Winding down? You wish!

It's the Friday before classes start. This is the final weekend of my INCREDIBLE GAMING BINGE!!! And it's been a fun couple of weeks. I've finished the Aielund trilogy, destroying the indestructible Ironlord only to find out it was a hero of legend. Then I killed him accidentally. Oops.

I've almost finished Hordes of the Underdark, making it all the way through the Underdark, and through a particular circle of Hell before coming up against the indestructible Lord of Hell, Mephistopheles. The fact that he is, in fact, indestructible (as opposed to the aforementioned "indestructible without the One Artifact that you Need to Destroy the Grim Menace" Ironlord) has put a bit of a damper on my completion of that particular adventure. It's the last fight, how do I win?

I've been fighting my way from power node to power node on various planets, flak cannon in hand, and discovered that I really, really enjoy looking at my enemies from inside the turret of a Goliath tank. Also that a microphone does wonders for my enjoyment of online FPS play.

And I've been defending my Homeworld against the ravages of the marauding Vaygr, battling my way to and fro across the galaxy, surviving against incredible odds, in a kind of Rocky-esque last-man-standing slugfest in space. I have found the Oracle. I have awakened the Gatekeeper of Sajuuk, only to find that my enemy not only has awakened his own Dreadnought, but has also located the Gate of Unknown Significance!

In short, I am having a freakin' blast! It all ends Monday morning, though. Sometime between now and Monday Morning, 10:00 AM, I have to complete my quest to unite the three cores and awaken He Whose Hand Shapes What Is. After that, I'll just be a weekend warrior, taking the occasional odd hour or two on Saturdays to slip my quiet, cautious way through City 17. I'll be the one with the glasses.