My Afflation

Holy mother of Baby Cheesus!  Three hours or so getting through just my intro quests but that was partly due to my lousy sense of direction (the map wasn't that much of a help to someone severely directionally  challenged in an imaginary world) and I wasted about 30 minutes on training because the attack I needed did not pre-populaute and I am so very very very very thankful for the wikis, forums, and walk-throughs that players have been kind enough to post online for total newbs. I think I might have rage quit without them. There is absolutely nothing intuitive about this game. Text-based MUDs were easier. On the other hand, I might have stayed up all night trying to figure it out. Either way, I'm already a Level 4 before I've made it out of my intro quests and I like to shoot things. I'm good at shooting things. So very very very lost....How do I get back to Edhelion? Later that night.... Leave it to me to pick the hardest character intro . 5 quests!!!! Wh...

I'm an English Lit major (yes, Humanities majors can be geeks too, it's not just the engineers ) and into story telling ( as in I wanted to be a story-teller when I grew up, but I'm a better editor ), but not really a gamer ( for reasons, as glossed-over below ). My storytelling skills have atrophied with real life interference (if any of you have read my blog for more than a year or two, you know exactly what I mean). I've tried  +edX  and self-paced, non-graded +Coursera  courses, but this is the first one I'm kind of excited about. ( Read that as "OMG! Something to stimulate and challenge me! Hell yeah!" ) I need to start using the creative side of my brain again, and despite not having played a MMO since college (something about failing out of my classes and wanting to keep my scholarship... and this was back when they were purely text-based ), I already have some ideas for the Distinction Track . And I have 7 days to decide if I want a verified c...