Brood Everywhere
Daily Ramble 62: Brood Everywhere
I made some good progress in Secret World Legends today. Primarily in the Main mission where I met up with Joe Slater, fought a huge warmonger, and danced with a Broodsource in the sewers. In comic books, Wolverine and the X-Men #5 sent the teachers and students in a all sorts of different directions and I even met a bunch of Brood there too. Finally, I ran into a brick wall in trying to read an Anne Rice novel of all things – I used to like her a lot.
Secret World Legends
One of the new directions that Secret World Legends takes as opposed to the previous Secret World, is that your character has a level. Sure, there were XP, Ability Points, and Skill Points in the previous incarnation but you didn’t really have a character level. In SWL, your level can impact what you can do in game. For instance, in the main mission I’m on, Dawning of an Endless Night, I’ve reached a point where it’s necessary for me to advance to level 12 before I can move forward to the next step. Leveling isn’t a problem since I can rerun any of the missions I’ve previously completed or I can just run around killing monsters, but I worry that somehow I’ve underleveled things so far. While I thought I was taking all the side missions I found, I’ll have to make more of a concerted effort to do everything I can find.
Once I reached level 12 though, I received an interesting task to head down into the sewers. Of course I felt some trepidation since sewers are not the safest place to play around in, particularly in a town that’s infested with zombies and weird creatures.
Sure enough, I ran into some beasts. This Draug Brute Warmonger looks to be the big brother to the one I found next to the SycOil Gas Station previously, and this one summons extra bad guys to send at me.
I also ran across something calling itself a Broodsource that seemed to be taking care of the birthing pods in the sewer. Once again, this guy summoned creatures from the pods to attack me. And boy did he look ugly!
Finally, after getting past these guys, I was able to find Joe Slater. He’s seen better days and I’m not sure how long he’ll remain sane, but he was a fountain of information. He was on the Lady Margaret and as I mentioned before, that was pretty much ground zero for the monster infestation in the town.
More Brood
While I ran into the Broodsource in the sewers of SWL and quickly dispatched it, Wolverine and the X-Men have another bunch of Brood to take care of.
In the last issue, we left off with Kitty Pryde showing all kinds of signs that she was pregnant. It turns out she’s actually got a bunch of microscopic Brood infesting her and they’re eating their way out – yuck! And for some reason, they’ve specifically attacked Kitty and are trying to assassinate her. Filling her full of antibiotics, Beast puts the school on quarantine to prevent the infection from spreading but Kid Gladiator insists on shrinking down to fight the tiny creatures inside Kitty herself (apparently he feels the need to demonstrate his prowess since earlier in the issue he had some troubles with white blood cells).
Meanwhile, Wolverine and Quentin Quire are headed into space in an attempt to find a funding source to keep the school operational while headed in the opposite direction, towards Earth, is a big ugly Brood, we later learn is called Xanto Starblood, who we see take down an entire unit of SWORD – the Sentient World Observation and Response Department.
This title just keeps up a frenetic pace.
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Argh! That was a struggle to get through.
I’d have to say that other than The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day, which I stopped reading after a handful of chapters, this book by Anne Rice has been the worst I’ve read this year. I really did not enjoy it, which surprised me since I’ve enjoyed some of her other works. Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned were all very enjoyable and told a story I easily dove into. This mummy book just was not my cup of tea. I figured with it being Halloween, the fact that one of my book clubs was reading it, and I enjoyed her vampires, I would give this a read – oh well, something has to end up on the bottom of my list. I’m sure some people liked this one, just not me.