Thursday, April 30, 2009

Dead Character!

The little things laid out on their big, beautiful bed hurt Aemiera. The soft curve of his daggers, the little thread cutter she'd made him, the fine things he'd given her... All of it was imbued with his memory. His smell permeated the bedsheets, even though he'd been gone for months. She could still feel his arms around her, the brush of his skin against hers. He was still there, in some way. Without him, she wasn't the woman she'd been before. Not even halfway.

She was a shadow. A shell. To remember Aemiera was to remember a distant person. There was a reason she did not use her former name. Caltiaa was dead. A memory just like she was now. One of Dernuu's blankets was on the bed. It had the sweet smell of baby on it. This smell always brought up an overwhelming maternal warmth in Aemiera.

She felt love for her son, yes, but the warmth that came was barely a whisper. There was no passion, no fire. He didn't deserve a mother like that. He deserved a mother who would feel a fire in her heart for him. He had that sort of mother, where he was now. No, she couldn't take care of him. The woman capable of feeling that sort of passion wasn't with her anymore.

Therus had begged her to live, in her dream. He'd told her to not abandon her son. To not make him wonder why she'd not lived for him. But wasn't it worse if she did live? For him to wonder why his mother could take him but did not? No... Dernuu would never doubt that his mother loved him. She found some paper on the table next to the bed, and scrawled on it, in Darnassian. "I did it for Dernuu."

She slipped on the dress she'd been married in, and it fitted poorly over her sunken body. She wasn't the woman he'd married... not anymore.

There were three options. She couldn't raise her son. She couldn't live nearby with him being raised by others.

The leather rope was soft. It'd been one of her favourite leather ties. The beam was right above the bed, and she tied it with one of the knots she'd seen Therus use a thousand times. She fashioned the noose carefully, gently. It went easily around her neck.

In front of her, a spirit appeared. Ghostly. Her Therus. "Are you sure?"

She nodded, tightening the noose. He held out his arms for her, and she walked into them. Into peace.

Peace in her husband's arms and embrace. Into the world he was in now.


Her hooves dangled next to her bed. The bed she'd shared with her husband. Her eyes glazed over, and she swayed back and forth, the dress picking up the breeze.



Dernuu would know that his mother and father had loved him.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Bunnies!

It's the first year of Noblegarden being an actual event. Most people before this year didn't know it existed. I'm loving it. I get to run in circles. As a bunny. At sprint speeds. What's not to love? I also have cute, skimpy outfits to put on my girls. My little slut Janie has the bunny ears she's needed for the past six months or so. As does the DK, too...

I'm getting the robes for almost all of my girls, and probably the flowers too. It's a nice thing to do when the server's kind of dead, and I know the Azure Watch spawn points pretty well by now.

I'm looking forward to the crowns this summer. I want to get my priest up to 50 so she can death hop to get them because that might be nice for her RP later. Last year I only got them on Keran/Janala and Aemiera, who is now Tiluu. (Who wouldn't use it) Everyone else was too low level at the time. Mirasa would look lovely with one, as would Maylora.

Sharilyn would look LOVELY with a crown. It'd be perfect. Except she's freaking terrified of fire. I'm thinking if her man's out of pally camp by then, he might be able to help her get past it. It'll probably be her personal little hell, though.

Still want the bloody crown on her. And maybe the achievement for extinguishing flames. She's afraid of two things. Losing what she loves and fire.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

How Many Runs Does it Take to Get a 60 Paladin?

This is the question I am trying to find the answer to. So far I've run along behind the paladin through Elwynn out of his group and tossing rejuve on him. I've also been healing touch spamming because I get bored easily and I'm not ADD at al- oo a squirrel!

The reason we need a lvl 60 paladin is because my Death Knight's boyfriend has decided to become a paladin... again. He's secluding himself for reflection to regain his connection to the Light, and the player will consider this done at about lvl 60. He did not leave her to become a Paladin, but rather she urged him to try to have those powers again. He's coming back to his little NE frost princess. It's proving to be an interesting plot already, and I want to help him hit 60 (He doesn't have a ton of playtime and thankfully only has 1 lvl 80) as fast as he can so it can advance rather than sit stagnant for a year. He is not killing things to level in character, but rather trying to become what he once was through study.

The Plan:

10- Deadmines!
15- Stockade!
20- Cathedral!
40- Zul'Farak!
45- Stratholme!
55- Outland instances!


Day 1, we hit lvl 10. Let's see what day 2 brings. I promised the bastard Arenas if he'd push it. I'm hoping for at least lvl 15 today, because I fail at deadmines. I really do.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Championing!

