Pumping Irony

Arwellyn, my Lore-master, achieved level 35 this morning, and promptly rushed to Hengstacer Farm in Bree-land as fast as her Bree-horse would carry her! The stable boy gave her four quests to complete to earn the Riding skill. The first three are simple “deliver this steed to the stable master in [town]” then a final race around the farm itself on a track with twelve gates to ride through. I kept reading in OOC and Kinship chat that the final race was a bit difficult and took several attempts to find the “best” course but I had no difficulty at all and completed it on the first attempt. Each of the four quests uses a different color horse so players can see how their characters look on each type. Arwellyn chose the Bay Horse as it was the darkest to match her black hair. The PvMP reward horse is black, but it will be quite some time before she gets to that point, considering it’s taken me nearly a year to get her to level 35! How’s that for “casual,” eh?

She also had a level 35 Reputation quest to be delivered to a Ranger camp in Evendim so off we went to check out the first sections of Evendim! Gorgeous scenery, as is the norm in LOTRO.

I took Arwellyn adventuring last night as well, which is why she was so close to 35 this morning. She still has more Garth Agarwen quests, which I was hoping to get completed but didn’t find a group. A kinsman asked for help in the North Downs for some quests Arwellyn had as well, so off we rode and joined up with a couple other kinsmen and a 50 Guardian friend from another kinship to lay the smack down on some trolls in Dol Dinen. After that we joined up with 50 Guardian kinswoman who wanted to kill a Drake Patron in south Angmar! That was fun and Arwellyn’s first time seeing any of Angmar! The drakes are very well animated and textured. On the way back to Esteldin, a drake by the name of Bleakwind landed in front of us so we dismounted and made quick work of him.

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