Wow, I have not blogged for so long! I felt that over Christmas I'd just come off of blogging completely rather than uploading crap quality posts like last year where I just wrote about my IRL day. Ok, so, I'm going to do just the normal Wednesday update post but I hope that everyone had an amazing Christmas! I didn't expect very much of this update and so was aware that it would probably just be New Year's fireworks, so I was quite surprised when SSO threw two more things into the mix. The first was 6, or should I say eight, new stars in Mistfall. SSO said that there were eight availability but you could only actually find six of them. I made a video on the locations of the first six. As I mentioned, there are two more. They are both in an area that is closed off but you can jump across without glitching at all to get one of them (you need to get some crumbs from Dundull, there are plenty of YouTube videos showing you how to do it). Some players have almost managed to get the other one, but that requires glitching which I'm not going to do. I think that means that there's a new place in Mistfall coming next week, theory post is on it's way! Also, SSO have worked with a pop group called Dolly Style. I, personally, have never heard of them and don't like the sound of their music, but it is the kind of music that younger players might listen to. The music will be playing at Fort Pinta disco and, in addition, they have given us four free tops if we use the code: DOLLYSTLE. I think that this is really generous and the tops are actually pretty decent! Just as Christmas was different this year, New Years is different. Fireworks are now only avaibile in the Christmas market, which I think it a bit of a shame because there's no reason they can't be everywhere else. Fireworks have the same system as before, you buy a firework and set it off. This is what the fireworks area looks like: They have also added an hourly New Years fireworks display. At first I thought that it sounded really cool but it only lasts 10 seconds which is a bit short. I think it should be a lot longer and the small amount of time it lasts for is a major disappointment. New Years stuff may only be bought inside the Christmas market, which is again a shame because the whole of Jorvik celebrates New Year, not just Santa. As always, there were dresses being sold and half of the community seemed to be obsessing over this one blue dress. I must admit, it's very different from the other SSO dresses, which look like balloons, and it seems pretty wearable, which is really nice to see for the first time in game. I really hope there are more dresses in this style in the future. Finally, they added this feature to the horse market: It's good that they don't want to clutter it up but I am starting to feel that the horse market is becoming a dumping ground for the horses they they want to pretend don't exist so they chuck them in the horse market, they only come up once every other week and now you can't even see them all at once. I guess it's because they don't want to.
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It's been ages since I've done one of these posts. So, I think that it's high time that I do them again! Ok, let's hop into the quests. Quite a bit of fun yes. Besides the fact that I am forced to do dailies every day for wishes... Oh i guess I could talk to them for you... if I get wishes... Wow ok. What happened? Someone messed up your cookies so you threw them on the floor and I have to tidy them up for you? Right, all done, next helper. Yes, you are on thin ice, it's called a frozen lake. So, there being branches on the lake is a MASSIVE deal that should stop you sending in reports. Fine, I'll pick them up for you. Next helper! Wow ok, another fashion person in SSO, because we didn't have enough (!) I'll pick you clothes up off the ground for you, I guess. Hey, Santa, I have all of the reports but I think someone is setting the helpers up because that's what the news page said. Oh, there's been a crash? Ok, ok. I'm going! Well damn! There's stuff from each helper here... Obviously, let's go tell Santa. But, hang on, what's this? This is how horror stories start. Oh this looks cosy (and would be amazing to edit). I wonder who lives here... GANGSTER ELF Well you're an awful saboteur, ain't you? Ok, let's do the good thing and tell Santa so all the kids playing this game know that owning up is the best thing to do. Well, now that Santa has explained about Christmas, Honey is happy!
