The easy way, the hard way... (WoW, RP)

[thistlechaser]

Icon is Little Dog, Haken and Morn's second wolf. RPing having a puppy around sure was fun! And I'm dying to start in on puppy RP again, even though the circumstances will be very different this time around.

As much as I love RP, yesterday I was feeling way too sick to do it. So what to do when you're sick? Why, something you hate of course! :P I quested. Ugh. Clove went from 12 to 20 so he could get a mount. (Does everyone remember how god awful Org is on foot?) I know the low levels go fast, but I've never done so much questing in a day before. Still! Felpony! EEE! I love that mount so much.

Today Reed needed some love, since he's still on foot. (I wish I'd stop being iffy about the name! If I'm going to reroll him, sooner is better than later! Plus he got a fishing pole from his reward bag already!) I quested for a while, but just couldn't put up with it. 12-15, then I said hey, why not try a dungeon. Oh my god, so much faster than questing! I got a level and a half in one single run! Gah! Plus we had no tank so I kept soloing my own mobs. Paladin is fun!

Friday is Naxx with friends for RP gear. Also, somehow tonight was the first time Thistle RPed not in his gear -- WTF, how does my main RP character not have any non-armor gear? Luckily he was wearing a black shirt under his armor, so I was able to use that as "casual".

RP tonight was great! I love most any kind of posts, long, short, medium, average, anything, but getting to write as much as I like with someone who writes as much as I do is rare. Buffer? We don't need no steenkin buffer! ...pretend that works.

Anyway, the RP was tons of fun, our characters just mesh so perfectly. Unfortunately the RL hour interrupted things, but IC SLUMBER PARTY! :D Thistle is staying over at his place tonight, which is just cute as a button.

Today, really, really, really feels like Friday. Tomorrow is going to be so hard to go to work! Oddly (but happily!) Taco Bell didn't make me sick at all, not even one little bit, so I guess I could have safely kept free dinner Friday on Friday.

Oh! And one last thing! Blizz posted an "day in the life" of one of their QA people, since QA work is about a third of my job, I was really interested in seeing what it's like in other companies. Two impressions from it: UGH SO UNPROFESSIONAL, I know it's a little thing, but people in a meeting at my company would not throw candy at each other. The whole thing felt really way too casual, too. The second thing was that apparently you can't compare QA stuff across two vastly different companies. There was very little in common between us and them, other than terms like "smoke testing", which are pretty generic. It was fun to see what they include in their smoke testing though!

Comments

[blightheart.livejournal.com]

Ugh Org on foot. It's even worse now that it's the "new" Org, imo, because of those stinking elevators. People can say whatever they want about how SMC sucks, it will still be my favorite capital just because I don't have to run a labyrinth or use an elevator to get around.

I can't count how many times I've lagged, fallen down the UC shaft, and died at the bottom. Then had the lift so graciously raise my corpse back to the upper level. THANKS!

I'm glad the RP is going so well with you guys! Your partner was chatting to me about it last night and seemed quite enthusiastic as well.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

SMC is easily my favorite city, and not just because of the RP. It seems to have the most reasonable layout of them all. Undercity with all the tunnels leading to and from the elevators, I never ever ever pick the right ones, I always get the right one on my third try. Thunder Bluff and all the walkways between the rises (before flying mounts, I was so paranoid I'd fall off! Every time!). And Org is just so awful now.

Plus, I've come to like that there's no flying there. No big giant drakes sitting all over the place. (Can you imagine how people will grief with them once flying is added? How many will sit camped on the Row mailbox?) Everyone being forced to use ground mounts or walk adds to the RP environment for me, plus it's a chance to use spiffy ground mounts that would otherwise not see the light of day.

Your partner was chatting to me about it last night and seemed quite enthusiastic as well.

Yay, I'm glad to hear that! I always have a little worry in the back of my mind that while I'm loving the RP, they'll be like "UGH, I had to RP with that Thistle again! Blech!".

[blightheart.livejournal.com]

"Yay, I'm glad to hear that! I always have a little worry in the back of my mind that while I'm loving the RP, they'll be like "UGH, I had to RP with that Thistle again! Blech!". "

Not at all.

Also, yeah. Not looking forward to the flight in SMC- for exactly the same reasons. At least in UC it's pretty impractical to fly around because of the way the place is built, but I imagine SMC will look like rush hour on Coruscant with a seizure-inducing riot of mounts cluttering up the air. And the lag! Ughh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Good!

And sometimes I wonder if they'll ever add flying into SMC. I suppose they will (maybe with MoP?) but I wouldn't be sad at all if they didn't.

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

I read the QA article and it didn't strike me as particularly unprofessional, but I'm someone whose first employer was also a company making an MMO so our perspectives here are different. :)

It sounds roughly par for the games industry (right down to the unconscious implication in the gym section at the beginning that the people working there are heavily skewed young and male).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think companies are a big part of the difference. We have vastly more men than women working here (I'd say easily 25:1), but most of them are 30s and up.

The repeated mention of the gym had me snickering!