ask. Second does the school of the snack matter? I know that if they like/love the snack they will get more power but can i feed them a different school snack than there own school without affecting their talent outcome. And lastly to increase my pets pedigree do i have to keep hatching the same pet multiple time because i have tried to get a stronger pet from hatching but whenever i mix two pets the new pet gets a lower or average pedigree. Well thanks for your time sorry for the long email. And happy holidays."

Thanks for writing! No the value of the snack or megasnack has nothing to do with making epic talents manifest. Any appearances of that happening are simply . . . VOODOO! RUN!

Your pet's talents are determined upon creation. All snacks do is help unlock those talents faster. This is the reason why some people hit the test realm so hard when it comes out . . . they're trying to find out what talents their baby pets have so they don't have to waste their time in the real realm working up those pets with "real" money if their talents are garbage traits they don't want. Yup, it's a little sneaky.

Also, the class of the pet snack will not cause a certain talent to manifest. As was stated before, all snacks do is help unlock those talents faster. It makes no difference if you feed a death pet a life snack. Whatever talents were marked to manifest at birth, are the talents that will manifest.

The best way to raise a pet's pedigree is to mix it with a pet that has a higher pedigree and so on and so forth until you create a monster with all epic talents. It's a very time intensive endeavor. Pedigree is nice, but what you're really after are a few key traits.

Make sure you check out Petnome. There's a wealth of information over there.

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Luke Goldflame asks:

"In the Haunted Cave right near the bosses tower (I am blanking on his name) and it has a death school logo on it. It isn't open but I don't know what it is. Do you?"

Ahhh, this question has already been answered by Professor Diapermancer. Check it out.

(it doesn't lead anywhere . . . yet)

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It's hard to miss (it is on the patcher after all), but I really want to catalog this one here. it's just that good. It's the behind the scenes look at the making of Zafaria.



LOL. I think my favorite part of this video is when J. Todd Coleman says, "It's the turn of the beak and it's the feet. This is so much better than Zafaria."

I think I could rewind that part over and over.

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A co-worker of mine sent me off to check out this site: Draw a stickman. That's a fun time waster! I like the message at the end though.


Ahh! It's stickman Thomas Lionblood!

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I'm Tom - "gamer dad" LOL!

I saw the commercial on TVLand last night and freaked out. We were watching Bonanza all night last night because of that. My real-life boss called me at 9:00 pm last night all excited because she had seen me on TV while watching the Investigative Discovery channel.

Word from Fred Howard is that the new commercial is airing on the following channels:

- Chiller
- CLOO (formerly Sleuth)
- Game Show Network
- Investigation Discovery
- Lifetime Movie Network
- TV Land

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And that's all I have for today's Check this out! Thanks for all the e-mails and inspiration!

Happy Dueling!

CHECK THIS OUT! (Episode 9)

Heya peoples, let's do a quick e-mail grab bag post, shall we? I've been getting a few e-mails, and I've got a little time here today . . . *cracks knuckles* . . . it's go time! CHECK THIS OUT!

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First up is an e-mail from Nicholas LionRider!

Hope you don't mind but I made you a gift. You always wanted a death unicorn so here you go. :) -Nicholas LionRider

I don't mind your gift at all, Nicolas . . . for it involves unicorns and death and the combination of the two! I like where you're going with that. However I like EVEN MORE, a combination of ideas from the Twizards @HeatherRavenWiz and @TheNecroManiac. Heather tweeted, "I think death unicorn needs to be not only a pet but a SPELL! Like vampire, but an AoE of pure awesome. @FriendlyNecro", and Brandon added, "@FriendlyNecro @Wizard101 @HeatherRavenWiz Aha! Agreed, it should steal health instead of giving it, but maybe give health back to teammates".

Ahhh, my friends . . . bless you and bless your adoption of the death unicorn cause. ;)

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Justin Firesword commented on my Thomas Lionblood Facebook profile picture, "Nice pet!"

Thank you Justin. Lady Dexter was awesome at the time . . . not only because she's an inherently awesome ninja pig, but because she starred in a short comic strip, that I should really continue some day.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4

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Nikki asked me over e-mail:

"Hi, Friendly. I know you're busy, but would you mind posting pics of the Sleepy Hollow house? Thanks and have a great day.

