This is of course an homage to the brilliance of Emily Horne and Joey Comeau over at A Softer World. If you aren't reading it already, you should be.

What it actually shows is yet another screenshot taking misadventure on the captured princess quest-line.

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I suffer for my art; you have to.
I've been sticking my foolish Tauren nose-ring into all sorts of unsafe and unsavory places in order to collect the screen shots for this blog.
Today's piece is entitled Magic Seafood.

The suffering came because that was the last of 10 such clams I was supposed to be collecting and I got jumped by multiple nasty ocean-going things while I was taking the snap.

Now, when I'm taking a shot I turn off the interface and zoom in to first-person perspective. In this case I was also in underwater travel form so I was even more exposed than usual. (That's a photographic term meaning 'gankable')

I've learnt to be pretty quick getting all that back to normal in an emergency. And now that I'm leveling in the early 30s it seems as though I have a lot more scope for group combat. Basically early battles that didn't go well were over before I could do very much. Now I can fight and heal and even throw in a little crowd control if I'm not too panicky.

But there were three of them so they got me.

Then when I returned resurrected they attacked me again. This time I was ready but as the fight went on another different kind of crab thing came and ate the bloody clam.
Aargh!

So I made them very sorry.
Here they are in the contrite pose of the dead lobster.

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It's probably just the same effect that causes everyone to assume that everyone else is having more sex than them. On the other hand it is possible that I am the actual worst World of Warcraft player in the world.
Somebody has to be.


I don't think it's really that bad. I just get the impression that other people run faster, level more efficiently and generally understand what it is that they're supposed to be doing on a fundamentally different level to me.
Which makes me wander around in areas I'm not supposed to be going to yet just to look at the pretty pictures. Like I say, bloody tourist.

There seem to be a fair few more players lurking around Thousand Needles so maybe I'll settle here for a bit and try to work my way through some stuff systematically.
Meh.
It's a game.
I'll see what I feel like.

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I keep my hipflask on my toolbar and my shadow wand loaded.
Now if only there was a way I could make my Mage alt smoke.

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Here's another trick.
I can take multiple shots and stitch them together into a panorama.

This is Sunrock Retreat from the cliffs above. It sounds like a holiday resort but it's crawling with spiders.

I've joined a guild. It's actually my second guild but the first one just spam invited everybody and never seemed to have any members. Now I am a Seraphim in The Angels of Darkness.
I haven't had much interaction with them but the original invite was very friendly and the raisin d'etre is for leveling and new players so it fits me fine.

I want to try to find my guildies and take pictures of them.

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So here I've doctored my screenshot a bit in photoshop.
Is that wrong?
Is it insane?

All I've really done is layer in some increasing focal length to give the image more depth.
(And to pop my druid off the background a bit more)
But really. Video game photoshopping? I'll be writing fan-fic next.

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There are obvious reasons why World of Warcraft blogs don't get updated. The more reportable things become in-game the less I want to come out of game and blog about it instead.
Another issue is that with my photo taking mission it is very easy to get backlogged. The WoW is filled with detail and I'm getting more and more good shots that I want to share but it also makes me want to dive back in and play. I think I might start putting up a picture a day and not worry so much about text.
That said I still want to record my experiences and the transition from ordinary human to someone who understands all the acronyms on the chat is still valid. Maybe once a week or something. The madness grips me.

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It's a subtle thing but after a life time of solo gaming it feels really good to know that everyone out there is sharing the same time of day and night.

I've been looking around to see if I can find a guild to learn with. It seems like I've gone and signed myself up to an Alliance heavy server (Saurfang) and the few Horde guilds seem to be focused on the mythical EndGame stuff. I guess I could just yell out in Thunder Bluff and see if anybody has any suggestions but I still feel a bit too noobie to do that.

Publish Post

Here's a pretty shot of the lanterns in the druid safezone: Moonglade

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In order to make better screenshots I've been working out how to remap my keyboard. I may even have to figure out a macro.
Unfortunately in the resulting confusion I ended up standing around like a tool while a group of Venture Corp workers kicked a Hunter to death that I was trying to assist. It also took me so long to figure out that I can resurrect people now that the player had logged out.
Sorry about that.

Took this one of an NPC in Brill. I wonder if I can get players to pose for portraits.

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I decided to go back and get a picture of Gordo and it gave me an idea.Here he is in all his glory with a passing Warlock called Hozay for scale.

I've been kinda wondering what this blog was going to be all about. Particularly when time spent blogging is time not spent playing. The original impulse was a desire to document my own descent into the madness and to record what it's like for me now coming to the World of Warcraft for the first time.
I haven't found any other blogs that do this; most people decide to blog their WoW once they've gotten pretty high up and established.

And there are plenty of people making hints/tips/strategy guides and what-have-you. And bless 'em because they've saved me all manner of disasters already.

But I quite liked my screen-grab of Gordo and I thought I might have a crack at being a Warcraft photo-journalist.

So here's another... Gotta love Zeppelins!


Also I enjoyed this story about a long time player's emotional response to changing servers.

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