Binky says hi!

On April 26th, the last person signed the charter and <Soulbound> was officially born. We had two goals: kill the Lich King and get frost wyrms.

The Lich King died on May 19th. On September 2nd we got the wyrms.

I knew that we could do it, but it seemed hopeless at times. Small roster and people going on holiday, starting school, finishing school. Really bad nights when staying out of the fire seemed impossible. Wiping for hours on “easy” bosses. Saurfang heroic had our ranged for dinner repeatedly and P3 healing was a special kind of hell (not helped by the general lack of ranged in the guild). We went from constant 10% Putricide heroic attempts and a kill on the first night to wiping for 3 hours to killing him in 5 tries, from one week to another. Valithria heroic had everyone raging, and it felt like she’d never dielive. The next reset we were wondering why the hell we ever had a problem. Sindragosa heroic seemed to be the end of it; I’m still surprised we managed to kill her.

Last night we were 2 achievements away: All You Can Eat and Been Waiting a Long Time for This. We had been trying Sindragosa for a couple of nights. The normal strategy had failed in a bad way, we hadn’t even managed to get past the ice block. The zerg strategy kept getting us the 6th stack at 4-5%, even with my boyfriend brought in to help with his ICC25 heroic gear. Then tonight something clicked. After a couple of failed zerg attempts we gave the normal strategy a shot. And we got to 10% before people started fucking up the ice blocks. I was expecting a new horrible wipefest and… it wasn’t. Everyone was resetting their stacks in time. We fucked up the blocks (well, mostly I did) and people still killed the right one. I healed on auto-pilot and didn’t even see the health bars, only the stack counter. Then, 15 minutes before the raid end, achievement spam and yelling on Vent.

Only the Lich King stood between us and the wyrms. It was late, but it was also our last 10-man day for the reset, so we voted to give Mr Lich a try. Unfortunately we still had the Plague Wing up… but that was the fastest clear we’d ever done, they were all dead in 20 minutes. I was convinced we had no chance of getting the achievement: we’d wait for the 30 stacks, waste time and then wipe. One of the healers hadn’t even tried LK before so I kept imagining huge Defiles killing us.

First attempt, 30 stacks, dead people on phase 2. Release, run, rinse and repeat. I kept whispering strats to the new priest and watching the stacks of plague (tip: MyGhoul is a nice little addon that counts them for you). We got 30, we went to transition, the plague was still going strong at almost 40 stacks, we ran, we spread, we collapsed, I ran out of mana, I healed my roots out on Vile Spirits, I died, I was ressed, I went into Shadowmourne and I was so stressed I couldn’t find the guy at first, I couldn’t see the HP percentage… and then it was 10% and we died (yelling to the new guy to DO NOT RELEASE!!!). It was the longest RP we’d had. My hands were shaking and I kept thinking we fucked something up and we won’t get the achievement.

And then…

If you squint you can see our new priest getting Kingslayer

Vent was LOUD. My boyfriend got to show off his Jaina’s Locket and teleported us to Dalaran, where we, of course, promptly went to Krasus Landing for pictures, then we hovered above the “fly” spots for the next two hours. (One thing I discovered last night is that wyrms are an awesome means of recruitment. Spamming trade got us 2 or 3 unimpressive apps. Within 10 minutes of getting wyrms, we were getting whispers from 3-4 different people asking about recruitment. We’re not about to recruit and boost some random guys, but it’s nice to know.)

My new drake is called Binky – like the horse. Death’s Binky was specifically non-skeletal, and the wyrm is a girl, but I think the name fits her perfectly.

Getting the wyrms is a huge achievement for us. From three friends unhappy with their guild situation we became one of the best 10-man guilds on the realm, we raid with a great group of people and we have a blast. Glory of the Icecrown Raider is the end of the expansion for me. We’ll probably try heroic LK and heroic Halion, but I won’t be sad if we don’t get them. If Cataclysm dropped tomorrow, I’d be fully satisfied.

…and it’s getting worse.

Our raids start off as usual. Hi, how was your day, ok guys let’s buff up and go. Usually, 10 minutes in the raid, things start going downhill. Sometimes I swear half my guildies have a degree in “That’s what she said” and a detector for innuendos (inyourendos, ha ha ha). Sometimes they swear I should stop complaining because I’m worse. Somewhere along the way, we acquired a new raiding rule from our exasperated RL: everyone has to get laid before the raid. No one’s following it or it’s not working as intended, because Vent keeps getting filthier.

