In Character

I beat that god­dam bas­tard. Never.Again.

Every other Imper­ial Agent I’ll roll will use the pos­sib­il­ity to talk him into tak­ing his ball and going home. As long as this fight is so god­damn buggy on top of being insanely dif­fi­cult I will not do that to myself again.

Sheeesh, that pile of bugs is known since beta, and Bioware hasn’t been able to fix them until now? If it were any skip­pable quest I wouldn’t be so mad, but this is a class-quest, for cry­ing out loud.

And now a totally unre­lated pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment: Once I’ll got Mass Effect 3 delivered and installed on my machine I won’t be around much, ingame and out of game, until I have beaten ME3 at least once. What mar­vel­lous coin­cid­ence that I’ll have vaca­tion from fri­day onward… *gnihihi*

I am not play­ing WoW any­more, but this still fills me with joy. Because the Argent Archives are awe­some, and they were the inspir­a­tion for Codex Ulgo.

Hon­estly if you are a role­player, check both sites out, even if you do not have char­ac­ters on the servers.

Some years ago me and a very good friend were total LotR fangirls (I still am to a degree, can’t wait to see The Hob­bit on the sil­ver­screen *squee*). She was hard­core into hob­bits. So much, that I star­ted to call her a “pervy hobbit-fancier.”

Darling? The time for your revenge has arrived. Call me a pervy Chiss-fancier, if you like.

Yes, that totally means I will roll a Chiss smug­gler when they become avail­able. *swoon* Although, I con­fess that I am a little bit spooked. This piece of news arrived just as I am writ­ing a piece of fanfic in which my Chiss agent defects from the Empire to become a smug­gler. Get out of my head, Bioware!
I plan on mak­ing this rer­olled Thairen (yes, I still haven’t beaten that cer­tain quest-npc… *sigh*) and Fereshtar the seed-characters for a guild I am cur­rently plan­ning. Which also means a litte bit of ret­con­ning for Fereshtar in the fan­fic­tion which I hope­fully will be able to present here in the future.

The more I hear about the new Leg­acy good­ness, the more excited I get about it. I might have a bone to pick with Bioware about how they rep­res­ent females in their games. Nev­er­the­less, they remain to be one of the most awe­some gam­ing com­pan­ies ever. Yes, I am a fangirl. Bite me.

Day five and the bas­tard still lives. I already see myself being lvl 50, with that quest still mock­ing me. *hangs head in shame*

I swear, the world is con­spir­ing against me to keep me away from my favour­ite games. First, there was this massive influ­enza out­break among my col­legues which meant double shifts for those of us who were not among its vic­tims. Then I caught the virus myself. Good times. Not.

And now, that I finally got rid of the flu? I might get pro­moted at work. Which means sev­eral weeks of train­ing for the new pos­i­tion. Right when ME3 hits.

WHARGABL!

I am not com­plain­ing about the pro­mo­tion. It means more money and more sane work hours. The tim­ing could have been just a tad bet­ter. Just say­ing… UNIVERSE, Y U HATE ME?!

In other, totally not work-related news: I hit a snag with my IA. That class quest around level 32 where you fight the big bad? Uh, yeah, I haven’t been able to beat that. I am try­ing for four days now, but no dice. I’ll give myself another four days and if I can­not man­age that fight in that time? I’ll rer­oll the agent, because THERE IS AN EFFING POSSIBILITY TO SKIP THAT FIGHT THAT I DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED.…. RARRGH!

Some people might remem­ber me men­tion­ing my Wow darling char­ac­ter Khel­daris. I love this char­ac­ter dearly because it is the first one where I made everything right, res­ultin in me hav­ing a lot of bril­liant role­play on him. He was not über-powerd, not blind­ingly good-looking (just plain old good-looking *cough*), had a quirky sense of humour and some very nice weaknesses.

And I miss play­ing him. A lot. So I por­ted him to SWTOR under a new name: Imper­ial Agent Thairen. Now I am pon­der­ing pos­sible guilds he can join once he hit 50.

