"It will Eat your Soul!!!"

My sister is only person I know that is perhaps dorkier than I am. Now, you may think this is an exageration, but while I read comic books, play text based online role playing games and watch a sickening amount of the HIstory Channel, my sister Cosplays.

When I went to college, my sister had moved from Zelda games on to Final Fantasy. By the time I had all my bedding packed up in my dad's suburban, she was hooked on the new MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. It was her one true love. At first it was cute, then it was scary, and then it was downright annoying. When I would come home from breaks I would be woken up at all hours of the night to the noise of her summoner kicking some strange monster's ass. She was fulfilled, I was irritated.

Fast forward 5 years, and her new thing is this World of Warcraft nonsense. Now, I've played Counterstrike when I was in highschool... I even had fun, even though it was mostly to get my boyfriend to have more sex with me. It worked. I was a pretty hot chick. Anyway, so I had never even thought of playing one of these MMORPGs, mainly because I am the most addicted person ever. EVER. And it was very very clear to me that I would not graduate from college. And now gradschool...

My life went on like this until one day I downloaded WoW. I opened it up, realized I had no idea what on Earth I was going to do, and promptly uninstalled the whole disaster. Fast forward about a year and add in my new FFRPG addiction... I used to role play on AOL back in the late ninties. It was something I found when I got my brand new shiny happy AOL account. After a few years of going ::walkz into room. sings.::, I realized how to do the whole game thing. Then I discovered boys.

After a few years of dating, most of which was more complicated than RPing, I gave up on any online gaming at all, and moved on to bigger and better things, such as Direct Connect. Until that fateful day in September of 2006. That's when I found Dragon's Mark. Now for those of you that thing RPers suck, I tell you this, they do. But they also a moody, friendly, crazy bunch of awesome writers. And remember, I have an addictive personality. You can imagine what happened next, right?

Right.

So, one of these new fun awesome friends was all WoW obsessed. And I was done with my gateway drug and looking for a move to the hard stuff... that's what led to the download of WoW. And then the purchasing of WoW. And now the playing of WoW. This said individual(he knows who he is) should probably be the ones to appologize to my parents.

So, this blog? This is going to be my very insightful and enduring account of leaning a MMORPG. It probably will also include rants about FFRPG, my family, my life and the fact that I like cheese. But bear with me.

When I bought the CD key for WoW I texted my friend Brandon. It was an accident, of course, I meant to text the person above him in my phone... but that's besides the point. It went like this.

Me: "I bought WoW!"
Brandon: "NO! It will eat your soul!"

So, ladies and gentlemen-- you are here to witness the eating of my soul. Grab some popcorn.