Blogger’s Holiday

Weekend break soon, but with wifi in the room, an iMac and my Eee, plus the digicam I’ll be taking, it’s going to be something of a Blogger’s holiday. I never take holiday photos. I never encapsulate events and memories in .jpeg form, and that is something I intend to change.

What with The Other intending to blog too, there’s some interesting stuff to hopefully perform. In any case, expect pictures, rambling and the like.

Certainly looking forwards to this weekend, after all, finding someone I get along with is rare, and by our humour combined… well, lots of geeky, numbery science jokes get made. Got some good plans going, I’ve been gushing like a leaky faucet over train time and event calculation too.

Also, I’m off to London on Thursday too. Now, this’ll be a somewhat special trip for me, because it will be my first time travelling first class. I’m enough of a train geek to -really- be looking forwards to this, and may even dress business-y for the part. I can be on those extra comfortable seats in the morning, my Eee running OpenOffice and a hot drink to hand as I touchtype away, dressed immaculately and putting on airs of being part of the corporate machine.

On an unrelated matter, I’ve applied for college. Again. Maybe institutionalized higher education may stick with me more this time, especially since the boring bastard of a lesson Psychology will not grace my timetables. BTEC National IT Practitioning, Sociology (again) and possibly GCSE Physics. The worst part about having to leave High School early is how it shivs your qualifactions.

WoW’s going between yeah and meh, got my Rogue to 70 at last and had fun on my super slow 60% flight speed mount, but no WotLK content yet. Other characters are lagging behind sadly, or the inclination to level just is not present.

MMORPG Melancholy

(Warning, this post contains epic (for me) levels of QQ. Have the whaaaaambulance on standby. 50cs of whine, stat.)

Noticed the lack of posts about WoW? Noticed the lack of posts about CoH?

I’m on a major MMO downer at the moment. That might explain why all my time has mostly been spent in Team Fortress 2 and other such games.

Let’s take WoW for example first.

I log in on my character. No one I know of to team with, no one to chat with usually, a scattering of characters across varied classes mostly in the same 20-40 level range, and a lack of ways to reliably get these characters through said range to the more fun parts, like Outland and beyond.

City of Heroes:

I log on my character. Teaming is a tedious affair, RP mostly limited to static social places, most of my friends have either moved on to other games or are busy. Try soloing for a bit but get completely bored by the missions and log off.

I can point to two problems in my own playstyle here.

Rampant Altitis, and a tendancy to want to flitter between groups.

Add in this flittering between games, and it seems pretty much like I’ve boxed myself off. ‘Seems’ is a redundancy, I -have- boxed myself off.

On WoW, I originally joined to play with my friends, though I quit in the process of leveling up about three times, as I was finding that the game wasn’t for me, and that it pretty much sucked to do things solo. I did finally manage to catch up when a patch made the leveling curve easier, grouped with them for a while, and then there was another grouping too. Just as I was about to join in with that, my PC broke, and as they wanted to get started, they did. I was a late addition, and as such my character was not part of the original concept/grouping and thus i felt like a bit of an outsider, along with having to level a priest solo.

We flit between the groups for a while before they leave to play Age of Conan, and later on come back to them, one group disolving with them going off to do their own things on the characters. I flittered about some more, having been in hospital at one point and was not generally in the mood aferwards, so missed some content.

While the nights we get together on those characters in that guild and play are great, it’s… well, pretty much every other time that just feels boring and directionless. There’s no real way to catch up to them without some serious boosting and grinding on their other characters, then we come to being new in a concept and feeling the definative and rightly so outsider, plus when you have trouble playing the game due to boredom, grinding isn’t really what you -want- to do.

Plus with them using the Refer a Friend option, they have nicely quick to level characters for a while, and being a fifth wheel gaining exp slower? Not as fun.

Ryan’s come back to WoW, but the isssue is that the character he brought over, a leel 70 mage, is closest to the character I can’t really level up with due to sticking with the guild. We have a pair of Death Knights, but when it comes to other characters, he gets stuck with coming up with an idea that he’d want to play with, with RP possibilities, and things never get off the ground really.

Basically at the moment, I pay to play WoW about 4 times a month, if I’m lucky and the group is running. A bit more if I’m playing on my DK with Ryan’s.

