I'm celebrating WoW's 20th anniversary by looking back at my own early experiences with the game 18 years ago, as documented on a personal blog that I was keeping just for myself and some friends at the time.
Today I'm combining two posts into a single entry since they were both very short.
The following was originally posted on December 25th, 2006 under the title "Christmas Night":
As usual my Christmas Day was very non-Christmassy, cause by then the celebrating is over and everyone's just enjoying being a lazy bum.1 In anticipation of Benny2 forcing me to go to bed earlier than has become my habit I also decided to spend one more long night with my WoW friends before his arrival3, and I didn't regret it even though it involved lots of virtual death. Somehow it was all just too funny, I was constantly worried about waking someone with my laughter.
When I told Benny about this later the following conversation ensued:
Him: So you had like... a virtual stag night?
Me: Yeah, I guess.
Him: ...
Me: ...
Him: That's disturbing.
Me: Well, maybe, but knowing me... I could totally see my real hen night one day also...4
Him: DISTURBING!
Heehee.
The following was originally posted on January 14th, 2007 under the title "Moo! I'm A Cow!":
And I like synchronised dancing!5
Sorry, really didn't have anything informative to say today. ;-)
1 In Austria (and many other European countries), the actual Christmas celebration takes place on Christmas Eve.
2 My boyfriend at the time.
3 He was from the UK and as mentioned previously, I was still living in Austria myself. We had a long-distance relationship and tended to visit each other during school holidays, as we were both at university. Also, I kind of joke about it in this post, but me staying up late to play WoW was actually a point of contention between us more than once. He was a gamer but had no love for MMOs, and even though I tried to be quiet if staying up past his bedtime, me being on the computer in the same room that he was also sleeping in still woke him up more than once.
4 Actually, my real life hen do involved two friends from Austria taking me to an escape room. Not too crazy but good fun!
5 This marked the beginning of me slowly switching to Horde side (though I still continued to play Alliance too for quite some time). In the screenshot you see my hunter Pukaja on the left, and the other two are Matje on a shaman and Nemi on a druid. We'd at some point decided to make alts on Matje's main server, Earthen Ring, where he was also raiding as a resto druid. Nemi and I would eventually end up levelling all the way to cap and ended up joining his guild during early Burning Crusade, but I can't recall whether that was already on our minds back then. It might have been on Nemi's, who was always way more organised about these things and actually researching things like which classes were in demand. We didn't last long trying to level together in this setup as she quickly got away from me in levels, and Matje wasn't that invested in his shaman and soon lost interest from what I recall. While Nemi's druid ended up becoming her main on Horde side, I would later reroll as a troll priest (though I did eventually get Puka to level cap too).
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment