Week 9: After Spring Break
The pressure was too much for Nick... he bought the game and quickly got up to our level. In fact, for a while, he surpassed it, which was shocking and upsetting. Now, however, as if the game universe knew of this, Paul has been playing a lot less than usual. That leaves Nick to do as much as we can to bring him up to speed (although he was a high level, he didn't complete a lot of the quests Paul and I did).
So Nick and I have been playing, often sending mail to Paul (you can send mail to other characters in the game), letting him know what we're up to. Unfortunately, we've surpassed him, and now are trying our best not to get too far ahead of him. This was all blown to shit today, though, where I go on JUST to complete this SIMPLE quest that Nick had already done... but then that quest turned into another quest... that turned into another quest. I mean...
Remember that robot I believe I spoke about a few weeks back? Well, I was chilling near it when I saw these two similiar-level characters. I asked them if they were doing that specific quest, they were, so I joined to help them fight the robot. And we won. So... there was one elite quest down that I didn't think would happen. I actually then ran into the same group two missions down, and picked up with them to complete another difficult quest.
So they are now on my friends list.
Nick is now in VA as of today, so he'll won't be able to play, and I think that playing a million hours on Sunday morning may have drained me for the rest of the day. After all... I do have other classes.
Week 7: Withdrawal
Today will be a short entry (I know some of you are thinking: Thank god! Finally, a short entry), because I have to prepare for a trip... and because I have been playing less these last two weeks.
For those of you who have been following along, you'll remember that Nick, on my suggestion to get a life, bowed out of WoW. It was a good decision, in that now he has time to look into his non-profit and start really concentrating on doing video projects... for me. So he's gone.
Now, without getting into too much detail, Paul and I have hit a bump in the road. We have committed ourselves to some major missions, none of which we can do alone, all of which are too difficult for us. That robot-creature still stands, ready to kill if we even try to get near it. And, trust me, it doesn't look like we can get near it without dying. So there's that.
It is also mid-term time. Paul and I both have very different schedules, so it is difficult to coordinate time to get on together. Add onto this personal issues and you've got a whole lot of not-playing time. This is what happens when you get a life... you lose your computer life. That's the way it's always been with me and my computer buddies.
In college, (see how we do that wavy flash-back thing here), a group of us guys would sit around all night, playing games. Then one of them got a gal, so he could only play on the nights that the gal wasn't around, though a lot of times he would be too tired trying to balance the girl/school/and gaming, so he'd dump gaming. I had a similar problem, in that I was in a long-distance relationship with a girl named Stacey O'Rear, and since our telephone conversations were precious, I'd often leave the game to talk with my significant other. I tried on the occasion to both play and talk, but that either ends up with me losing or her getting really pissed. And having a pissed girlfriend miles away means MORE phone conversations and LESS games. So I often just got up and left, with the boys shouting down the hall, "WTF?!?!?!"
Hey, boys, that's love. And I think that all of us understand that. You have loyalty to the boys, loyalty to the game, and loyalty to your love. Where does your loyalty lie?
So, anyway, most of you observant readers in the class will get where I'm going with this...
And with a possible relationship for myself in the making, time is going to get REAL interesting.
A boy can only just do so many things... a man does many things, only just so. (Can we improve on this saying?)