-Nikki"

Ahhhh, you're talking about Conner's house that I posted a picture of here. I'm sorry, I hope I didn't mislead you with my poor wording. That house is simply the Wooded Cottage Wizard City house, Conner had just decorated it and dubbed it his "Sleepy Hollow House." I don't have any more pictures of it beyond the one on my blog, but you can definitely track Conner down on his blog. If we're lucky maybe he'll make a post about his house, or maybe he'll even Youtube a tour of it! That would be great! :)

Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Drew Waterbringer sent me an e-mail with this question:

"Hey Friendly,
I just bought the new hawk pack, and have yet to redeem the wand. The reason is is that I like the look of the storm wand very much, because I am storm, but I want the stats of the death one, the best wand. Should I go with and ugly-ish death wand with good stats or take the cool storm wand and stitch it with like a lifeforce or something. The death one's stats are really good for me as a storm because 50 critical is good.
Thanks!
Drew WaterBringer"

Right, this is an interesting question -- not because you're debating crit vs. crit block, but because you're debating losing 10 damage and crit and gaining 20 block if you go with the Death Claymore vs. the looks of a weapon. AND, you only can choose one.

Hmmmm, conundrum . . .

Well, if I were you, I'd go with looks. I know that may sound strange, but after the screenshot we saw a couple days ago on Massively, well, you don't know what cooler weapons stat-wise could be around the corner. The look could be a one of a kind look, but newer stats and power growth will always be a part of this game. /shrug

Then again, a blade with +50 block could be really nice if you're planning on doing some PvP over the next few weeks, right?

Hmmmm, conundrum . . . (I like that word.)

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One more for you guys. Not really an e-mail, but still worthy of an episode of Check this out. You've all probably seen this, but if not . . . reality will hit you hard, bros.



and in typical viral fashion . . . here's the resulting song.



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Thanks for all the e-mail!

Happy dueling!

Check This Out! (Episode 8.5)

Well, since I didn't finish up yesterday . . . here you go!

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This one is from Garrett HawkFlame:

i was about to do the counterweight east dungeon in marleybone, and i was wandering around their royal museum before i was about to do the dungeon, just looking at their cool krokatopia artifacts, and i came across this krokatopia picture, and it said press "X" to collect, and so i got it, and i put it up in my house, but i just thought that maybe you could put that on for the next housing item of the day, i dont have any pics of it, sorry, but i thought it was pretty cool. and its right by the counterweight east dungeon, so it shouldnt be too hard to find

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YES! And ohmygosh guess what? I totally forgot to include that with the last Angus post as the item of the day.


There it is: the Framed Campsite Photo. Woot for loot!

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This one comes from Noah Dreamblood:

http://thepersonaltheurgist.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays.html there is a picture I know you'll like that I took, sorry the candles arent aligned that well though.

UNICORN SIGHTING!

How did you know all I wanted for Christmas was a unicorn statue with floating candles? . . . only for real! I didn't get that, but I'll take this instead. Unicorns make the universe spin uniformly and united in uniqueness and yuletide yearnings. The end.

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This monstrous creation comes from one Alex Deathshade:

. . . sending you another LEGO wizard101 creation (Sorry if the pic is a little low quality, i took this with i photo) this is a lego piscean guard.
Thanks!

NICE! That thing would totally duel my dog in a battle and win. I'm digging that you're bringing the Wizard101 with the Lego. You sir, have the awesome. The end.

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This one comes from Blaze Firesword:

Hi Friendly, my name is Blaze Firesword and recently I made a thread on wizard101 central that helps people understand how much a tier is on kifreegames.com. I wanted to see if you could spread the word for me.
Here is the link.
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130627&highlight=Thank you in advance.

Hey! Thanks for the Maths! You sir, have the awesome. The end. (plus, I hope you get a lot of thanks and maybe some forum gold . . . best of luck!)