I hit champion yesterday. Today's going to be my first day of doing both the champion and the valiant dailies. The champion dailies are like the valiant ones on crack. The guys that you avoided like, well, the undead plague, are now your targets, and you have to kill more undead than ever. Thankfully you can do both sets at once, making your life easier. I still haven't tried out the group daily, but that's because I was lazy. Thankfully it's not required to progress. Currently I have Of Stormwind racked up (Still sticking with Argent Ch. until Crusader) and I'm working on Of Exodar. I'll start this whole thing on my other characters as I feel like it after I get Crusader and all the crap I want. I would really like to have a life.... (But I don't.)

I've also been trying out the demo/destro imp-based build with conflagrate. It OOMs me too fast and leaves my health wanting too much for use outside of an instance, but it does a good deal of DPS. I want to give it another DPS race, since I did hit 1990 with my affliction build. My hunter's still doing 1200 because she still has some t4 on her because I neglect her, and my DK's DW DPS build is doing 1400 because most of her gear ilvl is taken up with defense and parry and crap. I need more actual DPS gear on her. The sad thing? My resto druid in no hit gear, on her boomkin spec, is doing 1500. -_- To be fair, she has imp faerie fire and Nature's Balance... but COME ON!

At least the DK can take it in the face.

To be fair... the druid takes it in the face. But only if that sword was a money shot and... I dunno. That's what she gets for being a slut.

I do make a lot of 'Janala is a slut' jokes. And she's my only married character since the hunter went nuts.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Fishing!

3.1 fishing rocks. I've had a fisher since about 2.3, and it took me a WHILE to get him up to a good place. I got my DK up to 150 in about 150 catches. In Wintergrasp. While RPing. In the rain.

It's incredible.


I got actual useful fish, with a ton of grays to sell.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Tournament! (And UPS)

So I hit valiant today. It's awesome. I have to do a few nice, rep-getting quests for 5 days for each faction. They're all to get you better at jousting, and make it into something more than a novelty. You still have to do the old dailies, but more and better and sexier. It's pretty easy, and makes things fairly equal. I've been hellfiring myself so I can duel the Exodar valiants over and over. (It gets rid of the debuff) The others kill me. I was about to be defeated by a gnome, and I dismounted because I don't like waiting around to die when I know I'm beat. It bugged my pet, and next thing I know, this little gnome has hunted me halfway across the grounds and kills me.

As a human, I get 1100 rep per day from these quests for that city, so I'm still going to do lowbie quests to get exalted for Crusader. 24 days away! My cute little warlock got her first heroic and first raid today, and has a few more little epics. I also got the 80 spell power to staff recipe and the herb bag recipe. I'm sooo close to Argent Crusade exalted. 700 rep away! Of course, during OS, Sarth drops the t7 gloves for DKs and it goes to off spec. I need those for my tank.


Anyways... this is part of the UPS package tracking that I had for my RAM that I got today. I think it's kind of hilarious. I hate UPS with a passion. Tip: I don't live in Redmond.

PORTLAND,
OR, US 04/14/2009 8:20 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
04/14/2009 9:15 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

REDMOND,
WA, US 04/15/2009 12:36 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
04/15/2009 1:42 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
04/15/2009 2:47 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
04/15/2009 5:51 A.M. INCORRECT ROUTING AT UPS FACILITY
04/16/2009 3:09 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

BELLINGHAM,
WA, US 04/16/2009 5:05 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY

(THEN I get it.)




I also wrote something! It has two parts, which I'll both part. They're disturbing and no, I'm not going to give context!

The fire had stopped some time ago, but she didn't know when. He'd been dumb enough to light a fire near her. She wasn't sure when the metal scraping sound had stopped. When he'd stopped using pick and gauntlet to break the ice. When she'd felt his fingers break though her comfortable shell. Time hadn't existed since the Draenei woman had killed Brother. She was unsure if she'd felt the presence of a fire before or after the warmth of his hands through the ice. If she'd been in the bed or in the corner when she'd encased herself.

He tried to feed her soup he'd cooked out of sight. Eating was unnecessary. Unnecessary until perhaps it'd been over a month. The ice over her skin felt good. It numbed her. Brother wasn't as dead when she wasn't warm. If she moved, if she cried, if she let the ice fade, he was dead.


Brother was dead. As soon as the cold faded, he was dead.

Sharilyn encouraged the growth of ice, her breath slowing to accommodate the limited oxygen available to her.

She wasn't sure how long it'd been.

(A few days later)


The family huddled in the house. Their terror gave her strength. It was beautiful. The child screamed. Sharilyn lunged, and the girl's parents fell to the floor. The little girl screamed louder, her mother's blood on her face. The Death Knight walked away, looking for more prey. As she left, the corpses of her parents shifted, and soon two more ghouls joined the fighting.

