The Maghallah Sisters

From the frying pan...

2009-08-22T07:27:00.000-07:00

Their blades met with a clang. They both leaned in, pushing against their blades with all their might. As their faces closed, Jora growled, and said: "He who faces a Norn in battle, is already defeated!" Dani smiled, and replied: "You may be bigger, but I'm keener." She winked, and shoved Jora's left foot out from under her, dropping her to the ground.

Dani lept back through the air, and landing in a crouch, looked up to see Jora already scrambling to her feet. She raised her sword high, and charged the giant woman again. Jora deftly caught her blow with her shield, directing Dani by her momentum, away from her body and to her left. She followed through with her sword, slicing the air close along her opponent's back, as Dani spun and parried with her blade. Their blades met with a clang, as they spun to reposition themselves for the next blow.

"Sis!", Rajae interrupted them as she came running up. Dani crossed her blade across her shield, signalling a break. The women turned to Rajae as she walked up, the rest of the troupe already approaching from their camp.

"What did you find out?", Dani asked her sister. "There's a number of enemy groups patrolling the perimeter...here, here, and here...", she pointed out as she drew a map into the sand. "There's also some sort of magical locking mechanism that the Mursaat use for a number of things... I haven't been able to figure out precisely what they unlock, but there's a couple... here... and here..."

"Allright, we'll attack them at first light.", Dani decided. "I want to have a look at these locks, they must be related to the gate mechanism somehow. Now, remember to stay close! We'll take the lead. Raj, take your team and stay behind us. Move out!"

The Gaze of the Gods

2009-08-20T02:02:00.000-07:00

They were making good time, jogging along the shady side of the desert ravine, their feet kicking up small clouds of dust as they hit the sands. Their Ascension had been completed, and they were now on their way to meet the Prophet.

"It just keeps getting more and more mysterious," Tahl complained loudly, near the end of the column, "...how is this is going to end?!" "I mean, just think: We've escaped your homeland into the mountains, fighting the Dwarves for passage... Good dwarves, bad dwarves, all very confusing... Then, when we finally get out of the cold, cold mountains, we hit an oppressively hot jungle filled to the brim with Undead! Then, the very people we'd been fighting with, become the people we're fighting against! And to make matters worse, the people we then find ourselves fighting with, are pretty much exterminated, and we have to follow the command of a man whose race, origin and motivation we DON'T EVEN KNOW, into this scorching stretch of desert... And now, to top it all of, we're on our way to meet a dragon! A DRAGON!"

"YOU COMPLAIN TOO MUCH!" The statement rang clearly through the canyon, seemingly coming from the ridge high above them. Dani halted, and looking up, beamed to see the huge form of Jora, standing near the edge at the top of the cliff. The smaller form of Jin appeared next to Jora, waving to the warband below.

Dani shouted up towards them: "My friends! What brings you to this desert? It's great to see you!" Jora cracked a smile, a rare event in and of itself, and replied: "We heard of your journey as we passed by Yak's Bend during our Hunt, and we figured you might be able to use some help." Koss replied: "That's excellent, ladies! Let me see if I can find a way to reach you from here!" "No need, just stay put, Jin already found a way down, we'll be right there!" And with that, they disappeared from view...

Rajae, who'd made her way over to Dani, touched her shoulder and asked: "Who are they? More friends of yours, from what I understand... But she's huge!" "Yeah..," Dani giggled, "... she's huge! She and Jin went off to hunt mountains trolls a while ago, one of the settlements we came across a couple months back was having problems... I'd never thought I'd run into them here!"

"Well, maybe your reputation is starting to proceed you," Rajae laughed... "Well, whatever the case," Dani replied, "...it's going to be a great help having them around... I've got a feeling we're not out of this yet..."

Vista

2009-08-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

She stood, her gaze vacant, as she stared out over the mesa. Thoughts of doubt and indecision floated through her mind. She jerked, as Koss gently placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Raj...", he rumbled, "... you ok?"

She sighed, finding herself somehow unwilling to focus on the Now... "I'm worried...", she said softly... A moment passed as she took a slow breath, Koss waiting patiently for her to continue... "This Trial... it's so... mysterious, intangible, it gives me the creeps... I mean, we know it involves combat of some sort, right? 'Cause that's what this was all about, gaining the power to take on the White Mantle... But who are we fighting? And why?"