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This next central thread pointer comes from Dylan RavenCloud:

Hey there Friendly! I was at this thread and thought it was intresting.Got any thoughts on this,maybe you should send Greyrose a shout out.Here's the thread: http://www.wizard101central.com/foru...d.php?t=102022

Cool. That's definitely an Easter Egg in the game. It makes me think that perhaps it has something to do with these other two mystery rooms in that instance, but I'm unsure.


Greyrose seems to be a little hard to reach over the holidays, but I'll see if I can't point her to this thread and my post.

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This one comes from Kieren Stormcaller:

I FOUND THE PIGGY.
you know. Inside the fig... yeah... FOOOOOOOOD!
Sorry.
He's funny!
He's attached. That sounded weird...
BYE!

haha! Cute . . . but deadly! *ominous*

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And this last video comes from an old World of Warcraft friend of mine . . . she played a wicked druid.



hehe. Thank you, Shada! Man, that dude spent a LOT of money to make that tree. That's insane! My little Halloween light show is spendy, but this is over the top!

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Thanks again for all the info, news, links, and fun! Catch the rest of you in the next episode offffff . . . CHECK THIS OUT!

Happy Dueling!

Check This Out! (Episode 8)

YO READERS! My e-mail is bursting with correspondence from y'all! So it is definitely time that we do another episode of CHECK THIS OUT!

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First up is a note from Kyle Firefist regarding an invisible column glitch in Celestia.

Hey, Friendly! I found a spot in Stormriven, near Cuthalla, where there is an invisible column! i don't know how to make screenshots, so could you try to find it? It's near a purple square on the edge of the checker-board

Oh yeah! I think I've run into that one before. haha!

GLITCHY! COME HERE GLITCHY! GOOD BOY GLITCHY!


(photo by http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/)

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Next up is a cool set of pictures from Vanessa from Diviner's Lane:

heya!!!!!!
it is vanessa emeraldglade! so i got bored one day and allot of the time i draw when i get bored. lately my main subject of drawing
is wizards! lol
so i got tired of my friends so i choose to do someone i didnt no but i kinda... knew? lol
so i drew the lionbloods (you)



and then i got bored the next day so i drew bailey!
lol



lol so i no you might not have brooms or seahorses but ya no lol

~vanessa emeraldglade, the diviners lane.

Those are freaking awesome! I'm loving the whole broom = surf board thing! ;-) I totally want to ride a broom like a surfboard. They should do that!

Thanks for the fan art, and nicely done too!

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Next up is a Youtube video from Blaze Shadowhorn showing all the loot he got while on the test realm:


ahh, the test realm. It's too bad you can't take some of that with you, right? But, I think messing around with the crowns is probably everybody's favorite thing to do when the test realm comes out. You get to try all the mounts, buy clothes, and generally go crazy with all the stuff that's usually too expensive. :-)

Thanks for sharing!

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Next up . . . Artur realizes there's smiley faces on seedlings!

Hello, it's atrur dragonstone. Don't know if you've noticed this yet but if you look at the pictures of seedlings, THEY HAVE HAPPY FACES ON THEM! I guess they're happy to finally get out of that dang shell. I COMMAND YOU TO STOP READING THIS EMAIL AND GO LOOK AT A CLOSE-UP OF A SEEDLING NOW

LOL! I know, right?! Totally fun! Now if we just had a way to turn them so they all smiled in the direction we wanted them to! :-)

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Seth Hunter shared some pictures with me of his massive collections at his player housing:

Ok this is seth hunter AGAIN yes i like to bug peeps so i might as well on a massive scale so heres some of my collections BE AFRAID

BE VERY!!!!!!

VERY AFRAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(And those are just a few of the photos Seth sent me . . .)

Seth, you sir, have outdone yourself with the statue room! I love it. Nice collections all around. :-)

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Wilzahk sent me a note about using those plant spells for other, more awesome purposes than just tending to your garden.

I JUST LEARNED SOME VERY important news.
It is a glitch, but a very good one at that.
You can apparently use gardening spells for special effects ANYWHERE OUTSIDE in your castle.

This is very important because now, you can take photos of you doing a jump in a pillar of sunlight.

hehe. Nice! Let me try that pillar of sunlight thingy you just mentioned.