I think that the quests were quite a good filler between weeks as they aren't meant to be big quests, just little festive ones. I think that the characters were way to stereotypical and the fashion character has been over used so many times in the game. I loved the designs of the house and of Honey, I thought they were really cool. I wish that we got wishes from it though. Overall, I think they were quite good mini quests! I’m looking at the clock and feeling guilty that I’m not sleeping. To stop headaches I need at leat 8 hours sleep, but 10 is the only one that stops them, so I need to sleep in the next 20 minutes. New animations today & an (awesome) new hat. Interested in reading my opinions for (most likely) no actual reason? Go ahead!!!! Here are my thoughts on the new look As you can see, as part of the new look, they have added new animations. These aren’t big changes but there’s that move above as well as smoother mounts and dismounts (they’ve got rid of the way the character throws the arm over - which was weird) as well as making you hold the reins, when you’re stationary, in a more realistic way. Those are images of the run and the walk. Some people hate them, but at the moment I actually prefer them. They’re less flouncy and more realistic. Maybe the run is a bit over the top, but I’m glad I don’t walk everywhere like someone on the catwalk anymore My head looks really odd and squashed on my shoulders. It makes me think of a rodent or someone who has a condition that makes them hold their neck oddly (I’m not trying to be rude or anything, it’s just how I see it). Maybe it’s just because of the shorter neck which I’m not used to, but still - it’s weird. Maybe I’ll get used to that in time, I certainly hope so because I really don’t like it at the moment. SSO ADDED POINTED WITCHES HATS. I love the look of them so much, and here they are: You get them in the Halloween shops. I don’t like the white one (which costs over 200sc, which is very over priced, and looks, in my opinion, awful). However, I do like the purple (99sc) and the black (almost 50sc). I decided to take the purple home with me as, although it costs more, it’s more detailed and I think will work best with my SSO Halloween outfit. I really love that these have come to game!
What did you think of the hat and animations? Hello, it’s Li and finally it’s time for the Hallowe’en update. I don’t really celebrate Hallowe’en in the real world but I do love the celebrations in game. As promised by SSO, this year we had lots of new cool stuff, as well as some seasonal favourites returning, so without further a-do let’s hop into the game. That was the first thing I saw logging in and I love it so damn much! It’s maybe not too much like the actual game but it’s still a really cute picture and I can certainly see a little story coming off of it… Possibly coming to the blog in the new few days? Eve’s sister decided to turn up, called Fae. They’re twins and actually remind me of my own two younger sisters (who are also twins). My sisters are called Emma and Fay, which is scarily similar actually! The quests basically involved picking up bits of material (that looked like toilet roll) from around Jorvik, including the toilet roll race! This toilet roll was put together to form this mummy outfit, it looks quite cool, I like the way all of the pieces blend together to form one outfit but it’s not something I would actually wear! This year, the difference was the ability to change your horses colour and stuff. There were six effects. three that could only be seen by you (fire, bats and darkness) and three that can be seen by everyone (zombie, mummy and skeleton). The cheapest are the private ones, which can be bought separately by 5 sc but it can rage right into the hundreds of sc for 15 public ones. I don’t really think it’s worth it if I’m honest. I tested some on my alt account: I actually prefer the ones that can’t be seen by anyone else. I like the way that rather than looking funny, like April Fool day, they actually add an air of spookiness to the horse. New year I hope for everyone to be able to see these and there to be more. The shop looks good, I like it. It’s the “mall style” but you can change the camera angle like you would normally, allowing for more adjustments. Also, you can zoom in and out which just allows for more detail to be shown - of course, it also happens to have an ultra cool Halloween theme. This year, the shop is selling things from previous years, including the Galloper Thomas top. It also has a brand new mummy outfit to match the magic horse and the outfit you get in quests. Personally, I’m not into it but I think others may be. There were also loads of masks. From Fripp, to druids, to Steve, you could get so many masks. Most cost around 150 js, but here are the ‘special’ ones that cost a lot more. I must say, I love all of the special ones and most of the other ones! Finally, this year the apple bobbing hasn’t yet appeared. I love the apple bobbing because you get lots of cool stuff with very little work. Will it appear later on next week along with the ghost train? Let’s hope so. I love the mix of old and new things to make a really good Halloween, once the apple bobbing is back, everything will be perfect!
As predicted by much of the SSO community, today was the return of the Fort Pinta Beach Party. There’s not a lot for me to do as I’m maxed with the rep and I’ve done the quests before but I guess doing them again gets that XP that I need! It’s a really nice little event on SSO actually, a race, daily and somewhere to dance in all of those Summer parties - I know we have at least one planned in FR. But, I was actually really excited about the other part of the update - Chinese Lanterns! I thought that it was so cool that you release a lantern and then, for a minute or two, all of the other players can see the lantern that you put into the air. To unlock the lanterns you need to speak to Kylie Summerbreeze and do a quest that gets you 10XP. You then unlock the lanterns and you can buy them really cheap, two for 2 star coins or 18 Jorvik Shillings (I feel like a salesman). You can get them in orange, purple, green and, my person favourite, red. I just think it’s so cool that the community can come together in this way and make beautiful display in the sky. It really shows how much SSO has now come along that they can make things like this. With lot of XP up for grabs and plenty to see, I count this as a great update!