Then again, Blizzard aren’t helping things. As pointed out by Tam, some encounters make it impossible to keep a straight face. My personal one is Putricide (especially on heroic). “Two oozes, one room, so many delightful possibilities!” (Uh, you might not want to look for the source of that if you don’t know it already.) And don’t get me started on the plague. Our Vent usually sounds like some sort of deranged brothel where people are passing STDs left and right. “I’ve got it, who can take it next?” “Pass it to me!” “Ok, Jen got it!” I think I’ve snickered myself to death one time.

But, of course, we, the players behind the microphones, are the worst. I blame (British) English.
The priest is going down tomorrow. Going down to Cornwall to see her parents, but it was too late to take it back.
The tank wants to see how high he can get it. The debuff count for the Lich King achievement, of course, but that part was drowned out by the laughter.
Remarks about bosses being or getting big have been mostly phased out of our vocabulary, since they tend to result in at least three voices on Vent snickering in a meaningful way.

While the smut does get distracting at times, I love it. We’ve managed to kill 11/12 in 10 man heroic, we’re 2 achievements away from our frost wyrms, and I haven’t had this much fun raiding in… forever. Many people wouldn’t see it like this, but for me one of the best things about being in a small guild is the uncensored Vent, because we all know each other and we don’t have to hold back because of some new recruit or sensitive person.

(We might have scarred a few PuGs for life, though. But one of them came back for more!)

[Yeah, I'm not dead. I might post something more game-related at some point. Sometime.]

Someone at Blizzard was really drunk when they decided this. Starting with July 27th, there will be a new incarnation of the WoW forums, where you will only be able to post with your real name (i.e. RealID, the name on your battle.net account).

A lot of people are missing exactly what’s going on, so in short:
* Starting with July 27th, you have a choice: post with your RealID or not post at all.

* You can choose between displaying your RealID alone or your RealID and character. I imagine this means I will be either “Ioana [Surname]” or “Ioana [Surname] – Jen, level 80 druid, Alonsus”. This allows you a certain level of anonymity… unless you want to recruit for your guild. Or are someone well-known on the forums, like Lissanna. Or if you want to post with your lvl 80 to show you know what you’re talking about regarding a class. In that case, oops, you’re fucked.

* Blue posters will also have their real names revealed.

* The change won’t be retroactive – your existing forum posts won’t automagically have your name on them. This only applies to the new forums being rolled out at the end of July.

* Blizzard plans to integrate Battle.net with Facebook – see the press release from May.

The supposed reason? Less trolling. Yes, somehow making you use your real name is more effective than, say, making you choose an unique handle or a main character to always post with.

Many, many people have already voiced their concern (at the moment of writing this, 963 pages on the US thread, 172 pages on the EU thread, 55 pages on the Spanish thread, 59 pages on the French thread, 190 pages in the German thread and 27 pages in the Russian thread). I won’t pretend I read all the posts in all the languages, but by skimming the US, EU, FR and ES threads the overwhelming opinion is FUCK NO.

I will say upfront that this doesn’t affect me that much. I never was a frequent poster, my name is pretty damn common as far as Romania goes, and I never had trouble for being a girl in WoW. However, not everyone is in the same situation, so just a short list of potential problems:

* You have an uncommon name. Anyone who disagrees that DKs are overpowered can now look you up online and call you at 3.33 AM every day, if not worse. (Yes, there are a lot of fucked up people online, do you want to risk it?) This probably doesn’t work for all countries, but for the US and UK there’s people finding services that, judging by what people are posting, are very good at uncovering things about your real life. Like, say, what people found out about CM Bashiok after he disclosed his real name to the forum…

* You have a name that identifies you as female/Arabic/Mexican/etc, a dick decides that females/Arabs/Mexicans stole our jerbs and randomly decides to make life difficult for you. If you read the threads, there are a lot of women who were harassed in WoW by people who got crushes on them or for simply being in top guilds.

* Your battle.net is registered under someone else’s name. Minor children playing on parents’ accounts, couples using the same name on both accounts. Who will suffer the consequences when little Timmy decides to spew some rage, under his father’s name, at the Warlock who disagreed with him?