Calming images flooded into Sharilyn's mind. He was trying to calm her over their mental link. The images shifted. Arms, gentle and warm. There was warmth. A bear's skin being placed over her naked form. It stuck there, and the warm images faded.

Father was under her, and she grinned down at him. He took the opportunity to dig his knives into her side, but his steel only met plate. She grinned wickedly, her sexual posturing mocking him. Grandfather appeared, and Father screamed. Father screamed more as his little girl began to break his bones and took a nearby candle to his skin. When she finally walked away, father was screaming through his gag as the fire consumed him.


His arms were comforting. Almost.

Father was touching her young, helpless body. It hurt. Brother was comforting her. An Elven Death Knight held her close, then faded as she fell. Brother held her. Brother kissed her. Brother touched her. Brother died in the arms of that Draenei woman who killed him. She killed the Draenei woman.



Perhaps she'd thank him for his comforting thoughts soon.


This is my siggy pic for my RP posts!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Problem With Pandemic. (3.1 Affliction Talent)

Those who use damage over time spells like Moonfire or use something like Entangling roots will know that when it crits, a more powerful spell will already be active and you can't overwrite it.

Those who play affliction warlocks will know that right as a DOT is about to fade, you need to refresh it, to keep it up.


These two things should not merge. They have.

I hope Blizz fixes the whole crit overwrite thing. It was annoying before. Now a spec that relies entirely on it is a little disabled. Just seems... odd. Also, when they've faded, this effect is sticking. I tried DPSing a target dummy earlier and *shudder* It just didn't work right.

Thoughts and Feelings on 3.1 (Welcome to my Crazy)

3.1 has been up and running for a day, and you'd think that I'd have more thoughts on it. I haven't done ANYTHING outside of dailies since launch. That, and get my buggy specs. I'm ignoring bugs, as they're not blizzard's intent. I haven't played my resto druid yet, to be honest, or my tank. I've played around with my aff lock a bit, and so far, I'm alright with how she plays. It's the same, if a bit sturdier. I'm in love with the feature half the server doesn't know about. If you haven't already, go to interface options, display, and check the box to preview your talents. It's beautiful and lovely. I've made love to it several times under the moonlight.

The tournament, so far, makes me happy. I'm going for "Crusader" with my warlock for her RP. It requires getting "champion of the Alliance," the Ambassador title, and exalted Argent Crusade. But seriously... Crusader Maylora? How cool is that for a little Light-loving warlock? The only thing I don't like about how this is set up is the Winter's Edge quest. There's a wait to kill the elemental. Otherwise, my low-stamina warlock thanks the Light that we have a sanctuary in the tournament grounds. I'm not seeing a repeat of Quel'danas. For those interested in my RP, I will be providing RP updates just because I like to talk. I doubt anyone would actually be interested.

Right now I'm angsting over not being able to get the Glyph of Howling Blast. I need it for my DPS and Tank spec on my DK. I'm a little afraid to try tanking Ulduar, and right now I want to let other people's wipes and mistakes happen before I go in there and screw up. I abhor 25 mans, and their valorous is my lack of repairs. I'd like to progress and pull my weight, but that includes dealing with 25 man types and to be in a raiding guild. I'm the guild leader of a tiny little RP guild and I don't play well with others.

RP-wise, my boyfriend's main just died. His wife, my 80 hunter, became a priestess again. So I have the RP of a new hunter to build that I'm really liking. She's sort of like a feral druid in Draenei form. The wife is now a low level priest, like she'd trained to be as a young girl. She's currently crazy. The sister of the deceased is my frost Death Knight, and she's incapacitated because her emo levels have exceeded 9000. My resto druid (I have two above 70, a resto and a boomkin) was very close to the deceased, but is thankfully alright and much more emotionally stable than the other two.

And Blizz, fishing daily FTW. My resto druid, Janala, is loving it. For her, fishing is related to sex. She's also a big, fat pregnant lady. (TRANSLATION: I don't like healing right now and I feel I must justify it IC.)

I'm scared to tank. They nerfed frost DKs and I'm not sure how it'll end up with threat and mitigation. I think the nerfing was awkward, and the tree felt clunky. I'm thinking about doing a simple heroic to get used to the changes. They're probably not -that- bad. I'm just a whiny bitch.

Photos

I think first it's a good idea to put my photographs out there. I take pictures because I find it interesting. I'm not going to put everything up because that'd just be... meh. The profile picture I have right now was done of one of my WoW characters in her masculine and feminine forms. I want to start with the pictures I took flying from Tucson to Seattle. They're neat. I took them all from about 35,000' when the plane was cruising through a gigantic windstorm. The grand canyon at sunset is amazing.














Next set of pics? The trip I was on in Mexico!