The Lost Kingdom Chapter 1 (End)

                Struck by marvelousness, the king was anxious to hear more.

                “Tell me Greanous, why haven’t I heard about this group before?” Algon said with anguish, “If the Eagle Mercenaries where originated from here then why haven’t I heard about them before?”

                “My king, you haven’t gone to the barracks or talked to the military head too often, it’s about time to start talking to them more frequently. Anyways, they are your army, your troops, you should know more about them than any citizens in this kingdom.” Greanous replied.

                “Please, go on with the story, what about the Lost Kingdom? Who lives there? And why are there missions to scout it if we know about it already?”

                A maid of King Algon approached them with a dish, carrying two goblets of water for the King and his mentor, just in case to quench their throat. They kindly accepted the water and drank to relieve their throat from dehydration. After the refreshment, King Algon asked one of his servants to bring some food to accompany and wine to accompany it, in case the talkers felt the need to eat. Greanous clears his throat, getting ready to speak up again, takes some more gulps of water and sat up right.

                “It doesn’t seem as if you are active to the social world wise King Algon. I must admit no one really knows why this Kingdom is such a big deal. You see, now a days, people are starting to disagree the fact that such thing exist but, at the same time, are scared to go to the woods to see if they are right or not.” Greanous gasps for air before he continues to respond King Algon’s questions, “As I said before, my king, no one has come back from the woods, they’re most likely dead, so no one knows who lives and what is in the kingdom. I am curious myself but am too old to scavenge myself. Of course, if it weren’t that heavily guarded by demon-like creatures, I would gladly explore the woods by myself but the rumors and stories have held me back.”

                As soon as Greanous ceased talking, the servant who King Algon told to bring food, came back with a tray with plates of unrevealed food. Another maid came and helped, dragging a table in front of them and putting the plates on it. When all the plates were put, they revealed what was inside by taking off the cover trimmed with gold. As the cover was extracted, the odor of the steak leaked into the air as well as the freshly cut tomatoes salad and an appetizing dish of chicken wings. As the man smell the warming scent of the food, their hearts fill with joy, their stomach gets ready to digest and the mouth starts to make more saliva.

                “Greanous, let’s talk about this topic another day but now let’s enjoy what is in front of us now and look after our starving stomachs.” King Algon finished their talk and them both started to eat to their comfort. 

The Lost Kingdom Chapter 1 (Part 2)

“They were the Eagle Mercenaries, soldiers who were once promoted into a scout, and later on to a mercenary scout. This class is for the brave and risk takers, which like to explore but risks their life for it. These types of mercenaries are trained to travel and scavenge the land surrounding us, defending us from intruders. Their job is to fight any stranger they meet, that are armored and seem suspicious but that is not what they only do, they are also sent to places unexplored to discover new things.” Greanous told King Algon, “The Eagle Mercenaries were one of the famous, most experienced mercenary scout team around this continent, Eureap. They are in the Top 10 category of mercenaries that roam in Eureap and they are given quests that are only given to Rank S teams. The quest that they just got is out of the ordinary, one that has been given to many Rank S teams, yet none has come back home from their journey.”

Startled, King Algon stood up in front of the buzzing crowd. He dismissed the Anthroxians back to where they came from, either from work, home or their studies. He then directed to the living room with Greanous following right behind him.

“Please continue the story that has shocked me to the top,” King Algon admitted.

“Indeed, your majesty. As mentioned earlier, the Eagle Mercenaries is one of the most well-known mercenary scout team. The reason why the news spread so fast to Anthrox is because they are from your kingdom. These men have served this kingdom the past 10 years, taking good care of our surroundings, defending the farms and the livestock we have. It was just last year have they set out to their journey to the quest that has lost so many men. The quest was for the mercenaries to scout and find the lost kingdom that was inside a haunted wood, which was heavily infested with creatures that none have recorded. Myths have been told that in these woods, you must be quiet and invisible, shouldn’t make anyone spot you or else the wood will wake up and all the creatures will target you. Some will say, as soon as you enter, there’s no way back to the real world.”