* You apply for a job at a company and the boss finds you posting on the WoW forums and decides they’d better go with the non-WoW-playing candidate. “I wouldn’t want to work in a company like that anyway!!” Yes, I’m sure, unless you just got fired, rent is due and you’re kinda out of money.

* You just don’t want your fucking name all over the internet. Even with my common name and while actively trying to not associate my real world person with the online Jen, a while ago by googling “Ioana [Surname]” you would land straight on my personal blog. Yes, if it’s a public blog then I should expect to be found, but I still made a conscious effort to make that difficult. While I don’t have a problem with Jen the druid being connected to Ioana the tech writer, I’m sure there’s many other people who might object. Some professions simply require maintaining a certain image; a weird name and a Google search could ruin your credibility. (Of course, there’s nothing wrong with playing WoW, we know that; employers might not.)

* From a personal point of view, I don’t like people on my realm knowing my nationality. With due apologies to the decent Romanians I know, most of the Romanians on General and Trade are dumb offensive trolls. The latest incident that comes to mind was during a World Cup game, when my intellectually challenged countrymen decided swearing on ICC’s General was the new fun thing… so 5 minutes of Romanian language involving sexual organs, families and football followed. I can only imagine the fun time I’d have posting in a recruitment thread about my guild and getting a bunch of these people… (Yes, for some reason I do find swearing in my native language more offensive than in English.) Not to mention that Romanians are already discriminated more than enough – we’re all Gypsies or thieves, of course, so I’ll be more than glad to hear this in game.

I don’t have anything to hide, but I’ve always felt more secure when people didn’t know information about myself without my permission. I’ve already had several incidents with idiots who thought that because they knew who my employer was, they knew my job responsibilities. They were wrong, but this made the whole situation even more infuriating – reading lies about myself made me livid.

I’ll stop here, since I am at work and so many people wrote about this already… I haven’t found a pro-change blog so far, but please point me at them if they exist, I’m always curious about different views.

I won’t quit WoW or burn my DVDs in the central square over this. I still enjoy the game a lot. But I don’t have any intention of posting on the official forums anymore; I’ll stick to recruiting in Trade and I’ll just hope I won’t have a problem that can’t be solved without posting in the Tech Support forums. I will also be following this very closely, since I’m very curious what Blizzard will do… I’ve never seen so much rage over an announcement.

(In the 15 minutes I’ve spent writing this, the page count for the threads became: US 975, EU 183, FR 68, ES 60, DE 200, RU 30. That’s a LOT of pissed off players…)

Edit: Pure win. Guy posts real name on the forum and dares posters to call him at work… and 20 minutes later, someone does.

I love failpug stories. I even love my own failpugs – raging is cathartic. Last night, when I zoned in Slave Pens and saw Weinodk the tank with Blood Presence, I groaned inwardly – and outwardly, to the guild. My first plea to please put Frost Presence was ignored as he ran ahead letting me remember (once again) that a shaman is not a druid, and even if it was, Rejuv at level 60 didn’t do squat.

Then he said this was the first “hard” dungeon he’d tanked. I told him about Frost Presence again, holding back the snark but fully expecting to be ignored and, lo and behold …“Oh, sorry, that must be why I’m losing aggro, I’ll put Frost”.

Yes, I managed to find the rare breed of new player who actually listens to advice.

The run continued in a just as amazing manner.
* The DK took care of my mana. More than me, to be honest.
* The other DK didn’t use D&D because he was higher level and didn’t want to grab aggro.
* The warlock always kept me soulstoned.
* The whole group was patient with the DK, gave advice, and didn’t utter a ‘wtf’ or a ‘noob’.
* The DK apologized when he ran too much ahead of me. He apologized even when I let him die because I was busy eating instead of healing.
* The DK tried to get us to queue for another dungeon (he wanted a harder one to practice his new found skills), but we declined politely and he understood. From his language, I’m pretty sure it was a kid, which makes this even more impressive. It wouldn’t have been the first time an over-eager 12-year old pissed me off.

In the end, we weren’t pr0, we got lost a bit on the way, we fucked up a few pulls and I did forget I have Earth Shield until halfway in… but it was one of the most pleasant runs I’ve had in a while outside the guild. I hope my DK doesn’t become one of those gogogogogo tanks in 20 levels…

Patch days are fun. They’re a time to bond with your guild and find new and creative ways to keep entertained.

