The Adventure Continues!

Our adventure started on March 30th, in 2013. We had a dream. Our dream was to harness our love for KingsIsle games and project that to the community in a postive way. In the beginning, we were a small and unknown blog. Nearly two years later, and we have come so far and have had amazing support from the entire community in the process. With that, it brings us great pleasure to announce that Adventures of the Spiral is now an official Wizard101 fansite!

One year ago, in January 2014, we were asked by One-Eyed Jack to join the ranks of Pirate101’s official fansites. We had already created several post segments [Segments101], a complete Companion Database and plenty of posts about one of our favorite games [Pirate101 posts]. Becoming an official fansite allowed us to not only expand and improve on all of these aspects of Adventures of the Spiral, but also host more contests and become a greater part of the community!

Shortly after our Pirate101 success, we decided to take a similar approach to the Wizard101 portion of our site. We had interviews, recaps, and, of course...contests! Our biggest achievement on the Wizard side, however, is definitely our Fishing Database. Whether you’re just starting out or are an advanced angler, you can find practically anything you need about fishing on our complete database.

This week, we were asked by Dworgyn and Professor Greyrose to become an official Wizard101 fansite. All of us at AoS were thrilled to have received such a great opportunity, and we’re certainly planning to start off with a bang! We’re already part of the Fansite Festival, a party hosted by several fansites from both games to create a full day of fun in Wizard101 and Pirate101. We’re also planning to start up some more post segments soon, taking a closer look at some unexplored corners of the Spiral…

We would like to thank our readers for another great year at Adventures of the Spiral - we’ve already exceeded our own expectations in terms of Pirate101 content, and we will definitely continue to do so - now it’s time to further build on our Wizard101 content too!

We would like to also congratulate Johnny from Wizards of the Spiral for also becoming an official Wizard101 fansite!  Keep up the good work!

Great News! - And a Message from Blind Mew!

Yesterday afternoon,  we received an email from One-Eyed Jack, our community manager, with some very exciting news: we've been accepted as an official Pirate101 fansite (!!) - the team here was absolutely thrilled to hear this, and we're very glad that we can now be a larger part of the community.

Of course, we certainly won’t be slowing down now! We’ll be rolling out some new segments over the next few weeks that we hope you’ll all enjoy (P101 and W101!). Also, be sure to keep an eye on our official Twitter page for some periodic contests the next couple of days. We’ll be hosting some contests and events on our blog, too, so be sure to check back often - you never know what’s in store! (even we don’t!)

We’re hoping for this to be a great year for Pirate101… Yum all around!

We also received some extra Commentary from Blind Mew:

"Blind Mew here - as I said over at Central, your work is pretty staggering and I absolutely love it! But there's one thing on the second article that you’ve missed, and it’s pretty important: the Spiral Map in Marleybone has no world in the center: this tells you right off the bat there’s no such thing as an absolute chart, at least not yet. Why is the map this way? Marleybonean pride prevents them from giving another world a better position than they have, but they are reasonable enough to admit that other worlds are really important: manners preclude them taking the center spot for themselves.

So, rather than Valencia at center, it and Marleybone share “most important” status with two other worlds, arranged in the cross pattern there in the middle. Nobody has seen the Spiral from outside, so as long as the connections line up, who’s to say their map is incorrect? Who are the other two worlds? That would be telling.

Another thing you should consider – when mapping out the Spiral (at least our version, with thread connections and what not), I was driven by story considerations more than symmetry. So presumptions of what connections are likely or unlikely based on numbers of hops are dangerous – I’d be much more likely to connect a world like Marleybone to other worlds that resonate with the British colonial presence. I’m also leaving room for lines that connect two worlds across the gaps between the arms if need be.

Oh, and the gate closest to Beachhead in MB does indeed go to Valencia – it’s the front line in the war, and the Armada’s primary invasion vector. That’s what makes Rooke’s assault from MooShu at the other end of the Skyway such a big deal – it’s a major flanking maneuver."

Interesting, eh?!