News, News, and More News...

It's been 9 days since my last post; sorry about that. My computer was internet-less for a little more than a week. But worry not, for The Spirit Keeper is back...again! So what's new in the Spiral? Well, let's see:

Wizard101 Central's 2nd Birthday is in 2 days. If you haven't already, make sure you check out their Birthday Contest, "A Day in the Life of a Wizard!" Submissions are due by August 31th, 9pm CST.
Speaking of birthdays, today is Fallon Shadowblade's 33rd Birthday. Make sure you wish her a happy one either on Diary of a Wizard, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, or in person.
On a lesser note, KingsIsle is testing updates to the log in server. "So login, log out, log back in to the Test Realm and really stress out our new login servers to the fullest. With your help, we'll be able to make logging in faster for everyone!" So what're waiting for, go have a party in the Test Realm already!

A new abracadoodle is out. You can check that out here.

Wizard101 Producer Leah Ruben aka Dalia Falmea has written a letter to the Wizard101 community. Along with her thoughts and tips, Professor Falmea provides a pic of an awesome new mount, pet, or monster for Celestia?! You can view the entire letter here. On this note, check out my latest poll: "Piggles or Ninja Pigs?" in the sidebar to the right.

Pet of the Day in The Spirit Keep has been changed to Pet of the Week, so stay tuned...

In other news, I made 2 new videos with some footage I just had lying around. The first video is a Runescape Recruitment Video for The Lords, a faction of the Triumverate(Massive clan split into 3 parts). The footage is like a year old since its from when I played Runescape, another MMORPG. But it's in HD, so if you're into Runescape, and are thinking of joining the Triumverate, check it out. The other video is a Wizard101 PvP Tribute, also in HD. I had a lot of PvP footage, unused songs, no internet, and time on my hands. Neverthelesss, the video came out nicely. You can view both videos below.

Post your comments, questions, issues about anything below in the comments section. I look forward to hearing from you!

-The Spirit Keeper-

Spirit Squad Kicks Butt In HD

I've finally finished all the main quests at Grizzleheim. The GH storyline ended with an epic battle between the evil Ravens and "The Spirit Squad"! Yesterday the Spirit Squad consisted of Malorn WillowSmith(The Sorcerer of the Spiral), Amber Rosepetal(A Savior of the Spiral), Jason Storm, and me. I put together a quick video of The Spirit Squad kicking butt! Check out this piece of cinematic genius(Watch in HD):

My Wizard101 Wedding

Well, welcome back! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but my computer was being stubborn.

So way back in April, I decided that I wanted to have a Wizard101 wedding. Why, you may ask? Well, I had bought a Life House a few months before and was having a blast hosting parties, mount races, and such(I'll post info/pics of my homes soon, so stay tuned!). However, I couldn't think of what to do with the gazebo. I already had a party themed room inside, with balloons, a piano, punchbowl, and a root beer bar. So finally I decided to turn my gazebo into a chapel.

Now Shelby Rose and I met during the summer of 2008. I don't remember the exact details of our first encounter, but I do remember that I had offered to join her questing in Wizard City. After a while we became very good friends. So during April of this year I decided to propose to her, and she accepted. We planned to have the wedding during our Easter break. Tragically, my duties outside the Spiral, both at my 'Muggle' school and at home, what with college applications coming due, our Wedding Day had to be postponed. Luckily, summer finally came and one sweltering summer day, we decided to have our Wedding Day right there and then. Although you couldn't all join us that day, we do have our Wedding Video to share. The songs I used are displayed in the video at the end, around 6:10. For convenience here they are, in the order they are played in the video: "The Wedding March" by Mendelsohn(editted), "Caribbean Blue" by Enya(editted), and "Closing Time" by Semisonic.

Hope you enjoy the video and Thanks again for reading!

Tune in next time for: The Spiral 2.0(Celestia and Beyond)!

Late News: Best Little Dorm Entry

I know the deadline for entries to the Best Little Dorm in Wizard City Contest has passed and the judges are in the midst of choosing potential winners. But since I did spend some time decorating my dorm for the contest and I'm sure I have a pretty good chance of winning in at least one of the categories(fingers crossed), I think it deserves its own blog post.

For those of you who don't know, the contest is looking for those wizards and witches, who can best decorate their dorm rooms in a Celestia theme.

At first I was going to decorate my dorm in a half submarine/underwater theme. However, when I was done, there was just a lot of stuff everywhere and I can honestly say it wasn't pleasing to look at. I don't know what it is about messy rooms but I hate seeing dorms, and homes where stuff is just all over the place. For me order and simplicity are a priority. And so I gutted the dorm and started from scratch. After a few hours of moving furniture around, and exploiting my skill for defying Newton's Law of Gravity I came up with this:

Tell me what you think in a comment either below or on Youtube, either will do.
Thanks for reading!