Doing things before I die

[digitaldiscipline]

No, this isn't any kind of doomy doom doom, SAD-infested warning sign about my mental health.

This is a bucket list for my World of Warcraft characters before I let my account go inactive in a few weeks. It's kind of like having a terminal disease, but it's not mine, and it doesn't matter.

- Explore the whole world on the two toons that can fly
- Reach a nice round quests-complete number (the warlock is on the cusp of 2,000)
- Get all of them to someplace appropriate to leave 'em

Comments

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Back in the EQ days I snuck into Nagafin's lair with a friend of mine who also had a death wish.

The dragon had already been killed, and there was a 1 week spawn. So we dueled instead.

I camped outside and a few days later I logged in to see if Nagafin was back but unfortunately I camped where 4 fire wizard giants guard the entrance. Level 35-40 each...I was level 30. I didn't last long.

Since EQ didn't let you tab out and back into Windows back then, I was stuck in infinite death loop. Die, spawn, die, spawn, die...I couldn't even type in /Quit fast enough and had to yank the power on my system.

Eventually I gave everything away, ported people to the wrong places they paid me for, and built up a bad rep.

My friend threw himself into laval with all his belongings, which back then meant it was gone for good since you couldn't get to your body in lava.

Good times.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I personally think you should come and play LotRO with me!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Nope. I hate Tolkien, and only liked the movies. Sorry. :-)

This was as much a financial move as a social one. There are only a couple of folks still in WoW whom I have any kind of fond disposition towards, and I can keep in touch with them in other ways.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

If I had to guess? I'd say that more than half of the people who play the game have never read the books, and have only ever seen the movies!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

See previous reply.

Since what essentially amounts to the collapse of the guild with whom I played WoW, and my leaving, I haven't really had much interest in MMOs as a whole; especially since the group of folks I enjoyed the company of have scattered to several different titles (which makes it prohibitively expensive to try and be everywhere, even if I had the time and inclination to try). Even Anarchy Online, which is free, and where I hang out with a couple buddies from high school, is only lukewarm at best.