When it comes to actual RP on the servers, I find that Horde side on my server, the static stuff ranges from rarely good to most of the time crap, and finding and getting into guild RP when I have my flitting about between characters/games issue is… hard, and not that conductive to even attempt. Alliance side the RP is just as varied, plus after moving servers… it used to be where people on the RP channels would know my main’s name, and I could drop by the tavern, tell some stories and generally get up to fun. Here, I feel reluctant to do that and I’m not sure why. It’s been done a couple of times, but I find the crowd is a bit different and not as appriciative for improvized storytelling.

On City of Heroes, it’s pretty similar. Throughout the four years I’ve played it, I’ve flitted between groups. The Society of the Phoenix, the Vigil, the Guardians of Destiny, associated with The Militia and the Silent Tempest among others. Many alts, many friends, many concepts tried, succeeded and failed. The flitting between groups issue remains, along with two new ones.

A build up of RP backstory has written some characters out of play, or made them unworkable in RP, from RP mistakes to just built up residue. As much as I’d love to try a fresh start, on a shared server it’s not really possible to get a clean slate with characters.

Having many commitments also made it hard to get into a group. Conflicting nights can be an issue too, if I wanted to get into the Militia, it would conflict with WoW wednesdays, I also dropped the D&D 4E online group for that, as it’s not really possible to do both at once.

The game itself is quite boring solo, which makes leveling up rather a chore. People can complain about WoW’s quests, but CoH missions can be a real yawn-fest. Maybe the Mission Architect can change that, I hope it can, but the good missions from the devs are far apart. Rikti War Zone missions stand as a pinacle. I’m disappointed with the new Midnight Squad ones though. Same old maps, same old enemies, same old game mechanics.

I did put together an 8 man team on Defiant to RP out a concept of going form 1-50 IC, sticking as close to game canon as possible, but the latter is easier said than done, and getting 8 people together every Monday is like herding cats, plus as an artificial group construct and not a natural gathering, interaction seems to be a bit forced at times, or lacking. The characters themselves have not had a chance ot be polished nor to shine.

Out of the game and more of an issue with myself is some comittment issues. I’ve quit WoW several times, which makes me think I’ve painted myself as a bit unreliable for groups. “Let’s not invite Ellen, she might lose interest in WoW again.” That come to mind.

And all these issues are biting me in the ass, both MMO wise and RP wise. I’ve made mistakes, and I’ll definately keep them in mind when playing a new MMO, whatever that may be. To really, really, -really- try not to alt so much, to get with a group and make strong bonds, and to try and be more of a team player.

Let’s not touch on the issues of deciding to run a group like the Unity Vigil. Ohboy, that’ll take even longer to berate myself and point out the various flaws and shortcomings.

Needing some cheese with this whine,
Ellen

Latte Literature

So, here I am in one of the newer cafés in North Walsham, my home town of oh… six years now. In front of me is my Eee and my first ever latte that I shall be trying. As a coffee virgin, the man behind the counter at Liaison was very friendly and helpful in suggesting something to try. It’s about as bitter tasting as I’d expect, but there’s certainly something nice to it.

Sadly there is no WiFi, so this is being saved for postage later. All the wireless connections I could pick up had WPA type encryption, so even some AirSnort was out of the picture.

Ah well, there’s three other cafés for me to check out in this town… wait, five, but the other two are more tearooms.

I think this visit can be summed up two ways:

Try something new

and

Get out of the house, you’re getting cabin fever.

And what better way to stave off cabin fever than pondering what the hell I do with this twizzly wafer tube thing. Learned food technology terminology there!

The place is certainly very clean, with soft colours that are rather similar to the beverages served, pine flooring and furniture, chocolate brown place mats and seat covers, and light latte walls. It makes for a rather warm and content beverage consuming experience. In one corner dark scarlet sofas laze around low tables, and a wide-screen television displays the latest from BBC News 24, showing live from Westminster an inquiry on press standards after the Madeline McCann case.

The patisserie counter is eyeing me up, tempting me with the deliciousness contained within its vaulted glass confines. Sausage rolls are a perennial favourite of mine, when done -well-. Some sausage rolls overpower the flavour with my hated nemesis, onions, and others have greasy pastry that cloyingly hugs the back of your throat for hours afterwards, like a petulant child firmly grasped around your trachea.