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Next up, a glitch report from Cassandra:

I found a MONSTROUS glitch!
This only happens on my dad's Windows XP Laptop, Not on my Vista laptop.
Fear the Butterfly!!

ACK! Now that's a butterfly you don't want to mess with . . . it reminds me of when we'd have to fight Xegony in Everquest. ;-)

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Next up is a note from Caleb Silverflame:

If you ever decide making a post regarding the Giving Tree's rewards, or in a future Check this Out, can you please point out this thread?
http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126430

Its a guide I had made, pointing out the rewards of the Tree. Maybe you may get some viewers to purchase them, and having people recognize the rewards can also answer a bunch of questions being asked to you about the Tree.

Thanks for this link Caleb! Yeah, if you all aren't aware of the awesome lootyness (that's my new invented word of the day) of the Giving Tree, please check that link out. If you want to advance your gardening skill, this is a great (and very generous) way of doing it.

'Tis the season!

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Here's a fun note from Destiny DawnRiver that she sent me:

Hiya Friendly! I really like your blog- it helps me with a lot of stuff on Wizard101.
I made a little something for the holidays- to find it, follow these steps:
Go to http://www.tektek.org
Click on "Dream Avatar"
Click "Search Avatars"
Enter "Original Friendly Necromancer" in the search box!
There ya have it!



If you want to have a laugh, you can also enter "Santa Friendly."



If you want to see my character on W101 in this fashion, you can enter "Destiny DawnRiver."


Happy Holidays!

Wow! Those are cool! Thanks! Glad my site helps you out, and thanks so much for the Avatars. Happy Holidays to you too!

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And finally, check out this awesome picture that Blaze Mistshard sent us for Christmas:


I'm digging on how my hat totally ended up looking like a cowboy hat. :) And look at that devilish expression on Bailey's face! MUHAHAHAHA!

That's a great legendary group of friends right there.

OH, and good luck on getting your blog going again, Blaze! Everyone be sure to go visit the Casting Chills blog and check it out!

Thanks, Blaze!

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I actually have a ton more of fun stuff to share with you guys, but I've run out of time and need to head to work now.

Thanks so much for thinking of me! I'm overwhelmed by the awesome Christmas gifts, pictures, and thoughts. You guys rock!

Happy Dueling!

Check This Out! (Episode 7)

WHAZZZZZUPYALL? ISSSSFRIEENDLYYY!

It's that time again where I dig through my e-mail and post up all the little tidbits and nick-knacks that y'all send me. So journey with me my readers as we CHECK THIS OUT!

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This note comes from Blaze ShadowHorn:

Dear Friendly Necromancer,
I created a wizard101 site called mywizard101site.webs.com and the email is mywizard101site@gmail.com
What I am getting at is I would be so honored if you would consider putting my site on your site and telling people about my site or checking it out. It would mean so much to me!

Thanks for the link! I'm especially interested in your news section of the site: http://mywizard101site.webs.com/apps/blog/. It sounds like you're offering some cool information and fun there too. Best of luck!

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This one comes from Craig:

Hi friendly, I'm probably getting annoying by now, huh? I was helping my friend with the scrather dude, and his unicorn had a groth spurt. I ported, then ported again when he was inside. Figure this out please.

Annoying? never! Especially when you bring me pictures of giant unicorn pets.

I'm going to rack this glitch up to lag thanks to the Sorcerer's Corner twins.

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Next up is a little sumthin' sumthin' from my famous friend Cassandra:

Heya, Friendly!
I just made a pic about my idea of the next world.
These are 2 characters I'm going to include in my summary(which I will add on my blog) and I thought I'd give you and everyone a preview!
Enjoiy!
-Cass G.

That's cool. It would be like Morganthe's daughters or something. I like where you're going with that.

BTW, my daughter started drawing pictures of evil princesses after you sent this picture over. Thanks for that. ;-)

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This one comes from Samuel:

Hi Friendly! I know you are at the post raven wood radio party but you have ignored my other message! In Firecat Avenue, pathfinders float after a while.

Oops! Sorry about missing your first message on this.

