Hi, my name is Heather, and I'm an altoholic.
It all began when I started playing WoW about two weeks after launch. By the time I ended my career of adventuring around Azeroth over six years later, I had close to 30 characters. A full roster of Alliance on one server, a full roster of Horde on another, and a handful of each spread around on various other servers.
The same process repeated itself in various other MMOs. Aion... Rift... The Secret World... Guild Wars 2... All of them found me making character after character and swapping randomly from one to the next in order to play with different classes and as parts of different factions. I had a problem. I know it, and I freely admit it.
More recently, however, I've broken the pattern with Tera. I have just two characters in that game. One for RP and one to futz around with my dad in PvE, since he just started playing, as well. I'm quite proud of myself.
That's not to say that Tera is the only RP experience I have. Oh, no... Go back 15 years or so and you'll find my original roots back in the old-school WoD games (specifically Vampire and Mage). Most of my RP experience is from outside of any actual games, usually the more story-based play-by-post sort of stuff you find on message boards, though I did have a couple of friends in WoW who I used to get into trouble with ICly from time to time and now my RP character in Tera. I was once part of FFVII RP in which I eventually ended up as all of the Turks, so there's my previous link to role-playing in the FF-verse for you!
I wasn't in 1.0, so please don't expect me to be all up on things prior to that big O.S. moment. I'm still learning the details and trying to get things figured out, so do bear with me for being a total noob. But I already have a character pretty well fleshed out (currently working on getting everything down on paper, as it were, so I can publish a wiki page for her) and I've been thoroughly enjoying myself in beta so far. Right now I'm not really doing RP in beta, though. I'm just messing around and getting familiar with the game mechanics and whatnot and leaving the RP for when launch comes and everyone will be present and accounted for. Which isn't to say I'm not open for exploring future RP options/partnerships/groups at the moment. So anyone who's interested in having fun with a Black Mage pirate of sorts should feel free to drop me a line.
(Yeah... couldn't resist the Moogle.)
I'm not a "hardcore" player, by any means. I prefer as stress-free a gaming environment as possible, which is why I sort of stopped raiding and don't ever PvP. I'd rather be out picking flowers and running through dungeons or questing than getting ganked because I'm squishy or listening to the 30th fight over who gets the same piece of gear this time around. So I guess you'd call me more of a casual player. I'm also a total achievement whore. RP-wise, I'd say I'm mid-level. I'm not looking to be in-character with everything I say and do from the moment I log in until I log out. I like to get to know the people behind the characters, too. But when I'm IC, I'm no longer Heather. I'm Mara the Black.
Um... Anything else about me... I tend to ramble, in case you couldn't already tell. I have a cat who I named Leon partly after the character from Resident Evil and partly after the incarnation of Squall from Kingdom Hearts. I love fantasy magic and mages. Every game I've ever played where there's an option to make one, that's the class I go for. This is one of the few times said mage I've made is not an elf/elven in appearance, because I also love elves. I love cute little things, too - like Hello Kitty and asuras and lalafells. Aside from MMOs, I enjoy fantasy RPGs (Dragon Age; The Witcher) and survival horror games (the Fatal Frame series being my favorite). I like watching anime and 1/3 of my iPod is Japanese music. I write fanfiction. Basically, I'm a huge nerd. But I like it that way. Oh! And Zarek is my partner-in-crime who bugged me to finally write this. So blame him for this super-long intro taking up your valuable time.
So, to summarize: This is my brain on drugs. (Don't worry, they're all legally prescribed medications.) Any questions?
It all began when I started playing WoW about two weeks after launch. By the time I ended my career of adventuring around Azeroth over six years later, I had close to 30 characters. A full roster of Alliance on one server, a full roster of Horde on another, and a handful of each spread around on various other servers.
The same process repeated itself in various other MMOs. Aion... Rift... The Secret World... Guild Wars 2... All of them found me making character after character and swapping randomly from one to the next in order to play with different classes and as parts of different factions. I had a problem. I know it, and I freely admit it.
More recently, however, I've broken the pattern with Tera. I have just two characters in that game. One for RP and one to futz around with my dad in PvE, since he just started playing, as well. I'm quite proud of myself.
That's not to say that Tera is the only RP experience I have. Oh, no... Go back 15 years or so and you'll find my original roots back in the old-school WoD games (specifically Vampire and Mage). Most of my RP experience is from outside of any actual games, usually the more story-based play-by-post sort of stuff you find on message boards, though I did have a couple of friends in WoW who I used to get into trouble with ICly from time to time and now my RP character in Tera. I was once part of FFVII RP in which I eventually ended up as all of the Turks, so there's my previous link to role-playing in the FF-verse for you!
I wasn't in 1.0, so please don't expect me to be all up on things prior to that big O.S. moment. I'm still learning the details and trying to get things figured out, so do bear with me for being a total noob. But I already have a character pretty well fleshed out (currently working on getting everything down on paper, as it were, so I can publish a wiki page for her) and I've been thoroughly enjoying myself in beta so far. Right now I'm not really doing RP in beta, though. I'm just messing around and getting familiar with the game mechanics and whatnot and leaving the RP for when launch comes and everyone will be present and accounted for. Which isn't to say I'm not open for exploring future RP options/partnerships/groups at the moment. So anyone who's interested in having fun with a Black Mage pirate of sorts should feel free to drop me a line.
(Yeah... couldn't resist the Moogle.)
I'm not a "hardcore" player, by any means. I prefer as stress-free a gaming environment as possible, which is why I sort of stopped raiding and don't ever PvP. I'd rather be out picking flowers and running through dungeons or questing than getting ganked because I'm squishy or listening to the 30th fight over who gets the same piece of gear this time around. So I guess you'd call me more of a casual player. I'm also a total achievement whore. RP-wise, I'd say I'm mid-level. I'm not looking to be in-character with everything I say and do from the moment I log in until I log out. I like to get to know the people behind the characters, too. But when I'm IC, I'm no longer Heather. I'm Mara the Black.
Um... Anything else about me... I tend to ramble, in case you couldn't already tell. I have a cat who I named Leon partly after the character from Resident Evil and partly after the incarnation of Squall from Kingdom Hearts. I love fantasy magic and mages. Every game I've ever played where there's an option to make one, that's the class I go for. This is one of the few times said mage I've made is not an elf/elven in appearance, because I also love elves. I love cute little things, too - like Hello Kitty and asuras and lalafells. Aside from MMOs, I enjoy fantasy RPGs (Dragon Age; The Witcher) and survival horror games (the Fatal Frame series being my favorite). I like watching anime and 1/3 of my iPod is Japanese music. I write fanfiction. Basically, I'm a huge nerd. But I like it that way. Oh! And Zarek is my partner-in-crime who bugged me to finally write this. So blame him for this super-long intro taking up your valuable time.
So, to summarize: This is my brain on drugs. (Don't worry, they're all legally prescribed medications.) Any questions?
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then be very shy they can sense your fear as they edge closer with their knife pointing at you taking one step at a time and then-wait what was I talking about again...Oh yea don't be shy!
's like myself!
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