She looked up expectantly at Koss, hoping he would have the answers. "I don't know, hun...", he said, making her shoulders slump slightly... "...but I reckon the thing I do best is fightin'. So, I fight, it's what I do... Yesterday, we fought at Sanctum Cay, today, it's here. That's enough for me."

"It's really that... simple to you?", Rajae could barely believe it... He nodded thoughfully... "Besides, I got nowhere better to be... And I can't very well leave you two girls to face this all by yourselves, now can I?" He smiled, taking the sting out of his words... "Look, only thing I know is that your sister knows what she's doing, and she hasn't led us astray yet... "

Rajae smiled, feeling strengthened by Koss's words... "You're right," she replied, "...she's always been like that. Even when we were little, she always looked out for me...We'll be allright..." She smiled at him, more confidently this time...

"Now then, come on," he said, squeezing her shoulder, "...they're wondering where you are, we've got a Challenge to get to..."

Close, but no cigar!

2009-08-17T09:26:00.000-07:00

Blades flashed left and right, as Dani desperately tried to block the incoming blows with her shield. They'd been fighting for a solid hour now, and still the White Mantle kept coming. It's a good thing my friends showed up when they did, she thought ruefully, Rajae and I could never have hoped to hold these kind of numbers off by ourselves...

Gwen threw another interrupt across the battlefield, closely followed by two of Rajae's arrows, taking out another two casters. The bastards were hiding behind lines of White Mantle Knights, so Koss and Dani had so far found it impossible to reach them, even though that might their preferred tactic at a time like this...

"How much longer?!", Tahl yelled desperately across the fray.

"Almost... there...", the Vizier groaned, deep in concentration...

Dani dispatched another of her opponents, slashing him across the torso with her sword. Shield!, she thought automatically remembering her trainer's long lost admonition. Stupid thing to carry a shield if you're not going to use it, a mistake that Knight wouldn't live to learn from now...

Behind her, the sudden sound of a large cascade of water erupted over the battlefield. "GO! Onto the ship!", the Vizier commanded. Dani and Koss held the line a moment longer, mostly blocking the blows now, as their avenue of escape lay open behind them.

Dunkoro and Tahl were already helping the girls unto the boat, as Koss nodded for her to get aboard as well, followed by a mighty swing of his hammer, which sent the Mantle in from of him scattering to stay clear.

"HAHA! Not even courageous when outnumbering the enemy!", he taunted them goodnaturedly. Howling at the insult, the Knights raised their swords and charged at him. Koss defectly tripped the first one, sending him sliding facefirst along the dock. A quick swing of his hammer caught the second one on his left shoulder, his momentum carrying him right across the prone form of the first Knight. He too bit the dust, providing sufficient room for Koss to make a leap for the ship, which had already started to move away from the dock.

He threw his hammer over the side in mid-flight, barely able to catch the side of the boat as he thudded into it. Pulling himself aboard, Dani smiled at him, shaking her head: "You just can't help yourself, can you?..."

Death in the Night

2009-08-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

They were silently running along the path, the Wolfpack bounding along quickly but quietly in the thick growth on either side. Rufus and Cerberus, or 'Cerby' as Dani lovingly referred to him, were taking well to their new role as pack leaders. The other wolves seemed to respect them and followed their orders, as they in turn obeyed Dani and Rajae's.

Suddenly, up ahead, Rajae slowed, motioning the column behind her to stay low. Beyond the next few trees they could just make out the tower, sparsely lit by a handful of torches. They halted and a gruff snort off to Dani's left told her the Pack was holding position as well.

Observing the torchlights for a few moments, they could see three groups of White Mantle, including 2 healers. Dani signalled for Koss and Gwen to follow her, and motioned for Rajae to hold position at the treeline. She slunk away into the trees to her left, followed by the pack.

Rajae waited the designated number of minutes, regulating her breathing for the fight ahead. Then, she nocked an arrow, and took careful aim at the tower guard standing on top of the tower. She held her shot... Several moments passed, as she took another, calm breath, holding her aim steady...

Then, Koss and Dani burst from the treeline to the left with a crash, yelling a combined battle cry, with a full pack of wolves growling along directly behind them. The White Mantle were monentarily confused, as all had seemed calm a moment before, and took just a moment too long to react. Rajae loosed her shot, which caught the guard in the windpipe, sending him tumbling silently to the ground. Koss smashed the first healer to the ground with a mighty blow of his hammer, as Dani quickly dispatched the other with her blade. The wolves tore into the remaining Mantle left and right, sending them scattering in fear. Those cowards were soon hunted down and torn to the ground, leaving the whole scene quiet once more...

