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The intended game subject matter aside, I figured it was worth posting. I think I'm late to the party in that regard, but I've been playing Skyrim again and stuff like this comes on the brain.
Relevantly, I feel compelled to write something in the Elder Scrolls theatre but find myself feeling (more than usual) like I should ask why? It's a more loaded question than I care to mention at half one in the morning, admittedly, but abbreviated I have to wonder if I'm writing to please myself, or to do that 'and' please an audience. The latter combination rings better.
Even that on its own has me considering just how much I should invest in writing. I know I'd much rather write professionally than do anything related to chemistry, I'm just not fooling myself about future job security etc.
Ah well. If I end up spontaneously posting Elder Scrolls fiction up here, now you know why.
So I’ve been poking my head back into World of Warcraft lately, off and on - mainly because of missing both Gnomes and my fellow Nubs, and it has been a… curious… experience.
On one hand, I won’t deny having fun at times; with the sped up levelling and the fact that the game is typically only...
I keep my forays into World of Warcraft to pretty short visits to see who's still there, do a bit of arps while a month's sub ticks over in the holiday seasons. Which is a real shame, because I'd rather like to be able to actually roleplay with Norry's new wife, but on the other hand - SWTOR is what I play right now and even then I barely do any of that.
One thing I found with WoW's levelling is that it's designed very neatly to turn me into a complete drone. I'll go on for three zones and about half of the time I won't even notice I've levelled. It has its benefits, since SWTOR's levelling actually murders me and its does not... Still. My last foray into ER roleplay was Kalimdor Undone and, most unfortunately, a bit of bad organisation on my part slowed the goblinesque plans I had down to the point that I never really got into it.
Back down my blog somewhere is a record of a trip to AD, as well, which was a terrifying experience I had no intention of repeating unless I get to wander around with the noodle salesman again.
I guess I don't have the best luck with returning to WoW. Roleplaying was always what I was there for more than the PvP and it seems to be... Well. I won't say dead - but it is a far cry from what it used to be. At least I nearly always had Mouse to keep my company.
For some reason I can never write reliably over holiday periods. Constant uninterrupted access to games may be responsible, but now surely that I'm back to 9am lectures all the time I'll always be too tired?
"We would discount the fact for relevance if, for example, the previous violence was remote in time from the murder, or if it was of a distinctly different nature than the murder."
"This in itself was evidence of the fact that there was still more to be discovered about my grandfather’s activities and the occurrences in the house, though I did not immediately realize this."
"In particular, Wonders and Michalowski (2001:548) have noted an expansion of sex tourism - North-South and North-North - which both fosters and is fostered by the ‘global commodification’ of (primarily male) ‘desire’ and (primarily women’s) ‘bodies’ and ‘exotic others’ as new ‘markets’ in the global economy."
Rushing out into the snow, he had flung his arms aloft and commenced a series of leaps directly upward in the air, the while shouting his determination to reach some 'big, big cabin with brightness in the roof and walls and floor, and the louder queer music far away'.
I'll leave this here just so people might know what's coming - at present, I'm spending a lot of time on SWTOR. As it happens, though, most of my writing in recent times is going to be in theForgotten Realmssetting, visa vi.Dungeons and Dragons.I'm of the impression going from MMOs back to tabletop (so to speak, although we'll be doing it over skype) is a rather odd way to do it, but who cares.
Relevant fact: Neverwinter beta. Download it and try it. It's free and it might surprise.
This place is looking dusty... Cobwebby. I think studying chemistry and having very distracting people on Skype/in games has a way of making me forget things that I update rarely.
I might be able to fix up those letters from the front if they're lying around anywhere, can finish posting those up. Maybe some of my more recent stuff will go here too. Who knows.
[ Hope you enjoy reading these as they come, there's a few stashed in reserve if you do. Contextual information: After proposing on the last day of shore leave, classically bad timing, to affirmative response, Noriam boards the GSNV Surface Tension (a submarine) for operation at sea. To stay in touch with his betrothed, he writes letters which he dispatches every month whenever the submarine comes into port. He mans a reconnaissance aircraft uniquely outfitted and small for the (large) submarine. ]
An unmarked letter (save for the addressee), hand-delivered by a Gnomish courier and well-sealed; the handwriting bears the hallmarks of a victim of momentum, with a neat script interrupted by random lines and the occasional frustrated squiggle. It is dated the 21st of the 7th.
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Theo,
Apologies for not writing sooner, I couldn’t find any unfiltered transmission channels until our navigator offered to help via a friend with a resourceful friend.
Captain’s running us tight, hit-and-run sinking frigates in the middle of the ocean can be a little frantic; means near-constant recon for me. Lots of near misses with crazy landing stunts – wish you could see them, bloody amazing if I do say so myself –followed by equally dangerous diving antics.
It’s hard work and despite rations I occasionally feel like I’m running on empty. But worry not –I didn’t pull off a landing with half an engine’s worth of thrust just to get sunk by being dopey at the controls. That said it’s hard to deny I would probably murder for a few of your cookies right now. I doubt I’ll mention that to the rest of them, though.
Incidentally, my first night back after shore leave was a cannonade of congratulations. Pretty much the entire crew wishes us the best of luck and that they’re happy for us. The grumpy arse quartermaster murmured something indistinct instead, but I’m sure she cares a bit more than she lets on. Maybe it’s because she puts up with distributing almost nothing but fish and hard tack to disapproving faces every day?
Anyway, I’ll have more amusing stories or even the occasional tidbit or gift to dispatch in the future– at least I certainly hope so, or I daresay I have only words. Speaking of those.
For all the running ragged and unsafe stunts, there is little that I wish for more than wishing you were by my side. I miss you sorely and thinking of you keeps me going.
Clichés in abundance –but bugger that, I mean every one of them. Not sure any more elaborate writing would convey it any better.
All of my love,
Noriam
P.S. I promise to write more than one letter this time.
On the other hand, I'm having a wonderful exchange of letters between my World of Warcraft main Noriam and his beloved fiancée via. email, which I might pop up on Tumblr as filler material - I know most people who check here were likely attracted by Mass Effect related things, so.... Yeah, apologies in advance for that, I can't even play ME on the laptop I'm using right now.
Didn't much deliver on my promise of goodies, did I?
Well, hopefully I'll find time in the next week or so - as I won't have any internet. Don't explode while I'm gone, mm? That would just be unpleasant to come back to.
Gender politics and The Internet meets BIC For Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen (Box of 12) - Black. I can't be the only person who thinks these reviewers are hilarious.
I'll probably see if I can't get some Mass Effect 3 done, and even if I can't I'm sure that I will manage to write something. Still have gnome shenanigans to write as well, but I'm bowled over with SWTOR business.
Starting up a guild onThe Progenitoras soon as I can, writing an ongoing series for my trooper and my consular and of course I'm just generally prowling onSWTORfor roleplay.
There’s nothing for it. I was down by the docks staring out to sea, and pondered if Dad might not have decided to go abroad without saying anything. It didn’t make much sense since all of his stuff was still at the house, but I asked around anyway. Funnily enough, a few dock workers said they saw ‘someone like that’ boarding a ship to Kalimdor.
Given the choice between chasing a ghost and staying in Stormwind, I’ll chase the ghost all the way to the nether. Don’t get me wrong, it was kind of heart-wrenching to say goodbye to Woodsong and Levi, but it was necessary.
I also left a wax cylinder recording of “It’s a long way to Ashenvale” with Levi, tweaked the lyrics a bit, classic. I’d like to think I’m a decent singer, too.
Farewell, Stormwind.
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I’m not really going to miss Stormwind, although the few good eggs out there were good for me.
I’m glad it’s over, all the same, because frankly I may as well have had a headbutting contest with a brick wall and I would have gotten the same results.
There’s not much for me to say that I didn’t say last post. It’s not that there’s no fun to be had on World of Warcraft at all, it’s that there’s not enough fun to justify a subscription fee. And if anyone thinks that Mists of Pandaria is going to change that – the last three expansions didn’t do it, why would this one?
Don’t even get me started on what adding a plague of cute Chinese pandas is going to do to the roleplay scene.
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