Monthly Archives: September 2014

Have you noticed what’s been going on in the Dubloon Exchange in Emerald lately?  It’s been insane.  Now, I freely admit that I play the market sometimes – when there’s a color box promo going on, the price of dubs usually goes down.  I’ll buy a bunch of extra dubs to sell them later when … Continue reading »

I was going to write something else tonight – I really was.  But last night we came across this… So, do you see anything odd?  Anything missing?  Where’s the eggs?  We looked everywhere, honest and true, but there was no egg nest.  We went ahead and played it anyway – Imaduck is a fantastic bomber, … Continue reading »

I get on this evening, looking for something to do.  I see Mei on a kraken hunt with Bigbelly again, so I click the button.  He ignores me (don’t really blame him – he probably remembers me bailing on him the other day).  But about the same time, I see a listing from Gurndigarn advertising … Continue reading »

So, I go out again – this time with good old Captbigbelly.  12 people, 2 bombers — certainly this one should go well, right? How can 2 bombers fail to keep a kraken head down?  It didn’t help that the map was cruddy, but I mean really.  I guess the final straw was when some … Continue reading »

I’m thinking it might be time to give up on this whole Kraken Hunting thing.  Yes, I get frustrated when I’m trying to get a 3 lock chest hauled in and suddenly I get pulled to do a fray.  Sure it’s annoying when you’ve got a bunch of sword fighting primadonnas who don’t feel the … Continue reading »

The latest color box promotion happened recently – it seemed to be a shorter run than usual though.  This time, it wasn’t a fixed color, but a random one “chosen by the monkeys” — not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but oh well.  Anyway, I got 2 boxes, just to see what I could … Continue reading »