They quickly looted the bodies and hid them out of sight. Rajae, who was already standing on top of the next ridge, motioned that the way was clear. They fell into line, as the wolves slunk away into the treeline. Quiet as a whisper the group continued their mission north, their passage once again masked by darkness...

I love the smell of bacon in the morning!

2009-08-16T04:42:00.000-07:00

"Oink!" "Oink!"... "Oink!"... "OINK!"

"SO!", Koss erupts, "please explain to me WHY we have to bring that bastard creature along with us?! Could've made him into bacon back at the camp already, you know... No need to drag him around! I say we kill him now!" Raising his hammer, he turns around, ready to give Oink a good trashing.

"Koss! Buddy!" Dani sighed, "... I told you already, we need him in order to speak to a Historian that lives a little ways down the road here... Please don't smash him?"

"So how's that work out then?" Koss asks. "If it's bacon he wants, I'm sure he'll be just as happy with his share of the leftovers", Koss bursts into laughter at this, thinking himself hilarious.

Dani says: "Tell you what: If you still feel like smashing him AFTER we've delivered him to the Historian, then fine, be my guest!" "Seems like a fair deal," Koss agrees, glowering at Oink, who was about to make another sound but suddenly seems to think better of it... "Come on, Breakfast! Stay close to me, ya hear?!"

... Several hours and one pig-smashing later...

"The Gates of Lion's Arch!", the Judiciar exclaims. "Thank you again for your help with those undead, report to Guide inside for further orders and bedding for the night." Saluting, the sisters and their friends enter the jungle city.

After getting directions and doing some business down at the Merchant's Corner, they all regrouped back at the campfire as night was beginning to fall. Once again, the cool hours of the evening turned out to be a time for reunion, as Dunkoro approached them from one of the side streets of the square.

"A good evening to you all!" he exclaimed in greeting. Cheers and good-hearted salutes were exchanged between Dunkoro and the rest of the group, as everybody was asking questions regarding his recent where-abouts and the goings-on of their homeland.

Dunkoro delivered dire news concerning a breach in diplomatic relations between the provinces of Elona. He recounted the details of the situation, which once again had them staying up late into the night, talking around the fire. By the time they finally went to sleep, they had discussed their relative situations and it was decided that the threat of the Undead here in Kryta, as well as the re-settlement of the Ascalonian people, was the most immediate priority and would need to be dealt with first. Dunkoro agreed to stay on with the group in order to lend a hand, on the condition that they'd make it a priority to return to Elona as soon as the Undead situation here was under control.

A Cloudy Night

2009-08-15T11:40:00.001-07:00

"You wanna know what I think?" Koss said...

"... It's not like it matters..." Rajae mumbled and sighed...

"I think that Rurik fellow doesn't have all his birds perched. Seems to me like calling you father a fool is a stupid thing to do. Especially considering that all Dad was trying to do, was keep his men in good spirits..."

"Well," Tahl chimed in, "...being banished by your own father is pretty crazy too... I mean, you know, all he did was, like, say what he thought... Maybe craziness runs in the family..." She shrugged.

"Crazy or not, for now, the only honorable path is to follow him." Dani walked out of the darkness and approached the group sitting around the fire.

"Talking about crazy, look who I found bumming around the camp a-ways..." Behind her, a dark-haired Gwen materialized out of the gloom. "Gwenny!", Tahlkora yelled, and hurried to her feet, giving her a firm hug. "How've you been!?"

"Good, good", Gwen smiled shyly, "...although flying solo isn't as much fun as hanging out with you lot." Koss slapped her on the shoulder, causing her to rock on her feet: "Well, it's good to see you lass!", causing Gwen to blush slightly.

Dani decided to cover for her by saying: "Oh, and you remember Raj, right Gwen? We used to play together back in the day." Gwen smiled: "Of course I remember Raj! I'm glad to see you after all this time!"

More hugs were exchanged, as they sat down by the fire. Koss conjured a bottle of dark Elonian rum from his knapsack, took a long drink and passed it to Dani... The conversation continued into the early hours of morning, as they caught up on the events they'd missed during the months they had spent apart.