Of course, others are as fragile as a model’s ego, and any bite into its integrity causes it to fall apart like so many dreams.

Oooh, the twizzly thing has creamy goodness in it. In the name of science and blogging I worked up the courage to sample. Much preferable to the amaretto biscuits that sustained me along with other beverage snackfoods on my friend’s wedding day.

The coffee has reached fifty percent of the capacity of the glass it comes in. I’m -really- not a half full/half empty person. It is an answer that can throw the questioner off their white or black, yes or no, 0 or 1 world into the heady realm of grey, maybe and 2. Or even 0.5. Then we know we’re in bat country.

Contemplating it, this is my favoured kind of establishment. Relaxed, comfortable, room for friends, and not a sign of the words ‘venti’, ‘tall’ and ‘grande’.

Coffee without the pretentiousness and the mochalochafrochaschoppacano that had me looking up at a menu board in Starbucks like Neanderthals confronted with 4chan’s /b/. On a Mac Pro.

Of course, one is required to have friends in local proximity in order to gather for a group outing to such an establishment. Which always seems to be my issue, such as with tabletopping opportunities in the local area. Harder to find than the 1gb flash memory stick that went missing when I had the gall to try and organize my room to make things easier to find.

Bitter about that, I believe it holds some old photos that I have no other copies off… possibly on the 4gig hard drive from my old, old, old PC, but I hate hotswapping IDE drives with a passion, the connector is a fiddly piece of excrement.

Anyway, the coffee capacity is near 0%, and I believe I may quickly pop into work to say hello before coming home, back to internet and other such amenities.

There was a third purpose to this trip, it just came to mind. To test typing more on this netbook, and I have to say other than a few little errors now and then I seem to be doing quite well in keeping up to speeds, and am even touch typing this very sentence, not too shabby for someone who only got it a little while ago. I love my fingers, they’re slender, nimble and perfect for this size of keyboard.

Logging out and draining my coffee reserves, planning to come back again too,

Ellen.

Eee what I did there?

Rockjaw asked me over on Twitter for my hands on opinion of the ASUS Eee PC Netbook. So what better way to give them than writing this blog post up on my Eee? I -was- using GNOME-blog to do this, but after accidently copying and deleting a chunk of text with no undo key, I quickly said ‘F^3 that’ and started off again in OpenOffice.

There may be pictures, but I have to censor them first for graphic and lewd depictions of one woman’s love for her netbook. I kid.

The PC would get jealous if I brought a fourth into the home network. /rimshot

Anyway, it’s time to talk Specification, Specification, Specification.

I picked up the 901 Linux model in white, because the black model was around £10-£15 more expensive, from www.superetrader.co.uk for £240 inc VAT, with £7.99 for next day delivery. The 901 Linux Model comes with:

8.9inch screen, 1.6ghz Intel Atom processor, 1gb RAM (Upgradable to 2gb, which I may just do), built in 1.3mpxl webcam, microphone, SDHC/MMC reader, 3 usb ports, bluetooth, 802.11n WLAN, a 4gb System SSD and a 16gb SSD for data, along with the modified Xandros based Linux OS, a 6 cell battery, charge, dvds for the system and a handy black case for it, plus a cloth to clean the glossy case with.

Setting it up was fairly easy, though I will advise people now that the Epson printer driver update is bugged, so skip it when updating your machine.

Xandros will suit some people well, but for me? It had its bugs that niggled at me, such as being on a read only drive so any updates you did went to the 16gb SSD instead, programs being uninstallable, and Star Office only coming with a Russian and Polish dictionary. Skype works well on it thought.

The keyboard is dinky, and anyone with slightly larger hands may prefer the Eee 1000 series, as they have 95% size of laptop keyboards, at the expense of being less portable, which for a netbook…

Good news is that with an external DVD drive, you could install WinXP SP2 on the machine, and the disks come with the windows drivers. Or, if you’re like me and wanting to get away from Windows, you could try a netbook version of a desktop Linux distro, in my case Eeebuntu.

A USB memory stick or a card reader with an appropriate card, plus Unetbootin can be used on both Windows and Linux to create a live disk to try it out on, though to do so you need to plug it in, hold down F2 when starting the Eee up, exit the bios when it appears and hold down ESC straight away to bring up the boot device menu.