Of course, after we got the patch later than the whole US (yes, even later than the whiners), the login servers were overloaded, and then my battlegroup’s instance server died a fiery death. In real life terms, that meant we found the chat feature of our guild site and used it. Someone remembered the scourge chat logs, so our new unofficial greeting is “spider pride!!! >8<".

The server was supposed to come back at 6 ST and we mananged to log in around 8... still hoping there might be a raid. With the instance server down, everyone spent their time flying around Wyrmrest temple. And I mean everybody. I’ve never seen so many flying mounts in the same spot. It was oddly fascinating, I watched it for an hour while playing with the new features.

(Click for big image)

(By the way, RealID is pretty cool, but I still haven’t added more than 10 people, 9 of which I know IRL.)

Yesterday the instance servers did work, and we kicked dragon ass.

(After wiping for almost 4 hours. Yeah, life without the ICC buff is hard.)

Also, kids, remember: jumping off Dalaran in a bike is fun and non-lethal if you pop in flight form before you hit the ground.

Jumping off Dalaran in a bike is lethal if you hit an unexpected ledge while taking screenshots.

So, the NDA was lifted. It’s time to rejoice. I’m just a bit… puzzled.

I was in the Alpha. I should have all this info stashed up to share with the world and bask in the pageviews. I should have tons of posts written about the changes. I don’t.

[Luckily for you, Lissanna was also in the Alpha and she's promised some yummy posts.]

I maybe played the Alpha for 10 hours in total, which were spent:
- leveling a worgen hunter to 11
- making a goblin mage, logging into her, looking around and logging out
- flying around on my druid in Elwynn forest to see the big hole in Stormwind
- doing one run of Blackrock whateveritscalled
- doing the first few quests of Vashj’ir.

So I don’t have anything much to say yet. I probably won’t spend much time now in the beta either, because, honestly, I have enough to do on live, and I don’t want to spoil my Cataclysm leveling. I’m curious about the changes, but I don’t want to get bored of the quests before the expansion even hits.

So, no major insights, just a few observations. Spoilers be here, so don’t carry on if you want to skip them.

Healing touch is (at least was, in a previous build) AMAZING. A much shorter cast time and a lot of healing. I really, really, really hope it stays like this. Judging by this page, it has the same base cast time as Nourish (3 seconds), so I doubt it’s going to stay the same, but with my haste it was a really big and fairly fast heal. You mean I could actually tank heal now without spamming Nourish like crazy and hoping s/he won’t get plastered?

Tree form on a cooldown is depressing. I know I said it’s not so bad, but healing without being a tree felt… wrong.

Blackrock whatever is just as ugly as the other Blackrock dungeons. I hate all that lava. I don’t know if it will remain the same difficulty in live, but it didn’t pose any problems to us (our gear was T10 but not BiS). The blue drops were better than what we were wearing. Yep, our epics will be replaced very very fast.

Vashj’ir is fun and leveling underwater rocks. The quests are also better than the usual ‘bring me 20 of these’.

The worgen starter zone is phased and it’s annoying. I was leveling with friends, but they started a bit after me so we couldn’t even see each other. On the bright side, they finally put a mailbox there – yay heirlooms without running half the map!

Flying in the old world ROCKS. I only explored a tiny bit (I wanted to see wtf the big hole in Stormwind was), but whooooosh birdie!

That’s it for now. I might make a separate post where people can ask questions, if anyone’s interested. I don’t know much (anything) about lore, I won’t do many quests, but if you want me to take a screenshot of this place or look for that NPC… no problem.

I’m having a lot of fun reading the QQ. This time around we got 66 pages of fun on this thread alone, and it’s doing wonders to get rid of office boredom.

What’s the problem, you say? Oh, life and death, of course. Blizzard delayed Ruby Sanctum with a week on the US realms, to make it coincide with the European release. And then, shock horror!!, they launched it in the middle of 24h maintenance on a bunch of servers. The rage, the foaming at the mouth, the victimizing, the forum sigs… It’s not fair, they promised we’d all get the raid at the same time!

Did anyone stop and think that Europe has Wednesday maintenance, which means even with the 24h maintenance, ALL the US realms still got to see RS before us?

No?

Ok, keep saying how this is the death of WoW and how everyone will quit the game now.

