Sleepypete's Pillow

I was on World of Warcraft this morning (only just, but 11.55 counts) and was hoping to help someone through a task. Person didn’t appear (I think I know why – her sisters don’t like her playing WoW) so I didn’t get the chance to make her insanely jealous due to my second character’s outfit.

“Person” plays a character called Tula, who everyone on the server loves because of her having one of the most playful, fun, beautiful spirits you’ll ever hope to find. However, she’s also a schoolgirl in the Netherlands, so the phrase “… Is Not A Hottie” comes to mind. Anyway, Tula’s other name is the Dancing Girl, hence the jealousy over the outfit …

What’s so special about the outfit ? It caused enough of an impression in the bank the other night to earn a few slappings from the girl who was in there because it was making the male characters go blind … Think chainmail bikini and you’re close. The amusing thing is that the top half was good enough to be picked as an item I used for about 6 whole levels and I didn’t know how little there was of it until my curiosity made me take the tabard (overtunic) off. Kinda shows what kind of things go through game designers minds when they’re making outfits for the girls. I have to admit, I had to cheat to find an item for the lower half, there wasn’t anything available where I could get away with saying “I actually used that !”.

People skills – there’s an unfortunate bunch of people in WoW who believe in powerlevelling everything involved in the game. Trouble is, that includes things like guild ranks too … Guild rank effectively means nothing, as we’ve disabled most of the stuff that makes higher ranks special. Only about 6 characters can invite new people in, another privilege is Officer Chat, which we never use. So when you can see there’s no point in giving promotions out, and the logical conclusion from giving in to one hassler is getting more hassle, people asking get annoying … I probably upset one person today by making a new lowest-of-the-low rank called “PromotionHunter” and demoting him into it as soon as he asked for promotion. If he goes, it’ll be no loss cos he doesn’t get involved in the guild stuff anyway. Didn’t even know about the website.

Ah well – munchies time while I wait for a few people to sort themselves out. Hope our Dancing Girl is ok.

PS I play mostly girl characters on WoW because they look better 🙂 And you’re looking at your WoW character for a rather looong time while playing.

but did you pull? Will there be an extra body at the Crazie Christmas Party??

cq

We had crackers … And a raffle

so did you pull :o)

So what have I been up to ? For one thing, avoiding looking at Blogging while at work … People with pointy sticks they are itching to use seem to be taking a dislike to it.

But mainly, World of Warcraft … it’s been getting busy in there again. And fun, now that we’ve got the Mercenaries back to a mob who get on without constant “Promote me!” (why?) and “Give me money!” (earn it)

And we’re getting stuff done in there as well. Our people and the Guildlink people took down two more “bosses” yesterday, one of which caused much hilarity because we kinda beat it by accident.

Also in the news, I was hoping to have a match report posted last week on the indoor cricket – just one slight problem though – the other team didn’t turn up. Grr.

Xmas party at work today. Which meant I got to talk to people, including the more attractive ones. Always worth it 🙂 More soon.

[chuckle] Cos I’ve been hitting things in World of Warcraft and having too much fun in there …

Yep – seems like the fun element has come back in. Dunno where it went to in the first place. Oh I do – it came out because we seemed to be under siege in our own guild. But the people we didn’t like very much have left or been thrown out, leaving good people behind. We’ve lost one good person in the process though, which is a shame. He’s left to go back to another massive multiplayer online game called Eve. [chuckle] He’s also looking to get back to real life 🙂

Didn’t really notice the fun coming back in either, although the wins in the 40 v 40 person battleground might have had something to do with it. Tunnel vision striking I think, leaving a sense of achievement when the tunnel clears.

Anyway, I’ve been away due to some intense World of Warcraft and now I’m wondering why I’ve just eaten my dinner just 18 hours before a game of indoor cricket tomorrow. That game is far too addictive when you’re having fun in it.

Oh yeah – new toy alert ! I got me a webcam.

PS I enjoyed the new Harry Potter film too, although I get the feeling that if I’d read the book, I’d have felt as if there was a massive amount missing.

Hey ! If I went wireless, I could acquire some wireless webcams as well and use motion sensing to have them automatically follow me around the house … That’d be cool 🙂

Would have to figure out a wireless microphone system to follow me around as well though.

Hey SP…I have an idea for you.

How about building yourself a mini tower PC/Media centre to plug into your TV Wirelessly networked to your other Machines?

My personal theory, I think the non-player inhabitants bribed the Blizzard people to show some mercy by not bringing the Maelstrom (our server) back online with the rest of them.

This is a list of the server status http://img488.imageshack.us/my.php?image=servers2rx.jpg which shows people being able to play wow everywhere except where my guild’s people are and

http://tinypic.com/i23e42.jpg

Is from a few of our people putting up their own little protest.

Ah well, it’s given me a chilled out night when I’ve been able to natter to people, listen to a little music and maybe get to bed before midnight :-).

And what shall it be …

I already have plans to build a new computer after Xmas strikes as my current one is starting to really struggle, even before I up the screen size with a TFT screen.

Nah. Could be getting a webcam, after being on MSN with someone last night who also had a webcam. Definitely adds something being able to see the other person smile when they read a daft comment that you just typed. And it would let me return the favour as well. Especially as the last picture I have of me is rather embarassing. It’s from before the last cricket season, so I was probably slightly above 14 stone at that point … (lost half a stone now – my belt feels looser already !)