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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

-The Craft Faire is Here!

- Spreadsheets are shipping out

- We’re getting the band back together

- Something is happening in Anaheim

- And we have Lotwook here to talk to us about AIE Nomads

All that and more coming up right now...

AIE NEWS

AIE: New Member!

A huge congrats to Siv for the new addition to his family! Charlie Ann was born on 4/22 and is happy healthy and all the things you hope in a new addition to the family! If you would like to send congratulations, twitter seems to be the place! Just tweet @siv_aie

 

AIE: World of Warcraft

Lots to talk about for the AIE World of Warcraft gang this week. First up, after months of preparation and planning, the Spring Craft Faire is finally here. The craft faire will be held this Saturday, April 26th, from 4pm to 7pm server time, and continued on Sunday, April 27th, from 2pm to 5pm, server time, so get your new and boosted characters to Silvermoon and crank up those skills.

 

As you heard here on this show last week, Syrene put out a challenge for people to send in full bags of materials in order to be entered in a mini-raffle for two Sky Golems, and the response was overwhelming. She had 110 full emails full of mats, plus tons of extra mats that didn’t meet the rules for the challenge, but were extremely awesome nonetheless. You guys rock. And we’re happy to announce the winners of the mini-raffle are Zerrakim and Nunemacher! Congrats you two! Please track down Syrene this weekend at the craft faire to collect your prizes. Thanks to Edelody and Cowpoeria for volunteering their virtual dice rolling skills to select the winners.

 

If you’d like to win a prize of your own, don’t forget the craft faire is also holding a huge Craft Faire Raffle. Tickets are 100 gold each, which you can send to Seriewa. [S-E-R-I-E-W-A]. Ticket sales end at 11pm server time tomorrow, Friday April 25th. Any gold that comes in after that point will be returned to sender. There are some rules and regulations for the raffle, which you can find in the AIE wiki, along with a list of all the current prizes, which includes six sky golem mounts, an X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME mount, around 50 rare companion pets, eleven 28-slot bags, and a lot more, and people are still donating items for the raffle, so you probably want to get in on this. And just to mention it, all gold received in ticket sales is used to purchase more prizes for the raffle and cover some of the in-game costs of running the craft faire. Nobody is making any money on this.

 

There will be also be a  COOP run on Saturday. Meet up at the death blimp in Orgrimmar at 8pm if you’d like to bring some love to the Alliance.

 

And of course we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Blizzard has finally announced that there will be a Blizzcon this year. It will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 7th and 8th. Tickets will be on sale on May 7th and 10th for $200 a pop. Even at that price, they’re expected to sell out in seconds, so make sure you call in sick, tell your friends you’ll be busy, and be ready with some fast fingers.  The really good news is that this means there will also be an AIE Guild Hall. this year! We’re still working out the details, but even if you don’t win the lottery and get Blizzcon tickets, you’ll want to come anyway and spend two days hanging out with us in the Guild Hall across the street. It’s a total blast, and some say even more fun than Blizzcon itself. Stay tuned for more information.

 

AIE: EVE Online

We move now to spreadsheets in space with the AIE EVE gang. This week Hoots announced they are working on the logistics in preparation for the continued invasion and occupati...