After several years of vehemently resisting my friend Anna’s recommendation that World of Warcraft is a perfectly fun game I’ve finally succumbed to peer pressure. Admittedly, I was also highly influenced by Felicia Day’s hilarious part in The Guild’s “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” video. So without further adieu please meet my lean, mean, slaying machine Rowyne. I’ve only been playing for two days but I have to admit I’m starting to really like it. Especially after I happened upon a cottage in the woods that housed a “Crazy Cat Lady” and dozens of kittens. I’m hoping that I can adopt a cat that follows me around or something. Is this possible? They were super expensive though so that will have to wait until I’ve pillaged a few oh thousand more unsuspecting Kobolds.
As much as I try to resist all things “geek” it seems that I inevitably give in completely to my inner nerd. For instance once upon a time I vowed to never watch any of the following shows that CK loved: Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Burn Notice, and most recently The Big Bang Theory. But guess what? I ended up watching them all religiously. Amusingly enough my behavior towards each was characterized by a similar pattern of: scorn, ridicule, annoyance that CK was watching them, followed by looking up from my book or laptop every so often and ending with me becoming completely engrossed in the various plots. I guess I just have to admit it. I’m a great big super geek..but with social skills and better accessories of course. Now I’m going to go watch all of The Guild Episodes. My transformation is complete.
I LOVE it! I play Call of Duty with Troy when I am not baking or sleeping, or otherwise doing that parent thing. I’ve done a game called Fable, too… which is one of those character-hero based things.
Love your chick, though. WAY hotter than the Animal Crossing girl! 🙂
xxoo!!!
Just wait until you get your succubus. You will die. She looks like she popped out of an S&M dungeon.
Yes, you can totally get a cat to follow you around!
Make use of the auction house and you’ll be making all kinds of money – definitely enough to buy a cat!
La la la. I’m going to pretend I never read this. (too nerdy for me and that’s saying a lot!)
Hi Erin,
I love your character! Yes you can have your pets follow you around. In your character tag you should also have a pet tab and when ever you want to have them follow you around you just click on there little cage. Keep collecting your pets(they get better as you level). A great site to learn all about wow and great tips is http://www.wowinsider.com, once you get really playing you can actually use Game mods that are legal to maker your user interface better they are called add-ons. A great place to get them for free is http://www.curse.com. Every WOW players also bookmarks:
http://www.thottbot.com and http://www.wowhead.com. These sites can help you with doing quests and stuff like that. Anytime you have a questions feel free to shoot me an email.
Have fun, I sure wish you where on my server (velen) we could play together.
So I showed my hubby, Drew, your post because he is a MAJOR (and I’m not kidding, MAJOR!!) WOW player. (And btw, since you play it you now have to call it WOW, not World of Warcraft.) 🙂 hee hee
The second he saw your picture at the top, he said, “What? Only ONE character? Lame!” He was kidding, of course.
Well…I think he was kidding…
Good Lord…you can never tell with those darn engineers! 🙂
Abbey – Please tell your husband to rest assured I am making an additional WOW (note the use of appropriate geekie acronym) character right now. It appears I have to have another girlie princess kick butt persona so I can play on my own when CK isn’t here as he and I play together when I’m Rowyne.
Have you watched The Guild? Does he make you? Will Wheaton was in the most recent episode. I had such a crush on him when I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. Oh wait..that has an acronym too (TNG). Did I pass the geek test?
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