I suppose I should have written this a few days ago. Ah, well. Still trying to get back in my blogging groove. Not that I ever had a fantastic groove to begin with though.
So What Happened To TDRP
Fairly simply, about 18 months ago my life blew up. Some things started going bad. I tried to fix them. They kept getting worse and worse and worse then suddenly: BHWOOOM!!! There it goes. My life laying in sloppy little pieces all over the floor.
Since then I’ve been trying to put it back together. Living alone with my cats and dog is different but pleasant. Being able to play WoW again and have regular contact with the friends there even more so.
What Is Happening With This Blog
Well, I have ideas for posts percolating but it is going to take a little bit of time to get everything running smoothly again. My creativity and inspirations for WoW were pretty burned down to nothing while I was enduring such high levels of stress for so many months. Now that I can let my creativity run free again I’m hoping to get back in a good groove.
I don’t know how many of my RP 101 posts I will be doing, however. There are plenty of others out there now writing them and doing a much better job. I don’t believe I would have anything useful to say that hasn’t already been said… and much better.
As soon as I can get back in the character groove there will be stories again. And there are a couple that I should wrap up. Having only been back in game less than a week, however, I’m still working on just getting settled into the mechanics of it.
I would like to get back into posting every day (except weekends) but until the ideas are flowing a little better, likely that isn’t going to happen very regularly.
What Is Happening With The Characters
At this point, not a whole heck of a lot. At the moment I’m focusing on getting one leveled to 80. Probably the only one that might have some use somewhere. If I can ever manage to get her geared. Since I started playing again last Thursday I have managed to get her from 74 to 77. Finally! Northrend Flight!
Nauloera- 77 Priest(Draenei). At the moment she’s Shadow spec (and hating it) for the purpose of leveling. 90% of my leveling is solo and leveling a solo Holy priest is a bitch. Anna once suggested trying out Discipline but looking through the talents I didn’t really understand it that well and just wanted to get moving. Shadow goes pretty fast (almost feels like cheating some days) so I’ll just Shadow her up to get the last 3 levels then re-spec her back where she belongs.
As far as Nau’s RP? /shrug. Nothing going on there yet. I’ve only had very very brief (maybe 3 paragraphs total) IC interaction since coming back into game. The only time I’ve been paired with anyone else it was when they were dragging Nau through a quest. Doesn’t leave much time for talking when you’re scrambling just to figure out where the rest of your party went and how the f*** did they get beneath you?
So Nau RP wise is stalled.
Merlinne- 70 Mage(Human). Much like Nauloera, Merlinne is stalled but in leveling as well as RP. I haven’t much draw to her right now. Eventually I will level her to 80 but I don’t know if it will be before the expansion. She’s not talking to me currently and quite content just sitting in the library reading. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that her mate is involved in something I as the player not only don’t understand but feel pretty disconnected from. As if I’m not yet ready to be overwhelmed by someone else’s huge dramatic RP. So Merly will sit in the dust for a while longer.
Megaly- 70 Warrior (Human). Meg, I miss. She spends more time as my “light” character than any other. She’s fun and sassy and speaks her mind. And she’s great for when I just want to go out and smack the crap out of something and use her to vent my frustrations. She’s talking. Clamoring to be let out. I think part of that is some of my own frustrations since returning to game. As soon as I get Nau to 80 I’m going to take a couple days to play with Meg then get back on my goal track.
Nothing is going on with Meg’s RP right now. Hell, I can’t even remember the name of her son. I think he’s a toddler now… uh… not sure. Though the primary reason he exists is to give an excuse for Meg disappearing for long periods of time. She’s talking loud enough that I figure her RP will fall back into place easier than Nau’s once I let her out to play, though.
Ebonywind- 68 Shaman (Tauren). Ebs is my main on Horde side. She’s had some good times and some bad times. Because when I left she was caught in some bad times she’s being pretty quiet right now, though I think she’s pretty much over being emoo. However I wasn’t a very good shaman before I took a break. It’s going to take forever for me to just figure out how to survive with her again. So really there hasn’t been much draw to pull her out. Just this overwhelming dread of tackling her Talent Tree.
RP wise there are some things that happened while she was away that I think it would be really fun to at least see her reaction to. But when I try to log her in I’m swamped with guilt for not wanting to tackle the Talents and move on to something (or someone) else.
Ithrene- 34 Hunter (Dwarf). I’ve decided that after Nau hits 80, Ithrene is going to be my next leveling focus. Not only is she fun and light as a character, her bear, KaeAskavi is always good for lightening my mood (he’s the one that farts a lot). Though I find the task of tackling her Talents a little daunting, it isn’t nearly so much so as tackling someone who is already over 60.
There are also a couple other reasons to focus on Ith. I need a miner. I need someone who can dig up gems and ore and such. Nauloera is a jewelcrafter and she needs ore to prospect for gems and powders. Ithrene currently is a skinner/leatherworker. But I have another leatherworker with my druid so I can safely drop that and pick up mining.
And one other reason to level Ithrene is just pure silly. But it is my silly and I want to do it! Ithrene needs one of those white riding bears. KaeAskavi is her best pet. He’s a white bear. She has the bear cub vanity pet. Now she needs the white riding bear. I think it is just Kae with a saddle though.
So before too much longer Ithrene is going to move up my ranks.
Those are the major players on my account. There are other characters but none that are even whispering at the moment, much less demanding screen time. I think I’ll just leave them further back in line and worry about them later. They will give me something to work on in the future.
Though I expect my dog in Cataclysm may eclipse them for a while…..
So for the moment, this is where I am and where I’m heading. I expect I’ll still be trying to put my head on straight for the game for a couple weeks still. There is so much new and so many changes and truly I feel like an idiot some days. Hopefully that will wear off eventually.
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