The Lost Kingdom Chapter 1 (Part 1)

   Dark, not a single creek of light; silent, like a vacuum with rustling bushes; speechless,

no one dared to talk. The wind blows but not a sound is heard except for the clash of the bushes’ branches. No one dared to move. The mercenaries sneaked through the lost woods; cautious, not a sound made. Camouflaged so that no nocturne creatures can see them; invisible, undiscovered. In the time of a millisecond, a flock of birds hovered out, screaming, awakening the silent wood, turning it into a disastrously loud maze, making the adventurers aware of the danger that approaches. Not a word was said about these mercenaries after that day.

             News scattered around the land of Anthrox, spread as fast as angry bees, leaving their bee hive in search of whoever woke them up. Not one person missed the news, not even the homeless and poor. The main plaza was filled with rumors and gossips but all of them the same topic, all of them about this news. Never has this occurred in the Kingdom of Anthrox, never has news summoned a crowd of gossiping citizens, filling the entire plaza. The turbulent roar of this massive crowd invoked the fury of the King. With a big stomp and a shout, similar to a lion’s growl, he stopped all the noise. Quenching his throat with a goblet of water, he gets ready to speak up to the once loud scattering citizens.

                “Listen, my people, Sons of Anthrox! Just lately have we received thrilling news that eventually awoken this kingdom, causing an uproar. Cease the madness, once and for all, and bring back the peace that once ruled this kingdom. Someone tell me what this is all about? How can such announcement turn the so peaceful plaza into a place full of rumor telling?” King Algon exclaimed to the mass of anxious citizens. Greanous, a trusted mentor of the King, stood up from his golden trimmed chair, much similar as the king’s throne.

                “If so much you desire to know the truth of why uproar is made by this news, then it will be a pleasure for me to tell you the story behind this so known crew.” 

P.S. I have decided to start something new so I have started a series called The Lost Kingdom. Sounds awesome huh? Leave your comments and opinion on it on the comment section below. Don’t forget to follow this blog; I am StevenYQM and I will see you next time.

                                                                                                     -StevenYQM

                

Team fortress 2, Another Favorite Game (cont.)

Sentry in the left, Engineer in the middle and dispenser to the right.

               Welcome back to the topic of Team Fortress 2. Next of we have the engineer. This class is such a useful class, probably the most useful. Just by his name we know that he builds stuff but what? Engineers build things that help his team mates survive. These buildings are the dispenser which provides teammates ammo plus it heals them. Another building is the teleporters which takes the team mates from place to place so they don’t have to walk as much. Not only that but they can build defense buildings like sentries! Everyone wants to build sentries. These sentries can kill absolutely anyone they see within their range of fire. When made into level 3, sentries can turn into a massive killing weapon that can rack up to 100 kills! Meanwhile shooting the enemies down, sentries shoots rockets which can be a one hit kill, so lethal. Unfortunately, everything has its weakness and sentries’ weaknesses are the spies, and demo mans. Demo mans can spam sticky bombs into the place where the sentry is built and once they detonate it, the sentry is gone for good. The spies have an ability which they can sap the buildings of engineers, making the buildings not useful unless repaired. If the engineers take too long, the building might break apart. Another weakness is that if the engineer leaves the sentry alone, snipers can shoot it down. Other than that, good engineers are always aware of spies and use their shotgun to shoot sticky bombs. They are so important that one paragraph was all about them.

Sniper with his scope

Medic with his medic gun

                Medics are the heart for the team. Dispensers take too long to heal players and are not portable so team fortress has a medic class. Medics carries a medic gun which heals players meanwhile walking and if they charge for a while, they can get an ubercharge which keeps them and the one being healed invincible for some minutes. Snipers are the far ranged class which uses a scoped gun (sniper). They are fun to use but very frustrating when others use it. One shot in the head kills the enemy automatically giving a hard time for anyone who passes by a good sniper. Lasts but not least, Spies is the class which can be useful for checking out what the other team is doing. Spies have the ability to cloak themselves and hide from the enemies. Also as mentioned before, spies can sap buildings from engineers, making engineers frustrated to have to repair their building over and over again. Spies are also real backstabbers, one backstab with their knife and the enemies die.

