Ganged Up On

You know how The Music Man is a horribly bad influence on Rambo when it comes to video games? Well, about a week ago, he was back to stay for a bit (he's pretty much moved out to student housing in Crewe now but still back and forth for a few days every couple weeks and paying a bit of rent) and he's playing WoW on his laptop in the front room and talking to Rambo about it and I'm pretty much blocking it all out because I really couldn't care any less about WoW at this point - it's been a year and a half since I last played, it fucked my wrists right up when I did, I ebayed my warrior with all of her bazillions of pets and mounts and achievements that I'd spent years gathering, and I'm pretty sure that my account's banned from being connected to ebaying (I transferred the warrior onto a brand new account to ebay it) - but TMM somehow convinces Rambo to play again.

So there the both of them are, running instances and discussing all the changes that have occurred in the last year and a half since me and Rambo played and all the changes that will be happening come Cataclysm. And I'm doing my best to ignore them. And they're discussing all of these cool new pets and forcing me to look at the pretty models. And telling me how all of the tanks on their server suck these days and wasn't it awesome when I was tanking for them and they had the best tank on the server? And they're short on healers too, and I made a kickass healer.

And I'm ignoring them. And they're talking about my tree, who I do still have, unlike the tank, and I'm ignoring them, and they're spending hours playing WoW and I'm feeling lonely and left out. And I'm ignoring them. And they're telling me how my huntard can have 20 pets in the stable and 5 active now, rather than the 3 in stable 1 active she had last time I played. And I'm ignoring them. And they're telling me about all the new pets I can get in Cataclysm. And I'm ignoring them.

And then Blizzard sends me an email this morning offering me 7 free days of gametime if I come back before Cataclysm. And I figure they wouldn't have sent this email if my account really was banned. And I remember my password.

...

I'm up to 13 pets at the minute. I need to save a few slots for Cataclysm.

*sigh*

And I realised that auto-attacking on a BM huntard is actually easier on my wrists than writing. And this does not bode well for NaNo.