By the time everybody was up to date, the bottle was empty (as well as a second one) and the soft dawn light was beginning to touch the sky...

New Friends

2009-08-15T09:35:00.000-07:00

"Dani!"

The deep, booming voice reaches her as the teleporter fades around them. Nolani Academy sure looked better before the Searing. A former bastion of knowledge and culture, and now, the place where she'd run into Koss. Again.

She looks over to see Koss thundering across the square, his giant hammer slung loosely over his shoulder, Tahlkora in tow behind him. Dani beams at him as he draws near, barely out of breath: "It's been a bitch, trackin' ya down!" he bulders. She hugs him fiercely, glad to see him and Tahl at so opportune a time.

"Rajae," she says, turning, "meet two of my closest friends: Koss and Tahlkora. I met them years ago, before we met in Ascalon City." "Hello!" Tahlkora chimes in cheerfully, "...It's a pleasure to meet you as well. Your sister and us met years ago, and we've been adventuring together for like... ever!"

Koss bows teasingly, cracking a smile: "Hello hotness! It shall be my pleasure to guard your fine form with my life, as I do your sister's!" "That'll be quite enough of that!", Raj exclaims hotly, her hand moving to her knife. Dani quickly moves to intervene: "Not to worry, Raj", she laughs, "Koss is like that. He's completely harmless though... To us anyways!" Koss brandishes his Rhino Hammer, "That's right, never fear me, miss...", he winks, "...unless you face me and my buddy here in battle!"

His buldering laugh shatters the surrounding silence: "But seriously! Dani! Next time you go running off into the jungle, just let me know, so I can follow you at a more leisurely pace!" Dani smiles: "So noted, old friend... I had not realized the full extent to which you would go to follow me. I'm grateful to find you here though, in good health and high spirits... You see, we're in a bit of a bind..."

"A bit of a bind, she says!", he replies, cracking up, "...yeah! We heard rumors on the way in through the mountains... So tell me, what are these 'Charr' like?" "Well...", Dani replies, "they're 3 times the height of a man, hairy, bloodthirsty, and slightly more intelligent than the average undead zombie..."

"Well! Excellent!" Another bout out laughter erupts from his chest: "Should be quite some fun then! Lead the way, honey!" "Hehehehe! I knew I'd get you with that 'hairy' bit!" Dani replies teasingly, turning to her sister, "... Leads move out!"

Rajae unslings her bow, smiling: "I think I'm beginning to understand why you like these Elonians so much..."

The Breach

2009-08-15T00:08:00.001-07:00

"Hold the Wall!", the captain yelled at the top of his voice, dispatching another Bladestorm. Dani stood firm beside him, shield raised, holding the line. Her blade flitted into Charr flesh while Rajae's arrows landed somewhere ahead in the mass of the enemies opposing them.

They had fought like lions, but still the Charr kept coming... The captain was getting desperate... The sisters exchanged a quick glance, both knew what had to be done. Rajae nocked a quick arrow, took aim and sent it howling through the air, right past Dani's ear as she broke away from the line, sprinting fast along the corridor. A barrage of arrows started pounding into the area where she'd been standing, holding back the Charr that were now trying to break through...

Round the corner, another corrider, a bend, a bridge. Dani bolted across it, lept high into the air, Cerberus pounding along not five feet away from her. Her sword slashed into the Charr commander who'd been directing the battle just moment before, carrying all her momentum into her victim. He screamed in surprise, buckling under the weight of the mortal wound he'd just suffered. As Cerberus lept for the throat of the nearest enemy, Dani quickly dispatched another 2 Charr, and swept the area with her gaze.

Clear. Good.

She turned around and started to make her way back to her sister.

She found Raj talking to the Captain, who nodded as she came walking up. "I thought you were deserting us," said the Captain, "but the flow of Charr stopped soon after you left... What happened?"

"I took out the field commander we'd spotted on the bridge up there," Dani said, pointing up to the bridge to their right. "Ah!", the Captain grinned, "well, good show then! Thank you girls for your help, I'm sure the Warmaster will be mighty pleased with your assistance! We'll sweep and clear the area here, would you mind reporting back to him?"

