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my deepest apologies to the two dominion charr i had to kill to check out what they were listening to (it was nothing. i was so sad. they were just dancin...)

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the armistice bastion mist step effect do be kind of slappin

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RANDOM CHANCE EXOTIC DUMPSTER SAID “GOOD MORNING DEL, IT’S TIME YOU HAD A BREAK”

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so has anyone yet made the connection that there’s a voice inside your head telling you to rest and go to sleep, that’s it’s coming from a dream (one of the champions even SAYS that you should enter the dream), kind of similar to how mordremoth was but also sylvari literally wake up from a dream once they’re done cooking in their pods

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with Shou the Medicator being an example of the care and attention that can go in to charr healthcare, the notorious and mysterious Doctor Eyestrain is an example of what happens when the care and attention is left out of charr healthcare. 

much like her twin sibling, she’s made quite the name for herself, and not because of her unusual dress sense which others would often describe as an ‘eye strain’. she has an unfathomable understanding of charr biology, and has proven time and time again that she can get any kind of charr back on its feet, whether they’re fighting in the fields or clinging to life in the infirmary. 

however, very unlike her sibling, she has enough self assurance to power an entire fleet, confident that her ideas are some of the best. she’ll tell you exactly what she wants, and she’ll keep telling you until her demands have been met, whatever that may take. she also has a habit of “collecting things” from those who don’t survive and putting them to “better use” elsewhere... but with an undead dragon and a lich being part of tyria’s past threats, perhaps it’s best to keep these experiments in the lab, under wraps. 

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shou the practitioner was unfortunately too big to fit in to the box so i had to make do

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they say that charr have about the same amount of brains as they do brawn, and we’ve been proven countless of times just how wrong that statement is. for Shouhei the Medicator (Shou the Medicator in game), it couldn’t be further from the truth. 

instead of fighting, Shou puts all of their focus into looking after those who do the fighting. many used to think that their timid nature would be their downfall, but they quickly made up for it in both wit and understanding of medicines, saving lives that would have otherwise been lost in battle. some would describe them as having the brain of an asura (and sometimes they talk like one too).

of course, there are many charr who would choose to die in battle, but you can’t replace soldiers that easily. with enough potions to knock you six ways from sunday, a visit from Shou will leave you as good as new! and being one of the only doctors hanging around the black citadel, they take a lot of pride in their job

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i have not touched this blog in a millenia but i just made two charr doctors and i must talk about them right now

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i?? had NO IDEA so many people loved Texxun so much oh my goodness, thank you all for your support, he is absolutely parading around the Crystal Desert on his raptor claiming that it's part of his home and he needs to wrangle sand sharks.

ok so i haven’t used this blog in a while, but hear me out, i really wanted an inquest asura, but i didn’t want just any inquest asura… so i made this mess. 

this is Texxun, and he absolutely insists that he’s from a city called Rata Texus where they do experiments very differently there. you ever seen a cowboy asura before? no? now you have

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You know what?

A Star to Guide Us was the first LS that moved me with a dramatic sacrifice. Anet has tried to do it dozens of times over the course of the story, most ineffectively through the vanilla zhaitan campaign, but also weakly throughout HoT and much more sparingly through PoF. But this was the first one that felt like… yeah. It not only needed to happen, but there is an appropriate reaction and period of consequence. It got me, and not in a cheap way.

There’s tons of ambient/sidequest npc dialogue that is powerful and I enjoy a lot through all of gw2, but the main story has always suffered from hastiness in relying on disposable characters for an easy emotional gotcha. And this time? They actually earned it.

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OH!!!!!!!

im screaming because plex has my exact birthday and i can't get over that. happy birthday for tomorrow plex

holy SHIT. happy birthday to you and also plex!!

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a charr sketch from imagination

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Hats off to Guild Wars 2 for having the most hilarious patch notes I’ve seen in a long while.

03/27/2018 - Late Notes

Living World—Seat of Power

Since the day we began work on Guild Wars 2, we had a single dream guiding us: to allow the player to jump over small fences. But if we had to pick a close second, it was to add chairs and maybe let players sit in them. In that distant past, the technology wasn’t ready for our vision—when GW2 released, the land of Tyria had chairs, and it had sitting, but players were unable to gracefully combine the two. Over time, stopgaps were implemented, like sitting as a chair and riding mounts (referred to in the engine code as “nonstationary chairs”), but the dream of a complete chair experience remained in the realm of speculative science fiction.

Until now!

We’re overjoyed to announce that, for the second time in Guild Wars history, players can sit in chairs across the continent. That raid throne is more like one chair in multiple places, though, which is awesome, but now we’re talking about **over 1,400 chairs ** spread across 6 cities, 5 home instances and 1 raid lobby. Plus, some of those chairs are benches, which are like two chairs for the price of one!

The future of chair sitting is bright—we’re working hard to investigate chair sittability for other zones, figure out the bar booths built entirely out of nonchair objects, and support more chair models. Get in the game and see the future happening now! You paid for the whole seat—today you can finally use it.