Holidays are fun and exhausting. Fun because we saw a lot of great places (and great beaches!), exhausting because after the first 3 days I fell dead asleep at 10 (and because a loud 3-year old – not mine – can be hell).

Beach. I has it.

However, I did have my laptop with me and I did manage to find a good wifi connection, so my latest project, no. 4 in my quest to get all healers to 80, Aushra the shaman almost hit 60 while I was in Turkey.

This means two things:
1. I’m having fun! I like shammy healing and I think she will be my new main alt when she gets to 80. Also, OMG RaF is the best thing EVER, totally worth buying a second account.

2. Since my priest on Defias is 66, I am basically doing Outland twice, at the same time. This is not fun. I hope Deathwing sits on Auchindoun because the place is a shithole filled with tanks who don’t understand that if I’m being mana drained I need more fucking breaks than usual (yes, even though 2 hours ago they ran with a priest who could heal blind and one handed and was always on 110% mana).

It also seems like I’m a lucky charm. [That, or actually having main spec healers helps.] The guild is struggling through summer holidays and class balance, so with one healer gone things get pretty tough. Raids weren’t very happy while I was gone, but everything seems to be back on track. Class balance is still not ideal and we’re using a lot of offspecs/alts on occasion, but we are 6/12 in ICC heroic and we also managed to do a bunch of frostwyrm achievements. I’m constantly impressed by how well we’re doing considering we almost never get 10 main spec, main char, 100% sure sign ups… last night we ran with 1 offspec healer, 1 alt tank, and 1 guy who can’t follow instructions or do basic things, and we still got 3 or 4 achievements (mostly 1 shots) and a heroic. We might really get those pretty skeletons after all…

Here’s another beach to end with. Yes, you should envy me because I had a great holiday :D

There is one problem with my guild (aside from the “will we get 10 people tonight or not?”). The problem has caused me a lot of sleepless nights in the past week. We’re too bloody chatty.

Soulbound raids (in theory, at least) from 8 to 11 pm server time. I chose those times because 11 ST is midnight for me, which meant an hour earlier than my previous guild, which meant I could go to sleep earlier and not be a zombie at work.

Easier said than done. All my guildies are so nice that I end up spending 2 more hours on Vent after the raid. Or instead of the raid. Or before and after the raid. It gets worse when leveling alts. We’re RAFing and want to get to 60 before I leave on holiday tomorrow, so me and Valli have been spending every free moment on our alts, and on Vent of course. Apparently our bitching at PUGs is entertaining, because we keep getting company, sometimes Vent-only, sometimes for leveling/boosting. And it’s so goddamn fun that I can’t quit.

Two days ago, it was “boost your friends day”, so Valli’s boyfriend grabbed his mage and took us plus a guildie to a leisurely walk in Uldaman. The place is a shithole as usual, but being led like a pack of hyper sheep was much more fun than an actual PuG. (Fact: men really are better at directions.) After 2 hours of picking up quests, turning in quests, waiting for the dead dwarf to come back to life, I actually started to find “That’s what she said” jokes funny. Went to bed at 1.30, braaaainz at work.

Yesterday, it was “raid called early so let’s get to 50 day”. We helped a druid get her quests in ST done (I have such a soft spot for baby trees), which meant a long, LONG dungeon, with a bunch of uncooperative players who didn’t know what to do and didn’t know how to follow instructions. By the time we were done, I realized it was 2 am and us girls and our shammy had been chatting for 3 hours. Went to bed at 2.00, braaainz at work.

They’re mean, evil people and they’re making me lose sleep. But how can I resist it? We really are girls in WoW too, so we do squee over pretty dresses, grumpy boyfriend was laughing his ass off in the background, the crude jokes were flying, I was being bitched at regularly… a perfect day of WoW-life.

Tomorrow I’m leaving for Turkey, hopefully on a good note: we seem to have enough sign-ups, of the appropriate classes, for the raid tonight, so we’re going to try Deathwhisper and finish our Storming the Citadel heroic.

See you on the other side, with more tan!

Roleplaying and me – not a love story
I don’t understand RP.

I can see RP as a form of creative writing; getting into a character’s head is probably very useful for authors and doing it with a “real” avatar might be easier. That being said, despite being a book lover, I find in-character blog posts utterly boring. I honestly tried to read a few and didn’t last past the first paragraph. Why would I want to know what your undead priest did yesterday? (Yes, I know it’s somewhat of a contradiction, given how I apparently do care what the real person behind the priest did in last week’s raid.) The only sort-of-RP stories I’ve enjoyed were Tam’s Gerald posts, but that’s only because he’s funny.