Fort Ranik

2009-08-14T11:37:00.000-07:00

Skidding to a stop, the sisters take a moment to catch their breath... "That was too close", pants Dani, still shaken from their close encounter with the Charr. They'd been on a mission to locate and assess the Charr threat north of the Wall, but their numbers were far greater than they had anticipated... They'd barely escaped with their lives...

"Good thing we sorted out my armor in town", smirks Rajae, trying to make light of the situation, "now we at least have a chance to regroup before beating them back!" Dani smiles, her sister was right: Now they'd have a chance to grab a few fighters and strike back at the Charr.

She turns, assessing the men around her. Pointing at 4 of them, she says: "You, you, you, and... you! You're with us. We're going back out there, maybe we can take out some of their leaders, and beat them back across the wall!"

"Great idea!" Dani looks over to find Lord Darrin in support of her idea. "Take those men, go out there and show them who's boss! Oh, and if you have a chance, see if you can track down Master Saberlin, he's not reported in from the Wall yet..."

"Yes sir!," Rajae and Dani reply, saluting Lord Darrin, pounding their chests in the gesture of the Ascalon Guard.

"Move out!"

Reunion

2009-08-14T10:28:00.000-07:00

Rajae cried tears of sheer joy, hugging Dani fiercely. Their reunion was long overdue, if not completely unexpected after all this time. Dani had all but given up hope of ever finding her little sister again, and yet here she was, in good health and high spirits.

The joy of reunion shining on her face, she recalled days long past. Memories of another time, another Ascalon. The dreaful events that followed had all but smashed the sisters' hopes of seeing each other again. Each had believed the other dead, or worse: enslaved by those vile Charr, doomed to a life of harsh servitude.

But by the Favour of the Gods, now they were reunited! And those Charr will start to repay the debt they owe them for what they did to their friends, their family, their parents... The terrible scourge that swept through Ascalon that day shall not be forgotten, and its victims will! be! avenged!

Success!

2009-08-13T23:28:00.000-07:00

Allrighty then :D Multiboxing is much easier than it looks :D

I've been testing my hotkey setup last night, playing one instance of Guild Wars on Alpha, and another on Beta. This works splendidly, after some minor tweaking. Since I can use my one mouse on both systems, I've ended up making only 2 hotkeys:

F1 --> Attack My Target
F2 --> Follow Me

As for triggering skills, whenever I have half a second on the main screen, I quickly drag my cursor into screen two, hit the number-button for the skill I want Rajae to use, and drag my mouse back... Zero downtime :)

There's two small tricks to setting up your hotkeys. First of all, and this is going to be a little confusing, both your instances of Guild Wars are going to need different keyboard layouts, because using a hotkey on Alpha triggers the corresponding 'output-hotkey(s)' on both systems. So you want your Guild Wars keyboard layout to be different, so that triggering 'Follow' on system one, doesn't cause both your characters to execute this action. After all, only Rajae has to follow :)
So for example: F1 is the key for Attack My Target in my setup, but I've mapped it to 'Select Party Member 1' on Beta (in GW) and not used it in my Alpha GW settings, so that when I send that hotkey from Alpha, only the Guild Wars client on Beta executes an action. (Bit of a mindbender this, but you'll figure it out :))

The second tip involves how to define the keys to press when a hotkey is pressed. In Synergy, I wasn't getting good results, because I used a 'keydown' buttonpress in my hotkey setup, which means Synergy 'pushes' the button but doesn't let it go. Turns out your hotkey only works once then :D
So, I've set it to a sequence similar to this:

- Switch to screen 'Beta'
- KeyDown t ; Select target
- KeyUp t
- KeyDown Space ; Attack target
- KeyUp Space
- Switch to screen 'Alpha'

It's a bit convoluted, I agree, but it works like a charm :)

Tonight, the sisters will be reunited and the adventure can begin in earnest!

Synergy Configuration

2009-08-12T12:20:00.001-07:00

Well, that was easier than I thought :D

Beta is downloading the necessary updates from Windows Update, so here's a little walkthrough:

Once you downloaded the Synergy installer, install it on both computers. Start Synergy on the computer you want to use as a server, then click 'Share this computer's keyboard & mouse', and click configure.