The rename happened because ori­gin­ally I just wanted to roll an IA. Dur­ing my first rp ses­sions with him it became clearer and clearer to me that he is Khel­daris, now with blue skin and a sniper gun. He is still a foodie, still omni­sexual, and still a sneaky bas­tard with a heart of gold who prefers to save lives if he can instead of mind­less killing.

The trans­ition from one game into the other went sur­pris­ingly smooth, and the new SW back­ground opened up a few pos­sib­ilites for Khel/Thai that weren’t there in WoW. I am also read­ing all the James Bond nov­els by Ian Flem­ing right now to get inspir­a­tions… *harr-de-harr*

Hey, read­ers, have you ever por­ted char­ac­ters that you grew to love to another game? How did that work out for you?

If you are like me, the neces­sity to install Ori­gin in order to be able to play Mass Effect 3 gave you more than just a little head­ache. I value the my pri­vacy — be it online or off­line — very highly. The spy­ing potien­tial of Ori­gin pre­ven­ted me from pre-ordering the game so far.

Luck­ily for all of us, poster Blue­fall on Live­journal just pos­ted a very nice tutorial on how you can quar­ant­ine Ori­gin with Sand­boxie.

I <3 you, Bluefall. :)

When I still played WoW on the server Argent Dawn (EU) there was a web­site that I loved very much: The Argent Archives (which sadly seem to have van­ished from the inter­net). A player could cre­ate pro­files for her char­ac­ters, post screen­shots and stor­ies of her char­ac­ters’ adven­tures; guilds were able to announce role­play­ing events that were open for the pub­lic to par­ti­cip­ate in.

I am very happy to announce that a sim­ilar pro­ject for my SWTOR server Trask Ulgo is in the mak­ing. I have already cre­ated a pro­file for my main, Fereshtar, and will mon­itor the site’s fur­ther development.

A pro­ject like this lives through its par­ti­cip­at­ing mem­bers, so if you are inter­ested, check out Codex Ulgo and start creating!

I can­not be the only one who has a little list of songs that just fit their char­ac­ters. Maybe not for all char­ac­ters, but the mains sure got their track lists. For once, it helps me get a feel for the char­ac­ter in a way that just writ­ing about her can­not accomplish.

For example, for me, these five songs express what kind of per­son my main Fereshtar is:

• Epica: Sancta Terra ( you­tube )
• Tina Turner: Goldeneye ( you­tube )
• Two Steps from Hell: Gothic Cow­boy ( you­tube )
• Two Steps from Hell: Run N’Gun ( you­tube )
• Kam­elot: Noth­ing ever dies ( you­tube )

So, what is your main’s playlist?

I really liked the 20 Days of WoW blog­ging thing Saga had star­ted. Liked it so much, that I decided to recre­ate it on this blog as 20 Days of TOR Blog­ging. While I was research­ing for ideas for those 20 days I also found out that Ama at Specced for Drama has my little, humble blog in her blogroll which made me go all “I am not worthy!” *grin*

Sooo, I tent­at­ively pro­pose this post­ing sched­ule for every one who wishes to participate:

Day 01: Repub­lic? Empire? Both? Why?
Day 02: What is your favour­ite TOR race?
Day 03: What is your favour­ite TOR com­pan­ion?
Day 04: To romance or not to romance?
Day 05: Tell us about your guild!
Day 06: What is your favour­ite TOR class?
Day 07: Raid­ing and you
Day 08: PVP and you
Day 09: Are you faith­ful to your main, or do you suf­fer from alt­i­tis?
Day 10: Space­ship com­bat and you
Day 11: Your favour­ite TOR web­sites
Day 12: Be cre­at­ive: an ode to your main!
Day 13: Role­play­ing and you
Day 14: What would you do if you weren’t play­ing TOR?
Day 15: Show us your favour­ite ingame spot
Day 16: Add Ons — Yay or Nay?
Day 17: Are you a pack­rat or do you keep your bank space clean?
Day 18: Tell us about your blog!
Day 19: Tell us about your­self!
Day 20: If you had one MMO wish, what would it be?

Any­one who wishes to par­ti­cip­ate is wel­come and I would be super happy if you could drop a com­ment and a link to your blog. Have fun!