Who me?
"I quit, I hate the loot - lalala will somone listen and care? no? well screw the lot of you, I'm going home" is the normal quitters cry. Well ok so I never said I quit but I did say I was leaving and like many leavers my will to stay away wavered and of course of late I have been back to my old habbits of sitting under trees in search of digital enlightenment.
Its not entirely lack of will power thats brought me back however. One reason was the that I really missed the music and the other is a secret
I guess you could sort of say I need to keep checking up on something from time to time at the moment and that has the TERRIBLE side effect of having to keep entropia installed for the time being
So what have I been up to? Well despite a few peoples efforts to help me, my graphics problem still remains so I havn't really wanted to hunt and, although trading would be nice PA is pretty much out of bounds and I don't have the financial resources to graduate above peddling.
On the financial side things are looking up actually. Seems some of my long term stuff sold in Az's shop which made me a tidy sum and of course there was that generous little Sabakuma just before I left. DD also generously donated a pair of boots to my cause for me to colour and I now have a really nice yellow and grey outfit which is currently my clothing of choice
I think its quite smart and I feel as an SMA representative maybe I should try and look a little more respectable when I'm out and about.
Some of the discussions I've been having at zychion have been kinda interesting too for example a debate I had with DD about status. In many ways I consider myself a nobody in game. I don't play enough to gain skills, make that many contacts or really contribute a lot to the community unyet DD feels I'm still really important. In my view, if I wasn't part of SMA I'd just disappear into the background like so many others.
The interesting thing about
PE though is that you can make a name for yourself in the most bizarre ways. You don't have to have the best gear or stats or play 24/7, instead its all about how noticable you are. Take some of the people on this forum for example. Deathifier, some of the female players, namely Skam, Svetlana, Essi, Suggababe and Nea all seem to be pretty well known for one reason or another. Its strange, thinking back to when I started Nea seemed to be revered as some kinda god by the people on EP along with members of cK and few other ubers but these days she seems to have faded away a little... or perhapse I just don't notice?
Deathifier is, of course, a living legend, Skam is becomming well known for writing all those articles (and having a strange name), Svetlana for posting a lot and Essi, well I guess she has that massive diary which seems so popular. It makes you wonder about all the other people though who never post here or who don't speak english. Maybe theres a whole other world of Entropian celebrities who speak French or something but, due to the language barrier, we will never know anything about them...
For myself, I did have a bit of "famous for five minutes" moment the other day. I was wandering around Zychion and saw someone called Silverrain. I asked if it was THE silverrain of the "legendary" (as in it doesn't exist yet ;-)) Fan Fiction and it turned out it was. We got chatting about FF and I asked if he'd read my story. At the time I was using my nickname, Wisty rather then my full name so he wasn't sure but when I changed it back he was suddenly all,
"WISTREL! Your Wistrel?? OMG I'm a huge fan!!!" Well needless to say such enthusiasm for what was a pretty short and fairly insignificant little bit-story came as something of a supprise but I was flattered all the same.
One thing led to another and eventually I ended up drinking with him and his society back in the bar so, hey presto, I'd made some new friends!
Guess it just goes to show that a little contribution can go a long way.