Installation takes between 10-30 minutes and is relatively pain free, and it took about 20-30 more minutes to get the system up and running with the software I needed, and some tinkering to get things running fine. Still on the look out for any bugs though. Have another PC near by to Google-fu any issues. I also installed Eee Control which is a handy little program that enables performance switching and scaling, hotkey control and so forth.

Battery life is good so far, not yet so used to the system that can tweak it further, and later on I may switch GNOME for XFCE to try and get some better memory performance. It can struggle a little when running YouTube, and it does not like full screen that much with some video stutterage at times.

Other than that, this is certainly a capable little machine, once you get used to the touchpad and typing on it, and is just the right size and weight for using as an eBook and comic reader.

Questions in the box below or ask me on Twitter.

Eeesy as that.

The Engineer’s Eulogy: I Wear My Shadowform At Night

So I can, so I can, get higher damage with Shadow Weave.

Apologies to Corey Hart there.  So, from Druid to Engineering Priest now, and while I wear my Shadowform in the day as well, the point is, I -have- it now.

It’s been a bit of a slog, getting the motivation to get to level 40 just so Marathel could get the form that lets him do more damage, take less damage, and hopefully make him easier to level. I finally dinged on a SM:Lib Pick up Group that had me pegged into being the Healer. Not a job I usually relish, especially when a second Paladin joined and decided to draw aggro all guns and Righteous Fury blazing. I was doing DPS (And some pretty sweet DPS at that, the one thing I miss about Shadowform is no Holy Fire, that awesome looking, low mana cost spell that sets my heart ablaze.) until the Discipline priest went AFK, and subsiquently got kicked for it.

Ding, I get Shadowform. At last. Of course, I can’t even try it out yet, because you can’t really -heal- in it, and I doubt Vampiric Embrace would have kept the MT (That’s Main Tank, for the uninitiated/addicted)  alive. And I didn’t even get any loot from the instance. I know it’s not supposed to be about loot, but the Random Number Generator hated me and loved the MT.

There was the slight moment of dread when facing Arcanist Doan during his Detonation cast, where despite telling people to get back beforehand, and after,  the Suck-a-din decided to hammer away ineffectually at Doan’s magic shield, and had a fair amount of health blasted away.

The group persuaded me to run Armoury afterwards, and it was much the same. Little to no loot,  some rather hairy pulls (If you can define pull as ‘lets run forwards and aggro an entire corridor’, Mr Suck-a-Din.) And once again, despite a warning not to, Suck-a-Din decides to hammer away ineffectually at Herod during his Whirlwind attack (Which makes him Immune as well.) The Main Tank got Ravager, a weapon that I desperately would love to have a Fury Warrior with Titan’s Grip and two of them just to see what it’s like, and Holy Nova decimated the Acolytes along with a few explosives.

Still, after that a quick try of Shadowform showed promise, and today I picked up a Glyph of Shadow (Spell crits increase spell power by 10%  Spirit) which goes nicely along side my Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain.

Engineering wise, Marathel just got Gnomish Engineering specialized, and I’ll be looking to go hunting for some recipes with him now for cool tricks. In Character, Marathel is a mage with passable talent, so of course, to excell he decided to go to a rarely taken area of academics and make a name for himself there. With his oblivious, eccentric and somewhat off-logic personality, Gnomish Engineering provides just the kind of trinkets he needs. Must get a Rogue to get me a Cloaking Device schematic.

PS. Gnomish Pocket Knives make things easy.

I need to make some more bombs soon, and collect way more Mithril if I’m to have hopes of leveling Engineering. Had to buy some of the Mithril Tubes off the Auction House just to complete the quest to get Gnomish Engineer.

Ah well. Till next time!

For the Sunwell, and Science!

Edit: PVP!

I took Marathel into Arathi Basin on Friday at level 38. And my word, he actually held his own! Power Word: Shield was a lifesaver, Shadow Word: Pain on everything, and I even took down a few warlocks, paladins, priests, mages and hunters on my lonesome with thanks to Fear and my shadow powers. And Mind Flay, of course. A nice few AB marks of honour now, might drop by to get more once I’m at 49ish.

Oh. Destroying someone with an exploding sheep? Priceless.

Sending someone running to their deaths off the cliff at Lumbermill via Mind Control? Lovely.

Leaping off said cliff to find that you ran out of Light Feathers for Levitate? A definate case of ‘Look before you leap, nub.’

