On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: The Nomads love to explore

Mewkow: Thank you for the love of music

Tetsemi: Love is in the air

Mkallah: we have the lovely Captain Cybyl STO Update

Mewkow: Sy and Grimcow are here to talk about the Summer of Love!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #280 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah - (hey, guys, there are lemon bars in the guild kitchen… and cinnamon rolls…. And carrot cake. Tet, I need a cleanup over here). And to my right is Mewkow: (Greetings, Gamers). This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne and Grimcow who are here to talk to us about AIE in the Summer of Love Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into Summer of Love shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Summer of Love is coming! More discussion shortly, but first, the links!

NOMADS

Nomads have launched a guild in Albion Online. It's a lot like Ultima Online, meets Diablo 3, meets Eve. If you are interested in joining the guild, head to the #Nomads channel on AIE Discord, or contact Argus or Jehdai for information. Also there is a forum post with more information in it as well. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57441-aie-in-albion/

WoW

Just wanted to give a shout out to Russell Brower for all the work he did at Blizzard Entertainment on the music and sound tracks of all the Blizzard games. His position was ‘made redundant’ due to some corporate restructuring of the audio teams and we wish him well. He has a solo album coming up and will still be doing three Video Games Live concerts in the future. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook to see what he’s up to!

SWTOR

Our usual SWtOR MFN on Tuesday will be focused on SoL. Maybe a Running of the Pancakes on Hoth, a Galaxy World Boss hunt and a trip to get the harder to reach datacrons or something similar. I'm sure @Max will have a bunch of "Mandatory Fun" stuff for us to do.

This week. Tuesday July 25th, MFN will be on the Imp side and next week it will be on the Pub side.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 203: There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-203 review the Esne and Aivela boss fight added to the Gods From The Machine operation on Iokath.

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 7/23/2017:

1. Season 13.5 launched July 18th, with the featured episode 'Brushfire’. The first of three weekly rewards for playing this episode have been posted to the STO website. Rewards for weekly replays will be posted at the end of each week.

2. The Son’a Lockbox has arrived for Season 13.5. Two new, artsy-looking Son’a starships are the featured prizes along with new equipment, weapons, player enhancements and much more. Stats for the new ships have been posted.

3. The Xindi Lockbox has been upgraded to include upgraded T6 Xindi starships, along with new equipment, weapons, player enhancements and much more. Stats for the new ships have been posted.

4. The C-Store 15% lockbox key sale has been extended through this weekend! Grab 'em while you can.

5. Finally, don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

Until next time, Captain Cybyl says, 'Live Long and Prosper'!

FFXIV

https://aie-guild.org/blog/2017/07/kittee-and-tiaras-ceremony-of-eternal-bonding/

Kittee Fantastico and Tiara Leigh of our Final Fantasy XIV gaming community will be exchanging vows in their Ceremony of Eternal Bonding on Sunday, the 30th of July 2017 at 7PM EDT.

This may come as a shock to those who know the happy couple. However, between Kittee’s seemingly random, explosive tendencies and Tiara’s great love of...