Learning Experience Theater

[kiya]

Whitney says, ". . . this Warcraft party is only getting worse."
Tesla? [oneironaut]
Whitney says, "The most recent joy was 'i love masturbating' mavved to the chat channel."
Brooks [brooksmoses] says, "Wondrous."
Whitney says, "So tempted to wipe."
Brooks says, "Wipe?"
Tesla says, "Well, at least you know it's probably not a fabrication."
Whitney says, "Wipe = everyone dies. I am basically the only competent player."
Whitney says, "So if I stop using all my skill, we all die."
Whitney says, "Also, we ran into something bigger than us, I don't thinkw e could have beaten it if I'd cared."
Brooks says, "Heh."
Whitney rezzes at the spirit healer and leaves the party. "That group was, and I speak from experience, more painful than being bit on the tit by a python."
Brooks says, "Ouch."

This was rendered even more "learning experience theater" by the fact that I hadn't picked up the paladin quest that I was trying to do when I was invited into the group. But . . . I was the only competent/functional healer, despite having a druid in the party. I was certainly the only one doing buffs . . . despite having a druid in the party. There was a warlock, briefly; he soulstoned me, and a good thing too, and then left, because he was much smarter than I am. The hunter kept attacking non-aggressives, which would run away eventually and collect a bunch of aggressives to kick our collective asses until I remembered to judge them unable to flee and managed to pull it off consistently. The hunter kept attacking non-aggressives even when other party members were seriously wounded and I was sitting down to replenish mana after spending the last non-aggressive fight keeping the hunter standing. Even after I'd pointed at an aggressive to suggest target. Oh, and none of them could figure out how to share the quests, so I was just there to keep their sorry asses roughly upright. Oh yeah, and they put looting on free-for-all (which I hate under pretty much all circumstances), didn't take it off when it was suggested that it was unfair that they were looting all the magic items (and clams, which were my secondary reason for being there in the first place), and . . . yeah. I had to tell them that the jumping puzzle was a jumping puzzle two or three times. They kept mothing uselessly against an unclimbable wall.

We hit the first named -- the turtle -- wiped (I'd already used the soulstone on a previous wipe), and I took that as an excuse to get the hell out of dodge. I think I want to hug my guildmates for not being lobotomised ditzes with no discernable capabilities at playing the game now.


Other learning experiences for the day include the aforementioned getting bit on the tit by a python. Which happened pretty much right after teinedreugan and whispercricket went for a walk. I spent a while wrestling with how to open google groups with a panicked snake unable to figure out how to let go attached to my nipple (there was a thread on rec.pets.herp within my memory about how to convince a latched snake to let go without hurting the snake), and eventually emailed teinedreugan's pager with 'help'. (Had he gotten back in time to be relevant, I would have asked him to google for me. I find this hysterically funny.) Got the snake off right after that, and spent a while shaking; they came back, teinedreugan took my pulse, I was confirmed okay if twitchy, and they went off. I went onto Warcraft to express a certain incredulity, and that's . . . well, eventually how I wound up doing the beginning of Blackfathom with utter morons.

The snake appears fine. The nipple appears sort of lumpy and purple on one side, but will be fine.


Plugged my name into a quizzy thing nemtetsemnewty posted and got

Your Egyptian Name (Girls) by sutekhstorm
Type Your Name:
Your Egyptian Name:	Satset (Daughter of Seth)
Quiz created with MemeGen!

which entertains me to incredibly stupid levels. No, really?

I made pan-roasted chicken and corn on the cob for dinner. It was good. (I'd been wanting to do pan-roasted chicken for a while, it's one of my favorite dishes, and whispercricket's presence was a good excuse -- it makes three breasts.)

Uh, other updates on life -- yesterday we had all the windows replaced with shiny new double-paned windows. They were installed by a team of terrifyingly efficient Brazilians. (The fact that they were speaking Portuguese made me feel much less worried that I had completely lost my capacity to understand spoken Spanish . . .)

Writing a bunch of sidhe putting forth effort to be impressive is still bloody difficult.

Comments

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

Occasionally I think, "Gee, a snake would make a snazzy pet."

I think you just broke me of that. Permanently.

[kiya]

As random injuries go, it's actually remarkably not painful. But it was exceedingly startling to acquire.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

And how do you make a snake let go without hurting it (or yourself more than you've been hurt already)?

[kiya]

Typically they'll let go immediately unless they panic.

Diluted vodka can make them let go, but it's toxic to them, so one has to be very careful with it and make sure they don't inhale it or swallow it. The other suggestion the thread had was was water; stick the relevant body part under warm water until he releases. (Have to be warm water so cold shock doesn't wind up an effect.)

He'd gotten a loop of my hair which made it possible to pull up the upper jaw; I detached him carefully with a finger. (Sliced the finger a little on the teeth, but much better than having an attached freaked-out snake.)

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

You do know that a single character will get almost the exact same ammount of XP from an instance from a party as they will from a single high level escort...

Just food for thought.

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

In certain circumstances, vastly more xp/time, even. Given that Stockades, frex, takes an hour or so with a level-appropriate party, and my Paladin can wtfpwn the place in under 20 minutes. The combination of steady AoE damage and really good armor makes a mockery of low-level instances.

I keep telling myself I'm never going to do another pickup. But I play a Priest. If I'm not grouped, I'm not playing. So sometimes, all I get is pickups.

Thankfully, I've learned how to say "no". I probably have a rep as a bit of an ass, really. But it's more than balanced out by being one of the better healers that isn't in an uberguild that won't ever group with non-guild.

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

I figure when I start really playing my priest I'll have a lot of the same issues (I've had them with my mage, I do lots of damage, but only till they get to melee) but if I have to tell idiots "No, I'm not grouping with the Wipe-patrol" and get a rep for it, so be it.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

more painful than being bit on the tit by a python

Excellent new simile. Although I doubt most people who'd hear it would actually realize that it comes from anyone's experience.