Rambling Brambles: Dilemma of a Druid

WoW Post here. So those of you who’re reading this and have an aversion to WoW, look away now.

I dislike my Druid. At only level 23, the bovine defender of nature on Steamwheedle Cartel bores me to play. I have to wonder why exactly this is.

I love my Paladin (Tank/DPS/Heal hybrid, depending on build. Mine is currently DPS, but the Protection tree I have some fondness for and may dual spec if Blizzard ever allow it below level 80.) I also love my Shaman (Caster/DPS/Healer hybrid, who is currently the former with a penchant for smashing in faces with Axes).

But my Druid? Eurgh.

Maybe it’s the fact it has the potential to be 4 different types of character (Tank, DPS, Caster, Healer) and I just don’t know what to do with it.

Maybe it’s the fact that I just can’t get into the headspace of playing a Druid.

Maybe it’s to do with not being able to RP a druid.

Or maybe I can blame my problems on the fact that my character is a giant, anthropomorphic cow who can transform into a sea lion, lion (with horns), bear (With horns) and has the potential to turn into a walking tree, a owlbear and a cheeter (Thankfully sans horns.)

With my Paladin, it’s easy. I buff myself up, run at an enemy, judge them with smiting blasts of holy energy, thwack them seven ways from the Sabbath with a sword, and every so often heal myself, buff/heal others, or blast undead.

As a Shaman, I know what to do. Plant down my Totems, bring down a rain of the elements on my foes, smack them with an axe for good measure, heal myself up, and every so often change into a freaking Spirit Wolf to run across the plains.

Poor Valdorn though? I don’t know what I want to do with him. He mostly just sits there acting as a pack-cow for storing items. Do I get rid of him for a Night Elf Druid? The only place I’d be tempted to play a Nelf is on the Earthen Ring server so I might praise Nhani Moonfall (Character played by the creator of Beyond the Tree and blogger at Thoughts for Food.)

A big thing for me has been having one of every class in WoW so I could experience a wide variety, but with no inclination to play or roleplay as Valdorn, I’d rather have the slot used by someone useful, who I will play, and who I can roleplay with.

Winds be at your back, as the Tauren say.

Fell off the wagon once more.

My, it’s been a while since this was updated. I found some critter had nerfed my writing capacity by 65%, among other situations.

So, not only did I fall off the blogging wagon, I fell off the fiction wagon as well. Also, thanks to a trip tomy friends earlier this month, I fell off the ‘I quit World of Warcraft’ wagon. Of course, recovering from hospitalization in November for some stuff means I’ve had ample free time.

Yes, I’m fine, no, I’m not going to die, no, you can’t have my stuff if I do die. I intend to have my PC cremated with me when I do go to the Great Recycle Bin in the Sky. Ashes to Acceories, Data to Dust.

My long time MMO/friend with benefits City of Heroes and I have fallen out. I think a combination of burnout, lack of content that isn’t point, blast, smash (Even story stuff doesn’t appeal to me now, quell horrour) and so forth has left me rather apathetic to the Birthplace of Tomorrow and all its shine. Even roleplaying, my one true vice, hasn’t helped.

So it’s back to WoW. Leveling characters, getting ready to see Northrend at some point, and some duos with a dear friend of mine (Two Death Knights vs the World! … Of Warcraft.) Gnomish Engineers, Blood Elves by the trioful and one rather salacious Rogue who I enjoy playing.

There’s numerous trips to London soon for hospital appointments, checking up on surgery and so forth, but also co-inciding with one of the March trips is a weekend in The City with said dear friend to celebrate his birthday late and mine early. City Inn is our venue of choice, possibly because of the iMac.

The recent bout of weather left me stuck in London for a fair few days, luckily around my friends. I hate the snow, and a trip out to Tescos on the monday for supplies wasn’t the most fun of things, and while I love spending time with them, I was begining to miss home.

And my PC, of course.

Valentine’s has been and gone, with the usual stuff done, and I still suck at getting people gifts. Though in my fumblings and clutchings for gift ideas I did strike it lucky. I also discovered what is needed for me to have all the information necessary to purchase gifts without dragging people into stores and saying ‘what do you want?’