Add 2 new screens. In my case 'Alpha' and 'Beta'. Then we need to link these together. It's like configuring the directions you can use to move from one screen to the other. Alpha is left of Beta on my desk, so I defined two rules:

- Alpha is left of Beta

- Beta is right of Alpha

Forgot the second one at first, which left my cursor trapped on my old'n'busted Beta PC :D

Ok. So now, we got the basic configuration set. Click OK, and go back to the main screen. Click Advanced and fill in the textbox, using 'Alpha' in the case of our example. Press Test. Press START.

Ok, so now the server is running. The client is even easier :D Start Synergy on the Client, click Advanced and fill in 'Beta'. Click START.

There :D

Now we can use one keyboard/mouse to control both our PCs, how COOL is that XD Drag it from one screen to the other to take control of either PC. Try Alt+Tabbing etc. This is also very handy when you're gaming on your main PC and wanna check a walkthrough or a map or something on Internet.

Allright, one more thing: You can use the Hotkeys button in the main Synergy screen (you have to Quit the program in the bottom right corner of the screen if you want to reconfigure the connection between your PCs now that Synergy is running) to set up 'Key Presses'.

I've allready set up and tested one, so let's use that as an example. In the left side of the screen, I've added a keypress 'Ctrl + Space'. I'd use this to call out a target to my party in Guild Wars. So I'd like the client to follow my order automatically, by pressing 'T', followed by 'Space'. So lets do that, by selecting the 'Ctrl+Space'-keypress on the left (it's blue now that it's selected). Now the right side of the screen, the large white square, shows the keypress(es) to be executed when that combination is pressed on the server. It's empty now, so add a keypress, make it 'T'. Add another keypress on the right, 'Space', and we're done!

Now this is also easy to test: Start the Synergy server, followed by the client, and start Word, Notepad, or some other text editor on the client. Now press 'Ctrl + Space' on the server, it should 'type' a 't' followed by a 'Space' on your client. Prrrresto :)

I'm off to finish tweaking my XP installation, more tomorrow night when I've managed to install Guild Wars and given it a try.

Settings up the PCs

2009-08-12T10:23:00.000-07:00

Ok. Step One: We need 2 PCs, so I can use each to run a single instance of Guild Wars. Since I have 2 accounts, I luckily don't need to figure out if you login twice with the same account (but I doubt it).

EDIT: No, no you can't. It automatically logs you out on the computer where you were already logged in :)

My first PC, which we'll name 'Alpha', is the best one :) It's got a decent graphics card, so it can (and has been) running Guild Wars easily. But, running 2 instances of Guild Wars on it seems to disrupt the dataflow to and from the graphics card, so the whole game becomes shocky.
The second is my Pentium4 2.66 Ghz, with integrated graphics module. Yuk! I'm relieved we've finally reached the point where all new computers come with a halfway decent graphics card. We can thank Vista for that I guess ^^

Now, I'm installing Windows XP SP2 on 'Beta' as we speak. The idea is to use it for Guild Wars and as an extra file-server, as I also stumbled across some old harddrive that I've fitted in. I'm gonna install DirectX and Guild Wars in a minute.

Then, the important part. I'm gonna install Synergy on both PCs, and set up Alpha as the server and Beta as the client. That should allow me to make a keyscript, so that when Dani moves, Rajae automatically follows. Hopefully :)

I don't wanna get stuck in-game moving both characters around. I'm thinking that I might be able to have the server send a keypress to the client, so that when I press Ctrl+Space on Alpha, Beta selects Dani in-game and presses Space to follow. And the same thing for attacking mobs of course. Check back soon for a detailed description of how to set up your Synergy.

Humble Beginnings

2009-08-12T10:16:00.000-07:00

Ahai! Welcome to my new blog :)

So, a couple of months ago I saw this picture of a 16 screen World of Warcraft multibox setup, it looked so cool :D I'm pretty technical myself, I have 2 computers at home, so when I got back into Guild Wars a few months ago, I realized I might be able to make a setup like that for myself, playing 2 toons. With 2 toons I'll be able to use 6 heroes, so I can make a full party :D

Here's the plan: I've got my lvl20 warrior, Dani Maghallah, whom I'm gonna hook up with a sister, Rajae, a ranger. I'm gonna use my 2 Guild Wars account, on 2 seperate PC's, using Synergy to use my keyboard/mouse across both.

It was pretty annoying though, because I couldn't find any good information on multiboxing Guild Wars, and what 'tricks' might be involved... So, I'm blogging about it here as I'm gonna set it up and tweak it, so that YOU might profit from it in the future :)