It wasn't near as difficult as we'd feared, thank goodness. We thought Apollo might play a short clip from somewhere near the middle or end of a piece, but he seemed to stick to the beginning. We still had to consult our chart a few times to identify some of the less familiar pieces, where we had described each in words. (For example, our note for Dvorak's Symphony 9 - 4th Part was "starts like Jaws/epic Western.")
One piece he asked us to identify several times, including for the last question, was Moonlight Sonata. It's one of my favorites. =)
That leaves us with only two more Esroh quests to complete, but it's looking less and less likely that we'll ever complete them. For Ares's quest, we still have to get those pesky remaining 20 or whatever competition wins. HI2 is a ghost town, and we're guessing anybody who would agree to compete with us would compete our socks off. Without completing Ares's quest, we can't meet Zeus. :^( Oh well, the world will go on.
I'm much happier to report our latest HI3 news!
There is now a usable "rotate" option for existing ranch buildings. We were able to rotate our first barn without having to tear it down and rebuild! Since we'd already gathered enough wood and stone to rebuild by the time we realized this, we were able to build a second barn! Pepsi was somehow standing on it as it was going up, hence she ended up like this. =)
On November 1, we happened to lasso this mare out in the savanna near Agartha Village:
Okay, so she's not going to win any conformation contests. (And if you think she looks a bit awkward here, you should see her grazing...) Nevertheless, she is quite special. Her genetic stat total is even higher than Cloud's, and despite those forelegs, she's faster and stronger than our other horses. Her dapples, random eel stripe, orange mane, huge star, and 3 white feet dress up her basic chestnut coat quite nicely.
I'm much happier to report our latest HI3 news!
There is now a usable "rotate" option for existing ranch buildings. We were able to rotate our first barn without having to tear it down and rebuild! Since we'd already gathered enough wood and stone to rebuild by the time we realized this, we were able to build a second barn! Pepsi was somehow standing on it as it was going up, hence she ended up like this. =)
On November 1, we happened to lasso this mare out in the savanna near Agartha Village:
Okay, so she's not going to win any conformation contests. (And if you think she looks a bit awkward here, you should see her grazing...) Nevertheless, she is quite special. Her genetic stat total is even higher than Cloud's, and despite those forelegs, she's faster and stronger than our other horses. Her dapples, random eel stripe, orange mane, huge star, and 3 white feet dress up her basic chestnut coat quite nicely.
Out of curiosity, we had her breed determined. The result: Grade European Hotblood. From what I've read online, people don't seem to be in total agreement on which breeds count as "hotbloods," but the Thoroughbred is definitely an European breed in that category. We think our mare looks fairly Thoroughbred-like with those long legs.
We weren't sure about her at first, but she's been growing on us. Her two personality traits that are quite extreme, skittishness and antisocialness, have not had much of an impact when we ride her. (We don't care much for dark forests or crowds anyway.) So, we made it semi-official and gave her an infinitum amulet, which froze her in time at the same age as Starfleet, 5.7 years.
4 horses means my sisters and I can each have one of our own now: no more sharing. =^) Bethany picked out Starfleet's name, and both have luxurious dark manes, so they seem meant for each other. Felicity claimed Gryffindor because he's brave and has so much chrome. Lily chose Cloudburst, obviously, because we caught him on her birthday. That left "Pansy" for me. (I plan to rename her, thanks to the unsavory Pansy Parkinson character in the Harry Potter series, but I haven't decided on a new name yet.) Don't worry, I'm quite happy with this turn of events: I get a speedy horse with a personality I can relate to pretty well.
Our focus the last two weekends was determining our horses' favorite treats. And yes, it really did take us several hours. Horse treats on HI3 combine 3-5 different ingredients of 11 different flavor types. Each horse has 4 favorites and a couple of flavors they don't like. We systematically combined flavors until we discovered each horse's favorites.
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| Here's Gryff's treat chart. ;^) Turns out his favorite treat combines sweet, savory, starchy, and fibrous. |
I'm sure there's a more efficient method, but we got there in the end for all 4. The hardest part was learning which ingredients were which flavors and then tracking down the different ingredients. We tried to harvest them all in the wild to save money, but we ended up buying a few of the trickiest ones to find. Discovering each horse's favorite treat made PepsiSummer his/her favorite human permanently and gave them a serious bond boost. I guess the way to a HI3 horse's heart is through its stomach! =^P
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