Furniture Polish

Lion’s Arch: Added sittability to 188 chairs. This is the site of the First Sittable Chair, from which all others derive—the King of Chairs. It’s a secret which one it is.

Rata Sum: Added sittability to 28 chairs. Realistically, the asura could already sit on most objects comfortably; it’s one of their many racial advantages.

Applied Development Lab: Added sittability to 7 chairs, for when you need a break from lab work harvesting resources.

Black Citadel: Added sittability to 153 chairs. Not only are there a lot of quality chairs here, many of them include miniaturized Iron Legion coal furnaces for heating. A truly first-class chair experience for the discriminating legionnaire.

Hero’s Canton: Added sittability to 106 chairs. We wrote “added sittability to 106 charrs” five times before we got it right, but that would be pretty cool too.

Divinity’s Reach: Added sittability to 292 chairs, and 90% of them are hidden inside random buildings. We spent countless hellish hours finding new chairs hidden away in third-story corners of secluded houses. We opened someone’s house up to passing tourists as well because it has a lot of nice chairs.

Salma District: Added sittability to 79 chairs. You can finally sit at the bar! We’ve been anticipating this since launch day.

Hoelbrak: The undisputed capital of sittable furniture clocks in with a record-shattering 547 chairs. Legends say that one day, a mighty Norn will sit in every chair in Hoelbrak and then lead their people to victory against Jormag.

Hunter’s Hearth: Added sittability to 10 chairs. But listen, if you’re looking for some chair time after a long hunt, just step out the doors and into chair central of Tyria.

The Grove: Added sittability to 43 chairs. It might seem kind of sad after that Hoelbrak number, but perhaps the sylvari simply prefer sitting on the ground—it’s good enough for the Pale Tree, after all.

Dreamer’s Terrace: Added sittability to 5 chairs. OK, now it’s actually sad.

Lion’s Arch Aerodrome: Added sittability to 1 chair. We don’t expect that all players will be able to sit in this highly exclusive, challenging non-group chair content, but that is the price of prestige.

Added an incredible new collection quest achievement spanning the world of Tyria to sit in every currently available chair type. Finally, a reason to visit Hoelbrak.

You can do more than sit in chairs—you can gesture while sitting in chairs! You can’t /sit while you sit, but a carefully curated handful of the game’s emotes are available while sitting in a chair.

Currently available emotes: Wave, Cheer, Shrug, Crossarms, Laugh, and Thanks (you’re welcome)

But wait, there’s more chairs! Your Guild Hall chairs are also receiving the seating treatment, with the following chairs now sittable:

Basic Chair, Fancy Chair, Highback Chair, Guild Chair, Fancy Armchair, Plush Armchair, Elonian Wood Chair, Throne, Pew, Guild Bench, Plush Sofa, Haunted Loveseat

ArenaNet is not liable for injury, death, entombment in solid rock, or similar gruesome fates that may result from unsafely placed chairs.

Fixed a bug that caused “sittability” to not be a real word according to the spell checker. If you complain about it now, you’re incorrect, sorry.

While we’re at it, we don’t want to hear anyone griping about the exact chair counts per map. If we see posts tomorrow like “I counted every chair in Hoelbrak and ArenaNet was off by one, gg,” it’s going to send us into a deep depression.

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ok so i haven’t used this blog in a while, but hear me out, i really wanted an inquest asura, but i didn’t want just any inquest asura... so i made this mess. 

this is Texxun, and he absolutely insists that he’s from a city called Rata Texus where they do experiments very differently there. you ever seen a cowboy asura before? no? now you have

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Hey y’all I guess it’s that time again.  You know, the time where I pop out of mostly lurking and stuff to give away something truly fabulous?  Yes, that time.

What truly fabulous thing am I gonna give away this time around?  Guesses? Okay no, nobody has time for that.

Aww yee, look at that sweet weapon.  Okay, the bow is nice, too. Y’all are probably more interested in the bow than the plant of questionable morals, right?

So, yeah I’m gonna give away LEAF OF KUDZU (insert sparkly text there, use your imagination.  It’s so bright you have to wear shades).  You too have a chance at owning your very own snazzy plant bow by sitting around and reblogging or liking this post.  Unfortunately, I don’t really have much else to offer this time around, but hey a pre is always good to keep in the bank.

I guess I need to make some rules for this, yeah? 

One reblog and one like per blog. Nobody wants to see my purple, planty butthead all over their dash.

You do NOT have to be following me.  It’s cool, I post sporadically and my stuff isn’t what everyone wants to look at all the time.  If you are following me I’ll probably, I dunno, draw a bust of one of your characters or something.  I’ll ask, if you’re game then I’m game.

The winner has 48 hours from the time of the drawing to respond, please have your ask box open so I can send a message! 

This giveaway ends at 3PM (cst) on March 9th, 2018.  After that I’ll do the drawing. 

Good luck, y’all!

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A chilling reprise from the new trailer.

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Trahearne, and other sylvari in the Pact: oooh I can hear Mordremoth speaking to me!! Oh the horror!!

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