My priest on Defias Brotherhood RP-PvP

On the other hand, in-game RP is fascinating… from a voyeuristic point of view. I have characters on two RP servers and seeing RP is interesting, it’s experiencing a completely different side of WoW, even though that side isn’t for me. However, I found RPers quite unwelcoming, despite being told the opposite. I ended up on my first RP server because I had RL friends there, so I posted on the realm forums asking for a leveling guild that doesn’t require RP. Cue 20 posts telling me to gtfo back to my server and stop ruining their fun. Needless to say, I had an appropriate name, knew the rules and wasn’t in the least interested in griefing… but hey, better flame, then ask! Then came the Too Many Annas ‘incident’ and the throngs of RP ‘defenders’ coming down on one person who didn’t know better… yep, friendly folk.

In conclusion, so far RP servers seem just the same as normal servers: idiots and nice people alike. And the spelling? No, people on RP servers aren’t better at that, no matter how much I wish it were true.

As for RP itself, I have trouble understanding why someone would want to become someone else. I can find rational explanations, of course, from depression to a desire to explore one’s hidden sides, but I never had any sort of impulse to do that. It probably has a lot to do with my reasons for playing the game: it’s less about the lore and the fantasy setting and more about the social side. When I meet people, I want to meet Billy or Mary, not Ghortok the orc or Xxbelfgirlxx. How can a connection with a fictional character mean anything? If it’s just a different form of fiction, why wouldn’t I just read a book? The odds of finding a good writer are higher than finding a good RPer, and then I’d be able to lose myself in the story without having to interact with anyone. (Antisocial? Maybe.)

My green haired night elf
So we get to something I’ve thinking about for a long time: racial choices. My first character was a human and I tried to make her look as similar as possible to me (oh, the sad day I discovered I can’t have the proper ponytail). It took me a year to consider making something non-human; they all seemed so alien and not-me.

I don’t RP, but I still like pretty clothes.

Since then, my preferences have changed: human aside, I have two level 80 draenei, one night elf, and my following 80s will be a night elf and a draenei. On the Alliance side, I might level a gnome to 80 at some point (my rogue is cute as a button, but I just can’t make myself like that class), and if I ever went Horde I’d have a collection of blood elves and maybe a tauren and an undead. I refuse to play other races – I find dwarves ugly and/or boring, while trolls and orcs are just plain horrible (yes, even the ‘nice’ faces). I keep reading about people who love their ’sexy orcs’ and it boggles the mind: how can someone think that horrible green scowling Hulk can be pretty?! Sorry orc lovers.

But why?
Today, this post from Pilf got me thinking. Why do I play the classes I do? It got me thinking so much it got out of hand and I decided to make a post instead of a huge comment.

And I think the real explanation finally occured to me: I play those classes (and always female) because I find them visually appealing (sexy, pretty, nice, cute… etc) and that’s how I want the real me to be seen. I want to be a pretty girl in real life, so I want to project that in the game world too; I assume that people who play ‘ugly’ characters do it in a more RP-ish way (the characters have their own personality, so their appearance doesn’t reflect on the ‘owner’). I doubt my preference for pretty characters comes from some massive feeling of not being good enough: I’m a fairly standard European woman and I’m generally OK with my looks. Of course, I’d change things if I could (wouldn’t anyone?), but I don’t see anything majorly wrong with me.

Instead, I think WoW is a perfect playground for dress up and a distorted mirror to see a “virtual Jen” closer to the “real Jen” I’d like to be. I get to play hot girls and dress them up in pretty robes (the only thing I hate about heirlooms is the way my clothies never get to wear pretty things). I get to stare at my elf’s boobs in raids (they’re better than mine, but hey, I’m happy with virtual ones). I get to change her hair and tattoos once a week, even though I’ve had the same haircut for 10 years in real life and I generally can’t be arsed wearing make up. I get to talk about virtual fashion with friends I can’t see IRL.

Is there a conclusion to this? Probably not, but I’m interested in other opinions on the subject. Please keep in mind that, even though I’m personally not interested in RP or in-character blogs, that doesn’t mean they suck and need to disappear. No flames please, kthx.