Today was the day. The day the whole community has been waiting for. A change in camera angle! But first, it's Midsummer! Yay! So that was cool just to have the quests again. Writing about the Midsummer quests I think was one of my first posts on the blog wayyyyyy back in 2015 - throw backs. Same old, same old. I can't wait to frog dance again! I do hope that SSO have fixed the speed glitch that appeared there last time though. And now, camera angles! Literally so happy about it. So, basically, SSO followed many players advice and gave options on the camera. You can zoom in and out so that it's your choice. You can have it like the new angles, old angles or even really far out. Or somewhere in between - it's up to you. You can also have the old jump or the new jump. Once again, up to you. I took back the old jump. There’s also player and cursor settings - has any figured out what they do? I think it’s been an amazing update. Now everyone is happy (yay) and Midsummer is here before FRs Midsummer event (double yay). What setting have you chosen for the new angle?
HAPPY EASTER! Hopefully, this year in my family we’ll actually celebrate Easter. What with none of my close family being Christian, there isn’t much point apart from the fact that I want chocolate. Easter means zilch to me (along with every Christian festival, in my opinion if you’re going to celebrate stuff then celebrate the original stuff rather than the other stuff). But enough about religion (I could rant about it forever). I hope that you all had a great Easter and now have loads of chocolates (or an easter toy and candles in the case of my mum). So, how many eggs have you managed to find?
BrA/N Wow so weebly wasn’t working on Wednesday which is really annoying. If you’re seeing this, it means that weebly has started working tomorrow (Thursday) I’m very annoyed but it won’t let me log in! Update: I managed to get in after an hour on trying, finally! Hello and surprisingly today was the Easter update. Now, I’m going to visit family tomorrow so I’ll have no internet therefore I am scheduling posts for the rest of the week. My fan fiction isn’t completed so I’ll finish it this weekend and upload it on Monday. But now onto Easter! Firstly there was the normal golden eggs and mini egg hunts. The golden eggs are in the same areas at last year so find a 2016 map. They are, however, in different places for different people. Tomorrow, I’ll complete my egg hunting (no I won’t, thanks to weebly I’ll do that when I get back) and upload a map along with which egg gets you what! But today I did do the mini eggs so here is a list of the mini egg hunts in an order that is useful for running around the map and what each one gets you! ★ Harold in Silverglade Village - Bread ★ Barney at Silverglade fields - a hay bale ★ Mrs Holdsworth in Moorland - Flora Spring dressed ★ The Security Guard in Fort Pinta - Colourful Easter Western bridal ★ Iris in Aideen’s Plaza - Mesh Purple Sweater (that’s actually a shirt) ★ Leonardo in Governor’s Fall - Easter egg ★ Klaus at Cape West Fishing Village - 3 x orange ★ Ewa at Golden Leaf Stables - 2 x banana ★ Jasper in Golden Hills Valley - hay bale ★ Carney at the Winery - Easter egg ★ Landon at Silverglade fields - 2 x grapes ★ Avalon in Valedale - Easter egg ★ Felicity in Firgrove - Carrots Also, the normal Easter time shops (with a mall like revamp - I’m not too sure if I like it or whether I think it’s cute) reappeared with something awesome for your saddle pad along with a cute new kitty from Freja. Also they’re making it so that you can transfer one foal onto multiple accounts - awesome apart from the fact that I don’t like the foal app much. SSO have brought out Haflingers on the app but as I hate Haflingers and I can’t see whether I’d like the horse when it’s older, I’m not getting involved!
Happy April fools! How was your April Fools day? I only got pranked by one of the Frosties who said that they were leaving but last year on April Fools day someone did leave which is why I believed them, haha! Apart from that I just explored Jorvik with it’s bright colours and had fun with the Frosites. The fun included: making them search for me at Firgrove when I was standing at SF, removing everyone (and adding them back of course), everyone leaving and ranking everyone up to leader (plus ranking them back down much to Rosemary Kingfield and Ruby Riverbell’s disappointment). However, this wasn’t the only awesome thing around this April Fools day… Yes, that’s right! We get our own little Raptor to hover on our shoulders and to motivate us to do quests. I actually don’t want him to go as he reminded me of a cute toddler. Well here are some photos of what he says and looks like. I hope you enjoyed April Fools.
As suspected, the rainbows have returned to Jorvik. Sadly, not with the parade (which I suspect will appear next week). St. Patricks day is this Friday so it’s a shame that we won’t have the parade for then.