YEAH IKR?! I have seen this glitch before actually. haha! It *is* weird. Yeah, I don't know why they do that but we definitely need to call the glitch dog out on that one.


Thanks for the pictures!

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This next one is from me. Alex Dragonblade found me out and about the other day and showed me his Thomas Lionblood circa Summer of 2010 outfit:


haha! Nice one, Alex. You look more Thomas Lionblood there than Thomas Lionblood. My old shoes were in the bank. :-)

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This one comes from Isaac Mistheart (That Pyromancer):

Dear Friendly, for your next check this out would you consider posting this video I made? Thanks for going over it I worked hard and stupidly long (I started right before advanced pets and finished yesterday)

People included:
You (friendly)
Chris (The Pyromancer of Ravenwood)
Kevin Battleblood (The Chillanthropologist)
Bartelby
Cannon Game
Ditto (DittoWizards Blog)
Jessica (duo of death)
Heather Raven (The Wandering Conjurer)
Destiny Seagem (Duo of Death)
Leesha Darkheart (Ravenwood Radio)
Steven Spiritcaller (Ravenwood Radio)
Piggle
Jessica Fire (The Awesome Pyromancer's Diary)
Kestrel Shadowthistle (The Shadowthistle School of Wizardry)
Fallon Shadowblade (Diary of a Wizard)
Cristo Skywalker (Cristo Skywalker's Journey)
Miss Narrator (The Daring Adventures of Ditto (Ravenwood Radio)
Gobbler King
Disembodied Floating Letters
Ghost (Unicorn Way)

I FEEL THAT BOOM BOOM POW!

Wow that must have taken a lot of work to animate. I'm loving the Thomas Lionblood circa Spring 2010 look. ;-) Awesome. Thanks! I've watched it like 30 times now. XD

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This one comes from Quinn of the Quinn and Fin team:

It (The Krokotopian Hammock) isn't so new...

https://www.wizard101.com/game/announcements/2009august26

If KI had only got 50,000 fans we would all have one.

Oh yeah! I had forgotten that was one of the prizes we almost got. Cool. Really nice find. I'm glad they finally made an appearance in game. :-) I love my hammock. (love my dangerhound too hehe)

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This comes from Seth Hunter:

I won this while i was in test so i figured i would give you the pix and i really want this for live bad lol

so i figured i would take some screenies and send to you lol

Awesome rank 7 plant! It's good to know that a cool plant such as the above is dropping in the Trial of the Spheres. Thank you, sir Seth Hunter! I wonder what the harvest is from it? If someone knows, please post and let me know. :-)

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This one is from Mr. Blaze Mistshard:

Hey Thomas, me and mom took some pic while floating some more stuff! and Bailey said something about plants in the deck, I think I figured out what she meant, check it out!

YES! Now that's what I'm talking about! Nice work putting that statue WAY UP on your MFP roof. That's pretty freaking awesome.

I love the pictures of you floating out there in the sky. It looks like you're actually out there flying around . . . like you're playing WoW or something. (*GASP* I just said the name of the game that shall not be named!)

And as for the pictures of the garden stuff in your deck. LOL! YES! I really would like to do one of those plow attacks on one of those sharks. BY THE POWER OF GARDENING! I SMITE THEE! Too bad you can't do anything with those cards in a fight but discard them. Oh well. I imagine that bug will be fixed shortly if it hasn't been already.

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This next note comes from Dalton:

HI Friendly! I just wanted to bring to your attention and all the Fire Students out there that the Heck Hound's damage has been improved to 130 per pip instead of 120.

I mentioned this to Uber Wife, and she was nodding her head in agreement that, yes, yes, heckhound does in fact bring her opponents a lot of pain lately. nice buff on the spell there!

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Here's a cool bonus points message from Chase Skullmask:

Hi Friendly. I just want you to know that you do a awesome job with your blog. The header is very awesome. And you always keep us updated with the latest news. Plus, you always put a little humor into each blog. So I was just dropping by and saying that you are doing a great job.

Thank YOU, Chase Skullmask. I appreciate the nice note.

