Adventures Elsewhere, 2021 on

I was trotting a trade pack out of Marianople on my donkey when a dwarf named Sammwize offered me a lift on her skateboard. I had actually just decided I didn't want to base myself in White Arden any more, & was taking the trade pack to the farthest trade post thinking I would look at different neighborhoods along the way. But on Sammwize's skateboard, we got there pretty quick. I'd actually never even really talked to anyone else ingame so even conversation mechanics were a little unfamiliar for me. She asked if I was doing a certain line of quests that earn credits (as opposed to gold or Diligence Coins) & I had no idea what that was, so she explained. I'm still a little fuzzy. This game is so complicated.

I started playing ArcheAge Unchained in February 2021. Initially I rolled a Warborn of the Haranya (East) faction, because the whole demonic thing was appealing. However, it was kind of disappointing from the start. First (& maybe most importantly), after I spent half an hour designing my character's looks, once ingame she didn't look anything like my efforts. I ended up deleting, for which ArcheAge makes you wait, depending on the character's level, & doing it over, trying to compensate for the ingame changes. In the end I was just "fuck it, it's not like I ever actually look at her face anyway." The Warborn tutorial is apparently in a completely different physical form (kind of like the Daeva lost memories in Aion) with WoW Death Knight type skills (you could just hit the keyboard with your forehead & whatever attacks you hit would kill everything around you). Once I started questing for real, the world was somewhat bleak & the NPCs were rude...