Spirit Tales – Great Bear Fist Missions

We, the Great Bear Tribe doesn’t have a fixed nation. We wander the world, collecting unique artifacts and treasures. I’m sure you know a treasure is something that is rare and difficult to obtain, so we formed the Great Bear Fist to allow others to take prat in our treasure hunts through quests.

Every city in the world is covered with the footprints of our treasure hunters. The treasures that are dropped by creatures in the wild are the main targets of our collection. If you find any treasures we are seeking, then a reward can be earned after collecting a certain amount and giving it to us.

Completing Great Bear Fist missions will complete Glory Achievement Badges that reward you with 5 achievement points and 250 achievement badges. As of the last edit of this post, there are 11 achievements available for “Treasure Hunter”.

The items needed for the Great Bear First missions have a relatively low 1% drop rate, so expect to farm some monsters for a while.

As a note, I will only update with quests that I have completed myself and verified. If I do not get around to playing all the missions, this guide will be indefinitely incomplete!

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Spirit Tales – Unusual Occurrences Missions

My character on Spirit Tales.

My character on Spirit Tales.

English documentation for the game Spirit Tales/Glory Destiny Online sucks, so this is my attempt at improving the information available on the interwebz. The wikis available for the game are also far from complete. x_x Hope my updated compilation of information helps someone have less frustration with the game.

Each map will have five Unusual Occurrences missions. Completing all the missions in one map will reward you with a Capsule Coin (CC). Completing all the Unusual Occurrences achievements in the entire kingdom will reward you with three Protective Crystals (PC). [source] All of these missions can be redone to gain special buffs.

As a note, I will only update with quests that I have completed myself and verified. If I do not get around to playing all the missions, this guide will be indefinitely incomplete!

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Installing RMagick on Windows 7

In my efforts to install Ruby on Rails and SpreeCommerce on my Windows 7 laptop, the problem that stumped me the longest was the ‘spree install my_store‘ command that gave me the error:

'identify' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Image magick must be installed.

I tried running ‘gem install rmagick‘ first, which installed something, but it was still not sufficient to let me run the ‘spree install my_store‘ command without aborting in an error.

After much searching on Google and concatenating all these outdated sources, I finally figured it out. Steps (and troubleshooting details) are below.

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Monitoring Your Rabbits Remotely

Sleeping bunnies, Foscam FI8910W, 240p.

Relaxing bunnies.

Being able to watch your rabbits — and any other pet, really — when you are not home can be very comforting (and entertaining) when you are off at work or on vacation. It can give you a great peace of mind when you can see your rabbit visually hopping around on your phone or computer screen and not loafing in pain in a corner. Personally, I had never thought of monitoring my rabbits remotely until the instance a couple years ago when the fire alarm went off in the apartment, and the bunnies freaked out in their x-pen and almost bashed their brains out.

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