I am in love with the rainbows as all ways. I will of course been taking far too many photos with them which you will be able to find on my Instagram (@lisilentland). I can’t wait to collect the outfit but if you didn’t have the rainbows last year, here is a guide. 1. Rainbows appear on the hour and half past the hour. 2. If you log on while a rainbow is on you will not see it and will have to wait for the next one 3. They are in random places, stand at SF to see where it is - if you can’t see it it’s at Valedale Lake 4. At each rainbow there are 10 piles of gold which you can get 10 pieces from 5. You can swap these pieces for clothes 6. Rainbows last 20 minutes And so there we are - a guide to rainbows. Other news is that the Horse Market wants to look for rainbows - I mean they want to look after the horses and keep them away from the rainbows - so they are taking a break and Jorvik Fashion week signs are up so that’s something to look forward to! My hopes are that Valentines Day will go tomorrow with the update (and that we'll get some more quests because I am less then 200 xp from level 20 and it's annoying me). I like Valentines Day but I'm getting bored of the tacky hearts - I just want Jorvik back!
I have finally managed to collect the whole Valentines set (there are glasses but I hate wearing glasses). It's quite nice although I'd like the saddle pad to be pinker because the whole outfit sort of clashes and doesn't look that nice to wear which is a shame because SSO have recently been making quite nice outfits. If you're wondering where to get things from, I believe that everything is from V-Day quests apart from the ribbons which are from the friendship race and the wraps + bag which are from letters. The friendship race also gives you a box of chocolates (you can put it in your saddle bag), bridles and glasses. Plus you can get some flowers for you saddle bag through around quest. So clothes wise it hasn't been a bad year. However, I just want Easter to get a move on. P.S. Happy Pancake day How are you getting on with the Valentines Day race? I did a load of races today with the amazing Lilah Applewood, Ruby Riverbell, Louisa Bluepie, Sara Windstar and Alice Southyard. I collected so many hearts and got nothing in return until the very last trade where I got the tail ribbon that the community has been obsessing over! I now have both the ribbons and the glasses. Tomorrow I might try to get a bridle but I don’t know if I can be bothered. The race is too much in my opinion. It’s just too hard to get rewards. I was racing for 1 and a half hours for one ribbon - I mean come on. My suggestions are:
- The race is shorter - It’s easier to get a prize - You only need to swap one heart Oh well, I have the things I wanted to get and I wasn’t overly keen with the other stuff. I have found all of the letters apart from the elusive one at Cape West - I swear I’ve searched everywhere. Does anyone know if it gets you anything actually worth while? A bit late but here is the Valentines day update! It came with the normal 2 quests with Catherine and Donald. We also had a brand new race which I think is awesome. You have to do it with your friends and completing it gets you a heart which you can swap for clothes (I guess, I didn't have time to do it properly). The race was truly amazing. It had 2 jumps which I loved and I wish that SSO introduced into the game normally. The update also came with slight adjustments to some races plus the clearing of ML arena. I think that this really does make ML look a lot nicer and it gives the lower levels an arena to do things like dressage in. For me though the biggest achievement today was editing and filming my first "proper" long video. I hope you like it! What do you mean I’m going to trigger a migraine because I’m still up? Ok I should sleep but I wanted to type about the update. It’s so inconvenient having climbing on Wednesdays! The snow in Jorvik melted away with Christmas this year, but it’s okay because it’s time for the Christmas clean up. I’m close to level 20 but I won’t get there this week. I miss the snow and wish it had stayed longer. However, I’m happy that I can do the Fort Pinta races with James and the other clean up quests including the last present. Also the porridge man is back and he gave me a nice blue hat, thanks! Bed time for me, I need to get better at sleeping. Night!
I’ve had an amazing day! I haven’t done a lot on SSO (although I did sneak on for a bit) so I thought I’d do something similar to yesterday and just talk about my day.