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And FINALLY . . . here's a video I found that I'm dubbing "A necromancer's gift to Moolinda Wu"



You're welcome for the ear worm and the impending strange dreams.

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Happy Dueling!

Check This Out! (Episode 6)

My e-mail has been bursting with cool screenshots, fun stuff, and information lately. Thanks everyone for keeping me in the know! :-) Let's see all the stuff people are buzzing about this past month:

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James Iceheart has some cool glitch pictures to share:

"I had this earlier today, this guy rode his dragon the whole fight. :D"

Awesome! I haven't seen that glitch before. Thanks!

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Next up is a link to a YouTube video from Benjamin Nightfist:

i dare you to try and ride this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pPIlve6qo

:-) I think you may have found KI's next mount! haha. Actually J Todd Coleman has mentioned that he would love to see a floating car steampunk mount be put into the game. That's as close to the wild wacky action bike as I think we'll get. ;-)

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Adam Thunderstaff has some photos for us. :-)

Hi friendly. It's me Adam Thunderstaff. I thought you would have a laugh at the photos I sent. Maybe you could put them in a check this out.

haha! Nice Simeon copy, Adam! Reminds me of when I copied Nolan Stormgate. :-)

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Next up is a picture of Tyler Deathstalker's winning postcard from when I had that postcard raffle:

Hey Friendly!

My Wizard101 Postcard arrived! I have a link in my blog and of course a picture!

http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/blog.php?b=3709

Wow, Falmea wrote that! haha! Thanks for sharing man. :-)

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Next up is a message and some pictures from Brandy:

Hello Friendly! I love your blog,I don't comment much( I am to quiet? Wait would that work on the internet? Well if loud is being...you uknow what Nevermind)

Sorry I am rambling and I am excited to share this with you. So me and my siblings got cards yesterday from gamestop. I asked my sister to race me up the castle's stairs and she fell through the wall. I thought she was doing that walk through wall glitch when we discovered a whole secret room and a dungeon hallway.

That and...My brother and I were riding our mounts(his batty wings and my new griffin,) we wer racing and I couuldn't see. My brother found outu when I ride my griffin with my mask on it covers my eyes! Well thats all I have to share :D The pics are attached also :D

Awesome! Yeah that little hidden spot in the house is fun. I like how you made the secret room your underwater basket weaving spot. ;-) haha! We need to cut you some eye holes in that hood of yours. :-)

Thanks, Brandy!

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Next up is a link and a story from Tanner Rubycatcher:

Hey Friendly, could you please read my story on Wizard101 Central? Thanks!

http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?p=577256#post577256

Wow, that thread is 19 pages long and growing! haha! That was one of the most random and insane things I've read in a while, Tanner. I dub thee, King of Random.

"Boy, so this is what being a chocolate bunny is like."

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Next, a note from Jennifer:

Love your site, very helpful. Just to let you know, I got a firezilla (650-730 damage, 4pips) when I crossed my crown jade oni with a school stormzilla.

wow! I haven't heard of that hybrid combination before. Jade Oni with a Stormzilla . . . got it. Ok, I'm going to have to experiment with that. Thanks for the heads up!

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And now from K Stormcaller . . . a link to the elf yourself site:

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/u0i5LJZw7JswVKEWeNSQ

Laugh! Looks like all our favorite Celestia bosses are ready for Christmas. :-)

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I'm gonna end on a serious note here today. A spammer has been targeting readers of my blog with this message:

Hello my dear!
My name is Miss Christiana, and I saw your profile today at (thefriendlynecromancer.blogspot.com) and I became interested in you, my dear Please I will like to contact me back as soon as possible through my email address so I can give you my pictures for you to know who I am, I think we can move from here. Please Remember the distance or color does not matter but love matters allot in life. Answer me back in time

Please, please, please if you received one of those e-mails, DELETE IT! I'm not affiliated with this person in any way, and I don't want you all to end up on a spam list . . . or worse. The Internet is a scary place my friends, and this e-mail has all kinds of scary written all over it.

I've made sure to go back through my blog and delete any old raffle threads that might have inadvertently still contained e-mail addresses.

Be safe! Be smart!

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Happy Dueling!