Spy with his knife

                That’s it for this topic; it might have been long but worth it. Overall, Team fortress 2 is a great game to play and have fun with friends. This blog’s question of the day is: How did the chicken cross the road? Leave your comment our questions on the comment section below. Don’t forget to follow this blog, I am StevenYQM and I will see you later.

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Team fortress 2, Another Favorite Game

Since the day I became a gamer (around 10 years old), first person shooter games were my favorite. The reason why I like first person shooters is because it makes me feel like I am controlling myself. Same for books, my favorite books are first person books like the Hunger games. Some of the first person games that I played are: Crossfire, A.V.A. and Combat Arms. But all of those games were surpassed by the game that I play now, Team Fortress 2. This caricature drawn characters makes the players have a laugh meanwhile playing. Team fortress 2 is a unique game because it isn’t like other game where you are only one person but in Team fortress, you have a choice of nine characters and all of them have different functions. Not only that but instead of buying your weapons, you can make it or just obtain them meanwhile playing! Now you won’t need to play to get money but you must play for weapons.

This image includes all nine characters for you to see.
(from left to right): Pyro, engineer, sniper, spy, heavy, demo man, medic, scout and soldier

The nine characters that can be played in Team Fortress 2 are: The scout, soldier, pyro, demo man, heavy, engineer, medic, sniper and spy. The scout is the fastest class. Not only that, but the scout can also double jump and they are so fast that snipers have a hard time trying to shoot them down. Soldiers are rocket launcher carriers. Soldiers’ rocket launchers are crucial in attacking since it deals a great amount of damage to the opponents.  Pyros use flamethrowers which can repel some projectiles like rockets, grenades and arrows. Pyros are very affective in weakening the opponent since it inflicts fire damage to the opponent. Demo mans are what they are called, demolition man. They use grenades and sticky bombs to kill people. Smart demo man hides their sticky bombs so no one knows where it is, and when the opponents get close to it, the demolition man will detonate it. Next comes the Heavy, the slowest class but the one with most health and he is really fat! Heavies are deadly when paired up with a medic since the medic can heal it meanwhile the heavy shoots at the enemy. Heavies use mini guns (fast shooting guns); therefore, they have a lot of ammo, in total of 200. They are part of the defense class and since their gun shoots so fast, it can kill enemies really quickly.

I have decided to keep this blog short because I am trying to keep all my blog entries around 400. Last blog entry was past 600 so I apologize for making you guys read so much. Next blog I am going to continue with the topic of Team fortress 2 since it’s such a big game and topic. The comment question of the day is: Who ate your last piece of chocolate pie? Leave your comments or queries on the comment question below. And don’t forget to follow this blog, I am StevenYQM and see you later!

-StevenYQM

P.S. for more Team Fortress 2 information, go to http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page or another blog which is http://jacobkilax.wordpress.com/.

Minecraft was RELEASED! Minecon in Las Vegas!

Mandalay Bay... It's Big

              About a month ago, I've mentioned the multi-award-winning game, Minecraft. The relate that I over exaggerated has finally been release on Friday November 18, about 17 days ago. Not only was the update finally released but the entire Mojang Team (the programmers) decided to make a celebration party. In Las Vegas, 5,000 Minecrafters reunite to meet the creator of a life-changing game, Markus “notch” Persson. Every Minecraft believe that Minecon has just ended yesterday since it was such a huge event and fun time. As well as the PC version of Minecraft being released, Mojang has also released the IOS version (apple) and the X-Box 360. Not only that but Minecon guests also had a chance to try out the soon-to-be-released-in-alpha game, Scrolls. Scrolls is an online collective card game where players “summon” the scrolls into the battlefield and fight their opponents.