1x List of persons current possessions (To prevent double purchases, and to get an idea of what things they have and extrapolate what things they may enjoy)

1x Database of past and current trends in interests (What might they like as a blast from the past, or something to renew interest or help with a current one)

1x Personality Chart (What kind of gifts do they appriciate, practical or cute, seasonal or all year round, so forth.)

1x Table of Outlook (What things are they interested in the future for? Pre-planning purchases and so on.)

The seasonal thing is something that I hate, actually. Given the choice between say V-Day Chocolates, Cyte V-Day plush toy, other such things or something useful, interesting and so forth, I’ll take the latter. Why? It just feels like you get more for your money, something that’s a gift, but also works towards minimizing needless expenditure. I guess years of budgeting and so forth have drilled that into me.

Still, this years gifts were nice. A lovely True Romance kit from Lush (That was packaged in popcorn. Do you know the tortue of opening a big box of popcorn that smells so good but you’ve been told not to eat?) that’s both useful, thoughtful and has potential for use at later opportunities, and the indie game World of Goo on Steam.

Gods bless you Steam, you make the act of giving a gamer a gift pure bliss at times.

Anyway, I ramble, as I am wont to do. I need to knuckle down to writing and get this erotica written. There’s a site on the web that has various stories of an adult and mature nature. Most of them suck or have purple-prose filled sex scenes that are ludicrous, and while possibly good for inciting arousal, I’m a fan of realistic sex in my writings.

They ain’t going to know what’s hit them if I pull this off.

A golf clap for Franz Ferdinand.

So, you’re a group from the UK, and you have your own YouTube page to upload your bands music videos to so fans can see them. That’s good. That’s cool, I’m all for that.

Yet you region restrict several of your more popular and commercial vidoes, so people in the UK -can’t- watch them? Meaning that people have to go to channels where people have illegally uploaded copyright materials, IE, your video, to watch you?

Bravo, Franz Ferdinand. Bravo.

Looks like I’ll be watching the cool music video to ‘This Fire’ somewhere else then, until whoever’s yanking your chains like a grim marionette lurches you over to report that video to be taken down.

I am not a Finanical Expert, but…

/deposits 2 cents

We’ve got a credit crunch. Prices are going up, cost of living more expensive, all that. I understand that part. So, people start spending less, not buying non-essentials or leisure items. Sensible enough there, right?

With people spending less on that, businesses involved in those areas lose money, so may have to lay off people. These people, if they can’t find work, become reliant on the social state for their wellbeing. Not so good.

Big chains lower prices to encourage more spending. The smaller chains and independant chains can’t do this. Thus the bigger fish get richer, the smaller fish go out of buisness. The people out of buisness may even go to work for the bigger chains and such. Places which deal in feel good food and drink will get more business. Fast food, confectionary, alcohol, cigarettes and such. Really not good.

So, it becomes an escelation. The smaller companies lose out, people lose their jobs, the bigger companies get more of a foothold in the market for when the economy returns to normal, and gain more power and influence.

I am not a financial expert, but it sure is interesting. And sends off pangs of megacorp dystopia visions in my forebrain. Will CERN’s LHC destroy the world before we end up under corporate law, or in social anarchy? I hope so!

Also, on a note related to the last point, the Large Hadron Collider Media hype terrified schoolchildren, drove an Indian girl to suicide and incited the wrath and rabid frothing of people up in arms for the sake of being up in arms about something. It’s all a ploy to exert media mind control. And they weren’t even colliding hadrons, just firing particles to callibrate the systems. /golfclap

Interesting that people are moaning about the money spent on science, when Councils and other government facilities will spend millions on pencil pushes and expensive art projects.

The bureaucracy expands, to meet the ever growing need of the expanding bureaucracy.

Signing off, wearing her comfortable, yet stylish and affordable tinfoil hat.

A change of pace.

Well, as you can see this blog has gotten dusty, and strayed a little far from its purpose when I made it. But eh, maybe it’s for the best. It seems I can’t sustain the writing ability to make posts, which is damn annoying for someone who loves writing.

I’ve had hundreds of ideas for stories, but the translation from mind to page seem to always get interrupted.

Anyway, the blog is becoming a bit more general purpose now, so I’ll be waffling on about who knows what as the mood takes me.

Speaking of a change of pace, let’s talk London.

More to the point, let’s talk about my recent visit to London with my good friend Poptart, who runs Fairy Fort and Bleen’s Fortress.