I was woken up at the unruly hour of 8:20 by my sisters. However, after telling them not very politely to go away I managed to get another hours sleep before I delved into my stocking. It was the normal (but truly amazing) presents from Mum and Dad, or so i thought until I felt a prick in my hand. My parents had put a pineapple in my stocking! After a big breakfast of cereal, coffee, grapefruits and those French things that I can’t spell. I then dressed before the rather stressful present opening! I am very thankful towards all of the people who got me something this Christmas! I love each and every thing so much. One of the things I got was a Control for the Apple TV. My sisters and I then played a car game with it, much laughter and fun game with that! Another amazing present was 2000 star coins from my sisters. I put this onto my account today and with I brought a long wanted Andy. So welcome to my home stable Royaltorch aka Tora! And the Star Stable news is here! We have the last of the Christmas quests and tomorrow we will all be able to jump around Jorvik on our reindeer! I look forward to this every year and there is just something about riding a reindeer that me smile. Also, Raptor has returned in a rather… interesting way. He seems to have taken to performing his new album on a sleigh, which is on a car, which is driving around Jorvik City. Where he is concerned, nothing surprises me. In true Raptor style, he hasn’t yet had the time to release his new album cover! Of course, it is down to us to design it with a prize of a goodie bag and our design being of Spotify. I shall be entering but I will design mine when I am on holiday over New Year. SSO has been very kind and has given us 11 photos of Raptor to use in our album. I need to start writing down ideas. Sadly, this is the last news of 2016, but they will be back in January. If you wanted any contest information, you can find it in the photo below. Finally, there is the normal new clothes in the mall Imagine an outfit with the white top, trousers, gloves and boots. I love it! I love the clothes and textures on all of them! I really like the ruffle tecture on the tops and the lace textures on the boots. Reccently I think that all the clothes must have been designed for me because I love them so much!
What do you think? It’s finally feeling like Christmas. It took 2 days of Frosty Roses theme week, cold and tucked up reading a book (Eliza Rose) in front of the fire before I felt it! So have you been keeping up with the Star Stable advent calendar? Well here are the days and their gifts/ codes: 14th - Jumper (W1NT3RSW3ATER) 15th - Hat (W1NT3RH0H0HAT) 16th - digital wallpaper 17th - saddle pad (WINT3RP4D16) 18th - 20% off SSO merch 19th - saddle (W0WS4DDL3) 20th - digital wallpaper It’s been a really good year so far with the SSO advent calendar: I feel the outfits are less ‘newby’ and I will actually wear them rather then mixing it with other clothing! It’s good that as the players fashion sense has changed, so has SSOs. As I was tucked in front of the fire I saw a video from one of my favourite SSO YouTubers, Northena. I decided to watch through the video and I was amazed: This theory makes so much sense! I think that this is awesome and I am getting so much inspiration from it to write a story. However, I think that your character isn’t quite a reincarnation. I think that your character is simply a descendent and has the powers ‘switched on’. I really like this idea as I think it explains a lot of things and isn’t that far fetched.
On the subject of the main story quests, have you seen the new loading page of Dark Core? It’s really cool and I hope it means new story quests soon! Some think tomorrow but I doubt it as I think they’d give us a sneak peak first. Almost certainly we’ll be saving Anne but I hop there is more training in there as well! One of the first things I have to do when the Christmas shops come out is to try and make a Christmas outfit. This can often be quite hard to get the right match in colours but so that it also is wearable. I wear this on and off through the Christmas season. I really like it this year and a lot of the outfit was earned through Christmas wishes from Santa~
Green terrain boots - Santa Christmassy winter mittens - Santa Red shorts with black leggings - mall Knitting pixie sweater - Christmas shop Green Santa hoodie (that’s actually a hat) - Santa Christmas Saddle - Santa Winter accessory - Santa Village reins - The star store Green ribbon - unknown Christmas leewards - Christmas shop Green Christmas saddle pad - quests Have you seen the new Christmas clothes? There is a little boy who is selling the old ones and the regular shop owner has upgraded. I decided to buy a jumper as I really like the style. I also really like festive things that aren’t as in your face as a Santa hat but which make you feel the vibes anyway. I hope they add more new Christmas clothes after St. Lucia!
Happy 5th of November! It’s fireworks night and I’ve hardly been on SSO today as I’ve been, well doing fireworks. The night started with a nice hot fire and burning this year’s pumpkin. Then it was time to put on my snugly coat and hat before taking my camera outside to take photos of the fireworks! We only had about 3 that went wrong I think? Also there was just a small competition with our neighbors as we both were firing sparks into the sky! Well here are our fireworks from this year? I wish that SSO celebrated fireworks night but it is only something done in the UK to celebrate the capture of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the houses of parliament. I love the SSO fireworks, but I love them in IRL even more. I’m sorry that this isn’t SSO but I hope it was interesting anyway.
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Li Silentland
Hello!Welcome to my little space on the large internet where I can share my thoughts, views and fanfics! I am you 'normal' teenaged girl, who loves writing, gaming and horses. I've played Star Stable online since 1st June 2014 and I am currently a level 20 player on Cupcake Valley where I hang about with Frosty Roses and my 18 pixel horses! Disclaimer: All images and anything else to do with this blog are taken in the game Star Stable Online produced by Star Stable Entertainment AB. I have nothing to do with Star Stable and own none of their graphics. But I can tell you it is a great game and you should play it!
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