Okay, maybe it’s not your average, run-of-the-mill fame. Maybe it’s approaching some lunatic level of infamy that’ll result in white-coated men busting down my door to drag me away to electro-shock therapy in a pretty, pretty straitjacket (though I would get to hug myself all day long). Either way, you can’t stop the signal.
And you can’t stop the tram, even if the Flightmasters go on strike. Yeah, I’m all over the place.
Anyways, Hand of Valor, a Role-Playing site run by a certain special Samaritan called Sullivan, is the first to get the scoop. And to follow suit, the Earthen Ring forums will soon be getting a very warm hello by yours truly. What’s it all mean? Well, aside from some long-overdue publicity on my part (hint, hint), the experiment is striking a chord with some folk. Unfortunately that chord tends to reverberate in a negative way for a few people – making Doora’s travels rather tedious and apathetical as of late – but the good greatly outshines the bad.
Sorry my friend, I've no idea how to pronounce your name.
Take, for example, Volodymyr. This paragon of pint-sized virtue went out of his way to escort a fledgling Doora about his native Dun Morogh, risking life and limb to defend her from a nefarious Troll incursion. Doora, of course, couldn’t engage in the violent revelry, but she was more than happy to mend his wounds. This illustrates the first rule of Doorasploration – when possible, use an innocent bystander to tank for you.
While by no means do I wish to abuse this concept – jeopardizing Doora’s pacifisim by licensing murder-by-proxy on her behalf – I’m perfectly fine with acting in another’s wake. If some mighty slayer was to axe the resident Kobold population anyways, I might as well scavenge a few of their valuables, eh? I prefer to think of it as honoring the dead, or at least, giving their short, futile lives a sort of placeholder significance.
Thank you, anonymous mute Priest buddy in the distant background!
As you may have noticed, these pictures aren’t following any particular rhyme or reason. Neither is Doora – at this point, she’s happily skipping from one newbie area to the next as I scramble to complete lowbie quests before they gray out. This will be a consistent challenge; maximizing my returns on low-level objectives whilst simultaneously digging my heels so I don’t progress past them. I anticipate things should cool down by level 10 or so, but at this stage it’s so very easy to accidentally level (never thought I’d hear myself say that) and if I want to get as far as I can, every little bit helps. That, and I’m slightly paranoid of forgetting a quest, since they are scattered all over the place. If you spot any that I don’t have listed under the Checklist post, please let me know! In the meantime, I’ll keep on scampering about.
Stay tuned for next time – difficult moral conundrums will ensue!
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