Left: Enchantment Table
Right: Brewing cauldron and rack

                Minecon had a huge area, filled with computers for the guests to try out the fully released game. The updates which were added can be found in www.minecraftwiki.net (it contains everything you possibly need to know for Minecraft). One of the updates which have really stood out was the new realm, The End. Minecraft finally has an ending to the non-stop gameplay. The End is basically a ##### ##### ## ###### #### ######## and players have to fight the ###########. After ####### ### ######, the players have to go through ####### ###### ##### ##### ## ### #######. If the players accomplish their task, they will be sent back to their original world and play as usual. Another major updates will are the enchantment system and brewing system. Players have the chance to enchant their weapon so that it improves or to add tools other properties. Such properties may be the silk touch, where players can get blocks which are impossible to get without an enchanted tool. The brewing system gives the players buffs (effects) which may improve or decrease their skills. Not only that, but Minecrafters can make splash potions which can be thrown at other NPC or players, either dealing them damage or buffing them negatively.

The Entire Mojang Team (From left to right):
Notch, Jeb, Kappische, Jnkboy, Jahkob, Carlmanneh, Mollstam, Aron, Daniel, Mattis, MincraftChick and Carnalizer.

                 Overall, Minecon was so big that even CNN news reporters interviewed Notch. Minecraft has made Markus so famous and popular that there was a 3-hour line to get his photograph. It was so long that he had to have another photograph time the next day which was an additional 1 hour or 2. Many other people interviewed Notch, leaving him exhausted every day and only wishing for more sleep. After Minecon, Minecrafters leave Las Vegas with a frown since the two days has passed so fast. The Mojang Team, however, was really excited because after Minecon they had more vacation. 3-4 Mojangsters got lost (as Jnkboy said that it was like Hangover 3) but found their way out back to Sweden. Now they are all back in the Mojang Office ready to work and continue programming their game as jolly as always.

Minecon Official Logo

                Overall Minecraft is still one of my favorite games of all time and I am glad that Notch has reached this milestone. I think I’ve mentioned this before but Notch started programming alone in the first million sales and later decided to make a company to help him. I hope the next games Mojang is coming up with will be as fun as Minecraft. Today’s blog question of the day is: Who knocked on the door? Leave your comments or queries on the comment section below. Don’t forget to follow this blog, I am StevenYQM and I will see you later.

  -StevenYQM

P.S. People who went to Minecon got a Minecraft kit (supplies like mouse pads and stickers) and in-game capes (which I didn't get).

P.S.S. About 2 days ago Notch decided to stop programming Minecraft and let Jeb (Jens) continue programming. After that day, Jeb’s mail peaked to 500 unread mails.

Youtube and Kevin Wu

YouTube's Logo

                    YouTube! One of the world’s largest community of videos, with a variety of subjects and new videos every day. This website has influenced me from the start because it’s such a pleasure to watch people making videos because they love doing it and not only for fun but because some of the channels get money from the videos. One of the channels that I have subscribed to and wins money by making videos is JumbaFund, which protagonist is called Kevin Wu. Kevin is a unique YouTube vlogger because he gains money not for his own use but for charity. He has another main channel (KevJumba) where he has videos of him fooling around but in JumbaFund, all the money that he gets from that channel; he sends it to a charity that needs that money. His videos are very funny and it’s worth to see, I was so impressed of his work that I watched all his videos and I want more.

YTF members. By order from left to right: JR Aquino, D-Trix,
Victor Kim, Kevin Wu and Ryan Higa

                    YouTube has made so many channels famous that from posting videos to the public, YouTubers have made their own concerts from all the money that they have been rewarded. Kevin is one of them. All the money that he gets from KevJumba and with other YouTubers such as NigaHiga, Chestersee and WongFuProductions, they have made concerts called YTF (Yesterday Today Forever) and ISA (International Secret Agents). The channels which host these concerts are so famous that all their fans appear in their concerts but unfortunately me. I have learned from these YouTubers that if you try hard and don’t give up, you can get to something big even though it takes long to accomplish. All these channels have started vlogging from the start when YouTube has been open and five years from then is when they could turn into stars which have enough money to make their own concerts. This inspiration gave me confidence in every project that I do, I will always tell myself that if I try hard and not give up, then it won’t be bad and hopefully good.

                    All in all, YouTube has music videos, how-to-do-this videos and so many lesson videos that people can learn things at home without needing to go outside. Today’s blog question will be: If you had one million dollars to use on anything, what will you use it for? Leave your comment or answers in the comment section below. Don’t forget to follow this blog, I am StevenYQM and I approve this message.

  -StevenYQM